September 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Working with grids and Luatex
by holzminister 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

Hi! Is there a command to place text on the grid again, if it is shifted by a graphic or something like this? >>> \setuplayout[grid=yes] \showgrid \starttext \input knuth \framedtext [height=fit,autowidth=force,offset=0pt] { \externalfigure[cow][scale=830] } \input knuth \stoptext >>> Best regards, Eyke

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humble request: Minimals for linux ppc
by Piotr Kopszak 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

Any chance for that in the near future? Otherwise, be warned :) I will probably flood the list with questions how to make texlive debian-lenny-ppc installation work with mkIV (Sadly new xml mkIV commands don't work on ppc, although they do on my other x86_64 linux box). Piotr -- Piotr Kopszak, Ph.D. Polish Art Gallery, National Museum in Warsaw kle ---------------------------> http://okle.pl http://www.magnatune.com/artists/altri_stromenti

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URL bug
by Alan Stone 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

\setupinteraction[state=start] %\useURL [url] [http://www.a.com] [] [x] % this compiles %\useURL [url] [http://www.a.com] [] [xy] % this compiles %\useURL [url] [http://www.a.com] [] [xyz] % this compiles \useURL [url] [http://www.a.com] [] [wxyz] % this does NOT compile %\useURL [url] [http://www.a.com] [] [vwxyz] % this does NOT compile %\useURL [url] [http://www.ab.com] [] [x] % this compiles %\useURL [url] [http://www.ab.com] [] [xy] % this compiles %\useURL [url] [http://www.ab.com] [] [xyz] % this compiles %\useURL [url] [http://www.ab.com] [] [wxyz] % this does NOT compile %\useURL [url] [http://www.ab.com] [] [vwxyz] % this does NOT compile %\useURL [url] [http://www.abc.com] [] [x] % this compiles %\useURL [url] [http://www.abc.com] [] [xy] % this compiles %\useURL [url] [http://www.abc.com] [] [xyz] % this compiles %\useURL [url] [http://www.abc.com] [] [wxyz] % this does NOT compile %\useURL [url] [http://www.abc.com] [] [vwxyz] % this does NOT compile \starttext \from[url] \stoptext -- Best, Alan * ConTeXt ver: 2008.09.10 14:01 MKIV fmt: 2008.9.14 int: english/english * Windows XP Home SP3

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Updating LuaTeX on MacTeX-TeXLive 2008
by Otared Kavian 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

Dear ConTeXters, I just updated my TeX installation with the latest MacTeX-TeXLive 2008, and since the version of LuaTeX included there was 0.25.0, I built a binary version LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.29.0-2008091817. Now the problem is that my usual procedure for generating mkiv doesn't work and I couldn't fix the problem… (That procedure used to work fine with the previous version of MacTeX-TeXLive 2008). More precisely mtxrun --selfupdate seems to work fine, but then luatools --selfupdate results in: LuaTools | to be replaced old script /usr/texbin/luatools LuaTools | unable to locate new script LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.082 seconds and the command luatools --generate apparently works fine, since there is no complaints, as far as I can see. Now when I issue the command: luatools --ini --verbose --compile cont-en luatools stops after executing some commands and finally I get: LuaTools | using lua initialization file cont-en.luc LuaTools | running command: luatex --ini --lua="cont-en.luc" "/usr/ local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex" \\dump (/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex ! I can't find file `context.tex'. l.16 \input context.tex Please type another input file name: If I do give a complete path for this file, that is /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/context.tex (or for another one /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/ base/context.tex) again luatools complaints about not finding the file syst-pln.tex… and so on. I should say that I execute also the commands export TEXMFCACHE="/tmp" export TEXMFCNF="/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/" export TEXMF="{/Users/kavian/Library/texmf,/usr/local/texlive/2008/ texmf-config,/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var,/usr/local/texlive/ 2008/../texmf-local,/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist,/usr/local/ texlive/2008/texmf,/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local}" export LUAINPUTS="{/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base,/ usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua}" export OSFONTDIR="{/Users/kavian/Library/Fonts,/Library/Fonts}" export TEXMFSCRIPTS="{$TEXMF/scripts/context/,$TEXMF/tex/context/base}" before the above. Since I do most of the operations without really understanding what is going on, I am sure I am doing something wrong… But what? Thanks for your help… Best regards: OK

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Re: [NTG-context] Updating LuaTeX after MacTeX-TeXLive 2008 (again)
by Robert Blackstone 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

Hello Mojca, I seem to have run into the same or similar problems as Otared Kavian. I followed the instructions on the ConTeXt wiki, but the command ''luatools --generate'' gives the error message: 'LuaTools | error unable to identify cnf file LuaTools | error unable to identify cnf file LuaTools | no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.008 seconds', regardless of the directory from which I issue the command, and though there is a 28 KB file texmf.cnf sitting in /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c. As you succeeded in updating ConTeXt, luatex binary and ConTeXt scripts manually, could you please share the method with us. I for one am not sufficiently trained in unix to go there all by myself. (I'm working on a G4 PowerBook under OSX-10.4.11) Thank you in advance. Robert Blackstone

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typescript and font features bug?
by Zhaopeng Xing 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

Hi all, I am using the latest minimal and try to compile the following two files with luatex. The second file, using typescript and font features together, get a serious problem with the final pdf: punctuation centered unexpectedly in lines. For the first files, with no font features specified, it is OK. I do not know whether someone else can replicate this problem. But it happended on my laptop. All compiled are attached in this email. %FILE1: test1.tex \starttypescript[serif][myserif][name] \definefontsynonym[Serif][MinionPro-Regular][] \stoptypescript \definetypeface [myserif] [rm] [serif] [myserif] [default] \usetypescript[myserif] \setupbodyfont[myserif,rm,12pt] \starttext \input zapf \stoptext %FILE2: test2.tex \definefontfeature[minion][language=dflt, script=latn, mode=node, frac=yes, onum=yes, kern=yes, liga=yes, dlig=yes, protrusion=quality, expansion=quality] \starttypescript[serif][myserif][name] \definefontsynonym[Serif][MinionPro-Regular][features=minion] \stoptypescript \definetypeface [myserif] [rm] [serif] [myserif] [default] \usetypescript[myserif] \setupbodyfont[myserif,rm,12pt] \starttext \input zapf \stoptext -- Zhaopeng XING Tinbergen Institute

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units module has bug with markIV?
by Chen Shen 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

Hi all, "\Micro" in the "units" module failed, while "\Nano" and "\Milli" works fine. "$\mu$" works, so it doesn't look like a font problem. The following code works with pdftex/MarkII, but fails under Luatex 0.29beta/MarkIV. \usemodule[units] \starttext Hello world! $1\Micro\Meter$ $1\Micro\Second$ \stoptext Any hints? Thanks a lot! regards, shenchen

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Flow charts and comments
by Aditya Mahajan 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

Hi, Something seems to be wrong with placements of comments in flowcharts. For exmaple, consider a short version of an example from the wiki. \usemodule[chart] \startFLOWchart \startFLOWcell \name{1} \location{1,1} \shape{44} \connection[rl] {2} \comment[t]{top} \comment[b]{bottom} \stopFLOWcell \startFLOWcell \name {2} \location {2,1} \text {Test} \stopFLOWcell \stopFLOWchart \starttext \FLOWchart \stoptext Top and bottom captions are not placed at all, both in mkiv and mkii. Aditya

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Context on Miktex
by David Arnold 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

All, On http://blog.miktex.org/post/2008/05/ConTeXt-support.aspx I read that Miktex version of Context is broken. I also read Mojca's workaround, pasted below. Has anyone tried this and does it work? Any conflicts or difficulties? Second question: Can I get mptopdf to work in the Miktex tree without installing Context? Mojca's workaround: May 31. 2008 00:37 If you still want to run ConTeXt on MikTeX while it has been removed, you may create a file texmfstart.bat in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 \miktex\bin with the content: @echo off ruby "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\scripts\context\ruby\texmfstart.rb" "%*" and extract www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip into C: \Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7. Then, update filename database and generate formats, and everything should work again. Mojca Mojca David Arnold College of the Redwoods Mathematics Department Eureka, CA 95501 (707) 476-4222 http://online.redwoods.edu/instruct/darnold/

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Typesetters for Hire wiki page
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Hello everyone, I want to make something real using ConTeXt, e.g., typeset a book, but I have no orders yet. Tonight I was surfing Internet and found an open source framework for Web, Django. (It is the name of famous gipsy jazz guitarist, btw). The interesting point is that the site has the list of developers seeking enployment. Please look at **http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DevelopersForHire I feel we can create similar wiki section, Typesetters for Hire, and promote it in some way. Don't we? Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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