Hi all,
After a bit more of a delay even after the initial one-year delay,
I am happy to report that the ConTeXt Group Journal for 2012 goes
to the printer's today. This is the proceedings issue for the 6th
ConTeXt meeting that took place in Breskens, The Netherlands on
October 8-12, 2012.
Contents
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5 Dayplan
7 CrafTeX — Mari Voipio
8 MetaPost: PNG Output — Taco Hoekwater
The latest version of Metapost (1.80x) has a third output backend:
it is now possible to generate PNG bitmaps directly from within
Metapost.
10 Database publishing with the speedata Publisher — Patrick Gundlach
11 Minutes of the 2nd ConTeXt Group membership meeting — Willi Egger
13 MetaPost path resolution isolated — Taco Hoekwater
A new interface in MPLib version 1.800 allows one to resolve
path choices programmatically, without the need to go through
the MetaPost input language.
19 Parsing PDF content streams with LuaTeX — Taco Hoekwater
The new pdfparser library in LuaTeX allows parsing of external
pdf content streams directly from within a LuaTeX
document. This paper explains its origin and usage.
24 MFLua: Instrumentation of MF with Lua — Luigi Scarso
We present MFLua, a MetaFont version which is capable of code
instrumentation and has an embedded Lua interpreter that
allows glyphs curves extraction and post-processing. We also
show and discuss an example of a MetaFont source processed by
MFLua to output an OpenType font.
36 Conference portfolio — Willi Egger
In accordance to the conference's theme, a workshop for making
a portfolio binder has been held. The portfolio was made so it
could carry the papers for the conference, such as preprints
of the proceedings, additional papers and the carpenter's
pencil given to each participant. The construction is made
from a single sheet of cardboard with folded flaps along three
sides, so that it completely envelopes the content. The
portfolio is held closed by a black elastic band.
41 Simple Spreadsheets — Hans Hagen
Occasionally a question pops up on the ConTeXt mailing list
where answering it becomes a nice distraction from a boring
task at hand. The spreadsheet module is the result of such a
diversion. As with more support code in ConTeXt, this is not a
replacement for ‘the real thing’ but just a nice feature for
simple cases. Of course some useful extensions might appear in
the future.
52 Oriental TeX: optimizing paragraphs — Hans Hagen & Idris Samawi Hamid
One of the objectives of the Oriental TeX project has always
been to play with paragraph optimization. The original
assumption was that we needed an advanced non-standard
paragraph builder to Arabic done right but in the end we found
out that a more straightforward approach is to use a
sophisticated OpenType font in combination with a paragraph
postprocessor that uses the advanced font capabilities. This
solution is somewhat easier to imagine than a complex
paragraph builder but still involves quite some juggling.
82 MlbibTeX and Its New Extensions — Jean-Michel Hufflen
These last years, MlbibTeX's kernel functions have been reused
and extended in order to put new programs about bibliographies
into action. Examples are the hal program, allowing an open
archive site to be populated, the mlbiblatex program, building
bibliographies suitable for the biblatex package, the
mlbibcontext program, doing the same task for ConTeXt
documents. We show how all these programs are organised, and
explain how some operations can be refined or extended. For a
point of view related to efficiency, the programs mlbiblatex
and mlbibcontext are written using Scheme only, so they are
more efficient than analogous programs that would interpret a
.bst bibliography style of bibTeX.
92 Demonstration of the ‘mlbibcontext’ Program — Jean-Michel Hufflen
This short statement aims to sketch the broad outlines of the
presentation performed at the 6th ConTeXt meeting.
94 Abstracts without papers
96 Participant list of the 6th ConTeXt meeting