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XITS fonts - second beta
by Khaled Hosny 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

I just uploaded a second beta of XITS fonts, this mainly introduces XITS text fonts, regular, bold, italic and bold italic. No changes to the math font. This release features also a rudimentary user guide. The text fonts provide to features over STIX fonts: * oldstyle figures, through 'onum' feature * text fractions, through 'frac' feature As usual, it is available from github: http://github.com/khaledhosny/xits-math/downloads Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

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PDF Custom Page Numbering
by Andreas Schneider 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

Hello, while reading through the PDF to ISO-9075-1 (SQL99), I noticed something I had never seen before in a PDF: the page numbers displayed by Acrobat matched exactly the ones in the document ... the beginning was even numbered with roman numbers and the actual content started again at "Page 1". From a quick research it seems that this functionality is in PDF since Acrobat 4 (that should be PDF 1.3, right?) and is most likely called "Custom Page Numbering". It would be amazing if ConTeXt/LuaTeX supports that too - especially if you produce documents for screen reading. Unfortunately I don't have access to the PDF Specification currently to give you more info - so I don't even know for sure how that feature is officially called. Anyway, I hope that idea/suggestion/wish finds positive reactions ... and I somehow hope that it isn't actually too hard to implement :-) Best Regards, Andreas.

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Relative references to floats
by Andreas Schneider 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

Hello, is there currently (in MkIV) some way to have relative references to floats? I imagine something like "... as you can see \above[fig:somefigure]." which would print "... as you can see above." if the figure is above the current paragraph or "... as you can see below." if it is below. Maybe it's unusual to do that in books/papers, but I thought it might look better than to reference a page or a number if it is expected, that the figure is close by anyway. It would be nice if it could even go so far as to include page offsets ... "... as you can see on the next page" or "... as you can see two pages ahead". I have no real need to use this, it was just an idea to tidy up my text a bit (without risking wrong references when the layout changes and floats shift around). So if that is currently possible: awesome ... if not: no harm done :-) Best Regards, Andreas.

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Mutiple citations doesn't work with compress=no + interaction
by Michael Murphy 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

I know that if I want to have clickable hyperlinks for citations, I need to turn off 'compress' for the citation type: \setupcite[authoryears][compress=no] The problem is that this doesn't seem to work: I get an 'unknown reference' error. references : unknown reference [][Balachandran2008 references : unknown reference [][Balachandran2008 references : unknown reference [][Balachandran2008 Strangely, this only happens when I want to refer to multiple authors, e.g. \cite[ref1, ref2, ref3], and everything works fine if I just do \cite[ref1]. I've attached a minimal example. Where am I going wrong? -- Michael Murphy

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Inspecting font data with Lua
by Oliver Buerschaper 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

Hi everyone, this has probably been asked before: how can I use the Lua font loading mechanism to inspect an OTF font? I'm mainly interested in retrieving glyph data such as its shape or kerning properties... please advise :-) Many thanks, Oliver

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TeX macro to merge two lists, bit like Python's zip
by luigi scarso 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

J. Fine asked sometime ago something like python's zip tha merge two "lists" element by element, cfr. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/2c1feea4a… Here is the idea: a list is zero or more control sequence, ie {} is an empty list, \Alpha\Beta is a list with 2 elements, and so on. \zip{\Alpha\Beta}{\Gamma\Delta} gives \Alpha\Gamma\Beta\Delta \starttext % Hans's hint % \def\zipthem#1#2% % {\def\dozipthem##1{\def\dodozipthem####1{1\string##1 2\string####1}\handletokens#2\with\dodozipthem}% % \handletokens#1\with\dozipthem} \def\myzipthem#1#2% {\ctxlua{A = {}; B = {}} \def\dozipthemA##1{\ctxlua{table.insert(A,[[\string##1]])}}% \def\dozipthemB##1{\ctxlua{table.insert(B,[[\string##1]])}}% \handletokens#1\with\dozipthemA \handletokens#2\with\dozipthemB% \ctxlua{% for i=1,math.max(table.maxn(A),table.maxn(B)) do local a = "" local b = "" if A[i] then a = '\\string' ..A[i] end if B[i] then b = '\\string' ..B[i] end tex.sprint(a,b) end tex.print([[\blank]]) for i=1,math.max(table.maxn(A),table.maxn(B)) do local a = A[i] or "" local b = B[i] or "" tex.sprint(a,b) end tex.print([[\blank]]) } } \def\Alpha{A} \def\Beta{B} \def\Gamma{C} \def\Delta{D} \myzipthem{\Alpha\Beta}{\Gamma\Delta}%gives \Alpha\Gamma\Beta\Delta \myzipthem{}{\Gamma\Delta} \stoptext For ours bloggers. -- luigi

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<CRLF> is interpreted as a Greek letter in LuaLaTeX
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hi, When I want to write in LuaLaTeX by "tex.print" command some text string that is defined in an external lua-file, so <crlf> characters in LuaLaTeX appear as the Greek letter "omega". The Greek letter omega has in the font CM code 0x0A, which is a line feed. It seems that the end of the line is interpreted not as the end of the line, but a letter. When I define a text string directly in the source file, everything is OK. Please do not know how to solve this problem? Thanx Jaroslav My minimal example: A) If everything is in one source file for example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{luainputenc} \usepackage{luatextra} \begin{document} \directlua{ text=[[aaaaa bbbbb ccccc]] tex.print(text)} \end{document} so the correct typesets: aaaa bbbb cccc BUT B) Where part of Lua code is in an external file "externalfile.lua" whose content is as follows: text=[[aaaaa bbbbb ccccc]] then the LuaLaTeX source code: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{luainputenc} \usepackage{luatextra} \begin{document} \directlua{dofile("externalfile.lua") tex.print(text)} \end{document} typesets: aaaaaOMEGAbbbbbOMEGAccccc (where OMEGA is Greek character omega) PS: Use [[... ]] as a kind of "quotation marks" can bypass traditional "or simple '. The problem is that these strings must bet a backslash \\ . This character has a different meaning in LaTeX. Therefore I would prefer using [[ ... ]]

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\setupcite[authornum][...] not working
by Stefan Müller 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hi, I'm using the ams-bibliography style and want to include "authornum"-cites in the document (so i want to input something like "in the paper by \cite[authornum][doe]" instead of "in the paper by Doe \cite[num][doe]". The \cite command works as intended, but I'm not able to change the typesetting properties with \setupcite[authornum][...]. The others, like \setupcite[num][...] and \setupcite[author][...] seem to work as they should, though. I provide a minimal example below, where to options set in line 4 are not used for typesetting the \cite[ref1]. I'm using the context minimals, MkIV. \usemodule[bib] \setupbibtex[database={test.bib}] \setuppublications[alternative=ams, refcommand=authornum] \setupcite[authornum][left={\&}, andtext={ foo }, namesep={ bar }] % just some random options, none of them works \starttext \cite[ref1] \completepublications[criterium=all] \stoptext I already tried apa style, the same there. In addition, the names of a citation placed with \cite[author] (e.g. "Doe and Fisher") are not typesetted as those of a citation placed with \cite[authornum] (e.g. "Doe,Fisher"), although I think (from a short glimpse at bibl-ams.tex) they should. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? Any help appreciated. Stefan.

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header/footertexts (sectioning)
by Alan BRASLAU 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hello, I am using: \setupfootertexts [chapter] \setupheadertexts [section] \setupheadertexts [][pagenumber] [pagenumber][] % doublesided to place the chapter title in the footer and the section title in the header. (Of course, I also use \setuphead [chapter] [header=nomarking,footer=empty,page=right] \setuphead [part] [header=nomarking,footer=empty,page=right] so that \chapter{} and \part{} begin on an odd page without a text header nor a footer.) However, a \chapter{} may begin with a long introduction (several pages) before seeing a \section{}. In this case, the header gets the title of the last section of the preceeding chapter. Similarly, a \part{} may begin with a long introduction (several pages) before seeing a \chapter{}. In this case, the footer gets the title of the last chapter of the preceeding part. This is incorrect. Is there some way to have the section text reset for each \chapter and the chapter text reset for each \part? (I would expect a "way=bychapter" and "way=bypart" type of option and also suggest that this be the default behavior). Alan By the way, there appears to be a (recent) bug in that \setupheadertexts [section] \setupheadertexts [][pagenumber] [pagenumber][] % doublesided works, whereas \setupheadertexts [][pagenumber] [pagenumber][] % doublesided \setupheadertexts [section] currently is broken (no page numbers occur).

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Problems using new beta
by Ivo Solnický 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hi all! I am just new to ConTeXt, I have played with it for one week. I have installed standard ConTeXt minimals installation and no other TeX distro is installed on my MS Vista computer. I use also TeXworks editor. On Sunday, after I installed new package, I realized, that my workflow is broken. I received next message in my TeXworks editor, the same for command line: MTXrun | run 1: luatex --fmt="C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2fea56f92e5267d7cc9662e4d5f52e1e/formats/cont-en" --lua="C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2fea56f92e5267d7cc9662e4d5f52e1e/formats/cont-en.lui" --backend=pdf "./dopis.tex" This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.60.1-2010060523 (Web2C 2010) (rev 3685) \write18 enabled. ! I can't find file `./dopis.tex'. <*> ./dopis.tex Please type another input file name: I have my documents in "C:\Users\Ivo\TeX" directory and ConTeXt worked fine until the new sync. When I tried to find what is wrong, I realized strange thing. When I move my document somewhere inside my TEXMF tree (C:\context\tex), it works. For example I copied dopis.tex into c:\context\tex\texmf-project and everything was ok. Maybe it is my mistake, but I am not experienced enough to find it. But it worked before. Maybe this is related to another problem I have. When I compile ConTeXt documents from my user directory, MTXrun said: MTXrun | warning: source mismatch (luv: 768743af5acbbfb6f306763f3da964ca <> bin: a6c26bf5f4881a58ccc3eed80ae65790), forcing remake MTXrun | fileio: loading configuration file 'C:/context/tex/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua' MTXrun | fileio: loading configuration file C:/context/tex/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf MTXrun | fileio: preparing 'configuration' for 'C:/context/tex/texmf/web2c' MTXrun | fileio: 'configuration' saved in 'C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2fea56f92e5267d7cc9662e4d5f52e1e/trees/53ad5f8b88994bdd02baa17501789699.lua' MTXrun | fileio: 'configuration' compiled to 'C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2fea56f92e5267d7cc9662e4d5f52e1e/trees/53ad5f8b88994bdd02baa17501789699.luc' MTXrun | fileio: locating list of '/texmf' .... and recompiled format every time I run Context. This is very time consuming. But this is not true when I compile documents inside my TEXMF tree, for example in c:\context\tex\texmf-project directory. Any help? I still have some questions about the ConTeXt itself, but first I would like to solve these problems. If you need any additional information I am ready to send it. Thanks. Ivo Solnicky

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