October 2009 - ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Dash missed in Windows' Times
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

Thanks. I do report that dash symbol is missed when I use Times New Roman from standard Windows configuration. Please, help! ;) > and normally fixing such thing happens when we run into one of those > chars is missing in one of our docs or reported by a user > Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] Scite + non-global environbment variables
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:24:37 +0200 > From: Wolfgang Hugemann <Auto(a)Hugemann.de> > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Scite + non-global environbment > variables > Message-ID: <4AE1E6D5.4010406(a)Hugemann.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > > you should not have any global Context environment variables, > > because you call cscite.bat (setuptex.bat is called then before > > > scite is started). > > The problems I see are miktex executables which are in the PATH > > and can interfere with their context equivalents. > > How exactly are you starting scite? > > Well, I just ran scite.exe. OK, I downloaded cscite.bat now. Is > there > somewhere any explanation with what parameters to call this batch? > I could not find such a documentation and the batch is by far not > self-explaning. (This is a really frustrating start with ConTeXt; I > hope it doesn't stay like this.) Look at the label ':help' in 'cscite.bat'. Wolfgang

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How to update luatex to beta-0.44?
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

Hello, How can I update luatex to beta-0.44? Seems that minimals contain 0.43 version. I want to test SyncTex support (\synctex=1), available (as sugested by Akira) in the latest version. Regards, Vyatcheslav

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missing metapost graphics
by Matěj Týč 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

Hello, when I try to use MP code in my file, I follow the instructions, but when I compile the file, there is no result whatsoever. Text parts of the document are OK, but there is no trace of the image that should be there. The following is taken directly from metafun manual (page 9) as the minimal ConTeXt example: \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{dummy} fill fullcircle scaled 5cm withcolor red ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{dummy} \stoptext Well, I get nothing on my setup as well as if I use the online compiler. Therefore I assume that something must be wrong. Could you comment on that? Regards, Matej

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Re: [NTG-context] Scite + non-global environbment variables
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:39:00 +0100 > From: Wolfgang Hugemann <Auto(a)Hugemann.de> > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Scite + non-global environbment > variables > Message-ID: <4AE56E34.70705(a)Hugemann.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > > Look at the label ':help' in 'cscite.bat'. > > I had done this already. All that is says is > echo usage: cscite root, e.g. cscite d:\copyofcdrom > leaving you with the question which root of what is meant. > > I tested the root directory of context "C:\Programme\contextminimal" This is right! > It seems like I need another hint. YOU have to give some hints! What are you doing? What is happening? Gruß, Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] Dash missed in Windows' Times
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

Thanks for reply. Who is "mkiv-math-team" and when it is going to fix it? (I mean days or monthes or years..) If it's gonna take too long, I would preferably fill the gaps by myself, just tell me where to dig ;) >> > >> > In the latest mkiv beta, dash (--) is not replaced by proper symbol if I >> > use standard Windows' Times New Roman. I get two hyphens instead. >> > >> > Actually, ConTeXt complains a lot about missed unicode "points". Please, >> > see log attached. >> > >> > How to fix it? >> > the mkiv-math-team simply had no time yet to fill in some of the gaps in > the vector for tx / px > Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Dash missed in Windows' Times
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

Hello In the latest mkiv beta, dash (--) is not replaced by proper symbol if I use standard Windows' Times New Roman. I get two hyphens instead. Actually, ConTeXt complains a lot about missed unicode "points". Please, see log attached. How to fix it? Regards, Vyatcheslav

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[OT] dynamic font
by Diego Depaoli 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

http://www.laikafont.ch/ http://www.laikafont.ch/applet/test_eng.html Regards -- Diego Depaoli

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The best place to install fonts so it is discovered by mkiv?
by Janneman 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

According to an earlier and recent thread http://archive.contextgarden.net/thread/20091021.090505.4153465c.en.html#20… that finally were solved, thanks to Wolfgang and also Aditya. Here is a following question: Is there some convention where to place files, documents, fonts, modules and stuff? It seems in my case that LuaTools wasn't able to find the fonts in ~./fonts or even /usr/share/fonts. Not either in my minimals/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/fonts/ directory But I had to create texmf-project/fonts/.. to make context to discover the fonts. http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts_in_LuaTex mentioned about setting osfontdir=.... which I did in my my /home/user/.bash_profile linked to .bashrc cat .bash_profile PATH=$PATH:/home/janerik/bin . ~/context/tex/setuptex set OSFONTDIR="/usr/share/fonts" It seems to have no effect. Very strange! :-( Here is my output from Luatools --generate command LuaTools | fileio: locating list of /home/janerik/texmf LuaTools | fileio: locating list of /home/janerik/context/tex/texmf-project LuaTools | fileio: locating list of /home/janerik/context/tex/texmf-fonts LuaTools | fileio: locating list of /home/janerik/context/tex/texmf-local LuaTools | fileio: locating list of /home/janerik/context/tex/texmf-context LuaTools | fileio: locating list of /home/janerik/context/tex/texmf-linux LuaTools | fileio: locating list of /home/janerik/context/tex/texmf-extra LuaTools | fileio: locating list of /home/janerik/context/tex/texmf LuaTools | fileio: scanning path /home/janerik/context/tex/texmf-local It seems to only search these directories. All best Janneman

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comparing pdfs
by luigi scarso 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

Maybe stupid Consider this (you must have cow.pdf in the same dir): %%test-1.tex \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \startfrontmatter \completecontent \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \chapter{Chapter} \section{Section} \input tufte \externalfigure[cow] \chapter{Chapter 2} \section{Section} \input knuth \stopbodymatter \stoptext with markii $>texexec --pdf test-1.tex $>cp test-1.pdf test-1a.pdf $>texexec --pdf test-1.tex $>pdftoppm test-1a.pdf test-1a- $>pdftoppm test-1.pdf test-1- $> cmp test-1a.pdf test-1.pdf test-1a.pdf test-1.pdf differ: byte 35086, line 220 of course at least /ID is different $>for j in `seq 1 4`; do cmp test-1a--$j.ppm test-1--$j.ppm ; done and, again of course, *no differences* because the files are equals page-by-page -- so they are equals Is there a way more quick and clean than for cycle and ppm files? -- luigi

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