[NTG-context] mkiv

2008-10-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, at the context meeting it was concluded that there is no reason for mkiv to be fully downward compatible. one thing that i consider removing is the 'background=screen' option from \framed. After all, screens internally already are just grayscales and the old 'method' mechanism is no

[NTG-context] new beta

2008-10-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, this time a beta that is more beta than usual (mkiv) - it needs a recent luatex (no surprise) - there are some speedups, but it might break things (should not happen) - the memory footprint should be a bit smaller (esp fonts) - font fallbacks etc have some fixes a major change is that now

Re: [NTG-context] luatex 0.30.1

2008-10-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi again, Can someone tell me what the exact version of luatex is in the minimals? (and what platform, esp. for failures) Assuming it is the coroutines (and that seems likely) I will try fix the problem on monday (no time today). Worst case scenario for the solution I have in mind is that

[NTG-context] Arabic script bug in MKIV

2008-10-17 Thread Mehdi Omidali
Hi everyone At last I could install minimal context to use the latest luatex (0.30.1) with latest cont-tmf release. Thanks. I don't know if the following is a luatex or Context bug. Sorry if here is not the right place to report this. After compiling the following lines I faced two problems in the

Re: [NTG-context] new beta (Hans Hagen)

2008-10-17 Thread Yanrui Li
Hi, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this time a beta that is more beta than usual (mkiv) I fail to reinstall the latest beta. There is an errors with LuaTeX as following: mkiv lua stats : loaded fonts - none ! LuaTeX error

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2008-10-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 17, 2008, at 11:15 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, this time a beta that is more beta than usual (mkiv) - it needs a recent luatex (no surprise) - there are some speedups, but it might break things (should not happen) - the memory footprint should be a bit smaller (esp fonts) - font

Re: [NTG-context] height of balanced columnset?

2008-10-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Jelle Huisman wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to get the value of the height of a columnset after it is balanced? I'm looking for some sort of \columnsetheight that I can reuse as height=\columnsetheight in a \framed command in a layer. Hope this makes sense, or is the content of a layer

Re: [NTG-context] Feature Request: \startitemize[text]

2008-10-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi Wolfgang, On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Hans, I have always found the space at the beginning of each item in \startitemize[text] to be too large. Currently, this is hard coded to be \emwidth

[NTG-context] Verbatim Text (esp. XML/XSL + opportunity of a brand new support for the RelaxNG Compact syntax)

2008-10-17 Thread Renaud Aubin
Hi Folks ! I'm currently writting a technical report in which I need to type some XML an non-XML text. Sample file (xml_test.tex): I have some custom XML text (trivial) + a not-so-complicated xsl transformation (a part is included within the test file). I know there is verb-xml but... I need

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv

2008-10-17 Thread Peter Münster
On Fri, Oct 17 2008, Hans Hagen wrote: at the context meeting it was concluded that there is no reason for mkiv to be fully downward compatible. Great! Could you then also repair the align=left|right issue? Thanks, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2008-10-17 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, this time a beta that is more beta than usual (mkiv) - it needs a recent luatex (no surprise) - there are some speedups, but it might break things (should not happen) - the memory footprint should be a bit smaller

Re: [NTG-context] Verbatim Text (esp. XML/XSL + opportunity of a brand new support for the RelaxNG Compact syntax)

2008-10-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Renaud Aubin wrote: Hi Folks ! I'm currently writting a technical report in which I need to type some XML an non-XML text. Sample file (xml_test.tex): I have some custom XML text (trivial) + a not-so-complicated xsl transformation (a part is included within the test

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic script bug in MKIV

2008-10-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Mehdi Omidali wrote: Hi everyone At last I could install minimal context to use the latest luatex (0.30.1) with latest cont-tmf release. Thanks. I don't know if the following is a luatex or Context bug. Sorry if here is not the right place to report this. After compiling the following lines

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2008-10-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 09:33:48PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: luigi scarso wrote: hmmm perform arithmetic on local 'total' (a nil value). * ...texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-nl.tex \dump wrong binary ... you need the latest

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2008-10-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Oct 17, 2008, at 11:15 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, this time a beta that is more beta than usual (mkiv) - it needs a recent luatex (no surprise) - there are some speedups, but it might break things (should not happen) - the memory footprint should be a bit

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2008-10-17 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:19 PM, luigi scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: luigi scarso wrote: hmmm perform arithmetic on local 'total' (a nil value). * ...texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-nl.tex

Re: [NTG-context] luatex 0.30.1

2008-10-17 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, Can someone tell me what the exact version of luatex is in the minimals? (and what platform, esp. for failures) Assuming it is the coroutines (and that seems likely) I will try fix the problem on monday

[NTG-context] Reading the source...?

2008-10-17 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Hi, assume that I would like to read some parts of the ConTeXt source (to learn something interesting, to learn how to do that-and-that in ConTeXt, or just for fun;)). Where do I start? I mean: what is the non-terribly-difficult way for the beginner? I have rather good expertise in plain TeX

Re: [NTG-context] Reading the source...?

2008-10-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi Marcin, On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Marcin Borkowski wrote: Hi, assume that I would like to read some parts of the ConTeXt source (to learn something interesting, to learn how to do that-and-that in ConTeXt, or just for fun;)). Where do I start? I mean: what is the non-terribly-difficult way