[NTG-context] MetaPost 1.003 announcement

2008-04-10 Thread Taco Hoekwater
The MetaPost team is happy to announce a new release of MetaPost: -- MetaPost 1.003 -- The sources and a win32 package can be downloaded immediately from

[NTG-context] new version luatex / mkiv

2008-04-10 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, There is a new version of luatex and mkiv. You need to update them together. The best place to get them is the contextgarden (which will probably have the new versions pretty soon). This release of is rather substantial: no longer is metaposts called, but mplib is used instead. This

[NTG-context] mpost updating

2008-04-10 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, I have updated an older ConTeXt (ver: 2007.07.29 22:06 MKII) with a aktuell mpost. I have used 'http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/bin/metapost/mswin/bin/' as source. The command 'texmfstart texexec --autopdf --make --all' produces no metapost formats at all. Calling

Re: [NTG-context] first steps

2008-04-10 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, That's strange. Here this command gives: 103 ~: luatools --all *qplr.* /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/powerpc-darwin/luatools:4392: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil) allthough: 104 ~: find /usr/local -name *qplr.*

Re: [NTG-context] staticMPfigure

2008-04-10 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo Hans, the following example is a cooked down version of something I found on the net. Compiling this % \setupcolors[state=start] \forceMPTEXcheck{LABEL} \startMPinclusions vardef [EMAIL PROTECTED](expr s, p)= [EMAIL

Re: [NTG-context] staticMPfigure

2008-04-10 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: Hallo Hans, the following example is a cooked down version of something I found on the net. Compiling this % \setupcolors[state=start] \forceMPTEXcheck{LABEL} \startMPinclusions vardef [EMAIL

Re: [NTG-context] new version luatex / mkiv

2008-04-10 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: Hi, There is a new version of luatex and mkiv. You need to update them together. The best place to get them is the contextgarden (which will probably have the new versions pretty soon). This release of is rather substantial: no longer is metaposts called, but

Re: [NTG-context] mpost updating

2008-04-10 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: Hallo, I have updated an older ConTeXt (ver: 2007.07.29 22:06 MKII) with a aktuell mpost. I have used 'http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/bin/metapost/mswin/bin/' as source. The command 'texmfstart

Re: [NTG-context] new version luatex / mkiv

2008-04-10 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 10, 2008, at 5:18 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, There is a new version of luatex and mkiv. You need to update them together. The best place to get them is the contextgarden (which will probably have the new versions pretty soon). This release of is rather substantial: no longer is

Re: [NTG-context] staticMPfigure

2008-04-10 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Hans Hagen wrote: works ok on my machine using pdftex but luatex gives an unknown (have to look into it) Another test case, I ran into today. \setupcolors[state=start,textcolor=red] \starttext \startMPcode draw fullcircle scaled 2cm withcolor

Re: [NTG-context] staticMPfigure

2008-04-10 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Hans Hagen wrote: works ok on my machine using pdftex but luatex gives an unknown (have to look into it) Another test case, I ran into today. \setupcolors[state=start,textcolor=red] \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] new version luatex / mkiv

2008-04-10 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: I just downloaded and payed with it very very briefly - it works, and it seems A LOT faster with my presentations, where every background is calculated by metapost. For this sort of file, luatex now looks a lot faster than pdftex. I'm looking forward to

Re: [NTG-context] staticMPfigure

2008-04-10 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Hans Hagen wrote: works ok on my machine using pdftex but luatex gives an unknown (have to look into it) Another test case, I ran into today.

[NTG-context] new version

2008-04-10 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, concerning the mplibrary in mkiv ... - it does not use the metafun mem file; when formats are generated a special mem file is made and put alongside the context format - however, this only happens when a new version is found (is the case with a new zip), or when an error is encountered in

Re: [NTG-context] staticMPfigure

2008-04-10 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Hans Hagen wrote: works ok on my machine using pdftex but luatex gives an unknown (have to look into

Re: [NTG-context] new version luatex / mkiv

2008-04-10 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, There is a new version of luatex and mkiv. You need to update them together. The best place to get them is the contextgarden (which will probably have the new versions pretty soon). This release of is rather

[NTG-context] ConTeXt ultraminimals (was re: Perl/Ruby dependency)

2008-04-10 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: luatex + context mkiv is indeed independent [of Ruby] - index sorting takes place in mkiv - job control is done with mtxrun/mtx-context Now that I've been told the idea is at least possible, I've been thinking about how to

Re: [NTG-context] new version

2008-04-10 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, concerning the mplibrary in mkiv ... - it does not use the metafun mem file; when formats are generated a special mem file is made and put alongside the context format - however, this only happens when a new version is found (is the case with a