Re: [NTG-context] problem with pdftex-1.40.1 and Gentium ligatures

2007-02-02 Thread Johan Sandblom
Sorry, neglected to mention (it was long ago and I had forgotten), I installed it with texfont texfont --ma --in --ve=sil --co=gentium --fontroot=/usr/share/texmf --afmpl [--en=ec] hmm, can't remember if it was /usr/share on the end Thank you for your efforts Johan 2007/2/2, Taco Hoekwater

Re: [NTG-context] problem with pdftex-1.40.1 and Gentium ligatures

2007-02-02 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
2007/2/2, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am trying to work this out, but I obviously miss the gentium font files (metric and map files, as wel as the actual fonts). I can get the ttfs from the sil site, but where did the tfms and map files come from? Take mine:

Re: [NTG-context] problem with pdftex-1.40.1 and Gentium ligatures

2007-02-02 Thread Martin Schröder
2007/2/2, Johan Sandblom [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, neglected to mention (it was long ago and I had forgotten), I installed it with texfont Btw: The -recorder switch of pdftex/web2c (don't know how to use that with texexec) will write a list of all files used by pdftex (including fonts

Re: [NTG-context] problem with pdftex-1.40.1 and Gentium ligatures

2007-02-02 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
The -recorder switch of pdftex/web2c (don't know how to use that with texexec) Like so: texexec --passon=-recorder file.tex The --passon feature had lapsed in the transition from perl to ruby texexec, but Hans and Taco fixed it in one of the recent ConTeXt releases. I now use it all

Re: [NTG-context] problem with pdftex-1.40.1 and Gentium ligatures (pdftex bug)

2007-02-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
See minimal example here: http://sarovar.org/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=729group_id=106atid=493 Best, Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] problem with pdftex-1.40.1 and Gentium ligatures

2007-02-01 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Johan, If the only change is the pdftex version, than it sounds like this is a pdftex bug. Any chance you can create a small standalone testfile? Best, Taco Johan Sandblom wrote: When I moved from pdftex-1.30.5-2.2 (from texlive-base-bin 2005.dfsg.2-10 on debian) to pdftex-1.40.1 suddenly

Re: [NTG-context] problem with pdftex-1.40.1 and Gentium ligatures

2007-02-01 Thread Johan Sandblom
It took a lot of searching for a minimal case, apparently there are many levels of interaction here. The file below has blanks for fi fl ff when compiled with pdftex-1.40.1 but not with pdftex-1.30.5. Do you need some parts of my tex/font setup as well? Johan \usetypescriptfile[type-sil-gentium

Re: [NTG-context] problem with pdftex-1.40.1 and Gentium ligatures

2007-02-01 Thread Hans Hagen
Johan Sandblom wrote: It took a lot of searching for a minimal case, apparently there are many levels of interaction here. The file below has blanks for fi fl ff when compiled with pdftex-1.40.1 but not with pdftex-1.30.5. Do you need some parts of my tex/font setup as well? Johan

Re: [NTG-context] problem with pdftex-1.40.1 and Gentium ligatures

2007-02-01 Thread Johan Sandblom
has blanks for fi fl ff when compiled with pdftex-1.40.1 but not with pdftex-1.30.5. Do you need some parts of my tex/font setup as well? Johan \usetypescriptfile[type-sil-gentium] \usetypescript[my][sil-gentium] \setupbodyfont[sil-gentium, 10pt] \definetypeface [chance

[NTG-context] problem with pdftex-1.40.1 and Gentium ligatures

2007-01-31 Thread Johan Sandblom
When I moved from pdftex-1.30.5-2.2 (from texlive-base-bin 2005.dfsg.2-10 on debian) to pdftex-1.40.1 suddenly ligatures in gentium exhibited erratic behavior: they appeared correctly (or, more accurately, the letters appeared, they did not look like a proper ligature) on screen in xpdf

Re: [NTG-context] crash with pdftex-1.40

2007-01-05 Thread luigi scarso
It breaks here on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, latest pdftex, latest context distro t is \starttext \def\myCMD#1{%.. \stoptext t1 is \starttext \input \string|echo -n bla \stoptext luigi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# texmfstart texexec --pdf t TeXExec | processing document 't' TeXExec | no ctx file found

Re: [NTG-context] crash with pdftex-1.40

2007-01-05 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: But this should be enough to reproduce it: \starttext \input \string|echo -n bla \stoptext Breaks here too, using pdftex 1.40.0, context 2006.12.27, Ubuntu i386: This bug is found and fixed and will be corrected in the next pdftex release. Best, Taco

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40]

2007-01-04 Thread luigi scarso
the pdftex list nowadays is mostly a latex bug/support report list ; pdftex and luatex development have their own lists hmm I think this is the complete list. http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-context http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg

Re: [NTG-context] engine should be pdftex

2007-01-04 Thread Peter Münster
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Hans Hagen wrote: You need to delete all traces of pdfetex, pdfetex.pool, pdfetex, pdfetex.exe, pdfetex.dll, trhe pdfetex engine path, etc Thanks, this helps. Another question concerning formats: in TeX-live 2007, what should be the right place to put the formats? texexec

[NTG-context] crash with pdftex-1.40

2007-01-04 Thread Peter Münster
Hello, this is probably only related to pdfTeX and not to ConTeXt, but I'm too lazy to subscribe yet to another list... ;) While playing around with the new shell escaping in pdftex-1.40, I got the following crash: TeXExec | processing document 'test' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex

Re: [NTG-context] crash with pdftex-1.40

2007-01-04 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Martin Schröder wrote: 2007/1/4, Peter Münster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: this is probably only related to pdfTeX and not to ConTeXt, but I'm too lazy to subscribe yet to another list... ;) I can't reproduce this with my old ConTeXt 2005.01.31 on SUSE 10.1. I have only the pdftex-1.40-rc4 here

Re: [NTG-context] crash with pdftex-1.40

2007-01-04 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
But this should be enough to reproduce it: \starttext \input \string|echo -n bla \stoptext Breaks here too, using pdftex 1.40.0, context 2006.12.27, Ubuntu i386: *** glibc detected *** pdfetex: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x082d42f0 *** Running texexec with --verbose says what

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40]

2007-01-03 Thread Martin Schröder
2007/1/3, Sanjoy Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe I missing a trick, but the draftmode didn't save much time. I guess I should make the test file read in a few huge images? Yes. And if you then generate PDF 1.5 with object stream and compression, you can gain much. I have a test case which

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40]

2007-01-03 Thread luigi scarso
On 1/2/07, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The next message probably also is interestering to a few of you that are not subscribed to the pdftex list. Oh, i'm one of the few... by the way http://www.logosrl.it/context/pdftex/1.40.0-2.2 Also, greping pdftex list I found http

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40]

2007-01-03 Thread Hans Hagen
guess I should make the test file read in a few huge images? try bigger stuff, say a file with some 100 meg pictures and 25 fonts ; that's what draftmode is for (one of those ideas that popped up during eurotex 2006 at our usual pdftex dev chat). Hans

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40]

2007-01-03 Thread Hans Hagen
luigi scarso wrote: On 1/2/07, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The next message probably also is interestering to a few of you that are not subscribed to the pdftex list. Oh, i'm one of the few... the pdftex list nowadays is mostly a latex bug/support report list

[NTG-context] engine should be pdftex

2007-01-03 Thread Peter Münster
Hello, texexec --make --all puts the formats in the subdirectory pdfetex but I think it should be pdftex now. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] engine should be pdftex

2007-01-03 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
texexec --make --all puts the formats in the subdirectory pdfetex but I think it should be pdftex now. If 'now' means with pdftex 1.40.0, I think you're right. But that would break context with earlier pdftex's. I've made a symlink from /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex to pdfetex and all is okay

Re: [NTG-context] engine should be pdftex

2007-01-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: texexec --make --all puts the formats in the subdirectory pdfetex but I think it should be pdftex now. If 'now' means with pdftex 1.40.0, I think you're right. But that would break context with earlier pdftex's. I've made a symlink from /var/lib/texmf/web2c

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40]

2007-01-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: which makes be believe that it will not work for normal cases. However, how about adding a switch to texexec, say --draft, which will run the document in draftmode until no more runs are needed, and will then run a final typesetting run without the draftmode. This may

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40]

2007-01-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Martin wrote: 2007/1/3, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: which makes be believe that it will not work for normal cases. However, how about adding a switch to texexec, say --draft, which will run the document in draftmode until no more runs are needed, and will then run a final

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40]

2007-01-03 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
which makes be believe that it will not work for normal cases. However, how about adding a switch to texexec, say --draft, which will run the document in draftmode until no more runs are needed, and will then run a final typesetting run without the draftmode. This may speed up the

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40]

2007-01-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: which makes be believe that it will not work for normal cases. However, how about adding a switch to texexec, say --draft, which will run the document in draftmode until no more runs are needed, and will then run a final typesetting run without the draftmode. This may

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40]

2007-01-03 Thread Aditya Mahajan
. maybe later, when i feel comfortable enough with it; for the moment i added --draft Great. Is there someplace where I can download pdftex binaries for windows? The sarovar site only has source code. Aditya ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40]

2007-01-03 Thread Martin Schröder
2007/1/4, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there someplace where I can download pdftex binaries for windows? The sarovar site only has source code. Akira's W32TeX: http://www.fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp/~kakuto/win32-ptex/web2c75-e.html Or get the latest TexLive test image. Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40]

2007-01-03 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Martin Schröder wrote: 2007/1/4, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there someplace where I can download pdftex binaries for windows? The sarovar site only has source code. Akira's W32TeX: http://www.fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp/~kakuto/win32-ptex/web2c75-e.html Thanks

[NTG-context] [Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40]

2007-01-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, The next message probably also is interestering to a few of you that are not subscribed to the pdftex list. Best, Taco Original Message Subject: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40 Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 17:56:59 +0100 From: Martin Schröder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PDF-TeX mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40]

2007-01-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 2, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi, The next message probably also is interestering to a few of you that are not subscribed to the pdftex list. Best, Taco Taco and all other pdftex-developers, congratulations on getting version 1.40 ready for the new year! I had been

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40]

2007-01-02 Thread Peter Münster
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Taco Hoekwater wrote: - draftmode: With \pdfdraftmode=1 or the commandline switch -draftmode pdfTeX doesn't write the output pdf and doesn't actually read any images, thus speeding up compilations when you know you need an extra run but don't care about

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40]

2007-01-02 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Peter Münster wrote: On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Taco Hoekwater wrote: - draftmode: With \pdfdraftmode=1 or the commandline switch -draftmode pdfTeX doesn't write the output pdf and doesn't actually read any images, thus speeding up compilations when you know you

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40]

2007-01-02 Thread Martin Schröder
2007/1/3, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: which makes be believe that it will not work for normal cases. However, how about adding a switch to texexec, say --draft, which will run the document in draftmode until no more runs are needed, and will then run a final typesetting run without the

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40]

2007-01-02 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
From the texexec man page: --fast Typeset the document(s) as fast as possible without causing problems. --final Perform a final run without skipping anything. This option is typically used with --fast. So --fast --final could be the pair of switches to add. But I tried an

[NTG-context] French spacing and pdfTeX-1.40

2006-11-14 Thread Peter Münster
Hello, (it's a repost, in case my previous email got lost...) my attempt to get correct French spacing before punctuation does no more work with the latest ConTeXt-beta. Is there now a new method with pdfTeX-1.40 to get automatically the good spacing (as announced some months ago)? Today I try

[NTG-context] French spacing with pdfTeX-1.40 and ConTeXt-beta

2006-11-08 Thread Peter Münster
Hello, my attempt to get correct French spacing before punctuation does no more work with the latest ConTeXt-beta. Is there now a new method with pdfTeX-1.40 to get automatically the good spacing? Today I try it like this (without success): %%% module t-french.tex %%% \def

[NTG-context] pdfTeX-1.40 does not find format

2006-11-01 Thread Peter Münster
Hello, I try to use the beta versions of ConTeXt and pdfTeX now and I find the following issue (on latest TeX-live): with TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,} in texmf.cnf and pdfTeX-1.40.XXX, texexec --make writes the formats to texmf-config/web2c/pdfetex but pdftex looks only into texmf

Re: [NTG-context] pdfTeX-1.40 does not find format

2006-11-01 Thread Hans Hagen
� wrote: Hello, I try to use the beta versions of ConTeXt and pdfTeX now and I find the following issue (on latest TeX-live): with TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,} in texmf.cnf and pdfTeX-1.40.XXX, texexec --make writes the formats to texmf-config/web2c/pdfetex but pdftex looks only

Re: [NTG-context] pdfTeX-1.40 does not find format

2006-11-01 Thread Peter Münster
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: pdfetex is no longer valid, it's pdftex now (includes etex); so. remove any trace of pdfetex, take the latest texexec, adn regenerate the formats Hello Hans, this is exactly what I did: I removed bin/pdfetex and web2c/pdfetex.pool and then texexec --make

Re: [NTG-context] pdfTeX-1.40 does not find format

2006-11-01 Thread Hans Hagen
� wrote: Does not downward compatible mean, that there are other more serious issues? each year downward compatibily has someho wbeen broken (changes in binaries, tds, font names; but by now texmfstart/texexec should catch such problems) Hans

[NTG-context] Newbie question: Different PDF-output with pdftex versus tex - ghostscript

2006-10-02 Thread Robert Kroon
Hi, I've installed Tex and Context on my Mac through II-installer and started to experiment with simple Context files. I'm using Texshop v2.09 as text editor. When I generate output with the pdftex default script I get a pdf-file with poor letter quality (thick p's and t's and j's). Also

Re: [NTG-context] Newbie question: Different PDF-output with pdftex versus tex - ghostscript

2006-10-02 Thread Martin Schröder
2006/10/1, Robert Kroon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: v2.09 as text editor. When I generate output with the pdftex default script I get a pdf-file with poor letter quality (thick p's and t's and j's). Also the combination of the characters ij are shown as .. in the pdf-file. When I switch to the default

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-11 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: This process works in a similar fashion for all programs like pdftex, dvipdfmx, dvips, and xdvi, but texfont only creates a map file for pdftex. Unf, the pdftex map file cannot be used by dvips, so for dvips you have to create your own (like you did

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-11 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Andreas Schneider wrote: Thanks a lot, with that it works now (with the texnansi encoding)! These facts should be mentioned in the docs. The next version of texfont will create a dvips and dvipdfmx map file as well as a pdftex one, making life a bit easier. But gv gives an error when I try

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-11 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hi! On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Andreas Schneider wrote: Thanks a lot, with that it works now (with the texnansi encoding)! These facts should be mentioned in the docs. The next version of texfont will create a dvips and dvipdfmx map file as well as a pdftex one, making life

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-09 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Aug 8, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: how does -afmpl perform? i always suspected afm2tfm not to take non existing ligs into account Just as bad (here, at least). I'll get back to you about this tomorrow, it is too late for me to do

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-09 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: well, we can consider to let texfont use a ec-fixed encoding for afm2tfm and the regular ec encoding for the rest --afmencoding=ec-fixed or so or fix afm2pl. for a while afm2pl was the default, but then it suddenly defaulted to latex default (em) spacing which

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-09 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Aug 8, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: how does -afmpl perform? i always suspected afm2tfm not to take non existing ligs into account Just as bad (here, at least). I'll get back to you about this tomorrow, it is too late for me to do serious work.

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-09 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: because of a line in /opt/tex/teTeX/texmf/aliases :-/ ah, the dreadful aliases file ... in tex live they're gone ; let's hope that this aliases fiel does not contain anything related to context tex files (patterns for instance) Either way, it seems that this LIGKERN

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 9, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: I've experimented with afm2pl, and as I wrote in an earlier mail: the beginning of EC.enc with its additional LIGKERN instructions confuses it so it will not include default ligatures. As it turns out, this is the same for afm2tfm. And to

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-09 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: And for the LIGKERN: yes, I asked about them on the tex-fonts list a while ago, and nobody considered them a problem. IMHO, they're totally useless or even worse, but I received the same ol' answers: can't change that, it's legacy etc. I think Mojca knows

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 9, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: i see, interesting; before we do that, can you check if we can/need to do the same with texnansi, qx, etc ? Hans texnansi is OK, in my experience, and qx as well. t5 also has some LIGKERN instructions at the beginning, but doesn't have

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: since you're typesetting german ... why not using the texnansi encoding instead of the flawed ec encoding? The problem is that it doesn't work with the texnansi encoding either. See my last mails. Andreas ___

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Andreas Schneider wrote: On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: since you're typesetting german ... why not using the texnansi encoding instead of the flawed ec encoding? The problem is that it doesn't work with the texnansi encoding either. See my last mails. if the problem is

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Andreas Schneider wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: if the problem is in a font not having glyphs, you can consider making a special encoding vector + enco-* file; not that complex since one can start with an existing one The problem is that it does work with pdftex (tex

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Somehow you yourself (and not texfont!) have created a font map file called bgj.map for dvips, and that file is wrong. Hmm, I have created it just for LaTeX. Since it contains only entries for ec-bgj* (without 'raw') it should not interfere with the

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
, when there are no longer virtual fonts to resolve, it looks for the 'base' fonts in its map file. This process works in a similar fashion for all programs like pdftex, dvipdfmx, dvips, and xdvi, but texfont only creates a map file for pdftex. Unf, the pdftex map file cannot be used by dvips, so

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: The second problem: texfont simply does not 'do' EC correctly (at least not on my machine). There are simply no fi ligatures, not in pdftex either. I will investigate this further. how does -afmpl perform? i always suspected afm2tfm not to take non existing ligs

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
the way we do is that i want to prevent pdftex to be too clever in sharing font resources (thre are versions out there that assume sequivalent Names to always equivalent which is not always true (think of slanted or extended fonts) (i've been bitten too often by that so i play safe

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: The second problem: texfont simply does not 'do' EC correctly (at least not on my machine). There are simply no fi ligatures, not in pdftex either. I will investigate this further. how does -afmpl perform? i always suspected afm2tfm not to take non

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 8, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: how does -afmpl perform? i always suspected afm2tfm not to take non existing ligs into account Just as bad (here, at least). I'll get back to you about this tomorrow, it is too late for me to do serious work. I've experimented with

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-07 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Andreas Schneider wrote: but xdvi gives error messages like [...] My guess is that you have to copy the final ec.enc file you used to the folder where dvips (and xdvi, which looks in the same place normally) looks for encoding files. I created a

[NTG-context] What about Lua in pdftex ?

2006-05-26 Thread luigi scarso
What about Lua in pdftex ? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] What about Lua in pdftex ?

2006-05-26 Thread Hans Hagen
luigi scarso wrote: What about Lua in pdftex ? you may expect around the end of the year; i'm currently playing with some alphaware in order to explore possibilities and interfacing needs -) Hans

Re: [NTG-context] Building and installing pdftex 1.30 on teTeX 3.0

2005-11-30 Thread Hans Hagen
Hans van der Meer wrote: I use (as root: sudo) the following shell script to install the latest pdfetex. For me it works. It might be of use to you. #!/bin/sh echo Installing Pdftex... umask 022 unzip pdftex-1.30.4.zip cd pdftex-1.30.4 sh ./Build cp -f build/texk/web2c/pdftex `which pdftex

Re: [NTG-context] Building and installing pdftex 1.30 on teTeX 3.0

2005-11-30 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Hans and Hans, Hans Hagen wrote: Hans van der Meer wrote: I use (as root: sudo) the following shell script to install the latest pdfetex. For me it works. It might be of use to you. #!/bin/sh echo Installing Pdftex... umask 022 unzip pdftex-1.30.4.zip cd pdftex-1.30.4 sh ./Build cp -f

Re: [NTG-context] Building and installing pdftex 1.30 on teTeX 3.0

2005-11-29 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hi, Nikolai Weibull wrote: The only texmf.cnf lives in /etc/texmf.cnf; other are symlinks to it. Do you have a symlink in /etc/share/texmf/web2c as well? Well, I have with a standard-SUSE-10.0 teTeX only /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf and neither of those others. To find the texmf.cnf,

[NTG-context] Building and installing pdftex 1.30 on teTeX 3.0

2005-11-28 Thread Nikolai Weibull
I've followed the instructions listed at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation, but it won't quite give. The problem is that I use the Gentoo installation setup as a base and have the latest ConTeXt installed in /usr/local/share. Does anyone know what options to pass to pdftex's

Re: [NTG-context] Building and installing pdftex 1.30 on teTeX 3.0

2005-11-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Nikolai Weibull wrote: I've followed the instructions listed at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation, but it won't quite give. The problem is that I use the Gentoo installation setup as a base and have the latest ConTeXt installed in /usr/local/share. Does anyone know what

Re: [NTG-context] Building and installing pdftex 1.30 on teTeX 3.0

2005-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Nikolai Weibull wrote: I've followed the instructions listed at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation, but it won't quite give. The problem is that I use the Gentoo installation setup as a base and have the latest ConTeXt installed in /usr/local/share. Does anyone know what

Re: [NTG-context] Building and installing pdftex 1.30 on teTeX 3.0

2005-11-28 Thread VnPenguin
On 11/28/05, Nikolai Weibull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've followed the instructions listed at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation, but it won't quite give. The problem is that I use the Gentoo installation setup as a base and have the latest ConTeXt installed in

Re: [NTG-context] Building and installing pdftex 1.30 on teTeX 3.0

2005-11-28 Thread Nikolai Weibull
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Nikolai Weibull wrote: I've followed the instructions listed at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation, but it won't quite give. The problem is that I use the Gentoo installation setup as a base and have the latest ConTeXt installed in

Re: [NTG-context] Building and installing pdftex 1.30 on teTeX 3.0

2005-11-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
I have once tried to set up TeX on gentoo, and found this to be the most complicated and least user-friendly distribution I have ever seen. There's a bunch of texmf-trees in all kinds of bizarre locations, and a symlink farm in /etc like you wouldn't believe, and there's not a shred of

Re: [NTG-context] compiling pdftex docs

2005-11-09 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Tobias Wolf wrote: There are loads of errors remaining (in the version from tug.org) like the following, which is also present in the atpragma mode: ! Missing number, treated as zero. to be read again } \tabulatecontent ...NR \HL \NC \type

Re: [NTG-context] compiling pdftex docs (was: cont 2005.10.27 t5-lmtt10 font problem)

2005-11-04 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Tobias Wolf wrote: But on the other hand, Hans, why can't I compile the PDFTex docs because I don't have this ( http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2004/006705.html ) What version of the pdftex manual? The latest one in the CVS has this around line 350: % We use adobe metrics instead

[NTG-context] [Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.30.0]

2005-08-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Original Message Subject: [pdftex] pdftex 1.30.0 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 22:54:55 +0200 From: Martin Schröder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PDF-TeX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] [http://sarovar.org/download.php/673/pdftex-1.30.0.zip] The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release

[NTG-context] Re: [NTG-pdftex] unwanted font replacement during inclussion

2005-06-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hartmut Henkel wrote: Then the CMBX12 font coming with the embedded test.pdf would match CMBX12 and this would be replaced by cmtt10.pfb. So it seems that something must be wrong with the map file. There is a (fairly serious) bug in two of the context-supplied Latin Modern .map files:

Re: [NTG-context] Re: [NTG-pdftex] unwanted font replacement during inclussion

2005-06-02 Thread Vit Zyka
Hartmut Henkel wrote: On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Vit Zyka wrote: I noticed the next strange behaviour. Let us create very simple file test.tex: -- \font\bf=cmbx12 Normal text. \bf Bold text. \end -- Now include this file by plain pdftex: -- \pdfximage

[NTG-context] Re: [NTG-pdftex] kerning

2005-06-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: PS. I can create a series of slides that show internals of the font reading process for the ntg meeting, if you are interested. sounds like a good idea to me For those of you who are interested in this sort of thing, I've posted an 884-page PDF

[NTG-context] Re: [NTG-pdftex] kerning

2005-06-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: De document, and sources, are available at: http://tex.aanhet.net/temp/fontreader.pdf http://tex.aanhet.net/temp/fontreader.zip Beware, the PDF is pretty large (7.7Mb). MetaPost, Perl and Context sources are quite small (12kb), but very much a hack. brilliant, you

[NTG-context] Re: [NTG-pdftex] unwanted font replacement during inclussion

2005-06-01 Thread Hartmut Henkel
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Vit Zyka wrote: I noticed the next strange behaviour. Let us create very simple file test.tex: -- \font\bf=cmbx12 Normal text. \bf Bold text. \end -- Now include this file by plain pdftex: -- \pdfximage{test.pdf

Re: [NTG-context] Python,swig and pdftex ?

2005-02-27 Thread luigi.scarso
Janko Hauser wrote: luigi.scarso schrieb: I'm try do make something useful with Python and pdftex using swig. Any suggestions ? Have you looked at pytex? It does nothing with pdftex, but I do not know what do you want to actually do. __Janko

Re: [NTG-context] Python,swig and pdftex ?

2005-02-26 Thread Janko Hauser
luigi.scarso schrieb: I'm try do make something useful with Python and pdftex using swig. Any suggestions ? Have you looked at pytex? It does nothing with pdftex, but I do not know what do you want to actually do. __Janko ___ ntg-context mailing

[NTG-context] Python,swig and pdftex ?

2005-02-25 Thread luigi.scarso
I'm try do make something useful with Python and pdftex using swig. Any suggestions ? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-pdftex] Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt dont work with fonts after last miktex update

2005-01-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Hartmut Henkel wrote: Please remove the blank after the : hm, i ran intro something like that recently, pdftex was never sensitive to blanks there, so i have map files with blanks (since there can be blanks everywhere i see no reason for a restiction there); makes the file more readable Hans

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip and pdfTeX 1.20b ?

2005-01-04 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi Hans, happy new year! When do you think you could provide us a mswincontext.zip that includes pdfTeX 1.20b ? when i have a pdftex 20b binary Hans I was asking for this on comp.text.tex and Hans Fredrik Nordhaug just

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip and pdfTeX 1.20b ?

2005-01-04 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, During this conversation I visited also CTAN. Indeed there is a 120b version in FPTEX. Willi Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi Hans, happy new year! When do you think you could provide us a mswincontext.zip that includes pdfTeX 1.20b

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip and pdfTeX 1.20b ?

2005-01-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Willi Egger wrote: Hi, During this conversation I visited also CTAN. Indeed there is a 120b version in FPTEX. that's the november b-beta anyhow, before i can regenerate zips i need to clean up some trees (i now have to move from texlive to my local trees for updating since tex liv eis frozen

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip and pdfTeX 1.20b ?

2005-01-03 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi Hans, happy new year! When do you think you could provide us a mswincontext.zip that includes pdfTeX 1.20b ? Steffen Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Steffen, if my installation is not yet outdated: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.3) ConTeXt ver

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip and pdfTeX 1.20b ?

2005-01-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi Hans, happy new year! When do you think you could provide us a mswincontext.zip that includes pdfTeX 1.20b ? when i have a pdftex 20b binary Hans - Hans Hagen

[NTG-context] mswincontext.zip and pdfTeX 1.20b ?

2005-01-02 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, I am thinking about downloading the big complete mswincontext.zip (context/install/mswincontext.zip). Does it also include pdfTeX 1.20b ? I just want to be sure before starting a day long 56k-modem-download. Thank you, Steffen P.S. Happy new year

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip and pdfTeX 1.20b ?

2005-01-02 Thread Willi Egger
about downloading the big complete mswincontext.zip (context/install/mswincontext.zip). Does it also include pdfTeX 1.20b ? I just want to be sure before starting a day long 56k-modem-download. Thank you, Steffen P.S. Happy new year! ___ ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip and pdfTeX 1.20b ?

2005-01-02 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Steffen, On top of what I said just a couple of minutes ago: On the TEXlive DVD there is a root/context folder. Herunder there is a minimal distribution of CONTEXT. This distribution offers also Scite. I do not know what the advantage of the 120b version compared to 120a version of pdfTeX

[NTG-context] Re: [pdftex] swf objects in pdflatex

2004-12-30 Thread Hans Hagen
Peter Schröder wrote: Does anyone have experience (success or horror stories) regarding the inclusiong of flash content in pdf files? http://www.pragma-ade.com/itdemos/internal/media/mediashow.pdf it runs ok in acrobat 6, but somehow not in (at least my installation of) acrobat 7, so there is

[NTG-context] Re: [pdftex] layer-based presentations

2004-11-09 Thread Hans Hagen
The Thanh Han wrote: Sounds very interesting, unfortunately I don't have acrobat reader to enjoy it, since AR is not avail for the platform I am using (linux on powerpc). Sigh. Thanh On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 02:04:46PM +0100, Pawel Jackowski wrote: CV Radhakrishnan wrote: I am interested in it

Re: [NTG-context] pdftex 1.20a and map files

2004-10-14 Thread Christopher Creutzig
is missing: ENCFONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/enc// I still think this information should be listed in the NEWS file of pdftex -- you are one of the fine guys one should ask for things like these, right? As an aside, a surprising observation: When using a cont-en.efmt generated with pdftex 1.20a

Re: [NTG-context] pdftex 1.20a and map files

2004-10-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Christopher Creutzig wrote: Salvete, I tried upgrading to pdfTeX 1.20a on my powerbook. I built the binaries successfully and placed them and their pool files into some temporary location and I was able to build ConTeXt formats. Unfortunately, pdftex.map was not found, generated files have

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