Re: [NTG-context] pdfs with boxes instead of letters

Hello, > 3. It happens with a wide variety of fonts. > > 4. When opened with one of Adobe's pdf readers (Adobe Reader, Acrobat > Pro), the file always looks fine. That's extremely odd. Can you send a sample PDF file (along with the source code) for us to inspect it? I'm using Mac OS

Re: [NTG-context] Page breaks

> What's would be wrong about to place the three lines of the second page > on the first page and to start the second page with the section? It's funny that you should say this, because what you describe is exactly what I see on my computer with my ConTeXt installation (see attachment). Please

Re: [NTG-context] embed fonts

> but you have not demonstrated > that it's real . "3.14159" ___ 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/listinf

Re: [NTG-context] embed fonts

> it's no problem to provide that feature in mkiv, but i need some real > string arguments as well as to be sure that i'll never be bothered by > side effects of fonts not being in a pdf file "arguments" ___ If y

Re: [NTG-context] activating font specific ligatures

On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 01:32:39PM +0200, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > > [etc.] Grrr, beaten by 5 seconds :-) Arthur ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! ma

Re: [NTG-context] activating font specific ligatures

> Most ligature work with this setting, but > > ch ck ct ij IJ sp ss st Those ligatures are usually not part of the liga feature that only activates the most common f-ligatures; try dlig (discretionary ligatures), or maybe hlig (historical ligatures), although it's more probably the former. > I

Re: [NTG-context] MKIV in TL2009

> The included luatex binary is (the date seems wrong?) > > Version beta-0.40.6-2009090923 (TeX Live 2009/Arch Linux) luatex.web >= v14240 The appended date and time in the version number is always the compilation date, it does not reflect anything about the sources that were used. > Does this

Re: [NTG-context] ActualText

> Heiko Oberdiek wrote the accsupp package to use ActualText in LaTeX, > why shouldn't it be then possible to use it in LuaTeX (and ConTeXt)? Right, you don't need additional engine support, you can use \pdfliteral in pdfTeX, and in LuaTeX as well. Heiko's package should be quite easy to port t

Re: [NTG-context] ActualText

> can you explain in mode detail what you mean with 'actual text tags' ? He means "ActualText tags" :-) See the PDF spec section 14.9.4, page 623. It's a more generic way to support searching than ToUnicode vectors: you just specify the actual string of underlying Unicode characters. The PDF s

Re: [NTG-context] A Metapost question

> b) Does anyone mind if I add "Using in ConTeXt" section to > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/MetaPost ? Of course not, that's what the wiki is here for. Arthur ___ If your question is of interest to others

Re: [NTG-context] Non breaking hyphen

> Does anyone know how to make Non Breaking Hyphen in Context (and TeX in > general)? \penalty1- Arthur ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

Re: [NTG-context] Spam (was: [blank])

> There is a problem on this list :( New list hiccups I assume. Sorry, I might be the guilty one here, I probably approved the e-mail by mistake. Due to the server reinstallation, the list is not filtered for spams anymore, and it receives a literal orgy of spam since then. All e-mails that

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

Re: [NTG-context] On creating my own fonts

> Cool idea! I don’t believe there are many METATYPE1 fonts drawn with > any degree of parameterization (meta-ness)—are there any besides the > GUST Antykwa fonts (Toruńska & Półtawskiego)? Of course: the Latin Modern fonts are, inheriting from Computer Modern, as is the whole Gyre family. For

Re: [NTG-context] Suggestion

> The key reason for this is, more people are familiar with regexp. so > if you can build a 100% compatible regexp module on top of lpeg in > ConTeXt, it will be ok, or even better... There *is* a regexp module on top of LPeg. It's written by Roberto Ierusalimschy, the Lua and LPeg author. Jus

Re: [NTG-context] unicode no-break spaces

> Should there be a difference (perhaps "THIN SPACE" breakable)? Yes, U+2009 is supposed to be breakable. Arthur ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! mail

Re: [NTG-context] Seeking a Deeper ConTeXt: Questions for Initializing

> well , if you give us some hints maybe > someone will present an article at next context meeting ... If you're interested in Tagged PDF, you should really look into what the River Valley guys are doing on the mailing-list I mentioned, and contact Ross Moore, Han The Thanh, etc. http:/

Re: [NTG-context] Seeking a Deeper ConTeXt: Questions for Initializing

> Nice, glad to hear it. Also of interest are new semantic tagging facilities > for PDF in the newest proposal for ISO 32000, mentioned by an Adobe engineer > in the comments of this blog entry > http://digitalcuration.blogspot.com/2009/04/semantically-richer-pdf.html If you mean Leonard Rosenth

Re: [NTG-context] Seeking a Deeper ConTeXt: Questions for Initializing

>Since Arthur implies that an XML output might one day be > feasible, Note that the final estimate for the stable release of LuaTeX is 2012, but the backend features may be available sooner. Many people are looking forward to using LuaTeX for producing XML-based and other format

Re: [NTG-context] Seeking a Deeper ConTeXt: Questions for Initializing

> These paragraphs seems to contradict. ConTeXt is useful if you use an > environment more than once, but there are no ready-to-use ConTeXt > environments. You're probably confused by the term "environment". It means something very specific in ConTeXt, see for example section 2.3 of http://www.

Re: [NTG-context] French typography is back

> Not knowing the internals, that's what I tried to say with adding a space > after instead of 1em, i.e. "calculated by the engine". If w an em is added > after, it is not stretchable and shrinkable, right? Right. But no particular space is added after '?' or '!' in French punctuation mode, T

Re: [NTG-context] French typography is back

>but instead of arbitrary adding a 0.25em > before and 1em after the punctuation mark you should use the real nnbsp > (U+202F) before and real normal space (U+0020) after. I don't think so. Space characters don't mix very well with TeX glue and should best be a

Re: [NTG-context] asymptote support

> PPS: Recent Asymptote logs say "Updates to facilitate TeXLive builds." > Sounds promissing. Yes, asymptote will be included in TeX Live 2009, this is also latest news :-) See http://tug.org/pipermail/tlbuild/2009q2/000738.html Arthur

Re: [NTG-context] French typography is back

> and adapt the frenchb Babel module from Daniel Flipo (source and > explanation here http://daniel.flipo.free.fr/frenchb/ ), as a module > (t-french modification) Contact Sébastien Mengin (sebastien edilibre.net) about that; he started working on it. Arthur _

Re: [NTG-context] Updating bug: linux-64

> It should, yes. Even better would be if you then sent your binary > to Mojca, since yours will run on more platforms than the current > binary in minimals. Absolutely, and, even better, Bernard, if you're willing to use SVN, you can even submit the binaries to the repository yourself. Write t

Re: [NTG-context] MKIV, fonts, confusion

> Not only OOo, InDesign does that too, moreover, someone said even if > LuaTeX (XeTeX too) output looked OK in Adobe reader 7, the print isn't > OK. On what printer? It's probably a bug in the driver, too. LuaTeX does exactly according to specification, I discussed this strategy with Taco yea

Re: [NTG-context] MKIV, fonts, confusion

> Rounding errors are not that important in this case, and there > are downsides to both (o3->o2 touches *only* control points, so in > some sense it is more precise than upm change). True, you can see it that way, too. We really need Karel Píška here :-) >

Re: [NTG-context] MKIV, fonts, confusion

> when i convert the to TT format i get a correct output If Luigi is concerned with rounding errors, he shouldn't do that: while the coordinates of the points on the curve wouldn't change, all the control points would need to be recalculated due to the conversion from cubic to quadratic splines.

Re: [NTG-context] MKIV, fonts, confusion

> arthur told me that can arise rounding errors. You have to remember I used to be a mathematician. I say things that are meant to be true, not meant to be helpful :-) If you want to be sure that LuaTeX's output looks right in the most recent versions of Adobe Reader, editing the font is the

Re: [NTG-context] lots of luatex process/instances (ps xa| grep lua / top -----sort by memory)

> On a small example : ctrl+C works, ctrl+Z leaves unkillable (either -15 > or -1) luatex and texlua process. Again, that's because Ctrl+Z, in a normal Unix environment, only suspends the process, it never kills it. Try kill -19 first (SIGCONT), then kill -15 or -1. You can try the following

Re: [NTG-context] lots of luatex process/instances (ps xa| grep lua / top -----sort by memory)

> Sometimes, I get errors and an > interactive prompt that I kill with either ctrl+C or ctrl+Z (at random). You shouldn't do that. Type 'x' at the error prompt, it makes (Lua)TeX terminate. Ctrl+C sometimes isn't enough to kill LuaTeX, though I have no idea why;

Re: [NTG-context] \savebuffer disappeared

Hello, > The macro \savebuffer seems to have disappeared from mkiv. What's now > the official way to write out chunks of code into a file? I guess there's not going to be an official way anymore, according to yourself (http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2007/026680.html), but you c

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

> That is odd, it works for me now. Perhaps mtxrun --selfmerge will help? Oops, of course that was the problem, sorry about the noise. Arthur ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

> We figured out what was wrong with the font database generation. The new > beta should fix it. Actually, I still have the problem if names.tma doesn't exist. I need to create a dummy one first. Arthur __

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

> lmx.set('maintext',do_extras()) > elseif currentfont and currentfont ~= "" then > if action == "save" then Yep, prevents the crash. But nothing happens, of course (I've not yet managed to figure out how to select a font. All I get is an empty list). Arthur __

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

> if the server runs, you can access (in firefox) > >http://localhost:31415/mtx-server-ctx-startup.lua > > the fonttest is somewhat experimental but we can use it to start collecting > font info (esp with regards to feature usage) Very impressive, but I already managed to make the server cr

Re: [NTG-context] mkII with minimals

> Actually, the poisoning that results from the numerous mosquito bites > can probably explain everything that happens at bachotex ! But whatever happens at BachoTeX should stay at BachoTeX ;-) Arthur ___ If

Re: [NTG-context] mkII with minimals

>> Sorry, I must have been drunk while fixing the file. In >> texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf: >> TEXFORMATS= .;$TEXMFOS/web2c/{$engine,} >> >> I accidentally fixed TEXMFCNF instead of TEXFORMATS. Hopefully formats >> won't fly to luatex/pdftex again. I'll fix. > > IIRC, I was sitting next to you wh

Re: [NTG-context] language mix

>> What about adding hyph-uk to the distribution? ;) > > It'S there but the pattern name is hyph-gb, see lang-ger.tex No, no, Slava really means the "uk" language, Ukrainian, not British English :-) Arthur _

Re: [NTG-context] Stable broken, beta works

> Where should I send my binaries to? Can I check them in myself? Yes, you only need an SVN account on contextgarden.net. Just tell me by private mail what user name and password you would like, I'll create it. > I'd like to automate the whole checkout-build-checkin process. Generally speak

Re: [NTG-context] typescript repository

> anyhow, this repos / table ... can we also add info about features and to > what extend they are supported? i.e. the quality of the feature support in > a font an dmaybe the defaults? Oh yes, that would be great. Seeing the output of otfinfo -f, or anything equivalent, would be immensively

Re: [NTG-context] texlua fails on OSX-PPC

> Hmm, but when I ran the script this morning, it compiled a lot of binaries > and tried to commit the new files; it got stuck somewhere in the svn > commit. Apparently you did indeed commit yesterday at 13:12, according to the log. Thanks for your efforts :-) Arthur

Re: [NTG-context] texlua fails on OSX-PPC

> What libraries come with Leopard by default? Tiger is able to compile > for 10.3, right? Leopard also has the libraries for 10.3, but you need to set some environment variables for them to be used. Arthur

Re: [NTG-context] texlua fails on OSX-PPC

> dyld: Symbol not found: _close$UNIX2003 > Referenced from: /usr/local/ConTeXt/bin/texlua > Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib Sorry, I updated the binaries, but compiled on 10.5 Intel; that's probably the problem. Can anyone compile OS X PPC binaries natively? Thomas? Arthur

Re: [NTG-context] Dividing dimensions

Hello Wolfgang, Thanks for the detailed explanation. > The \type{tex.dimen} function allows us to access the dimen register from > \TEX\ in Lua. A small correction: it's not a function, it really behaves like a table in Lua. You can use both the register number, or the symbolic nam

Re: [NTG-context] Dividing dimensions

> Can someone explain this? tex.dimen is a Lua table containing the dimension registers, in scaled points. Hence, if \!!dimena is 1pt, tex.dimen["!!dimena"] will be 65536, for instance. The rest is algebra and Lua control structures. > The solutions posted in lua seem more complicated > than

Re: [NTG-context] Dividing dimensions

> Can I divide dimensions to get a number in pdftex? LaTeX has a package to do exactly that, fp. You could look into its code. Or you could use LuaTeX :-) Arthur ___ If your question is of interest to othe

Re: [NTG-context] pinyin in context

> If you can provide such a list Hans can add the information to > char-def.lua, As I mentioned, the Unihan database has a very comprehensive list (probably too comprehensive). I made it into a Lua list, but need to polish it (sorry, 500+ Kb, not attaching). It can be downloaded from http://g

Re: [NTG-context] pinyin in context

> To make it show correctly is an good start, but if there are some > tools to automatic add PinYin , it will be more attractive. It is definitely possible to do that in Lua, given the appropriate data. The Unihan database could be a start. We also need to find a way to report if a character h

Re: [NTG-context] pinyin in context

> \documentclass{article} You're not using ConTeXt at all. This is LaTeX code. Which is fine, but then this list is really not the place to ask your question :-) There are hyphenation patterns for pinyin that could be added to ConTeXt; it wouldn't be too much work, but you would need to spe

Re: [NTG-context] \dorecurse and \recurselevel in Natural Tables

> Do I pick up any beginners book on Lua? There really is only one beginners book on Lua :-) _Programming in Lua_, by Roberto Ierusalimschy, the Lua author. There are a few other books, mostly about "Lua and games", because Lua has become quite popular in the gamers' community, but R

Re: [NTG-context] Inverted exclamation / question marks

> But, still, I seem to still need \enableregime[latin1] in the > preamble. When I comment it out: You need set fileencoding=utf-8 while editing the file (without an 's'). fileencodings in the plural tells vim which encodings to try when opening a file. Here it tries all the encodings succes

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

> \setscript[hanzi]% arthur, is this the right name? That's indeed the Pinyin transcription of the word for "Chinese character", even if it's not widely used in English. The OpenType script tag, hani, is short for "Han Ideograph". Arthur

Re: [NTG-context] korean

>> ah, so what then about: hngl Oh, I just got it (by reading the second edition of Ken Lunde's _CJKV_): you're confusing the script tag with the *feature* tag 'hngl', which is also short for Hangul, but has different semantics: it's a feature supposed to replace a Hanja by the Hangul(s) that co

Re: [NTG-context] korean

> ah, so what then about: hngl You mean as an internal alias for hang + hani, to be used for Korean? Why not; after all, ISO 15924 registered a Jpan code as an alias for Han characters + Hiragana + Katakana. But of course, in the actual fonts, you will find only hang or hani. Arthur __

Re: [NTG-context] korean

> can you give the correct list to use then? hang for Hangul syllables (U+AC00 to U+D7A3), hani for Chinese (Han) ideographs (U+3400 to U+4DFF, U+4E00 to U+9FFF, U+2 to U+2A6DF, amongst others -- the vast majority of characters in modern use is in the second range). >

Re: [NTG-context] When to migrate from MKII to MKIV?

> I do physics/chemistry with a lot of equations so incomplete math support is > really a deal breaker for me. You realize all the recent discussions on math support are concerned with *OpenType* math, right? The legacy support coming from Knuth's TeX, which is the only one you have available i

Re: [NTG-context] Error with TrueType flavor OpenType fonts with .otf extension

> * In all cases, fonts with only CFF data (no TrueType outlines) > always have an .OTF extension. > * Fonts containing TrueType outlines may have either .OTF or .TTF, > depending on the desire for backward compatibility on older > systems or with previous versions of the

Re: [NTG-context] Litter in the Garden

Hello, and thanks for the reports, >> > > I'll fix these entries soon. I already fixed a few ... Note that in both texshow and the wiki, changes can be made by any user. It's straightforward to revert changes on the wiki (choose Un

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals and dvipng

> Thanks a lot, it works. Will there be any side-effect on normal uses of > context? Definitely. TEXFONTMAPS is the path to the various font mapping files for dvips, (x)dvipdfm(x) and pdfTeX. I would strongly advise against setting that variable for normal use of the minimals. What you could

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Meta Tags

> But he did say that his > printing shop wants the ability to download just the header information from > a > pdf rather than the whole pdf file which may be up to 80 mbytes. OK. That's not Tagged PDF. Tagged PDF's main features focus on acce

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals and dvipng

> 3. export TEXFONTMAPS=/path/to/texlive/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips Did I write fonts/map/dvips? It should have been fonts/map/dvips/updmap (or, alternatively, fonts/map/dvips// with the trailing double slash). And it seems to work without copying the dvipng binary, and with setuptex as well.

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals and dvipng

> But just copying or linking dvipng is not enough (same result); what kind > of hack would you suggest? Right, I didn't test it before :-) On my machine, it works if I use the following configuration: 1. Copy dvipng to the minimals' bin dir. 2. export PATH=/path/to/the/minimals/bin:$PATH

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Meta Tags

> I call that BS: I've never heard of such "meta tags" for PDF giving > the page count. The page count is in the root /Pages object per PDF > specification. I still suspect Bart's publisher means the tags that are part of Tagged PDF, even if he doesn't know their actual name, and has clearly a w

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals and dvipng

> But if I dvipng in the TL environment, it works like a charm. So what > should I add to my minimals install, or do to have all the TL stuff not > forgotten when I use minimals? dvipng is not part of the minimals at all, which means you're probably using it from TL's path, where it can't find t

Re: [NTG-context] Why Garamond and Symbol are not included in TeX Gyre ?

> So why don't we develop our own flavor of Garamond? Because there is enough work with the seven typefaces that are already being worked on? Arthur ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, ple

Re: [NTG-context] Why Garamond and Symbol are not included in TeX Gyre ?

>and the Symbol font will not > benefit from Gyre-ification due to its symbolic (non-text) nature. Symbol fonts are basically Times-like typefaces with Greek glyphs and some additional symbols used in math; the Greek letters are already present in the TeX

Re: [NTG-context] How to define such a function in lua? Sorry I don't have a name on it.

>> but it might make more sense to look into metatables (i assume that you >> own the programming in lua book which explains that) > > I don't have one :(, I'll take a good at it later. You really should look into the book, it has a whole chapter about object-oriented programming in Lua, and exp

Re: [NTG-context] Gnuplot should now work on MKIV

>> PS: despite switching to mkiv, "reports still don't get written by >> themselves" :) :) :) > > will happen in mkmm (mark mojca miklavec, to be written in 2048) You can write a rant generator in Lua, and fill the report with that. Arthur __

Re: [NTG-context] context minimals on OpenSolaris 2008.11

> make: ./ctangle: Command not found As has already been said, you need a working TeX installation in order to compile new binaries. Try TeX Live 2008, which has a i386-solaris binary distribution. Arthur _

Re: [NTG-context] how can I write mongolian in context

> Is it possible to use the old Montex package of Oliver Corff in Context? No. It's a LaTeX package, you can't use it out of the box with ConTeXt. There is a sample file with Mongolian script in XeTeX, you should try it (it's in plain TeX, if I remember correctly). http://scripts.sil

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode Characters

> I would like to figure it out it mkiv as well. Can you send a precise example, specifying in particular the font you use? Arthur ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry t

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode Characters

> I am trying to insert unicode charater 217D (a cross) into a line of > text. I cannot figure out how to do it, or if it can be done. You probably mean U+217D, not U+271D. This is one of the famous Zapf dingbats, available in dedicated fonts; you don't really need Unicode fonts in order to

Re: [NTG-context] modifying URL wrapping rules

> OK... but I'm not sure what I would do differently if I'm not worrying > about the \loadmarkfile mechanism... Still modify the lang-url.mkii file? Sure. I simply meant that you only needed to produce a single file, your modified lang-url.mkii, whereas if you wanted to develop for both MkII an

Re: [NTG-context] XeTex & Mara Font

> One quick question (again expressing my ignorance). Why can't I take the > code > above and change it to the following: > > \definetypeface[Mara][rm][Xserif][MaraFontNFPlain] > \starttext > \startfont[Mara] > This is a test. > \stoptext I have no idea ... Does it really not work?

Re: [NTG-context] modifying URL wrapping rules

>>From what I can tell, the .tex file loads one of the other three: > \loadmarkfile{lang-url} \loadmarkfile loads either lang-url.mkii or lang-url.mkiv, depending on the ConTeXt version you're running (MkII / MkIV). In Mark IV, the Lua code is then put in lang-url.lua, which is input by l

Re: [NTG-context] XeTex & Mara Font

> Is the colon at the end of the name a problem? No, the message says the problem is with the space character, but it is of little concern here (XeTeX doesn't use PostScript font names at all). Is it the font from http://www.perry.com/disney/indy/marafont.html? It seems to have quite a number

Re: [NTG-context] XeTex & Mara Font

> I've tried a couple of ways, using both the fontname and the family name, > both > with and without the ending semi-colons; however, it fails at compile time. Have you tried prepending "name:" to the font name, like I explained yesterday? Arthur _

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts with XeTeX

Hello Bart, Try \starttypescript[serif][caslon][uc] \definefontsynonym[CaslonRegular][name:CaslonOldFaceBT-Roman][encoding=uc] \definefontsynonym[CaslonItalic][name:CaslonOldFaceBT-Italic][encoding=uc] \definefontsynonym[CaslonBold][name:CaslonOldFaceBT-Heavy][encodi

Re: [NTG-context] Simple questions on fonts and how to center vertically

Hello Mildred, It sounds like you're trying to reinvent the wheel, and I can understand your desire for it (although I don't share it at all); but it also sounds like you haven't looked deep enough into the existing tools: > I still plan

Re: [NTG-context] MkII vs. MkIV

> Thank you for your prompt answers. I am a bit surprised, though, that > the otf and Type1 Latin Modern fonts are not compatible. Strange thing. You should come to BachoTeX. In 2007 Jerzy Ludwichowski and Bogusław Jackowski started their talk about TeX Gyre by screaming "Full compatibility m

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] More lobby , please.

> next meeting we must study a new strategy.The last wasn't strong enough . > Maybe more beer (ok, I was silver medal this year, I can do better) Not if I'm allowed to compete >:-> But anyway, if we want *more* beer than we had in Bohinj, we probably need to appoint someone especially for that

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] More lobby , please.

> OK, this year latex wins > http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/pr/vonneupr.html I suppose you know it, but obviously, Lamport got the prize for his contribution to distributed computing, *not* to TeX macros ;-) He used to come to my university as an invited professor quite often, an

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with mkiv and MPgraphic

> The version I have is the one from the Garden: > […] typeset on October 23, 2008 at 15:57, with mkiv, LuaTeX revision > 2, (LuaTeX date stamp 2008102016),, ConTeXt version 2008.10.21 19:42. (From the moonlight gardener) For future reference, the LuaTeX version used on the Garden is written

Re: [NTG-context] luatex 0.30.1

>> With the finger crossed I will start tomorrow a project in mkiv > > Good luck, or as you say in Italy "in bocca al lupo!"… Crepi il lupo! Arthur ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, plea

Re: [NTG-context] luatex fails

>> LuaTools | no luc/lua with name: /var/folders/+T/+ThqZosGGzOznrLsOw-fz+ >> +++TM/-Tmp-/luatex-cache/context/formats/cont-en > > (interesting tmp path, btw) That's the standard appearance of TMPDIR on Mac OS X. We had hundred-message long discussions about this on dev-context, Taco! :-)

Re: [NTG-context] Running Mark IV / luatex: unknown script: context

> Thank you but that doesn't really help, the errors are just the same. I > suppose both values for TEXMFCNF works. In principle, it should really be the name of the directory containing texmf.cnf, not the path to the file itself. But in any case, you have to run "luatools --generate" after t

Re: [NTG-context] Running Mark IV / luatex: unknown script: context

Hello Mildred, > After I figured out on the Internet how to set the environment variable > TEXMFCNF (I set it to '/usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf'), I only get: It should rather be /usr/share/texmf/web2c (the name of the directory), I surmise. Can you try with that new setting?

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals and latest luatex on linux-64

Hello, > Actually luatex is broken on the garden also. A simple test file gives The problem is fixed on the Garden. Thanks to Aditya for reporting it :-) Arthur ___ If your question is of interest

Re: [NTG-context] The most Tex friendly distribution?

> http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080320.203129.aec3fb49.en.html Argh :-) Setting TEXINPUTS is not at all friendly, that's for sure. Arthur ___ If your question is of interest to others as well

Re: [NTG-context] Luatex fails to load a font

> The error appears when I put the font into > "context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public". But there are no problems > with the font in "context/tex/texmf-context/fonts/truetype". Why? The obvious answer would be: because your font has a .ttf extension. And the obvious answer would be: since it h

Re: [NTG-context] Still confused about \setuplayout

> There is a context reference project, you can help to document it~ I concur. This would be immensely more useful than contributing huge threads and smart-arse remarks to this mailing-list (I especially like the irony of your -- Alan's -- complaints about "wasting [your] precious time").

Re: [NTG-context] context meeting

> will www.river-valley.tv broadcast it? > btw, I want to see all the presentations, but there are only a few on > context garden:( It will be updated (with the presentations we have, obviously). Arthur ___

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt an excursion — now in the CTK library

>It turned out she was quite familiar with > LaTeX already and all its faults, so she found interest in reading the given > book right after she processes it and adds it to the shelf. Fantastic! I wonder if it was the same librarian who turn me down yesterd

Re: [NTG-context] Partly OT: some luatex questions

> Perfect. With this version both spacing problems are solved. Glad to hear that. But the problem with MnSymbol is still there, isn't it? I can reproduce it using MnSymbol5.otf with my code and -- what's more worrying -- with ConTeXt itself. I'm not sure what's at fault, LuaTeX or the font.

Re: [NTG-context] Partly OT: some luatex questions

Hello Ulrike, > 1. In the following document there is no space between the a and the y: > > \documentclass{article} > \begin{document} > \noindent a\\y > > \bigskip > > a\par y > \end{document} > > It looks as if the lines have only the depth from their content. I don't seem to

Re: [NTG-context] minimals & TeX Live 2008

> And another issue - TeX Live has switched to universal binaries for > Mac. Oliver has asked me to do that some time ago, but I didn't want > to mess up with having to (cross-)compile the basic binaries as well. > What do others think? I would really favour universal binaries if we're able to b

Re: [NTG-context] fonts (in luatex) (again)

> I don't even know what a .dfont is :-/ It's a file that packs several font files (usually the four basic ones) into one. I don't know the details of the format, but I expect that it really only contains the font file, with a few headers. Fontforge has known how to handle it for years, so it s

Re: [NTG-context] Context garden live broken

Hello, Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for such reports. > Something is wrong at live.contextgarden.net. A simple, hello world > document fails to compile with luatex. Fixed (a simple luatools --generate was enough). Arthur _

Re: [NTG-context] fonts with luatex

> So that the string format reduces to > >("unable to save %s in %s..tma",dataname,name) Impressive :-) Arthur ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! m

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