June 2010 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

error in first-setup.sh
by luigi scarso 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

On my linux box32bit $>bash first-setup.sh stops with # bash first-setup.sh receiving file list ... done sent 37 bytes received 132 bytes 112.67 bytes/sec total size is 4450786 speedup is 26336.01 MTXrun | fileio: variable 'SELFAUTOLOC' set to '/opt/luatex/minimals-beta-2010/bin' MTXrun | fileio: variable 'SELFAUTODIR' set to '/opt/luatex/minimals-beta-2010' MTXrun | fileio: variable 'SELFAUTOPARENT' set to '/opt/luatex' MTXrun | fileio: variable 'TEXMFCNF' set to '{$SELFAUTODIR,$SELFAUTOPARENT}{,{/share,}/texmf{-local,.local,}/web2c}' MTXrun | fileio: fatal error: no lua configuration files found -- luigi

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Kerning messed up for Minion Pro in ConTeXt 2010.06.09
by Michael Murphy 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

Hi all, it looks like the kerning has gone weird for Minion Pro in the latest ConTeXt (this is the only font I could find with the problem, all others looked fine). I've attached a PDF to show the effect. -- Michael Murphy

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XITS fonts - second beta
by Khaled Hosny 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

I just uploaded a second beta of XITS fonts, this mainly introduces XITS text fonts, regular, bold, italic and bold italic. No changes to the math font. This release features also a rudimentary user guide. The text fonts provide to features over STIX fonts: * oldstyle figures, through 'onum' feature * text fractions, through 'frac' feature As usual, it is available from github: http://github.com/khaledhosny/xits-math/downloads Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

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PDF Custom Page Numbering
by Andreas Schneider 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

Hello, while reading through the PDF to ISO-9075-1 (SQL99), I noticed something I had never seen before in a PDF: the page numbers displayed by Acrobat matched exactly the ones in the document ... the beginning was even numbered with roman numbers and the actual content started again at "Page 1". From a quick research it seems that this functionality is in PDF since Acrobat 4 (that should be PDF 1.3, right?) and is most likely called "Custom Page Numbering". It would be amazing if ConTeXt/LuaTeX supports that too - especially if you produce documents for screen reading. Unfortunately I don't have access to the PDF Specification currently to give you more info - so I don't even know for sure how that feature is officially called. Anyway, I hope that idea/suggestion/wish finds positive reactions ... and I somehow hope that it isn't actually too hard to implement :-) Best Regards, Andreas.

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Relative references to floats
by Andreas Schneider 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

Hello, is there currently (in MkIV) some way to have relative references to floats? I imagine something like "... as you can see \above[fig:somefigure]." which would print "... as you can see above." if the figure is above the current paragraph or "... as you can see below." if it is below. Maybe it's unusual to do that in books/papers, but I thought it might look better than to reference a page or a number if it is expected, that the figure is close by anyway. It would be nice if it could even go so far as to include page offsets ... "... as you can see on the next page" or "... as you can see two pages ahead". I have no real need to use this, it was just an idea to tidy up my text a bit (without risking wrong references when the layout changes and floats shift around). So if that is currently possible: awesome ... if not: no harm done :-) Best Regards, Andreas.

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Mutiple citations doesn't work with compress=no + interaction
by Michael Murphy 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

I know that if I want to have clickable hyperlinks for citations, I need to turn off 'compress' for the citation type: \setupcite[authoryears][compress=no] The problem is that this doesn't seem to work: I get an 'unknown reference' error. references : unknown reference [][Balachandran2008 references : unknown reference [][Balachandran2008 references : unknown reference [][Balachandran2008 Strangely, this only happens when I want to refer to multiple authors, e.g. \cite[ref1, ref2, ref3], and everything works fine if I just do \cite[ref1]. I've attached a minimal example. Where am I going wrong? -- Michael Murphy

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Inspecting font data with Lua
by Oliver Buerschaper 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

Hi everyone, this has probably been asked before: how can I use the Lua font loading mechanism to inspect an OTF font? I'm mainly interested in retrieving glyph data such as its shape or kerning properties... please advise :-) Many thanks, Oliver

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TeX macro to merge two lists, bit like Python's zip
by luigi scarso 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

J. Fine asked sometime ago something like python's zip tha merge two "lists" element by element, cfr. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/2c1feea4a… Here is the idea: a list is zero or more control sequence, ie {} is an empty list, \Alpha\Beta is a list with 2 elements, and so on. \zip{\Alpha\Beta}{\Gamma\Delta} gives \Alpha\Gamma\Beta\Delta \starttext % Hans's hint % \def\zipthem#1#2% % {\def\dozipthem##1{\def\dodozipthem####1{1\string##1 2\string####1}\handletokens#2\with\dodozipthem}% % \handletokens#1\with\dozipthem} \def\myzipthem#1#2% {\ctxlua{A = {}; B = {}} \def\dozipthemA##1{\ctxlua{table.insert(A,[[\string##1]])}}% \def\dozipthemB##1{\ctxlua{table.insert(B,[[\string##1]])}}% \handletokens#1\with\dozipthemA \handletokens#2\with\dozipthemB% \ctxlua{% for i=1,math.max(table.maxn(A),table.maxn(B)) do local a = "" local b = "" if A[i] then a = '\\string' ..A[i] end if B[i] then b = '\\string' ..B[i] end tex.sprint(a,b) end tex.print([[\blank]]) for i=1,math.max(table.maxn(A),table.maxn(B)) do local a = A[i] or "" local b = B[i] or "" tex.sprint(a,b) end tex.print([[\blank]]) } } \def\Alpha{A} \def\Beta{B} \def\Gamma{C} \def\Delta{D} \myzipthem{\Alpha\Beta}{\Gamma\Delta}%gives \Alpha\Gamma\Beta\Delta \myzipthem{}{\Gamma\Delta} \stoptext For ours bloggers. -- luigi

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<CRLF> is interpreted as a Greek letter in LuaLaTeX
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hi, When I want to write in LuaLaTeX by "tex.print" command some text string that is defined in an external lua-file, so <crlf> characters in LuaLaTeX appear as the Greek letter "omega". The Greek letter omega has in the font CM code 0x0A, which is a line feed. It seems that the end of the line is interpreted not as the end of the line, but a letter. When I define a text string directly in the source file, everything is OK. Please do not know how to solve this problem? Thanx Jaroslav My minimal example: A) If everything is in one source file for example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{luainputenc} \usepackage{luatextra} \begin{document} \directlua{ text=[[aaaaa bbbbb ccccc]] tex.print(text)} \end{document} so the correct typesets: aaaa bbbb cccc BUT B) Where part of Lua code is in an external file "externalfile.lua" whose content is as follows: text=[[aaaaa bbbbb ccccc]] then the LuaLaTeX source code: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{luainputenc} \usepackage{luatextra} \begin{document} \directlua{dofile("externalfile.lua") tex.print(text)} \end{document} typesets: aaaaaOMEGAbbbbbOMEGAccccc (where OMEGA is Greek character omega) PS: Use [[... ]] as a kind of "quotation marks" can bypass traditional "or simple '. The problem is that these strings must bet a backslash \\ . This character has a different meaning in LaTeX. Therefore I would prefer using [[ ... ]]

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\setupcite[authornum][...] not working
by Stefan Müller 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hi, I'm using the ams-bibliography style and want to include "authornum"-cites in the document (so i want to input something like "in the paper by \cite[authornum][doe]" instead of "in the paper by Doe \cite[num][doe]". The \cite command works as intended, but I'm not able to change the typesetting properties with \setupcite[authornum][...]. The others, like \setupcite[num][...] and \setupcite[author][...] seem to work as they should, though. I provide a minimal example below, where to options set in line 4 are not used for typesetting the \cite[ref1]. I'm using the context minimals, MkIV. \usemodule[bib] \setupbibtex[database={test.bib}] \setuppublications[alternative=ams, refcommand=authornum] \setupcite[authornum][left={\&}, andtext={ foo }, namesep={ bar }] % just some random options, none of them works \starttext \cite[ref1] \completepublications[criterium=all] \stoptext I already tried apa style, the same there. In addition, the names of a citation placed with \cite[author] (e.g. "Doe and Fisher") are not typesetted as those of a citation placed with \cite[authornum] (e.g. "Doe,Fisher"), although I think (from a short glimpse at bibl-ams.tex) they should. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? Any help appreciated. Stefan.

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