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Windows installer updated
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hello, I've updated the Windows installer for ConTeXt, which can be found at http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-installer/ContextMinimalIns… Now it provides four separate options: - Get latest setup files (recommended) - Get latest distribution files (recommended) - Make format files (recommended) - Set environment vars globally (recommended only if no other TeX systems are installed) Please, send me any comments. Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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latest beta (2008-01-09 19:58)
by Thomas A. Schmitz 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hi Hans, there seems to be a problem with the latest beta; compilation stops with several of these warnings: error >> define font: font with name lmromanslant12-regular is not found error >> define font: name: lmromanslant12-regular, loading aborted ! Font \*12ptrmslrm*=file:lmromanslant12-regular*default not loadable: metric data not found or bad. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \dodosettextfamilyA ...amily \fontsize \endcsname \else \ifcsname \fontbody ... \dosettextfamily ... \dodosettextfamily \textfont \let \fontbody \savedfontb... <inserted text> ...y \c!bf \dosettextfamily \c!sl \dosettextfamily \c! it \do... \synchronizetext ...athfonts \the \textstrategies \fi (and the document in question doesn't even use Latin Modern...) Best Thomas

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problem with small cyrillic yo
by Oleg Kolosov 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hi all! I've noticed that some documents lacks small cyrillic letter yo (ё) when typeset with input files in utf encoding. It's encoded as \cyrillicyo everywhere but as \cyrillicio in uni-0004 (line 100). I've changed this and didn't noticed problems so far. Maybe these files are autogenerated somehow, so please fix this where appropriate. BTW capital yo is coded as \cyrillicYO everywhere and typesets right. -- Best regards Oleg

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ConTeXt meeting: preliminary registrations open now
by Mojca Miklavec 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hello dear ConTeXt enthusiasts, First of all I would like to thank to all of you who have replied to my first mail. (It's really a pity that quite some people whom I was hoping to see or get to know will not be able to participate this year.) I have put the meeting page online now (not perfect yet, but it serves the basic needs): http://meeting.contextgarden.net/ The registration form should be working now (I hope so at least - two have registered already). I had two locations in mind, but I have chosen the nicer and cheaper one, which consequently means that it is fully booked months in advance. Even though it could host two such meetings, I cannot take the risk of booking and paying for too many empty beds, or vice versa: it would be stupid to decline people just because of too few reservations. Why to come? - meet ConTeXt fellows - present your work - solve your problems quickly - not every software can offer you direct contact with its authors: you will be proud to say that you have met two among the most important TeX-ies around the world (then you will be only one step away from Don E. Knuth) - spend nice holidays next to the biggest Slovenian lake (swimming, if the weather will still permit) - if it will be too cold or rainy, you may continue your trip to the Croatian coast - some last year participants on the list could name you other reasons as well :-) So - if you're thinking about visiting this tiny, but wonderful piece of Europe in August, please register right away on http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2008/register.shtml (and choose "I will come for sure" :) Mojca

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permissions in luatex-cache
by Peter Münster 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hello, What directories in luatex-cache should be world writable? It seems to me, at least some sub-dirs in $TEXMFCACHE/luatex-cache/context/XXX/fonts And do these world writable directories present any security risk? (For example: user A writes some evil code into file $TEXMFCACHE/luatex-cache/context/XXX/fonts/otf/file.otf that makes user B remove all his files when running "texexec --luatex document.tex") Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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xindy
by Gour 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hello! After several days spent lying in a bed, I got up few hours before and saw a long-waited announcement on xindy ml that (finally) xindy-2.3 is out. Let's t hope it will make it in new TexLive... For now, I'm interested whether and/or how one uses xindy in ConTeXt? Wiki is empty in regards :-( Sincerely, Gour

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Context Minimal Linux installation on MAC Leopard
by Giulio Bertellini 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

I thought I could install the Context Minimal Linux installation also ona Mac with Leopard. I did not succeed. Has anybody tried it. What is the suggested minimal distribution for Context to install on a Mac with Leopard? All suggestions are welcome. Giulio Bertellini

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Weird behavior about metafun
by Zhichu Chen 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hi Hans and Wolfgang, I'm just trying to make some illustrations about the Chinese typesetting features. So I choose the way which is described in Chapter 5 of the metafun manual. And I wanna draw a line from the text I wanna comment on to the marginal notes which my comments lay on. To highlight them, I drew an underline below the contexts which is to be commented and put a square around the comments. Everything is under control except I put \fpos and \tpos around the comments, the framed box is not exactly what I want. It seems that metafun still thought it's in the main text so it drew the bounding around the body. I found the mpos:par was defined in core-pgr.tex and it used show_par or draw_par which are defined in mp-core.mp. I don't think it's a good way to define another MPpositiongraphic called like mpos:marginpar to match my case. Do you think it's possible to change some of the core codes to make metafun recognize where she is. -- Best Regards Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------

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Footnotes in PDF bookmarks
by Marco Costa 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hello I'm having a problem: footnotes that I've placed in chapter titles are appearing in PDF bookmarks (after the title text). The Table of Contents is OK, the footnotes are ignored there. Is there some way of making the footnotes not appear in PDF bookmarks? (I'm using XeTeX). Thanks.

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symbols in luatex?
by Thomas A. Schmitz 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Hi all, first, a very happy new year 2008 to all of you! May ConTeXt continue to prosper and develop at a brisk pace :-) What better way to start the new year than asking a stupid question on the list? Here comes: I must be missing something really obvious here. I have a font (otf) with a number of (metrical) symbols which I use in a module. In mkii, I defined an encoding within this module to address the symbols: \startencoding[metr] \definecharacter metricbreve 66 \stopencoding so I can use the symbold with \metricbreve. Works great in mkii. But how do I do this in mkiv, which doesn't seem to read and use the encoding anymore? All best Thomas

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