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MetaPost 1.003 announcement
by Taco Hoekwater 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

The MetaPost team is happy to announce a new release of MetaPost: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost 1.003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The sources and a win32 package can be downloaded immediately from http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost/ The source package should compile normally on all systems that are capable of compiling a modern web2c-based TeX distribution. The win32 package is intended for texlive or a similar web2c-based installation, and has been tested only with TeXLive 2007. These executables will *not* work for miktex, sorry. Of course, we welcome any comments (either good or bad) that you may have. Simply replying to this message is fine, but see the bottom of the message for a more formal way to report bugs and feature requests. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in version 1.003: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Polygonal pens now work better (bug #3 and #7 at supelec.fr). * When asking for a color part in a picture object, the color models now have to match each other, otherwise an error will be reported and the return value will be set to a 'black' part. * The Makefile fragment (metapost.mk) now defines a separate mpost target for better integration in TeXLive. * There was a bug in the internal handling of withprescript and withpostscript, resulting in incorrect output when paths using such scripts were stored in picture variables. * A newline was missing from the PostScript output when the procset internal variable was set, so the first line of that accidentally became a PostScript comment. * Applicable changes from Knuth's updates for MetaFont 2.718281 are incorporated. * Mpto did not play nice with %&<format> verbatimtex lines, it now automatically tries to detect comment-lines. * Dvitomp 1.003 has higher limits for some internal constants like the number of allowed fonts in DVI files. * The manual is improved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Legal notice / license / bug reports ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost is a system for producing graphics developed by John Hobby at AT&T, based on Donald Knuth's Metafont. The MetaPost home page is http://tug.org/metapost. MetaPost and related programs are in the public domain. The MetaPost development project is currently hosted at Supelec, https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost; please report bugs and request enhancements through there if possible. Alternatively, you can reach us through the <metapost(a)tug.org> mailing list as well. Have fun! Taco Hoekwater, for the MetaPost team, April 10, 2008.

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Mapping to SmallCaps for Latin Modern
by Wolfgang Schuster 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

Hi Hans, the mapping for the SmallCaps fonts from Latin Modern use the slanted version for upright and the upright version for slanted style. font-otf.tex: \definefontsynonym [LMRoman10-CapsRegular] [file:lmromancaps10-oblique] [features=default] % features=smallcaps? \definefontsynonym [LMRoman10-CapsOblique] [file:lmromancaps10-regular] [features=default] should be \definefontsynonym [LMRoman10-CapsRegular] [file:lmromancaps10-regular] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [LMRoman10-CapsOblique] [file:lmromancaps10-oblique] [features=default] The mapping for the Dunhill style seems to be wrong too. \definefontsynonym [LMRoman10-Dunhill] [file:lmromandunh10-oblique] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [LMRoman10-DunhillOblique] [file:lmromandunh10-regular] [features=default] Wolfgang

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first steps
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

hallo, I tried to make my first luatex-steps with the following wiki-example ------------------------------------- \usetypescript[palatino] \setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt] effe fietsen 2: \input tufte $\sqrt{2}$ \eogonek \sc effe fietsen 2: \input tufte $\sqrt{2}$ \eogonek ------------------------------------- after adding a \start/stoptext pair I get in 4 runs the following error: ------------------------------------- ){d:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/tex-gyre/q-ec-sc.enc}fclose: No such file or directory fclose: No such file or directory ! Emergency stop. <*> tst3.tex ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! ------------------------------------- and in the 3. run I get ------------------------------------- fonts : using map file: original-youngryu-px [1.1 ! This can't happen (ext4). \actualshipout ... \box \postponedcontent \box 0}} \else \message {[\ifarrang... \myshipout ... \fi {\thisisrealpage \realfolio #1} \gotonextrealpage \aftersh... \dofinaloutput ...gebody #1#2\setpagecounters }}}} \else \the \pageboundsetti... \finaloutput ...EAEAEA \dofinaloutput \fi \fi #1#2 \resetselectiepagina \incr... \sidefloatoutput ...e \else \finalsidefloatoutput \global \sidefloatvsize \n... <argument> ...\fi \else \the \defaultstreamoutput \fi ... l.8 \stoptext ------------------------------------- I can not interpret this error. Can someone please explain! Wolfgang

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Leopard and ConTeXt
by Steffen Wolfrum 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hi MacUsers out there, until yesterday I worked with 10.4 and a recent context: no problem (only mkII). Today I finally set up a new machine with 10.5. and MacTeX, run ctxtools --updatecontext. Running a context-file now gives me the right context-version but ends up with: "TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [save size=5000]" Well, I remember this was something about texmf.cnf (or context.cnf?). So I changed the value to 10000, remade the format but still the echo mentions 5000. Some known problem with Leopard and ConTeXt? Maybe PATH stuff? =o( Please help!!! Steffen

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Short question regarding PDF bookmarks
by Dietrich Rordorf / MDPI 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hi everybody, Default setting when creating pdf bookmarks (e.g. for \section, \subsection, etc.) seems that the bookmark points to the page (it zooms out to fit the whole page), rather than only going to the referenced object: E.g. try to click on a bookmark on this pdf (365 KB): http://www.mdpi.org/marinedrugs/papers/md6010001.pdf An example where the bookmark points to the object, and will not affect the current magnification/zoom: http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1741-7015-4-14.pdf Can this be realized in ConTeX? Looking forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Dietrich

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[OT] random Computer Science paper generator
by luigi scarso 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ it would be nice to have something in context. -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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page numbering question
by David C. Walden 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hi, I have been searching contextgarden.net and the manuals at the Pragma website for more than an hour now, and I have yet to find a way to have ConTeXt decide in two-sided mode that the last page of a book chapter is a even numbered page without anything on it and therefore will also not have a page number. I probably can manually effect this by carefully inserting \setuppagenumber commands which start and stop the state, but that's not a very general solution. Will someone please point me to appropriate documentation or an example. Thanks, Dave -- home address: 12 Linden Rd., E. Sandwich, MA 02537; ph/fax=508-888-7655/4168 email address: dave(a)walden-family.com; website(s): http://www.walden-family.com/

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ConTEXt - produced book
by Jörg Hagmann 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Dear list members, My biochemistry textbook has been published by orell füssli as an UTB book. I would like to thank all the members of this list, and Hans in particular, for their help (acknowledgements in the "Thank you" section of the book as well). You'll find a few sample pages under: www.ogbasel.ch/context.html (2.5MB) Page and margin sizes prescribed by the publisher. The pages illustrate: p. 7: The use of inmargin text. p. 79: a "vignette", in the margin and partially in the text area. p. 110: The height of some margin figures was large, necessitating manual adjustments. p. 145: A framed box and a wide table. The large number of enumerations, figures, frames etc. made some typographical sins inevitable (e.g. last line on this page). p. 155: textbody and margin completely filled p. 190: I include this page for Willi and Thomas p. 235: Some chapters end with what students really need to know (red background). This is the end of the chapter on nutrition p. 239: The "Toolbox" contains framed figures without a legend. -- Prof.Dr.med. Jörg Hagmann-Zanolari Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics Centre of Biomedicine, University of Basel Mattenstrasse 28 CH-4058 Basel Switzerland Phone +41 (0)61 267 3565

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Scite startup script error
by Abhishek Seth 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hi, It seems I have missing scite-ctx.lua. It is not present in the cont-tmf.zip which I had downloaded. I created an empty scite-ctx.lua to suppress the error message. Is this file meant to be created manually or a part of distribution (cont-tmf.zip)? Thanks > Abhishek Seth wrote: > > Hi, > > > > After reinstalling the Scite 1.76 and putting the support files in > > place, I am getting the following error: > > > > "attempt to call a string value > >> Lua: error occured while loading startup script" > > > > I don't know what it is. Can someone please help? > > probably related to scite using lua 5 now; did you update to the > scite-ctx from the context distribution? > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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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Re: [NTG-context] first steps
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

On 9 Apr 2008 at 10:25, ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: Hallo, > > Just to make sure - what's the version of ConTeXt and LuaTeX > > you're using, and do you have the cont-sys.tex file? > > Werner said he had used: Wolfgang :-) > > > http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-mswin.zip > > But perhaps something was left behind from an earlier install? I reinstalled the whole thing, exactly the same steps and now it runs. Usally I am switching off an existing MikTeX-Installation by renaming the MikTeX-Directory. This was a problem in the past. May be something went wrong with this step. -------------------------------------------------- rem switchmt.bat [on|off] @echo off set OTEX="E:\PROGRAMME\" set MTEX="MiKTeX 2.7" set XTEX="MiKTeX 2.7.closed" if %1h==h goto end if %1==out goto off if %1==on goto on goto end :on if exist %OTEX%%XTEX% rename %OTEX%%XTEX% %MTEX% goto end :off if exist %OTEX%%MTEX% rename %OTEX%%MTEX% %XTEX% :end -------------------------------------------------- Thank you, Wolfgang

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