Re: [NTG-context] tikz error upgrading to texlive version (artix)

[George N. White III via ntg-context]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 4:01 PM Xavier B. via ntg-context <
ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I use artix linux (a fork of arch with systemd alternative init systems).
>

I get the same error for TL2023 in Windows, with additional output:


Please don't say '\def cs{...}', say '\def\cs{...}'. I've inserted an
inaccessible control sequence so that your definition will be completed
without
mixing me up too badly.
mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 1


> During the texlive package, I get this error:
>
> return {
>
>  
> ["filename"]="/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/basiclayer/pgfcorepoints.code.tex",
>  ["lastcontext"]="\n \n \\inaccessible \n
> \n \"\n\\pgfmath@catcodes ->\\catcode `\\==12 \\catcode `\\,=12 \\catcode
> `\\|=12 \\catcode `\\&=12 \\let \"\n
>\\pgfmath@char@quote \n\\pgfmathparse
> ->\\begingroup \\pgfmath@catcodes \n
>  \\pgfmath@quickparsefalse \\ifpgfmathfloat \\let \\pgfmath@parse@next
> =\\pgfmathfloatparsenumber \\else \\let \\pgfmath@parse@next
> =\\pgfmathparse@ \\fi \\pgfmath@parse@next \n \\pgfmathparse
> \n   {1cm}\\ifpgfmathmathunitsdeclared \\pgf@x
> \\pgfmathresult mu\\relax \\else \\pgf@x \\pgfmathresult pt\\relax \\fi
> \n\\pgfmath@next #1#2->#2\n   \n...\nl.926
> \\pgfsetxvec{\\pgfpoint{1cm}{0cm}}\n ",
>  ["lastluaerror"]="?",
>  ["lasttexerror"]="! Missing control sequence inserted",
>  ["linenumber"]=926,
>  ["offset"]=10,
> }
>
> I simply run context to this file:
>
> \usemodule[tikz]
>
> \starttext
> {\bf a} \tikz (0,0) -- (1,0);
> \stoptext
>
>
pgfcorepoints.code.tex hasn't changed from TeXLive 2022.
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Re: [NTG-context] Ajami script

[George N. White III via ntg-context]

On Sun, Jan 1, 2023 at 2:14 PM BPJ via ntg-context 
wrote:

It's a bit confusing because the word ʿajamī simply means anything written
> in a non-Arabic language with Arabic script. Africa is certainly not the
> only place where that term has been used. It is also the case that Arabic
> script has been used to write West African languages for very many
> centuries. There is no way that guy can have grown up there and not know
> that so I don't understand what this article is up to. Possibly this is a
> separate adaptation using its own conventions for writing the local
> language. Probably just pop-sci sensationalism coupled with some rather
> severe mis-/non-understanding on the part of the article author.
>

I grew up in Northern New Mexico and now live in Canada, so know that
"educational" efforts
which suppressed non-European languages and writing systems were too often
imposed on
indigenous peoples in N. America.  It would not surprise me to learn that
some West African kids
were never exposed to "anything written in a non-Arabic language with
Arabic script".

-- 
George N. White III
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