Hi,
I uploaded a new version. The lmtx installer should now accept --secure
(but one has to update the installation script) in which case curl is
used when available on the system.
There are no other chnages apart from the outrcome of an 'extension
evening session' we had last week:
/*tex
We support the Knuthian Potrzebie cf.\ \url
{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrzebie} as |dk|
unit. It was added 2021-09-22 exactly when we crossed the season
during a evening session at
the 15th \CONTEXT\ meeting in Bassenge (Boirs) Belgium. It took a
few iterations to find the
best numerator and denominator, but Taco Hoekwater, Harald Koenig
and Mikael Sundqvist figured
it out in this interactive session. The error messages have been
adapted accordingly and the
scanner in the |tex| library also handle it. One |dk| is 6.43985pt.
There is no need to make
\METAPOST\ aware of this unit because there it is just a numeric
multiplier in a macro package.
From Wikipedia:
In issue 33, Mad published a partial table of the \quotation
{Potrzebie System of Weights and
Measures}, developed by 19-year-old Donald E. Knuth, later a famed
computer scientist. According
to Knuth, the basis of this new revolutionary system is the
potrzebie, which equals the thickness
of Mad issue 26, or 2.2633484517438173216473 mm [...].
*/
This is a follow up of a suggestion by Hraban (on the meeting attendents
list): a new unit. We have 'sp' for an unscaled unit (kind of the
internal one, also used at the lua end), 'ex', 'em', 'px' as relative
units (the handy ones), 'mu' for math (sort of relative and adaptive
too), which leaves 'cm', 'mm' (popular and valid SI), 'pt' (natural to
typesetting), 'bp' (related to postscript and pdf, the unit that
competing-to-tex programs use), 'dd' and 'cc' (for Tomas Hala), 'in'
(for stubborn non SI users) and now also 'dk' (for Don Knuth fans).
So, Hraban (who organizes next year meeting) can now do:
\setupbodyfont[dejavu,1dk]
\starttext
1dk = \the\dimexpr1dk = \the\dimexpr2.2633484mm
{\definedfont[Mono*none @ 6pt]test}
{\definedfont[Mono*none @ 1dk]test}
\stoptext
And in case one wonders: this few line addition doesn't harm performance.
Hans
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