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Ramistic schemata
by Charles P. Schaum 23 May '08

23 May '08

Greetings, I have been using ConTeXt since April, plain TeX since March, and LaTeX/LyX for about a year. I have been working on multilingual texts and, until the recent permutations of Word, no WYSIWYG product, with the possible exception of Mellel for Hebrew, did any good job. Now I don't like WYSIWYG anymore but use such products for work. I have been able to create near-optimal reproductions of Ramistic schemata using ConTeXt because the \showboxes toggle is most helpful in showing where I need to put whitespace. The following may indeed be crude, i.e., not computing box height and other sophisticated stuff, but I'm a n00b and have not read the TeXbook through, although that and TeX by topic are both a vade mecum. Here's the code, FWIW. Use it as you like. It started out as plain TeX using Kile on Ubuntu, migrated to ConTeXt in TeXshop/MacTeX, and came back to Kile after I found an xml file for katepart that allowed for proper syntax highlighting. Charles -----Cut Here----- \def\schema#1#2#3{\hbox{$\vcenter{#1}\left\{\vbox to #2{\vfil}\right.\vcenter{#3}$}} \def\altschema#1#2#3#4{\hbox{$\vcenter{#1}{\left\lmoustache\vbox to #2{\vfil}\right.\atop\left\rmoustache\vbox to #3{\vfil}\right.}\vcenter{#4}$}} %\showboxes \starttext \tfx {\tfa I. SCHEMA}\par \schema % top level schema { \hbox{Subjectum theolo-} \hbox{gi\ae{} est Notitia} \hbox{Dei. Considerat} \hbox{ergo, Dei, vel} } {13ex} { \blank[big] \schema % first nested schema { \hbox{{\sc Essentiam}, in} } {5ex} { \hbox{Unitate natur\ae{}.} \hbox{Trinitate personarum.} \hbox{Operibus ad intra.} } \blank[medium] \schema % second nested schema { \hbox{{\sc Voluntatem},} \hbox{manifestatam in} \hbox{operibus ad extra;} \hbox{ut in} } {12ex} { \hbox{Creatione.} \hbox{Sustentatione natur\ae{} laps\ae{}.} \hbox{Reparatione.} \hbox{Conversione.} \hbox{Justificatione.} \hbox{Sanctificatione \&} \hbox{Glorificatione ejusdem.} } } \page {\tfa II. SCHEMA}\par \altschema % { \blank[7*big] \hbox{Subjectum \&} \hbox{summa univer-} \hbox{s\ae{} Scriptur\ae{},} \hbox{est {\sc Cogni-}} \hbox{{\sc tio} vel} } {29ex} {10ex} { \altschema % { \hbox{{\sc Dei}, qua-} \hbox{lis sit, aut} } {10ex} {2ex} { \blank[big] \schema % { \hbox{{\sc Per se}:} \hbox{scilicet.} } {3.1ex} { \hbox{Unus in essentia.} \hbox{Trinus in personis.} } \blank[medium] \schema % { \hbox{Ad hominem} \hbox{quem vel} } {13ex} { \hbox{Accusat \& terret, {\sc Per Legem},} \hbox{Consolatur \& erigit, {\sc Per Evangelium}.} \hbox{Salvat, {\sc Per Christum}.} \hbox{Renovat, {\sc Per Spiritum Sanctum}.} \hbox{Sanctificat, {\sc Per Verbum} \& {Sacramenta}.} \hbox{Castigat, tentat \& exercet, {\sc Per Crucem}.} \hbox{Glorificat {\sc Per Resurrectionem Carnis}} \hbox{{\sc Ad Vitam \AE{}ternam}.} } } \altschema % { \blank[6*big] \hbox{{\sc Hominis},} \hbox{qualis sit} } {22ex} {3ex} { \altschema % { \hbox{{\sc Per se}:} } {6ex} {1ex} { \blank[2*big] \hbox{Ante lapsum.} \blank[big] \altschema % { \hbox{Post lapsum:} } {5ex} {2ex} { \hbox{Ante Regenerationem \&} \hbox{Renovationem S. Sancti.} \blank[small] \hbox{Post Regenerationem \&} \hbox{Renovationem S. Sancti.} \blank[2*small] } \blank[big] } \schema % { \hbox{Ad} } {18ex} { \schema % { \hbox{{\sc Deum}} } {14ex} { \hbox{P\oe{}nitentia agens, agnitis peccatis \& ira} \hbox{Dei cognita {\sc Ex Lege}.} \hbox{Erigens se {\sc Voce Evangelii}.} \hbox{Credens {\sc In Christum Salvatorem}.} \hbox{Non repugnans {\sc Spiritui Sancto} impellenti.} \hbox{Audiens {\sc Verbum}: \& utens {\sc Sacramentis}.} \hbox{Patienter \& constanter sufferens {\sc Crucem}.} \hbox{Sperans \& expectans glorificationem {\sc In}} \hbox{{\sc Resurrectione Carnis Ad Vitam \AE{}ternam}.} } \blank[medium] \schema % { \hbox{seipsum ratione} } {3.1ex} { \hbox{Anim\ae{} vel} \hbox{Corporis} } \schema % { \hbox{Proximum,} } {6ex} { \blank[medium] \schema % { \hbox{Amicum ratione vel} } {7ex} { \hbox{Religionis.} \hbox{Politic\ae{} \& Oeconomic\ae {}.} \hbox{Cognationis.} \hbox{Agnationis.} } \hbox{Inimicum.} \blank[3*big] } \blank[big] } } } \stoptext

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[LUATEX] uname() volunteers needed
by Taco Hoekwater 23 May '08

23 May '08

Hi all, This is a little offtopic (it deals with luatex only) but as Mojca said: there are many more luatex-using people here than on dev-luatex. In a discussion with Yue Wang he convinced me that it would be better to use uname() for finding os.name instead of the current jungle of #ifdefs. Because I do not want to alter the lua return values, that means I will have to interpret the contents of the returned structure a bit. To do that, I would appreciate it if the people on a non-linux32intel platform would compile and run the attached minimalistic C file. Thanks in advance, Taco

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font tables
by Idris Samawi Hamid 22 May '08

22 May '08

Dear gang, Is there an available ConTeXt utility for creating font tables for luatex? \ShowFont does this for 256-char encodings but we need something to create a matrix in pdf through luatex for unicode fonts. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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bug with hyphenatedurl
by Steffen Wolfrum 21 May '08

21 May '08

Hi, please have a look at the following minimal example (ran with mkii): -> \usetypescript[postscript][\defaultencoding] \setupencoding[default=texnansi] \enableregime[utf] Test text\footnote{{Z4300, Stand: 1.{|DuennRaum|}Januar\;2002, einsehbar unter \hyphenatedurl{http://www.thw.de/thw‑inland/ grundlagen/rechtsgrundlagen/abr\_rili.htm}}} \stoptext <- Just shortly before handing the PDF to the printer I saw that the part "thw‑inland" surprisingly became "thw\dochar␣{45}inland" (at least on my machine)! Is there a fix? Steffen

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The cat was too long (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 21 May '08

21 May '08

hi, 'minimal' example for clipping bug in mkiv: % engine=luatex \starttext \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{The cat was too long to fit in this small sentence.} \framed[offset=overlay]{\clip[width=110pt,height=20pt]{\box\scratchbox}} \stoptext final text should be "The cat was too long". mkii does it right, mkiv gives "The cat wa". mkiv made the cat fit somehow, but it's not the way i want it :) best wishes, peter

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inclusion from image database broken (mkii+mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 20 May '08

20 May '08

hi, when i try to include an image from one of my databases i get the following error messages: mkii: !pdfTeX error: pdftex.exe (file ./lib/test-db.pdf): xpdf: reading PDF image failed (0) ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! mkiv: !luaTeX error: xpdf: reading PDF image failed ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! i looked into the mkiv sources, but didn't succeed. the lua part (db only) is clear to me, but i couldn't find the point in tex, where \externalfigure is mapped to this somehow. either i have missed something or there is some code missing. mh, probably the first one :) regards, peter ps: any news about the \string{\{} problem in mkiv?

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[OT] dante meeting
by luigi scarso 20 May '08

20 May '08

http://granthinam.blogspot.com/search/label/Conference report ok, at least one photo of Martin Schröder -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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frames and columns
by Hans van der Meer 20 May '08

20 May '08

When I enclose columns in a frame then the columns are not formed. See the minimal example: \starttext \startframedtext \startcolumns[n=2] COLUMN 1 \column COLUMN 2 \stopcolumns \stopframedtext \stoptext Commenting out the \startframedtext,\stopframedtext typesets two columns; \startsimplecolumns shows the same ill behaviour. ConTeXt ver: 2008.05.13 14:42 MKII fmt: 2008.5.19 int: english/ english Is there a cure? Hans van der Meer

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accented letters in mkiv
by Thomas A. Schmitz 19 May '08

19 May '08

Hi all, sorry if this is obvious and I have simply overlooked something. I need the character U0113 "emacron." It is not present in the font I use. In mkii, I could simply write \=e, and TeX would take care of building (faking) the character. When I try this in mkiv, I get an error: error: ...al/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:3329: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value) I'm not complaining about this somewhat opaque error message, but I'm wondering how I can fake this glyph. There was an older discussion on the list which pointed me to char-utf.tex and \definecomposedutf, but the file says "This feature is obsolete." So what would be the canonical way to build such a character in mkiv? Thanks a lot, all best Thomas

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itemize numbering
by Hans van der Meer 19 May '08

19 May '08

The following minimal example goes wrong: \starttext \startitemize[a] \item sub a \startitemize \item sub a1 \item sub a2 \stopitemize \item sub b \stopitemize \stoptext The result is: . sub a - sub a1 - sub a2 a. sub b Whereas: \starttext \startitemize[a] \item sub a \item sub b \stopitemize \stoptext results in the expected output: a. sub a b. sub b Both mkii and mkiv show this behaviour. Versions are: This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.7 (Web2C 7.5.6) ConTeXt ver: 2008.04.18 14:17 MKII fmt: 2008.4.19 int: english/ english Is this corrected in a later version than I have installed or is it still present? Hans van der Meer

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