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the stolen comma
by Steffen Wolfrum 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

Hi, is this a known exception, or is it a nasty little bug? \starttext |ROTFL|, Rolling on the Floor, laughing. |ROTFL|; Rolling on the Floor, laughing. \stoptext (Or is only my machine refusing to show the first comma? As far as I have checked only commas are affected ... ) Steffen

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mkiv update
by Hans Hagen 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

Hi, I uploaded a new version (no minimals yet). There are also new binaries (or will be later today) that fix a couple of font issues. Later this week I will enable new color handling code. 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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ConTeXt possibilities
by Istvan Hollerbach 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

Dear Everybody, My name is Istvan Hollerbach. I am still looking at ConTeXt. Are usable with ConTeXt only modules found at http://modules.contextgarden.net/, or which usable are with plain TeX as well? I think of xypic for example. Can I write a document for example in Sanskrit? Being a beginner, of course I will neither use xypic for a some length of time, nor I will write a document in Sanskrit. I am only interested in possibilities compared to LaTeX. Best regards, Istvan Hollerbach

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Re: [NTG-context] m-pstric
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 19 Aug '07

19 Aug '07

> > - If dvi is not the default, what is the right switch? > > ('texexec --dvi ...' has no effect) > > --dvi would have been more intuitive, but it's --dvips. That was the solution Thank you Mojca! Wolfgang

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starting out with MKiV -- oversized math fonts
by George N. White III 19 Aug '07

19 Aug '07

When I format the following example, based on the wiki, the math fonts don't match the body fonts. Note that "tex.print(c)" uses the body font and is small compared to the output from "tex.print("$...$")". The last line shows this is a math-mode issue, not really a problem with output from lua: % t-mkiv.tex -- test file for luatex and ConTeXt % see: <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mark_IV> % Compile: % texmfstart texexec --lua t-mkiv \starttext Using lua for a calculation: \startlua a = 1.5 b = 1.8 c = a*b tex.print(c) \stoplua \ctxlua{tex.print("$\string\\sqrt{2} = " .. math.sqrt(2) .. "$")} There is a problem with the size of math fonts: X$X$X or x$x$x. \stoptext -- George N. White III <aa056(a)chebucto.ns.ca> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

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Bug with itemize[r] in mkiv
by Aditya Mahajan 19 Aug '07

19 Aug '07

With luatex, the following gives \starttext \startitemize[r] \item one \item two \stopitemize \stoptext ! LuaTeX error .../context/current/texmf/tex/context/base/core-con.lua:163: attempt to call field 'tolower' (a nil value). \romannumerals ...nvert.romannumerals(\number #1)} \actualitemnumber ...\currentitemnumber -1\relax } \fi \listitem ...alue {\@@localitemsymbol \itemlevel } \tempsymbol \getitemparame... \doattributes ...sname #1#2\@EA \endcsname \fi {#4 }\dostopattributes \dolistitem ...evel \c!style \c!color {\listitem } \fi \fi }\ifconditional \f... \complexdoitemgroupitem ...obreak \fi \dolistitem \relax \ifconditional \pac... ... l.5 \item o ne Aditya

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techreport and bib
by Aditya Mahajan 18 Aug '07

18 Aug '07

Hi, I cannot understand why the pubname is not inserted in the following example. \usemodule[bib] \setuppublicationlayout[techreport]% {\insertauthors {} {,} {\insertthekey{}{,}{}}% \inserttitle {\space\quotation\bgroup} {,\egroup} {}% \insertbibtype {\space} {\insertvolume{,\space}{}{},} \insertpubname {,\space} {\insertcity{,\space}{}{}} {}% \insertpubyear {,\space\insertmonth{}{,\space}{}} {} {}% \insertnote {.\space} {.} {.}} \setuppublicationlist[samplesize={ABFG{\etalchar{+}}93},totalnumber=210] \startpublication[k=test,t=techreport, a={{Person}},y=1979a, n=42,s=So79a] \author[]{S.}[S.]{}{Person} \pubyear{1979\maybeyear{a}} \title{Some important work} \bibtype{Internal Pulication} \volume{ABC} \city{Some City} \pubname{Name of publication} \stoppublication \starttext Testing \cite[test]. \placepublications \stoptext The pdf looks like (notice no pubname and volume are inserted). Testing (Person, 1979a). Person, S., “Some important work,” Internal Pulication, ABC,, , Some City , 1979a. Thanks, Aditya

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m-pstric
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 18 Aug '07

18 Aug '07

Hallo, I tried the example in the module pstric, but it is not working. Running my 'tst.tex' loads the module and since it is in pdf-mode a line pstricks : using indirect method; enable write18 was written. But in 'tst-texapp.log' appears the same line: pstricks : using indirect method; enable write18 so 'tst-texapp.tex' was not run in dvi-mode and the pstricks macros are not loaded and \pspicture is unknown. \startTEXapplication has a line \executesystemcommand{texexec ...} So my question is: - Is dvi-mode the default for texexec? (I know it was, but there were some opposite remarks on the list) - If dvi is not the default, what is the right switch? ('texexec --dvi ...' has no effect) Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] MetaFont
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

> >>> But this does massivly restrict metafonts capabilities. Pens > for > >>> example are not allowed (Metafont with applied handbrake)! > >> I agree, metatype1 is not very easy to use if you are familiar > >> with > >> metafont already. For existing fonts, mf2pt1 is in general the > >> best > >> approach, I think. There is a (patched?) version out there that > >> delegates most the hard work to fontforge, and it's results are > >> normally > >> quite acceptable. > > > > There was once (1990) an article in TUGboat 11:4, pages 525-541 > > which discribes an patch to mf84. The patched mf could produce > type3 > > fonts. Should'nt it be possible to do the same for type1? > > Not without a lot of effort. Type3 fonts allow all sorts of stuff > that is illegal in Type1, like overlapping and mixing of strokes > and fills. The cases where fontforge is refusing, are cases which are best handeld inside metafont, where one has the knowledge: a.) elliptical curves, which are represented by polygons (lots of points and resolution depandend) and should converted to something smoother, and b.) short epicycles, which are also artifacts from penmotions, which can easyly be detected and replaced by an corner point. Wolfgang

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Possible bug in core-tab?
by Aditya Mahajan 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

Hi Hans, || does not work with tables, and until now I thought that this was a limitation of tables. But upon reading core-tab, it appears that you make a lot of effort to make sure that || works correctly, but it does not. I think that this is due to a mistake in the definition of pushouterbarandquote. Currently it is defined as \gdef\pushouterbarandquote {\ifForgetTableBarAndQuote \let|\letterbar \let"\letterdoublequote \ifnum\catcode`\|=\@@active \let\outertablebar |\else\let\outertablebar \relax\fi \ifnum\catcode`\"=\@@active \let\outertablequote"\else\let\outertablequote\relax\fi \fi} Shouldn't it be the other way round? That is first save the current meaning of | and ", and then redefine it. So, \bgroup \catcode`\|=\@@active \catcode`\"=\@@active \gdef\pushouterbarandquote {\ifForgetTableBarAndQuote \ifnum\catcode`\|=\@@active \let\outertablebar |\else\let\outertablebar \relax\fi \ifnum\catcode`\"=\@@active \let\outertablequote"\else\let\outertablequote\relax\fi \let|\letterbar \let"\letterdoublequote \fi} \egroup This makes sure that || works correctly. The redefinition of " and | was added last November. http://foundry.supelec.fr/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/tex/context/base/core-… Aditya

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