February 2010 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

ConTeXt minimal Win32 : kpathsea510.dll can not found !!!
by Vnpenguin 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hi all, Just download http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-mswin.zip and run first-setup.bat and I see the error about : texlua.exe looks for kpathsea510.dll but this file was not found in the distribution !!! I see only file kpathsearch510.dll so I make a copy of this and rename to kpathsea510.dll. Now texlua.exe goes without error. After installation, when I run "context --version" I see again the error about "texlua.exe can not found kpathsea510.dll". Hmmmmm I have to copy kpathsea510.dll (renamed early) into context\tex\texmf-mswin\bin\ folder to work. There is some things changed for librarie file name ? I'm working with Windows XP SP3 32bit. Thanks

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doifmode with a buffer following this command
by Willi Egger 21 Feb '10

21 Feb '10

Hi, If I use multiple modes I need to use also \doifmode{}{}. Now it appears that it is nomore possible to have \start/stopbuffer inside the second pair of braces of \doifmode. This results in an error in MKIV and in no output in MKII Runaway argument? \bfc Text \stopbuffer \getbuffer [Test] \stoptext ! File ended while scanning use of \dododowithbuffer. <inserted text> \par Please refer to the attached minimal test file. Willi

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dorecurse...
by Willi Egger 21 Feb '10

21 Feb '10

Hello, I was busy to build a larger table with a lot of empty but numbered rows. So I thought to use the \dorecurse macro to help me. Now I can't recall the actual value of \recurselevel. Interestingly it fails only when calling for preparing whole rows in the table. When the \recurselevel is retrieved in normal text it works as expected. Please refer to the attached minimal example-file. Is there something changed in calling for the \recurselevel value? Kind regards Willi

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Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt update
by Hans Hagen 21 Feb '10

21 Feb '10

On 21-2-2010 17:44, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 15:11, Troy Henderson wrote: >> Mojca, >> >> This is great news. Perhaps this page should be updated >> >> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Lucida > > Not yet. It needs to start working in the first place. Math is still > pretty broken (some basic commands work, but all the rest doesn't). > >> Also, I've noted (as previously stated in another feed) that there >> appears to be some kerning issues in the math as well. For example, >> $\sin(x)\cos(y)$ have the "n" in "sin" and the "s" in "cos" too close >> to the following "(". > > You are talking about MKIV, right (since I don't even get parenthesis > in MKII, but harpoons instead; I know the reason, I just didn't write > the cure yet). you need a more recen tversion then i guess ... older attempts still used the traditional lucida math vectors > Bold math is a separate issue that I have never really understood. > There is \mathbf, \bf, \bfm, \bfmath, switching the complete typeface > to a bolder variant etc. > I really really really really wish that somebody would explain and > document how bold math is supposed to work (there are several variants > - some should also influence operators and some should only influence > numbers). there is some about it in the mk.pdf document (math chapter) this is what i think happened ... - in math there are cases where you use bold or sans or whatever letters - in traditional tex, this was dealt with by assigning bold, sans .. fonts to families (16 families max with already some taken by symbols and extensible characters) - so, there we're taking of a mix of regular (non bold) math with an occasional bold letter; in plain that could be achieved by \bf which simply does a family change - in addition, for instance for titles, full bold math is needed but for that one needs all math symbols etc to be available - also, one needs to make sure that all families then are associated with bold shapes - however, as tex only applies the fonts related to families at the end of reading a formula, mid time reassigning fonts to families will not work - so, we end up with (1) mixed normal/bold/etc, (2) full bold, (3) compromises due to lack of families and fonts - in unicode however, the bold etc letters (and a few symbols) have their oen place and we have several alphabets - this means that a proper math font now has all relevant symbols, letters (in multiple lphabets) in one set - so, as the occasional bold character now is no longer associated with a family, we can d with two families: regular (with also a bold alphabet) and bold and this iexactly what context mkiv does - now, as users are unlikely to use the proper unicode bold letters, we still need to support switching to (say) a bold alphabet and (again in mkiv) this means some sort of remapping on the fly and no family trickery any more So, to summarize, mkiv: (1) implements unicode math (2) for traditional tex fonts it makes virtual math unicode fonts (3) supports traditional input using wel known font switching commands (4) has an implementation that deviates from the traditional way (but in my opinion is more modern) Of course, in the process we need to do a lot of testing esp because we cannot rely on other sources (to many errors so we started from scratch). Also, all math related data is collected in tables in such a way that we can at some point add more advanced support, like domain specific rendering (and symbols) which is currently seldom part of tex math implementations. Feel free to ask for all you have been missing in math so far. We're not that bound to traditional approaches. 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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error with footnotes blackrule
by Steffen Wolfrum 21 Feb '10

21 Feb '10

Hi, todays minimal gives an error: Runaway argument? \letvalue {\??vn \c!rule :c:\currentnote }\normalnoterule , \v!normal \ETC. ! File ended while scanning use of \p!compareprocessactionD. <inserted text> \par <*> ./notetext.tex ? The cause is "\blank[2mm]" in this example: \def\MyRule{\blackrule[width=18mm,height=0.4pt]\blank[2mm]} \setupfootnotes [rule=\MyRule] This harmless vertical space did it up to now. What's the phrase that should be chosen instead? Steffen

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beta
by Hans Hagen 21 Feb '10

21 Feb '10

Hi, The latest beta has a few more fonts defined in type-otf.mkiv. YOu can do things like \setupbodyfont[mscore,ss,10pt] \setupbodyfont[liberation,rm,10pt] as mscore and liberations are yet unknown the related typescript will be loaded automatically (new feature). 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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Left, right, top, bottom margins in a \framed box
by Oliver Buerschaper 21 Feb '10

21 Feb '10

Dear all, I'm wondering how I can get different margins between the contents of a framed box and its left, right, top or bottom border. Somehow "offset" affects all margins simultaneously ... Best wishes, Oliver

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How to use OTF fonts in ConTeXt?
by Vnpenguin 20 Feb '10

20 Feb '10

Hi all, Is there any wiki/tuto pages to help me to setup my OTF fonts for using in ConTeXt ? I have ConTeXt minimal. Thanks

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type-loc.tex
by Hans van der Meer 20 Feb '10

20 Feb '10

For some reason running mkiv-beta needs the presence of a file ..tex/context/user/type-loc.tex If I remove the file I get a complaint of not being able to find this file. Is the file absolutely required or could it be some remnant in some cache that causes the request? Hans van der Meer

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Re: [NTG-context] One interline space setup trouble
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 20 Feb '10

20 Feb '10

Thanks, Wolfgang! This works really fine \setupinterlinespace[height=0.55,depth=0.45,line=38pt] \definedelimitedtext [example] [spacebefore={\strutdepth,none}, spaceafter=none, style=\tfx, before={\setupinterlinespace[line=16pt]}] B.R. Vyatcheslav

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