April 2009 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

updating ConTeXt (MacTeX)
by Robert Blackstone 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > ..... > > ConTeXt should work now (i.e. at this moment in this shell window) > ..... > > Are there any remaining problems? > > I'll change the Wiki now. > > > Greetlings from Lake Constance! > Hraban Hello Hraban, No remaining problems, at least not with installing Minimals. Your instructions are beautifully clear. Everything works now. Thank you very much. Robert Blackstone

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Affiliation change
by Taco Hoekwater 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hello everybody, This message is to inform you all that as of today, I am no longer an employee of Elvenkind BV, the company where I have worked for during the past years. Working for Elvenkind has been a pleasure, but it has always been hard for Elvenkind to find enough commercial projects to employ me in. Even the recent (much appreciated!) funded TeX-development projects simply do not generate enough revenue for Elvenkind to make it viable to keep me as an employee in the current economic climate. This is not the best time to be out of a job, but nevertheless I have decided to try to make the most of it an attempt to make an old dream happen: being my own boss. Since quite some time already I have had a private company called Bittext that I use for various bits and pieces that simply did not fit in with Elvenkind's company strategy (its original intent was to place my font development work in that company, but it has also been used as the company behind organizing the ConTeXt Epen meeting in 2007, for example). For the development of luatex and metapost, I do not expect that much to change compared to the current situation: Hans and I will continue to write funding proposals and we hope that enough of those will be granted so that I can keep that development work going much like it is. (about a 50% commitment working on these two programs in an average working week). However, for ConTeXT and other TeX-related things, the situation is a bit more problematic. Pragma ADE does not have money to fund any projects, even if I managed to find something to excite Hans that he couldn't do faster himself ;). To find the missing source of income, I intend to start giving commercial ConTeXt courses and I plan to start selling manuals via lulu. Perhaps there is a bit of consultancy that can be found as well, and I will try to regain some of my old mathematical typesetting clients. But I fear that even all of that together will generate enough income for me to continue developing modules and offering help for free. Therefore, the planned bib module replacement will be released as commercial software, and support for other ConTeXT stuff (like the current bib module) will become a paid service. Probably via a subscription website, that will (for example) also host my release notes. I am brooding on other ConTeXt module ideas that people may be willing to pay for, and I will finish the font projects that are still on my disk for sale via my website. This April (until around BachoTeX) I will still be busy preparing the luatex and metapost binaries for the TeXlive 2009 deadline, but after that I will likely drop offline for a while, creating the Bittext website ( http://www.bittext.com ) and figuring out things like how to be on the receiving end of Lulu and PayPal. Well, that is about all I wanted to say right now. I am quite apprehensive about how this news will fall in the ConTeXT community, but I see no other way. And I must admit that at the same time I am quite excited about being "in control of my own destiny", as they say! Best wishes to all of you, Taco

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\doifmodeselse?
by Gerben Wierda 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Using --mode or --modes with texexec sets up modes which can be used in the files to parse different parts. For that I use \doifmodeelse{}{}{} But combining various modes in one \doiffmodeelse would be handy. e.g. (pseudocode) if mode is workinprogress or test or the other way around if mode is all or editor So I would like something like \doifmodeselse{all,editor) or even better booleans \doiffmodeselse{not test or editor} so I do not need to build a large setup of nested \ifmodeelse This is not in ConTeXt currently. Would it be easy to program such a multiple modes selector? G

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Re: [NTG-context] updating ConTeXt (MacTeX)
by Robert Blackstone 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > > Am 2009-03-30 um 22:11 schrieb Robert Blackstone: > > > Thank you, Hraban, for suggesting an easy way out: Use ConTeXt- > > Minimals, but also there I manage to run into problems, mainly with > > files and scripts that I can see in the finder but that are not > > found in Terminal, not even from their parent directory. > > I don't understand what you mean. Can you give an example? > > Normally it's vice versa: With 'ls -Al' you can see much more in the > Terminal as you can see in Finder, not only dotted (hidden) files, but > also whole trees like /usr. > > There are a few file and folder names though that are faked in > international OSX versions' Finder (like 'Applications' appears as > 'Programme' in a German OSX). > > > Greetlings from Lake Constance! > Hraban > What I meant is the following. (Incidentally, I configured the finder so that it shows the ‘hidden’ files and directories, like /usr, too.) Now about installing and configuring minimals I went through all steps described on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals/Mac_Installationup till step 5 of ‘configuring’, which is: Step 5. In Terminal, type context --make and press Enter/Return. This yields: MtxRun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua' Then I cd-ed stepwuse up to /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua, after each cd trying to perform step 5, and then finally I got: MtxRun | running command: luatools --make --compile cont-en LuaTools | no tex file with name: cont-en.tex LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.008 seconds MtxRun | running command: luatools --make --compile cont-nl LuaTools | no tex file with name: cont-nl.tex LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.009 seconds MtxRun | running command: luatools --make --compile mptopdf LuaTools | no tex file with name: mptopdf.tex LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.013 seconds MtxRun | running command: luatools --make --compile plain LuaTools | no tex file with name: plain.tex LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.008 seconds MtxRun | total runtime: 0.168 But for example cont-en.tex does exist on my Mac and it sits in /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex These files are not found. So I am a bit at a loss at what to try next. Incidentally, step 1 of Configuring ConTeXt instructs me to create a file with a given line and save the file as .bash_profile, which, however, already exists. So I have added the line to the existing file. If this is correct, this possibility should perhaps be mentioned in the instructions. Thank you for your time and patience. Robert Blackstone

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FontSite's CombiNumerals Pro
by Alan Stone 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Re: http://www.fontsite.com/dev/fonts-c-e/combinumerals-pro-v5-win/ Character charts: http://www.fontsite.com/dev/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/cnp5.pdf Char a Dec 97 Hex 61 Glyph round circled 10 I'm trying to output some glyph but all I get is the corresponding character (see attachment) ... \starttypescript [sans] [combinumeralspro] \definefontsynonym [CombiNumeralsProRegular] [name:combinumeralsproregular] [features=default] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [sans] [combinumeralspro] \setups [font:fallback:sans] \definefontsynonym [Sans] [CombiNumeralsProRegular] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [combinumeralspro] \definetypeface [combinumeralspro] [ss] [sans] [combinumeralspro] [default] \stoptypescript \usetypescript[combinumeralspro] \starttext 1a) \getglyph{name:combinumeralspro}{\char"61} 1b) \getglyph{name:CombiNumeralsProRegular}{\char"61} 1c) \getglyph{Sans}{\char"61} \stoptext What's missing ? -- Alan

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MetaPost graphics with TRT direction
by Khaled Hosny 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

MPost graphics inside TRT direction are placed incorrectly overlapping the text on the right, similar to what we had with \pdfximage (see the attached PDF). This seems to be unrelated to images issue since MPost graphics are inserted as \pdfliteral. I'm not sure if this an engine or macro issue, but I'm guessing the later. Changing the \startMPLIBtoPDF so that the \hbox where the graphics is placed is fixed to TLT direction fixes this, but I'm not sure if it is safe to do so. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

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beta
by Hans Hagen 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi, i uploaded a beta ... this one matches the latest check-in of luatex this is also the last non-xp version as i'm going to merge the cont-xp code into th emain version now 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

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