May 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Re: [NTG-context] [Dev-luatex] State of OpenType support
by Khaled Hosny 09 May '08

09 May '08

(Moved from lautex mailing list, more bellow) On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 02:11:38PM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:53:56PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > > Khaled Hosny wrote: > >> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:22:16PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > >>> Khaled Hosny wrote: > >>>> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:10:23AM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > >>>>> Hans Hagen wrote: > >>>>>> Khaled Hosny wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> I also tried "Nafees Nastaliq" font > >>>>>>> http://www.crulp.org/software/localization/Fonts/nafeesNastaleeq.html > >>>>>>> with also broken result. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> See also the arabic chapter (XIII) in mk.pdf: > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> http://pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mk.pdf > >>>>>>> I was actually testing the fonts under its guidance :) > >>>>>> Can you two team up on this issue? the problem is that esp the > >>>>>> scripting part of OT is not really defined, only has de facto > >>>>>> specs i.e. reversed engineered uniscribe. > >>>>> I had a quick look at the font with fontforge. It could that > >>>>> (part of the) problems are related to the fact that most of the > >>>>> glyph encodings > >>>>> in the font do not follow unicode, even though the font claims to be a > >>>>> UnicodeBMP encoded font. It is quite possible that that confuses the > >>>>> contextual analyser in MkIV. > >>>> I'm relaying solely on OpenType here, i.e. the actual glyphs aren't > >>>> encoded and using isol, init, etc features to map characters to the > >>>> appropriate glyphs. > >>>> > >>>> I tested it with two other OpenType implementations, and I got the > >>>> expected result. > >>> this mkmk feature ... > >>> > >>> (1) is it directionally sensitive? some features are marked as r2l, some not > >> > >> No its not, I think r2l is applicable for cursive anchors and should > >> mean nothing here (I was trying some thing but forget to remove it > >> after). > >> I removed r2l marl from all tables (except curs), but this changed > >> nothing. > >> > >>> (2) do you use proper mark -> basemark? or just mark to mark? > > > > keep in mind that when you update your font, you have to remove the > > cached version > > I removed the enteries in fonts/otf of the cache dir, is this enough? > Uploaded Pango output of the same string for comparison, http://khaled.djihed.com/context/ (Note: the dots are marks, not part of the base glyph; the dot is basemark and the haraka is mark). Thanks, Khaled > Khaled > > > > > Hans > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > Khaled Hosny > Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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Problem with presentation module(s)
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 09 May '08

09 May '08

Hi all, I wanted to use a presentation module today, but it failed with my up-to-date minimals install (mkiv). I ended up on live-context trying: \usemodule[pre-14] \starttext Salut Nivers! \stoptext Also tried pre-01. Both fail with pdftex, xetex and luatex on the web + at home. Anything I miss? -- Jean

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French typesetting?
by Oliv 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hi, I'm new with ConTeXt. However, during my University years, I frequently used LaTeX. As I'm mostly writing in French, I'd like to know how to configure ConTeXt for the French typesetting. I've already tried the \mainlanguage [fr] switch but this doesn't seem to be enough. For example, it does not insert automatically a small space before the !?: punctuation symbols. So I'm looking for something more complete, like the Babel French or French LE packages worked with LaTeX. Thanks in advance for your help! Oliv

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[OT] discover
by luigi scarso 08 May '08

08 May '08

http://www.megite.com/discover/ Try metapost... -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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some bugs in tracker can be closed
by Peter Münster 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hello, Perhaps these bugs can be closed now: 53, 56, 60, 61, 65, 82 and 84 Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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withshade (mlib)
by Peter Rolf 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hi, there are some problems in combination with the 'withshade' operator in mlib. this must be patched in mp-mlib.mp (':=' instead of '='; too much lua ;) vardef define_circular_shade (expr a, b, ra, rb, ca, cb) = _defined_cs_ := _defined_cs_ + 1 ; _defined_cs_pre_ [_defined_cs_] := "cs" ; _defined_cs_post_[_defined_cs_] := "0 1 " & decimal shadefactor & " " & colordecimals ca & " " & ddecimal (a shifted shadeoffset) & " " & decimal ra & " " & colordecimals cb & " " & ddecimal (b shifted shadeoffset) & " " & decimal rb ; _defined_cs_ enddef ; vardef define_linear_shade (expr a, b, ca, cb) = _defined_cs_ := _defined_cs_ + 1 ; _defined_cs_pre_ [_defined_cs_] := "ls" ; _defined_cs_post_[_defined_cs_] := "0 1 " & decimal shadefactor & " " & colordecimals ca & " " & ddecimal (a shifted shadeoffset) & " " colordecimals cb & " " & ddecimal (b shifted shadeoffset) ; _defined_cs_ enddef ; i still get an error after this patch, because '_defined_cs_' is not increased somehow (donno why, not my day; cleared mem, remade formats). _defined_cs_pre_0 is of course undefined. [..] report >> mp terminal: ! Missing argument to withshade. <to be read again> define_linear_shade <*> ...,1cm); fill p withshade define_linear_shade (p,1,red,blue); ; >> unknown string _defined_cs_pre_0 ! Improper type. <to be read again> withpostscript withshade->...fined_cs_pre_[(EXPR0)]withpostscript ._defined_cs_post_[(EXPR0)] <to be read again> define_linear_shade <*> ...,1cm); fill p withshade define_linear_shade (p,1,red,blue); ; >> _defined_cs_post_0define_linear_shade ! Improper type. <to be read again> ( <*> ...1cm); fill p withshade define_linear_shade( p,1,red,blue); ; ! Extra tokens will be flushed. <to be read again> ( <*> ...1cm); fill p withshade define_linear_shade( p,1,red,blue); ; report >> mp error: unknown, no error, terminal or log messages [..] here the test code: \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \null \startMPcode path p; p:= unitsquare xyscaled(10cm,1cm); fill p withshade define_linear_shade(p,1,red,blue); \stopMPcode \stoptext

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problem with columns and TABLE
by Peter Münster 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hello, In the following example, the bottom of the table is outside the page. How could this be solved? \starttext \input tufte \startcolumns[2] \bTABLE[split=yes] \dorecurse{50}{\bTR\bTD bla\eTD\eTR} \eTABLE \stopcolumns \stoptext TIA for any help! Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Arranging into Signatures?
by Michael.Urban＠jpl.nasa.gov 07 May '08

07 May '08

(I am still using mkii, which I suspect may matter in this case) I am able to produce rather nice booklets on US Letter paper, printing double-sided two-up pages that fold into a booklet and using texexec --arrange to make it work properly. For documents longer than about 32 pages, it isn't really practical to fold in half. What would y'all recommend if I want to arrange the pages into signatures, each containing about 32 pages, that can then be somehow bound together? An external PDF rearranger might be an option, I suppose.

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TOC columns
by Paul Gideon Dann 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi there, I've got a table of contents for a document that's split into two large sections. I'm trying to display a centered heading for each section, and subsections listed in two columns underneath each section heading. Hopefully this illustrates something of what I'm trying to achieve: \midaligned{Section1} \startcolumns[n=2] Subsection1 ... \stopcolumns \midaligned{Section2} \startcolumns[n=2] Subsection1 ... \stopcolumns Does anyone know how to automate this for a table of contents? Thanks for any help :) Paul

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processing xml
by Roger Mason 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hello, I have a document converted from rtf to xml that I'd like to attempt to typeset using Context. As a starting point I tried to follow the procedure in a document from the wiki: mag-0008-1.pdf "Dealing with XML". Having copied the first example document and stylesheet from that article and generated sample-1.fx, I run: texexec --pdf --use=fx --xml sample-1.fx but it ends with: (/usr/local/context_minimal/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex (/usr/local/context_minimal/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.mkii)) specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf,tpd loaded system : module fx not found ) systems : system commands are enabled ) * I installed the minimal today from the wiki to be up to date before posting. Probably something has changed in the four years since mag-0008-1.pdf was written. If some kind soul would point me in the right direction I'll be very grateful. Roger

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