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RE: [NTG-context] bug in latest ConTeXt (confirmed)
by ishamid 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >ishamid wrote: > >> lines all over the place in my work that compiled fine with the old ConTeX, >> and I suspect that XeTeX may be responsible. Is there a way to completely >> isolate the new stuff because I'm going to lose a lot of time trying to track >> down every situation where my previously well-behaved stuff now gives errors >> because of this. > >just put \endinput atthe topmost lin eof supp-dir.tex and remake the format Those problems I told you about in a private email are still being caused by supp-dir, even after \endinput. I played around with supp-dir and thise following works;-) ========================================================== \unprotect \chardef\inlinedirection\zerocount % 0==notset 1==LR 2==RL \beginETEX \beginL % \def\pardir#1#2#3% messages end up in a higher level command % {\global\TeXXeTstate\plusone % \if#2L\chardef\inlinedirection\plusone\else % \if#2R\chardef\inlinedirection\plustwo\fi\fi % \checkinlinedirection} % needed / added %\appendtoks \checkinlinedirection \to \everypar % see core-ini.tex \def\checkinlinedirection {\ifcase\inlinedirection\or\beginL\or\beginR\fi} \endETEX \protect \endinput ========================================================== It seems that the \checkinlinedirection is still needed or I get other errors. I hope that you and Adam can up with something that won't kill me next time:-) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (macron)!
by Steffen Wolfrum 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Taco Hoekwater <taco(a)elvenkind.com> wrote: > Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > BTW: > > > > Is there also a command to translate TFM (and VF) files to AFM or > > another human readable format and back again? > > There exist the Knuthian programs tftopl (for tfm only) and > vftovp (for virtual fonts) that convert to 'property list' > format. The format is an ASCCI representation, but Whether or > not you think this is human readable depends on what kind of > human you are ;-) > > Anyway, the commands should be part of your installation already. > > Taco The idea was to translate TFM (and VF?) in a readable format, and back again, in order to be able of making little kerning adjustments: When the font is already Tex-installed and in use, but finally there is one kerning pair that doesn't look good enough, I wanted to be able to make this particular adjustment in the kerning table without starting from AFM and going the whole conversion and installation way again. Steffen

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RE: [NTG-context] New List: SemiTeX (*Tex for the Semitic Languages)
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hi Fred, This is very interesting and, certainly, I'd like to join (though your email address in hidden in this particular posting->) Also consider merging this with the aleph list, because the aleph list was also intended to discuss most of the same issues, even multilingual TeX issues that do not pertain to aleph directly. I hope that the XeTeX people (Hi Adam!) will post their bidi developments to the aleph list as well, so we can all be in better sync in the future:-) The aleph list is low volume and can certainly easily handle the issues you mention without boring anyone;-) I'm also working on an advanced replacement to ArabTeX, scheduled for release later this year. I can send you some samples (just send me your email address) Eventually I'd like to see the aleph capabilities merged into pdfetex, which will make my ConTeXt life much easier (Hi Hans;->) We live pretty close to one another; I'd be happy to stay in touch, talk, or even meet sometime. Take care Idris >===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >Hi, > >(My apologies for cross-postings) > >I would like to announce a new mailing list that I have created called >"SemiTeX." > >This is intended to be a forum for people concerned with typesetting >Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic/Syriac, Amharic, and any other Semitic and/or >right-to-left languages using the various flavors of *TeX (LaTeX, >XeTeX, ConTeXt, etc). ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] bug in latest ConTeXt (confirmed)
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hi Hans, >===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >at the moment the best way of dealing with is is to use texexec's engine handler; > >locate texexec.ini (or rme) and set > >set UseEnginePath to true > >after that pdfetex, aleph, xetex, mpost etc will end up on their own path. I have done that previously and, yes, I do get the subdirectories. But that's not the problem. The problem is that aleph is searching for its format in pdfetex's subdirectory: This is Aleph, Version 3.141592-1.15-2.1-0.0-rc4 (Web2c 7.5.3) \write18 enabled. Copyright (c) 2002--2004 the Aleph task force ---! c:\CONTEXT\tex\texmf-mswin/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex How do we make aleph search its own subdirectory? Just to be sure, texexec --verbose gives setting : 'UseEnginePath' to 'true' for 'all' Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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New List: SemiTeX (*Tex for the Semitic Languages)
by Frederick Hoyt 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hi, (My apologies for cross-postings) I would like to announce a new mailing list that I have created called "SemiTeX." This is intended to be a forum for people concerned with typesetting Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic/Syriac, Amharic, and any other Semitic and/or right-to-left languages using the various flavors of *TeX (LaTeX, XeTeX, ConTeXt, etc). Issues that I foresee being relevant include (but are not limited to): - Font issues related to the Semitic languages - Formatting issues related to formatting right-to-left text - Issues related to editors useful for right-to-left languages I have created the list because I thought it would be useful to have a forum in which people can feel free to ask detailed questions specific to typesetting Semitic without having to worry about boring others, and in the hope that having a forum like this might help create some critical mass of interest for creating an coherent approach to using the Semitic languages in TeX. The list is currently configured as "closed" (the list owner - myself - adds subscribers, in order to eliminate spam as much as possible), "unmoderated" (postings go straight out to subscribers), "digested" (you can get messages in daily digest form if you choose), and "archived" (the archives are currently available only to subscribers). If you wish to join, please send me an email including the email address you wish to be subscribed under, as well as the name you wish to have used. Thanks, Fred Hoyt Frederick M. Hoyt Linguistics Department University of Texas at Austin

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Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (macron)!
by Steffen Wolfrum 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

BTW: Is there also a command to translate TFM (and VF) files to AFM or another human readable format and back again? Steffen

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RE: [NTG-context] bug in latest ConTeXt (confirmed)
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >> Sounds like supp-dir needs a no-Omega check, as well. Hans? > >attached for testing, i dunny what the pardir equivalents are for \beginL and >\beginR -) Ok, the new supp-dir.tex helps. But there is another problem. Now my following macros are messed up (used in our private ar-cont.tex) \let\beginRL=\leavevmode\startarabictext \let\endRL=\stoparabictext \catcode`\<=\active \catcode`\>=\active \defineactivecharacter < {\enclosedarabic} \def\enclosedarabic#1>{\struttedbox{\beginRL#1\endRL}} Aleph complains that (\end occurred inside a group at level 2) ### semi simple group (level 2) entered at line 102 (\begingroup) ### simple group (level 1) entered at line 102 ({) ### bottom level Can you fix the XeTeX macros so that this is no longer affected? I also have some otp's that use the \beginRL\endRL syntax; I'm afraid that's all going to be negatively affected now... Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] 5 major problems with mswincontext.zip
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >ishamid wrote: > >> 2. aleph is still searching its format in the wrong directory; its format is >> properly installed in >> \texmf-mswin/web2c/aleph/ > >can you try what happens when you add the following lines to your texmf.cnf file > >(you can edit the file with: texmfstart --direct scite kpse:texmf.cnf) > >TEXFORMATS.xetex = $TEXFORMATS/{xetex,}// >TEXFORMATS.aleph = $TEXFORMATS/{aleph,}// >TEXFORMATS.pdftex = $TEXFORMATS/{pdftex,}// >TEXFORMATS.pdfetex = $TEXFORMATS/{pdfetex,}// Regenerated the formats after editing \texmf-local\web2c\texmf.cnf Unfortunately it still gives the same error. Please advise;-> Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] bug in latest ConTeXt (confirmed)
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >> Sounds like supp-dir needs a no-Omega check, as well. Hans? > >attached for testing, i dunny what the pardir equivalents are for \beginL and >\beginR -) Not to belabor this, but I'm getting ### simple group (level 1) entered at line lines all over the place in my work that compiled fine with the old ConTeX, and I suspect that XeTeX may be responsible. Is there a way to completely isolate the new stuff because I'm going to lose a lot of time trying to track down every situation where my previously well-behaved stuff now gives errors because of this. This has been a really frustrating week... Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Translations of "Context: an excursion"
by Gilles Pérez-Lambert 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hello, I asked Hans at EuroTeX 2005 in Pont-à-Mousson the permission to translate _Context: an excursion_ into French on behalf of GUTenberg, the French user group, and a German person (sorry, I forgot your name :-( ) did the same for the German language. Hans kindly agreed and prefers to have translations on a more recent document so here is a wiki page*: http://contextgarden.net/Revision_and_translations_of_“ConTeXt%2C_an_excurs… created on the ConTeXt wiki (thanks Patrick!). The goal of this page is to outline sections that need to be updated or erased or added. Please participate! :-) Gilles. * If the link doesn't work in your mailer, go to http://contextgarden.net/Typos_in_beginners_manual and follow the link to >>Revision and translations of "ConTeXt, an excursion"<<.

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