January 2015 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Luatex 0.79.3 announcement
by luigi scarso 21 Jan '15

21 Jan '15

============================================================== Luatex beta-0.79.3 was released 20150121 (5130) ============================================================== * It's now possible with the MinGW compilers to build luatex and luajittex as DLL for Windows 32bit/64bit. The files are: libkpathsea-6.dll luajittex.exe luatex.exe texlua52.dll texluajit.dll In the next release the build.sh script be updated; for the moment just add "--enable-shared -disable-native-texlive-build " after --disable-all-pkgs in TL_MAKE. Building as DLL was tested only for Windows. * When possibile symbols in the exe are now hidden: this should avoid conflicts with the loading of dynamic shared object. * several bugfixes and improvements. The patches for MetaPost fix seg. faults occourred with wrong inputs. The functions: mp_get_numeric_value, mp_get_string_value, mp_get_boolean_value works if the value is a variable (i.e. not an internal variable, a loop variable and a macro argument); only mp_get_numeric_value now has support for loop variable and internal variable (but still not for macro arguments). We plan 0.80 for TL, with integration of the tokenlib branch, cleanup and bugs fix. We will also test lua 5.3, but we are not sure that it will part of the next TL . The archives can be downloaded from supelec as usual: https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/luatex/ You could also check out the sources via anonymous svn: svn co --username anonsvn --password anonsvn \ https://foundry.supelec.fr/svn/luatex/tags/beta-0.79.3 Bugs and feature requests can be added to the issue tracker at http://tracker.luatex.org Have fun, Hans, Taco, Luigi

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context -> docx ??
by Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

Dear gang, I'm currently writing a paper with very basic typographical needs: blockquotes, emphasis, bibliography, perhaps a graphic or two. The publisher wants the thing in Word, naturally. The last time I did something like this I set up a markdown document and just exported it to both docx and to context. For simple documents this is at least workable, but I'd prefer to write in context, not markdown. Now it's been a while since I've experimented with ConTeXt and epub. From lightly perusing the list it seems that there has been considerable movement on this front. So my question: Has anyone here succeeded in the following workflow: context -> xml -> docx [perhaps via pandoc]? If so, do any of you have any samples of such a workflow that work with the latest context? Or am I stuck with markdown? Best wishes Idris -- Idris Samawi Hamid Professor of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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bib module - urgent!
by Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

Dear gang, I am currently writing an article (mkiv) with lots of bibliographical references. But t-bib.tex seems to have disappeared, and the following simple file fails: ============ \starttext \usemodule[bib] \startpublication[k=haq, t=book, a=Haq, y=1994, s=Haq94] \author[]{Syed Nomanul}[S.]{}{Haq} \title{Names, Natures, and Things} \pubname{Kluwer} \city{Dordrecht} \pubyear{1994} \stoppublication \cite[haq] \stoptext ============ C:/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/publ-usr.lua:95: attempt to call field 'markasupdated' (a nil value) stack traceback: C:/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/publ-usr.lua:95: in function 'addbtxentry' [\directlua]:1: in main chunk 4 \startpublication[k=haq, 5 t=book, 6 a=Haq, 7 y=1994, 8 s=Haq94] 9 \author[]{Syed Nomanul}[S.]{}{Haq} 10 \title{Names, Natures, and Things} 11 \pubname{Kluwer} 12 \city{Dordrecht} 13 \pubyear{1994} 14 >> \stoppublication 15 16 \cite[haq] 17 18 \stoptext ? ============ Now my understanding is that the new biblio system does not use bbl files yet. But I stopped using .bib files the moment Taco released the original bibliography module. Biblio databases are all in .bbl format. I also set up an extensive bib environment (attached) to take care of all sorts of things. If this is broken, can it be fixed asap? Please don't make me have to convert bbl to bib; that will be beyond depressing. Also don't want to lose my environment commands. This is urgent because there is only a short time to finish this article, and I really want to spend more time writing the content than debugging Context! :-) :-) :-) Best wishes Idris -- Idris Samawi Hamid Professor of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: [NTG-context] bib module - urgent!
by Robert Blackstone 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

On 20 Jan 2015, at 10:16 , Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote > > I also set up an extensive bib environment (attached) to take care of all > sorts of things. > > If this is broken, can it be fixed asap? Please don't make me have to > convert bbl to bib; that will be beyond depressing. Also don't want to > lose my environment commands. > > This is urgent because there is only a short time to finish this article, > and I really want to spend more time writing the content than debugging > Context! :-) :-) :-) > > Best wishes What happens if you do not load the bib-module, in other words, omit \usemodule[bib], and input only your existing .bbl-files and your bibliograhy setups? This is what I always do and it still works with the standalone that I installed on january 13 this year. Best regards, Robert Blackstone

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Issues in export
by Henning Hraban Ramm 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

Hi, please consider the example at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Export#More_useful_example and its result at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Export#raw.xml_2 etc. The <metadata> tags end up within the first section (in this case: chapter), even if they’re defined before \starttext. Please fix, thanks. Further, I wonder about the tagging of footnotes (and probably other references, didn’t look into them yet): This is completely visual instead of semantical: (in *-raw.xml:) Quoth<descriptionsymbol detail="footnote"><sup>1</sup></descriptionsymbol> ... <description detail="footnote" chain="footnote"> <descriptiontag><sup>1</sup> </descriptiontag> <descriptioncontent>by Edgar Allan Poe</descriptioncontent> </description> (in *-div.xhtml:) Quoth<div class="descriptionsymbol footnote"><div class="sup">1</div></div> ... <div class="description footnote"> <div class="descriptiontag"><div class="sup">1</div> </div> <div class="descriptioncontent">by Edgar Allan Poe</div> </div> In raw.xml I’d prefer something like Quoth<description detail="footnote" id="1">by Edgar Allan Poe</description> or Quoth<description detail="footnote" id="1" /> ... <description detail="footnote" id="1"> <descriptiontag>1</descriptiontag> <descriptioncontent>by Edgar Allan Poe</descriptioncontent> </description> and in div.xhtml something that works in HTML, like a title: Quoth<div class="descriptionsymbol footnote" title="by Edgar Allan Poe"><div class="sup">1</div></div> or a link: Quoth<a href="#footnote_1"><div class="descriptionsymbol footnote"><div class="sup">1</div></div></a> … <a name=„footnote_1“> <div class="description footnote"> <div class="descriptiontag"><div class="sup">1</div> </div> <div class="descriptioncontent">by Edgar Allan Poe</div> </div> </a> Greetlings, Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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What happened to the ePub script?
by Henning Hraban Ramm 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

Hi, with the latest betas, the ePub script doesn’t work anymore. Regardless with which file I call it, I get only: $ mtxrun --script mtx-epub --make solo resolvers | caching | skipping 'files' for 'home:texmf' from '/Users/hraban/Library/texmf/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/trees/54be04d87dd160089f572b19cb5c97e9' (version mismatch) mtx-epub | unknown specificaton file for 'solo' Previously, you didn’t need to call it with any specification file, but only with a plain ConTeXt file like \setupbackend[ export=export.xml,xhtml=yes, ] \setupexport[ firstpage={koe.png}, ] \settaggedmetadata[ author={Hraban}, ] \starttext \startchapter[title={Chapter One}] \startsection[title={Section One}] \input tufte \stopsection \startsection[title={Section Two}] \input knuth \externalfigure[koe][width=\textwidth] \stopsection \stopchapter \stoptext An export.specification file was previously created by the script, I don’t know (anymore) for what. Calling the script with one of those also doesn’t do anything. Greetlings, Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Asymptote in Context
by Context NTG 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

Could anybody explain how to use Asymptote in ConTeXt with the filter module. Thanks Jeroen

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Using luacode
by Eric Gerard 19 Jan '15

19 Jan '15

Dear list members I think I don’t really understand the way to use a context command with luacode ! What I attempt to do is to write a function in lua which computes the position of one or several bottom tabs depending on : line number (1 is the lowest, 2 is above etc), number of tabs, horizontal position of the tab on the line. The height of the tab is a Tex value \hauteuronglet So I compute the x and y value and the width of the tab(s) After that I want to define a layer with the tab(s) in a table I can’t have the context.setlayer working properly. For sure, this code should be cleaned after testing. Here is the code I wrote \definelayer[OngletBas][x=0mm, y=0mm, width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight] % variables \newdimen\hauteuronglet \hauteuronglet=1cm %variables onglet gauche \newdimen\vertposonglet \newdimen\hauteurzoneacouper %variables onglet bas \newdimen\largeurzoneongletsbas \newdimen\ordonneeongletsbas \newdimen\abscisseongletsbas \newdimen\largeurongletbas \startluacode function test(opt_1, arg_1) local table = lpeg.split(",",interfaces.tolist(opt_1)) local labels = lpeg.split(",",arg_1) local NumLigne = table[1] local NbTotalOnglets = table[2] local PremierOnglet = table[3] local decalage = tex.sp("6.5pt") tex.dimen.ordonneeongletsbas = tex.dimen.paperheight - tex.dimen.hauteuronglet * NumLigne tex.dimen.largeurzoneongletsbas = tex.dimen.paperwidth - tex.dimen.backspace tex.dimen.largeurongletbas = tex.dimen.largeurzoneongletsbas / NbTotalOnglets tex.dimen.abscisseongletsbas = tex.dimen.backspace + tex.dimen.largeurongletbas * (PremierOnglet - 1) local x_ongletsbas = tex.dimen.abscisseongletsbas - decalage local y_ongletsbas = tex.dimen.ordonneeongletsbas local largeurongletbas = tex.dimen.largeurongletbas context.setupbackgrounds({"page"},{background = "OngletBas"}) context.setlayer({"OngletBas"},{hoffset = x_ongletsbas, voffset = y_ongletsbas}, context.setupTABLE({c},{1,2,3,4,5,6},{width = largeurongletbas}) context.bTABLE() context.bTR() context.bTD() context(labels[1]) context.eTD() context.eTR() context.eTABLE() ) end interfaces.definecommand { name = "test", arguments = { { "option", "hash" }, { "content", "string" }, }, macro = test, } \stopluacode I have to add also (I don’t understand why) but I need to add an offset of -6.5pt to adjust the position of the table. Thanks in advance Eric Gerard

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Define a new command from the command \periods[n]
by Fabrice Couvreur 19 Jan '15

19 Jan '15

Hi, Is it possible to redefine the command \periods[n] to have a line that goes from the end of the word to the edge of the page without having to play on the number n ? Regards, Fabrice \starttext \startitemize[a][stopper=),style=bold] \item $x\mapsto -x^2+x+1$ : \periods[66] \item $x\mapsto 2x^3+4x-7$ : \periods[65] \item $x\mapsto x^2-3$ : \periods[70] \item $x\mapsto \frac{x^2+x}2$ : \periods[72] \item $x\mapsto (x-2)^2$ : \periods[69] \stopitemize \stoptext

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filter module's inline command and supressed spacing
by Piotr Kopszak 19 Jan '15

19 Jan '15

Hello list, It looks like a bug in the filter module, but maybe I'm doing something wrong. Any help will be greatly appreciated. When using the \inlinepandoc command in the first paragraph below the space at the end of the paragraph in "życiaA. Mickiewicza" is supressed when it should be "życia A. Mickiewicza". This does not happen when using pandoc environment. If you want to run the minimal example you have to make sure you got the recent pandoc which supports twiki input format and create the "output" subdirectory in your working directory. Best Piotr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- \usemodule[filter] \defineexternalfilter [pandoc] [ filter={pandoc -f \externalfilterparameter{format} -t context -o \externalfilteroutputfile}, format=twiki, directory=output, ] \starttext Inne tyt.: Wizyta pana Franciszka Grzymały, Exegi monumentum aere perennius.... Powst. Paryż, na autografie podpis: "Paryż, 12 marca 1833. Wiersze natchnione wizytą Fr. Grzymały". Pdr: {\it Czas} 1859 nr nr 118 s. 2. (\inlinepandoc{w artykule L*** (E. Januszkiewicza) "Notatki wspomnień z życia A. Mickiewicza"}). \startpandoc Inne tyt.: Wizyta pana Franciszka Grzymały, Exegi monumentum aere perennius.... Powst. Paryż, na autografie podpis: "Paryż, 12 marca 1833. Wiersze natchnione wizytą Fr. Grzymały". Pdr: {\it Czas} 1859 nr nr 118 s. 2. (w artykule L*** (E. Januszkiewicza) "Notatki wspomnień z życia A. Mickiewicza"). \stoppandoc \stoptext --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- http://okle.pl

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