March 2014 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

internal mptopdf converter skips some glyphs in labels
by Sanjoy Mahajan 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

The internal mptopdf converter in MkIV omit some glyphs in the labels. Here's a minimal example (test.tex): \starttext \externalfigure[testfig.1][frame=on] \blank \externalfigure[testfig-1.pdf][frame=on] \stoptext And testfig.1 is produced by testfig.mp beginfig(1) label(btex $\Omega$ etex, (0,0)); currentpicture := currentpicture scaled 5; endfig; end Here's testfig.1 to save a step in debugging: %!PS %%BoundingBox: -18 -18 18 18 %%HiResBoundingBox: -17.98805 -17.0195 17.98798 17.0195 %%Creator: MetaPost 1.803 %%CreationDate: 2013.08.09:1612 %%Pages: 1 %*Font: cmr10 49.81323 9.96265 0a:8 %%BeginProlog %%EndProlog %%Page: 1 1 0 0 0 setrgbcolor -17.98805 -17.0195 moveto (\012) cmr10 49.81323 fshow showpage %%EOF Then do: mptopdf testfig.1 context test.tex xpdf test.pdf The first framed box, using the internal mps->pdf conversion, is empty. The second framed go, using the pdf file produced by mptopdf, correctly contains \Omega. With \enabletrackers[graphics.conversion,graphics.inclusion], the log has the following lines, none of which seem to pinpoint the problem: graphics > inclusion > checking conversion of 'testfig.1', fullname 'testfig.1', old format 'mps', new format 'pdf', conversion 'default', resolution 'default' graphics > inclusion > no converter for 'mps' to 'pdf' [MP to PDF] graphics > inclusion > checking conversion of 'testfig-1.pdf', fullname 'testfig-1.pdf', old format 'pdf', new format 'pdf', conversion 'default', resolution 'default' graphics > inclusion > no converter for 'pdf' to 'pdf' graphics > inclusion > new graphic, using hash 'testfig-1.pdf->1->crop->unknown->unknown->unknown->' (Though I don't believe the "no converter for 'mps' to 'pdf'" diagnostic.) This is with Context 2013.05.28 00:36 MKIV (TL2013 on Debian). -Sanjoy

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Quotation blocs with repetition symbol in the left column
by Stéphane Goujet 01 Jun '14

01 Jun '14

Hello, I am trying to typeset old books and I chose to keep close to the original typography. I have attached two images of what I try to mimic an I try to sum up the requirements hereinbelow. Any advice is appreciated. ================= 1) It must work when starting from a new line as well as when starting from the middle of the current line. 2 different environments are allowed. 2) The environnement is wrapped in guillemets. 3a) There must be no extra space before the opening guillemet when starting from the middle of the current line. 3b) The must be no extra space after the closing guillemet. 4) The quote repetition symbol must appear in the beginning of every line, except the first one. 5) Paragraphs should be automatically indented. Manual indentation is bearable. 6a) When there is an indentation, the quote repetition symbol must be indented too. 6b) When the bloc starts on a new line, the opening guillemet must be indented. 7) The quote repetition symbol must be a setup parameter of the environment, or easily modifiable within the environment definition. (in the example images, it is a *closing* guillemet, but in other books it can be an *opening* guillemet). 8) This environment must work within footnotes too. ================= So far, I have tried to use line numbering to achieve this result. But there are several problems: -- extra space before beginning of bloc, -- quote repetition symbol appears on the first line even when it the beginning of the environment, -- no automatic indentation, -- no indentation of quote repetition symbol, -- lines overflow in the right margin (seems that the "width" used for the numbering is not substracted from the text width), -- no effect in footnotes, and I am not unsure whether carrying on tweaking line numbering is the way to go. Here is a minimal(?) example showing the different possibilities and troubles: ================= \setuppapersize[A4] \enableregime[utf-8] \mainlanguage[fr] \language[fr] \setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation] \setupindenting[first,yes,medium] \definestartstop[bloccitel][before={ \setuplinenumbering[location=text,command={»\gobbleoneargument},width=.75em] \startlinenumbering \setupindenting[first,yes,medium] « }, after={»\stoplinenumbering}] \starttext First check: «normal spacing of guillemets». Second check: a normal paragraph, to show {\bf normal right margin limit}. \input tufte Let's start with a quote block on a {\bf new line}: \startbloccitel First paragraph ({\bf quote repetition symbol is not wanted here}):\input tufte Second paragraph ({\bf not automatically indented}):\input tufte \indentation Third paragraph with manual indentation({\bf quote repetition symbol is not indented}):\input tufte \stopbloccitel Now, a quote block starting just there, {\bf in the middle of a line} ({\bf space after colon is too big}):\startbloccitel\input tufte \input tufte \stopbloccitel . This a bit of text at the end of the quotation. It {\bf seems fine}. And let's call a {\bf footnote}\footnote{\startbloccitel\input tufte \input tufte \stopbloccitel}. Unfortunately {\bf no quote repetition symbol will appear in it}. \stoptext ================= If needed, here is the Context I use : ================= stephane@cuisine ~/test/ctx/quote_block $ context --version mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 0.60 mtx-context | mtx-context | main context file: /opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.mkiv mtx-context | current version: 2014.03.27 20:04 ================= Faithfully yours, Stéphane.

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[OT] Turing award for Leslie Lamport
by Mojca Miklavec 15 May '14

15 May '14

Now that both Kruth (TeX) and Leslie Lamport (LaTeX) won the Turing award http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/lamport_1205376.cfm ... it's time to nominate Hans ;) Mojca

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Standalone
by hwitloc＠gmail.com 03 May '14

03 May '14

On my system I already have Cygwin. I want to install the standalone Context. Which involves basically: mkdir -o /opt/context cd /opt/context wget "http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/first-setup.sh chmod 744 first-setup.sh ./first-setup.sh #this works up to this point only partially. - /opt/context/tex is not installed. This is a bad error. It causes - first-setup.sh to fail. And what is loaded will cause conflicts with cygwin which already exists, I believe. I can't see why rsync is use to load anothe versio of rsync in a diff location. #1. Why does 1st setup duplicate Cygwin dlls? I've hurd that having multiple cygwin*.dlls can cause problems. Besideds They already exist and so does luatex.exe for that matter. 'first-setup.sh' should know that it does a test for CYGWIN, but doesn't seem to do anything with it. #2. Also redundant and confusing is first-setup.sh forces the fetching of rsync by an already existing rsync. Is rsync already exists, why fetch another one and put it in a different location. I have texlive for unix on a cygwin platform, on top of an XP system. I want to make installing the standalone easy for cyginw and linux. # # Firstly, exactly what packages are needed for context? # I assume it's one or more of the mtx prefixed programs below. Please advise. - mtx-update.lua - mtxrun.exe - mtxrun.dll - mtxrun.lua - lua52.dll - luatex.dll Is this needed in addition to luatex.exe? - luatex.exe <Note: cygwin has luatex.exe same functionality?> - kpathsea620.dll <Note: TeXLive has kpath related code> I understand that there are not a lot of people experimenting with the latest ConTeXt and even less for the Cygin platform. But, I would like to make it easer and clearer for Cygwin users who do want to experiement with the latest versions. I don't know if installing for a native linux version is easier or more straightforward or not. Regards.

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Re: [NTG-context] Hebrew vowel placement in ConTeXt.
by Michael Ash 02 May '14

02 May '14

Thank you. The unicode text looked good (although reversed left-to-right as I sent it) in my sent mail, and it looked perfect (corrected right-to-left) in your response. But it did not look good in the digest email (all the letters were convered to ?'s). Also it's typesetting fine in ConTeXt except for the vowel placement. Any suggestions there? Thank you again. Yours, Michael On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد < ishamid(a)colostate.edu> wrote: > Greetings, Michael, > > > On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:15:11 -0600, Michael Ash <mash(a)econs.umass.edu> > wrote: > > Is there a standard way to send unicode text to this list? >> > > Your Unicode text came through perfectly: > > > \textdir TRT >> \hebrew >> לָכֵן חַכּוּ־לִי נְאֻם־יְהוָה לְיוֹם קוּמִי לְעַד כִּי מִשְׁפָּטִי >> לֶאֱסֹף גּוֹיִם לְקָבְצִי מַמְלָכוֹת לִשְׁפֹּךְ עֲלֵיהֶם זַעְמִי כֹּל >> חֲרוֹן אַפִּי כִּי בְּאֵשׁ קִנְאָתִי תֵּאָכֵל כָּל־הָאָרֶץ׃ >> \stoptext >> > > Maybe the encoding of your browser/mail-client needs to be set to > "Unicode" ("Automatic" usually works too). > > For high-level text-direction control, you may experiment with > > \righttoleft > \lefttoright > > as well as > > \setupdirections[bidi=global] > \setupdirections[bidi=local] > > Best wishes > Idris > -- > Professor Idris Samawi Hamid > Department of Philosophy > Colorado State University > Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Michael Ash, Chair, Department of Economics Professor of Economics and Public Policy University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 Email mash(a)econs.umass.edu Tel +1-413-545-2590 Twitter @michaelaoash

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git
by Hans Hagen 27 Apr '14

27 Apr '14

Hi, Is Marius git repos still kept up to date? Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Broken bibliographies in 2014-03-07 beta
by Rik Kabel 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

Bibliographies are no longer generated. MWE is the example code at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bibliography_mkiv, which no longer generates an output file and shows the following in the blg file: I found no \citation commands---while reading file cite.aux I found no \bibdata command---while reading file cite.aux I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file cite.aux You've used 0 entries,... With the stable version, the same section reads: Database file #1: sample.bib You've used 4 entries, -- Rik

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PSTricks with ConTeXT
by Fabrice Couvreur 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Hi, After searching, it seems it is not possible to compile a file containing a PSTricks environment ? Is that correct ? Regards, Fabrice

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typewriter style with Constantia
by Peter Münster 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

Hi, With the following setup and ConTeXt version 2014.02.14 I got typewriter style: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- \definefontfamily[constantia][sans][Constantia] \setupbodyfont[constantia] \starttext normal and \type{mono} \stoptext --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- But not with version 2014.03.25. What should I do to get typewriter style please? TIA for any help, -- Peter

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\definelabel
by Herbert Voss 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Hi all, this worked some time ago: \definelabel[video][text=Video,location=inmargin] \starttext \video foo \nextvideo bar \currentvideo[video1] baz \page see \at[video1]. \incrementvideo \video foobar \resetvideo \video foobarbaz \stoptext now \currentvideo and \incrementvideo are undefined Herbert

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