[NTG-context] Recommendations for Speed?
Hello, I've been perusing the list archives for a couple of days now, and reading up on articles (such as Hans' regarding optimizing in TeX and eTeX) to find guidance on a handful of decisions. Our company makes a web-based publishing solution called MemoryPress.com that uses conTeXt for on-demand creation of PDFs which are then converted to jpeg format for display in a web browser. We are currently looking into ways to speed things up and since many of you are far more qualified than I am in this area, I wondered if you might advise me on the following: 1. Is there a way to keep TeX in-memory (i.e. as a server or daemon process) so that it doesn't have to load and reload fonts and the environment? Our system makes repeated requests for typeset documents and we are wondering if there's a way to remove the overhead of re-running pdftex. 2. Among the many different command-line TeX options, what might optimize for speed? I've done some rudimentary benchmarking and found that executing etex (without conTeXt) is much faster than texexec, and wondered if there is any advice in this area. Is there any way to shave off some of the overhead of using conTeXt? 3. I've noticed that there is some kind of caching going on (tui/tuo files?) that helps speed things up after the first run. How can I best take advantage of this facility? What kinds of things will require TeX to start from scratch, vs. use some or all of this cached information? 4. Are there any other areas I should consider when looking for ways to use TeX as an on-demand typesetting engine? Thank you, Duane Johnson Programming Manager FamilyLearn ___ 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 : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] pdfopen pdfclose
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: :-) But that's exactly my point, the pdfopen that comes with the distro does not support --back :-) This would be a really nice feature to have, if we can implement it (or just use/improve Woo's code)... I suggest writing to that guy that made the change(s?) and asking him to send the adjusted source to either Fabrice Popinea or CTAN. The version on CTAN is the one that ends up in the distributions. Best wishes, Taco ___ 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 : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] bib module fails to produce publication list under certain conditions
Jesse Alama wrote: I recently came across an unusual error with the bib module: depending on the section structure of a document, the publication list is sometimes not produced. I've attached a simple document and a one-entry bib file that illustrates the error. If either the second section of the subsection is commented out, the publication list is produced; if both are uncommented, the publication list is not produced. What might be going on? This is a known limitation introduced by the transparant per-section publication support (it is now clear I should not have done that, but is too late to fix now). Normally being explicit like \placepublicationlist[criterium=all] fixes the problem. Best wishes, Taco ___ 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 : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Greek in luatex
Arthur Reutenauer wrote: As a far as I understand, this behaviour is actually compliant with the Opentype specifications and is quite widespread among typesetting engines and so it is not (only) Fontforge's fault; but, needless to say, it is nevertheless annoying. (In more crude terms: Opentype does not specify anything in that respect, so manufacturers of typesetting software can do whatever they want ...) The specification says that lookups should be applied in LookupList order. Featurefiles don't have an explicit ordering command, but that does not mean that ordering should be irrelevant. So I think this is a bug in the version of fontforge I am using in luatex. I will do some testing. Best wishes, Taco ___ 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 : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] bib module fails to produce publication list under certain conditions
Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jesse Alama wrote: I recently came across an unusual error with the bib module: depending on the section structure of a document, the publication list is sometimes not produced. I've attached a simple document and a one-entry bib file that illustrates the error. If either the second section of the subsection is commented out, the publication list is produced; if both are uncommented, the publication list is not produced. What might be going on? This is a known limitation introduced by the transparant per-section publication support (it is now clear I should not have done that, but is too late to fix now). Normally being explicit like \placepublicationlist[criterium=all] fixes the problem. That solved the problem -- thanks. (Using \completepublicationlist[criterium=all] , which is what I actually need, also works.) Thanks, Jesse PS It be `criterion' rather than `criterium'. According to my dictionary, the latter means a one-day bicycle race on a circuit road course. -- Jesse Alama ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ 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 : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] bib module fails to produce publication list under certain conditions
Jesse Alama [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jesse Alama wrote: I recently came across an unusual error with the bib module: depending on the section structure of a document, the publication list is sometimes not produced. I've attached a simple document and a one-entry bib file that illustrates the error. If either the second section of the subsection is commented out, the publication list is produced; if both are uncommented, the publication list is not produced. What might be going on? This is a known limitation introduced by the transparant per-section publication support (it is now clear I should not have done that, but is too late to fix now). Normally being explicit like \placepublicationlist[criterium=all] fixes the problem. That solved the problem -- thanks. (Using \completepublicationlist[criterium=all] , which is what I actually need, also works.) Thanks, Jesse PS It be `criterion' rather than `criterium'. According to my dictionary, the latter means a one-day bicycle race on a circuit road course. Clearly it should read It is `criterion' rather than `criterium'. rather than It be `criterion' rather than `criterium'. (I one-up'd Taco by making a grammatical rather than lexicographic error. Failure to proofread messages before sending them will be the death of me yet.) Jesse -- Jesse Alama ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ 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 : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX after ctxtools
(Thanks Hans) On 15 Sep 2007, at 18:43, Hans Hagen wrote: Andrea Valle wrote: \enableregime[utf] this one is not needed, xetex is utf Ok. I read some infos on the wiki but I was a bit confused. So: - if I encode in utf-8 I don't have to specify regime \enableregime[utf] - if I encode in another encodign (e.g. mac roman) I have to specify \the correct \enableregime (here: [mac]) Am I right? Best -a- -- Andrea Valle -- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino -- http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information. (Annabel Chong) ___ 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 : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX after ctxtools
I was happy with old install, with bugs and xetex low level commands :-)
So, er, which strategy you gurus suggest?
Reinstall from scratch (old) TeXLive 2007 waiting for a new release?
I have that project of typesetting our journal which will start in a
month.
(I'd like to use system fonts, also to approximate the original
typesetting)
Thanks
Best
-a-
On 15 Sep 2007, at 21:41, Hans Hagen wrote:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
(I'm sorry for the delayed answer.)
On 9/15/07, Hans Hagen wrote:
Andrea Valle wrote:
** WARNING ** Invalid CMap
** ERROR ** pdf_ref_obj(): passed invalid object.
i wonder what that object is .. and who generates the ref, could
be a
special but you do nothing special in the example so i'm
puzzled ... do
others have this problem?
Yes. I don't remember whether I already complained about it or not,
but here's another (minimal) example to reproduce it:
\starttext
\startformula
a+b=\int_{i=0}^{\infty}\Gamma\,dx
\stopformula
\stoptext
The main problem (besides being quite slow for the default LM) is
that
font loading in ConTeXt+XeTeX now does the following:
if (FontName is a valid font) then
use FontName
else
use [FontName]
end
And that one forgets the third possibility: about the old tfm fonts
which should be loaded without any quotes, for example rm-lmr12
\font\a=rm-lmr12 works, but \font\a=rm-lmr12 at 12pt doesn't, and
ConTeXt tries to use that one. Normally TeX would stop: generate and
report the error at that point, but ConTeXt currently skips those
errors on purpose and tries to use an unexisting font, so it results
in a broken PDF.
i will send you a patch (yet another test for a spec -)
Hans
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Re: [NTG-context] Greek in luatex
Hi guys,
Try this ordering:
lookup GreekBabelLookupMultiple {
...
} GreekBabelLookupMultiple ;
lookup GreekBabelLookupSimple {
...
} GreekBabelLookupSimple ;
Best wishes,
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Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX after ctxtools
On 9/16/07, Andrea Valle wrote: On 15 Sep 2007, at 18:43, Hans Hagen wrote: \enableregime[utf] this one is not needed, xetex is utf Ok. I read some infos on the wiki but I was a bit confused. So: - if I encode in utf-8 I don't have to specify regime \enableregime[utf] - if I encode in another encodign (e.g. mac roman) I have to specify \the correct \enableregime (here: [mac]) Am I right? a) Yes. In LuaTeX and XeTeX utf-8 already is the default regime. Only for pdfTeX you still need \enableregime[utf-8] (but it doesn't hurt if you leave it in XeTeX and LuaTeX) b) Yes, it should be so in theory. But to be honest, it doesn't work, although it's probably a rather trivial patch. ConTeX+XeTeX currently simply ignores the \enableregime command. (Most people, esp. the ones aware about XeTeX, write in utf-8 anyway, so nobody has complained enough about the lack of that functionality.) You can still use the low-level command \XeTeXinputencoding ... (I don't know which name exactly you need for mac roman, but that should work.) But then again: - I've been just playing a little bit with it again and figured out that things have changed during the MKIV transition a bit. XeTeX doesn't ignore \enableregime any more (as it was the case some time ago), and that functionality should be adapted (\enableregime should not be ignore, but should resolve to the correct behaviour properly). - In addition to that, the default fonts loaded are now OpenType LM instead of the old ones, which is much better, but during loading, [encoding=uc] has been omitted (and that should be fixed as well), which means that \`e or \egrave won't work as they used to. So my answer would be: don't use \enableregime in XeTeX at the moment and use UTF-8. But the other problem with math fonts is much more critical and needs to be fixed as soon as possible. That one can wait a bit. 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/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX after ctxtools
On 9/16/07, Andrea Valle wrote: I was happy with old install, with bugs and xetex low level commands :-) So, er, which strategy you gurus suggest? Reinstall from scratch (old) TeXLive 2007 waiting for a new release? That's one possibility, of course. You can also download any ConTeXt version from here: http://foundry.supelec.fr/frs/?group_id=14 and then unzip it into texmf-local (or wherever the ConTeXt files currently are) and remake formats. But there is still one thing I fear: font handling in XeTeX has been broken since TeX Live came out, so I don't know if there is any stable XeTeX font support in any of the versions between the one from TeX Live 2007 and the latest one. There are some late versions and fixes, but I really don't know which one to suggest. Perhaps Taco knows better. Or simply take the one from TeX Live again. Another possibility would be to use LuaTeX. It should work OK, but again, there is no 100% guarantee (I created some newspaper with it back in June and besides all the problems I had every now and then, it was pre-alpha after all, our color laser at university still objects to print it out. I shouldn't have mentioned that, but only to warn you that any last-minute fixes in ConTeXt can be problematic, if you don't have at least two days inbetween, so that all the little bugs biting you in that release can be fixed.) I hope that the problem with non-working PDFs will be resolved really soon, so if you have a few days more to wait ... in the meantime you can try LuaTeX. wget http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/macosxtex.zip wget http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/justtex.zip unzip macosxtex.zip unzip justtex.zip cd tex . setuptex luatools --generate texexec --make --all texexec --make --xtx --all texexec --make --lua --all Don't worry, that won't break your distribution. You can use the standalone context completely isolated from everything else. You only need to issue . setuptex each time you want to use the standalone. In all the other cases, your system-installed TeX will be used. 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/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] bib module fails to produce publication list under certain conditions
Jesse Alama wrote: PS It be `criterion' rather than `criterium'. According to my dictionary, the latter means a one-day bicycle race on a circuit road course. This is a language mixup in the context core that I doubt can be fixed any more (the dutch word for criterion is actually criterium, and all ConTeXt commands started out in dutch) Best wishes, Taco ___ 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 : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] How to process simple HTML files with LuaTeX
On 9/14/07, Hans Hagen wrote:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Great! This works perfect and seems much easier to write than the old
code, though I still have no idea how to implement some parts of it:
- where to plug in the entities such as nbsp;, le;, ...
\xmlutfize{main}
Thanks. I saw it, but had no idea how to use it. I need to test more
extensively ... :)
- how to catch classes: how to differentiate between h1title/h1
and h1 class=...title/h1
- and some more - there are some simple examples in the attachment
(too long to copy-paste)
\doifelse {\xmlatt{#1}{class}} {whatever} {
dothis
} {
dothat
}
I have tried exactly that before, but this example fails to work for
me, or I don't know how to apply it:
% test.html
html
body
h1Title 1/h1
h1 class=differentTitle 2/h1
/body
/html
% test.tex
\startxmlsetups all:html
\xmlsetsetup{main}{h1}{*}
\stopxmlsetups
\xmlregistersetup{all:html}
\startxmlsetups h1
This title belongs to class (\xmlatt{#1}{class}): \xmlflush{#1}.\par
\stopxmlsetups
\starttext
\xmlprocess{main}{test.html}{}
\stoptext
Class always comes out empty.
Thanks a lot,
Mojca
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Re: [NTG-context] How to process simple HTML files with LuaTeX
On 9/14/07, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On 9/14/07, Hans Hagen wrote:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hello,
I was trying to figure out how to process simple HTML files with the
new code, but I fail to understand the details. Here's a simple file I
would like to process:
keep in mind that this is still somewhat experimental
Sure :)
That's why I'm sending files for testing :) :) :)
- i'll make a table mapper (need it anyway), cals tables are already
provided
- idem for preformatted and verbatim
Thanks a lot. I'm waiting patiently :)
- your code:
d[k] = dk:gsub(nbsp;,' ')
dk = d[k]
d[k] = dk:gsub(le;, '\\mathematics{\\le}')
local dk = d[k]
dk = dk:gsub(nbsp;,' ')
dk = dk:gsub(le;, '\\mathematics{\\le}')
d[k] = dk
or
mojcasentities = {
nbsp = ,
le = '\\mathematics{\\le}'
}
local d[k]= d[k]:gsub((.-);,mojcasentities)
Thanks a lot!
(there probably already is code for that)
Yes, I saw it, but didn't try to understand what the (.-) serves for.
In any case, that was the wrong place to replace le with something.
Thanks again,
Mojca
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Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX patch
Really thanks a lot Mojca for the help.
I replaced the two files, I found two copies of font-ini.tex and
replaced them all.
Then:
texexec --make --all
texexec --make --all --xetex
(I guess the first is useless if I execute the second, isn't it?)
YES!
Alleluja, alleluja, it works, no complaining, with the test file:
%\enableregime[utf]
\setuppapersize[S6][S6]
%\setupbodyfont[ss, 12pt]
\definetypeface[Optima][rm][Xserif][Optima]
\setupbodyfont[Optima]
\starttext
\startitemize
\item nome dell'insegnamento (es. $\to$ Storia del cinema)
\item settore scientifico-disciplinare (SSD, es. $\to$ l-art/06)
\item numero di crediti (cfu, es. $\to$ 10)
\stopitemize
La votazione è irrilevante. Queste informazioni vanno inserite in un
file di testo in una forma simile:
\stoptext
And works also with my photobook which now compiles exactly like this:
http://www.cirma.unito.it/research/alternando/photo/photoBookX.pdf
\setuppapersize[S6][S6]
\setuppagenumber[state=stop]
\define[1]\Capt{{\darkred \switchtobodyfont[8pt] #1}}
\definetypeface[Optima][rm][Xserif][Optima]
\definetypeface[Skia][rm][Xserif][Skia]
\setupbodyfont[Optima]
\setuplayout[
topspace=0.75cm,
bootmspace=0cm,
headerheight=0cm,
footerheight=0cm,
]
%\setupbodyfont[roman, 70pt]
\setupheads[sectionnumber=no]
%\enableregime[mac]
\mainlanguage[it]
\setupcolors[state=start]
\starttext
\definelayer [mybg]
[x=0mm, y=0mm,
width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight
]
\definelayer[mybg2]
[x=0mm, y=0mm,
width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight
]
\definelayer[mybg3]
[x=0mm, y=0mm,
width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight
]
\definelayer[mybg4]
[x=0mm, y=0mm,
width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight
]
\setlayer [mybg]
[x=0\paperwidth, y=0\paperheight]
{\color[lightgray]\externalfigure[alternando]
[height=1\paperheight,width=1\paperwidth]}
\setlayer [mybg2]
[x=0\paperwidth, y=.45\paperheight]
{\color[darkred]\externalfigure[hbar]
[height=.1\paperheight,width=\paperwidth]}
\setlayer [mybg3]
[x=.9\paperwidth, y=0\paperheight]
{\color[lightgray]\externalfigure[vbar]
[height=\paperheight,width=.05\paperwidth]}
\setupbackgrounds[page][background=mybg]
\startstandardmakeup
\strut
\vfill
{\color[darkred]
{\tfc Alternating from 1 to X $\to$ homage to A e B}
\crlf
{\tfb A photo documentation}
\vfill
\setupbodyfont[Skia]
il guardaroba della mente \hfill Oratorio di San Filippo \hfill 20/06/03
}
\stopstandardmakeup
\setupbodyfont[Optima]
\setupbackgrounds[page][background=mybg2]
\section{Design/Test}
\page
\setupbackgrounds[page][background=mybg3]
\startcombination[2*2]
{\externalfigure[test/cubes2][height=.5\textheight
]}{\Capt {Make it simple: use wooden cubes on a plane}}
{\externalfigure[test/testing1][height=.5\textheight
]}{\Capt{If the plane is transparent, a webcam can be used}}
{\externalfigure[test/testing2][height=.5\textheight
]}{\Capt{In the lab: analog cubes and digital signals}}
{\externalfigure[test/testing3][height=.5\textheight
]}{\Capt{What's going on up there? extracting the parameters}}
\stopcombination
\page
[snip]
\stoptext
More, it works fast:
runtime: 14.904212
Wow
Best
-a-
On 16 Sep 2007, at 12:06, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Oh, and try to patch this file as well.
Mojca
type-otf.tex
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doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this
guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with
me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss
Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information.
(Annabel Chong)
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Re: [NTG-context] Greek in luatex
Try this ordering: Yes, it works. So Fontforge is sensitive to the order in which the lookups are defined in the file? Interesting ... Thomas, you can try this but I have made a mistake in the Unicode code for omega with subscribed iota: it should be 1FF3 and not 1FD3. Arthur ___ 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 : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX patch
On 9/16/07, Andrea Valle wrote: Then: texexec --make --all texexec --make --all --xetex (I guess the first is useless if I execute the second, isn't it?) You need the first one for pdfTeX and the second one for XeTeX. (If you only work with XeTeX, then you don't need the first one, and for the little patch which was only relevant to XeTeX anyway you don't need the first one at all.) YES! Alleluja, alleluja, it works, no complaining, with the test file: That's nice to hear. So Hans, here you have the second vote for your latest patch :) 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/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Greek in luatex
On Sep 16, 2007, at 3:08 PM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: Yes, it works. So Fontforge is sensitive to the order in which the lookups are defined in the file? Interesting ... Thomas, you can try this but I have made a mistake in the Unicode code for omega with subscribed iota: it should be 1FF3 and not 1FD3. Arthur Yep, I had already fixed that (and also replied to Taco's message, the context list is again a bit out of order today). Arthur, while we're at it: could you try and insert this line into the fea-file: sub quotedbl quotesingle i by un1FD3 ; whenever I try anything like this with the quotedbl character (which produces some ligatures), I get this error: /Users/tas/texmf/fonts/opentype/greek/bosporos/BosporosU.otf !luaTeX error (file /Users/tas/texmf/fonts/opentype/greek/bosporos/ BosporosU.otf): Unexpected error: 255 != 256 == Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! (Or similar errors with other fonts). The mechanism for the single dieresis works: sub quotedbl i by uni03CA ; but nothing with quotedbl + something else. Do you have any ideal what triggers this error? Best Thomas ___ 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 : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Greek in luatex
Hi Arthur, Taco,
you're my heroes! Changing the order of the lookup tables in the .fea
file actually took care of the problem. Thanks for looking into this,
now I get the results I was expecting; every substitution is applied
to the font! Once the initial lookup has been done, this is
reasonably fast, too, so I like it. I'm eagerly waiting for teh new
release next week to see if this works with copy-and-past from pdfs.
So this appears to be one way to deal with ASCII input a la babel.
Easy to implement, but fails on fonts that don't have the glyphs for
the Latin characters.
One trivial question: when I want to experiment with feature files,
the cached instance of the font seems to be in the way. Only after
deleting the current luatex-cache, regenerating it and recompiling
the format do I get proper results. Is there an easier/faster way to
do this?
Will now go on and experiment some more, especially with type1/afm-
based fonts. Thanks a lot, best wishes
Thomas
On Sep 16, 2007, at 10:22 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Hi guys,
Try this ordering:
lookup GreekBabelLookupMultiple {
...
} GreekBabelLookupMultiple ;
lookup GreekBabelLookupSimple {
...
} GreekBabelLookupSimple ;
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Re: [NTG-context] How to process simple HTML files with LuaTeX
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On 9/14/07, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
mojcasentities = {
nbsp = ,
le = '\\mathematics{\\le}'
}
local d[k]= d[k]:gsub((.-);,mojcasentities)
Yes, I saw it, but didn't try to understand what the (.-) serves for.
(Caveat: I do not really know lua regex, and have not tried out the
code)
Assuming lua follows standard regex syntax, this means
# The letter
( # start a group
. # any character
- # As few as needed
) # end group
; # the letter ;
so this will match all entities.
If it helps, the equivalent vim regex will be
\\(.\{-}\);
I guess that $1 (the first group, that is everything that matches .-)
will be compared with mojcaentities table and replaced accordingly.
This looks like a really nice feature of lua. In Ruby and Vim, I often
find myself writing a bunch of similar regex, and always wished there
was something like what lua does.
Aditya
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[NTG-context] Windows Installer for MsWinContext
Hello, I'm back with my idea of installer for mswincontext distribution. I successfully use my local (post-install) version , which simply sets env. vars, but I feel there is need for more. Anticipating new mswincontext build, I can implement the installer for it using free Inno Setup software. The controversy is about setup file content. I see it as whole mswincontext, because it is declared as minimal distribution (so, nothing can be thrown away). However, I was suggested on this list to make some parts downloadable on demand, so I need to ask: what parts to make? In general, I believe that if classical Windows installer for ConTeXt were available, it would gain more popularity and appreciation. Of course, I'd like to hear from Hans and Taco what they think about it, and whether they dare to facilitate this. Best, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky ___ 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 : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX after ctxtools
Andrea Valle wrote: (Thanks Hans) On 15 Sep 2007, at 18:43, Hans Hagen wrote: Andrea Valle wrote: \enableregime[utf] this one is not needed, xetex is utf Ok. I read some infos on the wiki but I was a bit confused. So: - if I encode in utf-8 I don't have to specify regime \enableregime[utf] - if I encode in another encodign (e.g. mac roman) I have to specify \the correct \enableregime (here: [mac]) Am I right? kind of ... i never tested regimes with xetex if only because i assume that xetex users use utf8 of have recoded their docs to utf8 -) Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl - ___ 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 : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX after ctxtools
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Another possibility would be to use LuaTeX. It should work OK, but again, there is no 100% guarantee (I created some newspaper with it back in June and besides all the problems I had every now and then, it was pre-alpha after all, our color laser at university still objects Can you reprocess that doc and test again? Color in mkiv is implemented completely different from mkii but it should be ok now. I hope that the problem with non-working PDFs will be resolved really soon, so if you have a few days more to wait ... in the meantime you can try LuaTeX. in a few days font issues in the binary will be resolved (subsetting and such) so ... Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl - ___ 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 : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] How to process simple HTML files with LuaTeX
Aditya Mahajan wrote:
(Caveat: I do not really know lua regex, and have not tried out the
code)
they are not regexp but expressions -)
Assuming lua follows standard regex syntax, this means
# The letter
( # start a group
.. # any character
- # As few as needed
) # end group
; # the letter ;
so this will match all entities.
just (.-); with () being the capture
If it helps, the equivalent vim regex will be
\\(.\{-}\);
I guess that $1 (the first group, that is everything that matches .-)
%1
will be compared with mojcaentities table and replaced accordingly.
indeed
This looks like a really nice feature of lua. In Ruby and Vim, I often
find myself writing a bunch of similar regex, and always wished there
was something like what lua does.
the nice thing about many lua feature is that less code (lua c code)
behaves more powerful
-
Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE
Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands
tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com
| www.pragma-pod.nl
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Re: [NTG-context] How to process simple HTML files with LuaTeX
Mojca Miklavec wrote: I have tried exactly that before, but this example fails to work for me, or I don't know how to apply it: i rewrote the parser (both xml and semi-xpath) so it may have been broken, i'll upload a new beta tomorrow Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl - ___ 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 : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Greek in luatex
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi Arthur, Taco, you're my heroes! Changing the order of the lookup tables in the .fea file actually took care of the problem. Thanks for looking into this, now I get the results I was expecting; every substitution is applied to the font! Once the initial lookup has been done, this is reasonably fast, too, so I like it. I'm eagerly waiting for teh new release next week to see if this works with copy-and-past from pdfs. So this appears to be one way to deal with ASCII input a la babel. Easy to implement, but fails on fonts that don't have the glyphs for the Latin characters. arthur mentions the final sigma in the fea file .. can be a (part of) feature too (like fina) One trivial question: when I want to experiment with feature files, the cached instance of the font seems to be in the way. Only after deleting the current luatex-cache, regenerating it and recompiling the format do I get proper results. Is there an easier/faster way to do this? jumping the version number of the otf handler will force this, but this is a bad idea; also, caching is fast because no file checking has to be done, so deleting cached files (just the one you test) is the price you pay when developing a font (fea) file btw, the fea file can be part of the distribution (but we need to think of a naming scheme) Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl - ___ 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 : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Windows Installer for MsWinContext
Hi, On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:41:16 -0600, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm back with my idea of installer for mswincontext distribution. I successfully use my local (post-install) version , which simply sets env. vars, but I feel there is need for more. Anticipating new mswincontext build, I can implement the installer for it using free Inno Setup software. Good project! The controversy is about setup file content. I see it as whole mswincontext, because it is declared as minimal distribution (so, nothing can be thrown away). However, I was suggested on this list to make some parts downloadable on demand, so I need to ask: what parts to make? I believe you should just support the whole mswincontext, and install it in C:\ConTeXt etc. Please do not use C:\Program Files ;-) Perhaps the docs should be an install option, as they are quite huge. Some things like the complete TeX-Gyre font suite need to be added to mswincontext or given as an option. There are other modules as well that might make good options for the installer. In general, I believe that if classical Windows installer for ConTeXt were available, it would gain more popularity and appreciation. A true stand-alone ConTeXt has been a goal I have pushed for a number of years now, and from what I understand Hans has heading more and more in that direction. Of course, I'd like to hear from Hans and Taco what they think about it, and whether they dare to facilitate this. My only real question is how to also support a minimal LaTeX distribution side-by-side. I hardly use it, but many of us still have legacy documents we need to process now and then. Maybe we can take the LaTeX portion of XemTeX and make it an install option as well. A couple years back I actually dumped the XemTeX LaTeX files into my C:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf tree and it worked (and mswincontext is closer to fpTeX/Fabrice's way than to the MiKTeX way AKAIK). Since ConTeXt always uses \texmf-local there was no conflict. OTOH there may be other issues... maybe a dedicated \texmf-latex tree branch is called for... Good luck and all the Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ 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 : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] need help for the installation of luatools
Dear Thomas,
I found the folder /usr/local/Build/powerpc/TeXLive.2006. I
remembered that I have tried to install TeX using the source before.
When I open terminal, .luatex in not implemented yet and texexec --
make --all --pdftex run without any errors.
%
texexec --make --all --pdftex
TeXExec | using search method 'kpsewhich'
TeXExec | updating file database
mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.gwtex/ls-R...
...
mktexlsr: Done.
TeXExec | using tex engine pdftex
TeXExec | using tex format path /Users/dalyoung/Library/texmf/web2c/
pdftex
TeXExec | generating tex format cont-en
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) (INITEX)
(/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/web2c/natural.tcx)
...
%%%
As you see in the above output, it uses the searching method 'kpsewhich'
and '/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/web2c/natural.tcx'
But after running 'source ~/.luatex', it used the same searaching
path but different path for format and engine paths as following even
though I removed /usr/local/Build folder.
However, to run 'luatools --generate', I need to run .luatex.
Still, I have a problem in 'luatools --ini --compile...'.
%%%
texexec --make --all --pdftex
TeXExec | using search method 'kpsewhich'
TeXExec | updating file database
...
TeXExec | using tex engine pdftex
TeXExec | using tex format path /usr/local/Build/powerpc/TeXLive.2006/
texmf/web2c/pdftex
TeXExec | generating tex format cont-en
...
TeXExec | tex engine path: /usr/local/Build/powerpc/TeXLive.2006/
texmf/web2c/pdftex
TeXExec | mps engine path: /usr/local/Build/powerpc/TeXLive.2006/
texmf/web2c
...
So I think that .luatex change the setting for the ConTeXt.
I attached .luatex file which shows the TDS in my mac.
By the way, what is 'whence'? It is a unknown cmd in my machine.
and how to remove '/usr/local/Build/...' from the engine path?
Thank you for your help.
Best regards,
Dalyoung
export TEXMFCACHE=/tmp
export TEXMFCNF=/usr/local/gwTeX/
export
TEXMF={/Users/dalyoung/Library/texmf,/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local,/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs,/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.gwtex,/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive,/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf}
export
LUAINPUTS={/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/tex/context/base,/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/scripts/context/lua}
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