Re: [NTG-context] alpha: mplib broken?

On Jul 16, 2009, at 11:47 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: works ok here (just to be sure i uploaded an alpha zip) there is curently something wrong in the 0.42 binary so don't be too surprised if somethign fails, after all it's alpha! Hans Hi, there is something wrong with the \buildtextaccent

Re: [NTG-context] alpha: mplib broken?

Hans Hagen schrieb: Peter Rolf wrote: Hi, I just finished a first draft version of my adapted mp specials. Sadly no test run is possible, as mplib is broken here. I also tested with the untouched distribution, but every MP graphic (example attached) produces this error message: works ok

Re: [NTG-context] alpha: mplib broken?

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Jul 16, 2009, at 11:47 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: works ok here (just to be sure i uploaded an alpha zip) there is curently something wrong in the 0.42 binary so don't be too surprised if somethign fails, after all it's alpha! Hans Hi, there is something

Re: [NTG-context] alpha: mplib broken?

Peter Rolf wrote: Hans Hagen schrieb: Peter Rolf wrote: Hi, I just finished a first draft version of my adapted mp specials. Sadly no test run is possible, as mplib is broken here. I also tested with the untouched distribution, but every MP graphic (example attached) produces this error

Re: [NTG-context] alpha: mplib broken?

On Jul 17, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: there is something wrong with the \buildtextaccent macro; this fails with the alpha: \define\longe{\buildtextaccent\textmacron e} The \accent primitive was broken, there is a fix in the luatex repository now. Thanks Taco, it works again

Re: [NTG-context] Two newbie questions about Texfont

I've been looking into luatex and got it running now. However, i'm not sure how to link a font that I want to use in my ConText documents to an actual font file on my disk. For example, I have tried: \definebodyfont[12pt][rm][ tf=c:\fonts\ITC Stone Serif\SR__.AFM ] It doesn't work, so I

Re: [NTG-context] Two newbie questions about Texfont

Harrie Frericks wrote: I've been looking into luatex and got it running now. However, i'm not sure how to link a font that I want to use in my ConText documents to an actual font file on my disk. For example, I have tried: \definebodyfont[12pt][rm][ tf=c:\fonts\ITC Stone Serif\SR__.AFM

Re: [NTG-context] alpha: mplib broken?

Taco Hoekwater schrieb: Peter Rolf wrote: Hans Hagen schrieb: Peter Rolf wrote: Hi, I just finished a first draft version of my adapted mp specials. Sadly no test run is possible, as mplib is broken here. I also tested with the untouched distribution, but every MP graphic

Re: [NTG-context] Two newbie questions about Texfont

Am 17.07.2009 um 11:11 schrieb Harrie Frericks: Could someone show me how to use type1 font files with Luatex without having to go the TexFont route. When you placed your fonts in the TeX directory (afm plus pfb files) regenerate the file database with 'context --generate' to let ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] Two newbie questions about Texfont

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 17.07.2009 um 11:11 schrieb Harrie Frericks: Could someone show me how to use type1 font files with Luatex without having to go the TexFont route. When you placed your fonts in the TeX

Re: [NTG-context] Two newbie questions about Texfont

luigi scarso wrote: A question : isn't afm inside pfb ? No (which is a bit annoying, and explains the existence of .pfm files) Best wishes, Taco ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add

Re: [NTG-context] Two newbie questions about Texfont

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com wrote: luigi scarso wrote: A question : isn't afm inside pfb ? No (which is a bit annoying, and explains the existence of .pfm files) ah ok, sorry, I was confused by this (on font-forge mailling list): 1) import

[NTG-context] multipage tabular

Does ConTeXt allow users to typeset multipage tabular and if it does, then can someone please tell me what kind of algorithm ConTeXt uses for these? ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an

Re: [NTG-context] multipage tabular

Am 17.07.2009 um 12:33 schrieb Vafa Khalighi: Does ConTeXt allow users to typeset multipage tabular all table environments in context can be split across pages and if it does, then can someone please tell me what kind of algorithm ConTeXt uses for these? ??? Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] multipage tabular

and if it does, then can someone please tell me what kind of algorithm ConTeXt uses for these? ??? In TeX you can not have multi page tabular unless you program something. I want to know about the ConTeXt algorithm of doing this. In LaTeX there are two packages longtable and

Re: [NTG-context] multipage tabular

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Vafa Khalighi v...@users.berlios.dewrote: and if it does, then can someone please tell me what kind of algorithm ConTeXt uses for these? ??? In TeX you can not have multi page tabular unless you program something. I want to know about the ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] Two newbie questions about Texfont

ah ok, sorry, I was confused by this (on font-forge mailling list): 1) import widths from .afm file not working Widths are not imported from afm files. Why should they be? Glyph widths are in the pfa/pfb files and those are correct. Importing them from afm files can just introduce

Re: [NTG-context] multipage tabular

Am 17.07.2009 um 13:03 schrieb Vafa Khalighi: In LaTeX there are two packages longtable and suopertabular each with advantages and disadvantages so I have been interested to see how ConTeXt handles multipage tabular. When you want to make a decision which table you want to you take a

Re: [NTG-context] multipage tabular

thanks heaps for the details ___ 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 :

[NTG-context] new current version

Hi, I've uploaded a current release (so for a moment no beta and alpha). Last years current was dedicated to Mojca but as she's too busy to use the latest greatest shw probably won't even notice that there is a current apart from the fact that her garden will have problems. So, this years

Re: [NTG-context] multipage tabular

Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 17.07.2009 um 13:03 schrieb Vafa Khalighi: In LaTeX there are two packages longtable and suopertabular each with advantages and disadvantages so I have been interested to see how ConTeXt handles multipage tabular. When you want to make a decision which table you

[NTG-context] two new docs

I uploaded http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mk.pdf (latest version, will have a few more chapters but be finished at 0.50 when i start a new one) http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cld-mkiv.pdf (just as playground for lua lovers) Hans

Re: [NTG-context] new current version

Hello Hans and others, thanks for the new stable release! Going current also gives Patrick the opportunity to see if the new git repository structure and synchronization works ok. keeping my fingers crossed... For the announcement see:

Re: [NTG-context] Two newbie questions about Texfont

Thanks, Wolfgang, that was another step in the right direction. Could you help me with the next step? This is what I did so far. (N.B. I'm not interested in TeX's standard fonts. I want to use my own type1 and otf fonts which are in c:\fonts). 1. I set OSFONTDIR to c:\fonts 2. I ran mtxrun

[NTG-context] empty page - how?

Hi All, I want each chapter to start on an odd number page, and the preceding page to be totally empty (no header, no footer). Before the \chapter command, I tried: \page[odd,blank] ... didn't work. I get the header and footer \page[odd,empty] ... didn't work. I get an extra page (empty)

Re: [NTG-context] empty page - how?

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Ciro Soto wrote: Hi All, I want each chapter to start on an odd number page, and the preceding page to be totally empty (no header, no footer). Before the \chapter command, I tried: \page[odd,blank] ... didn't work. I get the header and footer \page[odd,empty] ...

Re: [NTG-context] alpha: mplib broken?

Peter Rolf schrieb: Hi, I just finished a first draft version of my adapted mp specials. Sadly no test run is possible, as mplib is broken here. I also tested with the untouched distribution, but every MP graphic (example attached) produces this error message: [..] I have installed the

Re: [NTG-context] Math symbols issue with context minimals distribution and

Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hans, any idea why this is happening. char-def.lua is loaded before math-pln.mkiv. Even then, why doesn't the redefinition in math-pln take precedence? well, math-pln is loaded beforemath-ini and that one does the definitions so you need to revert that order in

Re: [NTG-context] new current version

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Patrick Gundlach patr...@gundla.ch wrote: Hello Hans and others, thanks for the new stable release! Going current also gives Patrick the opportunity to see if the new git repository structure and synchronization works ok. keeping my fingers crossed...

Re: [NTG-context] new current version

Hi Luigi, http://contextgarden.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/new-git-repository/ Is stable OK ? With git I have ***\edef\contextversion{2008.10.31 13:58} * (and no formats -- need etex) I should have mentioned that it will be updated shortly after midnight... Sorry about that Patrick (so

Re: [NTG-context] new current version

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Patrick Gundlach patr...@gundla.ch wrote: Hi Luigi, http://contextgarden.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/new-git-repository/ Is stable OK ? With git I have ***\edef\contextversion{2008.10.31 13:58} * (and no formats -- need etex) I should have mentioned

[NTG-context] off topic: math symbols for latex

Hi, this is a nice website where you can draw a symbol with your mouse and the site will tell you how you get the symbol in LaTeX. Again, LaTeX tries to be one step ahead... :) http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html (found on the Mac OS X TeX mailing list) Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and

Re: [NTG-context] off topic: math symbols for latex

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 21:02, Patrick Gundlach wrote: Hi, this is a nice website where you can draw a symbol with your mouse and the site will tell you how you get the symbol in LaTeX. Again, LaTeX tries to be one step ahead... :) http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html (found on the

Re: [NTG-context] off topic: math symbols for latex

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Patrick Gundlach patr...@gundla.ch wrote: Hi, this is a nice website where you can draw a symbol with your mouse and the site will tell you how you get the symbol in LaTeX. Again, LaTeX tries to be one step ahead... :)