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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 15 Apr '08

15 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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