Re: [NTG-context] distributed / parallel TeX?

2008-12-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Lars, Lars Huttar wrote: Hello, We've been using TeX to typeset a 1200-page book, and at that size, the time it takes to run becomes a big issue (especially with multiple passes... about 8 on average). It takes us anywhere from 80 minutes on our fastest machine, to 9 hours on our slowest

Re: [NTG-context] Some ligatures cannot be copied and pasted

2008-12-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Yue Wang wrote: Hi, see the attachment Probably because these ligatures are not in Unicode. I do not know whether it is possible to support cutpaste of these, I have to investigate. maybe if we use the a_b_c naming for such ligature

Re: [NTG-context] markiv, output written on...

2008-12-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Yue Wang wrote: and I also find that MKIV does not take terminal width into consideration. (pdftex output has a max line length limit) it does, but i've set it to a higher value (i prefer to let the terminal do the wrapping itself) Hans

Re: [NTG-context] distributed / parallel TeX?

2008-12-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Lars Huttar wrote: Hello, We've been using TeX to typeset a 1200-page book, and at that size, the time it takes to run becomes a big issue (especially with multiple passes... about 8 on average). It takes us anywhere from 80 minutes on our fastest machine, to 9 hours on our slowest laptop.

Re: [NTG-context] PDF page numbers

2008-12-16 Thread Zhichu Chen
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Re: [NTG-context] distributed / parallel TeX?

2008-12-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Hans Hagen wrote: Lars Huttar wrote: Hello, We've been using TeX to typeset a 1200-page book, and at that size, the time it takes to run becomes a big issue (especially with multiple passes... about 8 on average). It takes us anywhere from 80

Re: [NTG-context] Some ligatures cannot be copied and pasted

2008-12-16 Thread Yue Wang
1 (page number) also has On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: Yue Wang wrote: Hi, see the attachment only Th has a problem; if you run with \nopdfcompression you can peek into the file and see what unicode mapping is used; however, i would not be surprised if

Re: [NTG-context] distributed / parallel TeX?

2008-12-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Hans Hagen wrote: Lars Huttar wrote: Hello, We've been using TeX to typeset a 1200-page book, and at that size, the time it takes to run becomes a big issue (especially with multiple passes... about 8 on average). It takes us anywhere from 80 minutes on our fastest

Re: [NTG-context] markiv, output written on...

2008-12-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Patrick Gundlach wrote: Hi, when I run a markiv file I don't get any message of the resulting pdf file. Is this done on purpose? probably (i overload some things) Hans - Hans Hagen |

Re: [NTG-context] about LuaTools | error unable to identify cnf file

2008-12-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Diego Depaoli wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Dalyoung Jeong wrote: Dear Mojca, texmfstart texexec --make (--xtx) --all run smoothly, but luatools still has a cnf error. Stupid question... did you run/source setuptex before? In pure theory it

Re: [NTG-context] distributed / parallel TeX?

2008-12-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Lars Huttar wrote: We have close to 7000 mpgraphics, and they add about 15 minutes to the run time. most of them are the same so reusing them made sense But the run time was already quite long before we started using those. - define fonts beforehand OK, we will look into this. I'm sure

Re: [NTG-context] markiv, output written on...

2008-12-16 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Hans, when I run a markiv file I don't get any message of the resulting pdf file. Is this done on purpose? probably (i overload some things) May I then ask for a change in behaviour? I'd like to parse the messages and search for the final pdf. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more:

Re: [NTG-context] distributed / parallel TeX?

2008-12-16 Thread Lars Huttar
On 12/16/2008 2:08 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi Lars, Lars Huttar wrote: Hello, We've been using TeX to typeset a 1200-page book, and at that size, the time it takes to run becomes a big issue (especially with multiple passes... about 8 on average). It takes us anywhere from 80 minutes

Re: [NTG-context] PDF page numbers

2008-12-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Mohamed Bana wrote: Derek CORDEIRO wrote: In latex + book/memoir + hyperref, if \frontmatter \mainmatter are used, the pdf files generated use the roman numbers in the pdf itself. It appears as ii (2 of 500) in the pdfviewer. Is it possible to do the same with ConTeXt?

Re: [NTG-context] markiv, output written on...

2008-12-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Patrick Gundlach wrote: Hi Hans, when I run a markiv file I don't get any message of the resulting pdf file. Is this done on purpose? probably (i overload some things) May I then ask for a change in behaviour? I'd like to parse the messages and search for the final pdf. keep in mind that

Re: [NTG-context] distributed / parallel TeX?

2008-12-16 Thread Lars Huttar
On 12/16/2008 11:37 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Lars Huttar wrote: We have close to 7000 mpgraphics, and they add about 15 minutes to the run time. most of them are the same so reusing them made sense But the run time was already quite long before we started using those. - define fonts

Re: [NTG-context] distributed / parallel TeX?

2008-12-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: Most of our mpgraphics are due to wanting thick-and-thin or single-and-double borders on tables, which are not natively supported by the ConTeXt table model. The advice I received said to define each mpgraphic using \startuseMPgraphic (we

Re: [NTG-context] distributed / parallel TeX?

2008-12-16 Thread Martin Schröder
2008/12/16 Lars Huttar lars_hut...@sil.org: - You could design your document *specifically* to make the parts independent, so that the true and authoritative way to typeset them is to typeset the parts independently. (You can do this part now without modifying TeX at all... you just have the

Re: [NTG-context] setupdelimitedtext: linespacing in final quoted paragraph

2008-12-16 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Thanks for the responses. I've wikified a short example, putting it at end of this page: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Long_quotations_and_extracts Feel free to move or improve. Will LuaTeX's paragraph builder have the same restriction -- perhaps for compatability -- that linespacing be

Re: [NTG-context] distributed / parallel TeX?

2008-12-16 Thread Lars Huttar
On 12/16/2008 3:31 PM, Martin Schröder wrote: 2008/12/16 Lars Huttar lars_hut...@sil.org: - You could design your document *specifically* to make the parts independent, so that the true and authoritative way to typeset them is to typeset the parts independently. (You can do this part now

Re: [NTG-context] distributed / parallel TeX?

2008-12-16 Thread Martin Schröder
2008/12/16 Lars Huttar lars_hut...@sil.org: Good point... although doesn't the page optimization feed back into paragraph layout? No. :-( Best Martin ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please

Re: [NTG-context] distributed / parallel TeX?

2008-12-16 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com wrote: Hi Lars, Lars Huttar wrote: Hello, We've been using TeX to typeset a 1200-page book, and at that size, the time it takes to run becomes a big issue (especially with multiple passes... about 8 on average). It takes

[NTG-context] tiny reshuffle of ConTeXt versions on the Minimals

2008-12-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, Just a short notice before it causes confusion. Since Hans is preparing some really big changes in mkiv (basically rewriting almost the whole ConTeXt core if I understood correctly), he is still waiting to update ConTeXt on his website until the changes are finished or at least working

Re: [NTG-context] distributed / parallel TeX?

2008-12-16 Thread Lars Huttar
On 12/16/2008 3:15 PM, luigi scarso wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com mailto:t...@elvenkind.com wrote: Hi Lars, Lars Huttar wrote: ... So the question comes up, can TeX runs take advantage of parallelized or

Re: [NTG-context] tiny reshuffle of ConTeXt versions on the Minimals

2008-12-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, I also forgot to mention ... TeX Gyre is now the default font when using postscript/times/helvetica/palatino. In case you experience any problems, in particular with math, please report. Mojca ___ If your