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Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 54, Issue 69
by Fengnan Gao 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

> Does it behave any differently if you try to replace the luatex binary > inside tex/texmf-mswin/bin with the extracted luatex from > <http://foundry.supelec.fr/frs/download.php/707/luatex-beta-0.31.2-win32-min…>? > > Mojca (with zero ideas left) > Nope, Mojca, not working too. Just one more question: why I cannot receive emails from the mail-list, what I get only is the digest? Fengnan Gao <fnsteed(a)hotmail.com>

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distributed / parallel TeX?
by Lars Huttar 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Hello, We've been using TeX to typeset a 1200-page book, and at that size, the time it takes to run becomes a big issue (especially with multiple passes... about 8 on average). It takes us anywhere from 80 minutes on our fastest machine, to 9 hours on our slowest laptop. So the question comes up, can TeX runs take advantage of parallelized or distributed processing? As many in the computer industries are aware, processor speed (clock rate) has plateaued; it is not going to continue rising at the rate it had been. Hence the common move to dual-core, quad-core, etc. machines. But applications in general cannot take advantage of multiple cores to speed their work unless they are architected to take advantage of them. We googled around a bit but were surprised not to find any real references to efforts at running TeX in parallel or on distributed networks or clusters. Wouldn't this be something that a lot of people would find useful? Or does everyone only use TeX for typesetting short papers? Sure, you can use manual tricks to speed up TeX processing. You can "comment out" sections of a document, or select them via modes. But then you have to remember where you did the commenting out, so you can reverse it. And you have no guarantees as to whether the inclusion/exclusion of section B will affect the layout of section C or not. Wouldn't it be nice if TeX (or a TeX wrapper, or macro package, or "typesetting system") could take care of this for you? What if you had a language -- or a few extensions to existing languages -- to give your typesetting engine hints or commands about where to split up your long document into fairly-independent chunks? What if you designed your document specifically to be typeset in independent, parallel pieces so that you could guarantee that you would get the same result for section B whether or not you were typesetting the whole book at the same time? What if the typesetting system automated the stitching-back-together process of the chunks, gathering page reference info from each chunk to inform the next iteration of typesetting the other chunks? Has anyone been working on this already? It seems like it must have been discussed, but I don't know where to go to look for that discussion. Thanks, Lars

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lm bug?
by Yue Wang 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

hi here is a image of 4 pdf file. a.pdf is compiled using lm fonts under mkii b.pdf is compiled using lm fonts under mkiv c.pdf is compiled using cm fonts under mkii d.pdf is compiled using cm fonts under etex+dvipdfmx So I think there is some problem with lm otf fonts (or maybe mkiv do not embed the hinting correctly? Yue Wang

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Re: [NTG-context] Serious bug?
by Tad Ashlock 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:53 AM, Fengnan Gao wrote: >>>> >>>> What version of LuaTeX is in Windows distribution? Maybe I forgot to >>>> update it. I'll check tomorrow (you can try to fetch the version from >>>> W32TeX). >>>> >>>> Mojca >>> >>> C:\Users\fnsteed>luatex --credits >>> This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.31.2-2008121200, build 1659 >> ... >>> Hope that'll help. >> >> I'm clueless then. If version mismatch doesn't explain it and if there >> are no error messages, then I'm running out of ideas. >> >> What happens if you run first-setup.bat again, delete the contents of >> D:/context/tex/texmf-cache, open cmd, go to the folder with your >> document, and then type: >> >>> D:\context\tex\setuptex >>> luatools --generate >>> context --make >>> context test.tex > > There's one more thing that you can try. In case that rsync is > problematic, there's a way to circumvent it, but I doubt that it would > do a difference. > > Download > http://minimals.contextgarden.net/pragma/justtex.zip > http://minimals.contextgarden.net/pragma/mswin.zip > Unzip both of them together, for example into D:\context2, run > > D:\context2\tex\setuptex > > mktexlsr > > luatools --generate > > context make > > context test.tex > > Mojca I'm having the same problem, and I have some more information. First, I have context-minimals installed on Windows XP, SP2, Intel Pentium D (3.2GHz), 2GB of RAM. My current ConTeXt version is "2008.11.10 21:40". I don't have the problem when I run "texexec test.tex", only when I run "texexec --lua text.tex" or "context text.tex". I previously had something like 2008.10.31 installed. That version did not have this problem. I tried both of Mojca's suggested sequences above and neither had any effect on the problem. With a test.tex file of this: \starttext Hello, world! \stoptext the resulting PDF file has two pages. The first has "H e l" spread across the middle of the page, and the second has "l o , w" spread across the page. The characters are of the expected size, just spread out. If I add "\setupbodyfont[lbr,6pt]" at the beginning of test.tex, then I get a single page with "Hello," and "world!" spread out across the page in two lines of small characters. If I add "\showgrid", then the resulting page has only one full-width horizontal grid line where without the --lua option, I get 41 horizontal grid lines. (At the default font size.) I hope this helps, Tad

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Beginner help: horizontal line
by Derek CORDEIRO 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Hi, I would like to be able to draw a line in the footer of every page. If I try to use setupfooter with before=\thinrule or before=\hrule I get some unexpected results. I want the line to span only the width of the body but thinrule aligns it to the left from the left edge. \hrule spans the entire page. I don't want it spanning accross the margins. Maybe I'm doing something very wrong... please help Regards, Derek -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Blog: http://www.derekcordeiro.com Follow Me: http://twitter.com/derekcordeiro

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About Times!
by Jeff Smith 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Hi all! Okay, that pun was not that good. Anyways... For the first time ever I'm not using one of my own fonts for a document project. I was wondering about Times. The font itself, installed with ConTeXt. So, I tried using the following in my document: \usetypescript[times] \setupbodyfont[times,12pt] It changed to a Times font. Sweet! Now, what sort of Times font is it? :-) Where is it from? Who did it? Has it to do with those Gyre fonts I keep reading about? I need to... well, no, I just like to know these things when it comes to my documents, especially when they are aimed at publication. Thanks! Jeff

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Context minimals and BIBINPUTS
by Aditya Mahajan 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Hi, Why is BIBINPUTS not set in texmf/texmf.cnf in context minimals? I know that the minimals do not ship with any bib file, but even then, I think that we need BIBINPUTS = .;{$TXRESOURCES}//;{$CTXDEVTXPATH};$TEXMF/bibtex/bib// in texmf.cnf. Comments? Aditya

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new font bug
by Wolfgang Schuster 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Hi, with the last beta from the minimals ConTeXt fails to load the fonts, the error message is ! LuaTeX error ...ntext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-table.lua: 244: attempt to call method 'find' (a nil value) stack traceback: ...ntext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-table.lua:244: in function 'key' ...ntext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-table.lua:289: in function 'do_serialize' ...ntext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-table.lua:371: in function 'do_serialize' ...ntext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-table.lua:371: in function 'do_serialize' ...ntext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-table.lua:331: in function 'do_serialize' ...ntext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-table.lua:371: in function 'do_serialize' ...ntext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-table.lua:427: in function 'serialize' ...ntext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-table.lua:478: in function 'tofile' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/luat-tmp.lua:169: in function 'savedata' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/luat-tmp.lua:274: in function 'write' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:906: in function 'load' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:1845: in function 'otf_to_tfm' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:2066: in function 'read_from_open_type' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:333: in function <...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:315> (tail call): ? ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:260: in function 'read' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:645: in function 'read' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:752: in function 'command_2' <main ctx instance>:1: in main chunk. \lowleveldefinefont ...s ", "\@@fontfallbacks " )} \edef \somefontspec {at \s... \xxdododefinefont ...efont {#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.4 \setupbodyfont[sabon] TIA Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] Serious bug?
by Fengnan Gao 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

This is the log file. It's very small in size, so I don't thinks I should use some net storage service to upload it. Just see the attachment please. And I also attached the output pdf of the last helloworld test file. Thanks.

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different behavior between context versions
by Yue Wang 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Hi, Hans: issue 1: Using context 2005.01.30, \indenting[yes] doesn't indent the first paragraph. however, the latest version do. I think this is a bug issue 2: Using context 2008.09.xx, the space factor after period = 1 by default (frechspacing is enabled by default). however, it is not enabled by default now. (I think enable that is better). bug or feature? issue 3: when \setupbodyfont[ss], the equation number and braces are still in roman. I think it is better to change them according to main text font. issue 4: i think key-vals like \setupinteraction[focus=standard] and \setupformulae[indentnext=auto] should be documented in quick reference or something. Yue Wang

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