[NTG-context] How to get the ligatures back in mkiv?

2008-10-07 Thread Mojca Miklavec
with the following code: \definefontfeature [default] [script=latn,liga=yes,kern=yes,tlig=yes,trep=yes] \definefontsynonym [Garamond-Roman] [AGaramondPro-Regular] [features=default] I have switched to XeTeX for now (\font\a='Adobe Garamond Pro' at 15pt\a works OK), but that's not the solution. MtxRun

Re: [NTG-context] How to get the ligatures back in mkiv?

2008-10-07 Thread Hans Hagen
wrong, but I don't get the fi ligature with the following code: \definefontfeature [default] [script=latn,liga=yes,kern=yes,tlig=yes,trep=yes] \definefontsynonym [Garamond-Roman] [AGaramondPro-Regular] [features=default] I have switched to XeTeX for now (\font\a='Adobe Garamond Pro

Re: [NTG-context] How to get the ligatures back in mkiv?

2008-10-07 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: \definefontfeature [default] [script=latn,liga=yes,kern=yes,tlig=yes,trep=yes] \definefontsynonym [Garamond-Roman] [AGaramondPro-Regular] [features=default] I have switched to XeTeX for now (\font\a='Adobe Garamond

Re: [NTG-context] metapost and luatex (or xetex)

2008-10-07 Thread Diego Depaoli
2008/10/6 Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Diego Depaoli wrote: 2008/10/3 Hans Hagen: is ok, use btex color[white]{COPYRIGHT} etex instead Please see attached output... I missed such command? \color[gray] of course \color[redembarrass]{Me Stupid} works too

Re: [NTG-context] How to get the ligatures back in mkiv?

2008-10-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: \definefontfeature [default] [script=latn,liga=yes,kern=yes,tlig=yes,trep=yes] \definefontsynonym [Garamond-Roman] [AGaramondPro-Regular] [features=default] I have switched to XeTeX for now

Re: [NTG-context] metapost and luatex (or xetex)

2008-10-06 Thread Diego Depaoli
2008/10/3 Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Diego Depaoli wrote: Hi all, from metafun manual, page 157, I took this example \startuniqueMPgraphic{copyright} picture p ; p := btex COPYRIGHT etex rotated 90 ; setbounds p to boundingbox p enlarged 1pt ; draw p withcolor .8white ;

Re: [NTG-context] metapost and luatex (or xetex)

2008-10-06 Thread Diego Depaoli
2008/10/4 Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In the case of XeTeX: no, it's not normal. If you add \loadmapfile[lm-ec.map] this solves the problem, but if I was on your place, I would use \sometxt{COPYRIGHT} instead of btex COPYRIGHT etex. \sometxt works nice. Many thanks. -- Diego Depaoli

Re: [NTG-context] metapost and luatex (or xetex)

2008-10-06 Thread luigi scarso
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Diego Depaoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/10/3 Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Diego Depaoli wrote: Hi all, from metafun manual, page 157, I took this example \startuniqueMPgraphic{copyright} picture p ; p := btex COPYRIGHT etex rotated 90 ;

Re: [NTG-context] metapost and luatex (or xetex)

2008-10-04 Thread Hans Hagen
, just define a color on the spot .. {\definecolor[temp][specs]\color[temp]text} In the case of XeTeX: no, it's not normal. If you add \loadmapfile[lm-ec.map] this solves the problem, but if I was on your place, I would use \sometxt{COPYRIGHT} instead of btex COPYRIGHT etex. indeed (althouh

Re: [NTG-context] The most Tex friendly distribution?

2008-10-03 Thread George N. White III
and goals. 90% of TeX should work well (excepting experimental bits like luatex, xetex, and ConTeXt MKiV which may need some tweaks) on all current platforms, but if you are constrained by site policy to use binary packages provided by your distribution, that is an entirely different problem from

[NTG-context] metapost and luatex (or xetex)

2008-10-03 Thread Diego Depaoli
Hi all, from metafun manual, page 157, I took this example \startuniqueMPgraphic{copyright} picture p ; p := btex COPYRIGHT etex rotated 90 ; setbounds p to boundingbox p enlarged 1pt ; draw p withcolor .8white ; xyscale_currentpicture(\the\leftmarginwidth,\the\textheight) ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic

Re: [NTG-context] metapost and luatex (or xetex)

2008-10-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Diego Depaoli wrote: Hi all, from metafun manual, page 157, I took this example \startuniqueMPgraphic{copyright} picture p ; p := btex COPYRIGHT etex rotated 90 ; setbounds p to boundingbox p enlarged 1pt ; draw p withcolor .8white ;

Re: [NTG-context] metapost and luatex (or xetex)

2008-10-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
it ugly.) In the case of XeTeX: no, it's not normal. If you add \loadmapfile[lm-ec.map] this solves the problem, but if I was on your place, I would use \sometxt{COPYRIGHT} instead of btex COPYRIGHT etex. Loading map files has been removed from XeTeX a while ago. Maybe lm-ec should be added back

Re: [NTG-context] urgent index error

2008-09-29 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
)? \startregister[index][umlautae]{...} ... \stopregister[index][umlautae] You could use umlauts in macro names only with XeTeX and LuaTeX but not with pdfTeX. strange... sure, you are right: no umlaut in macro names. only, I didn't consider it as a macro name, for it is written in the text (ie

Re: [NTG-context] urgent index error

2008-09-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
]{...} ... \stopregister[index][umlautae] You could use umlauts in macro names only with XeTeX and LuaTeX but not with pdfTeX. Wolfgang ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

Re: [NTG-context] Interaction and accented letters

2008-09-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Flavien Lambert wrote: In fact, I have just checked that this options are not necessary. I forgot to say that I was using XeTeX. It seems that, even with these options, accented letters are not printed properly in the properties

Re: [NTG-context] Interaction and accented letters

2008-09-22 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Flavien Lambert wrote: In fact, I have just checked that this options are not necessary. I forgot to say that I was using XeTeX. It seems that, even with these options, accented letters are not printed properly in the properties of the document

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-09-21 Thread Hans Hagen
Yue Wang wrote: The problem is that that's only a dirty trick that is not supposed to work and might stop working in the future, so I would rather try not to rely on it. A better interface for XeTeX typescripts (something similar to fontspec) is missing heavily. I prefer use opentype

Re: [NTG-context] Interaction and accented letters

2008-09-20 Thread Flavien Lambert
In fact, I have just checked that this options are not necessary. I forgot to say that I was using XeTeX. It seems that, even with these options, accented letters are not printed properly in the properties of the document. There is no problems with standard ConTeXt (MKII). 2008/9/19 Braslau

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-09-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Mohamed Bana wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Mohamed Bana wrote: Hi guys, Why doesn't this definition use the old style numerals that come with the font? It seems to use the latin modern font when I try to use \os. Small caps are working fine. \os is

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-09-20 Thread Yue Wang
The problem is that that's only a dirty trick that is not supposed to work and might stop working in the future, so I would rather try not to rely on it. A better interface for XeTeX typescripts (something similar to fontspec) is missing heavily. I prefer use opentype features than add

[NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-09-19 Thread Mohamed Bana
do I achieve the latter? As in break out of onum and typeset in the normal numbers? I'm using TeXlive 2008 on vista, the pdf reports that I'm using XeTeX version; 2008.05.21 15:21. \definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][Minion Pro] % i've also tried %\definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][Warnock Pro

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-09-19 Thread Mojca Miklavec
that is not supposed to work and might stop working in the future, so I would rather try not to rely on it. A better interface for XeTeX typescripts (something similar to fontspec) is missing heavily. Concerning your first problem: I have tried patching Xsans definitions

Re: [NTG-context] One very silly question

2008-09-12 Thread Yue Wang
) will have exceptions and then we end up with n! possible combinations not n!, but 2^n. last question: is it possible to add fontconfig-like interface? if I define to use minion famaily, then all the alternatives are automatically defined like xetex? Yue Wang

Re: [NTG-context] One very silly question

2008-09-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
combinations not n!, but 2^n. last question: is it possible to add fontconfig-like interface? if I define to use minion famaily, then all the alternatives are automatically defined like xetex? Hans need fonts to test this but I could provide you a typescript based solution, it's not so elegant

Re: [NTG-context] One very silly question

2008-09-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Yue Wang wrote: last question: is it possible to add fontconfig-like interface? if I define to use minion famaily, then all the alternatives are automatically defined like xetex? i never looked into that interface so i cannot comment on it, but i've learned my lessons with fonts

Re: [NTG-context] Can we make font loading much faster?

2008-09-12 Thread Mohamed Bana
I've also been wondering why LuaTeX is considerably slower than XeTeX. Has anyone been doing any research into LuaJIT? ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki

Re: [NTG-context] Can we make font loading much faster?

2008-09-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Mohamed Bana wrote: I've also been wondering why LuaTeX is considerably slower than XeTeX. Has anyone been doing any research into LuaJIT? (1) luajit is non portable (not on all architectures) so for the moment it's no option (2) luatex will always be slower, because we do many things

Re: [NTG-context] Can we make font loading much faster?

2008-09-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
extensively these days, and there's a lot of metapost graphics involved. mkiv is amazingly fast, while both mkii and xetex take very long to compile my test files (and clutter the directory with all the intermediate files). Font loading tends to be long at first run and quite efficient

Re: [NTG-context] sometxt in mkiv

2008-09-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: module. One of the metapost graphics for picture inclusion seems to give problems when run under XeTeX, so I was wondering if I could replace it with the clever sometxt mechanism Mojca mentions in her MyWay. But then I saw

Re: [NTG-context] sometxt in mkiv

2008-09-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Mojca, Aditya, thanks for your responses. I was aware that you can use textext (that's what I do right now), but was under the impression that sometxt was the way to go (faster and more flexible). Now I'm confused :-) In mkii (XeTeX

Re: [NTG-context] The windows minimal exe installer

2008-09-08 Thread Yue Wang
/ minimals/current/bin/metapost/linux/ minimals/current/bin/xetex/linux/ minimals/current/bin/man/ minimals/current/bin/common/linux/ minimals/current/bin/context/linux/ minimals/current/bin/metapost/linux/ minimals/current/bin/luatex/linux/ minimals/current/bin/man/ minimals/current/bin/common/linux

Re: [NTG-context] Greek letters in math with XeTeX

2008-09-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Someone needs to write Unicode math support for mkii, or you need to make your own virtual font. Well...someone also needs to write Unicode math support for mkiv and I would work on that in the hope that there is some chance

Re: [NTG-context] Greek letters in math with XeTeX

2008-09-08 Thread Flavien Lambert
Just to understand a bit more : signs like equal are printed inside math environment with GFS Didot thanks to \definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][GFS Didot]. Since GFS Didot ,as a greek font has greek letters, why are these glyphs not used ? I suppose that when greek people are using directly

Re: [NTG-context] Greek letters in math with XeTeX

2008-09-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Flavien Lambert wrote: Just to understand a bit more : signs like equal are printed inside math environment with GFS Didot thanks to \definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][GFS Didot]. Since GFS Didot ,as a greek font has greek letters, why are these glyphs not used ? I suppose that when greek

Re: [NTG-context] sometxt in mkiv

2008-09-08 Thread Hans Hagen
to a predefined commando (e.g. framed) which can be handy sometimes module. One of the metapost graphics for picture inclusion seems to give problems when run under XeTeX, so I was wondering if I could replace it with the clever sometxt mechanism Mojca mentions in her MyWay. But then I saw

Re: [NTG-context] sometxt in mkiv

2008-09-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
the impression that sometxt was the way to go (faster and more flexible). Now I'm confused :-) I was asking because I was working on my presentation module. One of the metapost graphics for picture inclusion seems to give problems when run under XeTeX, so I was wondering if I could

Re: [NTG-context] sometxt in mkiv

2008-09-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Sep 8, 2008, at 11:26 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: indeed; this is a side effect of xetex being opentype and mp only able to deal with 8 bit fonts; in mkiv mp never sees any text (not een the btex .. etex which is replaced by by textext before the mp code is passed to mp); that's why in mkiv

Re: [NTG-context] symb-uni.tex

2008-09-07 Thread Mojca Miklavec
questions after reading it: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide/ (I have an impression that some appedix of LaTeX companion was freely available on web, covering the same topic, but I'm probably wrong.) Mojca PS: my advice: use LuaTeX or XeTeX and type

Re: [NTG-context] The windows minimal exe installer

2008-09-07 Thread Yue Wang
btw, I think Windows users are not command line experts. I think the minimal installer can add more options. for example, which distribution to choose (MKIV or XeTeX or pdfTeX), which fonts to be download (TeXGyre, Kurier, Iwona...) according to the distribution (in MKIV and XeTeX, download otf

[NTG-context] Greek letters in math with XeTeX

2008-09-07 Thread Flavien Lambert
Dear all, I try to use Open Type fonts with ConTeXt and XeTeX (I recently did the same with LaTeX using fontspec and mathspec packages). From the web site, I managed to use them for standard text as well as roman alphabet in math. Unfortunately, greek letters stay printed with the Latin Modern

[NTG-context] Greek letters in math with XeTeX

2008-09-07 Thread Flavien Lambert
(Sorry for the preceding message, I forgot the [NTG-context] for filters...) Dear all, I try to use Open Type fonts with ConTeXt and XeTeX (I recently did the same with LaTeX using fontspec and mathspec packages). From the web site, I managed to use them for standard text as well as roman

Re: [NTG-context] The windows minimal exe installer

2008-09-07 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Yue Wang wrote: btw, I think Windows users are not command line experts. I think the minimal installer can add more options. for example, which distribution to choose (MKIV or XeTeX or pdfTeX), Isn't that available already? (No windows to test.) which fonts

Re: [NTG-context] Greek letters in math with XeTeX

2008-09-07 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Flavien Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Sorry for the preceding message, I forgot the [NTG-context] for filters...) Dear all, I try to use Open Type fonts with ConTeXt and XeTeX (I recently did the same with LaTeX using fontspec and mathspec packages). From

Re: [NTG-context] Greek letters in math with XeTeX

2008-09-07 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Someone needs to write Unicode math support for mkii, or you need to make your own virtual font. Well...someone also needs to write Unicode math support for mkiv and I would work on that in the hope that there is some chance that I may actually

[NTG-context] synctex support for ConTeXt fixed

2008-09-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
support for SyncTeX. SyncTeX is new synchronization technology by Jerome Laurens which is included in TeX Live 2008 (but not earlier TeX distributions). The technology is built directly into pdfTeX and XeTeX. In modern TeX distributions, most typesetting actually calls pdfetex (even if using latex

[NTG-context] Bug in luatex?

2008-09-03 Thread Diego Depaoli
Hi all, compiling this small file with luatex I get weird results. All works fine with xetex. \mainlanguage[it] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction[state=start, color=darkblue] \useURL[54/92][http://arianna.consiglioregionale.piemonte.it/base/leggi/l1992054.html][][Legge regionale 09

Re: [NTG-context] MK IV and Texexec Error Compiling under Windows

2008-09-02 Thread Martin Scholz
line 59 a new line 60 with the following content: cont-de xetex cont-usr.tex-8bit *cont-de.in this is a way texexec works. but for mkiv and context there is still no way how to get it working but I keep on trying

Re: [NTG-context] MK IV and Texexec Error Compiling under Windows

2008-09-02 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
pdftex cont-usr.tex-8bit *cont-de.ini and add directly after line 59 a new line 60 with the following content: cont-de xetex cont-usr.tex-8bit *cont-de.in this is a way texexec works. but for mkiv and context there is still no way how to get it working but I keep

Re: [NTG-context] Installing ConTeXt Minimals on a Mac

2008-09-01 Thread Mojca Miklavec
). The technology is built directly into pdfTeX and XeTeX. In modern TeX distributions, most typesetting actually calls pdfetex (even if using latex to output a dvi file), and thus the technology is available for such typesetting. To use the technology, add the flag --synctex=1 Any advice on how to do

Re: [NTG-context] Installing ConTeXt Minimals on a Mac

2008-09-01 Thread Alan Bowen
. SyncTeX is new synchronization technology by Jerome Laurens which is included in TeX Live 2008 (but not earlier TeX distributions). The technology is built directly into pdfTeX and XeTeX. In modern TeX distributions, most typesetting actually calls pdfetex (even if using latex to output a dvi

Re: [NTG-context] When I don't want quotes

2008-09-01 Thread Mojca Miklavec
on a web page. Cleaninng up my mailbox (so I'm not sure if you still need the answer) ... Are you using pdfTeX or LuaTeX/XeTeX? In pdfTeX you need to switch the font (or at least change the encoding to texnansi) \usetypescript[modern][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[modern,10pt] \starttext \dorecurse{5

Re: [NTG-context] Installing ConTeXt Minimals on a Mac

2008-09-01 Thread Alan Bowen
TeXExec | tex engine: xetex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6) %-line parsing enabled. entering extended mode (./hello.tex ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.12 15:56 MKII fmt: 2007.5.18 int: english/ english seems odd. I do not use XeTeX but I am guessing

Re: [NTG-context] Installing ConTeXt Minimals on a Mac

2008-08-31 Thread Michael Green
is new synchronization technology by Jerome Laurens which is included in TeX Live 2008 (but not earlier TeX distributions). The technology is built directly into pdfTeX and XeTeX. In modern TeX distributions, most typesetting actually calls pdfetex (even if using latex to output a dvi file

Re: [NTG-context] Installing ConTeXt Minimals on a Mac

2008-08-31 Thread Alan Bowen
(but not earlier TeX distributions). The technology is built directly into pdfTeX and XeTeX. In modern TeX distributions, most typesetting actually calls pdfetex (even if using latex to output a dvi file), and thus the technology is available for such typesetting. To use the technology, add the flag

[NTG-context] Installing ConTeXt Minimals on a Mac

2008-08-30 Thread Alan Bowen
by Jerome Laurens which is included in TeX Live 2008 (but not earlier TeX distributions). The technology is built directly into pdfTeX and XeTeX. In modern TeX distributions, most typesetting actually calls pdfetex (even if using latex to output a dvi file), and thus the technology

[NTG-context] Help with ConTeXt Minimals and ppchtex

2008-08-30 Thread Philipp Moritz
mohbana from the IRC directed me to the mailing-list, he already told me to rehash and do luatools --generate texmfstart texexec --make --all --luatex en texmfstart texexec --make --all --pdftex en texmfstart texexec --make --all --xetex en but nothing helped. I would be glad if you could help me

Re: [NTG-context] Font questions once again...

2008-08-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
)? It is default for XeTeX and LuaTeX. Wolfgang ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage

Re: [NTG-context] passing dimensions to metapost

2008-08-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 28, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Hans, thanks a lot for your reply. Amazing - the lua code is so simple that even I can understand it! I'm certain to use it later; for the time being, I want to remain compatible for mkii and XeTeX as well. \startluacode document.mymodule

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe ArnoPro in mkiv

2008-08-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 20, 2008, at 8:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schmitz at uni-bonn.de writes: Hi all, I'm trying to use the Adobe ArnoPro font (just testing if it will work with ConTeXt). The font does work with ConTeXt/XeTeX, but not in mkiv. When I try to compile

Re: [NTG-context] Changing sections, formula,... numbering order

2008-08-23 Thread Mehdi Omidali
Thank you Khaled. As you said we don't need \textdir in Xetex and I can use \pardir TRT in this situation. I thought that maybe there is a simple setup for sectioning number in context that I am not aware of. Any way, I have translated The not so short introduction to latex to farsi and also I am

Re: [NTG-context] Changing sections, formula,... numbering order

2008-08-22 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 05:49:31PM +0330, Mehdi Omidali wrote: Hi everyone, I want to use context+xetex for right-to-left typesetting and need to know if it is possible to use the command \pagedir TRT in this situation. (I tested that apparently only \pardir TRT is active). If the answer

Re: [NTG-context] Changing sections, formula,... numbering order

2008-08-22 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:31:38AM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 05:49:31PM +0330, Mehdi Omidali wrote: Hi everyone, I want to use context+xetex for right-to-left typesetting and need to know if it is possible to use the command \pagedir TRT in this situation. (I

[NTG-context] Changing sections, formula,... numbering order

2008-08-20 Thread Mehdi Omidali
Hi everyone, I want to use context+xetex for right-to-left typesetting and need to know if it is possible to use the command \pagedir TRT in this situation. (I tested that apparently only \pardir TRT is active). If the answer of the above question is negative I would like to know how can I change

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe ArnoPro in mkiv

2008-08-20 Thread abbg770
Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schmitz at uni-bonn.de writes: Hi all, I'm trying to use the Adobe ArnoPro font (just testing if it will work with ConTeXt). The font does work with ConTeXt/XeTeX, but not in mkiv. When I try to compile my test file with mkiv, I get this error message (which

Re: [NTG-context] updating to new release

2008-08-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Alan Bowen wrote: Thanks, Taco. After installing ConTeXt 2008-08-04, I have cont-en.fmt in texmf-var/web2c/pdftex and texmf-var/web2c/xetex Installing ConTeXt 2008-08-15 has the same files in the same places, though I gather that it replaces cont-en.fmt in texmf-var/web2c/pdftex

Re: [NTG-context] updating to new release

2008-08-15 Thread Alan Bowen
Thanks, Taco. After installing ConTeXt 2008-08-04, I have cont-en.fmt in texmf-var/web2c/pdftex and texmf-var/web2c/xetex Installing ConTeXt 2008-08-15 has the same files in the same places, though I gather that it replaces cont-en.fmt in texmf-var/web2c/pdftex with as TeXExec | tex: 14/08

Re: [NTG-context] Partly OT: some luatex questions

2008-08-14 Thread Ulrike Fischer
to me, you should really send a precise example. See test-lua2.tex + pdf b) I also tried MnSymbol5.otf and there I get an error invalid character. (I tried to get an A). With xetex the font works fine. I can't confirm that. I get the A all right (see attachment). Again, please send

Re: [NTG-context] Partly OT: some luatex questions

2008-08-14 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
tried to get an A). With xetex the font works fine. I can't confirm that. I get the A all right (see attachment). Again, please send the precise example that fails. The MnSymbol-Bold5 you used works fine for me too. MnSymbol5 is the font doesn't work (the code is -- commented -- in test-lua2

Re: [NTG-context] Lastest Build on TeXlive 2008 and MikTeX 2.7

2008-08-14 Thread abbg770
/web2c/pdftex/cont-en.fmt /home/mohamed/.texlive2007/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/cont-en.fmt /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/cont-en.fmt Typesetting the bare minimal file works, but lua or xetex doesn't; $ texexec --lua test.tex TeXExec | processing document 'test.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec

Re: [NTG-context] Partly OT: some luatex questions

2008-08-14 Thread Ulrike Fischer
that leds to an extended \font command (or a \font command with extended syntax similar to xetex) with opentype/ttf-support. If such a primitive were present it would be probably quite easy to write the LaTeX support e.g. by adapting fontspec. Or a bundle which can be used to convert other input encodings

Re: [NTG-context] Lastest Build on TeXlive 2008 and MikTeX 2.7

2008-08-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 14, 2008, at 12:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Typesetting the bare minimal file works, but lua or xetex doesn't; You need to make the formats for these as well: texexec --make --all --xtx (and run texhash again after creating the formats; when you think about it, it'll make sense

Re: [NTG-context] Lastest Build on TeXlive 2008 and MikTeX 2.7

2008-08-14 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 14, 2008, at 12:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Typesetting the bare minimal file works, but lua or xetex doesn't; You need to make the formats for these as well: texexec --make --all --xtx (and run

Re: [NTG-context] Partly OT: some luatex questions

2008-08-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Ulrike Fischer wrote: But what would be really fine were extracts of the context code: E.g. a bundle of self contained lua-code and tex-code that leds to an extended \font command (or a \font command with extended syntax similar to xetex) with opentype/ttf-support. If such a primitive were

[NTG-context] Partly OT: some luatex questions

2008-08-13 Thread Ulrike Fischer
an A). With xetex the font works fine. I would be quite grateful if someone could tell me how to solve this problems. -- Ulrike Fischer ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

2008-08-13 Thread Vasile Gaburici
--reload run. But this won't work for incremental updates, since you can't tell whether you should drop an old hash entry or not. So if you want to use hashing, you really need a naming scheme that avoids creating conflicts. XeTeX solves this problem by using *only* the ID 16 and ID 17 OpenType

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

2008-08-13 Thread Hans Hagen
the latest beta (this afternoon version?) XeTeX solves this problem by using *only* the ID 16 and ID 17 OpenType values to create a unique name for system fonts. I actually filed a bug about lack of support for the common ID 1/2 names, but Johnathan WONTFIXED it because he really wants the font names

Re: [NTG-context] Partly OT: some luatex questions

2008-08-13 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
MnSymbol5.otf and there I get an error invalid character. (I tried to get an A). With xetex the font works fine. I can't confirm that. I get the A all right (see attachment). Again, please send the precise example that fails. Arthur ulrike.tex Description: TeX document ulrike.pdf

Re: [NTG-context] Font bugs on Windows (TeXLive 2008)

2008-08-12 Thread Vasile Gaburici
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no point doing anything about context in texlive right now, it is way too dangerous. we have working mkii on texlive and even a (mostly) working xetex, I don't want to endanger that just so that the mkiv

Re: [NTG-context] Font bugs on Windows (TeXLive 2008)

2008-08-12 Thread Yue Wang
Hi What do you mean (mostly) working xetex? It's just been updated to 0.999.6. Work pretty well for me... old xetex is known to work very will with the old version of context on ctan. so the new xetex is just a (mostly) working xetex. It might/might no have some problem when running context

[NTG-context] Flow chart, XeTeX and transparent colors

2008-08-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi, the background for the cells in flow charts are moved to the left when you use transparent colors in a document and XeTeX as engine. \usemodule[chart] \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[tred][r=1,t=0.5,a=1] \setuphead[section][color=tred] \starttext \section{Section

Re: [NTG-context] Font bugs on Windows (TeXLive 2008)

2008-08-11 Thread Vasile Gaburici
with the cache/hash? Bold is a prefix of Bold Italic... FYI: XeTeX had a somewhat similar problem in 0.999.4; it got fixed in 0.999.5. - Typesetting with any specified font fails In plain TeX this is expected. You are not running context at all. I know; I was taking it one step at a time. I assume

Re: [NTG-context] Font bugs on Windows (TeXLive 2008)

2008-08-11 Thread Taco Hoekwater
context in texlive right now, it is way too dangerous. we have working mkii on texlive and even a (mostly) working xetex, I don't want to endanger that just so that the mkiv (with its old luatex.exe) will work a little better. Once texlive 2008 is out for a while, we can think about updating

Re: [NTG-context] greek

2008-08-10 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
defines font in a more low-level way. It's really only a workaround and should probably disappear altogether; I haven't seen any of these errors in the past. It is also fairly agnostic concerning the engine (mkii or XeTeX or mkiv, though not all fonts will work with all versions) while t

Re: [NTG-context] Persian translation of Context an excursion

2008-08-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
manual did currently not work with MkIV because it contains a few old and in MkIV not define command. To create a pdf call 'texexec ma-cb-fa' for the print version and 'texexec --mode=screen ma-cb-fa' for the screen version. You could try to use XeTeX in your case. To the other translators: Do you

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-08-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Jesse Alama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mojca Miklavec writes: As far as I can tell this is only a complaint, in the sense that the XeTeX run finishes and produces a PDF. Is that what you mean? Yes. Though this should be fixed now anyway. Mojca

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-08-01 Thread Jesse Alama
Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Jesse Alama wrote: \definetypeface [busted] [rm] [serif] [palatino] [default] \setupbodyfont [busted] \starttext \input tufte \stoptext Using XeTeX and ConTeXt MkII with the TeX Live 2008 developer snapshot

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType beginners question

2008-07-31 Thread Otared Kavian
application: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/development_tools/svnx.html I have used it to checkout the latest versions of LuaTeX and XeTeX: it works fine and is quite user friendly. Best regards: OK ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-07-31 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Jesse Alama wrote: \definetypeface [busted] [rm] [serif] [palatino] [default] \setupbodyfont [busted] \starttext \input tufte \stoptext Using XeTeX and ConTeXt MkII with the TeX Live 2008 developer snapshot (as of a few days ago), I run into a bunch

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-07-31 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: I suspect what the error could be (harmless, though it makes sense to fix it), but I only think that error reporting got more verbose since it works here despite many warnings. Outside of TL (probably some branch of xetex trunk + latest context) I don't get that warning

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-07-31 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Taco: ... does it actually work, and can you explain why? I don't get the error any more with that fix (and it's not an error anyway). The problem is that if there is no file: prefix in font synonyms, then ConTeXt asks for \font\whatever=texgyre-whatever:options and XeTeX first asks

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-07-30 Thread Jesse Alama
:24 PM, Jesse Alama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using XeTeX and ConTeXt MkII with the TeX Live 2008 developer snapshot (as of a few days ago), I run into a bunch of invalid fontname errors when compiling some documents: $ texmfstart texexec --xtx file.tex TeXExec | processing document 'file.tex

Re: [NTG-context] cont-enp.pdf on lulu

2008-07-29 Thread Aditya Mahajan
will be of the size of a book; so would an exhaustive manual on metapost/mp-lib (think of an updated metafun manual). I can also imagine an exhaustive manual for fonts to be big (how do we handle fonts for lua/xetex/pdftex; how do we handle fonts for different scripts, etc.); and fairly large manuals for floats

Re: [NTG-context] cont-enp.pdf on lulu

2008-07-29 Thread Gerben Wierda
manual, it will be *huge*. An exhaustive manual on math will be of the size of a book; so would an exhaustive manual on metapost/mp-lib (think of an updated metafun manual). I can also imagine an exhaustive manual for fonts to be big (how do we handle fonts for lua/xetex/pdftex; how do we

Re: [NTG-context] Passing unicode characters

2008-07-23 Thread Mehdi Omidali
in xetex). As you know, the Mapping=farsidigits in a font definition works perfect in xelatex. I would say that ConTeXt lacks a nice interface for that at the moment. There is tlig/trep feature that works that way (remaps ' to rightquote for example), but it's spread all over the place and might

[NTG-context] Passing unicode characters

2008-07-22 Thread Mehdi Omidali
Hi everyone, Is it possible to pass a character to another in MKIV, I mean, like XeTeX in which one can pass one unicode character to another one (this is done in some mapping files with some lines in it of the form U+0030 U+06F0

Re: [NTG-context] Passing unicode characters

2008-07-22 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
Dear Mehdi, سلام On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:48:46 -0600, Mehdi Omidali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, Is it possible to pass a character to another in MKIV, I mean, like XeTeX in which one can pass one unicode character to another one (this is done in some mapping files with some lines

Re: [NTG-context] Passing unicode characters

2008-07-22 Thread Mehdi Omidali
. In XeTeX one of the font features is to assign the value of E8C8 to 002E. Then the engine automatically prints 002E whenever it has to print E8C8 (except in math mode for which there is a \XeTeXmathcode command). Best wishes On 7/22/08, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear

Re: [NTG-context] Passing unicode characters

2008-07-22 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
not satisfied with this character and like the separator character to be a period 002E. In XeTeX one of the font features is to assign the value of E8C8 to 002E. Then the engine automatically prints 002E whenever it has to print E8C8 (except in math mode for which there is a \XeTeXmathcode command

Re: [NTG-context] Passing unicode characters

2008-07-22 Thread Mehdi Omidali
=persiannumerals] and the engine puts persiandecimalseparator character E8C8 between chapter numbers and section numbers. I am not satisfied with this character and like the separator character to be a period 002E. In XeTeX one of the font features is to assign the value of E8C8 to 002E. Then the engine

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