[NTG-context] Re: Best way to input UTF-8
On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 09:45:03 +0800 黄复雄 wrote: > I recommend you to always show missing font markers in PDF documents > with \replacemissingcharacters Or let context throw an error in case a font/char is missing: %% alternative: %% context --errors='*' \enabledirectives [logs.errors=*] %% missing font \definefontfamily [foo] [serif] [no font here really] \setupbodyfont [foo] \starttext %% missing characters 풜 \stoptext Marco ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Re: Best way to input UTF-8
I recommend you to always show missing font markers in PDF documents with \replacemissingcharacters On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 12:46 AM Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: > > Hi all, > > What is the best way to input UTF-8 in LuaMetaTex? If I use the UTF-8 > characters then do not come out in text with Modern font. > > -- > Respect, > Shiv Shankar Dayal > ___ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl > webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) > archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context > wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net > ___ ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Re: New upload doesn't work on macOS 10.13.6
Hi Ralf I keep TeX Live on my Mac. It’s a great fall-back when I have new version surprises with ConTeXt. tug.org/mactex/ TeX Live has a friendly installer. Updates are easy with TeX Live Utility. TeX Live has a version of ConTeXt from last May, and it’s quite a good version, in my opinion. (ConTeXt ver: 2023.05.05 18:36 LMTX fmt: 2023.12.18) If you need any LaTeX stuff for some reason, it’s all there in TeX Live. Gavin > On Feb 18, 2024, at 1:01 PM, Ralf Heinrich Arning wrote: > > Hi list, > > after having tried to update with the new upload, ConTEXt doesn't run > anymore. > > According to the output the new version requires a more recent system. I > still use macOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra). > > This is what I get: > > = > context TestCode.tex > dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: chkstk_darwin > Referenced from: > /Applications/TeX/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/context (which was > built for Mac OS X 12.7) > Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib > > dyld: Symbol not found: chkstk_darwin > Referenced from: > /Applications/TeX/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/context (which was > built for Mac OS X 12.7) > Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib > > /bin/bash: line 2: 1569 Abort trap: 6 context TestCode.tex > context TestCode.tex > dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: chkstk_darwin > Referenced from: > /Applications/TeX/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/context (which was > built for Mac OS X 12.7) > Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib > > dyld: Symbol not found: chkstk_darwin > Referenced from: > /Applications/TeX/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/context (which was > built for Mac OS X 12.7) > Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib > > /bin/bash: line 4: 1579 Abort trap: 6 context TestCode.tex > === > > Trying to install again, I get: > > > sh install.sh > dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: chkstk_darwin > Referenced from: /Applications/TeX/context-osx-64/bin/mtxrun (which was built > for Mac OS X 12.7) > Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib > > dyld: Symbol not found: chkstk_darwin > Referenced from: /Applications/TeX/context-osx-64/bin/mtxrun (which was built > for Mac OS X 12.7) > Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib > > install.sh: line 105: 1693 Abort trap: 6 $PWD/bin/mtxrun --script > ./bin/mtx-install.lua --update --server="$LMTXSERVER" > --instance="$LMTXINSTANCE" --platform="$PLATFORM" --erase > --extras="$LMTXEXTRAS" > > == > > > What can I do? > > Do I have to reinstall an older version? How can I do this? > > Desperately, > > Ralf > ___ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl > webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) > archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context > wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net > ___ ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Re: New upload doesn't work on macOS 10.13.6
Dear Ralf, On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 at 21:07, Ralf Heinrich Arning wrote: > > after having tried to update with the new upload, ConTEXt doesn't run anymore. > > According to the output the new version requires a more recent system. We had some technical difficulties on our build farm, so Hans built the binaries on a (too) recent macOS version. A binary built on an older version can be found here: https://build.contextgarden.net/dl/luametatex/main/x86_64-darwinlegacy/luametatex but you would need to remove some flag first, else the security system won't let you start it (I would have to check what command exactly needs to be called; the installer does it automatically for you). I think that "context" is just a copy of that same binary. Maybe Hans can rebuild the binary installers using the above binary. Mojca ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Re: manuals
Hello everyone! As an eternal newbie (with a memory like a goldfish), I started by building my own documentation from the web pages constructed by Bertrand Masson (prehistory archaeologist in Northern France) "les fiches à Bébert" (obsolete version here: http://bertrandmasson.free.fr/; new recommended version here: http://lesfichesabebert.fr/TeX/context/context-intro.html). As mentionned by Alain Delmotte. Bertrand Masson always keeps his site up to date, as he gives references to the documentation compiled by Garulfo (Joaquín Ataz López ), available in several languages, which I personally found well-done, useful and welcome. It's interesting to note with a rather positive smile that documentations, even if they're never really up to date in the details of ConTeXt's evolution, copy each other: that's what I did to write the beginning of a Wikibook in French (https://fr.wikibooks.org/wiki/ConTeXt/Qu%27est-ce_que_ConTeXt_%3F). I took things written by Bertrand Masson and was partially taken over by Garulfo and so on. Fortunately, the ConTeXT discussion list offers MWEs: all you have to do is to test them and save these examples on your system in the CTX-TESTS document folder. The next step is to classify these examples under the appropriate headings, then insert them into a coding system for a complex document that always calls for requests for explanations from discussion list participants. This question of documentation seems to me to be an age-old snake, not only on a technical subject which can be complex, as ConTeXt can be, but also concerning other types of documentation. For my part, although I haven't yet exhausted all the available documentation resources, whether internal to the distribution, or online like the ConTeXt Garden wiki, I think (but this has been better expressed here by others than me) that a real documentation refresh could be carried out collectively, with the great ambition of keeping obsolete documentation in an archive, while proposing a wiki with the date of update visible, in correlation with the PDF version. I have no idea how this documentation update could be achieved, but the fact is that it would be desirable to devote a section to the purely technical and basic aspects of CTX installation and font availability on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, BSD, etc., with MWEs and examples a little more detailed. Once this documentation has been passed as an introductory part (itself containing chapters explaining how this page of documentation was put together, with notes in the margins, etc.), this book could introduce MKIV, LuaTeX, MetaPost and so on, but with a clear distinction between the objectives sought: writing documentation with figures, writing a thesis in mathematics and physics, how to construct figures, or a bibliography. Not to mention the handling of photographs in an aesthetically demanding layout; all this with the possibility of showing complete or partial examples of work produced... In a nutshell: even if I give the impression that I'm asking you to reinvent the wheel, in reality it's a question of collating relevant existing information in a way that is intelligible and clear to the neophyte, but that also meets the demands of experienced users, who don't all use ConTeXt for the same reasons. Don't get me wrong: I'm not telling you what to do, I'm just giving you my opinion. Basically, I'm saying: documentation exists, but it has to be reliable, up to date, easy to find and enable you to make progress in difficult situations. As I said, I found Garulfo's work very welcome. It's not obsolete and doesn't need replacing. But perhaps it could be amended on certain points and completed and made available both in PDF and online in the ConTeXt Garden wiki pages? So, if by hypothesis the relevant documentation exists, here and there, but it's in the middle of pages that are in the past, it can be considered a daunting task to go looking for information that you realize is no longer up to date, because experience shows that it's no longer reliable. If confusion reigns, those seeking to apply what they've read risk turning away from ConTeXt, or asking the same questions over and over again. So there's plenty of food for thought to be had when it comes to methods for overhauling existing documentation. It's not a question of thinking long and hard about the availability of this documentation (on line or as a PDF?), but rather of knowing whether to build an encyclopedia, or a series of manuals, each of which is intended to circumscribe as closely as possible the problems encountered when attempting this or that form of page layout. I remember being astonished to discover, when I first started learning ConTeXt, all the vocabulary that existed around page layout (in French: Grand fond, petit fond, blanc de tête, blanc de pied, etc.), vocabulary that we ignore when we come from Word office automation (see
[NTG-context] New upload doesn't work on macOS 10.13.6
Hi list, after having tried to update with the new upload, ConTEXt doesn't run anymore. According to the output the new version requires a more recent system. I still use macOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra). This is what I get: = context TestCode.tex dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: chkstk_darwin Referenced from: /Applications/TeX/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/context (which was built for Mac OS X 12.7) Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib dyld: Symbol not found: chkstk_darwin Referenced from: /Applications/TeX/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/context (which was built for Mac OS X 12.7) Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib /bin/bash: line 2: 1569 Abort trap: 6 context TestCode.tex context TestCode.tex dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: chkstk_darwin Referenced from: /Applications/TeX/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/context (which was built for Mac OS X 12.7) Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib dyld: Symbol not found: chkstk_darwin Referenced from: /Applications/TeX/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/context (which was built for Mac OS X 12.7) Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib /bin/bash: line 4: 1579 Abort trap: 6 context TestCode.tex === Trying to install again, I get: sh install.sh dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: chkstk_darwin Referenced from: /Applications/TeX/context-osx-64/bin/mtxrun (which was built for Mac OS X 12.7) Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib dyld: Symbol not found: chkstk_darwin Referenced from: /Applications/TeX/context-osx-64/bin/mtxrun (which was built for Mac OS X 12.7) Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib install.sh: line 105: 1693 Abort trap: 6 $PWD/bin/mtxrun --script ./bin/mtx-install.lua --update --server="$LMTXSERVER" --instance="$LMTXINSTANCE" --platform="$PLATFORM" --erase --extras="$LMTXEXTRAS" == What can I do? Do I have to reinstall an older version? How can I do this? Desperately, Ralf ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Re: Best way to input UTF-8
On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 22:12:25 +0530 Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: > What is the best way to input UTF-8 in LuaMetaTex? “Best” is subjective. What might be a good way for me might not be your preferred way. LuaMetaTex doesn't care at all *how* you input the characters into your text editor. The characters end up in the tex file and that's what's processed by context. \starttext Ωµ±åö←§… \stoptext Methods: - custom keyboard layout (my preferred way) - compose key - symbol input tables (provided by your OS) - copy-pasting symbols from somewhere else - … > If I use the UTF-8 characters then do not come out in text with > Modern font. You need to select a font containing the characters you need. Or set up a fallback for a certain range: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/definefallbackfamily Marco ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] lmt_shade fails
Hi all
I went to use the lmt_shade function and it fails with two error
messages. the first one is:
/metafun > log > error: Not a cycle/
followed by lots of trace messages, then:
/metafun > log > That contour should have ended with '.. cycle' or '&
cycle'. So I'll not change/
/anything just now./
//
The MWE I used is as follows:
\starttext
\startMPpage
definecolor [ name = "MyColor3", r = uniformdeviate(1), g =
uniformdeviate(1), b = uniformdeviate(1) ] ;
definecolor [ name = "MyColor4", r = uniformdeviate(1), g =
uniformdeviate(1), b = uniformdeviate(1) ] ;
draw lmt_shade [
path = fullsquare scaled 5cm,
direction = "up",
alternative = "linear",
colors = { "red", "green" },
];
\stopMPpage
\stoptext
I'm using:
/system > ConTeXt ver: 2024.02.14 13:38 LMTX fmt: 2024.2.15
int: english/english/
on a mac mini M1.
Any thougths?
Best wishes
Keith McKay
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[NTG-context] Best way to input UTF-8
Hi all, What is the best way to input UTF-8 in LuaMetaTex? If I use the UTF-8 characters then do not come out in text with Modern font. -- Respect, Shiv Shankar Dayal ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___
