Hi, I wanted to share some observations from enabling the latest MkIV code (2008.09.24, compiled luatex from svn just now) to run on a new installation of TeXLive 2008 on 64bit Linux. This is my first time trying MkIV. First -- a comment on installing using TeXLive 2008, which hopefully is helpful to others. In my installation I noticed that x86-64/bin/luatools was symlinked to texmf-dist/scripts/context/stubs/unix/luatools. The rsync update process as outlined on garden does not update this file; it updates texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua/luatools.lua. So this needs to be copied (or linked) over to make the update work. The same issues exists with mtxrun. The symptom was a broken "context --make". Now, on to my issues. I am listing anything that used to work in my TeXLive 2007 installation of MkII but fails in 2008 (MkII or MkIV). Items 1-3 were tested on garden as well to ensure it was not an issue in my setup -- 1. \placefloat[here]{none} fails. \placegraphic works instead. This works on MkII. See test_placefloat.tex. 2. MkIV fails due to the \startcolor...\stopcolor sequence embedded in a natural table (see test_color.tex). A working alternative is commented in that file. 3. MkIV will not typeset the file test.tex. It is due to using {style=\switchtobodyfont[tt]} in the table setup. Using [modern,tt] works fine, but this is not necessary with MkII. 4. This is a MkII issue (or maybe it is a pdftex problem?) MkII on 2007, texexec --dvi on 2008, and MkIV all work. The problem is with pulling in an external figure like this -- \externalfigure[/tmp/testfigure] The files /tmp/testfigure.eps and /tmp/testfigure.pdf exist. This should use the full path to find the file, and will pick the eps when creating dvi and the pdf when creating pdf's. As mentioned, this works with every combination I tested except 2008 MkII. Some (not very usable for me) workarounds are -- - use the filename without the path and add the path using \setupexternalfigures[directory=] - specify the .pdf extension (means I cannot typeset to dvi if I want to; I find this useful for previewing with xdvi's auto-reload) - use \setupexternalfigures[directory=/] and use a relative path 5. Just a comment on performance -- I noticed that using MkIV on a complicated document I have took 23 minutes vs. 12 minutes with MkII. I didn't know if MkIV is expected to be slower/comparable/faster at this stage. Anyway, I hope this is useful to other users and to the developers. Best Regards, Brian
Am 26.09.2008 um 23:37 schrieb Brian R. Landy:
Hi, I wanted to share some observations from enabling the latest MkIV code (2008.09.24, compiled luatex from svn just now) to run on a new installation of TeXLive 2008 on 64bit Linux. This is my first time trying MkIV.
First -- a comment on installing using TeXLive 2008, which hopefully is helpful to others. In my installation I noticed that x86-64/bin/ luatools was symlinked to texmf-dist/scripts/context/stubs/unix/ luatools. The rsync update process as outlined on garden does not update this file; it updates texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua/ luatools.lua. So this needs to be copied (or linked) over to make the update work. The same issues exists with mtxrun. The symptom was a broken "context --make".
Now, on to my issues. I am listing anything that used to work in my TeXLive 2007 installation of MkII but fails in 2008 (MkII or MkIV). Items 1-3 were tested on garden as well to ensure it was not an issue in my setup --
1. \placefloat[here]{none} fails. \placegraphic works instead. This works on MkII. See test_placefloat.tex.
Use \placefigure, \placefigure ... the correct syntax is \placefloat[floattype][here|page|...]{}{}
2. MkIV fails due to the \startcolor...\stopcolor sequence embedded in a natural table (see test_color.tex). A working alternative is commented in that file.
\bTD 4 \clear 0/8 \eTD I think Hans is faster to find the bug, here is a shorter example: \starttext \bTABLE[aligncharacter=yes,alignmentcharacter={/}] \bTR \bTD 4 \startcolor[red] 0/8 \stopcolor \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext
3. MkIV will not typeset the file test.tex. It is due to using {style=\switchtobodyfont[tt]} in the table setup. Using [modern,tt] works fine, but this is not necessary with MkII.
Use style=mono.
4. This is a MkII issue (or maybe it is a pdftex problem?) MkII on 2007, texexec --dvi on 2008, and MkIV all work. The problem is with pulling in an external figure like this --
\externalfigure[/tmp/testfigure]
The files /tmp/testfigure.eps and /tmp/testfigure.pdf exist. This should use the full path to find the file, and will pick the eps when creating dvi and the pdf when creating pdf's. As mentioned, this works with every combination I tested except 2008 MkII. Some (not very usable for me) workarounds are --
- use the filename without the path and add the path using \setupexternalfigures[directory=] - specify the .pdf extension (means I cannot typeset to dvi if I want to; I find this useful for previewing with xdvi's auto-reload) - use \setupexternalfigures[directory=/] and use a relative path
5. Just a comment on performance -- I noticed that using MkIV on a complicated document I have took 23 minutes vs. 12 minutes with MkII. I didn't know if MkIV is expected to be slower/comparable/ faster at this stage.
Depends on your document, a few things are slower like font loading but other things like MetaPost graphics are faster, it is also good to have a machine with 2 GB of memory or more . Wolfgang
Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
\bTABLE[aligncharacter=yes,alignmentcharacter={/}] \bTR \bTD 4 \startcolor[red] 0/8 \stopcolor \eTD
\bTD[foregroundcolor=red] ... \eTD this will not add potentially interfering nodes (in mkii) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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