Re: [NTG-context] urgent index error

2008-09-29 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 29.09.2008 um 00:16 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 29.09.2008 um 00:00 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum: Hi, in my document I use utf-input. So do the index-marks: \enableregime[utf] \starttext START\startregister[index][umlautä]{Umlaute– ä} \input knuth

[NTG-context] Texlive2008 and updating context

2008-09-29 Thread Mehdi Omidali
Hi everyone, I have followed any thread about updating context (on Texlive2008 on ubuntu) and no success yet. After running sudo ctxtools --updatecontext and luatools --generate everything went smooth. But after texexec --make --luatex en I got the following Should I create the cache path

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode characters

2008-09-29 Thread Alan Stone
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:09:28 -0600, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please explain use fallbacks. http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080611.094746.07de5882.en.html * \definefontfallback [whatever]

Re: [NTG-context] Experience on writing a thesis with MKIV

2008-09-29 Thread Mikael Persson
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikael Persson wrote: The thesis is available at maybe we should collect such links on a wiki page http://www.math.chalmers.se/~mickep/mp-thesis-final.pdf and a short presentation of the third paper

Re: [NTG-context] Utopia and Fourier fonts (was: Experience on writing a thesis with MKIV)

2008-09-29 Thread Mikael Persson
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 28.09.2008 um 21:21 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: Some comments: * As a mathematician I was a bit tired of the computer modern fonts (I really like them, but I see them to often), so I decided to go with the

Re: [NTG-context] Utopia and Fourier fonts

2008-09-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 29.09.2008 um 11:31 schrieb Mikael Persson: On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 28.09.2008 um 21:21 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: Some comments: * As a mathematician I was a bit tired of the computer modern fonts (I really like them, but I see

Re: [NTG-context] figure placement

2008-09-29 Thread Jelle Huisman
Jelle Huisman wrote: When I try to do something with \placefigure I get a floatblocks : order disturbed error and no figure placed. Please make a example because this works for me: I solved my immediate problem by using a separate layout with a slightly bigger text area: the image

Re: [NTG-context] Texlive2008 and updating context

2008-09-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Mehdi Omidali wrote: Hi everyone, I have followed any thread about updating context (on Texlive2008 on ubuntu) and no success yet. After running sudo ctxtools --updatecontext This command doesn't necessary do what you always desire: it puts ConTeXt to

Re: [NTG-context] Texlive2008 and updating context

2008-09-29 Thread Mehdi Omidali
Thanks Mojca, I have lutex 0.29 and tried to just copy files from cont-tmf to texmf-dist but I also got an error that it can not find context.tex. Could you please tell me which files do you copy to texmf-dist. Seems that it is a better choice for now. Thanks On 9/29/08, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL

Re: [NTG-context] Texlive2008 and updating context

2008-09-29 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Yes, please, it is confusing. On the Wiki different instructions appear in several places (mkIV, minimals, TeXlive, debian...). It would be quite nice if somebody who understands this all could clean-up the instructions, in particular, structure the information in a clearer fashion. Thanks. Alan

Re: [NTG-context] Has anybody used asymptote without LaTeX?

2008-09-29 Thread Zhichu Chen
Hi Yue, On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Yue Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Zhichu: $n$ years ago ($n\geq 2$), some user had successfully embed a u3d format file into pdf using ConTeXt with the instruction from Hans. I think the module is still there. Maybe you can have a look. In fact

[NTG-context] Anyone wants [another] I love ConTeXt T-shirt?

2008-09-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Dear ConTeXt fans, I'm goint to buy another bunch of T-shirts tomorrow and we will reprint them with I love ConTeXt, in another (hopefully better) printing technique*. If anyone wants [another] T-shirt (or long sleeves) in whatever color that's available in the shop (dark works best), please let

Re: [NTG-context] Texlive2008 and updating context

2008-09-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: Yes, please, it is confusing. On the Wiki different instructions appear in several places (mkIV, minimals, TeXlive, debian...). It would be quite nice if somebody who understands this all could clean-up the instructions, And also clean up

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with text floating around tikz picture

2008-09-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, I'm forwarding the author's answer back to the mailing list. If anyone has some nice idea about possible solutions, let us/him know ... I don't remember how I was solving such problems so far, but I know that I have always been missing: % maybe even some external file with extremely long

Re: [NTG-context] Utopia and Fourier fonts

2008-09-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Mikael Persson wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: I'm very confused. I guess it means it is looking for some tfm files. Some questions: 1) Do one still (with mkiv) need tfm files? Yes and no. Type1 fonts don't carry enough

Re: [NTG-context] Utopia and Fourier fonts

2008-09-29 Thread Mikael Persson
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 29.09.2008 um 11:31 schrieb Mikael Persson: On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 28.09.2008 um 21:21 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: Some comments: * As a mathematician I was

Re: [NTG-context] Texlive2008 and updating context

2008-09-29 Thread Otared Kavian
On 29 sept. 08, at 14:59, Mojca Miklavec wrote: […] And also clean up --updatecontext procedure. I need to finish several things in the following days, but will come back to it. The confusing info spread all over the wiki definitely needs to be cleaned up. Mojca Hi Mojca, That's why I

Re: [NTG-context] Texlive2008 and updating context

2008-09-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: When you need a tester on Mac for your cleaned-up peocedures, please let me know Hello Otared, tlmgr update --all should now fix symlinks (apart from the fact that if I want to update, every fifth package fails to update on average, so I

Re: [NTG-context] modes questions

2008-09-29 Thread Alan Stone
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Stone wrote: (2.2) How does ConTeXt handle a modefile ? Are the modes parsed into a modelist ( re: question 1.2 ) ? best use ctx files instead, like in == somefile.ctx === ?xml version='1.0' standalone='yes'?

Re: [NTG-context] linux minimals

2008-09-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi minimalists, is there a reason why luatex in linux is still at version 0.28.0-2008071500? On OS X, I now have 0.29.0-2008072211, and this seems the latest version on supelec as well. Yes, it is because 0.29.0 is somewhat broken (0.30.0 tomorrow). Best

[NTG-context] mplib errors

2008-09-29 Thread Olivier
Dear all, I'm using ConTeXt MkIV on Debian with the following version: ConTeXt ver: 2008.05.21 15:21 MKIV fmt: 2008.8.4 int: english/english Everything seems to work well (I am able to run lua code, use otf font facilities, etc...) but the mplib mechanism. Indeed, running through the

Re: [NTG-context] linux minimals

2008-09-29 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Sep 29, 2008, at 5:50 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Yes, it is because 0.29.0 is somewhat broken (0.30.0 tomorrow). Best wishes, Taco Ah OK! Thanks Taco, good luck with the next build! Thomas ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] linux minimals

2008-09-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi minimalists, is there a reason why luatex in linux is still at version 0.28.0-2008071500? There must have been some mistake made by accident and the version was tagged as being 0.29, so it never got updated/recompiled. I wanted to

Re: [NTG-context] Has anybody used asymptote without LaTeX?

2008-09-29 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, And how to embed .prc files into the .pdf document? I have made a standalone embedder some time ago, reproducing capabilities of movie15 LeTeX package and somewhat extending them. If anybody is interested it can be put in shipable state. Sincerely, Michail

Re: [NTG-context] Utopia and Fourier fonts

2008-09-29 Thread Mikael Persson
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 29.09.2008 um 11:31 schrieb Mikael Persson: On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 28.09.2008 um 21:21 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: Some comments: * As a mathematician I was

Re: [NTG-context] mplib errors

2008-09-29 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Olivier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I'm using ConTeXt MkIV on Debian with the following version: ConTeXt ver: 2008.05.21 15:21 MKIV fmt: 2008.8.4 int: english/english Everything seems to work well (I am able to run lua code, use otf font

Re: [NTG-context] mplib errors

2008-09-29 Thread Olivier
Hi Luigi, \starttext \startMPcode path p ; p := fullcircle scaled 4cm ; fill p withcolor red ; fill p shifted(2cm,0cm) withcolor blue ; \stopMPcode \stoptext I have prepended \setupcolors[state=start] This is indeed required to get the color but my problem

[NTG-context] passing buffer to lua functions

2008-09-29 Thread Olivier
Dear all, I'm trying to implement a very simple filter mechanism in lua like this: \def\test#1{% \startlua local pipe, str pipe = io.popen(./my_filter '\luaescapestring{#1}', r) str = pipe:read(*a) tex.print(str) pipe:close() \stoplua } \test{% line 1 line 2 } The

Re: [NTG-context] mplib errors

2008-09-29 Thread Hans van der Meer
Olivier: What system do you use? I am using MacOSX and in july this year I mailed about the error below: mplib : making format: metafun.mp, name: /Users/hans/TeX/ luatex-cache/context/60e9a4b67d8fc84c21043806bb9e2fb8/formats/cont- en-metafun.mem mplib : loading format:

Re: [NTG-context] mplib errors

2008-09-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, To both of you: Hans van der Meer wrote: /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-context/metapost/context/base/mp-tool.mp Olivier wrote: /usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/mp-tool.mp Can you guys check if these are the correct versions of mp-tool.mp ? The problem could be as basal as mp

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with text floating around tikz picture

2008-09-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, I'm forwarding the author's answer back to the mailing list. If anyone has some nice idea about possible solutions, let us/him know ... I don't remember how I was solving such problems so far, but I know that I have always been missing: % maybe even some

Re: [NTG-context] modes questions

2008-09-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Alan Stone wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Stone wrote: (2.2) How does ConTeXt handle a modefile ? Are the modes parsed into a modelist ( re: question 1.2 ) ? best use ctx files instead, like in == somefile.ctx === ?xml version='1.0'

Re: [NTG-context] mplib errors

2008-09-29 Thread Olivier
Hi Taco, Hans van der Meer wrote: /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-context/metapost/context/base/mp-tool.mp Olivier wrote: /usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/mp-tool.mp Can you guys check if these are the correct versions of mp-tool.mp ? The problem could be as basal as mp

Re: [NTG-context] Utopia and Fourier fonts

2008-09-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 29.09.2008 um 20:35 schrieb Mikael Persson: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 29.09.2008 um 11:31 schrieb Mikael Persson: On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 28.09.2008 um 21:21 schrieb Aditya

Re: [NTG-context] French punctuation : tests

2008-09-29 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, Sep 25 2008, Olivier Guéry wrote: * There should't be space between two sign. Test 2 Hello Olivier, IMHO, frenchpunctuation should just care about the additional spaces before some punctuation signs, that are the French typographic mainstream. Neither more, nor less. Two or three

Re: [NTG-context] figure placement

2008-09-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Jelle Huisman wrote: Jelle Huisman wrote: When I try to do something with \placefigure I get a floatblocks : order disturbed error and no figure placed. Please make a example because this works for me: I solved my immediate problem by using a separate layout with a slightly

Re: [NTG-context] mplib errors

2008-09-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Olivier wrote: What is the executable that is triggered by a call to mplib? (I would like to check I have it installed, not only mpost.) There isn't one, it is all internal to luatex's executable. There are no external executables and no config files involved, and that is what makes these

Re: [NTG-context] mplib errors

2008-09-29 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Olivier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Luigi, \starttext \startMPcode path p ; p := fullcircle scaled 4cm ; fill p withcolor red ; fill p shifted(2cm,0cm) withcolor blue ; \stopMPcode \stoptext I have prepended

Re: [NTG-context] mplib errors

2008-09-29 Thread Hans van der Meer
Hi Taco, I did kpsewhich mp-tool.mp and it came up with /usr/local/texlive/ 2007/texmf-context/metapost/context/base/mp-tool.mp. That file has in my system creation+modification date 01-04-08 02:14 and was last opened 03-07-08 so this must be it. Came straight from unpacking the context