April 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Unable to generate luatex formats
by Michael Green 17 Apr '08

17 Apr '08

I'm getting the following error when running this command: luatools -- ini --verbose --compile cont-en LuaTools | running command: luatex --ini --lua="cont-en.luc" "/usr/ local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex" \\dump This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.25.2-2008041101 (Web2C 7.5.6) (INITEX) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/context.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/syst-pln.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/syst-prm.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/luat-env.tex ! LuaTeX error [string "luas[0]"]:1: attempt to call field 'luafilechunk' (a ni l value). \ctxluabyteload ...nvironment.luafilechunk("#1") } \ ...fproductionrun \else \ctxluabyteload {#1}{#2} \fi \global \everyloadluac... l.168 \registerctxluafile{luat-env}{1.001} ? I see that it is similar to an error that ZS had. http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2008/030012.html But while ZS's problem was solved by updating, I'm installing for the first time with the newest versions. What might be amiss? Thanks! mjg

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mkiv new zips
by luigi scarso 17 Apr '08

17 Apr '08

new zips today 2008-04-16 at 11:00 -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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Pb with ConTeXt ver: 2008.04.16 17:34 and mkiv
by Otared Kavian 17 Apr '08

17 Apr '08

Hi Hans and Taco, I would like to report a problem with the latest release: I just updated my ConTeXt installation and got the following error message: […] This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.25.2-2008041100 (Web2C 7.5.6) (INITEX) (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/context/base/context.tex (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/context/base/syst-pln.tex) (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/context/base/syst-prm.tex) ! I can't find file `luat-env.tex'. <to be read again> \relax l.153 \loadmkivfile{luat-env.tex} Please type another input file name: However ConTeXt mkii works fine (ConTeXt ver: 2008.04.16 17:34 MKII fmt: 2008.4.16 int: english/english). My previous version of mkiv used to work fine until ConTeXt version 2008.04.16 11:45. For your information, I am running this on MacBook Pro Intel running MacOS X 10.5.2, and I follow Thomas Schmitz' indications to install LuaTeX. Best regards: OK

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Adding custom key/value pairs
by Rory Molinari 17 Apr '08

17 Apr '08

Hi, I'm new to ConTeXt and decided to teach myself a bit by resetting my old thesis (originally done, many years ago, in LaTeX). As the purpose is to teach myself ConTeXt rather than just have an electronic version of the thesis I decided to try to do things the "right" way. So, in setting the title page I followed the pattern shown on Contextgarden here: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Document_Titles. That page shows how to define a nice \placetitle command with an associated \setuptitle which allows us to define values for title, subject, and date. However, I want also to be able to define values for degree, subject, and committee (to follow the school-standard LaTeX style file I had from all those years ago). I can't work out how to do this. Simply using a variable like \c!degree (to match the \c!title I found in the example) doesn't work, as ConTeXt doesn't know about such a control sequence. I was quite puzzled for a while but then it dawned on me that the example I found on contextgarden works because the keys it uses (for key/value pairs) are ones that are already defined in the ConTeXt system: title, subject, date. My attempt fails because the system doesn't know about degree, subject, and committee. I tried defining a new variable with startvariables, but that didn't appear to help. So, my question: what do I need to do to define a new key that can be used in a key/value pair? Here's an example of what I tried: \startvariables all degree: degree \stopvariables \definesystemvariable{tp} % title page \def\setuptitlepage{\dodoubleempty\dosetuptitlepage} \def\dosetuptitlepage[#1][#2]% {\ifsecondargument \dodosetuptitlepage[#1][#2]% \else \dodosetuptitlepage[\v!content][#1]% \fi} \def\dodosetuptitlepage[#1][#2]% {\def\dododosetuptitlepage##1% {\getparameters[\??tp##1][#2]}% \processcommalist[#1]\dododosetuptitlepage} \def\placetitlepage {\startalignment[\v!middle] \doattributes{\??tp\c!degree}\c!style\c!color\@@tpcontentdegree \stopalignment} \setuptitlepage [\c!degree] [\c!style=\tfa,\c!color=] \startfrontmatter \placetitlepage \stopfrontmatter \starttext \stoptext Cheers, Rory

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Re: [NTG-context] mplib
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 17 Apr '08

17 Apr '08

On 16 Apr 2008 at 1:52, ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: Hallo, > >>> (I have temporary appended 'dump;' to plain.mp) > >> After the above, you should have plain.mem in the local > directory. > > > > No. > > There is neither a 'plain.fmt' nor a 'plain.mem'! > > Everything I read below says there should be a 'plain.mem' > in the folder where you ran theat file in. If there > really really isn't, then my only advise to you is to buy > a less thieving operating system, as it seems this one steals > your files before you can even have an admiring look at them. :-) I tried the same with 'mpost'. This has the advantage that one has not to adapt 'plain.mp'. But here too, there is no 'mpost.mem' and no 'mpost.log'. I have included a test before and after mp:finish(). Can anybody with a minimal under windows run this example? ------------------------------- \starttext % start low-level \startlua local function finder(name, mode, ftype) if mode=="w" then return name else return kpse.find_file(name,ftype) end end mp = mplib.new ( { hash_size = 100000, main_memory = 2000000, param_size = 100000, find_file = finder, ini_version = true } ) if mp then res = mp:execute("mpost") tex.print("[" .. tostring(res.status) .. "]") print(table.serialize(res)) if io.open("mpost.mem","r") then print("found") else print("nothing") end res = mp:finish() print(table.serialize(res)) if io.open("mpost.mem","r") then print("found") else print("nothing") end end \stoplua % stop low-level \stoptext ------------------------------- Gruß, Wolfgang

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LuaTeX problems with \seeindex and \from
by Drazen Baic 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Hi, this is my first posting to this list but I'm following it through the archives for quite a long time. First I would like to thank the list for this huge archive. By reading the documentation and searching this archive most of my questions about ConTeXt where answered. I searched for these problems but couldn't find anything. Now to my question: I was generating my documents with XeTeX until I switched to LuaTeX and MKIV a few days ago. After I changed my typescripts almost everything worked perfectly but the commands \seeindex[]{}{} and \from[]. 1) \seeindex simply doesn't seem to work. The index is generated but all \seeindex entries are missing. It works perfectly when generated with 'texexec --xtx'. Generating the document with \version[temporary] shows in the margin '> i Indexentry' and '> see Showindexentry' so it seems that both entries are ok. I set up the register with '\completeindex[interaction=text,align=yes]' Is this a bug or are \seeindex entries handled different with LuaTeX? 2) The other problem took me quite some time to find out. When I create the document with 'texexec --lua' LuaTeX it seems that everything runs fine but no document is generated. There are no error messages even with '--verbose' set - at least I couldn't see any. Finally I found out that 'luatex' crashed during 'LuaTools | running command: luatex --fmt' (see the CrashReporter log at the end of the mail). I started to leave out all components of the product and started just with the title page, then included chapter after chapter until I found out the LuaTeX crashes when I leave the command \from[] in. I defined the URL with \useURL[apache][http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi] and am using it in the document with \from[apache]. Here are the versions I'm using. OS: Mac OS X 10.5.2 ConTeXt: 2008.04.11 00:07 LuaTeX: snapshot-0.25.2-2008041101 Many thanks in advance and regards, Drazen Baic Process: luatex [269] Path: /usr/local/context-20080411/tex/texmf-osx-ppc/bin/luatex Identifier: luatex Version: ??? (???) Code Type: PPC (Native) Parent Process: texlua [268] Date/Time: 2008-04-13 11:21:14.865 +0200 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.2 (9C31) Report Version: 6 Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS) Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000010 Crashed Thread: 0 Thread 0 Crashed: 0 luatex 0x000dfc00 0x1000 + 912384 1 luatex 0x00163f00 0x1000 + 1453824 2 luatex 0x002c9820 0x1000 + 2918432 Thread 0 crashed with PPC Thread State 32: srr0: 0x000dfc00 srr1: 0x0200f030 dar: 0x00000010 dsisr: 0x40000000 r0: 0x00000004 r1: 0xbfffdce0 r2: 0x00000004 r3: 0x00000004 r4: 0x00000001 r5: 0x00000010 r6: 0x00000000 r7: 0x00000000 r8: 0x00000030 r9: 0x0003a598 r10: 0x00019bd4 r11: 0x00002ecc r12: 0x95158b40 r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x00000000 r16: 0x00000000 r17: 0x00000000 r18: 0x00000000 r19: 0x00000003 r20: 0x0380b880 r21: 0x03806cd0 r22: 0x00000000 r23: 0x00000001 r24: 0x075910e0 r25: 0x03806cac r26: 0x07591100 r27: 0x00000100 r28: 0x00000020 r29: 0x07591100 r30: 0xbfffdce0 r31: 0x000e2cc4 cr: 0x48000444 xer: 0x00000004 lr: 0x000dfbf4 ctr: 0x000e5d0c vrsave: 0x00000000 Binary Images: 0x1000 - 0x4bbff9 +luatex ??? (???) /usr/local/context-20080411/tex/texmf-osx-ppc/bin/luatex 0x8fe00000 - 0x8fe30b23 dyld 96.2 (???) <39109181acbf30fed542e6c9abcf1798> /usr/lib/dyld 0x90b77000 - 0x90b7cff6 libmathCommon.A.dylib ??? (???) /usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib 0x950ef000 - 0x95156ffb libstdc++.6.dylib ??? (???) <a4e9b10268b3ffac26d0296499b24e8e> /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib 0x95157000 - 0x952f0fe3 libSystem.B.dylib ??? (???) <754231f5e52ed8418f89f1f3369caf58> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib 0x96842000 - 0x9684dffb libgcc_s.1.dylib ??? (???) <ea47fd375407f162c76d14d64ba246cd> /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib 0xffff8000 - 0xffff9703 libSystem.B.dylib ??? (???) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

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mtx-update --context=beta?
by Joel C. Salomon 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

I'm putting together my own rsync calls based on the Minimals firstsetup.bat and Vyatcheslav's installer. Found a difference: firstsetup.bat includes the switch --context=beta in its call to mtx-update. What is the difference if it's used or no?

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luatex feature question/request
by Marcin Borkowski 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Hello! I was just wondering, whether something like this is possible in luatex - and if not, if it might be implemented;). I'd like to be able to transform somehow the input right *before* TeX sees it. What I mean is e.g. a transformation using regexps. Application I have in mind is as follows: in Polish, there are a few prepositions which are one-letter words; it's a bad custom to leave them hanging at the end of a line. Such an option could automatically put ties (~) instead of spaces after them - a feature sometimes requested by Polish TeX users. Yours, -- Marcin Borkowski (http://mbork.faculty.fmcs.amu.edu.pl)

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Homework for Hans and Taco
by Yue Wang 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Hi, Exactly the same input as described in the metafont manual. \starttext Hello world! \useMPlibrary[txt] \startuseMPgraphic{test 1} path p ; p := fullcircle scaled 6cm ; build_parshape(p,6pt,0,0,\baselinedistance, \strutheight,\strutdepth,\strutheight) ; draw p withpen pencircle scaled 1pt ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{test 2} path p ; p := fullsquare rotated 45 scaled 5cm ; build_parshape(p,6pt,0,0,\baselinedistance, \strutheight,\strutdepth,\strutheight) ; draw p withpen pencircle scaled 1pt ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{test 3} numeric w, h ; w := h := 6cm ; path p ; p := (.5w,h) -- (0,h) -- (0,0) -- (w,0) & (w,0) .. (.75w,.5h) .. (w,h) & (w,h) -- cycle ; build_parshape(p,6pt,0,0,\baselinedistance, \strutheight,\strutdepth,\strutheight) ; draw p withpen pencircle scaled 1pt ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{test 4} numeric w, h, o ; def shape = (o,o) -- (w-o,o) & (w-o,o) .. (.75w-o,.5h) .. (w-2o,h-o) & (w-2o,h-o) -- (o,h-o) -- cycle enddef ; w := h := 6cm ; o := 6pt ; path p ; p := shape ; w := h := 6cm ; o := 0pt ; path q ; q := shape ; build_parshape(p,q,6pt,6pt,\baselinedistance, \strutheight,\strutdepth,\strutheight) ; draw q withpen pencircle scaled 1pt ; \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[test 1][\useMPgraphic{test 1}] \defineoverlay[test 2][\useMPgraphic{test 2}] \defineoverlay[test 3][\useMPgraphic{test 3}] \defineoverlay[test 4][\useMPgraphic{test 4}] \startshapetext[test 1,test 2,test 3,test 4] \input douglas % Douglas R. Hofstadter \stopshapetext \startbuffer \setupframed [offset=overlay,align=normal,frame=off, width=\parwidth,height=\parheight] \startcombination[2*2] {\framed[background=test 1]{\getshapetext}} {test 1} {\framed[background=test 2]{\getshapetext}} {test 2} {\framed[background=test 3]{\getshapetext}} {test 3} {\framed[background=test 4]{\getshapetext}} {test 4} \stopcombination \stopbuffer \placefigure [here][fig:shapes] {A continuous text, typeset in a non||standard shape, spread over four areas, and right alligned.} {\getbuffer} \stoptext Yue Wang

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followup: arrows in mplib
by Thomas A. Schmitz 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

I'm afraid arrows look better now, but they're not yet quite what they used to be. Test: \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{arrowtest} z1=(0,0) ; z2=(3cm,0) ; ahlength := 15pt ; pickup pencircle scaled 5pt ; drawarrow z1--z2 withcolor red ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{arrowtest} \stoptext Homework for Hans and Taco again? :-) Thomas

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