May 2021 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

new upload
by Hans Hagen 27 May '21

27 May '21

Hi, I uploaded a new version of lmtx. Apart from some small fixes, the configuration file is hopefully okay too. I'm sure MF will check it. However, the biggest change is hidden. In traditional tex, inserts (used for footnotes) are implemented using a quadruple of registers. In context these come from the range 132-254 which is not used by normal allocations. The number is basically a sort of index. However, this box/dimen/count/skip memory model doesn't work well for (possible) extensions nor does the wrapped final (per page) box fit into the more extended regular box model (not that anyone will notice or abuse that, it's just that some features of boxes don't make sense in the perspective of inserts). Inserts are somewhat complex (and interwoven) and are also somewhat fuzzy when one wants to do checking when making progress on a page. We already deal with that in context in a reasonable way but I get the feeling that we can do better. This and the above are reasons to come up with a variant memory model that permits playing with additional features more easily. The existing storage model is stil there (after all it's tex) but for those willing to check the alternative, in page-ins.mkxl one can uncomment % \insertmode\plustwo and remake the format. I rejected a mixed mode model because it makes the code ugly. Related mem grows on demand as with other mechanisms so there is no extra overhead involved. As a consequence I had to abstract some of the insert interface in context a bit more (because we use accessors instead of boxes) and hopefully I didn't forget one. We'll see. Once I'm confident with the new approach we'll switch to that (low level) interface model and can progress. Because users don't use inserts directly themselves not much harm can be done. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Unnecessary loading of lm-mono
by Rik Kabel 26 May '21

26 May '21

For a few revisions now, I have seen the following as the very first line of log files. It is not coming from my document. Is anybody else seeing it? fonts > beware: no fonts are loaded yet, using 'lm mono' in box Here is an example document that generates it: \setupbodyfont[libertinus,10pt] \starttext Hello world! \stoptext It seems harmless, but it does result in loading an un-needed font. mkiv lua stats > loaded fonts: 4 files: lmmono10-regular.otf, libertinusmath-bold.otf, libertinusmath-regular.otf, libertinusserif-regular.otf -- Rik

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Re: [NTG-context] Unwanted upright math in MkIV
by Gavin 26 May '21

26 May '21

Aditya, > On Sun, 23 May 2021, Gavin wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I’m using ConTeXt with MacOS. The current version of MkIV produces upright math rather than italic. MWE: >> >> \starttext >> \m{f = \beta} >> \stoptext > > Works correctly here. What does context --version say? My log file has this near the beginning: ... This is LuaTeX, Version 1.13.0 (TeX Live 2021) … system > ConTeXt ver: 2021.05.21 15:07 MKIV fmt: 2021.5.23 int: english/english … I am putting the entire log file below, since it isn’t terribly long. I hope that’s not bad etiquette. (I’m fairly new here.) Thanks! Gavin > mtx-context | redirect luametatex -> luatex: luatex --luaonly "/Users/Gavin/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/mtxrun.lua" --script mtx-context --luatex --autopdf GlyphExp.tex --redirected > > resolvers | formats | executing runner 'run luatex format': /Users/Gavin/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/luatex --jobname="GlyphExp" --fmt=/Users/Gavin/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/luatex/cont-en.fmt --lua=/Users/Gavin/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/luatex/cont-en.lui cont-yes.mkiv --c:autopdf --c:currentrun=1 --c:engine="luatex" --c:fulljobname="./GlyphExp.tex" --c:input="./GlyphExp.tex" --c:kindofrun=1 --c:luatex --c:maxnofruns=9 --c:redirected --c:texmfbinpath="/Users/Gavin/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin" > This is LuaTeX, Version 1.13.0 (TeX Live 2021) > system commands enabled. > open source > level 1, order 1, name '/Users/Gavin/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/cont-yes.mkiv' > system > > system > ConTeXt ver: 2021.05.21 15:07 MKIV fmt: 2021.5.23 int: english/english > system > > system > 'cont-new.mkiv' loaded > open source > level 2, order 2, name '/Users/Gavin/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/cont-new.mkiv' > system > beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.mkiv > close source > level 2, order 2, name '/Users/Gavin/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/cont-new.mkiv' > system > files > jobname 'GlyphExp', input './GlyphExp', result 'GlyphExp' > fonts > latin modern fonts are not preloaded > languages > language 'en' is active > open source > level 2, order 3, name '/Users/Gavin/Desktop/GlyphExp/GlyphExp.tex' > fonts > preloading latin modern fonts (second stage) > fonts > 'fallback modern-designsize rm 12pt' is loaded > backend > xmp > using file '/Users/Gavin/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/lpdf-pdx.xml' > pages > flushing realpage 1, userpage 1, subpage 1 > close source > level 2, order 3, name '/Users/Gavin/Desktop/GlyphExp/GlyphExp.tex' > close source > level 1, order 3, name '/Users/Gavin/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/cont-yes.mkiv' > > mkiv lua stats > used config file: selfautoparent:/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua > mkiv lua stats > used cache path: /Users/Gavin/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e > mkiv lua stats > resource resolver: loadtime 0.006 seconds, 0 scans with scantime 0.000 seconds, 0 shared scans, 11 found files, scanned paths: <none> > mkiv lua stats > stored bytecode data: 457 modules (0.242 sec), 96 tables (0.015 sec), 553 chunks (0.257 sec) > mkiv lua stats > traced context: maxstack: 1424, freed: 0, unreachable: 1424 > mkiv lua stats > cleaned up reserved nodes: 57 nodes, 9 lists of 442 > mkiv lua stats > node memory usage: 11 attribute, 4 attribute_list, 1 glue, 51 glue_spec, 3 kern, 2 penalty, 2 temp, 2 user_defined > mkiv lua stats > node list callback tasks: 8 unique task lists, 7 instances (re)created, 38 calls > mkiv lua stats > used backend: pdf (backend for directly generating pdf output) > mkiv lua stats > jobdata time: 0.001 seconds saving, 0.000 seconds loading > mkiv lua stats > callbacks: internal: 132, file: 64, direct: 2, late: 0, function 507, total: 705 (705 per page) > mkiv lua stats > randomizer: resumed with value 0.58778292965144 > mkiv lua stats > result saved in file: GlyphExp.pdf, compresslevel 3, objectcompresslevel 1 > mkiv lua stats > loaded patterns: en::1, load time: 0.000 > mkiv lua stats > loaded fonts: 2 files: latinmodern-math.otf, lmroman12-regular.otf > mkiv lua stats > font engine: otf 3.116, afm 1.513, tfm 1.000, 7 instances, 3 shared in backend, 3 common vectors, 0 common hashes, load time 0.200 seconds > mkiv lua stats > used platform: osx-64, type: unix, binary subtree: texmf-osx-64 > mkiv lua stats > used engine: luatex version: 1.13, functionality level: 7420, banner: this is luatex, version 1.13.0 (tex live 2021) > mkiv lua stats > used hash slots: 46714 of 65536 + 250000 > mkiv lua stats > lua properties: engine: lua 5.3, used memory: 106 MB, ctx: 106 MB, max: unknown MB, hash chars: min(64,40), symbol mask: utf (τεχ) > mkiv lua stats > runtime: 0.545 seconds, 1 processed pages, 1 shipped pages, 1.835 pages/second > mtx-context | pdfview methods: auto default okular pdfxcview sumatra, current method: sumatra (directives_pdfview_method) > pdfview | command: wine "sumatrapdf.exe" -reuse-instance -bg-color 0xCCCCCC "GlyphExp.pdf" 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null & > mtx-context | pdfview overhead: 0.004 seconds > system | total runtime: 0.865 seconds

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Re: [NTG-context] lmtx and defined placeinitial color
by Eduardo Bohoyo 25 May '21

25 May '21

I have just seen that I also experience the same problem. I didn't realise it. I have provisionally "solved" it with an unfancy workaround. For instance, in your case it could be something like this: \definecolor[dropcapitals][t=0.40,a=1] This is not ideal. I know. But for the moment I can't think of anything better than to include the transparency trick. Eduardo Bohoyo

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Stack size for arguments too small in LMTX
by Henri Menke 25 May '21

25 May '21

Dear list, For some reason pgfplots has a \pgfkeys invocation where the argument has more than 4000 lines. This crashes LuaMetaTeX with the message tex error > tex error on line 4045 in file pgfplots.code.tex: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [token memory size=1000000] It doesn't seem to be an issue with LuaTeX, so my guess is that token memory size is larger in LuaTeX. Could you please increase the stack size to make this edge case compile again? This issue was originally reported on the pgfplots bugtracker: https://github.com/pgf-tikz/pgfplots/issues/398 Cheers, Henri

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lmtx and defined placeinitial color
by jbf 25 May '21

25 May '21

If I run the following in lmtx, the defined color is not recognized and I get black instead. If I run it as mkiv with --luatex, I get the darkgray I defined. Is there something else I need to do for lmtx? \definecolor[darkgray][s=.4] \setupinitial[color=darkgray,font=adellesemibold at 46pt,distance=3pt,n=3] \starttext \placeinitial{M}{\sc aking sense of the world} at any time is a fraught exercise... \stoptext Julian

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contextgarden.net seems to be down
by Vladimir Lomov 25 May '21

25 May '21

Hello. According to page https://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone to install ConTeXt standalone (I assume MkIV) one has to download first-setup.sh script (Linux,Mac,*BSD) from contextgarden.net (minimals.contextgarden.net) but this host seems to be down. On linux I have $ host contextgarden.net contextgarden.net has address 193.2.4.200 contextgarden.net has IPv6 address 2001:1470:ff80:88::80:c contextgarden.net mail is handled by 10 mail.ijs.si. $ host minimals.contextgarden.net minimals.contextgarden.net is an alias for server-si.contextgarden.net. server-si.contextgarden.net has address 193.2.4.200 server-si.contextgarden.net has IPv6 address 2001:1470:ff80:88::80:c $ ping -c 3 contextgarden.net PING contextgarden.net(context.ijs.si (2001:1470:ff80:88::80:c)) 56 data bytes From cmigw.ijs.si (2001:1470:ff80:1::1:26) icmp_seq=1 Destination unreachable: Address unreachable From cmigw.ijs.si (2001:1470:ff80:1::1:26) icmp_seq=2 Destination unreachable: Address unreachable From cmigw.ijs.si (2001:1470:ff80:1::1:26) icmp_seq=3 Destination unreachable: Address unreachable --- contextgarden.net ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 2073ms $ ping -c 3 minimals.contextgarden.net PING minimals.contextgarden.net(context.ijs.si (2001:1470:ff80:88::80:c)) 56 data bytes From cmigw.ijs.si (2001:1470:ff80:1::1:26) icmp_seq=1 Destination unreachable: Address unreachable From cmigw.ijs.si (2001:1470:ff80:1::1:26) icmp_seq=2 Destination unreachable: Address unreachable From cmigw.ijs.si (2001:1470:ff80:1::1:26) icmp_seq=3 Destination unreachable: Address unreachable --- minimals.contextgarden.net ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 2014ms P.S. Nowadays I use mostly lmtx but I keep MkIV in case of troubles with lmtx. --- Vladimir Lomov -- It is better to wear out than to rust out.

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specify a directory for tex files
by Jeroen 25 May '21

25 May '21

similar to this for figures \setupexternalfigures [directory={./myfigures}] is there a way to specify a directory for tex files so with \input{myfile.tex} the file myfile.tex can be placed in a subdirectory for example ./mytexfiles?

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Define new symbol by stitching two symbols together
by Nicola 24 May '21

24 May '21

I would like to define new symbols by stitching together existing glyphs. This is what I have come up so far: \define[1]\Transition{-\!\![#1]\!\!\rightarrow} \starttext \m{L\Transition{A}R} \stoptext This should render as -[ ]->, ideally with no space between the dash or the arrow and the brackets, i.e., -[ should appear like a single glyph; ditto for ]-->. With the definition above, however, the space is variable, and in some circumstances the gliphs overlap. How can I improve the above definition? Nicola

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Special layouts don't recognise placeinitial
by Eduardo Bohoyo 24 May '21

24 May '21

My question will be very simple: Is there a trick to make \placeinitial command work within makeup pages? One of my pages inside the /frontmater/ is a quote page within an special layout. Before using LMTX, when I could use the Lettrine module, that quote started with a capital letter. But now that I use \placeinitial, the first letter no longer changes: it remains a simple initial capital letter. On the other hand, when I use \placeinitial for each first paragraph in the chapters of my book, the result is as expected. That is, the command works fine as long as it stays within the general layout. This is the code I'm referring to: \startmakeup[standard][doublesided=yes] \setuplayout[backspace=176pt,width=194pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=22pt] \style[tfa] \startalignment[hanging,flushleft,nothyphenated] \placeinitial Ahora, vosotros que amáis, dejadme que os formule una pregunta: ¿quién sufre más por ello, Arcite o Palamón? ¿El que ve a su dama diariamente, pero está encerrado para siempre, o el que es libre de ir donde le plazca, pero no verá nunca más a su dama? Aquellos de vosotros que podáis, elegid entre las dos situaciones a voluntad; yo, por mi parte, continuaré como he empezado. \stopalignment \startalignment[hanging,flushright,nothyphenated] \blank[0.8cm,force]{\tfa\sc Geofrey Chaucer,\hspace[big]} \blank[0.1cm,force]{\tfa\em The Canterbury Tales \hspace[big]} \stopalignment \stopmakeup Eduardo Bohoyo

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