February 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

new mkiv beta
by Hans Hagen 02 Mar '08

02 Mar '08

Hi, I uploaded a beta release. The biggest change is that image inclusion in mkiv has changed. Currently it's still some mix of tex and lua code, and the backend code is somewhat messy (and not complete yet) but it's a first step towards lua doing things. This will only work with a e recent luatex. The advantage is that file searching in lua is more robust (and when many search paths are used, also faster). Image conversion has been moved to lua too, but currently still uses pdftops (also for svg) but that may move to lua as well. Figure libraries are supported by default now. 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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Two questions about use of system ttf fonts
by weg＠indiscrete.org 02 Mar '08

02 Mar '08

Hi, I am trying to use truetype fonts with mkiv. When loading a font given a full path name like this: \font\test=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf at 12pt the log shows report >> load otf: loading: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont//FreeSans.ttf report >> load otf: enhance: before report >> load otf: enhance: enrich report >> load otf: enhance: registering tlig feature report >> load otf: enhance: registering trep feature report >> load otf: enhance: flatten report >> load otf: flattening 'specifications' tables report >> load otf: flattening 'anchor' tables report >> load otf: flattening 'gpos' tables report >> load otf: flattening 'gsub' tables report >> load otf: enhance: analyze report >> load otf: enhance: after report >> load otf: replacing 'kerns' tables by 'mykerns' tables report >> load otf: enhance: patch report >> load otf: enhance: strip report >> load otf: enhance: pack report >> load otf: file size: 458648 report >> load otf: saving: in cache fonts : resetting map file list {/usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-empty.map} fonts : using map file: original-base {/usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-base.map} fonts : using map file: lm-math {/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map} fonts : using map file: lm-rm {/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map} fonts : using map file: original-ams-base {/usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-ams-base.map} fonts : using map file: original-ams-euler {/usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-ams-euler.map} fonts : using map file: original-public-lm {/usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-public-lm.map} [1.1] systems : end file 11 at line 24 ) !luaTeX error (file FreeSans.ttf): cannot open OpenType font file for reading ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! How can I tell what's wrong? Defining \font\test=FreeSans.ttf at 12pt results in error >> define font: font with name FreeSans is not found error >> define font: name: FreeSans, loading aborted ! Font \test=FreeSans at 12pt not loadable: metric data not found or bad. while using this construction with luatex's plain format seems to work (I assume some definition to register the font). What does context need to find the font? Thanks, Eythan

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Trouble with + as a reference
by Aditya Mahajan 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Hi, Something has changed in the reference mechanism, and + is no longer ignored as a reference. For example, \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \placeformula[+] \startformula E = mc^2 \stopformula \placeformula[+] \startformula E = mc^2 \stopformula \stoptext gives [1.1pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier (name{+}) has been already used, duplicate ignored \actualshipout ... \box \postponedcontent \box 0}} \else \message {[\ifarrang... \myshipout ... \fi {\thisisrealpage \realfolio #1} \gotonextrealpage \aftersh... \dofinaloutput ...agebody #1#2\setpagecounters }}} \fi \the \everyaftershipou... \finaloutput ...EAEAEA \dofinaloutput \fi \fi #1#2 \resetselectiepagina \incr... \sidefloatoutput ...e \else \finalsidefloatoutput \global \sidefloatvsize \n... <argument> ...\fi \else \the \defaultstreamoutput \fi ... l.12 \stoptext Aditya

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Fill-in-the-blanks forms.
by John Culleton 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

I understand these can be created in LaTeX with Hyperref and some other packages plus some java script code. Is there a Context method available? -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

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old-style numerals and .
by Jesse Alama 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

I tried switching to nice old-style numerals for a table of contents, and found to my chagrin that the periods in the numbers, such as the "." in "2.3", get typeset as triangles. You can see the result (verified on the live context in the garden) with \starttext {\os 2.3} \stoptext What's going on? How can I get periods rather than triangles? Thanks, Jesse -- Jesse Alama (alama(a)stanford.edu)

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[OT] Metapost wiki
by luigi scarso 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Just to propagate informations. From http://tug.org/pipermail/metapost/2008-February/001215.html """ Well the wiki is now setup. http://metapost.tlhiv.org Anonymous users can't edit pages, but anyone (for now) can create an account. I've themed it so that it doesn't look like everyone else's wiki. Anyone that would like to start adding content is free (and encouraged) to do so. I too plan on adding some stuff soon myself. Troy http://metapost.tlhiv.org """ -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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bib module and pdftex 1.40.7: Virtual memory exhausted using MiKTeX-2.7
by George N. White III 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Consider the trivial test file: ------------------------------------- % example from: <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bibliography> % Format using: % $ texexec --once t-cont % $ bibtex t-cont % $ texexec t-cont \usemodule[bib] \usemodule[bibltx] \setupbibtex[database=xampl] \starttext As \cite[article-full] already indicated, bibtex is a \LaTeX-centric program. \completepublications \stoptext ------------------------------------- Following instructions: ------------------------------------- > texexec --once bibdemo TeXExec | processing document 'bibdemo' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | writing option file bibdemo.top TeXExec | using randomseed 595 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.7 (MiKTeX 2.7) entering extended mode (bibdemo.tex ConTeXt ver: 2008.01.28 21:28 MKII fmt: 2008.2.18 int: english/english [....] Output written on bibdemo.pdf (2 pages, 42919 bytes). Transcript written on bibdemo.log. pdftex: Virtual memory exhausted while trying to reserve 8 bytes for table ???. TeXExec | runtime: 2.828 ------------------------------------------- I don't see this on my linux machines with older versions of ConTeXt and pdftex. Simple LaTeX documents and ConTeXt documents that don't use the bib module don't give the error, so it looks like the bib module reveals a bug in pdftex-1.40.n, for some n larger than 3. -- George N. White III <aa056(a)chebucto.ns.ca> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

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Bug in core-spa.tex
by Aditya Mahajan 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

Hi Hans, Currently \setupindenting[reset] gives an error. This is because of a typo in core-spa.tex. This is the corrected definition. \defineindentingmethod [\v!reset] {\indentfirstparagraphtrue \parindent\zeropoint%AM was \zerocount \chardef\indentingtoggle\zerocount} Aditya

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MKII font-chi.tex bug fix
by Yue Wang 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

Hi, there I am still using MKII to do Chinese typesetting. As I mentioned before, User should use this in their source files to produce correct spaces between the chinese characters and english words 中文English\ 中文 instead of 中文 English 中文 or 中文English中文 which is quite annoying. In order to remove this constraint, here is what I have found out: Uncomment line 248 and line 267 of font-chi.tex will do. --- font-chi.tex.orig 2008-02-23 11:32:55.000000000 +0800 +++ font-chi.tex 2008-02-23 11:30:48.000000000 +0800 @@ -245,7 +245,6 @@ \insertchineseglyph \ifcase\chineseAstatus\relax \hskip\chineseinterglyphskip % unknown - \hskip\chinesesurroundskip \ifcase\chineseSstatus \hskip\chineseSsignal \or @@ -264,7 +263,6 @@ \hskip\chineseRsignal \or \hskip\chineseinterglyphskip % space - \hskip\chinesesurroundskip \hskip\chineseSsignal \fi \or % left This patch works pretty good on most of the cases if you use 中文 English 中文. however, 中文English中文 makes no space between chinese and English. and changing the \chinesesurroundskip will only affect the space after English. But it works now. I hope this information helpful. Maybe ConTeXt experts can make more improvements in the future and test from ConTeXt users are helpful. Yue Wang

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bug in typeset table in Chinese
by Yue Wang 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

Hi, I find that ConTeXt fails to typeset Chinese table right. Here is the TeX source: \enableregime[utf] \usemodule[units] \usemodule[chinese] \starttext \placetable[here][]{通風模式} \starttable[|c|c|c|] \NC 時間 \NC 通風模式 \NC 室內源 \NC\SR \HL \NC 0:00-8:00 \NC 自然通風 $a=0.5 \Per\Hour$ \NC 無 \NC\FR \NC 8:00-18:00 \NC 機械通風 $n=5 \Per\Hour$ \NC 打印機每小時的起始十分鐘工作\NC\MR \NC 18:00-24:00 \NC 自然通風 $a=0.5 \Per\Hour$ \NC 無 \NC\LR \stoptable \stoptext If everything in the table is English then ConTeXt typeset it right. but in this table all the chinese are aligned left, not centered. Yue Wang

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