May 2009 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Two issues related to xetex
by Yue Wang 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi, Hans and Mojca: first, (to Mojca) the first-setup.sh script still deletes fontconfig cache when updating on windows. second, (to Hans) unicode-letters.tex is read when we dump plain TeX or LaTeX format in TeXLive. This file is wrote by Jonathan Kew in order to initialize XeTeX. It defines many important unicode properties into XeTeX. However, ConTeXt do not load that file when dumping the xetex format. The file is not even in ConTeXt distribution. I suggest that the file should be loaded. You can find the file in http://scripts.sil.org/svn-public/xetex/TRUNK/texmf/tex/generic/xetex/unico… XeTeX's plain TeX ini file can be find in http://scripts.sil.org/svn-public/xetex/TRUNK/texmf/tex/xetex/config/xetex.… If the file is not loaded, thousands of lines should be copied to third party modules (like the module I announce on the mailing list today) in order to support some language correctly. This method is quite messy, not to say inefficient for loading. Yue Wang

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MKIV: Problem with localfootnotes
by jm 11 May '09

11 May '09

good day to all! i have been using MKIV to typeset a scientific article. however, while typesetting the table below, i notice that only the second footnote would appear in the pdf file. can anyone help me figure out what i did wrong? for what it's worth, i am typesetting this table with linenumbering in the background. \setupcaptions[location=top] \startlocalfootnotes \placetable[here]{Segregation pattern for pollen fertility restoration involving IR73328A and IR73330-83-1-2R.} \placelegend {\starttable[|c|c|c|c|c|] \HL \NC \Lower(0.5\lineheight){\bf{CROSS}} \NC \Use{2}[c]{\bf{NUMBER OF PLANTS}} \NC \Lower(0.5\lineheight){ \bf{\chi{\lohi{calc}{2}}}} \NC \bf{PROBABILITY} \NC \AR \DC \DL[2] \DC \DC \DR \NC \NC \bf{Sterile}\footnote[1]{Sterile = <5\% pollen fertility} \NC \bf{Fertile}\footnote[2]{Fertile = >5\% pollen fertility} \NC \NC \bf{(Expected Ratio)} \NC \AR \HL \stoptable} {\placelocalfootnotes} \stoplocalfootnotes Thanks so much! joel mendoza

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New module t-zhspacing
by Yue Wang 11 May '09

11 May '09

Dear list: Chinese TeX Society is proud to announce the t-zhspacing module to the ConTeXt society. The module is developed by Yue Wang based on Yin Dian's zhspacing.sty macro package and Jonathan Kew's unicode-letters.tex + xetex interchartoks mechanism. It is designed for the audience who interested perfect Chinese typesetting using ConTeXt and XeTeX. It handles Chinese font loading, switching, line breaking, and punctuation compression rules quite well. Moreover, since the freetype's performance is much better than fontforge's on large cjk fonts, so the document compilation can be much faster. Users are free to visit http://code.google.com/p/ctex-kit/, and the code is in svn (the trunk/zhspacing directory) now. Last but not least, we should thank Hans and Wolfgang since they help us a lot to make the module possible :) Yue Wang

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\newcommand ala ConTeXt
by Xan 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi, In latex is wonderful be able to make abreviatures like: \newcommand{\dist}[1]{d(\sigma_g(#1), \sigma_h(#1))} and use like $\dist{t}$, ... for not typing all the text. What is the ConTeXt version of that? Please CC mail me. Thanks a lot, Xan.

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Font switching question
by Yue Wang 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi, Hans: I am working on Chinese support on XeTeX/ConTeXt and I almost finished that. I will later upload a module called t-zhspacing to the garden (or CTAN?). But there is one last problem. Let me explain like this. Suppost I have two typescripts (typeA and typeB) and both with complete typeface defined (rm/ss/tt, bf/it/bfit/smcp....) Now I want to do something like this: \usetypescript[typeA] \usetypescript[typeB] \setupbodyfont[typeA] This should be typeA/rm/normal \it and this should be typeA/rm/it \ss and this should be typeA/ss/it %here everything is ok in context \typeB this should be typeB/ss/it %(but context gives me typeB/rm/normal. How can I automatically get what I want?) Yue Wang

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beta (11.05.2009): hex colors in mkii
by Peter Rolf 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi, hex colors don't work anymore in mkii (no problems in mkiv). All I get is black (reminds me of a song by the Rolling Stones)... I see a red door and I want it painted black No colors anymore I want them to turn black ... Minimal example: ---------------- \setupcolors[state=start] \setupcolor[hex] % load hex color module \definecolor[hextest][h=00FF00] \starttext \startMPcode fill unitsquare xyscaled(5cm,5cm) withcolor \MPcolor{hextest}; \stopMPcode \stoptext Dammit, now that song is in my head... ;) Best wishes, Peter

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Chapter number in right margin?
by Corsair 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi all, I'm typesetting a double-sided document. And I want the chapter numbers to be in the right margin, while the chapter titles remain in the main text area. So I write \def\MyChapter#1#2 {\inright{#1} #2} \setuphead [chapter] [command=\MyChapter] But it renders such that all the chapter numbers disappear while chapter titles seem normal. Any idea? Corsair Sun -- There is no emotion; there is peace. There is no ignorance; there is knowledge. There is no passion; there is serenity. There is no death; there is the Force.

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beta (2009-05-11)
by Peter Rolf 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi, there are still some problems with footnotes and overprinting. I have reactivated the old (sorry, non minimal) example for that. But for three problems it is pretty short :) 1. the footnote uses '1' instead of the chosen '*' (set 1) 2. the footnote marker is not bound to the footnote text (only the text is moved right) 3. the problem with the undefined \PDFobjectreferenceB occurs again, if overprinting is used (see different versions of \NoteNumber and \MyFootnote) One additional note to 3.) I have to enable overprinting for both the marker and the text to get the desired result (all should be overprinted). Is this intended? Peter %\def\NoteNumber#1{\hbox to 15pt{\hfill\black \dostartoverprint#1\dostopoverprint}} \def\NoteNumber#1{\hbox to 15pt{\hfill\black #1}} \setupfootnotes [bodyfont=6pt, textcolor=black, before=,after=, rule=off, conversion={set 1}, % distance=-2em, margindistance=-2em, numbercommand=\NoteNumber] %\def\MyFootnote#1{\footnote{\hskip3em \dostartoverprint#1\dostopoverprint}} \def\MyFootnote#1{\footnote{\hskip3em #1}} \starttext \startlocalfootnotes \vbox\bgroup\hsize=78mm\dontcomplain \startitemize[4] \item die Ausgabe erfolgt als PDF/X-4p\MyFootnote{ISO 15930-7:2008} \stopitemize \egroup \stoplocalfootnotes \moveright70mm\hbox{\placelocalfootnotes} \stoptext

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beta
by Hans Hagen 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi, i uploaded a beta with some fixes 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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loading bib module breaks colors in tikz figures (mkiv)
by Mojca Miklavec 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hello, Not that I understand why this happens (bug trigger looks extremely weird), but if I load bib module, the colors in TikZ graphic are lost. Commenting out bib module returns the color back. (I remember reporting lack of colors not so long ago, though I'm not sure if it was in pdftex or luatex.) I'm using - ConTeXt MKIV 2009.05.08 21:48 - LuaTeX beta-0.40.1 - approximately CVS version of TikZ \usemodule [bib] \usemodule [tikz] \starttext \starttikzpicture \filldraw[fill=green!20,draw=green!50!black] (0,0) -- (60:3cm) arc (60:120:3cm) -- cycle; \stoptikzpicture \stoptext Can anyone please confirm the bug? (I often mess with my system too much ...) Thanks, Mojca To Till only: I have a feeling that the command \node[label=87:$φ$] at (65:1cm) {}; an the image above places the label to a different place from where it used to place it a few weeks ago (recompiling an old document has placed the label to a different place). This is the sequence of command to reproduce the problem using the latest software versions: rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/first-setup.sh . ./first-setup.sh --context=beta --extras=t-tikz # go for a coffee cd tex . setuptex luatools --generate context --make en cd folder-with-your-test-files context testfile.tex

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