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[OT] PDF/A conference
by luigi scarso 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

I will be in amsterdam for first pdf/a conference. Maybe someone too: if so we can manage to meet. But i will also in amsterdam saturday, and i would like to buy some books (in english) about typography , exp. arabic typography . Open to any suggestions (about titles and bookshop) -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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a sort of marking
by Andrea Valle 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hi to all, I have a manual. It's A5 to be printed in A4 (so to cut in the middle the A4 page). I'd like to have a cue like a marking to be able to cut exactly in the middle. \setuplayout[marking=on] does not print anything useful for the case. I've thought about \showframe[text=off, margin=off] but it creates a green border all around. Ideas? Many thanks -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- " Think of it as seasoning . noise [salt] is boring . F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring . F(noise, blah) can be really tasty " (Ken Perlin on noise)

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LuaTex error "attempt to index global 'lang' (a nil value)"
by Roland 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hi, I've been following Thomas Schmitz's great instructions at http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2007/027418.html to set up Luatex. All works fine and without errors but the last step: $ luatools --ini --verbose --compile cont-en LuaTools | version 1.1.1 - 2006+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT LuaTools | skipping configuration for /texmf-local/web2c from /tmp/luatex-cache/context/fcf214085bb2c4fcd9a0f9a9f0d0aecf/trees/d80510d450a3fa2a64df4d3741825f1d LuaTools | skipping configuration for /texmf/web2c from /tmp/luatex-cache/context/fcf214085bb2c4fcd9a0f9a9f0d0aecf/trees/3113242409ded67a0ad7bd508bd26609 LuaTools | locating list of /Users/rs/.texlive2007/texmf-config LuaTools | locating list of /Users/rs/.texlive2007/texmf-var LuaTools | locating list of /Users/rs/Library/texmf LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist LuaTools | loading files for /Users/rs/.texlive2007/texmf-var from /tmp/luatex-cache/context/fcf214085bb2c4fcd9a0f9a9f0d0aecf/trees/f1bc347f62f0cb65067c428b92016cc8 [snip] loading : Context Attribute Macros / initialization systems : defining attribute mark with number 1 systems : defining attribute state with number 2 systems : defining attribute trigger with number 3 systems : defining attribute skip with number 4 systems : defining attribute penalty with number 5 systems : defining attribute colormodel with number 6 systems : defining attribute color with number 7 systems : defining attribute transparency with number 8 systems : defining attribute overprint with number 9 systems : defining attribute negative with number 10 systems : defining attribute effect with number 11 ) (/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/node-ini.tex loading : Node Support (initialization) ! LuaTeX error ...al/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/node-ini.lua:506: attempt to index global 'lang' (a nil value). \ctxluabytecode ...ode " .. "#1" .. str) end end } \registerctxluafile ...{\the \luabytecodecounter } \fi l.16 \registerctxluafile{node-ini}{1.001} ? Anybody have an idea what is wrong? I'm on Leopard 10.5.2. Thanks Roland

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first steps with XeTeX
by Henning Hraban Ramm 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Since I need to typeset some names with characters outside of ec encoding, I'm just checking out XeTeX. - first threshold: If you have \setupoutput[pdftex] in cont-sys.tex, it doesn't work. ;-) (Complains "you should use pdftex binaries".) - second threshold: Adapt your typescripts. Since I use TeX Gyre anyway, that was no problem. (Is there still no complete type-gyr.tex in the distribution? I couldn't find it.) - third threshold (standing there): XeTeX can't read tagged PDFs. For I typeset proceedings, I must include a lot of pages from presentation PDFs. And even if I'd call myself a PDF professional, I didn't find a way to delete all tags from a PDF. I could convert everything to EPS or even render the pages in Photoshop. But I'd prefer to stay with the PDFs. Any ideas? Tomorrow I'll try to use an additional PostScript font - is that even possible? Otherwise I must convert it to OpenType. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Re: [NTG-context] first steps
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

On 8 Apr 2008 at 12:00, ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: > > I am using scite with the following command: > > texmfstart texexec --autopdf --luatex tst3.tex > > I simply have no idea. I do not understand why windows > would object to closing a file that doesn't exist (not even > how it could be possible for an opened file to not exist). > > It could be a simple matter of a missing file that somehow > luatex fails to check for during opening so it is not discovered > until it attempts to close the file, but even if that is true, > I have no idea how to debug anything on windows. > > It could also be a (more complicated) problem triggered by > disk synchronisation issues in Windows itself. We have been > bitten by those before (what is your windows flavour?) Windows 2000 > In either case, someone else has to come up with tests and/or > fix attempts. The only advice I can give is to reinstall > context using the new minimals and see if that helps any. > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals This is a fresh installation. I installed it using 'context-setup-mswin.zip'. After some trials, I found that the example compiles ok without the TWO \eogonek commands. There were TWO fclose attempts in the logs, too. Can this be a hint? Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] ConTEXt - produced book __ about typesetting, as an art, to print "Beautiful books"
by Giulio Bertellini 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Sitting in a Paris restaurant, equipped with WI/FI and after a couple of wine glasses. I really like your work. It would be interesting to see the sources and to learn the tricks (your used). The look is great. Thanks to Hans for the beautiful gift to the World. One final comment. I think the typesetting is fine, technically speaking, but, overall, the spacing is too tight. It is not relaxing. Readers should be more confortable. WHAT IS THE THINKING OF THIS COMMUNITY. I am not a typesetter, but setting type, good typesetting is difficult to express. It transcends words. It's about feelings and type. Personally, I think that Prof.Dr.med. should be typeset differently. How can we accept Prof, Dr. Med, with not spaces in between, perhaps thin spaces. Congratulations, however. Giulio Bertellini On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Jörg Hagmann <joerg.hagmann(a)unibas.ch> wrote: > 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 > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ >

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problem using protrusion and hz
by David C. Walden 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Hi, Adytia pointed me to some examples at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Protrusion I tried the following code with a couple of page test page, ----- \definepapersize[specialbook][width=5.5in,height=8.5in] \setuppapersize[specialbook][specialbook] \setuplayout[height=7.5in,width=4.5in,backspace=40pt,location=middle] %\usetypescript[serif][hz][quality] %line 1 %\setupalign[hanging,hz] %line 2 \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono][hanging][pure] %line 3 \setupalign[hanging] %line 4 \usetypescript[modern-base][texnansi] %line 5 \setupbodyfont[reset] %line 6 \setupbodyfont[modern] %line 7 %\setupbodyfont[serif,11pt] \setupwhitespace[4.5pt] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupexternalfigures[directory={../marsh-slideshow}] \setupindenting[none] \setuphead[chapter][number=no] \setupheader[state=none] % Enable colors and activate hyperlinks \setupcolors [state=start] \setupinteraction [state=start, color=blue] \definecolor [darkRed][r=.5,g=.0,b=.0] \useURL[TPJ][{http://www.tug.org/pracjourn}][][{\it Prac\TeX{} Journal}] \useURL[mywebsite][{http://www.walden-family.com/dave}][][www.walden-family.com] \starttext ... \stoptext ---- and I get slightly different results if lines 1 and 2 versus 3 and 4 are in or out, or if both pairs of lines are commented out. If, however, I try this with the real 215 page book I am compiling rather than a smaller example, pdfTeX halts 200 or so pages in with a fatal error saying it has run out of space and saying something more about a hash table. If I comment out lines 5-7, I don't get the fatal error but also I don't think I see protrusion and font expansion happening. The real book doesn't have very much body text but is does have 215 images with code like \placefigure{none}{\externalfigure[#1.jpg][width=\textwidth]} where #1 comes from a macro call. Any thoughts? (I suppose I can split my source file in half and find a ConTeXt command to start the page numbering for the second half a 107 or so and then combine the two PDFs with Acrobat.) Best regards, 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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analyzing type-otf.tex
by Henning Hraban Ramm 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

(1) Shouldn't these typescripts get splitted?: from \starttypescript [serif] [adventor,bonum,cursor,heros,pagella,schola,termes] to \starttypescript [serif] [bonum,pagella,schola,termes] \starttypescript [sans] [adventor,heros] \starttypescript [mono] [cursor] plus \starttypescript [calligraphy] [chorus] and from \starttypescript [serif] [pagella,termes,bonum,schola,chorus] [name] to \starttypescript [serif] [pagella,termes,bonum,schola] [name] \starttypescript [calligraphy] [chorus] [name] (2) This seems wrong to me (i.e. I don't understand it): \starttypescript [serif] [adventor,bonum,cursor,heros,pagella,schola,termes] \definefontsynonym [\typescriptprefix{n:\typescripttwo}-Regular] [file:texgyre\typescriptthree\typescriptprefix{f:\typescripttwo}- regular] [features=default] That defines e.g. TeXGyrePagella-Regular --> file:texgyre???pagella- regular Why is there \typescriptthree without a third parameter of the typescript? And what file means "file:texgyre\typescriptthree"? I thought, "file:" should be followed by a proper filename like "{n: \typescripttwo}-Regular"? Are the first and second parameters swapped? (3) I get (maybe from that): kpathsea: Illegal fontname `texgyrename,default,ec,specialschola- regular': contains ','! Font \*gyr- mix12ptrmtfrm*:=texgyrename,default,ec,specialschola-regular at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or installed font not found. This is my setup: \usetypescriptfile [type-otf] \usetypescriptfile [type-urw] \starttypescript [fiee] [gyr-mix] \definetypeface [gyr-mix] [rm] [serif] [schola] [default] \definetypeface [gyr-mix] [ss] [sans] [urw-grotesk-narrow] [default] [encoding=ec] \stoptypescript \usetypescript [fiee][gyr-mix] \setupbodyfont [gyr-mix,rm,8pt] Where's my error? Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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perl/Ruby dependency -- how deep?
by Joel C. Salomon 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Two questions came up when I was looking into putting ConTeXt on a USB stick (i.e., as a "portable app"): 1. Is perl still required for a ConTeXt installation (say, under Windows)? I know texexec is now written in Ruby, but are there other programs in Stand-alone or the Minimals that require perl? 2. I vaguely recall some mention of eventually replacing texexec with a Lua version. Is this actually being planned, and would that eliminate the external language dependencies of ConTeXt? --Joel

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A problem with HOMETEXMF
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Hi all, I have set HOMETEXMF in my setupex file, and the path is normally recognized: 13:25 jean@boldair /home/jean % echo $HOMETEXMF /home/jean/texmf Luatex sees it: 13:25 jean@boldair /home/jean % luatools --expand-path HOMETEXMF /home/jean/texmf (not if I write $HOMETEXMF ??) But luatex does not find files there: 13:35 jean@boldair /home/jean % luatools --find-file t-tikz.tex <blank> I have tried to set TEXMFHOME but got the same result. Please can anybody explain these variables and how they work with luatex or point to some documentation? -- Jean

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