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Luatex 1.12.0 announcement.
by luigi scarso 27 May '23

27 May '23

============================================================== LuaTeX 1.12.0 2020-03-15 ============================================================== This is the release for TeX live 2020. --shell-restricted now forbids loading of dso (dll/so object) Scaled virtual font Aadditional primitives \eTeXglue[stretch|shrink]order for querying order the etex way. Extra features runtoks tex.getmodenames() (as these can differ per engine/version) Permit nested runtoks in more complex situations of nesting (HH) More accurate and correct test for tex.[set|get]math Minor clean-up and bugs fixed -- luigi

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Laundry symbols (now: altered picture)
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 02 Jan '22

02 Jan '22

Hello ConTeXters, is there a way how to get laundry symbols into ConTeXt? - The image is copied from "The Comprehensive LATEX Symbol List", Scott Pakin. TIA. Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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Unicode normalization and Hebrew in ConTeXt
by Joey McCollum 18 Aug '21

18 Aug '21

I am typesetting a document in Hebrew that includes pointing (e.g., vowels, shin and sin dots, dagesh, etc.) using ConTeXt. The Hebrew text that I want to typeset has been normalized into Unicode's NFC canonical form. It is well-known that the Unicode canonical ordering of Hebrew points conflicts with the recommended mark ordering of specific points based on their functions (see https://www.sbl-site.org/Fonts/SBLHebrewUserManual1.5x.pdf for more on this topic). Thankfully, many typesetting engines automatically reorder the points to ensure that they are combined according to the specifications of many fonts. I'm pretty sure that XeLaTeX is one of these, as it typesets Hebrew letters with multiple points correctly even when the Hebrew text is in NFC form. My question is, can ConTeXt with LuaTeX handle the same situation correctly? In the following minimal example, ConTeXt typesets pointed Hebrew correctly when the characters are in the typographically recommended order, but not when they are in Unicode canonical order: ``` %Setup Hebrew text font: \definefontfeature[f:pointedhebrew][default][ ccmp=yes, mark=yes, script=hebr ] \definefontfamily[hebrew] [rm] [SBL Hebrew] [features=f:pointedhebrew] %Set the body font: \setupbodyfont[hebrew] %Set up right-to-left alignment: \setupalign[r2l] \starttext %Characters after normalization, in Unicode canonical order (bet + segol + dagesh + final nun): בֶּן %A word with characters in typographically recommended order (bet + dagesh + segol + final nun): בֶּן \stoptext ``` I typeset this using ConTeXt version 2020.03.10, as released with TeXLive 2020. I got the SBL Hebrew font from https://www.sbl-site.org/educational/BiblicalFonts_SBLHebrew.aspx. According to the font's user manual (see the link above the MWE), the font should be able to combine the marks to form the correct glyph regardless of their order after the consonant, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. I also tried using the predefined "hebrew" featureset, but that did not change anything. Is there some other OpenType feature or featureset I need to enable to fix this, or is there some module or option I can include to get ConTeXt to typeset Unicode-normalized Hebrew as if it were ordered in the recommended way, like XeLaTeX does? I see that the uninormalize module is mentioned in the thread "XeLaTeX, LuaLaTeX, fontspec, unicode and normalization" on TeX Stack Exchange ( https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/229044/xelatex-lualatex-fontspec-un…); can that be used with ConTeXt? Thank you, Joey

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img.scan in lmtx?
by Henning Hraban Ramm 05 Aug '21

05 Aug '21

Hi, I use the lua function img.scan{filename}, but in lmtx I get "attempt to index a nil value (global 'img')", so I guess this got renamed or moved? HR

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LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name
by Marco Patzer 08 Jul '21

08 Jul '21

Hi! LMTX and MkIV behave differently if dots are used in the file name. Example: printf '%s\n' '\starttext\null\stoptext' > foo.10.tex && context foo.10.tex MkIV: → foo.10.pdf LMTX: → foo.pdf Is this intentional? This is LuaMetaTeX, Version 2.06.05 current version: 2020.05.25 23:39 Marco

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Reverse traversing of xml.collected()?
by Gerben Wierda 10 Nov '20

10 Nov '20

I’d like to travese the contents of an xml.collected() in a reverse order. I have for connectionFromXML in xml.collected(viewFromXML,"/connection") do parseXMLConnection( rootFromXML, connectionFromXML, viewFromXML, rootFromOverrideXML) end I tried: local relationTable = xml.collected(viewFromXML,"/connection") for i=#relationTable, 1, -1 do connectionFromXML = relationTable[i] parseXMLConnection( rootFromXML, connectionFromXML, viewFromXML, rootFromOverrideXML) end But apparently my lua knowledge is lacking (severely, I might say) as this ends with “attempt to get length of a function value “ What is the correct way to do it? G

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Pre-registration for 14th ConTeXt Meeting, September 6–12, 2020
by Jano Kula 20 Jul '20

20 Jul '20

Dear ConTeXt users! The 14th ConTeXt Meeting <https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2020/> in the Czech Republic is in preparation as originally planned. As nobody is able to predict the situation in September, we have started pre-registration only and will discuss conditions at the end of July via the mailing list of pre-registered participants. We will take into account up-to-date travel restrictions and health risks and make the final decision on July 31, 2020, based also on the number of pre-registrations. Till then no payment is wanted. All pre-registered participants qualify for early bird discount to be paid during the first week of August. Pre-registration doesn't bind you to pay or attend the meeting. The ConTeXt Group board has discussed other options (on-line meeting, postponing the meeting), but these are unlikely to happen, in case the meeting is cancelled. *14th ConTeXt Meeting* *September 6–12, 2020, Sibřina, Czech Republic* For the second time we will held the meeting at the friendly farm U Škodů, at the eastern border of Prague. See the gallery from 2018 <http://kostverlorenvaart.nl/context2018/> by Frans Goddijn. Topics will cover usage and development of LuaMetaTeX, ConTeXt, and everything related. Each meeting is source of inspiration for everybody, from beginner to expert. Friendly company is always looking for meeting new participants, users of LuaTeX, LuaMetaTeX, ConTeXt, Metapost, etc. There is a special discount for those, who attend the meeting for the first time and for students. Also ConTeXt Group members are qualified for the discount, so consider joining the group. For more details and pre-registration visit the 14th ConTeXt Meeting <https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2020/> page. Hope to see you in September, Jano on behalf of the ConTeXt Group <https://group.contextgarden.net>

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ConTeXt source browser website update
by Taco Hoekwater 05 Jul '20

05 Jul '20

Hi all, I just replaced the software of https://source.contextgarden.net/ by a Lua implementation that uses Hans Hagen’s SciTE lexers for syntax highlighting and a Lua-generated search index. There is no official documentation yet (because I may want to change some stuff still) but here is some relevant information: * The search field uses a Lua string pattern to match a single word (no multi-word search as of yet). See https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#6.4.1 for the syntax of lua string patterns. * The search index only contains 7-bit ASCII ‘words’ that contain at least one of 'a-zA-Z’ (writing an LPEG for unicode matching is a tricky and probably would be quite slow even if I could make it work). Still, this should be ok-ish because most of the ConTeXt source is ASCII, except for the interface files. * The files context-en.xml, mtxrun{.lua}, and all of the files in the tex/context/patterns subtree are skipped in the search index. Also skipped are words shorter than 3 bytes, lua keywords, and words having more than (approx) 1500 hits * On the plus side, because of the SciTE lexer, “contextversion’ and “\contextversion” are separate entries in the search index. And you can search for “\@@kldirection”. * For text file types that have no SciTE lexer there is no syntax highlighting, and binary files are ignored altogether. The rest of the interface should be self-explanatory. Suggestions for improvements are welcome. Index statistics: 4085 files processed, 178 skipped, 3744 with matches 120733 words found 119154 words exported to word.idx 37928 comment words found 36880 words exported to comment.idx 26756 documentation words found 26018 words exported to docs.idx The word.idx is roughly 11 megabytes. Have fun, Taco

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Avoid indentation after \typebuffer
by Mikael Sundqvist 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

Hi, I want to avoid indentation after \typebuffer (or set indentnext to auto perhaps). I am probably missing something simple, but I thought that the example file below should have worked: \setupindenting[yes,medium] \setuptyping[buffer][ indentnext=no, ] \starttext \startbuffer \startformula \int_a^b f'(x)\,dx \stopformula \stopbuffer \typebuffer I do not want this line to be indented. \stoptext Compiled with an updated lmxt, and resulting pdf file is attached. /Mikael

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\hideframe to cancel \showframe
by Mikael Sundqvist 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

Hi, say that I, for educational purposes, want to use \showframe for a couple of pages, and then want to hide the frames. What is the correct way of doing this? I have for now added a \begingroup and \endgroup, but then another document parameter that is set inside is cancelled after the \endgroup. I tried to look in the source, but could not find anything that worked (what I tried with was to use \setupbackgrounds[state=stop], but that was merely a guess, and it did not work). /Mikael

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