April 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Problem to save data font in cache
by Wolfgang Schuster 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Hi, I tried to use the cwTeX fonts with MkIV and I can use them but ConTeXt is not able to save the font data and read the font for every run, this did work but it takes quiet some time to do this. A attached the result from the terminal and the log file. The font are available from the following page: http://cle.linux.org.tw/fonts/cwttf/baseline/ My example document is: % engine=luatex \definefont[cwheib][file:cwheib*default at 12pt] \starttext \cwheib cwTeXHeiBold \stoptext Wolfgang

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mtxrun can’t find the scripts
by Olivier Guéry 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Hello, I still can't run mtxrun --scripts fonts --mtxrun --reload the output give me : MtxRun | unknown script: fonts I tried with my context installation in /usr/share/texmf and with context minimal. Digging in my directories, I supose that thoses scripts are the mtx-* in $LOCALTEX/scripts/context/lua I can't run any of them (assuming that the syntax is mtxrun --scripts {the name of the script without the « mtx- » prefix and « .lua » sufix}). I tried do chmod +x them… nothing I haven't see problems in the install process… (exept that I must run, ctxtools --update and texexec --make --all --{pdf,xe,lu}tex being root, but my user don't have write rights on these directories, so…) Any idear ? Cheers, Olivier. -- [Message tapé sur un clavier Bépo : http://www.clavier-dvorak.org ] Olivier nemolivier(a)gmail.com http://nemolivier.blogspot.com

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--autopdf closes all documents
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

I am using Scite on Windows to edit and build my documents. The most annoying behaviour is that when I press F7 to build the document the "texexec --pdf --autopdf" command that it executes closes ALL open pdf documents. So that I have to keep re-opening everything :-( Is there a way to build which just closes the document you are building and leaves others open? Thanks, Richard Stephens

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small caps and old numbers with open type fonts
by Antoine Junod 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Hello list, I'm still playing with a few otf fonts and enjoying the way ConTeXt works :) I'm now playing with a beautiful Garamond. I try to typeset a few things with old-style numbers and, well, the output contains old-style numbers but not in my Garamond (it seems to be in latin modern). What should I do to use the old-style numbers of my font? Did a miss a doc about that? Or did I missunderstood the \os command (I thought it was a switch to the old-style of the font but it seems rather to change of font)? I actually use my font as simple as possible with a \definefont[boum][MyFont at 12pt]. Is it the problem? It the same with the \sc command. Thanks a lot for your reply, -AJ

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latest
by Thomas A. Schmitz 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Hi all (Hans, Taco...), thre appears to be a problem with font-syn.lua in the latest release. First, there's a typo in l. 291. I think if not filename and not reloaded and fonts.name.autoreload then should be if not filename and not reloaded and fonts.names.autoreload then But even after correcting that, I still get errors when compiling something with Greek in it: This went wrong: ...al/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/font- syn.lua:296: attempt to index local 'name' (a nil value) report >> fontnames: 0 system files identified, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.000024 seconds. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...me \fontclass #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \iftryingfont \... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.68 \startgreek ? ! Emergency stop. Any pointers? Thanks! Thomas

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{Spam?} Degree of MKII isolation from MKIV changes
by Michael Santy 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

>From watching the mailing list, it seems that there's been a bit of instability due to recent changes for MKIV. For the benefit of those of us exclusively using MKII, can someone comment on how insulated MKII users are from changes made for development on MKIV? Cheers, Mike

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Architecture Sketch
by Suno Ano 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

hi folks, I am new to ConTeXt. I had been a TeXinfo, Muse and LaTeX boy so far. Now that I am into ConTeXt for the 2nd day it came to my attention that there is for eample MkIV, luatex etc. How do they fit together? Is there some sort of architecure chart somewhere so newbies can get a hold within a few seconds? Secondly, now that it seems MkIV is the new star will all my ConTeXt knowledge be obsolete once luatex is going to be used? (Maybe I am just making a fool out of myself even asking this but then I am totally new to this whole subject so ...) What I want is to write documents (papers, manual, theses, etc.) with ConTeXt. So, is the time I am going to invest into learning and toying around with ConTeXt a secure investment of my time or not i.e. ConTeXt will be phased out or something (again, asking this might actually make me look goofy :-) tia for enlightening me!

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Re: [NTG-context] mplib
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

On 15 Apr 2008 at 13:31, ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: Hallo Taco, > > (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'! I have searched in the local directory, where it should be. It is not in 'D:\context\tex\texmf-mswin\web2c' where format-files usally exist. It is not in the cache. I run this: ------------------------------------------------------- \enableregime[utf-8] \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("plain") print(table.serialize(res)) res = mp:finish() print(table.serialize(res)) end \stoplua % stop low-level \stoptext ------------------------------------------------------- with the following output: ------------------------------------------------------- t={ ["log"]="This is MetaPost, Version 1.003 (INIMP) 15 APR 2008 21:00 (plain.mpPreloading the plain mem file, version 0.99", ["status"]=0, ["term"]="This is MetaPost, Version 1.003 (Cweb version 0.40) (INIMP)\ (plain.mpPreloading the plain mem file, version 0.99", } t={ ["log"]=" )\ Beginning to dump on file plain.mem\ (mem=plain 8.4.15)\ at most 735 strings of total length 3629\ 3326 memory locations dumped; current usage is 1021&2227\ 501 symbolic tokens\ ", ["status"]=0, ["term"]=" )\ Beginning to dump on file plain.mem\ (mem=plain 8.4.15)\ at most 735 strings of total length 3629\ 3326 memory locations dumped; current usage is 1021&2227\ 501 symbolic tokens\ Transcript written on plain.log.\ ", } ------------------------------------------------------- Can you see, what I am missing? Wolfgang

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using mag and "myway"
by Pau 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

Hi, I am worried because I would like to use mag-01 to write a document and then upload it to the arxiv.org. Of course, I have a title for the document and I would like to use it instead of having "My Way" written in the front page (which nobody would understand) I see that ------------------------- %C This module is part of the \CONTEXT\ macro||package and is %C therefore copyrighted by \PRAGMA. See mreadme.pdf for %C details. ------------------------- I found this file on the net. at www.tug.org/teTeX/tetex-texmfdist/doc/context/base/mreadme.pdf I see that it is (basically?) GPL. Ok... now, in mag-01 I read that: % This style is used for producing explanationary documents. % Don't misuse it for other purposes, since it may confuse % users. Don't change the title either, since it provides a % way to categorize documents. Numbers are disabled in % instances produced outside PRAGMA ADE. "Don't change the title either" ?!?! and % These are reserved for PRAGMA-ADE, don't use them yourself! % \setvariables[magazine][main=Tricky] % \setvariables[magazine][main=Update] % \setvariables[magazine][main=HOWTO] % \setvariables[magazine][main=This Way] % preludes to a/the manual % \setvariables[magazine][main=A Better Way] % dirty versus clean % \setvariables[magazine][main=No Way] % how users should not do % it % \setvariables[magazine][main=Your Way] % how users do it % \setvariables[magazine][main=My Way] % how users do it % \setvariables[magazine][main=Our Way] % how we do things at % pragma % \setvariables[magazine][main=Their Way] % how to do latex things % in context What does this mean? Am I free to use the style but forced to write "My Way" on the top of it? Cannot I modify mag-01.tex, rename it to something which do not lead to confusion (say "JourDiffTitle.tex") and -of course leaving the comments there- use it as I want? Are the example tex files under the gpl or cannot one modify them? I am asking to avoid posterior problems. Thanks, Pau

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2 problems with "texexec --module"
by Peter Münster 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

Hello, 1.) Compilation stop like this: [1.1] [2.1] . (./t-french.tex language : language specific options [default-fr] introduce a 4.0pt skip \wait= With the following example: %D \module %D [ file=t-french, %D version=2008.04.05, %D title=\CONTEXT\ User Module, %D subtitle=For French documents, %D author=Peter Münster, %D date=\currentdate, %D copyright={Peter Münster}] \startlanguagespecifics[fr] \setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation] \stoplanguagespecifics Command: texexec --module --luatex t-french 2.) The option "--result" is not respected: texexec --module --result=french-doc t-french produces t-french.pdf but not french-doc.pdf. Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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