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Unable to generate luatex formats
by Michael Green 17 Apr '08

17 Apr '08

I'm getting the following error when running this command: luatools -- ini --verbose --compile cont-en LuaTools | running command: luatex --ini --lua="cont-en.luc" "/usr/ local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex" \\dump This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.25.2-2008041101 (Web2C 7.5.6) (INITEX) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/context.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/syst-pln.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/syst-prm.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/luat-env.tex ! LuaTeX error [string "luas[0]"]:1: attempt to call field 'luafilechunk' (a ni l value). \ctxluabyteload ...nvironment.luafilechunk("#1") } \ ...fproductionrun \else \ctxluabyteload {#1}{#2} \fi \global \everyloadluac... l.168 \registerctxluafile{luat-env}{1.001} ? I see that it is similar to an error that ZS had. http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2008/030012.html But while ZS's problem was solved by updating, I'm installing for the first time with the newest versions. What might be amiss? Thanks! mjg

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mkiv new zips
by luigi scarso 17 Apr '08

17 Apr '08

new zips today 2008-04-16 at 11:00 -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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Pb with ConTeXt ver: 2008.04.16 17:34 and mkiv
by Otared Kavian 17 Apr '08

17 Apr '08

Hi Hans and Taco, I would like to report a problem with the latest release: I just updated my ConTeXt installation and got the following error message: […] This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.25.2-2008041100 (Web2C 7.5.6) (INITEX) (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/context/base/context.tex (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/context/base/syst-pln.tex) (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/context/base/syst-prm.tex) ! I can't find file `luat-env.tex'. <to be read again> \relax l.153 \loadmkivfile{luat-env.tex} Please type another input file name: However ConTeXt mkii works fine (ConTeXt ver: 2008.04.16 17:34 MKII fmt: 2008.4.16 int: english/english). My previous version of mkiv used to work fine until ConTeXt version 2008.04.16 11:45. For your information, I am running this on MacBook Pro Intel running MacOS X 10.5.2, and I follow Thomas Schmitz' indications to install LuaTeX. Best regards: OK

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Adding custom key/value pairs
by Rory Molinari 17 Apr '08

17 Apr '08

Hi, I'm new to ConTeXt and decided to teach myself a bit by resetting my old thesis (originally done, many years ago, in LaTeX). As the purpose is to teach myself ConTeXt rather than just have an electronic version of the thesis I decided to try to do things the "right" way. So, in setting the title page I followed the pattern shown on Contextgarden here: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Document_Titles. That page shows how to define a nice \placetitle command with an associated \setuptitle which allows us to define values for title, subject, and date. However, I want also to be able to define values for degree, subject, and committee (to follow the school-standard LaTeX style file I had from all those years ago). I can't work out how to do this. Simply using a variable like \c!degree (to match the \c!title I found in the example) doesn't work, as ConTeXt doesn't know about such a control sequence. I was quite puzzled for a while but then it dawned on me that the example I found on contextgarden works because the keys it uses (for key/value pairs) are ones that are already defined in the ConTeXt system: title, subject, date. My attempt fails because the system doesn't know about degree, subject, and committee. I tried defining a new variable with startvariables, but that didn't appear to help. So, my question: what do I need to do to define a new key that can be used in a key/value pair? Here's an example of what I tried: \startvariables all degree: degree \stopvariables \definesystemvariable{tp} % title page \def\setuptitlepage{\dodoubleempty\dosetuptitlepage} \def\dosetuptitlepage[#1][#2]% {\ifsecondargument \dodosetuptitlepage[#1][#2]% \else \dodosetuptitlepage[\v!content][#1]% \fi} \def\dodosetuptitlepage[#1][#2]% {\def\dododosetuptitlepage##1% {\getparameters[\??tp##1][#2]}% \processcommalist[#1]\dododosetuptitlepage} \def\placetitlepage {\startalignment[\v!middle] \doattributes{\??tp\c!degree}\c!style\c!color\@@tpcontentdegree \stopalignment} \setuptitlepage [\c!degree] [\c!style=\tfa,\c!color=] \startfrontmatter \placetitlepage \stopfrontmatter \starttext \stoptext Cheers, Rory

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Re: [NTG-context] mplib
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 17 Apr '08

17 Apr '08

On 16 Apr 2008 at 1:52, ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: Hallo, > >>> (I have temporary appended 'dump;' to plain.mp) > >> After the above, you should have plain.mem in the local > directory. > > > > No. > > There is neither a 'plain.fmt' nor a 'plain.mem'! > > Everything I read below says there should be a 'plain.mem' > in the folder where you ran theat file in. If there > really really isn't, then my only advise to you is to buy > a less thieving operating system, as it seems this one steals > your files before you can even have an admiring look at them. :-) I tried the same with 'mpost'. This has the advantage that one has not to adapt 'plain.mp'. But here too, there is no 'mpost.mem' and no 'mpost.log'. I have included a test before and after mp:finish(). Can anybody with a minimal under windows run this example? ------------------------------- \starttext % start low-level \startlua local function finder(name, mode, ftype) if mode=="w" then return name else return kpse.find_file(name,ftype) end end mp = mplib.new ( { hash_size = 100000, main_memory = 2000000, param_size = 100000, find_file = finder, ini_version = true } ) if mp then res = mp:execute("mpost") tex.print("[" .. tostring(res.status) .. "]") print(table.serialize(res)) if io.open("mpost.mem","r") then print("found") else print("nothing") end res = mp:finish() print(table.serialize(res)) if io.open("mpost.mem","r") then print("found") else print("nothing") end end \stoplua % stop low-level \stoptext ------------------------------- Gruß, Wolfgang

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LuaTeX problems with \seeindex and \from
by Drazen Baic 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Hi, this is my first posting to this list but I'm following it through the archives for quite a long time. First I would like to thank the list for this huge archive. By reading the documentation and searching this archive most of my questions about ConTeXt where answered. I searched for these problems but couldn't find anything. Now to my question: I was generating my documents with XeTeX until I switched to LuaTeX and MKIV a few days ago. After I changed my typescripts almost everything worked perfectly but the commands \seeindex[]{}{} and \from[]. 1) \seeindex simply doesn't seem to work. The index is generated but all \seeindex entries are missing. It works perfectly when generated with 'texexec --xtx'. Generating the document with \version[temporary] shows in the margin '> i Indexentry' and '> see Showindexentry' so it seems that both entries are ok. I set up the register with '\completeindex[interaction=text,align=yes]' Is this a bug or are \seeindex entries handled different with LuaTeX? 2) The other problem took me quite some time to find out. When I create the document with 'texexec --lua' LuaTeX it seems that everything runs fine but no document is generated. There are no error messages even with '--verbose' set - at least I couldn't see any. Finally I found out that 'luatex' crashed during 'LuaTools | running command: luatex --fmt' (see the CrashReporter log at the end of the mail). I started to leave out all components of the product and started just with the title page, then included chapter after chapter until I found out the LuaTeX crashes when I leave the command \from[] in. I defined the URL with \useURL[apache][http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi] and am using it in the document with \from[apache]. Here are the versions I'm using. OS: Mac OS X 10.5.2 ConTeXt: 2008.04.11 00:07 LuaTeX: snapshot-0.25.2-2008041101 Many thanks in advance and regards, Drazen Baic Process: luatex [269] Path: /usr/local/context-20080411/tex/texmf-osx-ppc/bin/luatex Identifier: luatex Version: ??? (???) Code Type: PPC (Native) Parent Process: texlua [268] Date/Time: 2008-04-13 11:21:14.865 +0200 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.2 (9C31) Report Version: 6 Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS) Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000010 Crashed Thread: 0 Thread 0 Crashed: 0 luatex 0x000dfc00 0x1000 + 912384 1 luatex 0x00163f00 0x1000 + 1453824 2 luatex 0x002c9820 0x1000 + 2918432 Thread 0 crashed with PPC Thread State 32: srr0: 0x000dfc00 srr1: 0x0200f030 dar: 0x00000010 dsisr: 0x40000000 r0: 0x00000004 r1: 0xbfffdce0 r2: 0x00000004 r3: 0x00000004 r4: 0x00000001 r5: 0x00000010 r6: 0x00000000 r7: 0x00000000 r8: 0x00000030 r9: 0x0003a598 r10: 0x00019bd4 r11: 0x00002ecc r12: 0x95158b40 r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x00000000 r16: 0x00000000 r17: 0x00000000 r18: 0x00000000 r19: 0x00000003 r20: 0x0380b880 r21: 0x03806cd0 r22: 0x00000000 r23: 0x00000001 r24: 0x075910e0 r25: 0x03806cac r26: 0x07591100 r27: 0x00000100 r28: 0x00000020 r29: 0x07591100 r30: 0xbfffdce0 r31: 0x000e2cc4 cr: 0x48000444 xer: 0x00000004 lr: 0x000dfbf4 ctr: 0x000e5d0c vrsave: 0x00000000 Binary Images: 0x1000 - 0x4bbff9 +luatex ??? (???) /usr/local/context-20080411/tex/texmf-osx-ppc/bin/luatex 0x8fe00000 - 0x8fe30b23 dyld 96.2 (???) <39109181acbf30fed542e6c9abcf1798> /usr/lib/dyld 0x90b77000 - 0x90b7cff6 libmathCommon.A.dylib ??? (???) /usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib 0x950ef000 - 0x95156ffb libstdc++.6.dylib ??? (???) <a4e9b10268b3ffac26d0296499b24e8e> /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib 0x95157000 - 0x952f0fe3 libSystem.B.dylib ??? (???) <754231f5e52ed8418f89f1f3369caf58> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib 0x96842000 - 0x9684dffb libgcc_s.1.dylib ??? (???) <ea47fd375407f162c76d14d64ba246cd> /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib 0xffff8000 - 0xffff9703 libSystem.B.dylib ??? (???) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

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mtx-update --context=beta?
by Joel C. Salomon 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

I'm putting together my own rsync calls based on the Minimals firstsetup.bat and Vyatcheslav's installer. Found a difference: firstsetup.bat includes the switch --context=beta in its call to mtx-update. What is the difference if it's used or no?

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luatex feature question/request
by Marcin Borkowski 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Hello! I was just wondering, whether something like this is possible in luatex - and if not, if it might be implemented;). I'd like to be able to transform somehow the input right *before* TeX sees it. What I mean is e.g. a transformation using regexps. Application I have in mind is as follows: in Polish, there are a few prepositions which are one-letter words; it's a bad custom to leave them hanging at the end of a line. Such an option could automatically put ties (~) instead of spaces after them - a feature sometimes requested by Polish TeX users. Yours, -- Marcin Borkowski (http://mbork.faculty.fmcs.amu.edu.pl)

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Homework for Hans and Taco
by Yue Wang 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Hi, Exactly the same input as described in the metafont manual. \starttext Hello world! \useMPlibrary[txt] \startuseMPgraphic{test 1} path p ; p := fullcircle scaled 6cm ; build_parshape(p,6pt,0,0,\baselinedistance, \strutheight,\strutdepth,\strutheight) ; draw p withpen pencircle scaled 1pt ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{test 2} path p ; p := fullsquare rotated 45 scaled 5cm ; build_parshape(p,6pt,0,0,\baselinedistance, \strutheight,\strutdepth,\strutheight) ; draw p withpen pencircle scaled 1pt ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{test 3} numeric w, h ; w := h := 6cm ; path p ; p := (.5w,h) -- (0,h) -- (0,0) -- (w,0) & (w,0) .. (.75w,.5h) .. (w,h) & (w,h) -- cycle ; build_parshape(p,6pt,0,0,\baselinedistance, \strutheight,\strutdepth,\strutheight) ; draw p withpen pencircle scaled 1pt ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{test 4} numeric w, h, o ; def shape = (o,o) -- (w-o,o) & (w-o,o) .. (.75w-o,.5h) .. (w-2o,h-o) & (w-2o,h-o) -- (o,h-o) -- cycle enddef ; w := h := 6cm ; o := 6pt ; path p ; p := shape ; w := h := 6cm ; o := 0pt ; path q ; q := shape ; build_parshape(p,q,6pt,6pt,\baselinedistance, \strutheight,\strutdepth,\strutheight) ; draw q withpen pencircle scaled 1pt ; \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[test 1][\useMPgraphic{test 1}] \defineoverlay[test 2][\useMPgraphic{test 2}] \defineoverlay[test 3][\useMPgraphic{test 3}] \defineoverlay[test 4][\useMPgraphic{test 4}] \startshapetext[test 1,test 2,test 3,test 4] \input douglas % Douglas R. Hofstadter \stopshapetext \startbuffer \setupframed [offset=overlay,align=normal,frame=off, width=\parwidth,height=\parheight] \startcombination[2*2] {\framed[background=test 1]{\getshapetext}} {test 1} {\framed[background=test 2]{\getshapetext}} {test 2} {\framed[background=test 3]{\getshapetext}} {test 3} {\framed[background=test 4]{\getshapetext}} {test 4} \stopcombination \stopbuffer \placefigure [here][fig:shapes] {A continuous text, typeset in a non||standard shape, spread over four areas, and right alligned.} {\getbuffer} \stoptext Yue Wang

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followup: arrows in mplib
by Thomas A. Schmitz 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

I'm afraid arrows look better now, but they're not yet quite what they used to be. Test: \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{arrowtest} z1=(0,0) ; z2=(3cm,0) ; ahlength := 15pt ; pickup pencircle scaled 5pt ; drawarrow z1--z2 withcolor red ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{arrowtest} \stoptext Homework for Hans and Taco again? :-) Thomas

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Problem to save data font in cache
by Wolfgang Schuster 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Hi, I tried to use the cwTeX fonts with MkIV and I can use them but ConTeXt is not able to save the font data and read the font for every run, this did work but it takes quiet some time to do this. A attached the result from the terminal and the log file. The font are available from the following page: http://cle.linux.org.tw/fonts/cwttf/baseline/ My example document is: % engine=luatex \definefont[cwheib][file:cwheib*default at 12pt] \starttext \cwheib cwTeXHeiBold \stoptext Wolfgang

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mtxrun can’t find the scripts
by Olivier Guéry 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Hello, I still can't run mtxrun --scripts fonts --mtxrun --reload the output give me : MtxRun | unknown script: fonts I tried with my context installation in /usr/share/texmf and with context minimal. Digging in my directories, I supose that thoses scripts are the mtx-* in $LOCALTEX/scripts/context/lua I can't run any of them (assuming that the syntax is mtxrun --scripts {the name of the script without the « mtx- » prefix and « .lua » sufix}). I tried do chmod +x them… nothing I haven't see problems in the install process… (exept that I must run, ctxtools --update and texexec --make --all --{pdf,xe,lu}tex being root, but my user don't have write rights on these directories, so…) Any idear ? Cheers, Olivier. -- [Message tapé sur un clavier Bépo : http://www.clavier-dvorak.org ] Olivier nemolivier(a)gmail.com http://nemolivier.blogspot.com

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--autopdf closes all documents
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

I am using Scite on Windows to edit and build my documents. The most annoying behaviour is that when I press F7 to build the document the "texexec --pdf --autopdf" command that it executes closes ALL open pdf documents. So that I have to keep re-opening everything :-( Is there a way to build which just closes the document you are building and leaves others open? Thanks, Richard Stephens

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small caps and old numbers with open type fonts
by Antoine Junod 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Hello list, I'm still playing with a few otf fonts and enjoying the way ConTeXt works :) I'm now playing with a beautiful Garamond. I try to typeset a few things with old-style numbers and, well, the output contains old-style numbers but not in my Garamond (it seems to be in latin modern). What should I do to use the old-style numbers of my font? Did a miss a doc about that? Or did I missunderstood the \os command (I thought it was a switch to the old-style of the font but it seems rather to change of font)? I actually use my font as simple as possible with a \definefont[boum][MyFont at 12pt]. Is it the problem? It the same with the \sc command. Thanks a lot for your reply, -AJ

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latest
by Thomas A. Schmitz 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Hi all (Hans, Taco...), thre appears to be a problem with font-syn.lua in the latest release. First, there's a typo in l. 291. I think if not filename and not reloaded and fonts.name.autoreload then should be if not filename and not reloaded and fonts.names.autoreload then But even after correcting that, I still get errors when compiling something with Greek in it: This went wrong: ...al/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/font- syn.lua:296: attempt to index local 'name' (a nil value) report >> fontnames: 0 system files identified, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.000024 seconds. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...me \fontclass #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \iftryingfont \... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.68 \startgreek ? ! Emergency stop. Any pointers? Thanks! Thomas

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{Spam?} Degree of MKII isolation from MKIV changes
by Michael Santy 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

>From watching the mailing list, it seems that there's been a bit of instability due to recent changes for MKIV. For the benefit of those of us exclusively using MKII, can someone comment on how insulated MKII users are from changes made for development on MKIV? Cheers, Mike

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Architecture Sketch
by Suno Ano 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

hi folks, I am new to ConTeXt. I had been a TeXinfo, Muse and LaTeX boy so far. Now that I am into ConTeXt for the 2nd day it came to my attention that there is for eample MkIV, luatex etc. How do they fit together? Is there some sort of architecure chart somewhere so newbies can get a hold within a few seconds? Secondly, now that it seems MkIV is the new star will all my ConTeXt knowledge be obsolete once luatex is going to be used? (Maybe I am just making a fool out of myself even asking this but then I am totally new to this whole subject so ...) What I want is to write documents (papers, manual, theses, etc.) with ConTeXt. So, is the time I am going to invest into learning and toying around with ConTeXt a secure investment of my time or not i.e. ConTeXt will be phased out or something (again, asking this might actually make me look goofy :-) tia for enlightening me!

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Re: [NTG-context] mplib
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

On 15 Apr 2008 at 13:31, ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: Hallo Taco, > > (I have temporary appended 'dump;' to plain.mp) > > After the above, you should have plain.mem in the local directory. No. There is neither a 'plain.fmt' nor a 'plain.mem'! I have searched in the local directory, where it should be. It is not in 'D:\context\tex\texmf-mswin\web2c' where format-files usally exist. It is not in the cache. I run this: ------------------------------------------------------- \enableregime[utf-8] \starttext % start low-level \startlua local function finder(name, mode, ftype) if mode=="w" then return name else return kpse.find_file(name,ftype) end end mp = mplib.new ( { hash_size = 100000, main_memory = 2000000, param_size = 100000, find_file = finder, ini_version = true } ) if mp then res = mp:execute("plain") print(table.serialize(res)) res = mp:finish() print(table.serialize(res)) end \stoplua % stop low-level \stoptext ------------------------------------------------------- with the following output: ------------------------------------------------------- t={ ["log"]="This is MetaPost, Version 1.003 (INIMP) 15 APR 2008 21:00 (plain.mpPreloading the plain mem file, version 0.99", ["status"]=0, ["term"]="This is MetaPost, Version 1.003 (Cweb version 0.40) (INIMP)\ (plain.mpPreloading the plain mem file, version 0.99", } t={ ["log"]=" )\ Beginning to dump on file plain.mem\ (mem=plain 8.4.15)\ at most 735 strings of total length 3629\ 3326 memory locations dumped; current usage is 1021&2227\ 501 symbolic tokens\ ", ["status"]=0, ["term"]=" )\ Beginning to dump on file plain.mem\ (mem=plain 8.4.15)\ at most 735 strings of total length 3629\ 3326 memory locations dumped; current usage is 1021&2227\ 501 symbolic tokens\ Transcript written on plain.log.\ ", } ------------------------------------------------------- Can you see, what I am missing? Wolfgang

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using mag and "myway"
by Pau 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

Hi, I am worried because I would like to use mag-01 to write a document and then upload it to the arxiv.org. Of course, I have a title for the document and I would like to use it instead of having "My Way" written in the front page (which nobody would understand) I see that ------------------------- %C This module is part of the \CONTEXT\ macro||package and is %C therefore copyrighted by \PRAGMA. See mreadme.pdf for %C details. ------------------------- I found this file on the net. at www.tug.org/teTeX/tetex-texmfdist/doc/context/base/mreadme.pdf I see that it is (basically?) GPL. Ok... now, in mag-01 I read that: % This style is used for producing explanationary documents. % Don't misuse it for other purposes, since it may confuse % users. Don't change the title either, since it provides a % way to categorize documents. Numbers are disabled in % instances produced outside PRAGMA ADE. "Don't change the title either" ?!?! and % These are reserved for PRAGMA-ADE, don't use them yourself! % \setvariables[magazine][main=Tricky] % \setvariables[magazine][main=Update] % \setvariables[magazine][main=HOWTO] % \setvariables[magazine][main=This Way] % preludes to a/the manual % \setvariables[magazine][main=A Better Way] % dirty versus clean % \setvariables[magazine][main=No Way] % how users should not do % it % \setvariables[magazine][main=Your Way] % how users do it % \setvariables[magazine][main=My Way] % how users do it % \setvariables[magazine][main=Our Way] % how we do things at % pragma % \setvariables[magazine][main=Their Way] % how to do latex things % in context What does this mean? Am I free to use the style but forced to write "My Way" on the top of it? Cannot I modify mag-01.tex, rename it to something which do not lead to confusion (say "JourDiffTitle.tex") and -of course leaving the comments there- use it as I want? Are the example tex files under the gpl or cannot one modify them? I am asking to avoid posterior problems. Thanks, Pau

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2 problems with "texexec --module"
by Peter Münster 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

Hello, 1.) Compilation stop like this: [1.1] [2.1] . (./t-french.tex language : language specific options [default-fr] introduce a 4.0pt skip \wait= With the following example: %D \module %D [ file=t-french, %D version=2008.04.05, %D title=\CONTEXT\ User Module, %D subtitle=For French documents, %D author=Peter Münster, %D date=\currentdate, %D copyright={Peter Münster}] \startlanguagespecifics[fr] \setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation] \stoplanguagespecifics Command: texexec --module --luatex t-french 2.) The option "--result" is not respected: texexec --module --result=french-doc t-french produces t-french.pdf but not french-doc.pdf. Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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new zips
by Hans Hagen 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

Hi, I uploaded new zips. Beware, for some bugfixes a new luatex binary is needed 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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bug in mplib?
by Thomas A. Schmitz 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

Hi all, I just noticed that with the new incarnation of metapost, arrows behave somewhat erratically. Take this minmal example: \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{arrowtest} z1=(0,0) ; z2=(3cm,0) ; ahlength := 15pt ; pickup pencircle scaled 5pt ; drawarrow z1--z2 ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{arrowtest} \stoptext compile it with mkii and mkiv and observe the difference. All best Thomas

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Unable to generate luatex formats
by Michael Green 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

[A] My experience is similar to Hans van der Meer's (quoted below). luatools --generate does what I think it's supposed to. luatools luat-env.lua returns a blank line. [B] I followed Thomas Schmitz's instructions and used the source .luatex method, for what it's worth. http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/ 20071002.175335.21873a03.en.html .luatex contains: export TEXMFCACHE="/tmp" export TEXMFCNF="/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c" export TEXMF="{/Users/michaelgreen/.texlive2007/texmf-config,/Users/ michaelgreen/.texlive2007/texmf-var,/Users/michaelgreen/Library/ texmf,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/ texmf-var,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf,/usr/local/texlive/2007/../ texmf-local,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist}" export LUAINPUTS="{/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base,/ usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua,/usr/local/ texlive/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua}" [C] Is there a chance that this is a permissions issue? I had to make luatools.lua executable by hand. None of the other files in that directory are executable, where 'that' directory is: /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua mjg > From: Hans van der Meer <hansm(a)science.uva.nl> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Unable to generate luatex formats > > Same thing here. "luatools luat-env.lua" gives an empty line. After > "luatools --generate" again the same. > And I have TEXMFCNF and TEXMF defined in .bashrc > TEXMFCNF="/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c" > TEXMF="{/Users/hans/TeX/texmf-private,/usr/local/texlive/texmf- > context,/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf,/ > usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf- > dist,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-doc,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf- > var}" > > So there must be something else amiis. > > Hans van der Meer

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Module documentation
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

Hello all, I have been using Context for a while now and have learnt a lot from the manuals and wiki. I now want to start to use features that are not documented. On the wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Official_ConTeXt_Documentation#ConTeXt_Sources) I found the following command for producing a pdf output for a module: texmfstart texexec --module kpse:core-tab.tex which seems ideal for learning more. When I run the above command line it creates a .ted file but then complains: "I can't find the format file 'cont-en.fmt'!" On Luigi Scarso's page (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso/modules.pdf) he suggests the following: texexec --module --pdf core-tab.tex but this returns no output at all, and no pdf. I am working on Windows. I installed (this week) from the context/install/mswincontext.zip on the Pragma site and normally build from the Scite editor. Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong? Thanks. Richard Stephens

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Re: [NTG-context] LinuxLibertine Typescript (was : fonts and luatex)
by Olivier Guéry 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

> \starttypescript [serif] [linuxlibertine] > \setups[font:fallback:serif] > \definefontsynonym [Serif] [LinLibertine-Regular] > \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [LinLibertine-Bold] > \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [LinLibertine-Italic] > \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [LinLibertine-BoldItalic] > \definefontsynonym [SerifCaps] [LinLibertine-Caps] >\stoptypescript > >\starttypescript [serif] [linuxlibertine] > \definefontsynonym [LinLibertine-Regular] [file:LinLibertine_Re-2.7.9.9] [features=default] > \definefontsynonym [LinLibertine-Bold] [file:LinLibertine_Bd-2.7.8] [features=default] > \definefontsynonym [LinLibertine-Italic] [file:LinLibertine_It-2.7.8] [features=default] > \definefontsynonym [LinLibertine-BoldItalic] [file:LinLibertine_BI-2.7.2] [features=default] > \definefontsynonym [LinLibertine-Caps] [file:LinLibertineC_Re-2.7.3] [features=default] >\stoptypescript > >\starttypescript [linuxlibertine] > \definetypeface [\typescriptone] [rm] [serif] [linuxlibertine] [default] >\stoptypescript > > >\usetypescript[linuxlibertine] >\setupbodyfont[linuxlibertine] > >\starttext >Text in Linux Libertine. >\stoptext Thank's for the help, but I got this error : […] specials : fdf loaded ) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-otf.texThis went wrong: /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:226: attempt to call field '?' (a nil value) ). <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...me \fontclass #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \iftryingfont \... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.32 \setupbodyfont[linuxlibertine] ? I have exactly the same version of libertine font in /usr/share/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/linlibertine Greetings, Olivier. -- [tapé sur un clavier Bépo : http://www.clavier-dvorak.org ] Olivier nemolivier(a)gmail.com http://nemolivier.blogspot.com

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Re: [NTG-context] mplib
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

On 13 Apr 2008 at 13:31, ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: Hallo Taco, thank you for your example. > % start low-level > \startlua > local function finder(name, mode, ftype) > if mode=="w" then > return name > else > return kpse.find_file(name,ftype) > end > end > mp = mplib.new ( { > hash_size = 100000, > main_memory = 2000000, > param_size = 100000, > find_file = finder, > ini_version = true > } ) > if mp then > res = mp:execute('plain') > mp:finish() > end this first step runs with res=0, but there is no 'plain.mem' dumped. (I have temporary appended 'dump;' to plain.mp) this first step runs with res=0 with mp:execute('mpost'), but no 'mpost.mem' the first step even runs with res=0 and mp:execute('\\plain; dump;'), but no 'plain.mem' after that I produced 'plain.mem' executing 'texmfstart texexec --make plain' > > mp = mplib.new ( { > hash_size = 100000, > main_memory = 2000000, > param_size = 100000, > find_file = finder, > } ) > > if mp then > res = mp:execute( > "\\beginfig(1) draw (0,0) .. (1,1) .. (2,1); endfig; bye;" ) > tex.print("[" .. tostring(res.status) .. "]") > mp:finish() > end > \stoplua > % stop low-level > this second step returns res=3. Is there a find_file function necessary to find the mem-file given in 'mem_name' or is such a function only necessary for file-names in 'mp:execute'? Wolfgang -- Musensturm-Verlag -- Postfach 1249 -- 36126 Gersfeld >>> http://www.musensturm.de

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fonts and luatex
by Antoine Junod 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

Hello, List! Is it still needed to 'install' fonts with luatex and otf fonts or is it enough to drop the otf font files in a random place inside texmf/fonts/opentype/ ? Thanks for your reply, -AJ

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Re: [NTG-context] Module documentation
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

Wolfgang and Mojca, Thank-you for your replies. They have enabled me to set up a little batch file to make life easier when I want to generate a module document. Thanks, Richard Stephens

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Re: [NTG-context] Unable to generate luatex formats
by Michael Green 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

The two files Taco pointed to *appear* to be OK (though I'm too inexperienced to say with certainty). That leaves something esoteric or a tossed salad of old and new code. Since this is mainly a matter of learning and curiosity for me, I'll wait and see how things develop for a bit. Thanks for your help! mjg >> I think either >> >> /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/luat-env.tex >> >> is not the one from the latest context distribution, or an extra >> luatools --generate command is needed. >> >> You can check the \contextversion by looking at >> >> /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/context.tex >> >> around line 45, it should say >> >> \edef\contextversion{2008.04.11 14:48} >> >> >> There can be some more esoteric causes, but these are the two most >> likely ones. >> > > in previou sversions the env was loaded runtime (this behaviour > originated in the stepwise development of embedding bytecodes in the > format, in the beginning all chunks were loaded at runtime); i managed > to get rid of that; in addition to taco's suggestions ... so it > could be > that old code and new code is mixed.

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\hyphenatedfile redefined!!
by Aditya Mahajan 14 Apr '08

14 Apr '08

Hi, Typeset this file :) \starttext The file \filename{knuth} contains a quotation from Don Knuth, the creator of \TEX. \stoptext core-ver.tex defines \filename to be \unexpanded\def\filename#1{{\tttf\hyphenatedfile{#1}}} and supp-lan.tex defines \hypenatedfile to be \let\hyphenatedfile\hyphenatedurl However this is redefined in supp-box.tex, due to which \filename gets redefined. %D \macros %D {hyphenatedword, %D hyphenatedpar, %D hyphenatedfile, %D dohyphenateword} %D %D The next one is a tricky one. \PLAIN\ \TEX\ provides %D \type{\showhyphens} for showing macros on the terminal. When %D preparing a long list of words we decided to show the %D hyphens, but had to find out that the \PLAIN\ alternative %D can hardly be used and|/|or adapted to typesetting. The next %D two macros do the job and a little more. Although, I cannot gather this from the definition, it seems that \hypenatedfile is showing all the hyphens in a file. One of the macros need to get a different name :) Aditya

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Error: Illegal entry in bfrange block in ToUnicode CMap
by luigi scarso 14 Apr '08

14 Apr '08

I have a catalog.pdf Title: catalog Subject: Keywords: Author: Creator: ConTeXt - 2008.04.11 00:07 Producer: luaTeX-0.25.2 CreationDate: Mon Apr 14 14:58:34 2008 ModDate: 20080414 Tagged: no Pages: 158 Encrypted: no Page size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4) File size: 70685151 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.5 with this fonts name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- --------- MDCNZX+LMSans10-Bold CID Type 0C yes yes yes 13 0 IGGGUK+LMSans8-Regular CID Type 0C yes yes yes 14 0 GZMKLC+UnicodeSymbols CID TrueType yes yes yes 94 0 PTHJMN+LMTypewriter10-Regular CID Type 0C yes yes yes 855 0 WRYWGB+LMMathItalic8-Italic Type 1 yes yes no 957 0 After "distilling" with $> gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOOUTERSAVE -dUseCIEColor -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceCMYK -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=a.pdf catalog.pdf -c quit I have $> pdffonts a.pdf Producer: GPL Ghostscript 8.62 CreationDate: Mon Apr 14 15:06:11 2008 ModDate: Mon Apr 14 15:06:11 2008 Tagged: no Pages: 158 Encrypted: no Page size: 595.28 x 841.89 pts (A4) File size: 24409214 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.4 name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- --------- YPEQNS+LMSans8-Regular-Identity-H CID Type 0C yes yes yes 27 0 YXQHXP+LMSans10-Bold-Identity-H CID Type 0C yes yes yes 24 0 BCGFHD+UnicodeSymbols-Identity-H CID TrueType yes yes yes 139 0 VOBVYK+LMTypewriter10-Regular-Identity-H CID Type 0C yes yes yes 1144 0 IAAFVL+LMMathItalic8-Italic Type 1C yes yes no 1286 0 and many ( 4516 lines ) Error: Illegal entry in bfrange block in ToUnicode CMap What is this ? Maybe a xpdf bug ? (xpdf version 3.01) Note that gs has no problems with both files . My setup : This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.25.2-2008041413 ConTeXt ver: 2008.04.11 00:07 MKIV fmt: 2008.4.14 int: english/english -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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luatools --ini plain
by Hans van der Meer 14 Apr '08

14 Apr '08

This is something I don't understand. In the mk.pdf manual on luatex on page 21 there is the following example: luatools --ini plain Instead of the expected output 120,808 plain.fmt etc. I get an error: "There is no lua initialization file found. ..." Running "luatools --generate" does not help. There is a hint: "This file can be forced by the --progname directve, or specified with --luaname,..." How can I get a "lua initialization file" in order to not have the error. And how do I interpret the hint, as the text of the error message is too cryptic for me to understand. Hans van der Meer

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MkIV and DVI output
by Wolfgang Schuster 14 Apr '08

14 Apr '08

Hi, is it possible to produce DVI files with Mark IV. I tried a simple file like \starttext text \stoptext with the command texexec --lua --backend=dvipdfm filename The content from my log file is (./dvi.tex ConTeXt ver: 2008.03.24 23:24 MKIV fmt: 2008.4.8 int: english/english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded (c:/w32tex/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (c:/w32tex/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv lua : used config path - C:/w32tex/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf lua : used cache path - C:/DOKUME\CCC:5:126 1/Wolfgang/LOKALE\CCC:5:126 1/Temp/luatex-cache/context/aa3708bbacfa039a6085d2b5c7446e1e ) (c:/w32tex/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-mtx.tex)) system : cont-old loaded (c:/w32tex/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (c:/w32tex/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (c:/w32tex/share/texmf-local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex (c:/w32tex/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex) (c:/w32tex/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (c:/w32tex/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex)) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded specials : tex loaded system : dvi.top loaded (./dvi.top specials : loading definition file dpx (c:/w32tex/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-dpx.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (c:/w32tex/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex (c:/w32tex/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.mkiv)) specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf loaded ) (./dvi.tuo) (./dvi.tuo) systems : begin file dvi at line 3 fonts : resetting map file list fonts : using map file: original-base fonts : using map file: lm-math fonts : using map file: lm-rm fonts : using map file: original-ams-base fonts : using map file: original-ams-euler fonts : using map file: original-public-lm [1.1 ! This can't happen (ext4). \actualshipout ... \box \postponedcontent \box 0}} \else \message {[\ifarrang... \myshipout ... \fi {\thisisrealpage \realfolio #1} \gotonextrealpage \aftersh... \dofinaloutput ...gebody #1#2\setpagecounters }}}} \else \the \pageboundsetti... \finaloutput ...EAEAEA \dofinaloutput \fi \fi #1#2 \resetselectiepagina \incr... \sidefloatoutput ...e \else \finalsidefloatoutput \global \sidefloatvsize \n... <argument> ...\fi \else \the \defaultstreamoutput \fi ... l.7 \stoptext I'm broken. Please show this to someone who can fix can fix mkiv lua stats : used config path - C:/w32tex/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf mkiv lua stats : used cache path - C:/DOKUME~1/Wolfgang/LOKALE~1/Temp/luatex-cache/context/aa3708bbacfa039a6085d2b5c7446e1e mkiv lua stats : modules/dumps/instances - 81/20/1 mkiv lua stats : input load time - 0.050 seconds mkiv lua stats : fonts load time - 1.041 seconds mkiv lua stats : xml load time - 0.000 seconds mkiv lua stats : mps conversion time - 0.000 seconds mkiv lua stats : node processing time - 0.000 seconds (including kernel) mkiv lua stats : kernel processing time - 0.000 seconds mkiv lua stats : attribute processing time - 0.000 seconds mkiv lua stats : language load time - 0.030 seconds (n=2) mkiv lua stats : graphics processing time - 0.000 seconds (n=0) (including tex) mkiv lua stats : current memory usage - 51703045 bytes mkiv lua stats : cleaned up reserved nodes - 16 nodes, 8 lists (of 100) mkiv lua stats : loaded patterns - en:en:pat:exc:2 mkiv lua stats : node memory usage - 69 hlist, 33 vlist, 3 rule, 130 glue, 5 kern, 10 penalty, 5 glyph, 153 attribute, 84 glue_spec, 75 attribute_list, 1 temp, 7 if_stack, 17 special, 9 local_par, 7 dir, 2 pdf_literal mkiv lua stats : loaded fonts - file:lmroman10-bolditalic*default:otf file:lmroman10-italic*default:otf file:lmroman12-bold*default:otf file:lmroman12-italic*default:otf file:lmroman12-regular*default:otf file:lmroman7-bold*default:otf file:lmroman7-regular*default:otf file:lmroman9-bold*default:otf file:lmroman9-italic*default:otf file:lmroman9-regular*default:otf file:lmromancaps10-regular*default:otf file:lmromanslant10-bold*default:otf file:lmromanslant10-regular*default:otf file:lmromanslant12-regular*default:otf file:lmromanslant9-regular*default:otf lmex10:tfm lmmi12:tfm lmmi7:tfm lmmi9:tfm lmsy10:tfm lmsy7:tfm lmsy9:tfm msam10:tfm msam7:tfm msbm10:tfm msbm7:tfm rm-lmr12:tfm rm-lmr7:tfm rm-lmr9:tfm Wolfgang

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Unfill with anglebetween
by David Arnold 14 Apr '08

14 Apr '08

All, I was trying to help a student today and the following came up. drawarrow anglebetween(path1, path2, btex $\theta$ etex) Is there some way to typeset the theta with an "unfilled" background? David.

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Re: [NTG-context] LuaTex error "attempt to index global 'lang' (a nil value)"
by Roland 14 Apr '08

14 Apr '08

Hmmm this produces something funny: $ luatools --selfupdate LuaTools | to be replaced old script /usr/texbin/luatools LuaTools | unable to locate new script LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.005 seconds Perhaps some link is wrong or I shouldn't use the alias /usr/texbin (as installed by MacTeX)? On 08/04/2008, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Did you try to run > luatools --selfupdate > ?

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Natural tables, offsets
by David 14 Apr '08

14 Apr '08

Hi all I'm using the natural table environment, and would like the text in each cell to have some horizontal offset from the cell boundaries - but I don't want to change the vertical offset. Is there a way to do this? Thanks David

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Streams
by Roman Sigg 13 Apr '08

13 Apr '08

Hello For a publication project in phonetics and dialectology I'd like to print the phonetic transcription and the dialect text in a two column setup. I would be interested to use context for that (more flexibility than LaTeX), but every new paragraph is printed on a new page (as Henning Hraban Ramm posted earlier). Is there a work around other than using two pages? Thanks, Roman Universität Zürich Phonogrammarchiv Roman Sigg Rämistr. 71 8006 Zürich Fon +41 44 634 39 90 Fax +41 44 634 49 68 rosigg(a)access.uzh.ch http://www.phonogrammarchiv.uzh.ch

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Re: [NTG-context] new version luatex / mkiv
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 13 Apr '08

13 Apr '08

On 12 Apr 2008 at 12:00, ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: Hallo Taco, > Real API documentation will be provided once I am past the "alpha" > release stage. At the moment, I do not trust the API enough to > expose it to anything except controlled environments (lua mplib, > newmpost) > > >> Isn't mplib a dll under windows? > > It is possible to build the unix version as a .so because support > for that comes from autofoo automatically, but that is not yet > officially supported: debugging dynamic libraries is harder than > debugging static code. On the other side, it is very easy to replace a dll by a new version, if the interface stays stable. > MPlib could become a dll on windows eventually, but first someone > will have to explain to me how to create a windows dll (and I vastly > prefer a solution that does not involve me having to pay Microsoft any > money). You have not to pay anything, to build a Dll. And there is Msys for example, which works in a unix-environment under windows. Should be no problem. > I have exactly zero knowledge in that area and do not have a > Windows installation either: the one and only XP machine here is my > wife's gaming machine and that is strictly offlimits to me. :-) > Future versions of luatex and mpost itself (and potential other > texlive programs) will almost certainly remain statically linked > because that is much more convenient for us as maintainers. If there is more than one program, which is using mplib, you have to update all theses programs, if you make some mplib changes. But I think that a dll could very much boost the metapost usage. It would than be very easy to write third party software. Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] new version luatex / mkiv
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 13 Apr '08

13 Apr '08

Hallo, > > is there or will there be a documented interface description for > mplib. > > In the luatex reference manual (for now). > > http://foundry.supelec.fr/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/tags/beta-0.25. > 2/manual/?root=luatex This manual is not viewable without deleting a html-frame. Or what I am doing wrong? The manual describes a lua interface. Isn't mplib a dll under windows? If yes, where can I find a header-file of the export table. If no, how have you implemented the library? Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] luatexing
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 13 Apr '08

13 Apr '08

On 12 Apr 2008 at 9:39, ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: > > I have a few silly questions about > > > > tex.print() > > > > To produce > > > > $\sqrt{2}=1.4142135623731$ > > > > it should be enough to write > > > > tex.print("$\\sqrt{2}=" .. math.sqrt(2) .. "$") > > this is because \\ can mean anything, for instance it may expand to > \par or \crlf or .. May be I do not understand this right, but I thought that '\' is luas escape character and tex.print() returns '\' not '\\'. So TeX sees no macro '\\' which could expand to whatever. > there is a \luaescapestring primitive which catches things like > quotes Can you make a little example of usage? > tex.print("\detokenize{$\sqrt{2}=}" .. math.sqrt(2) .. "$") Could not find the definition of \detokenize. Wolfgang

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mplib & undefined commands
by Mojca Miklavec 13 Apr '08

13 Apr '08

Hello Hans, I have modified the gnuplot module a bit, and stumbled upon: 1.) the need for \ifx\savebuffer\undefined \else \savebuffer[...]\fi which has been expected 2.) undefined command \forceMPTEXcheck{put_text} I have now used a wrapper to skip that line in LuaTeX (btw: what's the suggested \if clause or \beginNOLUATEX to check for luatex/mkiv?) Does it make sense to define \let\forceMPTEXcheck\empty in mkiv perhaps? 3.) undefined command \obeyMPlines. I actually forgot why I needed it, but according to the comment: \obeyMPlines % <- no longer a problem \def\obeyedline{}% <- thanks to this I simply commented out the first line and hoped for no problems in mkii 4.) It seems to work without problems now, except for one tiny detail that I get in the final PDF. [do we need TeXtexts in MkIV] What is that supposed to mean? I need to admit that I have the following piece of code in the module (in case that matters). Maybe I'm the only one who uses it, so if you have any idea how to modify the macros to make \sometxt[gp][iwona,14pt]{text} work in mkiv, I will happily drop the old code/replace it for mkiv. Thanks a lot, Mojca The relevant code from the module: %D Aditya, thanks a lot for requesting it! %D Hans, thanks a lot for implementing this! \definetextext[gp]{\strut} %D TODO (feature request): %D \starttyping %D \sometxt[gp][ss,20pt]{abc} %D \stoptyping %D should become equivalent to %D \starttyping %D \sometxt{\switchtobodyfont[ss,20pt]\strut abc} %D \stoptyping %D The following patch has been written by Aditya and seems to work OK, %D however it would be more clean to have this functionality in the core. %D Redefining low-level macros might be a bit dangerous, esp. since %D they tend to change over time. %D %D TODO: remind Hans to implement it in core ;) %D and remove this patch from the module \long\def\redofiltersometxt[#1]% {\doifnextcharelse[{\reredofiltersometxt[#1]}{\redodofiltersometxt[#1]}} \long\def\redodofiltersometxt[#1]#2% {\increment\txtcounter \TeXtext[#1]\txtcounter{#2}% \filtersometxt} \long\def\reredofiltersometxt[#1][#2]#3% {\increment\txtcounter \TeXtext[#1]\txtcounter{\switchtobodyfont[#2]\strut#3}% \filtersometxt}

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updating minimals
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 13 Apr '08

13 Apr '08

Hi all, Trying this morning to update my minimal context with the first-setup script, I get this error when running "texexec --make en --luatex" ................................... LuaTools | running command: luatex --ini --lua="cont-en.luc" "/win/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex" \\dump (/win/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex (/win/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.tex (/win/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/syst-pln.tex) (/win/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/syst-prm.tex) (/win/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/luat-env.tex) (/win/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/luat-lib.tex ! LuaTeX error ...context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-aux.lua:55: attempt to call field 'Carg' (a nil value). \ctxluabytecode ...ode " .. "#1" .. str) end end } \registerctxluafile ...{\the \luabytecodecounter } \fi l.45 \registerctxluafile{l-aux} {1.001} ? ................................... I'm lost! -- Jean

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Re: [NTG-context] mplib
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 13 Apr '08

13 Apr '08

On 12 Apr 2008 at 9:39, ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: > > \startlua > > mp = mplib.new ( { > > hash_size = 100000, > > main_memory = 2000000, > > param_size = 100000, > > } ) > > > > if mp then > > res = mp:execute( > > "beginfig(1) draw (0,0) .. (1,1) .. (2,1); endfig; bye;" ) > > tex.print("[" .. tostring(res.status) .. "]") > > mp:finish() > > end > > \stoplua > > no format, so beginfig, draw etc are unknown I thought 'plain.mem' is the default. But I see, there exists only 'metafun.mem'. So I wrote: ------------------------------------------------------ mp = mplib.new ( { hash_size = 100000, main_memory = 2000000, param_size = 100000, mem_name = "metafun.mem" } ) ------------------------------------------------------ and it get the same result > metapost.process("metafun","some commands") > > may work better ------------------------------------------------------ \startlua mp = mplib.new ( { hash_size = 100000, main_memory = 2000000, param_size = 100000 } ) if mp then res = metapost.process("metafun","beginfig(1) draw (0,0) .. (1,1) .. (2,1); endfig; bye;") tex.print("[" .. tostring(res.status) .. "]") mp:finish() end \stoplua ------------------------------------------------------ results in : ------------------------------------------------------ mplib : loading format: metafun.mp, name: d:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex- cache/context/c80dc1fd5292ec817c6e82c295beaf1e/formats/cont-en- metafun.mem ! Emergency stop. \@@expanded ..... "]") -- mp:finish() -- end } l.54 \stoplua ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! ------------------------------------------------------ why does it load 'metafun.mp'? after that I tried ------------------------------------------------------ \startlua mp = mplib.new ( { hash_size = 100000, main_memory = 2000000, param_size = 100000, mem_name = "metafun.mem" } ) if mp then res = metapost.process(mp, "beginfig(1) draw (0,0) .. (1,1) .. (2,1); endfig; bye;") tex.print("[" .. tostring(res.status) .. "]") mp:finish() end \stoplua ------------------------------------------------------ which gives the following error: ------------------------------------------------------ report >> error: This is MetaPost, Version 1.003 (Cweb version 0.40) I can't find the PLAIN mem file! ------------------------------------------------------ What else should I check to find the error? Wolfgang

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two easy xml-questions
by Thomas A. Schmitz 13 Apr '08

13 Apr '08

Hi gang, speaking of xml... I have two easy questions, but can't find an answer. It's about tweaking the pdf-output I get: 1. How do you add an additional hyphenation to a word? How would I enter the equivalent of super\-duper in an xml-file? I tried super&addhyphen;duper with this definition: \defineXMLentity[addhyphen]{\-} in my environment, but this doesn't seem to work. 2. Similar question: how to prevent an unwanted ligature, esp. in German? In TeX, I write Kauf{}laden. What would be a good way to do this in xml? I was thinking of Kauf&nolig;laden and \defineXMLentity[nolig]{\kern0pt} Any thoughts? Thanks! Thomas

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hyphenating bug
by Yue Wang 13 Apr '08

13 Apr '08

Hi Taco and Hans I was typesetting the manual of a software developed by me using ConTeXt while the problem occurred. I try to minimized the problem and the result is attached. luatex.pdf --- pdf produced by luatex 0.25.2 It seems luatex forgets to hyphenating capital words. I am not sure whether it is a bug of LuaTeX or ConTeXt. the output of pdftex 1.40.3 seems fine using the same output file described below. --input file \starttext THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. \stoptext I hope my information helpful. Yue Wang

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t-bib: URL and '%'; spacing between number and text
by Tobias Burnus 12 Apr '08

12 Apr '08

Hi all, I have a .bib file which contains @article{foo, url = {http://..../a%bb%cc.html} i.e. an URL with % sign. I want to typeset it in the references using: \def\gotoURL#1{\useURL[foo][#1]\goto{\url[foo]}[url(foo)]} \unprotect \setuppublicationlayout[article]{% ... \insertbiburl{ }{.}{}% The problem is: If I do not escape the % signs, I get a TeX error. If I escape them with \%, both the link and the printed text show the backslash. What is the proper way of doing it? Another problem is that I have in the reference list, the space between "]" and the author name in [123]Author is too small (they overlap). Is there an easy possibility to make the spacing automatically right or does one need to tweek it manually? Tobias

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Footnotes set outside of columns when using columnsets
by Elliot Clifton 12 Apr '08

12 Apr '08

Hi, When using columnsets is it possible to have footnotes placed at the bottom of the page rather than in columns? I searched the documentation and haven't found a way to do this. Minimal examples. Using columnsets: \definecolumnset[twocolumn][n=2] \starttext \startcolumnset[twocolumn] \dorecurse{4}{\input knuth \footnote[footnote]{footnote}\par} \stopcolumnset \stoptext It produces footnotes in columns which isn't what I want. The behaviour I want is the that produced by this example using \startcolumns: \starttext \startcolumns \dorecurse{4}{\input knuth \footnote[footnote]{footnote}\par} \stopcolumns \stoptext I'd like to be able to take advantage of the addition feature offered by using columnsets but need the footnotes to be set at the bottomof the page outside of the columns. Advice on how to do this would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance, Elliot

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luatex on live is down
by Yue Wang 12 Apr '08

12 Apr '08

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solution for problem with m-chemic.tex
by Peter Münster 12 Apr '08

12 Apr '08

Hello, It's a repost, because version 2008.04.10 still fails: What about the integration of this patch from Wolfgang Schuster into the distribution: - Forwarded message from Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang(a)googlemail.com> - Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:57:37 +0100 From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang(a)googlemail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] \chemical and MKIV On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Peter Münster <pmlists(a)free.fr> wrote: > Hello, > > The following test-file produces an error: > > % engine=luatex > \usemodule[chemic] > \starttext > \chemical{CO_2} > \stoptext This is tooo long. \usemodule[chemic] is enough to produce the error with mkiv. Replace the following lines in m-chemic \ifx\beginpicture\undefined \let\normalgrid\grid \let\normalaxis\axis \input pictex.tex \relax \let\pictexgrid\grid \let\pictexaxis\axis \let\grid\normalgrid \let\axis\normalaxis \fi with \ifx\beginpicture\undefined \let\beginpicture\relax \fi and the module works. Wolfgang ----- End forwarded message ----- -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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luatexing
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 12 Apr '08

12 Apr '08

Hallo, I have a few silly questions about tex.print() To produce $\sqrt{2}=1.4142135623731$ it should be enough to write tex.print("$\\sqrt{2}=" .. math.sqrt(2) .. "$") or better tex.print([[$\sqrt{2}=]] .. math.sqrt(2) .. "$") but that's both not working. The following instead does the job: tex.print("$\string\\sqrt{2}=" .. math.sqrt(2) .. "$") why? Another question: What is the differenz between 'tex.sprint()' and 'tex.write()'? Wolfgang

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