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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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arm osx
by Hans Hagen 30 May '22

30 May '22

Hi, Thanks to Mojca's persistent efforts we now generate arm osx binaries on the build infrastructure, so lmtx now ships native arm bins for apples. There are also intel solaris builds now but no installers for those platforms (yet). 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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XML Namespaces and XML Setups
by Christoph Reller 24 May '22

24 May '22

Dear List, Consider the following MWE: \startxmlsetups xml:demo:base \xmlsetsetup{#1}{tag}{xml:demo:tag} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregisterdocumentsetup{demo}{xml:demo:base} \startxmlsetups xml:demo:tag %\doif{\xmlnamespace{#1}}{o}{NameSpaceO:} \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \starttext \startbuffer[test] <?xml version="1.0"?> <root xmlns="NameSpaceA" xmlns:o="NameSpaceO"> <tag>text</tag> <o:tag>text</o:tag> </root> \stopbuffer \xmlprocessbuffer{demo}{test}{} \stoptext My questions: - Is there a good way to have a separate XML setup for each XML namespace? - Alternatively, one has to do the distinction within the same XML setup. In this case, how do we get the complete namespace? (In this example: "NameSpaceA" and "NameSpaceO") Thanks in advance for your help! Cheers, Christoph

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Fuzzy lines
by Henning Hraban Ramm 21 Jan '22

21 Jan '22

Hi MetaFans, is it possible to get lines with Metapost that look like they were drawn with a pencil or brush? Some vector graphics apps (in my case: Affinity Designer) can use such naturally looking brushes for vector graphics (and I don’t know how they do it), but I’d like to automate/parametrize some designs, and that would finally be a reason to learn Metapost... Hraban

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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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Hyphenation on digits
by Jairo A. del Rio 03 Nov '21

03 Nov '21

Hi, list. I want to know if ConTeXt provides an option to automatically hyphenate/break digits as if they were alphabetic characters. Example, in a narrow page I expect something like that (I've used (-) for an optional hyphen): *π = *3.141592653(-) 58979323846264(-) 33832795028841(-) 97169399375105(-) ... I found myself unable to read a satisfactory solution in the mailing list archive nor other TeX related resources. Maybe LMTX has some magic for that? Cordially, Jairo

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mp-geo Metapost package with ConTeXt
by Gavin 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

Hello ConTeXters, I’d like to use the mp-geo Metapost package with ConTeXt to draw simple globes viewed from various directions. The package is here: https://melusine.eu.org/syracuse/poulecl/mp-geo/ It looks like the last update was 2008 and I don’t read French, so I though my chances of getting anything to work were pretty small. However, I was pleasantly surprised that this MWE found the mp-geo package, the necessary Metapost files in the ConTeXt installation, and the data files. \starttext \startMPcode input mp-geo; figure(-10u,-10u,10u,10u); Mercator(3,48,30); fin; end \stopMPcode \stoptext While all of the files were found, it did not produce a globe. Instead I got an error complaining about an invalid character in the data files. This error is repeated for about 20 files (a small fraction of the total). I put the first error and its data file below. All the others are identical with different .dat files. Maybe it’s just an encoding mismatch or a hidden character I can easily delete or replace. On the other hand, maybe I shouldn't even be attempting this? 2008 is a long time ago in ConTeXt time. Feel free to tell me this project is crazy, but if you have an idea how I can make this work, I’d really appreciate it! It looks like a fun package. Thanks! Gavin Error Log: (This error log below is actually from running Metapost directly on just the .mp file with the metapost code above. This error log is slightly more clear in its formatting than the ConTeXt log, but contains the same information.) ! Text line contains an invalid character. <scantokens> ^^@ <to be read again> ; Lecture->...nblec:=scantokens.readfrom.NomFichier; for.w=1upto.nblec:if.proje... Mercator->...((EXPR4));Lecture("Cameriquesud.dat") ;Lecture("Ccaraibes.dat");... l.3 Mercator(3,48,30) ; ? ! An expression can't begin with `;'. <inserted text> 0 <to be read again> ; Lecture->...nblec:=scantokens.readfrom.NomFichier; for.w=1upto.nblec:if.proje... Mercator->...((EXPR4));Lecture("Cameriquesud.dat") ;Lecture("Ccaraibes.dat");... l.3 Mercator(3,48,30) ; Data file Cameriquesud.dat is pretty short: 16 arborescence&"bresil.dat",vert arborescence&"uruguay.dat",jaune arborescence&"paraguay.dat",jaune arborescence&"bolivie1.dat",bleu arborescence&"bolivie2.dat",bleu arborescence&"argentine1.dat",rouge arborescence&"argentine2.dat",rouge arborescence&"chili1.dat",violet arborescence&"chili2.dat",violet arborescence&"guineef.dat",jaune arborescence&"surinam.dat",rouge arborescence&"guyane.dat",orange arborescence&"venezuela.dat",bleu arborescence&"colombie.dat",rouge arborescence&"perou.dat",rose arborescence&"equateur.dat",jaune

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Short forms and abbreviations in bibliography
by Joey McCollum 11 Oct '21

11 Oct '21

Hi, It is a common practice to use short forms of titles for bibliographic entries after they are cited the first time. Another practice is to use abbreviations for journal names and book series (generally for citations in the text, but possibly also in the references list), with a separate "List of Abbreviations" provided to cross-reference the abbreviations and full names. I think that these practices could be accommodated with multiple bibliographies that contain short and long forms for corresponding entries, but I wanted to ask: is there a simpler or preferred way to do this in ConTeXt? To illustrate what I mean, the biblatex-sbl package ( https://github.com/dcpurton/biblatex-sbl), which implements the SBL citation style for (Xe)LaTeX, handles this using additional fields like "shorttitle," "shortjournal," and "shortseries," so for the BibTeX-style bibliographic entry @book{Blau2010, author = {Joshua Blau}, title = {Phonology and Morphology of Biblical Hebrew}, shorttitle = {Phonology}, series = {Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic}, shortseries = {LSAWS}, volume = {2}, location = {Winona Lake, IN}, publisher = {Eisenbrauns}, year = {2010} } the initial in-text citation (in SBL style) would look something like Joshua Blau, *Phonology and Morphology of Biblical Hebrew*, LSAWS 2 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2010), while subsequent in-text citations would look like Blau, *Phonology*. A separate list of abbreviations would then list "LSAWS" alongside "Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic" (and likewise for other journal/series abbreviations). Thank you! Joey

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composing commands
by Hans Hagen 11 Oct '21

11 Oct '21

Hi, As I'm going over the commands in lmtx, I wonder if we should keep \c \d \k \r \u \v \" \' \` \^ etc ... the ones that make 'composed characters'. I think that anyone who needs them uses utf . They can be in (say) m-oldschool.mkxl or so. Objections? Hurt feelings? Sentiments? 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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one quick remark about textext.dflt (vs textext.dlft)
by Garulfo 05 Sep '21

05 Sep '21

Hi all, one remark, I was expecting to be allowed to use textext.dlft but finally the appropriate command appears to be textext.dflt which require to switch F and L letters. Is it on purpose ? would it make sense to have a dlft version to match LeFT ?

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