Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX is broken after ConTeXt update

2007-04-13 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
I encountered the same problem a couple of weeks ago ... and it will probably not be fixed until luaTeX is out. It appears to me that reverting back to the situation from three months ago would already be a step forward from what we have now, yes? As far as fonts are concerned ...

[NTG-context] Fwd: Re[2]: No way to use XeTeX

2007-04-13 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello, Taco and Anita, you are geniuses! shell_escape was set to false, indeed. However, it fails further. My ch6.pdf output file isn't created at all whenever I insert \externalfigure[f01.pdf]. The log says ... systems : begin file ch6 at line 10 [EMAIL

[NTG-context] ConTeXt, XeTeX, ect was Re: OpenType in Windows

2007-04-05 Thread Andrea Valle
Hi, I'm a bit confused. Still can't have a clear frame of -TeX stuff. What does this exactly mean (from wikipedia)? XeTeX works well with both LaTeX and ConTeXt. Many thanks Best -a- On 5 Apr 2007, at 12:18, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 4/5/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Hello, I heard

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, XeTeX, ect was Re: OpenType in Windows

2007-04-05 Thread George N. White III
On 4/5/07, Andrea Valle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a bit confused. Still can't have a clear frame of -TeX stuff. What does this exactly mean (from wikipedia)? XeTeX works well with both LaTeX and ConTeXt. In the beginning there was tex, a program. I know people who create documents

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, XeTeX, ect was Re: OpenType in Windows

2007-04-05 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
What does this exactly mean (from wikipedia)? XeTeX works well with both LaTeX and ConTeXt. XeTeX, PDFTeX, eTeX, and TeX (Knuth's original TeX) are conceptually at the same level. The ConTeXt documents (and kpathsea) call this level the engine. They all understand basically the same macro

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, XeTeX, ect was Re: OpenType in Windows

2007-04-05 Thread luigi scarso
On 4/5/07, Sanjoy Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does this exactly mean (from wikipedia)? XeTeX works well with both LaTeX and ConTeXt. XeTeX, PDFTeX, eTeX, and TeX (Knuth's original TeX) are conceptually at the same level. The ConTeXt documents (and kpathsea) call this level

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, XeTeX, ect was Re: OpenType in Windows

2007-04-05 Thread Andrea Valle
Thanks Sanjoy for the exhaustive infos. I knew the relations among Tex, LaTeX and ConTeXt but couldn't understand at which level XeTeX was positioned. So, I was interested in XeTeX because (if I understood clearly) I can use resident fonts. Is it true? What I have to do in order to do

Re: [NTG-context] xetex problems

2007-04-01 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, [xetex on linux, esp. on contextgarden.net] /etc/fonts/local.conf, I guess... as far as the fontconfig side of the Force is concerned, this is the right location to add “local” font directories (say /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/iwona) That is the secret

Re: [NTG-context] xetex problems

2007-04-01 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 4/1/07, Patrick Gundlach wrote: Hi, [xetex on linux, esp. on contextgarden.net] /etc/fonts/local.conf, I guess... as far as the fontconfig side of the Force is concerned, this is the right location to add local font directories (say /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts

Re: [NTG-context] xetex problems

2007-03-31 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
Hmmm ... there must be a few additional lines somewhere in fontconfig. /etc/fonts/local.conf, I guess... as far as the fontconfig side of the Force is concerned, this is the right location to add “local” font directories (say /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/iwona) but

Re: [NTG-context] xetex problems

2007-03-31 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
Just find a distraction for Arthur and you'll be on the safe side ;) Mojca ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] xetex problems

2007-03-30 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello out there, I feel stupid: the following file runs fine on live.contextgarden.net (xetex engine) \font\myfont=Iwona-Regular \myfont \starttext Hello world! \stoptext but not on my local installation: texmfstart texexec --xtx simple TeXExec | processing document 'simple' TeXExec | no ctx

Re: [NTG-context] xetex problems

2007-03-30 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
Any clue what could cause the trouble? Your font is probably only in the texmf tree, it should be installed; that is, on Mac OS X, simply double-click on the font and select “Install”. It will be put in ~/Library/Fonts (probably) and some caching utilities will be run so that in can be found

Re: [NTG-context] xetex problems

2007-03-30 Thread Patrick Gundlach
to sleep at all, just in case I could miss important changes (like switching to xetex at 4:44 a.m) :-)) Merci beaucoup, Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman

Re: [NTG-context] xetex problems

2007-03-30 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
Next ConTeXt meeting I won't go to sleep at all, just in case I could miss important changes (like switching to xetex at 4:44 a.m) :-)) That's probably the best choice. 24 hours a day are hardly enough anyway :-) ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg

Re: [NTG-context] xetex problems

2007-03-30 Thread Mojca Miklavec
to sleep at all, just in case I could miss important changes (like switching to xetex at 4:44 a.m) :-)) Don't worry, Patrick ... I guess that I won't have any sleep in the last two weeks before the meeting, so you'll have to lock my account for safety reasons anyway ;) Just find a distraction

[NTG-context] warning: XeTeX broken typescripts (please wait with upgrading)

2007-03-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, While waiting for the train in Köln (just back from one of the best ConTeXt meetings ever ;), I decided to post this warning/explanation to the mailing list (before Hans gets back and blocks my account ;) For those who rely on (complex) XeTeX typescripts, please don't upgrade ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX problem again

2007-02-28 Thread Jeong Dalyoung
Dear Hans, I got the same problem with new ConTeXt update. ! Font \*12ptrmtfrm*=[ec-lmr12] not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or installed fo nt not found. to be read again \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX problem again

2007-02-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 3/1/07, Jeong Dalyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Hans, I got the same problem with new ConTeXt update. ! Font \*12ptrmtfrm*=[ec-lmr12] not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or installed fo nt not found. to be read again \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX problem again

2007-02-27 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
not that strange ... just install the latest latin roman .. it's what the message says Font \*7ptmmmrrm*=[rm-lmr7] not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or installed font not found. Well, then perhaps I need a bit of advice because I have the impression that my TeXLive 2007 installation

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX problem again

2007-02-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 2/26/07, Oliver Buerschaper wrote: Dear folks, I'm afraid I'm facing the XeTeX problem again after I updated ConTeXt to version 2007.02.21 :-( On a freshly installed MacTeX-2007 (which is TeXLive 2007 up to minor modifications) everything is fine. The ConTeXt

[NTG-context] XeTeX problem again

2007-02-26 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
Dear folks, I'm afraid I'm facing the XeTeX problem again after I updated ConTeXt to version 2007.02.21 :-( On a freshly installed MacTeX-2007 (which is TeXLive 2007 up to minor modifications) everything is fine. The ConTeXt version is 2007.01.12. Then I ran ctxtools which installed

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX problem again

2007-02-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 2/26/07, Oliver Buerschaper wrote: Dear folks, I'm afraid I'm facing the XeTeX problem again after I updated ConTeXt to version 2007.02.21 :-( On a freshly installed MacTeX-2007 (which is TeXLive 2007 up to minor modifications) everything is fine. The ConTeXt version is 2007.01.12

Re: [NTG-context] installationproblem with context-distribution: xetex not working

2007-02-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Henning Haeske wrote: Thanks, it is working after I copied the relevant files from my texmf-fonts/ into the texmf-local/ folder. The disjunction into the different texmf-... folders: texmf/ texmf-local/... texmf-font/ texmf-extra/... texmf-linux/ is a little bit

Re: [NTG-context] installationproblem with context-dis tribution: xetex not working

2007-02-24 Thread Henning Haeske
Thanks, it is working after I copied the relevant files from my texmf-fonts/ into the texmf-local/ folder. The disjunction into the different texmf-... folders: texmf/ texmf-local/... texmf-font/ texmf-extra/... texmf-linux/ is a little bit confusing to me. Is this

[NTG-context] installationproblem with context-distribution: xetex not working

2007-02-19 Thread Henning Haeske
Hello, I started this night the installation-instruction from: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Linux_User_Installation and then i continued with: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/XeTeX texexec --pdf first.tex is working fine, but the xetex is not working: fonts : using map file: t5

Re: [NTG-context] installationproblem with context-distribution: xetex not working

2007-02-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, Henning Haeske wrote: I also tried fixing this with this note: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20070130.082837.4bc51f61.en.html Make sure you also read: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20070130.145856.ffeabcfc.en.html Best wishes, Taco

[NTG-context] XeTeX tex-text mapping problem

2007-02-12 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
Hi all, there seems to be a problem with the XeTeX engine and the mapping:tex-text feature for OpenType fonts. Try this: --- \usetypescriptfile[type-minion] \usetypescript[minion][uc] \setupbodyfont[minion,13pt] \starttext There is --- without any doubt --- a tiny problem. \stoptext

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX tex-text mapping problem

2007-02-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Oliver Buerschaper wrote: Hi all, there seems to be a problem with the XeTeX engine and the mapping:tex-text feature for OpenType fonts. Try this: --- \usetypescriptfile[type-minion] \usetypescript[minion][uc] \setupbodyfont[minion,13pt] \starttext There is --- without any doubt

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX tex-text mapping problem

2007-02-12 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
Hi all, there seems to be a problem with the XeTeX engine and the mapping:tex-text feature for OpenType fonts. Try this: --- \usetypescriptfile[type-minion] \usetypescript[minion][uc] \setupbodyfont[minion,13pt] \starttext There is --- without any doubt --- a tiny problem. \stoptext

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and Latin Modern

2007-02-07 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
As I ran into the same problem I followed your instructions ... running the ctxtools command doesn't resolve it I'm afraid. $ kpsewhich lm-math.map /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map You should try that with --engine=dvipdfm , because dvipdfmx will find different

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and Latin Modern

2007-02-07 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Oliver Buerschaper wrote: No, didn't copy anything. Should I've done that? I'm lost ... Yes, you should have. Same original thread, second message (I forgot to mention that in the original message) Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and Latin Modern

2007-02-07 Thread Helin Gai
Problem solved.. Thanks so much for all of your input!! Helin On 2/7/07, Oliver Buerschaper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, didn't copy anything. Should I've done that? I'm lost ... Yes, you should have. Same original thread, second message (I forgot to mention that in the original message)

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and Latin Modern

2007-02-06 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
Hi Taco, I got a new problem after upgrading to the new ConTeXt. When I compile a document with the xetex engine, during the xdvipdfmx processing, I got the following message, and all the math symbols are missing: Please see this thread: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and Latin Modern

2007-02-06 Thread Helin Gai
with the xetex engine, during the xdvipdfmx processing, I got the following message, and all the math symbols are missing: Please see this thread: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/ 20070130.082837.4bc51f61.en.html As I ran into the same problem I followed your instructions

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and Latin Modern

2007-02-06 Thread Helin Gai
after upgrading to the new ConTeXt. When I compile a document with the xetex engine, during the xdvipdfmx processing, I got the following message, and all the math symbols are missing: Please see this thread: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/ 20070130.082837.4bc51f61.en.html

[NTG-context] XeTeX and Latin Modern

2007-02-05 Thread Helin Gai
Hi all, I got a new problem after upgrading to the new ConTeXt. When I compile a document with the xetex engine, during the xdvipdfmx processing, I got the following message, and all the math symbols are missing: ** WARNING ** This .map file looks like a dvips format fotmap file. ** WARNING

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and Latin Modern

2007-02-05 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Helin Gai wrote: Hi all, I got a new problem after upgrading to the new ConTeXt. When I compile a document with the xetex engine, during the xdvipdfmx processing, I got the following message, and all the math symbols are missing: Please see this thread: http://archive.contextgarden.net

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and OpenType LM

2007-02-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: ... much much text .. begging for []'s ... How about this ... no quotes in specs, only file: or name: in front of the name, and for xetex we default to filenames using file: It means that existing defs need to be adapted, but this syntax is better than funny [ ] etc

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and OpenType LM

2007-02-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 2/2/07, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: ... much much text .. begging for []'s ... How about this ... no quotes in specs, only file: or name: in front of the name, and for xetex we default to filenames using file: I would default to name: It means that existing defs need

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and OpenType LM

2007-02-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 2/2/07, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: ... much much text .. begging for []'s ... How about this ... no quotes in specs, only file: or name: in front of the name, and for xetex we default to filenames using file: I would default

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and OpenType LM

2007-02-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 2/2/07, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 2/2/07, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: ... much much text .. begging for []'s ... How about this ... no quotes in specs, only file: or name: in front of the name, and for xetex we default to filenames using file

[NTG-context] Another test result using ConTeXt + XeTeX

2007-02-02 Thread Jeong Dalyoung
Dear Mojca, As you told me, I changed outputdriver in tex.rb from xdvipdfmx to xdv2pdf and run it. There is no delay at all, but the output pdf lost color and mp stuffs. I think that it is better to use xdvipdfmx even though it took more times. During the test, I found a strange result.

Re: [NTG-context] Another test result using ConTeXt + XeTeX

2007-02-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
separately. Support for metapost has been improved on the first day when XeTeX for linux came out, but support for xdv2pdf will most probably never be available unless one of the users would be willing to write it. (Also, more and more features are now only available for xdvipdfmx. It might

[NTG-context] longer ConTeXt+XeTeX compile time than before

2007-02-01 Thread Jeong Dalyoung
Dear all, Recently I updated TeXlive and ConTeXt. After that the compiling time of a file under ConTeXt+XeTeX became longer than before. However, there is no change when I compiled the files using ConTeXt. I tested the same file using the previous ConTeXt version in the another Mac

Re: [NTG-context] [XeTeX] longer ConTeXt+XeTeX compile time than before

2007-02-01 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 2/1/07, Jeong Dalyoung wrote: Dear all, Recently I updated TeXlive and ConTeXt. After that the compiling time of a file under ConTeXt+XeTeX became longer than before. However, there is no change when I compiled the files using ConTeXt. I tested the same file using the previous ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] [XeTeX] longer ConTeXt+XeTeX compile time than before

2007-02-01 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 1 Feb 2007, at 1:51 pm, Mojca Miklavec wrote: If you have someone to blame, please blame me. I asked Hans if he could add an additional switch -output-driver=xdvipdfmx when running XeTeX. This means that the files are now converted to pdf with xdvipdfmx instead of xdv2pdf. Without

Re: [NTG-context] [XeTeX] longer ConTeXt+XeTeX compile time than before

2007-02-01 Thread Hans Hagen
Jonathan Kew wrote: It may be that older ConTeXt scripts didn't run an xdv-to-pdf converter at all until the last of several passes; if you call xetex with the -no-pdf switch on all the preliminary runs, it will skip the conversion and therefore be faster. But I'm not sure exactly how

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and OpenType LM

2007-01-31 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, Since there are serious problems with XeTeX on non-TeXLive distributions anyway: why not mess it up properly this time? The attached file seems to work OK, although kpathsea complains a bit (but these are only warnings - no serious problems; perhaps other

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and OpenType LM

2007-01-31 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/31/07, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, Since there are serious problems with XeTeX on non-TeXLive distributions anyway: why not mess it up properly this time? The attached file seems to work OK, although kpathsea complains a bit (but these are only warnings

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and OpenType LM

2007-01-31 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 31 Jan 2007, at 4:58 pm, Mojca Miklavec wrote: hm, i'm still wondering why xetex needs the extra [] ; is this somewhere documented? is it something new? why not {} having an extra series of defs for xetex is a bad idea, so i'd rather fix that 'automatically' Using OpenType fonts

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and OpenType LM

2007-01-31 Thread Hans Hagen
filename stuff i can probably just feed the [] deep down in context to the xetex font command will think of something please forward to jonathan since his mailer an dmy mail server don;t like each other -) Hans

[NTG-context] XeTeX and OpenType LM

2007-01-30 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, Since there are serious problems with XeTeX on non-TeXLive distributions anyway: why not mess it up properly this time? The attached file seems to work OK, although kpathsea complains a bit (but these are only warnings - no serious problems; perhaps other macros could or should

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: 2. When generating the formats, texexec complained about unknow control sequence because of lines 25 and 26 in syst-xtx.tex \setcclcuc 201C 201C 201C \setcclcuc 201D 201D 201D I had to comment out these lines to generate the formats (this

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-22 Thread Taco Hoekwater
when you don;t use those []'s? It would be nicer if XeTeX would support TeX-style braces as well. This is much less bizarre: \definedfont[{GFSDidot} at 20pt] Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Well don't laugh: I tried your suggestion and found that this works: \definedfont[{{[GFSDidot] at 20pt}}] the two pairs of braces seem to be needed. Not a pretty sight, though... [GFSDidot] is not a prettu sight anyway; does it fail when you don;t use those

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 22, 2007, at 12:17 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: fonts is more than definitions; esp a the level of supporting features and runtime manipulating fonts, xetex and luatex will undoubtely differ; also, xetex uses external font libraries, while luatex does things internaly and under user

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
). It was a headache. (I needed external figures and I didn't know that using them was possible in XeTeX.) OK, I see where XeTeX has its strong points. And I can certainly agree: if you want unusual glyphs that are not part of a more-or-less standard encoding, that can be a PITA. Two other reasons

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 22, 2007, at 10:41 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: [GFSDidot] is not a prettu sight anyway; does it fail when you don;t use those []'s? Hans Yes, it breaks without the []. Just came back from a day of excruciatingly boring meetings... Thanks Thomas

[NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
I'm trying (once again) to find out if learning something about XeTeX is worth the trouble. So far, I haven't seen any compelling reason, but I'd like to experiment a bit more. Here are two questions I have run into: 1. in the wiki pages Talk:XeTeX, there's this anonymous piece of wisdom

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-21 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: 2. When generating the formats, texexec complained about unknow control sequence because of lines 25 and 26 in syst-xtx.tex \setcclcuc 201C 201C 201C \setcclcuc 201D 201D 201D I had to comment out these lines to generate the formats (this is with a

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Uhm, maybe I wasn't quite clear: the entire TeX foundation is the current texlive head; I last sync'd on Jan 17. ConTeXt version is 2007.01.18. A look at the log doesn't reveal anything unusual, here's the beginning and end of the log file: This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-21 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/21/07, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: I'm trying (once again) to find out if learning something about XeTeX is worth the trouble. So far, I haven't seen any compelling reason, but I'd like to experiment a bit more. Here are two questions I have run into: 1. in the wiki pages Talk:XeTeX

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-21 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Uhm, maybe I wasn't quite clear: the entire TeX foundation is the current texlive head; I last sync'd on Jan 17. ConTeXt version is 2007.01.18. A look at the log doesn't reveal anything unusual, here's the beginning and end of the log file: ConTeXt ver:

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-21 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: But one would also need \definedfont[[KalligraphiaLTStd] at 40pt] or a similar command (double brackets look ugly anyway) to pass the same Have you tried \definedfont[{[KalligraphiaLTStd] at 40pt}] yet? Sorry, I have simply no time to toy around with XeTeX myself

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-21 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: But one would also need \definedfont[[KalligraphiaLTStd] at 40pt] or a similar command (double brackets look ugly anyway) to pass the same Have you tried \definedfont[{[KalligraphiaLTStd] at 40pt}] yet? Sorry, I have simply no time to toy around with XeTeX myself

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 21, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: I requested that feature in XeTeX and yet: it's now implemented in LaTeX, but not in ConTeXt. (When Adam became a father, sad times have started for fonts in ConTeXt ;) Oh that's where Adam has been hanging out lately! I was wondering

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-21 Thread Mojca Miklavec
it ;) Thanks a lot! (Why on earth haven't I thought about that before?) That basically means that now I can finally try to add a bunch of (although ugly, but at least working) definitions to get the OpenType version of LM version used by default when launching XeTeX. (I tried it already

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-21 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Uhm, maybe I wasn't quite clear: the entire TeX foundation is the current texlive head; I last sync'd on Jan 17. ConTeXt version is 2007.01.18. A look at the log doesn't reveal anything unusual, here's the beginning and end of the log

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-21 Thread Hans Hagen
to toy around with XeTeX myself. or \def\xetexfontspec#1{[#1]} (or maybe \unexpanded\def\xetexfontspec#1{[#1]}) Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-21 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: But since I know that you've done a lot of work on XeTeX in ConTeXt, I'd really like to know: what exactly can XeTeX do that would make me want to take a more thorough look at it? After a sometimes painful learning curve, I find it nowadays relatively easy

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
[{[KalligraphiaLTStd] at 40pt}] yet? Sorry, I have simply no time to toy around with XeTeX myself. Best, Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-21 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hmmm ... you can use OpenType fonts in XeTeX in a plain-TeX-way like that: \font\a=[KalligraphiaLTStd] \a hm, weird syntax But there's no high level interface for it yet. The relevant pieces are in font-ini.tex: %D For \XETEX\ we need to support a bit more: %D %D

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-21 Thread Hans Hagen
a bunch of (although ugly, but at least working) definitions to get the OpenType version of LM version used by default when launching XeTeX. (I tried it already and it seems to work OK, but it has to be completed and cleaned a bit first.) are these [] really needed? Now I only have to figure

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and LM

2007-01-11 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/10/07, Peter Münster wrote: Hello, what is needed to get LM working with XeTeX? I've no success with such a minimal file (imagine utf8 encoding, which is not the case in this email): \startext à è ö € œ ± \stoptext Just to answer what you have been asking for: \font\f=[lmroman12

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and LM

2007-01-11 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/10/07, Peter Münster wrote: Hello, what is needed to get LM working with XeTeX? \font\f=[lmroman12-regular] \f You can take a look at my naive example (I just replaced everything that came to my mind, but that's wrong). Of course, it doesn't work. It seems that low-level macros need some

[NTG-context] XeTeX and LM

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Münster
Hello, what is needed to get LM working with XeTeX? I've no success with such a minimal file (imagine utf8 encoding, which is not the case in this email): \startext à è ö € œ ± \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ ___ ntg-context

[NTG-context] Strange ConTeXt - XeTeX problem

2007-01-08 Thread Helin Gai
Hi, I'm trying to learn about using XeTeX in ConTeXt. The problem is that when I compile a file using texexec --xtx filename.tex, I get the following error message *** fontmap psfonts.map not found; texmf.cnf may be broken *** font ec-lmtt10 not found in psfonts.map or host system

Re: [NTG-context] Strange ConTeXt - XeTeX problem

2007-01-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Helin Gai wrote: Hi, I'm trying to learn about using XeTeX in ConTeXt. The problem is that when I compile a file using texexec --xtx filename.tex, I get the following error message *** fontmap psfonts.map not found; texmf.cnf may be broken *** font ec-lmtt10 not found in psfonts.map

Re: [NTG-context] Strange ConTeXt - XeTeX problem

2007-01-08 Thread Helin Gai
Thanks for the reply. I solved the problem eventually by commenting out the line $ENV{'TEXFONTMAPS'} = '.;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{xetex,pdftex,dvips,}//' ; in texexec.pl. Thanks again! Sincerely, Helin On 1/8/07, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Helin Gai wrote: Hi, I'm trying to learn

Re: [NTG-context] Strange ConTeXt - XeTeX problem

2007-01-08 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Helin Gai wrote: Thanks for the reply. I solved the problem eventually by commenting out the line $ENV{'TEXFONTMAPS'} = '.;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{xetex,pdftex,dvips,}//' ; in texexec.pl. texexec.pl is no longer supported. About a year ago, ConTeXt moved to the ruby

Re: [NTG-context] Strange ConTeXt - XeTeX problem

2007-01-08 Thread Helin Gai
by commenting out the line $ENV{'TEXFONTMAPS'} = '.;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{xetex,pdftex,dvips,}//' ; in texexec.pl. texexec.pl is no longer supported. About a year ago, ConTeXt moved to the ruby version texexec.rb. Try your code with texmfstart texexec --xetex filename Aditya

[NTG-context] cannot generate format with XeTeX

2007-01-03 Thread Peter Münster
Hello, with XeTeX 3.141592-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6) and ConTeXt-2007.1.2 I get the following error when issuing texexec --make --xtx en: ) (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/enco-pfr.tex loading : Context Encoding Macros (pdf) ! Undefined control sequence. l.63 \ifcase

Re: [NTG-context] cannot generate format with XeTeX

2007-01-03 Thread Hans Hagen
� wrote: Hello, with XeTeX 3.141592-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6) and ConTeXt-2007.1.2 I get the following error when issuing texexec --make --xtx en: ) (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/enco-pfr.tex loading : Context Encoding Macros (pdf) ! Undefined control sequence. l.63

[NTG-context] [Fwd: [XeTeX] XeTeX on Debian]

2006-12-16 Thread Hans Hagen
| www.pragma-pod.nl - ---BeginMessage--- Hi, i installed the XeTeX on a Debian Linux system and could use the xetex commad to create a sample file in persian language, very thing seems to be OK http://www.linuxiha.com

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] extex and xetex

2006-12-13 Thread luigi scarso
On 12/12/06, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can use context with xetex Ok, but to make a pdf we must convert from dvi, right ? Is it good or pdfetex has something more ? (Actually , I mean) luigi ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] extex and xetex

2006-12-13 Thread Hans Hagen
luigi scarso wrote: On 12/12/06, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can use context with xetex Ok, but to make a pdf we must convert from dvi, right ? indeed Is it good or pdfetex has something more ? (Actually , I mean) luatex (pdftex 2) probably will have more (esp

Re: [NTG-context] strange behaviour of \definedfont['Some Name'] in XeTeX

2006-12-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/12/06, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, I'm probaby misusing the feature (most robably because I just didn't take time to study how to do it properly), but it behaves really strange. In XeTeX I first did \font\f='Some Name' \f which worked OK. But when I

[NTG-context] [OT] extex and xetex

2006-12-12 Thread luigi scarso
I'm a little bit confused about extex (www.extex.org) and xetex (scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsiid=xetex) How do they relate with Context ? luigi ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] extex and xetex

2006-12-12 Thread Hans Hagen
luigi scarso wrote: I'm a little bit confused about extex (www.extex.org) and xetex (scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsiid=xetex) How do they relate with Context ? you can use context with xetex; i know nothing of extex apart from that it is a java based tex variant Hans

[NTG-context] strange behaviour of \definedfont['Some Name'] in XeTeX

2006-12-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, I'm probaby misusing the feature (most robably because I just didn't take time to study how to do it properly), but it behaves really strange. In XeTeX I first did \font\f='Some Name' \f which worked OK. But when I tried the same with \definedfont['Some Name'] it resulted

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] extex and xetex

2006-12-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/12/06, luigi scarso wrote: I'm a little bit confused about extex (www.extex.org) and xetex (scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsiid=xetex) How do they relate with Context ? XeTeX is reasonably well supported in ConTeXt (font stuff is better supported in LaTeX for the time

Re: [NTG-context] strange behaviour of \definedfont['Some Name'] in XeTeX

2006-12-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, I'm probaby misusing the feature (most robably because I just didn't take time to study how to do it properly), but it behaves really strange. In XeTeX I first did \font\f='Some Name' \f which worked OK. But when I tried the same with \definedfont

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] extex and xetex

2006-12-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: XeTeX is reasonably well supported in ConTeXt (font stuff is better supported in LaTeX for the time being, hopefully this will change). I will cook up a decent open type font model for luatex and backport to xetex for as far as possible. Hans

[NTG-context] XeTeX, ConTeXt and PDF

2006-11-13 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
that the issues with XeTeX and papersize have been already solved. When producing bookmarks with XeConTeXt, for some strange reason destinations change the page view to /Fit. Is there any way to avoid this? Bookmarks are generated fine in UTF-8, but surprisingly (at least for me) the file info is wrong

[NTG-context] XeTeX and built-in glyph generation

2006-11-02 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
Hi, I have a question regarding ConTeXt, XeTeX and the use of Unicode fonts with diacritic characters which I use quite a lot. (Note also that I'm a novice user.) Consider the following extreme example (using Gentium http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsiid=gentium

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and built-in glyph generation

2006-11-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Philipp Reichmuth wrote: - character[ range]s which get passed directly to the underlying engine (useful mainly with XeTeX and possibly with Aleph/Omega) - character[ range]s which get constructed from accents - character[ range]s which get used from a different typescript; for example if I

[NTG-context] Forcing XeTeX output

2006-11-02 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
Hi, is there a first-line comment directive or a \setupoutput[] parameter to force usage of XeTeX just like the --xtx commandline switch? Consider the following document: -- % ??? = xetex??? \starttext This is a piece of text \stoptext -- I just

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and built-in glyph generation

2006-11-02 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
. \XeTeXinputencoding bytes \enableregime[utf] Ṯḥíş ıš ā pìėçẹ ȯf ṭēxt. \XeTeXinputencoding utf-8 Ṯḥíş ıš ā pìėçẹ ȯf ṭēxt. \stoptext which doesn't work. I experimented around with commenting out the XeTeX section in base/regi-uni.tex, but that doesn't do anything

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and built-in glyph generation

2006-11-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Philipp Reichmuth wrote: Hans Hagen schrieb: Philipp Reichmuth wrote: - character[ range]s which get passed directly to the underlying engine (useful mainly with XeTeX and possibly with Aleph/Omega) - character[ range]s which get constructed from accents - character[ range]s which

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