April 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

do is impossible to install mark iv in gnu/linux/amd64?
by raven aloof 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Hi all... Mark IV is a greatest technology but very very difficult to install :(. The trouble is not context or metafun else luatex. There is not way humanly possible to install it in gnu/linux/x86_64! Always I have some error :(... I tried with packages (hardy heron, currently) but I have/get oldest files/executables. I tested with minimals but luatex fail, always. I downloaded 'justtex' and 'linuxtex' from 'pragma', I executed 'setup', 'ctxtools --update', 'texhash', 'luatools --generate', 'luatools --ini --compile --verbose cont-en' and there is where is the problem. I show the log.: -------------------- log file ------------------------------ LuaTools | version 1.1.1 - 2006+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT LuaTools | loading configuration for /home/raven/sources/tex/context/tex/texmf-local/web2c from /tmp/luatex-cache/context/633f28473ae673ab8010bad861caac2b/trees/7c0207599bd198dfb79dd3ceb6750413 LuaTools | loading configuration for /home/raven/sources/tex/context/tex/texmf/web2c from /tmp/luatex-cache/context/633f28473ae673ab8010bad861caac2b/trees/3111d02d6c5a3b3dbcd844d87f23b1ba LuaTools | locating list of /home/raven/sources/tex/context/tex/texmf-linux-64 LuaTools | locating list of /home/raven/sources/tex/context/tex/texmf-project LuaTools | locating list of /home/raven/sources/tex/context/tex/texmf-fonts LuaTools | locating list of /home/raven/sources/tex/context/tex/texmf-local LuaTools | locating list of /home/raven/sources/tex/context/tex/texmf-extra LuaTools | locating list of /home/raven/sources/tex/context/tex/texmf LuaTools | loading files for /home/raven/sources/tex/context/tex/texmf-linux-64 from /tmp/luatex-cache/context/633f28473ae673ab8010bad861caac2b/trees/d672b2f0b05dd406b9b772d4e483a2a0 LuaTools | loading files for /home/raven/sources/tex/context/tex/texmf-fonts from /tmp/luatex-cache/context/633f28473ae673ab8010bad861caac2b/trees/6c439d293d07215cb6e292871b11baa4 LuaTools | loading files for /home/raven/sources/tex/context/tex/texmf-local from /tmp/luatex-cache/context/633f28473ae673ab8010bad861caac2b/trees/16fdea445e079e221d9d4a786b39e208 LuaTools | loading files for /home/raven/sources/tex/context/tex/texmf-extra from /tmp/luatex-cache/context/633f28473ae673ab8010bad861caac2b/trees/2ea1098d190949807a89ea08ce1363d0 LuaTools | loading files for /home/raven/sources/tex/context/tex/texmf from /tmp/luatex-cache/context/633f28473ae673ab8010bad861caac2b/trees/39fb678b4d3be7340cdddf3157b9b88b LuaTools | creating initialization file cont-en LuaTools | using library path : /home/raven/sources/tex/context/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base LuaTools | using lua libraries: l-string.lua l-lpeg.lua l-table.lua l-boolean.lua l-number.lua l-set.lua l-unicode.lua l-md5.lua l-os.lua l-io.lua l-file.lua l-url.lua l-dir.lua l-utils.lua l-tex.lua luat-env.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" "/home/raven/sources/tex/context/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex" \\dump Error in lua file loading: cont-en.luc: bad header in precompiled chunk LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.080 seconds -------------------- end log file ------------------------- As it is logic, I have all variables correctly added ($TEXROOT, $TEXMF, $TEXMFCACHE, etc, etc, etc), and ruby install it. The questions are.: Is the some way to install/update/upgrade context/metafun/LUATEX on gnu/linux/amd64? The error log, how is it solve? Should there not be a standard method to install all this?... Thanks :)

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Missing character in texgyreheros
by luigi scarso 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Sorry for the noise, but i'm in the middle between an old context mkii (2005) and mkiv stylesheet for a greek utf-encoded file and i'm a bit confused. While using Heros font, I have: Missing character: There is no ώ (974) in font /home/usr7/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre/texgyreheros-regular.otf! But in enco-def.tex there is \definecharacter greekomegatonos {'w} so I believe that it's possible to replace missing glyph with {'w} Maybe some switch ? I'm using \usetypescript[postscript] \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt,ss] -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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[OT] Interview with Donald Knuth
by luigi scarso 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856 -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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Re: [NTG-context] letter
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Hallo Wolfgang, it seems to me that referenzline, subject, foldmarks, etc, are about 4mm or 5mm to big (A4 paper). The foldmark for example should be 105mm from papertop. It is 110mm from top. The horizontal offset (3.5mm) of foldmarks ist to small. A laserprinter often is not able to print 5mm or more from paperedge. So the foldmarks are invisibel. Grusz, Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] Tables in headers
by Stefan Larsson 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Thank you very much for your explicit hints Wolfgang. I've learnt a lot from these few lines of code. /Stefan

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chapter setup / table of contents
by Henning Hraban Ramm 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Ahoi! In a volume of proceedings, each chapter has an author and title and sometimes a subtitle. The ToC entry should look like: Author: Title \hfill Page (no indents!) At the moment I've this setup: --- \def\Titel#1#2#3{% author, title, subtitle \page% {\writebetweenlist[chapter]{\placeongrid{\noindent #1:}} \switchtobodyfont[12pt]\noindent #1% \chapter{\noindent #2}% {\ss\bf #3}% \blank[2*big]}% } \setuphead[chapter][page=no, number=no, align= {flushleft,nothyphenated,verytolerant}, style={\ss\bfa}, before={}, after={\blank}] \definecombinedlist[toc][chapter][level=chapter, placehead=no, criterium=all, alternative=b, offset=none] \setupcombinedlist [toc] [partnumber=no] --- Please don't cry, I know it's ugly... ;-) What it does is close, but nood good enough. - Is there a way to use the normal chapter (or any head) mechanism with such "feathered" titles? - How do I get my special ToC? 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] Tables in headers
by Stefan Larsson 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Hi Stefan, On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Stefan Larsson <lastsys(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> First post on this list... >> >> I have been using LaTeX for several large projects during the last 10 years >> and just recently tried to switch to ConTeXt due to the claim of easier >> handling of custom page layout. So far it is an enjoyable experience... >> >> I would need to customize my page headers with a custom table (like LaTeX's >> tabular environment) instead of just changing the text in the left and right >> corners. From the quick browsing I have been doing of documentation and >> articles at contextgarden this feature called "layers" might be what I am >> looking for. But before trying to grasp this feature I would like to ask any >> experienced ConTeXt user for the recommended approach to achieve what I am >> trying to do... >> >> So, to conclude: "How do I customize my page header to contain a table >> instead of the predefined style?" > can you give us a example of the header do you want to get, tables are not > best solution and they will couse troubles in a few cases. We could try to > find a better solution if possible. I'll try to illustrate using a monospaced font: +------+ Company Name | | | Logo | | | +------+ ------------------------------------------------+------------ Type of document | Page Report of something | 2 (10) -----------------------------------+------------+------------ Name of document | Issue | Date My document name | 1 | 2008-04-22 -----------------------------------+------------+------------ Issuer (dept, name, email) | Appendix dept, name, email | Appendix ------------------------------------------------+------------ This is the full header. A reduced header is used on the rest of the pages where the last row is excluded. (I am trying to convert a MS-Word template...) Thanks, /Stefan

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Bridge between Lua and Ruby
by Diamantini Maurice 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Bonjour à tous ! I just see that there is a bridge between the Ruby language (used by context tools) and Lua (soon to be part of the next TeX compiler, via LuaTeX) http://rubyluabridge.rubyforge.org/ I thought this would be interesting for somebody on this list ;-) -- Maurice Diamantini

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Re: [NTG-context] question on the luaTeX installation
by Dalyoung Jeong 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Dear Thomas and Aditya, Thank you for the reply. TEXMFLOCAL, TEXMFDIST is the order in texmf.cnf. So the order in .luatex is OK. 1. I changed '/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local' in the .luatex file to '/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local' %%%%%%% echo $TEXMF {/Users/dalyoung/.texlive2007/texmf-config,/Users/ dalyoung/.texlive2007/texmf-var,/Users/dalyoung/Library/texmf,/usr/ local/texlive/2007/texmf-config,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var,/usr/ local/texlive/2007/texmf,/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local,/usr/local/ texlive/2007/texmf-dist} %%%%%%%%%% 2. 'luatools --generate'. 3. Then it locate the files in right positions. $ luatools cont-new.tex /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex And I succeeded to create the format file and a very simple test file worked very well. I don't know what is the difference between '/texlive/2007/../texmf- local/' and '/texlive/texmf-local/'. Thank you for your concern again. Best regards, Dalyoung Jeong

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Tables in headers
by Stefan Larsson 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

First post on this list... I have been using LaTeX for several large projects during the last 10 years and just recently tried to switch to ConTeXt due to the claim of easier handling of custom page layout. So far it is an enjoyable experience... I would need to customize my page headers with a custom table (like LaTeX's tabular environment) instead of just changing the text in the left and right corners. From the quick browsing I have been doing of documentation and articles at contextgarden this feature called "layers" might be what I am looking for. But before trying to grasp this feature I would like to ask any experienced ConTeXt user for the recommended approach to achieve what I am trying to do... So, to conclude: "How do I customize my page header to contain a table instead of the predefined style?" Thanks, Stefan Larsson

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