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Luatex beta 0.31 update warning
by Taco Hoekwater 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Hi all, Quick warning from me: if you update from the minimals this week, be prepared for some potential problems with opentype fonts in luatex. Because of the update of the embedded fontforge, there are some differences in the font table format that Hans and I have yet to sort out. While that will not take long, it will still mean the beginning of next week at the earliest (because Hans is teaching in Brno). Best wishes, Taco Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > Hi, > > I have just uploaded luatex 0.31.1, hopefully fixing a bunch > of compilation errors on various platforms, but with no other > visible changes.

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texexec ignores file order
by Ben Barrowes 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

exexec --pdfarrange --result=yujo_insurance.pdf yujo_insurance1.pdf yujo_insurance2.pdf yujo_insurance3.pdf yujo_insurance4.pdf yujo_insurance5.pdf yujo_insurance6.pdf yujo_insurance7.pdf yujo_insurance8.pdf yujo_insurance9.pdf yujo_insurance10.pdf yujo_insurance11.pdf yujo_insurance12.pdf After upgrading recently, I found that texexec no longer preserves the order of files passed to it. When I concatenate files with texexec, I often have more than 10 files I want to pass to texexec names filename1.pdf, filename2.pdf, ... filename12.pdf, etc. In the past, the following has worked to concatenate these in the correct order: texexec --pdfarrange --result=filename.pdf `ls -a -v filename*.pdf` Now, even if I pass filename10.pdf after filename2.pdf on the command line, texexec ingores this and puts filename10.pdf before filename2.pdf in the resulting concatenated file. Is there a fix for this, or is there a better way to concatenate pdf files? bb

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Re: [NTG-context] questions on ctxtools and line break.
by Dalyoung Jeong 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Dear Mojca, Yue, and Hans, Thank you for the help. I updated ConTeXt and LuaTeX using rsync to the foler .../texlive/ 2008/../texmf-local. "texmfstart texexec --make (--xtx) --all" run smoothly, but luatools still has a cnf error. I'll do it again from the beginning when I have time. However, it works fine in ConTeXt-minimal. One day Mr. Wolfgang tried to do some work to set up standardization of CJK for MKIV. However, it is not easy because Korean use space between words. The rules of line break for Korean is simple in saying. We don't need any hyphenation inside word, so if it is longer than the \textwidth, just make a line break at that position. There may be a little adjustment to make it right flush. For the details of the line breaking system for Korean, I'll talked to the people in KTUG. Some experts in KTUG will answer how to do that. For ConTeXt, there is a font-kor.tex(by nomos) file which enable to use Korean in ConTeXt. So they know what and how to do. I hope that we find a good solution which is also good for the implementation in MKIV. Thank you again. Best regards, Dalyoung

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modernized and augmented m-r.tex
by Johan Sandblom 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

The ConTeXt module for interaction with the statistical programming language R currently does not work with MKIV since buffers are not saved to file. The included file fixes this by calling \savebuffer on the buffer in case \ctxlua is defined (a trick gleaned from a discussion on the LilyPond module a while back). Also, all calls to R used to include a rather annoying proc.time() statement at the end, and a modified R call has fixed this. PATH must contain R or R.exe on Windoze. Should 'texmfstart' still be used for the R calls? A third modification involves being able to call \startRnoecho (which only echoes R output in the ConTeXt file) in addition to \startR (which echoes both input and output) and \startRhidden (which echoes nothing, useful for generating graphics) One further improvement would be to collect the R snippets and run them all at once. That would significantly reduce processing time since the R startup is on the order of a few seconds. However, that is beyond my knowledge of ConTeXt. Regards, Johan -- Johan Sandblom, MD PhD m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell

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anyway to treat placefigure as a frame?
by Yue Wang 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hi, Hans: Is there some command to treat figure (both the caption and graphic) as a frame? setupfloats only deside what the graphics side should be like. I want to add a background to the caption+graphic. Yue Wang

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\recurselevel in a table
by Bart C. Wise 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

I'm trying to get the \recurselevel in a table; however, every time it's called, the number returned is zero. How do I get the recurselevel? \starttext \bTABLE \bTR \dorecurse{3}{\bTD Cell: \recurselevel\eTD} \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext Bart

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report: non-stretchable spaces after periods
by Alan Bowen 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

In a message some time ago, Wolfgang suggested that \def\ {\thinspace} would serve to get non-expanding or non-stretchable spaces after periods that occur within sentences and in bibliographies. When I discovered that, while this worked well in limited contexts, in a lengthy bibliography which relied on the period as the main form of punctuation it lead quickly to numerous line-breaking problems. So Wolfgang has now has kindly proposed \def\ {\hskip.1666em\relax} since \hskip is a TeX primitve and mentioned in every (plain) TeX manual. And I gratefully confirm that this works very well. Alan

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Sorting references
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hi all, Using the bib module, I want my references to be sorted alphabetically; if I understood correctly the doc: \setuppublications[alternative=apa-fr,sorttype=bbl,criterium=cite] Then the alphabetical order is taken from the bibtex *keys*, and it doesn't always follows true alphabetical order... :-( And it seems that with bbl the whole bbl content is necessarily written in references. How can I do to have only cited material included in references? TIA, -- Jean

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question about rulethickness
by Jelle Huisman 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hi all, It looks like rulethickness can only be applied to all 4 sides of a cell all at once, or is there a way to specify the thickness of left|right|top|bottom? As the example shows I get a thicker frame around the 2 rows, but I want to use the normal frame thickness inside the cells. \starttext \setupTABLE[r][1,2][rulethickness=1pt] \bTABLE \bTR\bTD[nc=3] long text \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD text \eTD\bTD text \eTD\bTD text \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD even \eTD\bTD more \eTD\bTD text \eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stoptext Thanks, Jelle

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Dangling lines.
by Bart C. Wise 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

I created an Author's note (code below). It is designed to print out a note, skip a line, and then follow with the Author's signature. The problem I'm having is that ConTeXt will break the page just before the author's signature leaving it dangling on the next page. If I use a \vbox, that has problems when the notes need to go more than the current page. How do I fix the code below? \definestartstop[AuthorNote][ before={ \bgroup \startnarrower \switchtobodyfont[10pt] }, after={ \vskip-0.2ex Author \stopnarrower \egroup \blank \noindentation }, ] Thanks, Bart

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