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[luatex-fonts] error with Amiri due to inclusion of font-otp.lua
by Philipp Gesang 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Hi, including font-otp triggers an error with the Amiri font: ! LuaTeX error ./luaotfload-merged.lua:10471: invalid value (nil) at index 1 in table for 'concat'. Which corresponds to line 192 of font-otp.lua. Test code: \font\test={file:amiri-regular.ttf} \test ضرب \bye Or with Context: \mainlanguage[arabic] \definefontsynonym[amiri][file:amiri-regular.ttf] \starttext \definedfont[amiri*arabic at 42pt] \setupalign[r2l] ضرب 0123456789 \stoptext I have tested the Amiri files from TeX Live 2012 and 2013. Can somebody reproduce this, possibly with other fonts? Scheherazade works fine. Thanks for any advice Philipp

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Re: [NTG-context] Missing number error, related to setupcolumnsetlines
by Lars Huttar 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

On /Fri Apr 19 21:36:41 CEST 2013 /Hans Hagen wrote: > On 4/18/2013 11:13 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: > >/ \definecolumnset [abbcolumn] [n=2,distance=5mm,balancing=yes] > />/ > />/ \setupcolumnsetlines[abbcolumn][1][1][60] > />/ \setupcolumnsetlines[abbcolumn][1][2][60] > / > the 60 exceeds the number of lines Hans, thanks for responding. I don't understand the above statement. What number of lines does 60 exceed? Is there a hard-coded limit? (We didn't seem to have a problem with this code before we migrated from XeTeX / mkii to LuaTeX / mkiv, but I couldn't guarantee what else is different.) Is there a workaround for us now? I could leave out the \setupcolumnsetlines commands for the moment, and hope we don't overflow the page. Actually I'm not sure what will happen if we leave the number of lines at the default (which is apparently zero?). Regards, Lars > > >/ \starttext > />/ \startcolumnset[abbcolumn] > />/ foo > />/ \stopcolumnset > />/ \stoptext > / > i'll add a check > > (i will redo columnsets at some point in a more mkiv-ish way) > > Hans

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Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination "fi"
by "H. Özoguz" 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Ok thanks, feature, not a bug, embarassing ... but good to learn :)

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Re: [NTG-context] calculating with dimension unit
by Jan Heinen 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Ok, I now put the \ctxlua into an other chapter: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Calculating_with_dimension_units Can you say something to the missing points there? "Wich meethod?", "\the" and "Expanding If you don't know how to edit the context-wiki, please write your information here in the mailinglist - then I will put it into the wiki. Regards Jannis

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A simpler way to make a bibliography
by john Culleton 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

After struggling with all the programming prescribed by Context to set up a bibliography, and examining a few dozen *.bib, *.bst and a *bbl file, I decided to do things the simple way. My concept is, that instead of creating a *bib file I could with the same amount of effort create a plain text file to be imported directly into my Context file. I studied the bibliography of "The Chicago Manual of Style" to determine the order, punctuation and format. My file is called "book.foo." Now if I choose to use some of these entries in another book a simple cut and paste between two editor sessions will do. For ease in editing I put each item in each entry on a separate line. TeX/Context will take care of puttng them together in a paragraph. Of course this lacks the generality of the bibtex approach. But I don't need all that flexibilty. None of the current biblio styles specified for Context incorporate the ISBN field. So I just put it at the end of each entry preceded by a \crlf. Without further ado here is the book.foo file: ------------------------------------------ \chapter{References} %authors. title. city: publisher, year\crlf %isbn Bah, Tavmjong. {\it Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program}. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2011 \crlf ISBN 978-0-13-276414-8 Culleton, John R. Jr. {\it Create Book Covers with Scribus} (pdf e-book). Eldersburg, Maryland: Wexford Press, 2012 \crlf ISBN 978-1-60019-002-5 Drew, Ned and Paul Sternberger. {\it By its Cover: Modern American Book Design}. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005\crlf ISBN 978-1-56898-497-1 Kirsanov, Dimitry. {\it The Book of Inkscape\trademark : The Definitive Guide to the Free Graphics Editor}. San Francisco: No Starch Press, 2009\crlf ISBN 978-159327-181-7 Powers, Alan. {\it Front Cover: Great Book Jacket and Cover Design}. London: Mitchell Beazley, 2006\crlf ISBN 978-1-84533-242-6 ------------------------------------------- If by chance an entry ends up split between two pages a simple \page[yes] command can be inserted. I considered instead putting a \goodbreak between entries but figured it wasn't worth the bother. Since I call this fragment a \chapter it is listed in the TOC. I had to put \whitespace[medium] right after the \startbackmatter command just as I did after \startbodymatter. for my purposes for this task simple is better and much faster. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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localfootnotes and bodyfontsize in a placetable
by Alan BRASLAU 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

The following attached "minimal" example using local footnotes and a small body font size exhibits two problems: 1. The \placelocalfootnotes are incoherently in the "normal" size, as I would expect them to be proportionally reduced. 2. The width of the first column gets incorrectly set (there is a break between "a" and "cell"). Probably there is a better way of achieving this correctly. Alan\setupbodyfont[10pt] \starttext 10pt \startplacetable [title=A title] \switchtobodyfont [6pt] \startlocalfootnotes \bTABLE \bTR \bTD a cell\startfootnote A footnote\stopfootnote\eTD \bTD another cell\eTD \eTR \eTABLE \placelocalfootnotes \stoplocalfootnotes \stopplacetable \stoptext \setupbodyfont[10pt] \starttext 10pt \startplacetable [title=A title] \switchtobodyfont [6pt] \startlocalfootnotes \bTABLE \bTR \bTD a cell\startfootnote A footnote\stopfootnote\eTD \bTD another cell\eTD \eTR \eTABLE \placelocalfootnotes \stoplocalfootnotes \stopplacetable \stoptext

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Set background color for a single page
by Tim Li 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Sometimes, I only want a single page, say, the titlepage or page 32, with colored background rather that the whole document. Here are some codes: \starttext% titlepage (yellow) \startmakeup[standard] \midaligned{How to make document} \stopmakeup % page1 (gray) Many \CONTEXT\ users $\ldots$ \page % page2 (darkyellow) Many \TEX\ users $\ldots$ \stoptext Of course, it is awful that if I set the titlepage yellow, page1 gray and page2 darkyellow. How can I achieve this? regrads, Tim

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``fallback" in Typescript
by Tim Li 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hi, In the wiki, fallback often appears in the definition of typescript. I am curious about this ``fallback", is there a place to learn the fallback in detail? I haven't found this place in our wiki. Regards, Tim

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Re: [NTG-context] calculating with dimension unit
by Jan Heinen 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Thank you all!!!!!! My book from last year (15.000 lines text + context-code and 1.500 lines macro-code now was compiled without no further problems! I only had to change all \define\variable ... to \defineexpandable\variable ... I think, now I understand a little bit more about ConTeXt and try again to give a little bit back to the community. I have started a new article on the context-wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Calculating_with_dimension_units Hopefully the more sophisticated ConTeXter help a little bit to improve the article. Please have a look what is wrong and what I have forgotten (or don't know). Regards Janis

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Accessing documentation repository
by contact＠thomas-corbiere.name 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Hello, I would like to access ConTeXt documentation repository to download and study how ConTeXt is used to produce the manuals, but it looks like the repositories are down. I tried the following: - Official(?) repository svn://ctx.pragma-ade.nl/manuals - Manual translations http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/project/contextman/scmsvn/ Can someone point me to the new location for the documentation repository? Regards, Thomas Corbière

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