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default engine for texexec
by Peter Münster 30 Dec '07

30 Dec '07

Hello, What methods do exist, to change the default engine for texexec (for example luatex instead of pdftex)? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Luatex startup difficulties
by Willi Egger 30 Dec '07

30 Dec '07

Hi, It has taken quite some time. ... now I would like to get started with Luatex. I have installed justtex, upgraded context to the latest version, upgraded the binaries to the latest version (Version snapshot-0.20.2-2007121720 (Web2C 7.5.6)). luatools --generate texexec --lua --make --all texexec --make --all My testfile is: \enableregime[utf] \starttext There is text. \stoptext ConTeXt ver: 2007.12.26 20:00 MKIV fmt: 2007.12.26 int: english/ english ... This went wrong: ...luatex/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/font- otf.lua:1759: table index is nil . <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...ame #1\csname #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \ifskipfontchar... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.1 Humble, my stupid question is: what is wrong here? Willi

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migrating to ConTeXt
by Gour 29 Dec '07

29 Dec '07

Hi! Recently I switched to emacs editor and at considered to leave lyx. At the same time, I'm again considering ConTeXt (was playing with it some years ago when it was receiving utf-8 support) - after reading about luaTeX & MkIV development. Have several questions, so before firing them up, I'd like to ask about general etiquette on the list: should I throw them all in one email or divide as one_question/email ? Sincerely, Gour

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strutted pars?
by Idris Samawi Hamid 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

Dear gang, We can use \struttedbox to force an eg, large expression to obey the surrounding interlinespace: ======================= {blah blah \struttedbox{\tfc blah blah}} blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah \struttedbox{\tfc blah blah}} blah blah blah blah blah blah ======================= but this has the drawback that the box cannot be broken across lines. Is there a way to force the interlinespace to remain constant and ignore the size of grouped insertions with big font sizes? 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 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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Permission Policy
by Hans van der Meer 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

I ran into trouble with "luatools --generate" which does not seem to work with "sudo luatools --generate" The seem applies to texmfstart and friends. Why this manco? I want to keep my system as safe as possible especially regarding applications and stuff that takes a lot of time installing (like the texlive system). Therefore I have this in an administrator account (root:wheel). Cannot ConTeXt cope with such a scheme? All it has to do is honor sudo, apparently. Hans van der Meer

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Luatex installation
by Hans van der Meer 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

I have read the instructions for installing luatex on MacOSX so clearly spelt out by Thomas Schmitz, but they leave a question open. Thomas advises to set TEXMFCACHE=/tmp with the argument that it then is cleared each time the computer is restarted. What is unclear to me if this means that on each restart some explicit reinitialzation has to be done or are the data in TEXMFCACHE suitable candidates for thrashing at all times? Hans van der Meer

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quotation/blockquote bug
by Idris Samawi Hamid 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

Dear syndicate, There is a bug in \quotation and/or \blockquote (pdf attached): there is a spurious dbl-quote mark at the end of the par that only occurs when \quotation is invoked. Please advise, workarounds welcome :-) Best wishes Idris ============================ % engine=luatex \starttext \startblockquote The now also must be indivisible: that is, the now in the essential and primary sense in which the now is inherent in all time; not, indeed, the now in the derived sense of a period of time…This now, which functions as the border between both past and future, must, indeed, be identical….If the now were separate limits [of both the past and the future], there would be a time between them, since every [real] continuum must have something of the same kind between its limits; and the time between them would be divisible, since we have proved that all time is divisible. Accordingly, the now would be divisible [and it would not, then, be the now we are talking about]….Thus, it is clear that time includes something indivisible, which we call a \quotation{now.} Obviously, too, nothing can be moving during a now. \stopblockquote \stoptext ============================ -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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lost colors (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

Hi, can anyone with an actual *luatex* test, if this fails (live ConTeXt is broken). My binaries are from the minimals at contextgarden (pragma tree), ConTeXt is the latest beta. \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \newbox\TESTbox \setbox\TESTbox\hbox{Silence is sexy.} \hbox{{\color[red]Silence is sexy.}{\color[blue]Silence is sexy.}} \hbox{{\color[red]\copy\TESTbox}{\color[blue]\box\TESTbox}}% no colors with mkiv \stoptext Best wishes, Peter

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Re: [NTG-context] \sh@ft in luatex
by Hans Hagen 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > Two things: > > 1. The \sh@ft macro (from TeXBook, p.~356) does not work in luatex (see > test file, pdftex works); > > 2. In any case: Is there a better way to do this (see test file)? as taco mentioned ... most open type fonts have no italic correction automatically figuring it out is not always an option, compare (in pdftex): \sl \the\fontdimen1\font\the\dimexpr1em\relax \`A \'A \bs \the\fontdimen1\font\the\dimexpr1em\relax \`A \'A \it \the\fontdimen1\font\the\dimexpr1em\relax \`A \'A i can imagine that we start building a database with additional font parameters 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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Update mk.pdf
by luigi scarso 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

Hans has updated mk.pdf > (btw, this phenomena is mentioned in mk.pdf, of which there is an > updated version) > > Hans Among others things, XML section, even if under construction . -- luigi http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso/Merry_Christmas_2007 .... it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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