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ConTeXt Book: Request for help!
by Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

Dear gang, As some of you may know, I'm working on a professional introductory book for learning ConTeXt. Part of the philosophy of this book is to be as self-contained as possible, so we'll be using a preferred editor. Not one editor/ide out there is ideal for ConTeXt (including bidi editing and other user-friendly configurability). The best balance I could find is Notepad++ (Npp), and that's what I'm going with. I have done a lot of work to contextify it, and I have added some new features, such as a context-menu where one can right-click and get a list of ConTeXt typography and description options, experimental support for tooltips (giving options for commands etc), no more manual braces (so far less run errors) etc. To take this to the next level I need help: Is there anyone on the list who knows how to write and compile lexers for scintilla-based editors? Also, how to compile C++ for M$-Windows based applications such as Npp? Npp has a rich user-defined dialog, and I have been able to do a lot with it, but it has some serious limitations. So I'd like to port my user-definitions to a lexer. We can probably start with the code for the included TeX lexer, de-latexify it, and add the needed functions for ConTeXt, including a few other features. If anyone is interested, please contact me! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Apple Emoji (was: Smileys)
by Mojca Miklavec 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 09:12, Patrick Gundlach wrote: > Hello Wolfgang, > >> Apples new emoji font is also very interesting but you can’t use it with ConTeXt. > > Why is that? Is this a ConTeXt or a LuaTeX limitation? LuaTeX. Actually, it is a limitation of 99.9% of software out there. I wasn't able to display the font with any single font editor, including FontForge and XeTeX (maybe XeTeX would work if somebody would port it to 64-bit and corresponding new Apple libraries). As far as LuaTeX support is concerned, here was the latest answer: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 20:20, Hartmut Henkel wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Hans Hagen wrote: > >> (Hartmut, if you're interested in this funny font thread Mojca can >> send you the font/test file.) > > thanks, but not now, sorry. I'm stuck too deep in the backlogs. > > Regards, Hartmut But even if the font was supported, it might be illegal to use it on Windows (I'm not sure, I didn't read the licence). Mojca

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Should \setupinterlinespace work in \setupmargindata?
by Raymond LeClair 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

The following fails, badly: \definefont[MarginFont][Serif sa 0.5] \setupmargindata[style=\MarginFont\setupinterlinespace[line=12pt]] \starttext \inmargin{abc\\def}\input tufte \stoptext Have I got the wrong syntax? ConTeXt ver: 2011.05.18 18:04 MKIV fmt: 2011.7.13 int: english/english

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[punknova][PATCH] README.md: Add link to article from Hans and Taco in MAP 37 [1]
by Paul Menzel 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:46:52 +0200 [1] http://www.ntg.nl/maps/37/ --- Somehow the README on CTAN [2] is not converted to HTML. So the links which would be created by Markdown cannot be used usable. [2] http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/mirror/ctan/fonts/punknova… --- README.md | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b4ab2e8..8cecb0d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ The MetaPost source has the following notice: 2008, Taco Hoekwater & Hans Hagen - +The MAPS article is [available online](http://www.ntg.nl/maps/37/). Khaled Hosny -- 1.7.5.4

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Centering 'clipping' text logo
by Cecil Westerhof 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

I like the last example on: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Graphical_text_manipulation This creates a left aligned 'logo'. I would like it to be centered. I tried several things, but until now to no avail. How can I get it centered? -- Cecil Westerhof

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[punknova][PATCH] README.md: Fix typos
by Paul Menzel 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:41:03 +0200 1. No dots are used for »et al« according to Merriam Webster [1]. 2. Use capitalization consitently. [1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/et%20al --- You can apply this patch saving this message as an mbox file and using `git am savedfilename.mbox`. --- README.md | 12 ++++++------ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index bf1a465..b4ab2e8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ The Punk Nova font This is an OpenType implementation of Donald Knuth's [Punk font](http://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb09-2/tb21knut.pdf). -The Original Metafont sources were adapted to a more Metapost friendly -form by Taco Hoekwater et. al. +The original Metafont sources were adapted to a more MetaPost friendly +form by Taco Hoekwater et al. Punk is a dynamic font, every time a glyph is requested Matafont draws a unique instance of it. On the other hand, OpenType is static, glyph @@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ Alternate shapes are mapped to the base character using OpenType feature (rand), which tells the renderer to select glyphs randomly from the list of alternate shapes. -The PostScript outlines of the glyphs are generated by Matapost, a -Python script then used FontForge to import the glyphs into an OpenType +The PostScript outlines of the glyphs are generated by MetaPost, a +Python script then uses FontForge to import the glyphs into an OpenType CFF font. Since this year is the 2^5 anniversary of TeX, each lower case letter have 2^5 variants, 2^4 for each upper case and 2^3 for the rest. This font is free software, you can do whatever you want with it as long -as you use different font and file name. The exact copyright statement is: +as you use different font and file names. The exact copyright statement is: "Unlimited copying and redistribution of this file are permitted as long as this file is not modified. Modifications are permitted, but only if @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ The MetaPost source has the following notice: Font inspired by Gerard and Marjan Unger's lectures, Feb 1985 - The regular punk files are part of TeXLive and in metafont format. All + The regular punk files are part of TeXLive and in Metafont format. All errors introduced are ours. We also changed the encoding to unicode. In due time we might add a few more more characters. We still need to improve some of the metrics which involves a bit of trial and error. The -- 1.7.5.4

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punk is dead
by Jano Kula 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

Hi Hans & comp. is there any reason why the latest beta doesn't typeset random glyphs with rand feature as it used to at least a year ago? *.tma and *.tmc files also differ in size. ConTeXt ver: 2011.08.04 00:42 MKIV LuaTeX-0.70.1 \definefontfeature[punk] [mode=node,script=latn,rand=yes,kern=yes,tlig=yes] \starttypescript[serif][punknova] \definefontsynonym[Serif][file:punknova-regular][features=punk] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[punknova] \definetypeface[punknova][rm][serif][punknova][default] \stoptypescript \setupbodyfont[punknova] \starttext \rm \input knuth\par \stoptext BTW, is \installfontfeature deprecated as the font-ini.mkiv says: "installing font features *was* experimental"? Any other way to install font features from *.fea file instead of \installfontfeature[otf][rock] \definefontfeature [myfeature] [mode=node,rock=yes,featurefile=rockfile.fea] Thank you, Jano

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Tracking in MKII and MKIV
by Raymond LeClair 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

I am automating the creation of books using ConTeXt with a graphic design graduate student at the Rhode Island School of Design. The book cover is created using MetaPost inside a ConTeXt source file. The graphic designer tells me it is very common to specify the interletter spacing, or tracking, and in fact, he considers this capability to be essential. I understand that these, so called, microtypography capabilities are present in pdfTeX fully, but only partially present in LuaTeX (protrusion and expansion), although tracking can be set in a way using \kerncharacters[0.5] in LuaTeX. However, the quality of the typesetting produced by LuaTeX is completely inadequate, while the quality of the typesetting produced by pdfTeX is very good. Am I miss-understanding the differences in capability between pdfTeX and LuaTeX in this regard? Relevant examples follow and PDFs are attached. I processed the following ConTeXt source file using MKII: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (Web2C 2009) (format=cont-en 2011.8.13) ConTeXt ver: 2011.05.18 18:04 MKII fmt: 2011.8.13 int: english/english ===== START MKII EXAMPLE ===== \pdfminorversion=5 \definepapersize[LG1][width=9.3in,height=6.87in] \definepapersize[LP1][width=9.55in,height=7.12in] \setuppapersize[LG1][LP1] \setuplayout[location=middle,marking=off] \setuppagenumber[state=stop] \startMPenvironment \usetypescript[modern][ec] \switchtotypeface[modern][7.0pt] \setupinterlinespace \def\stretchedspacefactor{4} \def\stretchedspaceamount{0.25em} \stopMPenvironment \startuniqueMPgraphic{cover} cover_paper_width := 9.55in; cover_paper_height := 7.12in; left_margin := 0.347222222222in; top_margin := 0.347222222222in; bottom_margin := 0.347222222222in; draw (0, 0)--(cover_paper_width, cover_paper_height) withpen pencircle scaled 1bp withcolor white; picture labelText; labelText := btex {\vbox{\hsize 2.38888888889in \baselineskip 10.5pt T\hskip 0.25em\stretchednormalcase{HIS BOOK CONTAINS 988 TWEETS POSTED TO TWITTER BY LADYGAGA FROM MARCH 27, 2008 TO AUGUST 5, 2011. IT WAS PUBLISHED ON DEMAND ON AUGUST 14, 2011}}} etex; labeloffset := 0bp; label.lrt(labelText, (left_margin, cover_paper_height - top_margin)); \stopuniqueMPgraphic \defineoverlay[cover][\uniqueMPgraphic{cover}] \starttext \title{} \setupbackgrounds[paper][background={cover}] \stoptext ===== STOP MKII EXAMPLE ===== I processed the following ConTeXt source file using MKIV: this is luatex, version beta-0.70.1-2011051908 (rev 4277) ConTeXt ver: 2011.05.18 18:04 MKIV fmt: 2011.7.13 int: english/english ===== START MKVI EXAMPLE ===== \pdfminorversion=5 \definepapersize[LG1][width=9.24in,height=6.87in] \definepapersize[LP1][width=9.49in,height=7.12in] \setuppapersize[LG1][LP1] \setuplayout[location=middle,marking=off] \setuppagenumber[state=stop] \definefont[LabelFont][Serif sa 0.583] \startuniqueMPgraphic{cover} cover_paper_width := 9.49in; cover_paper_height := 7.12in; left_margin := 0.347222222222in; top_margin := 0.347222222222in; bottom_margin := 0.347222222222in; draw (0, 0)--(cover_paper_width, cover_paper_height) withpen pencircle scaled 1bp withcolor white; picture labelText; labelText := btex {\vbox{\hsize 2.38888888889in \baselineskip 10.5pt \LabelFont {\kerncharacters[0.5] THIS BOOK CONTAINS 988 TWEETS POSTED TO TWITTER BY LADYGAGA FROM MARCH 27, 2008 TO AUGUST 5, 2011. IT WAS PUBLISHED ON DEMAND ON AUGUST 14, 2011}}} etex; labeloffset := 0bp; label.lrt(labelText, (left_margin, cover_paper_height - top_margin)); \stopuniqueMPgraphic \defineoverlay[cover][\uniqueMPgraphic{cover}] \starttext \title{} \setupbackgrounds[paper][background={cover}] \stoptext ===== STOP MKVI EXAMPLE ===== The MKII PDF The MKIV PDF

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DTD or similar for export file?
by Vladimir Lomov 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

Hi. I'm playing with 'export' and wonder is there 'official' DTD or something similar for 'export' file? P.S. I'm trying to figure out how to write notes using context and export them into (x)html. Currently I'm happy with default xhtml produced by context but want to get 'real' xhtml. --- TIA, Vladimir Lomov -- What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is. -- Kierkegaard, 1813-1855.

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How to prevent line split in typing block when using custom command?
by Vladimir Lomov 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

Hi. Consider the following two example files: --------------------------------- 8< -------------------------------- <file name="exa-feat1.tex"> \setupbackend[export=yes] \definetyping[EXAMPLE][escape=yes] \starttext This is an example with \quotation{long} verbatim text. Why context complians? Is there a method to process this file? \startEXAMPLE This is a short verbatim line This this this this this this very very very very very very long long long long long long line line line line line line \stopEXAMPLE \stoptext </file> --------------------------------- 8< -------------------------------- <file name="exa-feat3.tex"> \setupbackend[export=yes] \definetyping[EXAMPLE][escape=yes] \definestartstop[important][style=bold] \starttext This is an example with \quotation{long} verbatim text. Why context fail to compile this example? Is there a method to process it? \startEXAMPLE This is a short verbatim line This this this this this this very very very very very very /BTEX\important{long long long long}/ETEX long long line line line line line line \stopEXAMPLE \stoptext </file> --------------------------------- 8< -------------------------------- In first case the long line is not splitted, in second case the line is splitted. How to prevent line splitting? --- TIA, Vladimir Lomov -- Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? A: Two, one to hold the giraffe, and the other to fill the bathtub with brightly colored machine tools. [Surrealist jokes just aren't my cup of fur. Ed.]

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