April 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

first steps with XeTeX
by Henning Hraban Ramm 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Since I need to typeset some names with characters outside of ec encoding, I'm just checking out XeTeX. - first threshold: If you have \setupoutput[pdftex] in cont-sys.tex, it doesn't work. ;-) (Complains "you should use pdftex binaries".) - second threshold: Adapt your typescripts. Since I use TeX Gyre anyway, that was no problem. (Is there still no complete type-gyr.tex in the distribution? I couldn't find it.) - third threshold (standing there): XeTeX can't read tagged PDFs. For I typeset proceedings, I must include a lot of pages from presentation PDFs. And even if I'd call myself a PDF professional, I didn't find a way to delete all tags from a PDF. I could convert everything to EPS or even render the pages in Photoshop. But I'd prefer to stay with the PDFs. Any ideas? Tomorrow I'll try to use an additional PostScript font - is that even possible? Otherwise I must convert it to OpenType. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Re: [NTG-context] first steps
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

On 8 Apr 2008 at 12:00, ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: > > I am using scite with the following command: > > texmfstart texexec --autopdf --luatex tst3.tex > > I simply have no idea. I do not understand why windows > would object to closing a file that doesn't exist (not even > how it could be possible for an opened file to not exist). > > It could be a simple matter of a missing file that somehow > luatex fails to check for during opening so it is not discovered > until it attempts to close the file, but even if that is true, > I have no idea how to debug anything on windows. > > It could also be a (more complicated) problem triggered by > disk synchronisation issues in Windows itself. We have been > bitten by those before (what is your windows flavour?) Windows 2000 > In either case, someone else has to come up with tests and/or > fix attempts. The only advice I can give is to reinstall > context using the new minimals and see if that helps any. > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals This is a fresh installation. I installed it using 'context-setup-mswin.zip'. After some trials, I found that the example compiles ok without the TWO \eogonek commands. There were TWO fclose attempts in the logs, too. Can this be a hint? Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] ConTEXt - produced book __ about typesetting, as an art, to print "Beautiful books"
by Giulio Bertellini 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Sitting in a Paris restaurant, equipped with WI/FI and after a couple of wine glasses. I really like your work. It would be interesting to see the sources and to learn the tricks (your used). The look is great. Thanks to Hans for the beautiful gift to the World. One final comment. I think the typesetting is fine, technically speaking, but, overall, the spacing is too tight. It is not relaxing. Readers should be more confortable. WHAT IS THE THINKING OF THIS COMMUNITY. I am not a typesetter, but setting type, good typesetting is difficult to express. It transcends words. It's about feelings and type. Personally, I think that Prof.Dr.med. should be typeset differently. How can we accept Prof, Dr. Med, with not spaces in between, perhaps thin spaces. Congratulations, however. Giulio Bertellini On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Jörg Hagmann <joerg.hagmann(a)unibas.ch> wrote: > Dear list members, > > My biochemistry textbook has been published by orell füssli as an UTB > book. I would like to thank all the members of this list, and Hans in > particular, for their help (acknowledgements in the "Thank you" section > of the book as well). > > You'll find a few sample pages under: > www.ogbasel.ch/context.html (2.5MB) > > Page and margin sizes prescribed by the publisher. The pages illustrate: > > p. 7: The use of inmargin text. > p. 79: a "vignette", in the margin and partially in the text area. > p. 110: The height of some margin figures was large, necessitating > manual adjustments. > p. 145: A framed box and a wide table. The large number of enumerations, > figures, frames etc. made some typographical sins inevitable (e.g. last > line on this page). > p. 155: textbody and margin completely filled > p. 190: I include this page for Willi and Thomas > p. 235: Some chapters end with what students really need to know (red > background). This is the end of the chapter on nutrition > p. 239: The "Toolbox" contains framed figures without a legend. > > -- > Prof.Dr.med. Jörg Hagmann-Zanolari > Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics > Centre of Biomedicine, University of Basel > Mattenstrasse 28 > CH-4058 Basel > Switzerland > Phone +41 (0)61 267 3565 > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ >

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problem using protrusion and hz
by David C. Walden 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Hi, Adytia pointed me to some examples at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Protrusion I tried the following code with a couple of page test page, ----- \definepapersize[specialbook][width=5.5in,height=8.5in] \setuppapersize[specialbook][specialbook] \setuplayout[height=7.5in,width=4.5in,backspace=40pt,location=middle] %\usetypescript[serif][hz][quality] %line 1 %\setupalign[hanging,hz] %line 2 \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono][hanging][pure] %line 3 \setupalign[hanging] %line 4 \usetypescript[modern-base][texnansi] %line 5 \setupbodyfont[reset] %line 6 \setupbodyfont[modern] %line 7 %\setupbodyfont[serif,11pt] \setupwhitespace[4.5pt] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupexternalfigures[directory={../marsh-slideshow}] \setupindenting[none] \setuphead[chapter][number=no] \setupheader[state=none] % Enable colors and activate hyperlinks \setupcolors [state=start] \setupinteraction [state=start, color=blue] \definecolor [darkRed][r=.5,g=.0,b=.0] \useURL[TPJ][{http://www.tug.org/pracjourn}][][{\it Prac\TeX{} Journal}] \useURL[mywebsite][{http://www.walden-family.com/dave}][][www.walden-family.com] \starttext ... \stoptext ---- and I get slightly different results if lines 1 and 2 versus 3 and 4 are in or out, or if both pairs of lines are commented out. If, however, I try this with the real 215 page book I am compiling rather than a smaller example, pdfTeX halts 200 or so pages in with a fatal error saying it has run out of space and saying something more about a hash table. If I comment out lines 5-7, I don't get the fatal error but also I don't think I see protrusion and font expansion happening. The real book doesn't have very much body text but is does have 215 images with code like \placefigure{none}{\externalfigure[#1.jpg][width=\textwidth]} where #1 comes from a macro call. Any thoughts? (I suppose I can split my source file in half and find a ConTeXt command to start the page numbering for the second half a 107 or so and then combine the two PDFs with Acrobat.) Best regards, Dave -- home address: 12 Linden Rd., E. Sandwich, MA 02537; ph/fax=508-888-7655/4168 email address: dave(a)walden-family.com; website(s): http://www.walden-family.com/

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analyzing type-otf.tex
by Henning Hraban Ramm 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

(1) Shouldn't these typescripts get splitted?: from \starttypescript [serif] [adventor,bonum,cursor,heros,pagella,schola,termes] to \starttypescript [serif] [bonum,pagella,schola,termes] \starttypescript [sans] [adventor,heros] \starttypescript [mono] [cursor] plus \starttypescript [calligraphy] [chorus] and from \starttypescript [serif] [pagella,termes,bonum,schola,chorus] [name] to \starttypescript [serif] [pagella,termes,bonum,schola] [name] \starttypescript [calligraphy] [chorus] [name] (2) This seems wrong to me (i.e. I don't understand it): \starttypescript [serif] [adventor,bonum,cursor,heros,pagella,schola,termes] \definefontsynonym [\typescriptprefix{n:\typescripttwo}-Regular] [file:texgyre\typescriptthree\typescriptprefix{f:\typescripttwo}- regular] [features=default] That defines e.g. TeXGyrePagella-Regular --> file:texgyre???pagella- regular Why is there \typescriptthree without a third parameter of the typescript? And what file means "file:texgyre\typescriptthree"? I thought, "file:" should be followed by a proper filename like "{n: \typescripttwo}-Regular"? Are the first and second parameters swapped? (3) I get (maybe from that): kpathsea: Illegal fontname `texgyrename,default,ec,specialschola- regular': contains ','! Font \*gyr- mix12ptrmtfrm*:=texgyrename,default,ec,specialschola-regular at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or installed font not found. This is my setup: \usetypescriptfile [type-otf] \usetypescriptfile [type-urw] \starttypescript [fiee] [gyr-mix] \definetypeface [gyr-mix] [rm] [serif] [schola] [default] \definetypeface [gyr-mix] [ss] [sans] [urw-grotesk-narrow] [default] [encoding=ec] \stoptypescript \usetypescript [fiee][gyr-mix] \setupbodyfont [gyr-mix,rm,8pt] Where's my error? Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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perl/Ruby dependency -- how deep?
by Joel C. Salomon 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Two questions came up when I was looking into putting ConTeXt on a USB stick (i.e., as a "portable app"): 1. Is perl still required for a ConTeXt installation (say, under Windows)? I know texexec is now written in Ruby, but are there other programs in Stand-alone or the Minimals that require perl? 2. I vaguely recall some mention of eventually replacing texexec with a Lua version. Is this actually being planned, and would that eliminate the external language dependencies of ConTeXt? --Joel

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A problem with HOMETEXMF
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Hi all, I have set HOMETEXMF in my setupex file, and the path is normally recognized: 13:25 jean@boldair /home/jean % echo $HOMETEXMF /home/jean/texmf Luatex sees it: 13:25 jean@boldair /home/jean % luatools --expand-path HOMETEXMF /home/jean/texmf (not if I write $HOMETEXMF ??) But luatex does not find files there: 13:35 jean@boldair /home/jean % luatools --find-file t-tikz.tex <blank> I have tried to set TEXMFHOME but got the same result. Please can anybody explain these variables and how they work with luatex or point to some documentation? -- Jean

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Scite startup script error
by Abhishek Seth 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Hi, It seems I have missing scite-ctx.lua. It is not present in the cont-tmf.zip which I had downloaded. I created an empty scite-ctx.lua to suppress the error message. Is this file meant to be created manually or a part of distribution (cont-tmf.zip)? Thanks > Abhishek Seth wrote: > > Hi, > > > > After reinstalling the Scite 1.76 and putting the support files in > > place, I am getting the following error: > > > > "attempt to call a string value > >> Lua: error occured while loading startup script" > > > > I don't know what it is. Can someone please help? > > probably related to scite using lua 5 now; did you update to the > scite-ctx from the context distribution? > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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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luatex and interaction
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Hi all, There had been a thread about it in august, but it seems part of the problem is still there: words or sentences appearing in interaction are split: here is a minimal example: .......................... \setupinteraction [state=start] \starttext L'un de ces documents \useURL[bb][http://junon.univ-cezanne.fr/bornier/BBMon/bbmm.html][][The Nature of Boehm-Bawerk's Capital Market]\from[bb]\footnote{http://junon.univ-cezanne.fr/bornier/BBMon/bbmm.html} a été présenté en 2004 æ€ûœ \stoptext .......................... Same problem with bibliographical references when interaction is activated. (Minimal version from minimals.contextgarden.net, up to date from yesterday.) -- Jean

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Widgets with luatex
by Lutz Haseloff 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Hi Hans, Hi all, I try to use widgets with luatex and ConTeXt MKIV. If i try the example for a choice field from mwidget-s.pdf i get following error: javascript : loading script set fld (C:/context/texmf-context/tex/context/base/java-fld.tex) ! LuaTeX error .../context/texmf-context/tex/context/base/colo-new.lua:429: bad argument #3 to 'format' (string expected, got no value). \PDFcolor ...lormodel , \thecolorattribute {#1}))} \setFDFattributes ...space Tf\space \PDFcolor {#2} }\doifelsenothing {#3} {\g... \doFDFpresetchoicefield ...]\setFDFattributes [#5] \setFDFvalues [#7][#4]\set... \dopresetfield ...{preset\@@DriverFieldType field} \fi \fi \dosetupfield ...fieldoffset \hbox {\typesetfield }} \vss }}\ifShowFieldLabe... \dofield ...abel ,\v!frame ,\v!horizontal ][][][]} \iftrialtypesetting \else ... ... l.6 Text text \field[Ugly] t ext text. ? My minimal testfile is: % engine=luatex \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \setupfield [UglySetup] [width=6em, height=1.2\lineheight, location=low] \definefield [Ugly] [choice] [UglySetup] [ugly,awful,bad] [ugly] Text text \field[Ugly] text text. \stoptext I use ConTeXt ver: 2008.03.24 23:24 MKIV fmt: 2008.4.2 int: english/english and luatex Version snapshot-0.25.1-2008040121 (Web2C 7.5.6) What is the (probabely my) error? Greetings Lutz

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