July 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

inter-word spacing (initials)
by Alan Bowen 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

My original query has generated some interesting sidelines but no solution, at least none that I can see. So, with all due apologies, I shall presume on your patience by restating my query. In (English) typography the spacing after a period within a sentence is less that that after a period at the end of a sentence. Since the days of Plain TeX, one achieved the proper spacing after an intra- sentence period by entering “.\<space>”. My problem is that this no longer seems to work with recent versions of ConTeXt/MKII: “.\<space>” does not seem to have any effect at all. So, how are we now to get the proper spacing after an intra-sentence period? Are there some language/spacing commands that need to be invoked in the prelims now? Sample text: \starttext A. E. Samuels and other scholars. The community of time{-}keepers. A.\ E.\ Samuels and other scholars. The community of time{-}keepers. \stoptext Alan

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inter-word spacing (initials)
by Alan Bowen 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

I have the latest ConTeXt and am using mkii. One used to be able to reduce the spacing after an initial by by typing “.\<space>”, but this no longer seems to work. Compare the inter-word spacing in \starttext A. E. Samuel\crlf A.\ E.\ Samuel \stoptext If the is a difference here, I am having trouble seeing it; and on a typeset page, the gaps after the initials just seem too big. In general, I find that the spacing after certain characters ---e.g., “)”---has been increased of late. Is this in fact the case? Or should I go back to my old glasses? Cheers, Alan

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PPCHTEX: Reaction troubles
by per.maier 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

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installing fonts
by Jörg Hagmann 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

Hi, after watching the list for some time, I decided to try luatex. On ubuntu, I installed the minimals as indicated in http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals (in my home folder) A simple testfile works with "texmfstart texexec file" (Mk II) and "context file" (Mk IV). I then tried to install fonts I use frequently (LinLibertine and Gentium). I created a "texmf-local" folder and mirrored my previous installation, i.e.: texmf-local/fonts/truetype/sil/gentium texmf-local/fonts/tfm/sil/gentium texmf-local/fonts/vf/sil/gentium texmf-local/map/pdftex/context/texnansi-sil-... texm-local/tex/context/base/type-... Then: mktexlsr Result: font not used (with texmfstart texexec file) I then tried other commands (without expecting much), namely: mtxrun --selfupdate luatools --selfupdate luatools --generate mtxrun --script font --reload again, without effect. I then copied everything into texmf-context and executed the above commands. Without effect. Before I provide more details, these questions: 1. I created texmf-local in the hope that it will survive updates. Is this so? 2. Shouldn't mktexlsr be enough, if you use Mk II? I used this method of copying fonts from one installation to another before. 3. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks for answers, Jörg

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\setuphheadertexts for titles.
by John Culleton 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

Here is my current \setupheadertexts \setupheadertexts[text] [chapter][pagenumber][pagenumber][Don't Leave Your Company's Money on the Table] It works fine for chapters. I have a few titles that I want to have running heads for also, such as Preface, Introduction and so on. I tried using a special \setupheadertexts locally with the entire text enclosed in brackets thus: {\setupheadertexts[text] [Introduction][pagenumber][pagenumber][Don't Leave Your Company's Money on the Table] (text) ... } but that didn't work. Changing the second field to {chapter,title] just gave me the words "chapter,title". Somehow there must be a way to change the current chapter marking but I can't figure it out. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

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ConTeXt ver: 2008.07.14 18:07 MKIV
by Willi Egger 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

Hi LUA-users, Yesterday I installed a complete new set of minimals on my MAC (OSX 10.4). Now I get very strange results wit MATPOST. The file compiled contains a large definition which is used as an inclusion to produce a series of similar drawings with different parameters. When compiling the document with texexec --lua the fist page is ok. The second and the following pages contain each page all the previous drawings on top of each other. If the same drawing-set is compiled with texexec in MKII mode (This is MetaPost, version 1.085 (kpathsea version 3.5.6dev), some elements are distorted. It concerns elements, which are rotated and shifted. The fullcircle contained in the drawing is distorted too. Further also this document contains on the second and following pages the drawings from the previous pages stacked. This file compiles correctly with This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.1 (Web2C 7.5.6) (format=cont- en 2008.3.21) 16 JUL 2008 14:38 ConTeXt ver: 2008.03.11 23:55 MKII fmt: 2008.3.21 int: english/ english I tried to make a small test file. However this did not show the problem described above. For someone who want to test I can provide the source and my pdfs offline. Willi

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inter-word spacing (initials)
by Alan Bowen 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

I have the latest ConTeXt and am using mkii. One used to be able to reduce the spacing after an initial by by typing “.\<space>”, but this no longer seems to work. Compare the inter-word spacing in \starttext A. E. Samuel\crlf A.\ E.\ Samuel \stoptext If the is a difference here, I am having trouble seeing it; and on a typeset page, the gaps after the initials just seem too big. In general, I find that the spacing after certain characters ---e.g., “)”---has been increased of late. Is this in fact the case? Or should I go back to my old glasses? Cheers, Alan

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Latest beta + LuaTeX
by Otared Kavian 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

Dear magicians, I just updated to the latest betas (ConTeXt and LuaTeX taken on svn://scm.foundry.supelec.fr/svn/luatex and I tried to build luatex on my machine (MacBook Pro under Mac OS X 10.5.4): everything goes fine, the binary is there, that is in trunk/build/texk/web2c/luatex but trying to make the formats (as I did usually thanks to the directives given by Thomas Schmitz), I get an error message saying this: ! Emergency stop. \lastexpanded ->\endtemplate \global \everyloadluacode {} \ctxluabyteload ..."#2" } \stopruntimectxluacode } \ctxlua { lua.bytedata[\th... \registerctxluafile ...se \ctxluabyteload {#1}{#2} \fi \global \everyloadluac... l.165 \registerctxluafile{luat-env}{1.001} mkiv lua stats : used config path - /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/ web2c/texmf.cnf mkiv lua stats : used cache path - /tmp mkiv lua stats : input load time - 0.067 seconds mkiv lua stats : current memory usage - 6144468 bytes mkiv lua stats : node memory usage - 18 glue_spec, 1 if_stack, 1 dir However ConTeXt mkii works fine. Since I don't use yet extensively mkiv, I am just reporting the issue to inform the community. With my best regards: OK

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fonts (in luatex) (again)
by Andrea Valle 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

Following Wolfgang's advice (thanks) I have followed the delicious thread. So I have 1. downloaded the fonts and installed automatically via macosx Fontbook app (they are available in my system) 2. I have created a file named type-delicious.tex containing: \starttypescript [sans] [delicious] \setups[font:fallback:sans] \definefontsynonym [Sans] [Delicious-Regular] \definefontsynonym [SansItalic] [Delicious-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SansBold] [Delicious-Bold] \definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic] [Delicious-BoldItalic] \definefontsynonym [SansCaps] [Delicious-Caps] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [sans] [delicious] \definefontsynonym [Delicious-Regular] [name:Delicious-Roman] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [Delicious-Italic] [name:Delicious-Italic] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [Delicious-Bold] [name:Delicious-Bold] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [Delicious-BoldItalic] [name:Delicious-BoldItalic] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [Delicious-Caps] [name:Delicious-SmallCaps] [features=default] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [delicious] \definetypeface [delicious] [ss] [sans] [delicious] [default] \stoptypescript (which I do not understand: but that's another story) I have saved the file under the same folder of tex file I'm working at 3. then I have called: context --generate 4. In my tex file I have added: \usetypefile [delicious] \usetypescript[delicious] \setupbodyfont[delicious] 5. while compiling I'm having a problem with delicious. Log attached ? Thanks Best -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- " Think of it as seasoning . noise [salt] is boring . F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring . F(noise, blah) can be really tasty " (Ken Perlin on noise)

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Re: [NTG-context] Whacko font behaviour ? ( Or Am I ? :O)
by Alan Stone 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

( 2nd and last attempt: message didn't get through ) Thanks a lot Wolfgang. There's still something I don't understand though... Why does this not compile then ? -------- \setuppapersize [A4][A4] \starttypescript [serif] [myBodyFont] \definefontsynonym [myBodyFontRegular] [name:Times New Roman] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [myBodyFontItalic] [name:Times New Roman Italic] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [myBodyFontBold] [name:Times New Roman Bold] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [myBodyFontBoldItalic] [name:Times New Roman Bold Italic] [features=default] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [myBodyFont] \setups[font:fallback:serif] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [myBodyFontRegular] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [myBodyFontItalic] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [myBodyFontBold] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [myBodyFontBoldItalic] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [myBodyFont] \definetypeface [myBodyFont] [rm] [serif] [myBodyFont] [default] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [sans] [myHeadingsFont] \definefontsynonym [myHeadingsFontRegular] [name:Arial] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [myHeadingsFontItalic] [name:Arial Italic] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [myHeadingsFontBold] [name:Arial Bold] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [myHeadingsFontBoldItalic] [name:Arial Bold Italic] [features=default] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [sans] [myHeadingsFont] \setups[font:fallback:sans] \definefontsynonym [Sans] [myHeadingsFontRegular] \definefontsynonym [SansItalic] [myHeadingsFontItalic] \definefontsynonym [SansBold] [myHeadingsFontBold] \definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic] [myHeadingsFontBoldItalic] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [myHeadingsFont] \definetypeface [myHeadingsFont] [ss] [sans] [myHeadingsFont] [default] \stoptypescript \usetypescript[myBodyFont] \usetypescript[myHeadingsFont] \setupbodyfont[myBodyFont,12pt] \definefont[myChapterFont][myHeadingsFontRegular sa 1.728] %\setuphead[chapter][style=myChapterFont] % compile error at line 49 \setuphead[chapter][style=\myChapterFont] % compile error at line 49 \starttext \chapter{chapter test} % line 49 \section{section test} text test \stoptext ------- ConTeXt ver: 2008.07.10 08:40 MKIV fmt: 2008.7.10 int: english/english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded (/opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (/opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv lua : used config path - /opt/context/tex/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf lua : used cache path - /opt/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/9d2177de8a31df158f21be632b7742b7 ) (/opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-mtx.tex)) system : cont-old loaded (/opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (/opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex (/opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex) (/opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex)) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded load otf | loading: /opt/context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman12-regular.otf load otf | enhance: before load otf | enhance: enrich load otf | enhance: registering tlig feature load otf | enhance: registering trep feature load otf | enhance: flatten load otf | flattening 'specifications' tables load otf | flattening 'anchor' tables load otf | flattening 'gpos' tables load otf | flattening 'gsub' tables load otf | enhance: analyze load otf | enhance: after load otf | replacing 'kerns' tables by 'mykerns' tables load otf | enhance: patch load otf | enhance: strip load otf | enhance: pack load otf | file size: 107060 load otf | saving: in cache(test.tex ( snip: file too big ) load otf | loading: /opt/context/tex/texmf/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/timesbi.ttf load otf | warning: Warning: Glyph 257 is named middot which should mean it is mapped to Unicode U+00B7, but Glyph 194 already has that encoding. load otf | warning: Glyph 915 is called ".notdef", a singularly inept choice of name (only glyph 0 may be called .notdef) FontForge will rename it. load otf | enhance: before load otf | enhance: enrich load otf | enhance: registering tlig feature load otf | enhance: registering trep feature load otf | enhance: flatten load otf | flattening 'specifications' tables load otf | flattening 'anchor' tables load otf | flattening 'gpos' tables load otf | flattening 'gsub' tables load otf | enhance: analyze load otf | enhance: after load otf | replacing 'kerns' tables by 'mykerns' tables load otf | enhance: patch load otf | enhance: strip load otf | enhance: pack load otf | file size: 239692 load otf | saving: in cache (test.tuo) (test.tuo) systems : begin file test at line 47 define font | font with name myHeadingsFontRegular is not found define font | unknown font myHeadingsFontRegular, loading aborted ! Font \**myChapterFont**:=myHeadingsFontRegular at 20.736pt not loadable: metric data not found or bad. <to be read again> \relax \dododefinefont ...ontspec {#2}\rawfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \dosetfontattribute ...me #1#2\@EA \endcsname \fi \empty \doplaceheadnumbertext ...bute {\??ko #1}\c!style \getvalue {\??ko #1\c!comm... \dodododoconstructhead ...{\finalsectionnumber }}} \writesection {#1}{#3}{#4}... l.49 \chapter{chapter test} ? ! Emergency stop. <to be read again> \relax \dododefinefont ...ontspec {#2}\rawfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \dosetfontattribute ...me #1#2\@EA \endcsname \fi \empty \doplaceheadnumbertext ...bute {\??ko #1}\c!style \getvalue {\??ko #1\c!comm... \dodododoconstructhead ...{\finalsectionnumber }}} \writesection {#1}{#3}{#4}... l.49 \chapter{chapter test} End of file on the terminal! ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! ------- Alan

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