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Mojca, Miktex, and seeming success!
by dwarnold45＠suddenlink.net 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

Mojca, OK, saw your new post on: http://blog.miktex.org/post/2008/05/ConTeXt-support.aspx So, I extracted cont-tfm.zip to c:\Contet, used Miktex2.7->Settings to add it as a Root, refreshed the filename database, but the formats will still not build in Miktext2.7->Settings->Format cont-en.pdftex. Creating the cont-en.pdftex format file... Running pdftex... This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.4 (MiKTeX 2.7) (INITEX) entering extended mode ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\config\cont-en.ini") ! Emergency stop. <*> cont-en.ini No pages of output. Transcript written on cont-en.log. makefmt: pdftex failed on cont-en.ini. initexmf.EXE: The operation failed for some reason. And my new format attempt won't build either: ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\patterns\lang-hu.pat" ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pattern memory=300000]. l.1243 ^^c3^^a1h1ors No pages of output. Transcript written on cont-en.log. makefmt: pdftex failed on cont-en.tex. initexmf.EXE: The operation failed for some reason. Finally, I gave up on trying to use Miktex2.7->Settings to build the formats, opened a DOS box, and typed: $ texmfstart texexec --make --all I refreshed the filename database, now things seemingly work. This file: \starttext Hello, World! \stoptext Does compile with: $ texmfstart texexec --pdf junk.tex And this file: input mp-tool beginfig(1); numeric u; 10u=4in; drawdblarrow (-5u,0)--(5u,0); label.rt(btex $\theta$ etex, (5u,0)); drawdblarrow (0,-5u)--(0,5u); label.top(btex $\phi$ etex, (0,5u)); endfig; end. Does compile with: $ mpost junk.mp And more importantly, mptopdf now seemingly works, as I can now do: $ mptopdf junk.1 Which produces junk-1.pdf and opens correctly with the correct fonts. So, we'll see how this stands up .... Thanks for the help. Still open to further suggestion if any critique of my method. D.

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The most Tex friendly distribution?
by Armando Martins 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

Any idea about the most Tex-friendly Linux distribution, please? Thomas Schmitz told me OpenSuse (which I 've been using for a year...) is not that Tex-friendly... Thanks Armando -- A utilizar o cliente de correio revolucionário da Opera: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

hi, - the current beta has some speedups and mem improvements for fonts - for huge fonts (like chinese) general mem consumption can be made smaller (at the cost of some runtime) by \ctxlua{garbagecollector.enabled=true} although this is not that neccessary when you used the upcoming beta 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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context --result=... overwrites pdf-file
by Peter Münster 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

Hello, The new context script overwrites a pdf-file when used with the --result option. Example: %%% file test.tex %%% \starttext bla \stoptext context test ### this creates test.pdf context --mode=blub --result=test-blub test ### this removes test.pdf -> nor more test.pdf file ... :( Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Re: [NTG-context] A problem in fallback fonts of MkIV
by Yanrui Li 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 21:55:46, Wolfgang wrote: > \spaceskip .25em plus .25em \relax It works. Thank you Wolfgang. Best wishes. Li Yanrui

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Miktex won't allow cont-en.tex change
by dwarnold45＠suddenlink.net 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

Mojca, I tried running Miktex2.7->Settings->Formats, selecting cont-en.pdftex, then tried changing input filename from cont-en.ini to cont-en.tex, but I was "not allowed to change built-in" something or other. I tried adding a new format, calling it cont-en, compiler pdftex, and input filename cont-en.tex, but when I tried to build, it erred with: No pages of output. ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\patterns\lang-fi.pat") language : hyphenations fi for fi loaded (n=41,e=ec,m=ec) ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\patterns\lang-fi.hyp") language : patterns hu for hu loaded (n=42,e=ec,m=ec) ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\patterns\lang-hu.pat" ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pattern memory=300000]. l.1243 ^^c3^^a1h1ors No pages of output. Transcript written on cont-en.log. makefmt: pdftex failed on cont-en.tex. initexmf.EXE: The operation failed for some reason. Not sure what to try next. D.

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A problem in fallback fonts of MkIV
by Yanrui Li 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Hi, Hans: When I used AdobeSongStd-Light as my main font and used LMRoman10-Regular as the fallback font, I found that the spaces between Chinese characters and English words are perfect, for example: \definefontfeature [zh][mode=node,script=hang,lang=zhs] \definefontsynonym [zhserif][name:AdobeSongStd-Light][features=zh] \definefontfallback [westernserif] [name:LMRoman10-Regular][0x0000-0x0400][force=yes] \definefontsynonym [song][zhserif][fallbacks=westernserif] \definefont[myfont][song at 12pt] \starttext \myfont 中文 English 之间的间隔\par 中文~English~之间的间隔\par 中文\;English\;之间的间隔 \stoptext But, when I used SimSun instead of AdobeSongStd-Light, the spaces between Chinese characters and English words became larger and ugly. In previous example, spaces in the first two lines of text are larger than those in the third one, even the spaces between English words also become larger. I remerbered what you said, the fallback fonts can be independent of the main font. However, I think the spaces between the words are releated to the main font. Would you give me a method for solving this problem? The pdf files used as comparison are attached to in the mail and you can do a comparative analysis. Thanks. by Li Yanrui

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Minimals and latest luatex on linux-64
by Aditya Mahajan 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Hi, The minimals still have LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.29.0-2008072108. With the latest minimals, I get the following error ! LuaTeX error ...tyam/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:684: attempt to call field 'definefont' (a nil value) stack traceback: ...tyam/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:684: in function 'command' which I think is due to the old version of luatex. Mojca, do you need someone to supply the latest 64bit linux binaries? Aditya

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Re: [NTG-context] Indenting first line of paragraphs
by Robert Blackstone 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Thank you Wolfgang, "yes", I couldn't have thought of that. (And I hadn't yet seen the article.)Robert Blackstone

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Indenting first line of paragraphs
by Robert Blackstone 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Hi, I would like to have the first line of paragraphs indented but the command "\setupindenting[medium]" (or small or big ) does not produce anything, on none of my machines (all Macs), and neither with TL2007 nor TL2008. What can I do about it? Thanks in advance. Robert Blackstone

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