Re: [NTG-context] different behavior between xetex and luatex

2008-12-23 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 23 Dec 2008, at 04:26, Yue Wang wrote: Hi, all. I expect different output in xetex and luatex using context. and I think the problem is quite serious although I do not speak Turkish. in turkish, fi can not be treat as ligatures and I can see luatex handle that quite well. however, in xetex,

Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 54, Issue 69

2008-12-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Fengnan Gao wrote: Does it behave any differently if you try to replace the luatex binary inside tex/texmf-mswin/bin with the extracted luatex from http://foundry.supelec.fr/frs/download.php/707/luatex-beta-0.31.2-win32-mingw.zip? Mojca (with zero ideas left) Nope, Mojca, not working

Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 54, Issue 69

2008-12-23 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Fengnan Gao wrote: Does it behave any differently if you try to replace the luatex binary inside tex/texmf-mswin/bin with the extracted luatex from http://foundry.supelec.fr/frs/download.php/707/luatex-beta-0.31.2-win32-mingw.zip? Mojca (with zero ideas

Re: [NTG-context] different behavior between xetex and luatex

2008-12-23 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote: On 23 Dec 2008, at 04:26, Yue Wang wrote: Hi, all. I expect different output in xetex and luatex using context. and I think the problem is quite serious although I do not speak Turkish. in turkish, fi can not be treat as ligatures and I

Re: [NTG-context] different behavior between xetex and luatex

2008-12-23 Thread Yue Wang
Hi, Hans: When trk is replaced by TRK it works OK in XeTeX. Thanks! So I think we should support lowercase code for xetex as well for api consistency? LuaTeX/MKIV use lowercase labels. Then we can get similar output using the same tex file. Yue Wang

Re: [NTG-context] different behavior between xetex and luatex

2008-12-23 Thread Yue Wang
Hi, Jonathan: Thanks for the analysis! Now I replace the trk with TRK, and xetex output is right. In the LuaTeX case, I don't think *any* ligatures are enabled by default, so the language is irrelevant; notice that there's no ff ligature in your output either, even though this should be

Re: [NTG-context] Serious bug?

2008-12-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Mojca, Mojca Miklavec wrote: !luaTeX error (file /tmp/context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman12-regular.otf): Parsing CFF DICT failed. (error=-1) I can almost certainly reproduce this, I see an uninitialized variable in valgrind. More about this later, but this is *not* the

Re: [NTG-context] Serious bug?

2008-12-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Alan STONE wrote: I did a clean minimals install on my Windows XP Home SP3 system and get the same strange output. ConTeXt ver: 2008.11.10 21:40 MKIV fmt: 2008.12.22 int: english/english This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.31.2-2008121200, build 1659 texmfstart texexec --lua hello context.cmd

Re: [NTG-context] Serious bug?

2008-12-23 Thread Derek CORDEIRO
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Fengnan Gao fnst...@hotmail.com wrote: I just installed ConTeXtMinimal using first-setup.bat. But it seems it has some serious bug that context even couldn't deal with such a easy document: \starttext Hello world! \stoptext What's the problem? Anybody

Re: [NTG-context] Serious bug?

2008-12-23 Thread Derek CORDEIRO
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Derek CORDEIRO derekcorde...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Fengnan Gao fnst...@hotmail.com wrote: I just installed ConTeXtMinimal using first-setup.bat. But it seems it has some serious bug that context even couldn't deal with such a easy

[NTG-context] Fixed: mpost finds BAD TFM

2008-12-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi all, This turned out to be an endianness bug in the TFM reader. You can expect mpost 1.102 tomorrow. Best wishes, Taco Hans van der Meer wrote: NASTY PROBLEM WITH READING TFM FILES IN LATEST METAPOST A nasty problem has surfaced that Taco Hoekwater cannot solve, because it does not

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode and BibTeX

2008-12-23 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
Salaam, Khaled, On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:51:56 -0700, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: I'm trying to typeset an Arabic book with Arabic bibliography, I'm using bib module, but bibtex doesn't support unicode. Any workaround or another alternative? Can you port your database to bbl

[NTG-context] fullpage and XeTeX typescript

2008-12-23 Thread Mohamed Bana
hi, 1. what's the equivalent of the \usepackage{fullpage} for ConTeXt? 2. it would be convenient if LuaTeX supported typescripts like XeTeX does instead of having to define font synonyms, e.g., \definetypeface[mainface][rm][Xserif][Warnock Pro] \definetypeface[mainface][ss][Xsans][Cronos

Re: [NTG-context] Serious bug?

2008-12-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Does it behave any differently if you try to replace the luatex binary inside tex/texmf-mswin/bin with the extracted luatex from http://foundry.supelec.fr/frs/download.php/707/luatex-beta-0.31.2-win32-mingw.zip? I would love to know the answer to this question as well.

Re: [NTG-context] Serious bug?

2008-12-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Alan STONE wrote: I did a clean minimals install on my Windows XP Home SP3 system and get the same strange output. ConTeXt ver: 2008.11.10 21:40 MKIV fmt: 2008.12.22 int: english/english This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.31.2-2008121200, build 1659 texmfstart texexec

Re: [NTG-context] fullpage and XeTeX typescript

2008-12-23 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 23.12.2008 um 18:44 schrieb Mohamed Bana: hi, 1. what's the equivalent of the \usepackage{fullpage} for ConTeXt? Tell us next time what a package is supposed to do. \setuplayout [backspace=1in, width=middle, topspace=1in, header=0pt, footer=0pt, height=middle]

Re: [NTG-context] fullpage and XeTeX typescript

2008-12-23 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 23.12.2008 um 18:44 schrieb Mohamed Bana: hi, 1. what's the equivalent of the \usepackage{fullpage} for ConTeXt? file name=example.tex \usemodule[fullpage][style={cm,empty}] %\showframe \starttext \input knuth \stoptext /file file name=p-fullpage.tex %D \module %D [

[NTG-context] lucida and mactex 2008

2008-12-23 Thread Jerónimo Alaminos Prats
Hello, I have been using the lucida fonts without problems for a long time. They work like a charm with mactex 2007 but moving to the 2008 version I've found that some math symbols are shuffled or simply do not appear in the pdf. For example, \midint compiles correctly but do not appear

Re: [NTG-context] lucida and mactex 2008

2008-12-23 Thread Mohamed Bana
sorry i'm stealing your thread, but i'm thinking of buying the lucida fonts with maths, which version works with luatex and which one works with mkii, please provide a link for both. Jerónimo Alaminos Prats wrote: Hello, I have been using the lucida fonts without problems for a long time.

Re: [NTG-context] lucida and mactex 2008

2008-12-23 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 23.12.2008 um 21:07 schrieb Jerónimo Alaminos Prats: Hello, I have been using the lucida fonts without problems for a long time. They work like a charm with mactex 2007 but moving to the 2008 version I've found that some math symbols are shuffled or simply do not appear in the pdf.

Re: [NTG-context] lucida and mactex 2008

2008-12-23 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Jerónimo Alaminos Prats wrote: Hello, I have been using the lucida fonts without problems for a long time. They work like a charm with mactex 2007 but moving to the 2008 version I've found that some math symbols are shuffled or simply do not appear in the pdf. For

Re: [NTG-context] Serious bug?

2008-12-23 Thread Fengnan Gao
Hi, all Can I roll back and use the old version when context isn't broken? I have several documents which need to be processed ASAP. Thanks. Fengnan Gao ___ If your question is of interest to others as well,

Re: [NTG-context] lucida and mactex 2008

2008-12-23 Thread Yue Wang
Well, he use pdftex to process the file. On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote: On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Jerónimo Alaminos Prats wrote: Hello, I have been using the lucida fonts without problems for a long time. They work like a charm with mactex 2007 but

Re: [NTG-context] lucida and mactex 2008

2008-12-23 Thread Yue Wang
tug version will work in both mkiv and mkii. (I mean luatex 0.30.0) in the future I think we should suggest TUG to distribute opentype version of the font (including converting the math glyphs into opentype math table). On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 5:56 AM, Mohamed Bana mbana.li...@googlemail.com

Re: [NTG-context] fullpage and XeTeX typescript

2008-12-23 Thread Yue Wang
Concerning the second question, the following is the reply from Hans months ago to me. I think Hans is right, since fonts are quite complex, but it *will* be a lot easier if we have that mechanism since this mechanism will be applicable to most fonts. If there are fonts that fontconfig cannot

[NTG-context] FunnyFrame in an enumeration.

2008-12-23 Thread Fabrice
Hi, Playing with metafun, I saw the FunnyFrame example (page 239 MetaFun screen manual), where a framed is put around some paragraph and this frame has a small framed title inserted at the top of the framed paragraph. I would like to do a similar output but in the context of an