March 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

link error on contextgarden
by Ulrich Dirr 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

Hi, I was following the advice on the wiki before running "ctxtools --update" to update cont-win.zip but the link on the site doesn't work: when clicking on download (http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-win.zip) it reports an error 404 object not found. BTW is this the 'canonical' way to do updates? I want to update my context installation (stand-alone CONTEXTediting environment (windows) dated 2007/08/08). Ulrich

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t-tikz: problem with colorspace pgfprgb
by Finn Martensen 06 Mar '08

06 Mar '08

Hi, I have the following problem with TikZ: When I use the "patterns" library in a tikzpicture environment, the file is compiled without problems and creates a PDF file. However, Acrobat displays an error message "Could not find the ColorSpace named 'pgfprgb'". So the patterns library seems to be a sufficient condition for this problem to occur. By contrast, the problem does not occur when I use pdflatex to create PDF from a LaTeX file with the same tikz-code. I have a standalone ConTeXt distribution and tikz 2.00, but I already had this problem with tikz 1.18. Any suggestions? Thanks, Finn Martensen

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lua problem with Windows Vista
by Johan Sandblom 06 Mar '08

06 Mar '08

Hi, after acquiring a Thinkpad X61 I have takon on the ordeal of learning to use Windows Vista. I have turned off User Account Control and installed cygwin. In order to install context I tried several ways without success: the ContextMinimalInstaller.exe failed by silently not downloading any files the minimals installer failed with rsync complaining when it was unable to create several directories. first-setup.bat ran without error if I manually created those directories but turned out not to have populated the file system when done In the end I unzipped justtex.zip and mswintex.zip and manually updated relevant parts of that tree with rsync from rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals MkII seems to work after this but when I run luatools --generate luatools --ini --compile --verbose cont-en I get the output below which looks like a lua error. luatex version is snapshot-0.22.0-2008021623. I do not know enough about lua to track this error down. I am hoping someone knows what to do. Perhaps there is even someone who can tell me an easier way to install context on vista. Johan LuaTools | version 1.1.1 - 2006+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT LuaTools | loading configuration for c:/tex/texmf-local/web2c from C:/Users/joha ns/AppData/Local/Temp/luatex-cache/context/2f0baa67609fede774cad1816bc161c0/tree s/79b9a157cfe9c83efa99199d2bcebd4f LuaTools | locating list of c:/tex/texmf-mswin LuaTools | locating list of c:/tex/texmf-project LuaTools | locating list of c:/tex/texmf-fonts LuaTools | locating list of c:/tex/texmf-local LuaTools | locating list of c:/tex/texmf-extra LuaTools | locating list of c:/tex/texmf LuaTools | loading files for c:/tex/texmf-mswin from C:/Users/johans/AppData/Loc al/Temp/luatex-cache/context/2f0baa67609fede774cad1816bc161c0/trees/39e55a4309bf e2ea9f639d421936eee1 LuaTools | loading files for c:/tex/texmf-fonts from C:/Users/johans/AppData/Loc al/Temp/luatex-cache/context/2f0baa67609fede774cad1816bc161c0/trees/83bb976cee5f 5053375aec6fae7ab80c LuaTools | loading files for c:/tex/texmf-local from C:/Users/johans/AppData/Loc al/Temp/luatex-cache/context/2f0baa67609fede774cad1816bc161c0/trees/a6e65cc51848 d6322c812f7170ffc63f LuaTools | loading files for c:/tex/texmf-extra from C:/Users/johans/AppData/Loc al/Temp/luatex-cache/context/2f0baa67609fede774cad1816bc161c0/trees/5def5151ca91 743ee0b11f69c81dbcc6 LuaTools | loading files for c:/tex/texmf from C:/Users/johans/AppData/Local/Tem p/luatex-cache/context/2f0baa67609fede774cad1816bc161c0/trees/cc606a690f61463c3d 016cc2fdb6859f LuaTools | creating initialization file cont-en LuaTools | using library path : c:/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base LuaTools | using lua libraries: l-string.lua l-table.lua l-boolean.lua l-number. lua l-unicode.lua l-md5.lua l-os.lua l-io.lua l-file.lua l-dir.lua l-utils.lua l -tex.lua luat-lib.lua luat-inp.lua luat-tmp.lua luat-zip.lua luat-tex.lua LuaTools | using compiled initialization file cont-en.luc LuaTools | using lua initialization file cont-en.luc LuaTools | running command: luatex --ini --lua="cont-en.luc" "c:/tex/texmf-local /tex/context/base/cont-en.tex" \dump ?:0: attempt to call field '?' (a nil value) LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.2 seconds -- Johan Sandblom, MD PhD m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell

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Rule in column sets
by Bart Wise 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Is there a way to get a rule between the columns of a column set? Thanks, Bart

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internal data structure of xml files in mkiv
by Peter Rolf 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Hi, just wondering. What is the meaning of the separating strings (\13\ ...) between elements? First I thought they were introduced by table.serialize. But trying to index elements showed that they are part of the format. t={ ["at"]={}, ["dt"]={ { ["dt"]={"xmlversion=\"1.0\"encoding=\"UTF-8\""}, ["ns"]="", ["special"]=true, ["tg"]="@pi@", }, "\13\ <--- \13\ <--- ", { ... Peter -------------------------------------------------------- Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition - Serj Tankian

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ConTeXt with XeTeX (beginner question)
by Adam Baker 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

Hello, I am using MikTeX 2.7 with XeTeX 0.997 and ConTeXt version 2008.01.28 21:28. Working off of this wiki page, http://wiki.contextgarden.net/XeTeX I am trying to load system fonts in a ConTeXt document. When I run the file (below), I get an error (further below). One thing I suspect may be part of the problem is cont-en.fmt. In the MikTeX bin directory, I run texexec --make --xtx en This creates cont-en.fmt in the bin directory, but I don't know that that's where ConTeXt expects it to be. Searching the rest of the MikTeX directory structure, I can't find another file with that name. Any help appreciated, Adam Baker ====begin file==== \enableregime[utf] % not necessary since it is default regime, but can remind you that you must provide UTF-8�Ccoded text \definetypeface[myface][ss][Xsans][Arial] % or any else font in your /windows/fonts folder; run "fc-list >namelist.txt" to get them all \setupbodyfont[myface, 12pt] \starttext Hello World! ��ڧӧ֧�! \stoptext ====end file==== C:\Documents and Settings\Adam Baker\My Documents\Booklet>texmfstart texexec --x tx test.tex TeXExec | processing document 'test.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | utf mode forced (bom found) TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file test.top TeXExec | using randomseed 1402 TeXExec | tex engine: xetex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.997 (MiKTeX 2.7) entering extended mode (test.tex ConTeXt ver: 2008.01.28 21:28 MKII fmt: 2008.3.3 int: english/english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\base\cont-new.tex" systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\base\cont-new.mkii") ("C:\Program File s\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\base\cont-mtx.tex")) system : cont-old loaded ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\base\cont-old.tex" loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\base\cont-fil.tex" loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys.rme loaded ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\user\cont-sys.rme" ("C:\Program Files\ MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\base\type-tmf.tex") ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\con text\base\type-siz.tex") ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\base\type-otf .tex") ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\base\type-xtx.tex")) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded Running makemf... makemf: The [lmromanslant10-regular]:+liga;+kern;mapping=tlig;+trep; source file could not be found. Running hbf2gf... hbf2gf (CJK ver. 4.7.0) Couldn't find `[lmromanslant10-regular]:+liga;+kern;mapping=tlig;+tre.cfg' maketfm: No creation rule for font [lmromanslant10-regular]:+liga;+kern;mapping= tlig;+trep;. Running makemf... makemf: The lmromanslant10-regular:+liga;+kern;mapping=tlig;+trep; source file c ould not be found. Running hbf2gf... hbf2gf (CJK ver. 4.7.0) Couldn't find `lmromanslant10-regular:+liga;+kern;mapping=tlig;+tre.cfg' maketfm: No creation rule for font lmromanslant10-regular:+liga;+kern;mapping=tl ig;+trep;. Running makemf... makemf: The lmromanslant10-regular source file could not be found. Running hbf2gf... hbf2gf (CJK ver. 4.7.0) Couldn't find `lmromanslant10-regul.cfg' maketfm: No creation rule for font lmromanslant10-regular. ! Font \*7ptrmslrm*:=lmromanslant10-regular at 7.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or installed font not found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \dodosettextfamilyA ...amily \fontsize \endcsname \else \ifcsname \fontbody ... \dosettextfamily ...ttextfamily \scriptscriptfont \let \fontbody \scriptface... <inserted text> ...y \c!bf \dosettextfamily \c!sl \dosettextfamily \c!it \do... \synchronizetext ...athfonts \the \textstrategies \fi ... l.1 \enableregime[utf] ?

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"texexec --module" stops with "\wait="
by Peter Münster 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

Hello, When generating the module documentation of my module t-french.tex (attached to this message) with the command: texexec --luatex --module t-french The compilation stops with the message "\wait=". Could anybody help please? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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usage of \savebuffer
by Peter Münster 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

Hello, How must \savebuffer be used? I would like to save some lines in file abc, but there are 2 problems: - the file is called \jobname-abc.tmp - the line-endings are removed Test-file: % engine=luatex \startbuffer[abc] asjdf asdjf klasdjf kla asjdf asdjf klasdjf kla asjdf asdjf klasdjf kla \stopbuffer \savebuffer[abc] \starttext only one line found in file test-abc.tmp \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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texexec --result=... --module
by Peter Münster 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

Hello, When using "texexec --result=abc --module m-module" the switch --result=abc is not respected, the result is written to m-module.pdf. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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BachoTeX 2008 -- Call for Papers -- reminder
by Jerzy B. Ludwichowski 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

Dear friends, The BachoTeX 2008 Program Committee dares to remind you of the quickly upcoming deadline for submitting paper proposals for the BachoTeX 2008 conference. The Call for Papers and TeX Pearls can be found http://www.gust.org.pl/BachoTeX/2008/cfp1en. We trust that the main theme of the conference, ,,TeX contra TeX'' should be of a great interest to the community at large and the various developers in particular. You may have noted that the supplementing theme "Aesthetic aspects of typesetting" is also addressed to those who use other typesetting software. If you know people active in this area please talk them into presenting a paper. Your children or very young TeXies in your vicinity are invited to contribute in the yet another conference supplementing theme "What is TeX to me?" Based on suggestions and experiences from previous years, one day of the conference will be devoted solely to working meetings of the various informal interest groups (no presentations): - fonts, - TeX engines, - distributions, - supporting software, - typesetting software in general, - propagating TeX, - history of TeX -- you name it. Talk your common interest buddies into coming and/or propose a paper. Do not forget submitting your "TeX Pearls" aka "TeX beauties and oddities"! And, finally -- registration is open at http://www.gust.org.pl/BachoTeX/2008/registration-en. Please note that early registration ending March 31 allows for a significant saving in the conference fee. Come and celebrate the XVIth, or $10000_{2}$ or $100_{4}$ or $20_{8}$ or $10_{16}$ BachoTeX! Jerzy Ludwichowski Organizing Committee

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