Re: [NTG-context] italic correction after math

2018-02-13 Thread Hans Hagen
related fonts are kind of bad (hopefully that gets fixed, which is why in the meantime context has all kind of hacks dealing with this, which then of course need to be removed when a font gets fixed) (so in practice for serious math i only use cambria or lucida) (xetex inserts a kern of 2.45pt

Re: [NTG-context] italic correction after math

2018-02-13 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:44:20 +0100 schrieb Hans Hagen: > hm, seems that i messed up a pointer ... i'll fix it ... Thanks. Will the fix be in the generic font loader or in some context-only files? In the second case, what could be done for latex in such cases? > (xetex inserts a kern of

Re: [NTG-context] italic correction after math

2018-02-13 Thread Hans Hagen
% combination of 1 and 3 \stoptext hm, seems that i messed up a pointer ... i'll fix it ... (xetex inserts a kern of 2.45pt after the math in latex). context inserts 2.938pt (luatex uses the opentype route so it might be different than xetex and pdftex) Hans

[NTG-context] italic correction after math

2018-02-13 Thread Ulrike Fischer
$a;b;a; b; f;$ test\par %fontitalics \setupmathematics[italics=2] test $a;b;a; b; f;$ test\par % fontdata \setupmathematics[italics=3] test $a;b;a; b; f;$ test\par % quad based \setupmathematics[italics=4] test $a;b;a; b; f;$ test\par % combination of 1 and 3 \stoptext (xetex inserts a kern

[NTG-context] Three problems with ConTeXt standalone for armhf

2018-01-18 Thread Lutz Haseloff
on for armv8l, I could use the original first-setup.sh without changing armv7l to armv8l. Greetings Lutz -- GPG Key ID 3C4F83BCconfigure: WARNING: oops, unrecognised float format: IEEE double, little endian configure: WARNING: Sorry, neither ApplicationServices framework nor fontconfig library:

Re: [NTG-context] +ssty leads to wrong parentheses with stix2math fonts.

2017-07-12 Thread Ulrike Fischer
xtensible parts so basically > it's a font bug. If xetex catches it, find but it's still a bug. Anyway, > the previous mail with the patch checks for al three 'missing' fields so > this is basically the same issue. If not, let me know. I will check the code in the evening (and a

Re: [NTG-context] +ssty leads to wrong parentheses with stix2math fonts.

2017-07-12 Thread Hans Hagen
some ssty mapping to rather simple glyphs with no extensible parts so basically it's a font bug. If xetex catches it, find but it's still a bug. Anyway, the previous mail with the patch checks for al three 'missing' fields so this is basically the same issue. If not, let me know. Hans

Re: [NTG-context] Log message "Unknown filter 'DCTDecode'"

2017-06-16 Thread Ulrike Fischer
gt; The message from him > """ > Thanks, I have fixed this (luatex and xetex were also affected). > """ > is a bit cryptic, as I have not seen patches for this issue in luatex > (perhaps in texlive ?) I didn't get the issue with texlive, so imho it h

Re: [NTG-context] Log message "Unknown filter 'DCTDecode'"

2017-06-16 Thread luigi scarso
5/ The message from him """ Thanks, I have fixed this (luatex and xetex were also affected). """ is a bit cryptic, as I have not seen patches for this issue in luatex (perhaps in texlive ?) -- luigi __

[NTG-context] frac font feature doesn't work as expected

2017-04-05 Thread Ulrike Fischer
] \definefontfamily[default][rm][linuslibertineo][features=frac] context always falls back to latin modern) A similar plaintex example for xetex \font\test="[linlibertine_r.otf]:+frac" \test 1/2 3/4 5/6 7/8 9/10 11/12 31415/27182 1000/100 \bye gives the corr

Re: [NTG-context] decomposed and precomposde glyphs

2017-02-23 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Thu, 23 Feb 2017 13:19:12 +0100 schrieb Hans Hagen: > On 2/23/2017 11:58 AM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: >> When using input like the following with xetex then harfbuzz kicks >> in and one would always get the good looking precomposed U+1EA0 for >> the A and the decompos

Re: [NTG-context] decomposed and precomposde glyphs

2017-02-23 Thread Hans Hagen
On 2/23/2017 11:58 AM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: When using input like the following with xetex then harfbuzz kicks in and one would always get the good looking precomposed U+1EA0 for the A and the decomposed B+U+0323 for the B. With context (and lualatex) one get a rather bad looking -- as the dot

[NTG-context] decomposed and precomposde glyphs

2017-02-23 Thread Ulrike Fischer
When using input like the following with xetex then harfbuzz kicks in and one would always get the good looking precomposed U+1EA0 for the A and the decomposed B+U+0323 for the B. With context (and lualatex) one get a rather bad looking -- as the dot is misplaced -- output for the A0323 input

Re: [NTG-context] Undefined control sequence | $\shortmid$ | $\shortparallel$

2016-12-14 Thread Richard Mahoney | Indica et Buddhica
symbols are not defined. Do you know if unicode math > fonts provide these symbols and if they are part of Unicode math > symbol list? > > Aditya I'm not sure. That said, XeTeX can render them using Latin Modern Roman and Math so they are available. For what its worth they can be fo

Re: [NTG-context] gmane might go off-line soon

2016-07-30 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
otivation to really do > this work? Alternatively, Mailman, the mailing list software used by this list, can be set up to use htdig for searching the archive; that’s what most lists on tug.org use (see the top of http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/ for example). Best,

Re: [NTG-context] first-setup.bat weirdness II: xetex etc.

2016-07-20 Thread Hans Hagen
| running command: xetex --ini --etex --8bit cont-en.mkii \dump makes vista complain: = xetex.exe - Unable to Locate Component This application has failed to start because xetex.dll was not found. = Pressing OK, xetex crashes and things continue until 2. m

[NTG-context] first-setup.bat weirdness II: xetex etc.

2016-07-19 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Dear syndicate, As mentioned in my other message, "first-setup.bat weirdness I: cloned system" I've now switched to the first-setup.bat way of updating. Two pieces of weirdness on the main machine: 1. mtx-context | running command: xetex --ini --etex --8bit cont-en.mkii \du

Re: [NTG-context] \mainlanguage[pe]

2016-07-06 Thread Mojca Miklavec
ts. was this dropped in MkIV or was there > never a persian language environment even in MkII? MkII (read: ConTeXt with pdfTeX) doesn't support typesetting in Arabic script at all. And support for XeTeX has always been limited in ConTeXt. So it's not really strange if the language support is st

[NTG-context] hz in MkIV

2016-07-03 Thread Mohammad Hossein Bateni
trying? I once converted Vafa Khalighi's XeTeX-based code to Lua but ran into several setbacks. (The idea is to insert a sequence of (ZWJ,\nobreak,stretchable leader,\nobreak,ZWJ) between certain character pairs that join one another.) Here are some of the issues I faced: 1) This could

Re: [NTG-context] font features in math

2016-05-04 Thread Hans Hagen
$ \stoptext Nevertheless "\test" seems to use mode=node outside math and mode=base inside math and I would like to know where the code is that does it. in your font definition you use a low level xetex like specification so you bypass the normal feature definition mechanism w

Re: [NTG-context] Microtypography in ConTeXt

2016-04-06 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/6/2016 6:48 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2016-04-06 um 03:51 schrieb Jan Tosovsky <j.tosov...@email.cz>: Note that character protrusion requires pdfTeX (version 0.14f or later), LuaTeX, or XeTeX (at least version 0.9997). Font expansion works with pdfTeX (versio

Re: [NTG-context] Microtypography in ConTeXt

2016-04-06 Thread Hans Hagen
), LuaTeX, or XeTeX (at least version 0.9997). Font expansion works with pdfTeX (version 1.20 for automatic expansion) or LuaTeX. The package will by default enable protrusion and expansion if they can safely be assumed to work. Disabling ligatures requires pdfTeX (≥ 1.30) or LuaTeX

Re: [NTG-context] Microtypography in ConTeXt

2016-04-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2016-04-06 um 03:51 schrieb Jan Tosovsky <j.tosov...@email.cz>: > > Note that character protrusion requires pdfTeX (version 0.14f or later), > LuaTeX, or > XeTeX (at least version 0.9997). Font expansion works with pdfTeX (version > 1.20 for > automatic expansion

Re: [NTG-context] Microtypography in ConTeXt

2016-04-05 Thread Jan Tosovsky
isks: Note that character protrusion requires pdfTeX (version 0.14f or later), LuaTeX, or XeTeX (at least version 0.9997). Font expansion works with pdfTeX (version 1.20 for automatic expansion) or LuaTeX. The package will by default enable protrusion and expansion if they can safe

Re: [NTG-context] Table of Contents

2016-03-10 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 03/10/2016 09:45 PM, Aidan Nichol wrote: > I’m using using pandoc and ConTeXt to generate pdf documentation from > markdown. > > I started with the option to use latex (xetex) and swapped to > ConTeXt, letting pandoc create the conTeXt file and invoke ConTeXt on > it.C Bo

[NTG-context] Table of Contents

2016-03-10 Thread Aidan Nichol
I’m using using pandoc and ConTeXt to generate pdf documentation from markdown. I started with the option to use latex (xetex) and swapped to ConTeXt, letting pandoc create the conTeXt file and invoke ConTeXt on it.C Both produce a table of contents active links etc. which is pretty much

Re: [NTG-context] Urdu with NotoNastaliqUrdu-Regular.ttf

2015-11-28 Thread Deepak Jois
still pretty bad. Details w/ screenshot: https://github.com/lualatex/luaotfload/issues/292#issuecomment-16028 Deepak PS: Btw fontspec does not complain about the language. In XeTeX, my experience has been that if a language is not present, it logs a message to stdout. I am not sure

Re: [NTG-context] Urdu with NotoNastaliqUrdu-Regular.ttf

2015-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
pecify the language. I got a better output, but still pretty bad. Details w/ screenshot: https://github.com/lualatex/luaotfload/issues/292#issuecomment-16028 Deepak PS: Btw fontspec does not complain about the language. In XeTeX, my experience has been that if a language is not present, it logs a m

Re: [NTG-context] Kerning and ligatures in math roman font

2015-11-09 Thread Ulrike Fischer
. > > depends what legacy is ... I meant the fonts you would get with plaintex or pdflatex. >> A question about this has been asked some month ago on tex.sx >> (http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/252493/ligatures-are-not-used-in-opentype-maths-families). >> The problem (

[NTG-context] Kerning and ligatures in math roman font

2015-11-09 Thread Ulrike Fischer
-are-not-used-in-opentype-maths-families). The problem (or feature) exist also with xetex. With luatex one can avoid to loose the kerning by loading as math roman font a font in mode base (http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/277362/lualatex-no-kerning-within-operatorname-when-not-loading-lmodern

Re: [NTG-context] Kerning and ligatures in math roman font

2015-11-09 Thread Hans Hagen
month ago on tex.sx (http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/252493/ligatures-are-not-used-in-opentype-maths-families). The problem (or feature) exist also with xetex. With luatex one can avoid to loose the kerning by loading as math roman font a font in mode base (http://tex.stackexchange.com

[NTG-context] PDF/UA Support

2015-10-19 Thread Andrew Dunning
prominent. XeTeX cannot produce PDF/UA, and it seems unlikely that it ever will, but unless I am misreading the documentation it appears that ConTeXt has already implemented the necessary functionality. If this is so, it would be helpful to have a page discussing its use in parallel to <h

Re: [NTG-context] PDF/UA Support

2015-10-19 Thread Hans Hagen
the standard, which I expect will make it much more prominent. XeTeX cannot produce PDF/UA, and it seems unlikely that it ever will, but unless I am misreading the documentation it appears that ConTeXt has already implemented the necessary functionality. If this is so, it would be helpful to have a page

Re: [NTG-context] font features in XeTeX

2015-07-06 Thread Robert Zydenbos
mkiv with luatex? I would like to, but I need to use TrueType fonts for Indian scripts in my work that are supported in XeTeX but not (yet) in LuaTeX. As an experiment, I tried to use the so-called 'long s' in a Fraktur font, which comes out well in XeTeX with LaTeX, but I must be doing something

Re: [NTG-context] font features in XeTeX

2015-07-06 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/6/2015 9:13 AM, Robert Zydenbos wrote: Dear ConTeXt folk, Is there any simple way to pass font features as a parameter to XeConTeXt? i am thinking of things like what in LaTeX would be (between square brackets) \setromanfont [AutoFakeSlant=0.5, AutoFakeBold=0.5] {Doulos SIL Phon}. There

Re: [NTG-context] font features in XeTeX

2015-07-06 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Robert Zydenbos mailto:cont...@zydenbos.net 6. Juli 2015 12:15 I would like to, but I need to use TrueType fonts for Indian scripts in my work that are supported in XeTeX but not (yet) in LuaTeX. As an experiment, I tried to use the so-called 'long s' in a Fraktur font, which comes out well

[NTG-context] font features in XeTeX

2015-07-06 Thread Robert Zydenbos
Dear ConTeXt folk, Is there any simple way to pass font features as a parameter to XeConTeXt? i am thinking of things like what in LaTeX would be (between square brackets) \setromanfont [AutoFakeSlant=0.5, AutoFakeBold=0.5] {Doulos SIL Phon}. There has to be some way to do this, but I seem

Re: [NTG-context] testing 32bit and 64bit versions in Win7 64bit

2015-04-26 Thread Hans Hagen
(with several subruns, about 17 without those), which is quite ok given the many graphics. Fwiw, pdftex runs your test faster, and xetex about the same speed, although on a more complex document mkiv gains on mkii unless of course extra functionality not present in mkii kicks in. (And if you want

Re: [NTG-context] testing 32bit and 64bit versions in Win7 64bit

2015-04-26 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 04/26/2015 04:02 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 4/26/2015 12:19 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: [...] Shouldn’t the 64bit version be much faster or am I missing something? [...] Fwiw, pdftex runs your test faster, and xetex about the same speed, although on a more complex document mkiv gains

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-defined colours broken in TikZ in MkIV with latest betas

2015-04-13 Thread Hans Hagen
@driver@if@in{postscript}{pgfsys-dvips.def} \pgfutil@driver@if@in{tpd}{pgfsys-pdftex.def} \pgfutil@driver@if@in{dpm}{pgfsys-dvipdfm.def} \pgfutil@driver@if@in{dpx}{pgfsys-dvipdfmx.def} \pgfutil@driver@if@in{xetex}{pgfsys-xetex.def} \ifx\pgfsysdriver

[NTG-context] ConTeXt is looking for a non-existent .bbl file (Mac problem?)

2015-02-09 Thread Robert Zydenbos
Yesterday I tried to create a fresh PDF from a revised text using MkII and XeTeX (I have been using this combination for several months, because I need to use Indic fonts, which are not -- yet? -- supported in MkIV). As a trick I defined an Indic font as a mono font (\tt), so

Re: [NTG-context] Context modules not on CATN and not in TeX Live (slightly OT)

2015-01-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
support for XeTeX which is still an up-to-date engine.) I would suggest that you point them to the Standalone stable release, if you actually need the missing third party modules. No, wait, let's try to clear things up first. If modules should be on CTAN and aren't, I'll add them to CTAN

Re: [NTG-context] Context modules not on CATN and not in TeX Live (slightly OT)

2015-01-26 Thread Hans Hagen
! It's not so much outdated, but it's certainly frozen and certainly not worth spending too much effort in it. (With an exception of occasional support for XeTeX which is still an up-to-date engine.) I would suggest that you point them to the Standalone stable release, if you actually need

Re: [NTG-context] Context modules not on CATN and not in TeX Live (slightly OT)

2015-01-26 Thread Keith J. Schultz
certainly frozen and certainly not worth spending too much effort in it. (With an exception of occasional support for XeTeX which is still an up-to-date engine.) I would suggest that you point them to the Standalone stable release, if you actually need the missing third party modules. No, wait

Re: [NTG-context] [fontloader] positioning of diacritics

2014-12-15 Thread Hans Hagen
is there somewhere in the font, since the Xetex engine typesets it correctly. it's a bug in the font: uni0306 in the second one has class base while in the first one it has class mark and context checks on that \enabletrackers[otf.bugs] Best regards, Philipp [0] MD5 hashes of the files

Re: [NTG-context] [fontloader] positioning of diacritics

2014-12-15 Thread Philipp Gesang
. An equivalent test for Plain [1] shows that the correct position information is there somewhere in the font, since the Xetex engine typesets it correctly. it's a bug in the font: uni0306 in the second one has class base while in the first one it has class mark and context checks

[NTG-context] [fontloader] positioning of diacritics

2014-12-14 Thread Philipp Gesang
\char0306 \stop \start \definedfont [file:LinLibertine_RZI.otf*ourfeats] V\char0306 \stop \stoptext Note the misaligned combining breve above the latter. An equivalent test for Plain [1] shows that the correct position information is there somewhere in the font, since the Xetex engine typesets

[NTG-context] ConTeXt Standalone will not install

2014-10-21 Thread Jaroslav Hajtmar
/ minimals/current/fonts/old/ minimals/current/base/xetex/ minimals/current/fonts/new/' '/cygdrive/C/context/tex/texmf' mtx-update | run, rsync -rpztlv -L --delete contextgarden.net::'minimals/current/context/beta/' '/cygdrive/C/context/tex/texmf-context' mtx-update | run, rsync -rpztlv

[NTG-context] frown in context 2

2014-09-30 Thread Xan
On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Xan wrote: Hi, I just want to make an arc to a word. I found that [http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/15468/frown-and-mathop-stackrel-overset] but it's LaTeX or XeTeX centric. Is there any equivalent in ConTeXt? $\overparent{MMM}$ Aditya Can

[NTG-context] about Noto Sans CJK font problem

2014-09-27 Thread Akira Kakuto
SourceHanSansJP-Regular.otf, all characters seem to be correct. All fonts are version 1.001. In the case of XeTeX with the latest xdvipdfmx in the TL repository, SourceHanSans-Regular.otf, SourceHanSansJP-Regular.otf, and NotoSansCJKjp-Regular.otf give the same correct results. Best, Akira

Re: [NTG-context] about Noto Sans CJK font problem

2014-09-27 Thread Hans Hagen
日本語のテスト。 \par \testb 日本語のテスト。 \stopTEXpage \stoptext gives the same output here (runs ok with your native ms bins, crashes with mingw experimental) In the case of XeTeX with the latest xdvipdfmx in the TL repository, SourceHanSans-Regular.otf, SourceHanSansJP-Regular.otf

[NTG-context] about Noto Sans CJK font problem

2014-09-26 Thread Akira Kakuto
. In the case of NotoSansCJKjp-Regular, context ends without errors (mtx-context | current version: 2014.09.26 11:42). However the resulting PDF shows incorrect characters. I attach nototest.tar.gz: source = u.tex result = u.pdf Compare with the correct XeTeX case: source = u1.tex result = u1.pdf

Re: [NTG-context] about Noto Sans CJK font problem

2014-09-26 Thread Jeong Dal
, context ends without errors (mtx-context | current version: 2014.09.26 11:42). However the resulting PDF shows incorrect characters. I attach nototest.tar.gz: source = u.tex result = u.pdf Compare with the correct XeTeX case: source = u1.tex result = u1.pdf Best, Akira

Re: [NTG-context] Internal clickable links

2014-09-03 Thread Keith McKay
: 2014.9.3 int: english/english However, when I change the typesetting engine to Context(pdftex) or Context(XeTex) it works as you said it should. I think I should maybe upgrade to the latest version of Context. :-[ Thanks for help Best Wishes Keith McKay On 03/09/2014 10:24, Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] system Linux armv7l is not supported yet

2014-07-25 Thread Mojca Miklavec
. You should have tried ./luatex --version (or any other binary like pdftex, xetex etc.), but see also below. context is just a symlink. 2. I went to http://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/bin/armhf-linux/ and performed the same steps as under 1. with the same result. 3. I went to http

Re: [NTG-context] State of documentation of ConTeXt?

2014-07-20 Thread Mojca Miklavec
writing as fast as the packages described in the book kept developing. Also, if I see correctly, the book Guide to LaTeX has been published in 2003. Even for LaTeX that's a totally outdated book and doesn't even scratch the surface of LuaTeX, XeTeX and OpenType fonts - the most useful things

[NTG-context] Bug with complex contextual opentype feature

2014-07-18 Thread Georg Duffner
; pos L a.sc' -330 210 -490 0 T e.xtex1 X; pos T e.xtex1' -180 -180 -280 0 X; }xtex_pos1; feature xtex { lookup xtex_sub1; lookup xtex_pos1; } xtex; # LuaTeX only processes the sequence XeTeX where it substitutes the first e by e.xtex1 instead of e.xtex2. Then it positions

Re: [NTG-context] Bug with complex contextual opentype feature

2014-07-18 Thread Hans Hagen
two.taboldstyle two.tablining] e.xtex3' 0 -180 0 0; pos L a.sc' -330 210 -490 0 T e.xtex1 X; pos T e.xtex1' -180 -180 -280 0 X; }xtex_pos1; feature xtex { lookup xtex_sub1; lookup xtex_pos1; } xtex; # LuaTeX only processes the sequence XeTeX where it substitutes the first e

Re: [NTG-context] Character and word spacing

2014-05-31 Thread Hans Hagen
factors is probably too crude to accomplish much in implementing the style Dowding promotes, although the tightness in the second tufte from your example (modifying the punctuation) may be a starting point. With XeTeX, one can use \interchartoks to handle general (non-font-specific) kerning between

Re: [NTG-context] Centering tabulate env. using \setuptabulate

2014-05-28 Thread Robert Zydenbos
this to be centered.} \NC \NR \NR \NC Als dit werkt, dan gaan we heel fanatiek hiermee verder. \NC Dan gaan we allerlei prachtige zaken in ConTeXt zetten, met XeTeX. \NC \NR \NR } % end of \dorecurse \stoptabulate } % end of \midaligned \stoptext

Re: [NTG-context] Centering tabulate env. using \setuptabulate

2014-05-28 Thread Hans Hagen
tabel, die met tabulate gemaakt is. \NC Het is overigens maar een experiment, maar we zullen zien wat er gebeurt. {\bf And I want all this to be centered.} \NC \NR \NR \NC Als dit werkt, dan gaan we heel fanatiek hiermee verder. \NC Dan gaan we allerlei prachtige zaken in ConTeXt zetten, met XeTeX

Re: [NTG-context] Centering tabulate env. using \setuptabulate

2014-05-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
is. \NC Het is overigens maar een experiment, maar we zullen zien wat er gebeurt. {\bf And I want all this to be centered.} \NC \NR \NR \NC Als dit werkt, dan gaan we heel fanatiek hiermee verder. \NC Dan gaan we allerlei prachtige zaken in ConTeXt zetten, met XeTeX. \NC \NR \NR } % end

Re: [NTG-context] Centering tabulate env. using \setuptabulate

2014-05-28 Thread Robert Zydenbos
On May 28, 2014, at 13:51 , Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 5/28/2014 10:46 AM, Robert Zydenbos wrote: [...] why xetex ... mkii is frozen Sorry, Hans, but I need to use odd fonts for Indian languages that are not (yet?) supported by mkiv. But the combination ConTeXt mkii+XeTeX gives me

Re: [NTG-context] Centering tabulate env. using \setuptabulate

2014-05-28 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/28/2014 8:25 PM, Robert Zydenbos wrote: On May 28, 2014, at 13:51 , Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 5/28/2014 10:46 AM, Robert Zydenbos wrote: [...] why xetex ... mkii is frozen Sorry, Hans, but I need to use odd fonts for Indian languages that are not (yet?) supported by mkiv

Re: [NTG-context] Centering tabulate env. using \setuptabulate

2014-05-28 Thread Robert Zydenbos
On May 28, 2014, at 22:10 , Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 5/28/2014 8:25 PM, Robert Zydenbos wrote: On May 28, 2014, at 13:51 , Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 5/28/2014 10:46 AM, Robert Zydenbos wrote: [...] why xetex ... mkii is frozen Sorry, Hans, but I need to use odd fonts

Re: [NTG-context] Centering tabulate env. using \setuptabulate

2014-05-22 Thread Robert Zydenbos
This is a topic that is of great interest to me. I have been trying to make tables in mkii (because I need XeTeX for my Indic fonts) that span across pages and in which cells are more than one line (so I use the 'p' parameter). I'm enclosing a test file below. Any suggestions? RZ ---start

Re: [NTG-context] Centering tabulate env. using \setuptabulate

2014-05-22 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 23.05.2014 um 04:17 schrieb Robert Zydenbos cont...@zydenbos.net: This is a topic that is of great interest to me. I have been trying to make tables in mkii (because I need XeTeX for my Indic fonts) that span across pages and in which cells are more than one line (so I use the 'p

Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX-plain OpenType Features Select

2014-05-15 Thread Aíre Funvake
to provide xetex compatibility) but it's definitely not in luatex (nor will be) and also not in context (which has more advanced color support than hex specs anyway) That’s correct. The “color” key triggers a custom callback that tints every glyph of the defined font. It’s part of Luaotfload

Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX-plain OpenType Features Select

2014-05-15 Thread Philipp Gesang
···date: 2014-05-15, Thursday···from: Aíre Funvake··· On Wed May 14 00:16:54 2014, Philipp Gesang wrote: That’s correct. The “color” key triggers a custom callback that tints every glyph of the defined font. It’s part of Luaotfload solely for compatibility for Xetex. IMO it’s not worth

Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX-plain OpenType Features Select

2014-05-13 Thread Hans Hagen
on fonts in LuaTeX-plain (the ConTeXt version). Would love a pointer to the information though. it must be something latex i think (maybe to provide xetex compatibility) but it's definitely not in luatex (nor will be) and also not in context (which has more advanced color support than hex specs

Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX-plain OpenType Features Select

2014-05-13 Thread Aíre Funvake
) but even then, it's probably implemented someplace else in the latex code Found no other reference to setting color on fonts in LuaTeX-plain (the ConTeXt version). Would love a pointer to the information though. it must be something latex i think (maybe to provide xetex compatibility) but it's

Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX-plain OpenType Features Select

2014-05-13 Thread Philipp Gesang
to the information though. it must be something latex i think (maybe to provide xetex compatibility) but it's definitely not in luatex (nor will be) and also not in context (which has more advanced color support than hex specs anyway) That’s correct. The “color” key triggers a custom callback

[NTG-context] (MkVI) Regression in named parameters, TL2013 to current

2014-02-28 Thread Rik Kabel
. (That definition fails in Lua\TeX, \pdfTeX, and \XeTeX. I have never used Mark II, and do not have Ruby installed to enable a test.) -\hbox{}-~\crlf Rik Kabel \stoptext ___ If your question is of interest to others as well

Re: [NTG-context] Update overwrites configuration

2014-02-25 Thread Mojca Miklavec
me know where to find it and I'll merge the documentation. An old related page is at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/texmf.cnf The file texmf.cnf is used by pdfTeX, XeTeX (Mark II), MetaPost and basically all other engines, while texmfcnf.lua is used by ConTeXt+LuaTeX (Make IV, Mark VI). Mojca

Re: [NTG-context] structure Mk II vs IV

2014-02-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
[tSCIRMA][tt][Xmono][LM Typewriter Regular] \definetypeface[tSCIRMA][ss][Xsans][Optima] The problem here are the Xserif etc. typescript which work only with XeTeX but MkIV provides its own commands to select system fonts. Wolfgang

[NTG-context] Fundraising for MathML in Gecko/WebKit and EPUB (less than one day left)

2014-01-30 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Khaled, thanks a lot for sharing this, but I believe it deserves a more descriptive title than just fw: Thank you. Can you please also send this to other TeX mailing lists? In particular the Unicode Math (but XeTeX and TeX Live should be fine as well). It's not off-topic at all, I believe many

[NTG-context] Using input maps for ITRANS to devanagari with context m-iv

2013-12-23 Thread Shree Devi Kumar
Hello All, Xetex allows the use of input maps such as xetex-itrans for taking input in ITRANS transliteration and converting to devanagari . xetex-itrans package is at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/generic/itrans/ . Information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xetex-itrans I

Re: [NTG-context] doublestroke

2013-12-22 Thread Elspeth McGullicuddy
). Could you tell me +where+ I could find them. I've downloaded this: rsync -rpztlv --stats contextgarden.net::'minimals/beta/base/tex/ minimals/beta/base/metapost/ minimals/beta/base/xetex

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt hyphenation patterns for Indic languages

2013-12-18 Thread Rajeesh K Nambiar
, using 8 bit tex is a bit of a nightmare for ml i think Indeed, but I am using mkii with XeTeX backend (texexec --xetex). I'm trying to make Malayalam shaping work on mkiv (taking Devanagari font-odv.lua as example) but it is quite complex, till then I'm depending on mkii+xetex

Re: [NTG-context] \frown in ConTeXt

2013-11-03 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Xan wrote: Hi, I just want to make an arc to a word. I found that [http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/15468/frown-and-mathop-stackrel-overset] but it's LaTeX or XeTeX centric. Is there any equivalent in ConTeXt? $\overparent{MMM}$ Aditya

[NTG-context] Fwd: bug in switch.rb

2013-11-01 Thread Hans Hagen
.) Hans Original Message Subject:bug in switch.rb Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 17:07:47 +0100 From: Ian Spackman ian.spack...@virginmedia.com Since upgrading to Mac OS X.9 I haven't been able to use ConTeXt/XeTex: on even a minimal file I get the message /System/Library

[NTG-context] \frown in ConTeXt

2013-10-29 Thread Xan
Hi, I just want to make an arc to a word. I found that [http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/15468/frown-and-mathop-stackrel-overset] but it's LaTeX or XeTeX centric. Is there any equivalent in ConTeXt? Thanks in advance, Xan PS: Please CCme

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
the efforts of other free software projects. HarfBuzz is used by much more software projects than what XeTeX was using before (Android, Mozilla, Chrome, LibreOffice, Pango, EFL, to name few), so it is here to stay. That being said, the I bet that previous libs and whatever also have that impression

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-13 Thread Hans Hagen
free software projects. HarfBuzz is used by much more software projects than what XeTeX was using before (Android, Mozilla, Chrome, LibreOffice, Pango, EFL, to name few), so it is here to stay. That being said, the I bet that previous libs and whatever also have that impression .. I don’t think

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-12 Thread Hans Hagen
: small basic tex kernel and everything else in extensible lua, not too far off what classical tex had as purpose: long term stability. We already have xetex that uses libraries as alternative. (Although the fact that xetex changed libs is proof that libraries introduce a dependency and possible

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-12 Thread Khaled Hosny
://www.readytext.co.uk/?p=3143 Personally I think that this will defeat the purpose we had in mind with luatex: small basic tex kernel and everything else in extensible lua, not too far off what classical tex had as purpose: long term stability. We already have xetex that uses libraries

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-12 Thread Hans Hagen
more software projects than what XeTeX was using before (Android, Mozilla, Chrome, LibreOffice, Pango, EFL, to name few), so it is here to stay. That being said, the I bet that previous libs and whatever also have that impression .. well, in the end I think that open type will fade away too

[NTG-context] bug? gap appears in columnset

2013-09-13 Thread Lars Huttar
like \setupcolumnsetlines[columnsetbibliography][1][1][-1] \setupcolumnsetlines[columnsetbibliography][1][2][-1] with various values for the last parameter, but nothing helps. Below is a small, self-contained sample. Thanks for any help you can give. Lars Version information: This is XeTeX

Re: [NTG-context] bug? gap appears in columnset

2013-09-13 Thread Lars Huttar
. Below is a small, self-contained sample. Thanks for any help you can give. Lars Version information: This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-0.9998 (TeX Live 2012) (format=cont-en 2012.11.14) 13 SEP 2013 11:38 ConTeXt ver: 2012.05.30 11:26 MKII fmt: 2012.11.14 int: english/english

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps from otf in luatex.

2013-08-11 Thread john Culleton
are separated by semicola, e.g.: \font \foo = file:Iwona-Regular.otf:+smcp;mode=base;+tlig Best regards, Philipp Thanks! Now my latest book project can move forward. I never thought to look in xetex for an answer about luatex. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self

[NTG-context] ConTeXt, XeTeX, special effects in Indic font for Kannada

2013-08-08 Thread Robert Zydenbos
On my Mac (Mountain Lion) I would like to use ConTeXt with a complex OpenType font named Kedage for the Indian language Kannada, and I thought that I could do this using XeTeX (because LuaTeX seems unable to handle Indic fonts at present). This freely available font (found on Linux systems

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, XeTeX, special effects in Indic font for Kannada

2013-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/8/2013 1:00 PM, Robert Zydenbos wrote: On my Mac (Mountain Lion) I would like to use ConTeXt with a complex OpenType font named Kedage for the Indian language Kannada, and I thought that I could do this using XeTeX (because LuaTeX seems unable to handle Indic fonts at present). forget

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, XeTeX, special effects in Indic font for Kannada

2013-08-08 Thread Robert Zydenbos
Hans, Just now I tried your suggestions: On Aug 8, 2013, at 13:51 , Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: Here I see two possibilities: (1) use the XeTeX parameters FakeSlant and FakeBold, which I have done in LaTeX. But I do not know how this is done in ConTeXt. \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, XeTeX, special effects in Indic font for Kannada

2013-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/8/2013 2:26 PM, Robert Zydenbos wrote: Is there any way to find out the font's possibilities, if one doesn't have any technical documentation about it? looking at tables in the font ... in fact, this font is somewhat messed up as it uses latin glyph names for kannaga ligatures

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, XeTeX, special effects in Indic font for Kannada

2013-08-08 Thread Rajeesh K Nambiar
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: forget about xetex, first check what context mkiv van do Sorry to hijack this thread, but... Hans, it would be great to see Indic languages support in context/mkiv. At the moment I am typesetting, for example, in Malayalam using

Re: [NTG-context] Path problems w/ MkIV on Arch Linux

2013-08-01 Thread Hans Hagen
(luatex) then you can do an initial install with --engine=luatex and you get less files (it must be done when installing so that updating also uses this minimal setting; pdftex has many -small- font files and xetex big binaries) Hans

[NTG-context] Installing context on a web server

2013-07-19 Thread Stéphanie Vilayphiou
/context/linux-64/ minimals/current/bin/metapost/linux-64/ minimals/current/bin/man/ minimals/current/bin/luatex/linux-64/ minimals/current/bin/xetex/linux-64/ minimals/current/bin/luatex/linux-64/ minimals/current/bin/pdftex/linux-64/ minimals/current/bin/luatex/linux-64/ minimals/current/bin

Re: [NTG-context] UWIN?

2013-06-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
for ConTeXt journal) about how to compile luatex and xetex with nmake. Mojca ___ 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

Re: [NTG-context] GLIBC 2.7 requirement for Standalone ConTeXt

2013-05-23 Thread Mojca Miklavec
) and Luigi installed a new compiler to the box. Then we started compiling XeTeX which needed a newer fontconfig at which point I gave up with maintenance (I felt that installing fontconfig was relatively non-trivial, even though it should be doable) and outsourced the task to Alan who compiled the first

Re: [NTG-context] Support for Thai in ConTeXt

2013-05-15 Thread Mojca Miklavec
approach is that it requires an external text processor to digest an input TeX document and return a copy with word segmentation. Then pdfTeX is run on the resulting file. XeTeX can use ICU library to do the segmentation. In LuaTeX one would have to plug the word segmentation somewhere (but writing

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