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Re: [NTG-context] several warnings after updating ConTeXt and LM fonts
by Dalyoung Jeong 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Dear Mojca, Thank you for your instruction. After updating XeTeX binaries, warnings are disappeared but a new one. ** WARNING ** Could not open config file "dvipdfmx.cfg". I added the line "TEXFONTSMAPS.dvipdfmx = .;$TEXMF........" in texmf.cnf below the line TEXFONTSMAPS = .;$TEXMF/Font/,ap/..." However, the same warning message still remains. I checked the lm-math.map and lm-rm.map in the folder ../dvipdfm/ context/ as Wolfgang suggested. They are there. How to remove this new warning message? Thank you again. Best regards, Dalyoung

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xml in mkiv
by Hans Hagen 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Hi, [if you never use xml or don't use mkiv, you can skip this message] Currently in mkiv, the mkii method of xml is active at the same time; however, this is not always what you want and eventually i suppose that mkiv xml usage will replace mkii usage (i'm thinking of at some point making the old stream based xml method a module for mkiv) anyhow, one of aspects we need to deal with is mixed usage of documents, more about that later the latest beta has a \setupxml command with the following options (there are a few more): \setupxml[\c!method=mkii] % mixed mkiv and mkii \setupxml[\c!method=mkiv,\c!default=] % mkiv only \setupxml[\c!method=mkiv,\c!default=\v!none] % mkiv only, undefined -> hidden \setupxml[\c!method=mkiv,\c!default=\v!text] % mkiv only, undefined -> text the tricky part is in dealing with entities. By default entities are resolved to utd code, which means that <, > and & are part if the normal text stream. This is tricky because in mkii a dangling < or & gives an error. However, in mkii mode (i.e. mixed mode), these three characters are remapped to some place safe (the location in the unicode table will change once we have active chars in the private planes). i used this test: % \defineXMLenvironment[y]{(}{)} % % \startxmlsetups x % /\xmlflush{#1}/ % \stopxmlsetups % % \startxmlsetups xx % \xmlsetsetup{main}{x}{*} % \stopxmlsetups % % \xmlregistersetup{xx} % % \startbuffer % <x>a <&><y>{b}</y> c</x> % \stopbuffer Another change is that 'context --env=bla whatever.xml' will use mkiv xml mode unless the --mkii flag is passed. The alternative is rather ugly and tricky overloading of the traditional XML macros, an option that i rejected. An example that demonstrates mkiv usage is: context --ctx=x-ldx l-dimen.lua this will produce the documentation of l-dimen.lua and does a transformation as defined in the ctx file. Eventually all those texexec goodies (--pdfwhatever) will become such scripts combined with styles. Much is experimental and I will add more control over specific documents. Take for instance (from x-ldx.tex): \usemodule[mathml] \xmlregisterdocumentsetup{ldx}{xml:mml:define} \xmlregisterdocumentsetup{ldx}{xml:ldx:define} \xmlregisterns{ldx}{ldx} \startxmlsetups xml:ldx:define \xmlgrab {\xmldocument} {ldx:*} {*} \stopxmlsetups This associates the ldx definitions to the document but also mathml. I'm converting all traditional xml handling used in the core into mkiv handling (e.g. clt handling is already converted; clt deals with remapping filesnames into the ones that come out of preprocessing, as for instance in the ldx module). Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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typebuffer extra line
by Hans van der Meer 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Exercising \typebuffer gives an extra blank line afterwards. See the following minimal example. How can I prevent this extra line? Using: ConTeXt ver: 2008.05.21 15:21 MKII fmt: 2008.5.24 int: english/english Example: \startbuffer[A] Contents of buffer A. \stopbuffer \startbuffer[B] Contents of buffer B. \stopbuffer \starttext \typebuffer[A]\typebuffer[B] \stoptext Output: Hans van der Meer

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TeX capacity exceeded
by M.guravage 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Greetings, While updating my minimal ConTeXt instance from version 2008.01.28 to 2008.05.21, the pdftex formats failed to build with the error: "./texmf-linux/web2c/pdftex/cont-en.log:! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pattern memory=250000]." Has anyone else experienced this, and can you suggest a correction? Thanks for your help. With kind regards, Michael A. Guravage

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several warnings after updating ConTeXt and LM fonts
by Dalyoung Jeong 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Dear all, Recently, I updated ConTeXt using "ctxtools". I also install latest LM otf fonts and some map file for dvipdfm. After teshashing and creating formats, I tried a simple file. It worked well in ConTeXt, but in XeTeX+ ConTeXt, I got several warnings related with map files as following. However, I got a PDF output. How do I remove those warnings? I am using TeXlive(MacTeX). Thank you Best regards, Dalyoung stdin -> newinstall.pdf [1 ** WARNING ** This .map file looks like a dvips format fontmap file. ** WARNING ** -- Current input buffer is: rsfs7 rsfs5 <rsfs7.pfb ** WARNING ** -- Reading fontmap file stopped at: file="original- base.map", line=3. ** WARNING ** This .map file looks like a dvips format fontmap file. ** WARNING ** -- Current input buffer is: lmbsy5 LMMathSymbols5- Bold "enclmmathsy ReEncodeFont" <lm-mathsy.enc <lmbsy5.pfb ** WARNING ** -- Reading fontmap file stopped at: file="lm-math.map", line=7. ** WARNING ** This .map file looks like a dvips format fontmap file. ** WARNING ** -- Current input buffer is: rm-lmb10 LMRomanDemi10- Regular "enclmrm ReEncodeFont" <lm-rm.enc <lmb10.pfb ** WARNING ** -- Reading fontmap file stopped at: file="lm-rm.map", line=7. ** WARNING ** This .map file looks like a dvips format fontmap file. ** WARNING ** -- Current input buffer is: ucrb8t NimbusMonL- Bold <ec.enc <ucrb8a.pfb ** WARNING ** -- Reading fontmap file stopped at: file="ec-base.map", line=3. ** WARNING ** This .map file looks like a dvips format fontmap file. ** WARNING ** -- Current input buffer is: qcrb <qcr.enc <qcrb.pfb ** WARNING ** -- Reading fontmap file stopped at: file="qx-base.map", line=3. ** WARNING ** This .map file looks like a dvips format fontmap file. ** WARNING ** -- Current input buffer is: ucrr8v VnNimbusMonL- Regu "T5Encoding ReEncodeFont" <t5.enc <ucrr8v.pfb ** WARNING ** -- Reading fontmap file stopped at: file="t5-base.map", line=3. ** WARNING ** This .map file looks like a dvips format fontmap file. ** WARNING ** -- Current input buffer is: ucrb8r NimbusMonL- Bold <8r.enc <ucrb8a.pfb ** WARNING ** -- Reading fontmap file stopped at: file="8r-base.map", line=3. ** WARNING ** This .map file looks like a dvips format fontmap file. ** WARNING ** -- Current input buffer is: lasy5 LASY5 <lasy5.pfb ** WARNING ** -- Reading fontmap file stopped at: file="original-ams- base.map", line=1. ** WARNING ** This .map file looks like a dvips format fontmap file. ** WARNING ** -- Current input buffer is: euex10 EUEX10 <euex10.pfb ** WARNING ** -- Reading fontmap file stopped at: file="original-ams- euler.map", line=1. ** WARNING ** This .map file looks like a dvips format fontmap file. ** WARNING ** -- Current input buffer is: cmb10 CMB10 <lm-rep- cmrm.enc <lmb10.pfb ** WARNING ** -- Reading fontmap file stopped at: file="original- public-lm.map", line=68. ] 4818 bytes written Output written on newinstall.pdf (1 page). Transcript written on newinstall.log. TeXUtil | parsing file newinstall.tui TeXUtil | shortcuts : 169 TeXUtil | expansions: 308 TeXUtil | reductions: 0 TeXUtil | divisions : 0 TeXUtil | loaded files: 1 TeXUtil | temporary files: 0 TeXUtil | commands: 21 TeXUtil | programs: 0 TeXUtil | tuo file saved TeXExec | runtime: 5.159215

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Correction for \getbuffer
by Wolfgang Schuster 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hi Hans, The definition for \getBUFFER need to be changed because it use the undefined command \dodoprocessTEXbuffer. \def\dodefinebuffer[#1][#2]% {\iffirstargument % else problems \doglobal\increment\nofdefinedbuffers \letvalue{\??bu#1\c!number }\nofdefinedbuffers \letvalue{\??bu#1\c!paragraph}\v!no \setevalue{\e!start#1}{\noexpand\dostartbuffer [#1][def-\nofdefinedbuffers][\e!start#1][\e!stop#1]}% %\setevalue{\e!get #1}{\noexpand\dodoprocessTEXbuffer[#1][def-\nofdefinedbuffers]}% \setevalue{\e!get #1}{\noexpand\dogetbuffer [#1][def-\nofdefinedbuffers]}% \setevalue{\e!type #1}{\noexpand\dotypebuffer [#1][def-\nofdefinedbuffers]}% \getparameters[\??bu#1][#2]% \fi} Greetings Wolfgang

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standardmakeup, frontmatter, bodymatter & page numbering
by Mojca Miklavec 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hello, I have a document consisting of title page, some introduction which should have pages numbered with roman numerals, and finally the real content \setuphead[subject][page=odd,style=\ss\bfb] \setuppagenumbering[location=] \starttext \startstandardmakeup title page \stopstandardmakeup \startfrontmatter \setuppagenumbering[conversion=romannumerals] \setupfootertexts[page \pagenumber{}] \subject{some intro pages} \input tufte \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \setupfootertexts[page \pagenumber{} of \totalnumberofpages] \dorecurse{10}{\subject{real content} \dorecurse{\recurselevel}{\input knuth} } \stopbodymatter \stoptext Now the problems: 1.) The second page starts counting at 1, while counting should start at page 3. This can be solved by using another \startstandardmakeup\strut\stopstandardmakeup. 2.) The last page says "page 26 of 27" - the total page number is indeed 27, but counting started on the second page, so it never reaches the last number. 3.) I would like the page number on the first page of bodymatter to be "page 1 of 23" instead of "page 4 of 27", and the last one to ge "page 23 of 23" instead of "page 26 of 27" There is some way=bychapter setting for page numering, but in that case there are no suitable chapters/sections available. Any hints appreciated ... Thanks a lot, Mojca

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Buffers and commands with optional arguments
by Wolfgang Schuster 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hi Hans, I got yesterday a bug report for my letter module if the \startletter command takes no arguments. The following example show the problem without the module. \def\startletter {\dosingleempty\dostartletter} \def\dostartletter[#1]% {\dostartbuffer[letter][startletter][stopletter]} \starttext % This did work \startletter Text \stopletter \getbuffer[letter] % But this did create a error message from TeX \startletter Text \stopletter \getbuffer[letter] \stopletter One solution for the second text can be solved when I add a \relax after the \startletter command but I wanted a better solution. Because TeX mentions \flushbufferline in error message I tried to modify the macro and came to the following solution. %\def\flushbufferline#1% \long\def\flushbufferline#1% {\iftmpblockstarted \ifsegmentatebuffer \ifemptybufferline \immediate\write\tmpblocks{\string\stopbufferparagraph }% \immediate\write\tmpblocks{\string\startbufferparagraph}% \else \immediate\write\tmpblocks{#1}% \fi \else \immediate\write\tmpblocks{#1}% \fi \else \doifsomething{#1} {\tmpblockstartedtrue %\immediate\write\tmpblocks{\string#1}}% \immediate\write\tmpblocks{#1}}% \fi} The macro has to be defined as long and the \string in the \write command has to be removed. I made a few short tests and saw no negative sideeffects from my changes. Another problem could arise with a few commands in the letter environment if no empty line is written after \startletter. The following result also in a error message. \startletter \dorecurse{2}{\input knuth\par} \stopbuffer With another modification of \flushbufferline also this example could work, my final patch was now: \long\def\flushbufferline#1% {\iftmpblockstarted \ifsegmentatebuffer \ifemptybufferline \immediate\write\tmpblocks{\string\stopbufferparagraph }% \immediate\write\tmpblocks{\string\startbufferparagraph}% \else \immediate\write\tmpblocks{#1}% \fi \else \immediate\write\tmpblocks{#1}% \fi \else \convertargument#1\to\ascii %\doifsomething{#1} \doifsomething\ascii {\tmpblockstartedtrue %\immediate\write\tmpblocks{\string#1}}% %\immediate\write\tmpblocks{#1}}% \immediate\write\tmpblocks{\ascii}}% \fi} Could my seond or at least my first patched version of the \flushbufferline macro integrated into core-buf.mkii because I won't force users of my letter module to put a \relax after \startletter only because they use MkII. Greetings Wolfgang

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InDesign/InCopy vs. TeX and friends
by Charles P. Schaum 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

I would say that TeX is a way in which a mathematician / theoretical computer scientist that is well-steeped in music, languages, art, literature, and other areas might approach the issue. InDesign is the way in which a large number in the design community might approach the issue. I use mainly InCopy because I'm an editor, but I work closely with the designers. Here's a few things I see that could stand some improvement: 1. What does it mean to have either an overfull hbox or vbox? You might think, duh! But overfull boxes and copyfitting issues are not sets of the same cardinality or topology in the problem domain. First of all, some do make a distinction between intraword and interword spacing, although this need not necessarily be made. It does become helpful, however, when setting Sperrdruck and noting the rules for commas, periods, etc. The soul package in LaTeX does well here, although if there were essentially two realms, intraword and interword, with different letterspacing controls for each, this could result in the following solution: If (overfull hbox) then Apply an algorithm taking into account aesthetic rules for adjusting intra- and interword spacing within tolerance n and produce a warning that says either: Spacing adjusted to fit copy in hbox on line nnnn or Copyfit warning for hbox in line nnnn Similarly, leading (interline spacing) ought to be considered, but horizontal spacing, especially when pagefitting copy to avoid widows and orphans, can be tied with interline spacing to get the desired result. Tweaking the font size is generally a poor solution. Boxes and glue is good if you are modeling classical typesetting. I believe that is what DEK was shooting for. In 1978, that made good sense because electronic means were not well-defined and were sometimes quite displeasing. For modern digital needs, boxes and glue may not be appropriate in every situation. InDesign and InCopy simply pop up a warning when you have copyfitting issues. Still, there must be a standard approach when a designer fixes such issues (apart from an editor doing some rewording) in order to give one's products a good look and feel. Even with InDesign, copyfitting issues are not a no-brainer. That's where generating a preview that would step through copyfitting issues and allow input for heuristics might be helpful. 2. The box or the text frame? Ever use LaTeX and BibTeX to do a bib and footnotes and all of a sudden your URLs go right off the line? How annoying is that? The text frame should have priority over the boxes in it and should trigger copyfitting rules to enforce that priority unless locally or globally suppressed. 3. Multi-author workflow InCopy works with InDesign to allow an editor to work with a "story" that may be in one text frame or spread over multiple frames. It allows check-out and check-in of a story and locks the story when checked out. Of course, this implies that the workflow happens off a central server. Nevertheless, this allows the document to be constructed in parallel with designers, substantial/copy editors, proofreaders, and so on working on different parts as needed. TeX may be batch-oriented, but it is also single-user oriented unless you have a master with lots of linked input. The problem is that InCopy and InDesign can show you your work in relation to the whole, giving a better idea of what you need to do to fit your work in harmony with the others. TeX cannot do that. 4. TeX is still better at some things. Kinda like GraphViz, TeX has its area where it just shines. Those schemata that I was doing are a major pain to do in something else. TeX's ability to intermix math mode and regular mode is probably unique. I would bet that one could do things like sentence diagrams and grammar theory much more easily in TeX than elsewhere. 5. Toward Generalization, but Keep the Good Stuff It would be neat to sit down with experienced designers or professors of design and see where DEK's solutions and those built on them work well for today's expectations and where they do not. Curiously, if you look at Wikipedia on page design, typography, and other design-related issues and TeX does not really show up in the external links. My design books are almost twenty years old. They are: Collier and Cotton. Basic Desktop Design and Layout Murphy and Rowe. How to Design Trade Marks and Logos Devall. Desktop Publishing Styleguide White. Graphic Design for the Electronic Age Craig. Designing with Type, 3rd ed. Still, one can see even there certain relationships of parts to whole that, in the main, ConTeXt has done better than any other TeX variant to address. I find the \setuplayout and related general layout, makeup, sectioning, and other features to be substantially superior to LaTeX, where the publishers do the styles and the scientists write the content, or plain, where you have to do everything (not always bad, but Herculean for a large project). Charles

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split cells ? world lost !
by Steffen Wolfrum 31 May '08

31 May '08

Hi, hope the answer to my question is not too obvious: How do I split not only TABLE but cells? Please, have a look at this minimal: \starttext \bTABLE[split=yes,option=stretch] \bTR \bTD \input tufte \input knuth Hello world ... \eTD \bTD \input tufte \eTD \bTD \input knuth \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD Test \eTD \bTD Test \eTD \bTD Test \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext (Hello) world lost? Thanks, Steffen

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Wiki page about emacs-muse updated
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 31 May '08

31 May '08

Hi all, The page on the wiki about emacs-muse and ConTeXt has been updated to show how you can use Thomas Schmitz's presentation module within muse: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_and_emacs-muse enjoy! -- Jean

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pdf forms
by Bernhard Boser 30 May '08

30 May '08

I wrote a simple context file for pdf form filling. Translates fine, but the resulting pdf simply shows text but no fillable forms. What's needed to actually get forms? Here's the tex code: % interface=en tex=pdfetex output=pdftex \starttext Field 1: \fillinfield[name]{text that defines field length} \definefield [Email] [line] [ShortLine] [] [pragma(a)wxs.nl] Field 2: \field [Email] [your email] \stoptext Thanks! Bernhard

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[Fwd: problem with context]
by Hans Hagen 29 May '08

29 May '08

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Out of office: ntg-context Digest, Vol 47, Issue 62
by rordorf＠mdpi.org 29 May '08

29 May '08

I am out of office and will return on Thursday, 29 May 2008. Kind regards, Dietrich Rordorf -- Mr. Dietrich Rordorf Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) Matthaeusstrasse 11, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland E-mail: rordorf(a)mdpi.org Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 (office) Tel. +41 76 561 41 83 (mobile) Fax +41 61 302 89 18

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American-style letters with t-letter?
by David Rogers 29 May '08

29 May '08

Hi all (but especially Wolfgang Schuster): I'd like to use Wolfgang's t-letter module to set up a very basic American-style letter. I see (by looking into t-letter.tex) that there are at least plans for this to be possible. Is there a little example anywhere of how to get started? (Really, for my purposes, the basic DIN example as given in lm.pdf is pretty good - just wondering what the other possibility looks like.) Thanks David

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mplib/metafun broken in latest beta
by Thomas A. Schmitz 28 May '08

28 May '08

Hi Hans and Taco, it looks like mplib is broken in the latest beta. Simple file: \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{test} draw fullcircle scaled 5cm ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{test} \stoptext produces no output. I tested on several different computers, so it doesn't look like a misconfiguration. My Macbook compiled the file fine with a context version from last week; after updating, a get an empty pdf. All best Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] Odd Behavior in pdftex/xetex
by Michael.Urban＠jpl.nasa.gov 28 May '08

28 May '08

text and non text and such > > If he use \retype the table works. > Thanks; and so does \asciistr I cannot find documentation on \retype, \asciistr, nor \simplifytype ; in which situations should these be used?

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Re: [NTG-context] InDesign
by Charles P. Schaum 28 May '08

28 May '08

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 08:24 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > how do they deal with non compatible new features; for instance, at > bachotek i learned that some otf features that are not supported in > older versions are supported in new ones (or are supported > differently); > is there some compatibility mode (i.e. is the old behavior still > present > and the ID/IC version number stored in the document?) > I asked those wiser than I and this is what professional expectations tend to be: 1. Versioning within a document (track changes) basically becomes a non-entity by production; that is local and removed within a production cycle and tends to be wholly separated from version issues. Also, product cycles are generally tagged to a version of a program and therefore multiple versions need to be able to coexist in the case where the new version may not be backward-compatible with the old. With Quark, one could only count on backward compatibility over one version bump. After that, compatibility would diminish so that Quark 4.0 would not open Quark 1.0 docs. Makes Microsoft's format versioning seem positively user-friendly by comparison. The firm I work for has only started with the current InDesign/CS3 suite and relies on the quark plugin to do the work. Especially in Quark, third-party plugins were the most fragile. We expect, however, that Indesign will probably follow Quark in failing to be too bacwardly-compatible, opening well only the prior version docs and then saving them as current. That's one of the things that drove my personal computing away from Windows to Linux/FreeBSD. I was using an English firm's Creative Suite knock-off product (Serif) and realized that their business plan called for making shoddy products and substituting version bumps for bugfixes. I can only bleed so much to sate someone's greed and I found OSS to be far friendlier regarding version compatibility, bugfixes and robustness. AFAIK no real pressure for a compatibility mode exists in the commercial DTP sector. senecadesign.com has good InCopy resources and archives. Charles

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mapper and xml
by luigi scarso 28 May '08

28 May '08

hi, from mail "Greek in luatex" (Date: 2007-09-13 19:24:15 GMT ) following snippet works good, but I'm not able to make it work under xml processing with \startxmlsetups mynode .... \stopxmlsetups In particulary, I have \u2022 unicode char utf-8 encoding which I would like to map to \item. Replacing \u2022 with \item in xml source cause a literal \item to appear in text node, and hence in pdf output. Using mapper above produce only a literal \stopbabelgreek with no text at all. Thanks in advance \defineremapper[babelgreek] \remapcharacter[babelgreek][`a]{\alpha} \remapcharacter[babelgreek][`b]{\beta} \remapcharacter[babelgreek][`c]{\gamma} \remapcharacter[babelgreek][`d]{OEPS} \starttext [\startbabelgreek a b c some stuff here \blank[big] oeps b d \stopbabelgreek] [\babelgreek{some stuff here}] \stoptext -- luigi

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Out of office: ntg-context Digest, Vol 47, Issue 59
by rordorf＠mdpi.org 28 May '08

28 May '08

I am out of office and will return on Thursday, 29 May 2008. Kind regards, Dietrich Rordorf -- Mr. Dietrich Rordorf Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) Matthaeusstrasse 11, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland E-mail: rordorf(a)mdpi.org Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 (office) Tel. +41 76 561 41 83 (mobile) Fax +41 61 302 89 18

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Struggling with luatools and MacTeX
by Jin-Hwan Cho 27 May '08

27 May '08

For the first step to luatex, I tried to use luatools as written in Hans Hagen's MK manual. 1. Compiled a recent luatex and it was put in "/usr/texbin/luatex" and linked to "/usr/texbin/texlua". 2. Downloaded the current beta and construct my "$HOME/share/texmf- context". Of course, the line in /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/ texmf.cnf was changed as follows. TEXMFHOME=$HOME/share/texmf-hyperref;$HOME/share/texmf-lm;$HOME/share/ texmf-context 3. Made a new "/usr/texbin/luatools" to use luatools.lua directly. The contents of the file was #!/bin/sh export SELFAUTOLOC=/usr/local/texlive/2007/bin export SELFAUTODIR=/usr/local/texlive/2007 export SELFAUTOPARENT=/usr/local/texlive/2007 export TEXMFCACHE="$HOME/share" texlua "$HOME/share/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/luatools.lua" "$@" 4. Finally tried "luatools --generate" and it seemed that everything went smoothly. But I found that luatools did not cache the $TEXMFHOME directories because it consisted of more than one TEXMF directories. It's not a bug but here is a patch to solve this problem. --- luatools.lua 2008-05-26 07:36:20.000000000 +0900 +++ luatools.lua.new 2008-05-26 07:59:17.000000000 +0900 @@ -3811,7 +3811,7 @@ return { } else local t = { } - for _,v in ipairs(string.splitchr(str:gsub("^\{(.+)\} $","%1"),",")) do + for _,v in ipairs(string.splitchr(str:gsub("^\{(.+)\} $","%1"):gsub(";",","),",")) do t[#t+1] = (v:gsub("^[%!]*(.+)[%/\\]*$","%1")) end return t 5. Now tried "luatools cmr10.tfm" but no anwer. However "luatools cmr10.tfm*" showed the proper answer. It seems that this problem is related to the behavior of "luatools --ini plain" which says "LuaTools | no tex file with name plain.tex". Is there something what I missed? Best regards, ChoF.

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on the fly TeX typesetting
by Olivier 27 May '08

27 May '08

Hi all, I'm just wondering how TeX labels in metapost pictures are generated when using mplib: if the set of pictures are all build through the library which saves loading time and hd read/writes, it would be strange to launch another TeX compiler. At the same time, if it were possible to have a set of defines (some macros, like for instance a set up of fonts) for TeX and be able to typeset, say, a vbox on the fly (that is, without having to deal with pages and so on), it would allow several application to take advantage of the typesetting capabilities of TeX. Any plan for a texlib? Olivier

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Re: [NTG-context] bibl-apa.tex wrong?
by Matej Barič 27 May '08

27 May '08

> Originally (years ago already), I reverse-engineered apalike from > latex. It is quite possible I made a error there (or even that > apalike had it wrong) but if no-one reports a bug it is not noticed. > Also, I've had quite a few incorrect bug reports about the styles, so > I am no longer all that eager to change them at a single bug report. > Two questions: do you have a definitive source somewhere? and are > there any other problems you see in bibl-apa.tex I see... well I'd be glad to go through whole APA style recommendation and test bibl-apa.tex, but I'm no expert and currently I am really busy for a few next weeks. I don't have a definitive source, but just about any source I have seen (including Wikipedia and my faculty rules) says bibl-apa.tex is wrong in that case. As I've started using ConTeXT just a few days ago I couldn't have seen any other problems so far but I will collect them if I find them and do a little more research on them. So for now don't bother, but sometime in future I will definitely contact you again if I have some more things to fix. Thanks, matej

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Out of office: ntg-context Digest, Vol 47, Issue 56
by rordorf＠mdpi.org 27 May '08

27 May '08

I am out of office and will return on Thursday, 29 May 2008. Kind regards, Dietrich Rordorf -- Mr. Dietrich Rordorf Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) Matthaeusstrasse 11, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland E-mail: rordorf(a)mdpi.org Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 (office) Tel. +41 76 561 41 83 (mobile) Fax +41 61 302 89 18

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 26 May '08

26 May '08

hi, i uploaded a new beta (mostly cleanup and more robust texmf variable expansion) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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fonts and typescripts
by Charles P. Schaum 26 May '08

26 May '08

Thanks, Wolfgang. Now it's all good. Typescripts are a little opaque to me. I need to learn a lot more, to be sure. I want to thank the ConTeXt team for the great work on the product and the docs. I do respect that TeX has a culture and one cannot design a product that is alien to that. I have some thoughts where a few spots in the docs could be friendlier for someone coming from a standpoint of general design and typography. Sort of like "here's how you think with DTP" and "here's how it's done in ConTeXt." I might also suggest a couple of features; I was, however, able to Google for much that I needed (e.g., with character spacing). Yet I'm not one to just butt into people's workflow, given their time and investment. In general I find ConTeXt to be superior in many regards for my needs. Unfortunately, I am not a scientist. I have a bachelor's degree in computer science with a minor in Germanistik, and I have two master's degrees in theology, having studied in Germany and the US. So I want to edit books that celebrate the history of thought and typography. ConTeXt is the best positioned to make beautiful, modern books, surpassing many generally available commercial products. Here's an interesting point: InDesign creates ligatures, but irrespective of what is going on in the actual font. So, unless you use Unicode Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, or whatever, the older style fonts that still inhabit the commercial multilingual industry get mangled. TeX and friends are smart and don't do that. They can handle some complicated typography more robustly than many others. InDesign and InCopy use a version control system where one can "check out," "check in," and track changes in a parallel workflow. Grep searching has also been integrated. It seems to me that if something like Scribus had a means to interlink with ConTeXt, cvs / svn or the like, and had a means of automatically generating code and previews, you would have a typesetting system that could compete feature for feature with InDesign and InCopy, and surpass it in some cases. Charles

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XeTeX in ConTeXt
by Charles Doherty 26 May '08

26 May '08

Dear all, I have tried to upgrade ConTeXt using sudo ctxtools --updatecontext followed by sudo texmfstart texexec --make en and sudo texmfstart texexec --make --xetex en Following the upgrade a normal ConTeXt document runs perfectly but when I run XeConTeXt through TeXShop I get the readout below. When I go back to the TeXLive download of TeX everything works. Any advice would be welcome. Thanks, Charlie TeXExec | processing document 'SocialSpace.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file SocialSpace.top TeXExec | using randomseed 80 TeXExec | tex engine: xetex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6) %&-line parsing enabled. entering extended mode (./SocialSpace.tex ConTeXt ver: 2008.05.21 15:21 MKII fmt: 2008.5.23 int: english/ english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkii) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-mtx.tex)) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys.rme loaded (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/type- xtx.tex))kpathsea: Running mktextfm lmromanslant10-regular mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input lmromanslant10-regular This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.6) kpathsea: Running mktexmf lmromanslant10-regular ! I can't find file `lmromanslant10-regular'. <*> ...; nonstopmode; input lmromanslant10-regular Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...; nonstopmode; input lmromanslant10-regular Transcript written on mfput.log. grep: lmromanslant10-regular.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input lmromanslant10-regular' failed to make lmromanslant10-regular.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded ! Font \*7ptrmslrm*:=lmromanslant10-regular at 7.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or installed font not found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \dodosettextfamilyA ...amily \fontsize \endcsname \else \ifcsname \fontbody ... \dosettextfamily ...ttextfamily \scriptscriptfont \let \fontbody \scriptface... <inserted text> ...y \c!bf \dosettextfamily \c!sl \dosettextfamily \c! it \do... \synchronizetext ...athfonts \the \textstrategies \fi ... l.1 \definetypeface[Hoefler][rm][Xserif][Hoefler Text] ? x No pages of output. Transcript written on SocialSpace.log. TeXUtil | parsing file SocialSpace.tui TeXUtil | shortcuts : 169 TeXUtil | expansions: 308 TeXUtil | reductions: 0 TeXUtil | divisions : 0 TeXUtil | loaded files: 1 TeXUtil | temporary files: 0 TeXUtil | commands: 25 TeXUtil | programs: 0 TeXUtil | tuo file saved TeXExec | runtime: 100.320881

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A question about the node library in luatex
by Jin-Hwan Cho 26 May '08

26 May '08

I am trying a few tests with luatex. 1. Made a format file "luaetex.fmt" by "luatex --ini etex.ini" and a lua file "luaetex.lua" containing just one line "node.types()" 2. Test file "test.tex" is as follows: \directlua0{node.types()} \bye 3. Run "luatex --fmt=luaetex.fmt test". Then there is no problem. 4. Instead, "luatex --lua=luaetex.lua --fmt=luaetex.fmt test" causes an error. Why don't we use the node library in the lua file "luaetex.lua"? Thanks in advance, ChoF.

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Out of office: ntg-context Digest, Vol 47, Issue 55
by rordorf＠mdpi.org 26 May '08

26 May '08

I am out of office and will return on Thursday, 29 May 2008. Kind regards, Dietrich Rordorf -- Mr. Dietrich Rordorf Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) Matthaeusstrasse 11, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland E-mail: rordorf(a)mdpi.org Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 (office) Tel. +41 76 561 41 83 (mobile) Fax +41 61 302 89 18

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interim fix for aesc-like macro
by Charles P. Schaum 25 May '08

25 May '08

I found an interim fix for the \ae macro in the schemata: put the word with the macro in an hbox, and the problem goes away. I wonder what the mechanics behind that are. I tend to have weird documents with dead languages. Who knows, maybe I want to cite Aelfric using Old English letters or Sir Gawain or whatever Middle High German with a yogh or similar glyph. Come to think of it, Gothic would be cool, too. So, figuring out the mechanics would be helpful. Thanks, Charles

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Thanks for the boxes with schems
by Charles P. Schaum 24 May '08

24 May '08

Thanks, Hans, for the suggestion. It works quite well, except the \ae{} macro starts producing a lowercase j. My guess is this refers to an encoding issue, since I found that using \sc tends to not do small caps except for using Computer Modern. I did RTFM, but I'm just not making the connection. If someone can point me to a document on fonts that I can work through ... the section in the manual left me a little confused. After using Pagemaker, Quark, and InDesign, I kinda get the approach but it seems to be a culture shock like Metafont was and remains. I copied the examples from the manual when I did a book mock-up for work and that worked real well. Everyone was impressed by what ConTeXt could do, although the official workflow will remain Incopy and InDesign. Still, I uotdid an experienced graphic designer using Adobe CS3 with my little bit of code for schemas. ConTeXt and friends have some unique benefits. So if I could solve the font mystery, I would be grateful. I have some books, for example, that I would like to reproduce with ConTeXt by scanning the Fraktur and OCR'ing with tesseract, then doing the layout with ConTeXt. I have an Ernestine Bible (Das Weimarische Bibelwerk) for which the binding is shot but the pages are good. This way will take much less than scanned images, although some images will remain. Ultimately I would like to make something like yfonts, but with unicode or some standard encoding to allow either umlauts or superscript e. In my own library I have books from the early eighteenth century on, and Google books has more, so there's no lack of subjects to scan into Fontforge. Charles

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luaTeX and on-the-fly MetaPost compilation
by Stephan Hennig 24 May '08

24 May '08

Hi, I didn't have the opportunity to touch luaTeX yet, but let me ask one question in advance: Since luaTeX has a built-in MetaPost interpreter, is it possible to refer to a certain figure in a MetaPost source file for inclusion, instead of a compiled figure? As an example, I would like to say in a TeX document (syntax may differ) \includeMetaPost{foo.2} and this should not refer to the pre-compiled file foo.2 but to section figure(2); ... endfig; in file foo.mp and compile it on-the-fly. Would that be possible? Rationale: I do not want to mix TeX and MetaPost code. Probably, I'll stick with compiling .mp files prior to the TeX run anyway, but I'm curious about this option. Best regards, Stephan Hennig

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Odd Behavior in pdftex/xetex
by Michael.Urban＠jpl.nasa.gov 24 May '08

24 May '08

The following specimen was run on live.contextgarden.net with each of the three typesetters: \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \input knuth \bTABLE \bTR [align=middle]\bTH Range\eTH{}\bTH Value\eTH{}\eTR \bTR \bTD \type{<} 12\eTD{}\bTD 3\eTD{}\eTR \bTR \bTD 12--16\eTD{}\bTD 2\eTD{}\eTR \bTR \bTD \type{>}16\eTD{}\bTD 1\eTD{}\eTR \eTABLE \input knuth \stoptext In the case of pdfTeX and XeTeX, the table is given a width equal to the textwidth; in the caes of LuaTeX, it is typeset correctly with natural widths. When \setupcolors is removed, both pdfTeX and XeTeX also produce the correct result. This sounds like a bug to me (and took me forever to isolate \setupcolors - of all things! - as the culprit).

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Ramistic schemata
by Charles P. Schaum 23 May '08

23 May '08

Greetings, I have been using ConTeXt since April, plain TeX since March, and LaTeX/LyX for about a year. I have been working on multilingual texts and, until the recent permutations of Word, no WYSIWYG product, with the possible exception of Mellel for Hebrew, did any good job. Now I don't like WYSIWYG anymore but use such products for work. I have been able to create near-optimal reproductions of Ramistic schemata using ConTeXt because the \showboxes toggle is most helpful in showing where I need to put whitespace. The following may indeed be crude, i.e., not computing box height and other sophisticated stuff, but I'm a n00b and have not read the TeXbook through, although that and TeX by topic are both a vade mecum. Here's the code, FWIW. Use it as you like. It started out as plain TeX using Kile on Ubuntu, migrated to ConTeXt in TeXshop/MacTeX, and came back to Kile after I found an xml file for katepart that allowed for proper syntax highlighting. Charles -----Cut Here----- \def\schema#1#2#3{\hbox{$\vcenter{#1}\left\{\vbox to #2{\vfil}\right.\vcenter{#3}$}} \def\altschema#1#2#3#4{\hbox{$\vcenter{#1}{\left\lmoustache\vbox to #2{\vfil}\right.\atop\left\rmoustache\vbox to #3{\vfil}\right.}\vcenter{#4}$}} %\showboxes \starttext \tfx {\tfa I. SCHEMA}\par \schema % top level schema { \hbox{Subjectum theolo-} \hbox{gi\ae{} est Notitia} \hbox{Dei. Considerat} \hbox{ergo, Dei, vel} } {13ex} { \blank[big] \schema % first nested schema { \hbox{{\sc Essentiam}, in} } {5ex} { \hbox{Unitate natur\ae{}.} \hbox{Trinitate personarum.} \hbox{Operibus ad intra.} } \blank[medium] \schema % second nested schema { \hbox{{\sc Voluntatem},} \hbox{manifestatam in} \hbox{operibus ad extra;} \hbox{ut in} } {12ex} { \hbox{Creatione.} \hbox{Sustentatione natur\ae{} laps\ae{}.} \hbox{Reparatione.} \hbox{Conversione.} \hbox{Justificatione.} \hbox{Sanctificatione \&} \hbox{Glorificatione ejusdem.} } } \page {\tfa II. SCHEMA}\par \altschema % { \blank[7*big] \hbox{Subjectum \&} \hbox{summa univer-} \hbox{s\ae{} Scriptur\ae{},} \hbox{est {\sc Cogni-}} \hbox{{\sc tio} vel} } {29ex} {10ex} { \altschema % { \hbox{{\sc Dei}, qua-} \hbox{lis sit, aut} } {10ex} {2ex} { \blank[big] \schema % { \hbox{{\sc Per se}:} \hbox{scilicet.} } {3.1ex} { \hbox{Unus in essentia.} \hbox{Trinus in personis.} } \blank[medium] \schema % { \hbox{Ad hominem} \hbox{quem vel} } {13ex} { \hbox{Accusat \& terret, {\sc Per Legem},} \hbox{Consolatur \& erigit, {\sc Per Evangelium}.} \hbox{Salvat, {\sc Per Christum}.} \hbox{Renovat, {\sc Per Spiritum Sanctum}.} \hbox{Sanctificat, {\sc Per Verbum} \& {Sacramenta}.} \hbox{Castigat, tentat \& exercet, {\sc Per Crucem}.} \hbox{Glorificat {\sc Per Resurrectionem Carnis}} \hbox{{\sc Ad Vitam \AE{}ternam}.} } } \altschema % { \blank[6*big] \hbox{{\sc Hominis},} \hbox{qualis sit} } {22ex} {3ex} { \altschema % { \hbox{{\sc Per se}:} } {6ex} {1ex} { \blank[2*big] \hbox{Ante lapsum.} \blank[big] \altschema % { \hbox{Post lapsum:} } {5ex} {2ex} { \hbox{Ante Regenerationem \&} \hbox{Renovationem S. Sancti.} \blank[small] \hbox{Post Regenerationem \&} \hbox{Renovationem S. Sancti.} \blank[2*small] } \blank[big] } \schema % { \hbox{Ad} } {18ex} { \schema % { \hbox{{\sc Deum}} } {14ex} { \hbox{P\oe{}nitentia agens, agnitis peccatis \& ira} \hbox{Dei cognita {\sc Ex Lege}.} \hbox{Erigens se {\sc Voce Evangelii}.} \hbox{Credens {\sc In Christum Salvatorem}.} \hbox{Non repugnans {\sc Spiritui Sancto} impellenti.} \hbox{Audiens {\sc Verbum}: \& utens {\sc Sacramentis}.} \hbox{Patienter \& constanter sufferens {\sc Crucem}.} \hbox{Sperans \& expectans glorificationem {\sc In}} \hbox{{\sc Resurrectione Carnis Ad Vitam \AE{}ternam}.} } \blank[medium] \schema % { \hbox{seipsum ratione} } {3.1ex} { \hbox{Anim\ae{} vel} \hbox{Corporis} } \schema % { \hbox{Proximum,} } {6ex} { \blank[medium] \schema % { \hbox{Amicum ratione vel} } {7ex} { \hbox{Religionis.} \hbox{Politic\ae{} \& Oeconomic\ae {}.} \hbox{Cognationis.} \hbox{Agnationis.} } \hbox{Inimicum.} \blank[3*big] } \blank[big] } } } \stoptext

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[LUATEX] uname() volunteers needed
by Taco Hoekwater 23 May '08

23 May '08

Hi all, This is a little offtopic (it deals with luatex only) but as Mojca said: there are many more luatex-using people here than on dev-luatex. In a discussion with Yue Wang he convinced me that it would be better to use uname() for finding os.name instead of the current jungle of #ifdefs. Because I do not want to alter the lua return values, that means I will have to interpret the contents of the returned structure a bit. To do that, I would appreciate it if the people on a non-linux32intel platform would compile and run the attached minimalistic C file. Thanks in advance, Taco

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font tables
by Idris Samawi Hamid 22 May '08

22 May '08

Dear gang, Is there an available ConTeXt utility for creating font tables for luatex? \ShowFont does this for 256-char encodings but we need something to create a matrix in pdf through luatex for unicode fonts. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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bug with hyphenatedurl
by Steffen Wolfrum 21 May '08

21 May '08

Hi, please have a look at the following minimal example (ran with mkii): -> \usetypescript[postscript][\defaultencoding] \setupencoding[default=texnansi] \enableregime[utf] Test text\footnote{{Z4300, Stand: 1.{|DuennRaum|}Januar\;2002, einsehbar unter \hyphenatedurl{http://www.thw.de/thw‑inland/ grundlagen/rechtsgrundlagen/abr\_rili.htm}}} \stoptext <- Just shortly before handing the PDF to the printer I saw that the part "thw‑inland" surprisingly became "thw\dochar␣{45}inland" (at least on my machine)! Is there a fix? Steffen

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The cat was too long (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 21 May '08

21 May '08

hi, 'minimal' example for clipping bug in mkiv: % engine=luatex \starttext \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{The cat was too long to fit in this small sentence.} \framed[offset=overlay]{\clip[width=110pt,height=20pt]{\box\scratchbox}} \stoptext final text should be "The cat was too long". mkii does it right, mkiv gives "The cat wa". mkiv made the cat fit somehow, but it's not the way i want it :) best wishes, peter

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inclusion from image database broken (mkii+mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 20 May '08

20 May '08

hi, when i try to include an image from one of my databases i get the following error messages: mkii: !pdfTeX error: pdftex.exe (file ./lib/test-db.pdf): xpdf: reading PDF image failed (0) ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! mkiv: !luaTeX error: xpdf: reading PDF image failed ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! i looked into the mkiv sources, but didn't succeed. the lua part (db only) is clear to me, but i couldn't find the point in tex, where \externalfigure is mapped to this somehow. either i have missed something or there is some code missing. mh, probably the first one :) regards, peter ps: any news about the \string{\{} problem in mkiv?

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[OT] dante meeting
by luigi scarso 20 May '08

20 May '08

http://granthinam.blogspot.com/search/label/Conference report ok, at least one photo of Martin Schröder -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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frames and columns
by Hans van der Meer 20 May '08

20 May '08

When I enclose columns in a frame then the columns are not formed. See the minimal example: \starttext \startframedtext \startcolumns[n=2] COLUMN 1 \column COLUMN 2 \stopcolumns \stopframedtext \stoptext Commenting out the \startframedtext,\stopframedtext typesets two columns; \startsimplecolumns shows the same ill behaviour. ConTeXt ver: 2008.05.13 14:42 MKII fmt: 2008.5.19 int: english/ english Is there a cure? Hans van der Meer

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accented letters in mkiv
by Thomas A. Schmitz 19 May '08

19 May '08

Hi all, sorry if this is obvious and I have simply overlooked something. I need the character U0113 "emacron." It is not present in the font I use. In mkii, I could simply write \=e, and TeX would take care of building (faking) the character. When I try this in mkiv, I get an error: error: ...al/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:3329: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value) I'm not complaining about this somewhat opaque error message, but I'm wondering how I can fake this glyph. There was an older discussion on the list which pointed me to char-utf.tex and \definecomposedutf, but the file says "This feature is obsolete." So what would be the canonical way to build such a character in mkiv? Thanks a lot, all best Thomas

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itemize numbering
by Hans van der Meer 19 May '08

19 May '08

The following minimal example goes wrong: \starttext \startitemize[a] \item sub a \startitemize \item sub a1 \item sub a2 \stopitemize \item sub b \stopitemize \stoptext The result is: . sub a - sub a1 - sub a2 a. sub b Whereas: \starttext \startitemize[a] \item sub a \item sub b \stopitemize \stoptext results in the expected output: a. sub a b. sub b Both mkii and mkiv show this behaviour. Versions are: This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.7 (Web2C 7.5.6) ConTeXt ver: 2008.04.18 14:17 MKII fmt: 2008.4.19 int: english/ english Is this corrected in a later version than I have installed or is it still present? Hans van der Meer

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\this ??
by Rene van Hassel 19 May '08

19 May '08

Waarom werkt \this niet onder ConTeXt?? In de file staat: \setupoutput[pdftex] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction [state=start, title={Try-Out Document}, pdfauthor={R.R. van Hassel}, colorlinks] \starttext \completecontent \chapter{This and That} Put \index{this}this this and \index{that}that in the index. \completeindex \stoptext met dat laatste eindigt de file. Schrijf ik alleen: \index{this}, dan verschijnt er wel een this in de Index maar niet in de tekst, mvg, Rene'

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Re: [NTG-context] a question about ConTeXt + AUCTeX
by Dalyoung Jeong 19 May '08

19 May '08

Thank you for all the replies. I open "Aquamacs emacs" from the terminal in which "source .luatex" was executed. Then it worked fine. For other methods, I'll try later. By the way, is it normal to run "luatools --generate" and "luatools -- ini --verbose --compile ..." whenever I start computer? Or, I missed something in my setup. Thank you again. Best regards, Dalyoung Jeong

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Some questions about the taspresent module
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 19 May '08

19 May '08

Hi all (especially Thomas) I have played these days with the last version of the "taspresent" presentation module, to see how it can be used as such and/or with emacs-muse. I have discovered that due to the \Maketitle macros, which did not exist in the first versions, it is quite easy to have a muse style and nearly everything works quite well. I use mkiv from minimals. I have a few concerns though: - On some of the styles, page numbering is like this: 1 of 10, 2 of 10, etc. Is there a way, as I have to write in french more often than not, to modify that in my tex file without changing the style file (which I prefer not to do)? - With the greenblue style the title page is produced with its layout, but no text appears on that page... - The embossed style doesn't compile, apparently due some missing font (Emblem); is it some rare font, and if not where can I find it? I have installed a file called "Emblem Regular.ttf" but that didn't change things; here is the error message (AucTeX): .................................. ERROR: Font \**Emblem**:=uhvb8r at 30pt not loadable: metric data not found or bad. --- TeX said --- <to be read again> \relax \dododefinefont ...ontspec {#2}\rawfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... l.1 ...t,top=\vss ,bottom=\vss ,frame=off]{\Emblem \color [c]{Made with C\CM... --- HELP --- You requested a family/series/shape/size combination that is totally unknown. There are two cases in which this error can occur: 1) You used the \size macro to select a size that is not available. 2) If you did not do that, go to your local `wizard' and complain fiercely that the font selection tables are corrupted! .................................. I will soon update the muse page on the wiki, but I wish these problems could be solved before :-) best -- Jean

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oldstyle features and typing
by Aditya Mahajan 18 May '08

18 May '08

Hi, While using oldstyle features with mkiv, -- in a typing environment comes out as a endash. I would consider this a bug. For example: \setfontfeature{oldstyle} \starttext \starttyping -- A comment 123 \stoptyping \stoptext Another interesting feature is that numbers in the typing environmnet come out in oldstyle (they look nice, BTW). This is expected, and can be avoided by using a complete typescript and loading tt fonts with fefault features, and other with oldstyle features. Nevertheless, I find it to be an interesting side effect. Aditya

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luatex and xml
by WN 18 May '08

18 May '08

Hi, I am trying to parse a xml file with mkiv to process a list of invoices (factuur in dutch). The xml file looks like this <?xml version='1.0 standalone='yes' ?> <factuur> <nummer>123456789</nummer> <datum>1 januari 2008</datum> <medewerker></medewerker> <regels> <omschrijving>Omschrijving geleverde dienst a</omschrijving> <bedrag>1500,00</bedrag> <omschrijving>Omschrijving geleverde dienst b</omschrijving> <bedrag>200,00</bedrag> </regels> </factuur> I want to extract and sum the invoices (regels). I managed to get things working (printing) but don't know how to assign these values into lua variables for the summing. The test code looks like this % engine=luatex \starttext \startluacode document.xml = document.xml or { } -- define namespace document.xml = xml.load("factuur.xml") -- load the file n = xml.count(document.xml, "/factuur/regels/omschrijving") for i = 1, n do -- -- here I want to assign the values returned by xml.filter into local variable amount -- xml.sprint(xml.filter(document.xml, "/factuur/regels/bedrag/position(" .. i .. ")" )) end \stopluacode \stoptext Kind regards WN

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missing btex ..etex in mp figure
by luigi scarso 17 May '08

17 May '08

In \starttext \startTEXpage \startlua metapost.process("metafun",{"beginfig(1);", "a=.7in; b=0.5in;", "z0=(0,0); z1=(a,0); z2=(0,b);", "z0=.5[z1,z3]=.5[z2,z4];", "draw z1..z2..z3..z4..cycle;", "drawarrow z0..z1;", "drawarrow z0..z2;", "label.top(btex $a$ etex, .5[z0,z1]);", "label.lft(btex $b$ etex, .5[z0,z2]);", "endfig;"}) \stoplua \stopTEXpage \stoptext there are no labels, but I believe that it's wrong. -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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Re: [NTG-context] a question about ConTeXt + AUCTeX
by Dalyoung Jeong 17 May '08

17 May '08

Dear Thomas, Thank you for your reply. XeTeX+ ConTeXt is working after adding a command as you said. (customize-variaable) But Lua + ConTeXt is not working. If I do "mtxrun --script context ...", then it complains. %%%%%%% Running `Other' on `test-lua' with ``mtxrun --script context %t'' MtxRun | unknown script: context %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% If I changed the command "texmfstart texexec --lua %t", then I got the following. Running `LuaConTeXt' on `test-lua' with ``texmfstart texexec --lua test-lua.tex'' TeXExec | processing document 'test-lua.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file test-lua.top TeXExec | using randomseed 828 TeXExec | tex engine: luatex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en LuaTools | using format name /Users/dalyoung/luatex-cache/context/ 5759d5068ca15ba6658b2e6454390744/formats/cont-en.fmt LuaTools | no luc/lua with name /Users/dalyoung/luatex-cache/context/ 5759d5068ca15ba6658b2e6454390744/formats/cont-en LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.023 seconds TeXUtil | parsing file test-lua.tui TeXUtil | shortcuts : 169 TeXUtil | expansions: 308 TeXUtil | reductions: 0 TeXUtil | divisions : 0 TeXUtil | loaded files: 1 TeXUtil | temporary files: 0 TeXUtil | commands: 21 TeXUtil | programs: 0 TeXUtil | tuo file saved TeXExec | runtime: 0.891602 LuaConTeXt finished at Sat May 17 16:14:24 However, the same command worked well in a terminal. Maybe the system setup of yours is different from mine. Usually I run "source .luatex" first before running luatex. So my guess is that emacs couldn't know the luatex path even though it is known in another program "terminal". Am I correct? If so, how to apply environment .luatex to global condition? Otherwise, what are wrong in my setup? Thank you. Best regards, Dalyoung Jeong

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