October 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

\item doesn't work with ConTeXt (works with LuaTeX/TeX)
by Mildred Ki'Lya 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Hi, I have a strange error with ConTeXt. This error isn't produced using LuaTeX. The error seems to be in one of the CoTeXt files but I can't understand it. I hope some of you will be able to help me there. The code is as simple as that: ===== test.tex ===== 1 \begingroup 2 \item{1} test 1 3 \item{2} test 2 4 \endgroup 5 6 \end 7 ==================== Now, if I run 'context test', I get at some point the following error: ! Missing } inserted. <inserted text> } <to be read again> \endgroup \stopitemgroup ...mdepth }\egroup \else \endgroup \global \advance \itemdept... l.5 ? Attached, the complete log. I hope you'll be able to understand that strange error. Thanks. Mildred -- Mildred Ki'Lya ╭───────── ｍｉｌｄｒｅｄ５９３＠ｏｎｌｉｎｅ．ｆｒ ────────── │ Jabber, GoogleTalk: <mildred(a)jabber.fr> │ Site: <http://ki.lya.online.fr> GPG ID: 9A7D 2E2B │ Fingerprint: 197C A7E6 645B 4299 6D37 684B 6F9D A8D6 9A7D 2E2B

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beta
by Hans Hagen 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Hi, i uploaded a beta that can handle \starttext \setinterfacecommand{setuphead}{stelleüberschriftein} \section{Oeps} \stelleüberschriftein[section][style=\bf] \section{Oeps} \defineregister[xüber] test \xüber{oeps} oeps \stoptext now, for a persian interface, one needs to = copy cont-en.tex to cont-xx.tex with xx being persian = in cont-xx.tex change \defaultinterface to persian = add the mapping from xx to persian to mult-def.tex = add the xx entries to mult-def.lua (most work) = run mtxrun --script interface --context = make the xx format = cross fingers and run a test file Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Clipping bug in MetaPost with MkIV
by Wolfgang Schuster 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Hi, I make a hole in a MetaPost graphic and add a graphic as background but in MkIV I get no hole but the lines I try to remove are still visible. All files with the two results from MkII (what I want) and MkIV are in the attachment. \starttext \startMPcode picture temp ; path mask ; draw (0,1cm)--(2cm,1cm) ; draw (1cm,0)--(1cm,2cm) ; temp := currentpicture ; currentpicture := nullpicture ; mask := unitsquare scaled 2cm -- reverse fullsquare scaled 1cm shifted (1cm,1cm) -- cycle ; clip temp to mask ; currentpicture := temp ; draw fullsquare scaled 5mm shifted (1cm,1cm) ; temp := currentpicture ; currentpicture := nullpicture ; externalfigure "holz280.jpg" scaled 2cm ; addto currentpicture also temp ; \stopMPcode \stoptext Wolfgang

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A little OT, but really worth reading
by Marcin Borkowski 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

This appeared today on the Polish TeX mailing list. A *beautiful* application of letter- and bookshapes in design. And it's Dutch! Have a nice time reading! http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-make-money-with-free-software.… Greets -- Marcin Borkowski (http://mbork.pl) Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy about telescopes. (E. Dijkstra)

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/ModDate (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Hi, there is a small bug in the /Info dictionary when using mkiv. The 'ModDate' is written as 'Context - YYYY.MM.DD HH:mm', which results in a blank entry in the 'Document Properties' of the viewer. Anyhow, to avoid preflight problems it would be wise to set /ModDate to the same value and form (p160, PDF Reference 1.7) as /CreationDate (like in mkii). Otherwise you must have trust in the comparison routines of the preflight software (which is no good choice). Just think about PDF/X-4, where all XMP entries (http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/) are compared with the corresponding /Info entries. Best wishes, Peter

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Context using LuaTeX - distribution packaging question
by Tobias Burnus 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Hello, for openSUSE there are now beta TeX Live 2008 packages available (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Publishing/) [By Werner Fink, who does also the normal openSUSE packages.] The question is how the ConTeXt with LuaTeX should be best handled. By default, there is no luatex-cache and no (luatex) format. Of cause a user can do: export TEXMFCNF=/usr/share/texmf/web2c # export TEXMFCACHE=somewhere luatools --generate --verbose luatools --ini --compile cont-en but in principle I would expect that the distribution does this already, which saves the TEXMFCACHE per user and makes "texexec --lua" working without requiring to run first all the other commands. Questions: a) Is the TEXMFCNF environment variable necessary or can this also be read by a config file, which is overwritten by the environment variable? Which scripts/executables make use of that environemt variable? b) Is is possible -- as with kpsewhich -- to have a global cache for the format + global directories - and local directories which have then a higher precedence? I mean like: A global directory cache incl. the format files plus if the user creates a $HOME/texmf tree a user $TEXMFCACHE which contains the hashes of the user directory but such that luatex still finds the formats in the global directory? Tobias

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Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: Thank you for the Chinese support, but still one question.
by Hans Hagen 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

> Hi, Hans, Thank you for the great works. But there is still a problem when > I test a more complicated file which is attached below. In this file, > both \bf and \bi give the same font lmroman10-bold. > > I guess the reason is that I use the same Chinese font > AdobeHeitiStd-Regular for both SerifBold and SerifBoldItalic. But this > cannot be avoided since Chinese fonts have much fewer typefaces than > English fonts. > > Would you give some suggestions to solve this problem? Thanks a lot. > > Longmin Wang i uploaded a beta for some reason the fallbacks were not part of the hash that i use to keep track of uniqueness of definitions it seems to work ok now in the beta this might also solve some of Thomas's problems there will probably be a new current later today Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Colored labels with MetaPost in MkII
by Wolfgang Schuster 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Hi all, what is the best method to format MetaPost labels in MkII with \doattributes. \setupcolors[state=start] \def\labelstyle{bold} \def\labelcolor{red} \starttext \startMPcode label(textext("\doattributes{label}{style}{color}{Label}"),origin) ; \stopMPcode \stoptext Wolfgang

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XML
by johannes_graumann＠web.de 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Hello, The family is gone for the week, so I have time to play ... What I'm doing is the following(using the attached files): context --ctx=t-openoffice BoldOnlyContent.xml Which works nicely. I'd like to make this work like so: context --ctx=t-openoffice VersuchBoldOnly.odt but whether I change the respective line in t-openoffice.tex to \xmlprocess{main}{zip://*/content.xml}{} or \xmlprocess{main}{*/content.xml}{} - no luck ... how to do this? Hans let me know how to parse xml styles on the fly, but I fail to generalize this further. When uncommenting the line \xmlval{fo:font-style}{\xmlatt{#1}{font-style}}{} in t-openoffice.tex this doesn't work as expected: context --ctx=t-openoffice BoldAndItalicContent.xml Any hints on how to fix this? I have asked related questions in the past, but have now a bit of time to investigate further ... Thanks, Joh

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Re: [NTG-context] Persian interface
by Hans Hagen 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Mehdi Omidali wrote: > Attached please find a zipped file containing a sample file and > mult-def.lua with persian entries added. Other files have been created > by your method of mtxrun. I couldn't activate persian interface to > compile the sample file. i uploaded a beta (you make a persian format with "context --make pe") the attached file runs ok Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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