Re: [NTG-context] Greek in luatex

2007-09-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
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

Re: [NTG-context] Greek in luatex

2007-09-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
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

Re: [NTG-context] 2UP arranging spoils the table of contents and index

2007-09-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Sep 20, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Liesbeth van der Plas wrote: Dear context group members, The 2UP arranging spoils the table of contents and the index. Deleting the second rule gives a content and index, including the second rule gives only the titels 'content' and 'index'.

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode error in embedded metapost

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Sep 24, 2007, at 11:58 PM, Maurí cio wrote: Hi, This small piece of code gives me a wrong result: \startuseMPgraphic{teste} z7 = (5cm,0); label.lrt(Pontão,z7); \stopuseMPgraphic I just have to change 'btex Pont\~ao etex' for 'Pontão' and everything goes fine. Best, Maurício

[NTG-context] colors in luatex

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, this minimal example compiles fine in mkii: \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \starttabulate \startcolor[red] \NC One \NC A \NC \NR \NC Two \NC B \NC \NR \stopcolor \NC Three \NC C \NC \NR \stoptabulate \stoptext With mkiv, I get this error: ! Missing \endgroup inserted. inserted

[NTG-context] quote characters in luatex

2007-10-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
In my experiments with luatex, there's one thing that may be surprising for many users: we have come to expect that the characters ` and ' in our input files map to single left and single right quotation marks. luatex just typesets them verbatim, so to speak. It converts the combination ``

Re: [NTG-context] quote characters in luatex

2007-10-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 2, 2007, at 5:36 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: there is a feature: texligatures=yes for the rest, we can consider mappings but i fear that we end up in a quote mess is that the same as tlig=yes ? This doesn't effect the single quote. I see the problem with the quote mess; in the old

Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX on Mac OS X

2007-10-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 1, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: Dear Dalyoung, Like many other ConTeXt users I followed up the many threads about how to install, successfully, LuaTeX. In particular I was interested in your experience since I had more or less the same problems as the ones you described

Re: [NTG-context] quote characters in luatex

2007-10-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 2, 2007, at 6:51 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: well, we can make a converter, much simpler than the greek debabelizer -) Hans What, even simpler! :-) Of course, it could also be done via Arthur's code for a fea file. I'm just wondering if this behavior should be made the default.

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2007-10-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 3, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: beware, i uploaded a new beta but when you use mkiv, you really need the latest luatex, so best wait til that one is available or compile yourself Oh, so that's the problem I had when I installed the new beta today: I had one

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2007-10-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 3, 2007, at 4:58 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: You'll have to learn to live with that, sorry. OK, will pretend my eyes aren't bleeding. :-) There are also no ligatures in the trunk version. Hey, I was just going to complain about this... Thanks Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX on Mac OS X

2007-10-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 4, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Otared Kavian wrote: Indeed the binary paths I have for my TeX programs are /usr/local/gwTeX/bin/ /usr/texbin of which the first one contains the directory /usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0 However, in this directory I only have a file pdftex

Re: [NTG-context] most recent context and luatex for linux

2007-10-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 5, 2007, at 7:14 AM, Lutz Haseloff wrote: I use luatex 11.2 beta (self compiled). The error occurs in normal context and in the beta. Greetings Lutz Yes, that's what Hans wrote when he announced this beta: you'll need the latest latest luatex, i.e. you have to checkout the svn

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with XML entities in titles [2]

2007-10-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 5, 2007, at 12:06 PM, Richard Gabriel wrote: Hans, \xmlsetsetups throws Undefined control sequence... (ConTeXt 2007.09.28) ?! R. With --luatex? T. ___ If your question is of interest to others as

Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX on Mac OS X

2007-10-06 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 6, 2007, at 5:47 AM, Jeong Dalyoung wrote: Dear Thomas, Hans, and all I am sorry to give another noise to you. I did install luatex once more and I'd like to report the results. A simple search in the archives would have brought up this thread from yesterday:

[NTG-context] metapost question

2007-10-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Just because I hope that someone may have done this already: does anyone have metapost code to draw the Platonic solids (I hope the attachment comes through). All best Thomas inline: platonic.png___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] metapost question

2007-10-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 8, 2007, at 6:49 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi Thomas, I think you can find what you are looking for at: http://melusine.eu.org/syracuse/poulecl/albums/espace3/ Best regards: OK Thanks, Otared! It took me a while to find out how to navigate the site, but this really looks like it

Re: [NTG-context] System commands are disabled

2007-10-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 14, 2007, at 7:16 AM, Leo wrote: Hi there, I have the following code from ConTeXt wiki. I tried it in http://live.contextgarden.net/ and the output is correct. But when I tried it in the ConTeXt from TeXLive 2007, the metapost graph is not displayed in the final pdf file. Any ideas?

Re: [NTG-context] metapost question

2007-10-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
regards: OK On 8 oct. 2007, at 15:47, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Just because I hope that someone may have done this already: does anyone have metapost code to draw the Platonic solids (I hope the attachment comes through). All best Thomas platonic.png

[NTG-context] luatex

2007-10-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, at the risk of sounding rude or impatient: I'd love to know when new releases of luatex and ConTeXt mkiv can be expected. The latest luatex trunk has some problems (no ligatures, hyphenation flaky) and doesn't work with some of my fonts. Latest ConTeXt beta only works with trunk of

Re: [NTG-context] metapost question

2007-10-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 23, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: use := instead of = then Well yes, but this was a pretty intricate package with lots of included files, so I found it difficult to trace down which equation was causing the trouble. However, I found the resilt very nice. Best Thomas

[NTG-context] Problem with nested \quotation and \quote

2007-11-01 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, the attached test file shows a problem with nested \quotation and \quote commands: ConTeXt breaks the line after the first closing quote. There shouldn't be a line break there. Thanks! Thomas \definepapersize[test][width=7cm,height=3cm] \setuppapersize[test][test]

Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX/MKIV on OS X 10.5 Leopard

2007-11-01 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 1, 2007, at 5:47 PM, David Wooten wrote: Greetings all, I'm curious whether anyone using MKIV on a Mac has upgraded to 10.5? Any problems after doing so? Regards, David Yup, here. Upgraded to 10.5 day before yesterday; no problems with Mkiv so far. Except that the latest luatex

Re: [NTG-context] combination with an additional line centered in a placefigure?

2007-11-15 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 16, 2007, at 8:14 AM, Peter Schorsch wrote: Hi, as soon I enter the cbox-line the combination is not longer centered. I tried to embed the combination in a cbox, but that had no effect. Has anyone a hint how to center the combination successfullly? \starttext \placefigure

Re: [NTG-context] Quickie about Line Numbering

2007-11-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 21:46 +0100, Matthias Wächter wrote: Hi! Just wondering how I can manage to number all the lines of my document. Thought that this would work but it actually doesn't. \starttext \startlinenumbering \chapter{First} A paragraph Another paragraph.

[NTG-context] defining and expanding in xml

2007-11-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi gurus, sorry for this long mail, but this is too difficult for me, and I have to apologize that I can't provide a minimal example. Here's what I want: I have one big xml-file which is my lecture course for the semester. Every single lecture is one section. This xml-file is processed (needless

Re: [NTG-context] font modification in \inright

2007-11-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
This seems to work: \definebodyfont[6pt][rm][default] \setupinmargin[align=right,style={\switchtobodyfont[6pt]}] Nice example, btw! HTH Thomas On Nov 25, 2007, at 11:58 PM, Boris Dagaev wrote: Hello ConTeXt Experts! I am looking for a proper ConTeXt of solving a problem I've solved

Re: [NTG-context] defining and expanding in xml

2007-11-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 24, 2007, at 11:30 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: \define\sln {\externalfigure[presentations/07_11_23.pdf][page= \currentSlideNumber]\incrementSlideNumber} does it work with simple filenames? like abc.pdf? Thank you, Hans. Wolfgang Schuster was kind enough

Re: [NTG-context] switching to Context

2007-11-29 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 29, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Roger Mason wrote: Hello, I'm thinking of making the switch from latex to context, indeed I'm working on my first non-trivial document as a trial. I have some questions. (1) Is it possible to do conditional compilation? I wish to use context to write

Re: [NTG-context] selectively turn off captions

2007-11-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 30, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Roger Mason wrote: is it not possible to update to the current context? I'm running 3.0_p1 (on a Gentoo linux box so I'm acustomed to compiling from source). Gentoo version numbers are not something that many people around here will know. I assume that 3.0_p1

Re: [NTG-context] Greek: GR or EL? Czech: CZ or CS? UK: Ukrainian or ...

2007-12-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 5, 2007, at 2:40 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: I have noticed that ConTeXt uses gr for Greek, but the ISO code seems to be el. Less problematic: should agr be grc instead? (OpenType uses PGR, but I'm not sure if that's the same thing.) What do the Greek experts say? Hi Mojca, I have no

[NTG-context] new release

2007-12-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Oops, I was too fast upgrading... luatex fails to produce format files on my system: luatex --version This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.20.0-2007120515 luatools --ini --compile cont-en LuaTools | creating initialization file cont-en LuaTools | using library path :

Re: [NTG-context] Greek: GR or EL? Czech: CZ or CS? UK: Ukrainian or ...

2007-12-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 5, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: It's the ISO-639-2 alpha-3 code for Greek, Ancient (to 1453) -- May 29th, I believe ;-) See http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ISO-639-2_utf-8.txt Arthur Ah, thanks! In that case, yes, let's go for grc. I had no idea ISO was

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2007-12-06 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 6, 2007, at 8:26 AM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: That particular line: # Error in lua file loading: ?:0: attempt to call field '?' (a nil value) is often the sign of mismatching luatools and ConTeXt version :-) Arthur Yes, thanks for your help, now it works wonderfully.

Re: [NTG-context] [Dev-luatex] beta 0.20.1 released

2007-12-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Taco, on my system (Mac OS X 10.5.1, ppc), this snapshot doesn't compile; it fails at this stage: test -d luatexdir || mkdir luatexdir sed s/TEX-OR-MF-OR-MP/luatex/ ../../../src/texk/web2c/lib/texmfmp.c luatexextra.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../src/texk/web2c -I.. -I../../../src/

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv

2007-12-12 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
On Dec 12, 2007, at 7:50 AM, Peter Münster wrote: I vote against too. The only mappings, that make sense to me: -- and --- since it's difficult to distinguish them from - in a text-editor and ~ since it's difficult to distinguish the utf unbreakable space from normal space in a

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2007-12-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 14, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, I uploaded a new (mkiv) beta. The biggest change is that there are some optimizations in the cached mkiv font tables which should lead to (1) faster loading and (2) a smaller memory footprint. I may have messed some things in the

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2007-12-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 14, 2007, at 10:06 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: only mkiv? btw, you can use \setbreakpoints[compound] so that blabla-blabla is handled automatically Hans Yes, only mkiv. I'll have to play with \setbreakpoints[compound]. It's a mkiv feature, right? Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] Flowed text around figures in columns

2007-12-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 14, 2007, at 4:29 PM, Zeus Gómez Marmolejo wrote: Hi, I have this code: \definecolumnset[example][n=3] \starttext \startcolumnset[example] \input knuth \placefigure{}{\externalfigure[placeholder][width=170pt]} \input knuth \input knuth \stopcolumnset \stoptext I can't

Re: [NTG-context] color expansion at runtime

2007-12-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 14, 2007, at 5:57 PM, Peter Rolf wrote: Hi, I desperately need runtime defined colors (state dependent) for my macros. The macros are used with different graphic styles, which is the reason why I want to avoid any style dependent part inside them. To give you an example. I need

Re: [NTG-context] [Dev-luatex] beta 0.20.2 released

2007-12-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 17, 2007, at 3:43 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi all, I have just uploaded the archives for luatex 0.20.2. This is a simple bugfix release for last week's beta: * some portability fixes to the build scripts * a fix for multi-\span in alignments causing unbreakable loops * manual

Re: [NTG-context] [Dev-luatex] beta 0.20.2 released

2007-12-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 17, 2007, at 7:02 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: The binary is also on http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/bin/luatex/osx-intel/bin/ now. Mojca Thanks for the hint, Mojca. Unfortunately, I need the ppc-binary... Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] [Dev-luatex] beta 0.20.2 released

2007-12-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 17, 2007, at 9:42 PM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: when I try to build it, so I'll have to wait for Arthur to build luatex on his 10.4 system. It's up :-) And works perfectly - thanks a lot, Arthur! This one does seem faster than its predecessor! Best Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] bib module in pdftex and luatex

2007-12-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 21, 2007, at 1:47 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: you can increase the hash size in texmf.cnf ... if so, then also remake the format in mkiv we need less hash space if only because it got rid of encodings and regimes Indeed, increasing the hash_extra size and rebuilding the formats

[NTG-context] bib module in pdftex and luatex

2007-12-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all (esp. Taco ;-), here's a very fundamental question about the bib-module: my main bib file now has ~ 1,700 entries. When I tried to compile a file which includes bibliographic references in mkii, I got this error: ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [hash size=6]. \@@shortsectionnumber

Re: [NTG-context] bib module in pdftex and luatex

2007-12-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 21, 2007, at 2:37 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Just to be complete: In general, the answer to that is yes, even for mkiv. Best wishes, Taco Hmm, okay, thanks, Taco. Any rule of thumb for just how big is too big? And what do people do in cases like this? One of the wonderful things

Re: [NTG-context] bib module in pdftex and luatex

2007-12-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 21, 2007, at 4:56 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Depends on your texmf.cnf. IIRC, I have twenty or so csnames per entry, and the baseline for mkii is a bit over 40.000 csnames, so you need about 40.000 + 20 * (numberofentries) And what do people do in cases like this? One of the

[NTG-context] symbols in luatex?

2008-01-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, first, a very happy new year 2008 to all of you! May ConTeXt continue to prosper and develop at a brisk pace :-) What better way to start the new year than asking a stupid question on the list? Here comes: I must be missing something really obvious here. I have a font (otf) with a

Re: [NTG-context] symbols in luatex?

2008-01-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 2, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: \startencoding[default] probably still works (may change in favor of virtual fonts) Thanks Hans, but nope, doesn't work. The font is found and used (I get glyphs for normal characters such as numbers), but the special characters just

Re: [NTG-context] symbols in luatex?

2008-01-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 2, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Jan 2, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: \startencoding[default] probably still works (may change in favor of virtual fonts) Thanks Hans, but nope, doesn't work. The font is found and used (I get glyphs for normal characters

Re: [NTG-context] symbols in luatex?

2008-01-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 4, 2008, at 5:15 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: doesn't \charnumber work? Depends... fontforge tells me what I'm looking for is, e.g., character 803 in TeXGyreHeros-Regular, so I tried this: \starttypescript[serif][greeksymbols][name] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [name:TeXGyreHeros-Regular]

Re: [NTG-context] non-typographic apostrophe

2008-01-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 4, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Santy, Michael wrote: How do I include a non-typographic apostrophe in ConTeXt? If I type ' (U+0027), it is automatically converted to a typographic (directional) apostrophe. You could try \quotesingle (also depends on the font). HTH Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] symbols in luatex?

2008-01-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 4, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: The following should work. % engine=luatex \definecharacter anglebracketleft \char2329 \definecharacter anglebracketright \char232A \starttext text \anglebracketleft text\anglebracketright\ text \stoptext Wolfgang On Jan 4,

Re: [NTG-context] symbols in luatex?

2008-01-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 4, 2008, at 9:40 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: ah so you know the number ... \getglyph{name:TeXGyreHeros-Regular}{\char2329} should also work then Yes, that works too! Thanks, maybe even easier! BTW, fea files and font features are a bit flaky these days, in the latest two versions,

Re: [NTG-context] symbols in luatex?

2008-01-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 5, 2008, at 10:00 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: There is a better font if you need only symbols, choose the Unicode Symbols link on the following page. http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Wolfgang Great fonts! Really excellent, thanks a lot for the link, Wolfgang! Thomas

[NTG-context] latest beta

2008-01-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, Taco, Hans, this combination of latest betas: This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.20.2-2007121721 CtxTools | context version: 2008.01.03 16:25 gives me output without the usual TeX ligatures (fi etc.). I'm uncertain whether it is worth reporting such things or whether, given the

Re: [NTG-context] beta math

2008-01-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hans, \textbraceleft and \textbraceright (which I us from time to time) are identified as math characters in the latest beta and give errors: ! Missing $ inserted. inserted text $ to be read again \omathchar \textbraceleft -\omathchar

Re: [NTG-context] beta math

2008-01-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 8, 2008, at 4:42 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hans, \textbraceleft and \textbraceright (which I us from time to time) are identified as math characters in the latest beta and give errors: ! Missing $ inserted. inserted text $ to be read again

[NTG-context] latest beta (2008-01-09 19:58)

2008-01-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Hans, there seems to be a problem with the latest beta; compilation stops with several of these warnings: error define font: font with name lmromanslant12-regular is not found error define font: name: lmromanslant12-regular, loading aborted ! Font

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta (2008-01-09 19:58)

2008-01-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 9, 2008, at 9:54 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hans has updated files without a please don't update yet warning (that's what beta in ConTeXt means, after all :). Drats, I always thought it meant download immediately! A new version of LM is in front of the door, and ConTeXt tries to be

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta (2008-01-09 19:58)

2008-01-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 9, 2008, at 10:48 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: aha, i need a bidirectional fallback ... making a new beta now since i have both names on my system it's tricky to test (don't want to mess up things too much) Hans New one works... Thanks for the quick fix! Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta (2008-01-09 19:58)

2008-01-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 9, 2008, at 11:06 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: you can also test this (there is a file 'context' somewhere as stub) mtxrun --script context blabla.tex i.e. this is the upcoming replacement of texexec in case of luatex/ mkiv Hans Yes, it works if I call it with mtxrun --script context

Re: [NTG-context] beta math

2008-01-11 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 11, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi, I assume today's upload has made that 'current'. I wrote a page at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2008.01.11 but no summary on the main page; because I do not trust that I have not missed something important (like the unicode

Re: [NTG-context] file runs diferently on windows and linux

2008-01-15 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Look for the configuration file texmf.cnf in both installations. (kpsewhich texmf.cnf) In your Windows installation, the value of pool_size is bigger than in your linux install. Increase the value, regenerate the formats, and you're done. HTH Thomas On Jan 15, 2008, at 1:39 PM, Horacio

[NTG-context] shading in metapost

2008-01-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I have a somewhat silly question about metapost/metafun. To emphasize parts of a picture, I place a bright red arrow or circle/ellipse on top of the picture. I would like to make this arrow more visible by putting a shade beneath it (I attach a jpg that will hopefully show the

[NTG-context] latest release(s) and XeTeX

2008-01-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Is anybody using XeTeX with the latest releases? Even the most basical Hello World document doesn't compile with this error (both stable and beta, regardless if the document actually uses Latin Modern or not). Any hints? Thomas bodyfont: 12pt rm is loaded kpathsea: Illegal fontname

Re: [NTG-context] latest release(s) and XeTeX

2008-01-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 20, 2008, at 12:40 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Jan 19, 2008 6:05 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Is anybody using XeTeX with the latest releases? Even the most basical Hello World document doesn't compile with this error (both stable and beta, regardless if the document actually uses

Re: [NTG-context] latest release(s) and XeTeX

2008-01-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 20, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Yes. See type-otf.tex: \definefontsynonym [LMRoman10-Regular] [file:lmroman10-regular] [features=default] features=default is defined in font-ini.tex: \definefontfeature [default]

Re: [NTG-context] (Most) stable minimal for Mac Intel

2008-01-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 21, 2008, at 7:21 PM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: The current version is beta-0.20.2. I build the binaries for Mac OS X myself each time Taco releases a beta (I compile on Tiger, but I expect the binaries should work flawlessly on Leopard -- if you experience problems, please

Re: [NTG-context] {{ double braces }}

2008-01-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 23, 2008, at 10:50 PM, Peter Münster wrote: I've just seen, that it does not work for nested braces: \footnote{x{y}z}: ok \footnote{x{y{z}}}: not ok The next one (normal regexp, not extended) has support for up to one level of nesting:

Re: [NTG-context] shading in metapost

2008-01-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 16, 2008, at 11:22 PM, John Luciani wrote: There is some information on doing transparencies in METAPOST at http://www-math.univ-poitiers.fr/~phan/metalpha.html Using the code at the above link you should be able to produce the effect in your jpeg. (* jcl *) John, I never thanked

Re: [NTG-context] shading in metapost

2008-01-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 24, 2008, at 9:03 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi Thomas, On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: I wanted to be clever and do it in a for-loop like this: for i=1 upto 10: pickup pencircle scaled (i*0.5) pt ; draw fullcircle scaled 5mm withcolor transparent

Re: [NTG-context] {{ double braces }}

2008-01-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 24, 2008, at 12:19 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Another option is Gema http://gema.sourceforge.net/new/index.shtml (also has a lua library gelhttp://gema.sourceforge.net/new/ gel.shtml). You can define regions and matching nested braces quite easily. Aditya Hi Aditya, I remember

Re: [NTG-context] t-lilypond, placement of oversized lines.

2008-01-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 27, 2008, at 1:32 AM, David Wooten wrote: This includes lines which have an instrument name, as mentioned in the comments, and also includes piano notation, which has a special bracket on the left joining the two staffs. Can anyone help me out here? Best, David No, I can't help,

Re: [NTG-context] the new minimal is broken

2008-01-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 28, 2008, at 5:38 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Jikes, I am afraid luatools is too new now: this needs the luatex trunk, not beta-0.20.0 :-( Well, I can confirm that things work with a fresh svn checkout and the latest current. Funny, Taco and Hans racing each other :-) All best

Re: [NTG-context] header to register

2008-01-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 29, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Try this: \starttext text\textellipsis text\unknown \stoptext I prefer the second line (there a short discussion about this topic a long time ago). Wolfgang Hi Wolfgang, isn't this just a bug in lmodern? In any decent font,

[NTG-context] latest beta

2008-01-31 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
Hi Hans, great: I now get Greek hyphenation with XeTeX as well! However, there's a problem with mkiv: none of my mkiv-typescripts works with it; I always get this error: This went wrong: ...al/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/luat- tmp.lua:121: attempt to call field 'is_writable' (a nil

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta

2008-01-31 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 31, 2008, at 11:17 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: ok, i'll make a new beta zip; i dunny what went wrong; normally there is no reason to delete the cache; can you test again? Hans Great, this one works! Thanks for your swift action, Hans. I haven't played with zipped trees yet, but

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode greek in Context

2008-02-06 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Vassilis, short answer because I'm on the run right now: you could either try to typeset your example with ConTeXt + XeTeX; this should work out of the box. Or you could try my Greek module (lookn on the contextgarden under third party modules). It's designed for ancient Greek but

[NTG-context] \high{} in mkiv

2008-02-11 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all (Hans!), I have a problem with the \high{} command in mkiv: in most of my typescripts, I have the onum feature set for my base fonts. When I have a number with two digits within the \high command, I get the expected oldstyle numbers; with one-digit numbers, the number is regular

Re: [NTG-context] Nonletter bug in ConTeXt ver: 2008.02.11 10:35 MKII

2008-02-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 12, 2008, at 4:36 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi all, I just tried to update my ConTeXt installation with the command: sudo ctxtools --updatecontext and after several lines of output I got: […] language: patterns agr for agr loaded (n=16,e=ec,m=ec)

Re: [NTG-context] {{ double braces }}

2008-02-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Aditya, now I need to apologize for being so slow to reply: thanks a lot, this looks really fascinating! I don't know how many things I've read on the web to understand if regexps can handle nested delimiters or not (I think the long and short of it was that on some mathematical

Re: [NTG-context] Nonletter bug in ConTeXt ver: 2008.02.11 10:35 MKII

2008-02-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 12, 2008, at 5:04 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Otared Kavian wrote: On 12 févr. 08, at 16:49, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: […] Oops, that is due to a typo which Hans and I introduced while we were experimenting with Greek hyphenation. Hans, could you merge the latest patch I sent you

[NTG-context] latest beta hates most of my fonts

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
the latest beta refuses to work with most of my (Greek) fonts. I have compiled the very latest trunk (rev. 1006, I think). Difficult to make a minimal example because it doesn't happen with simple Latin text, only when there's Greek in the file. The error message is always similar:

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta hates most of my fonts

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 13, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Here's a minimal example for the start: texexec --xtx --make --all but this has already been reported and I'm not sure if it's the same problem. /context/texmf-context/tex/context/patterns/lang-agr.pat ! Nonletter. l.206 4´

Re: [NTG-context] Strange problem with tikz module

2008-02-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 14, 2008, at 3:26 PM, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Hi all, I had not made use of the tikz module for some time, and today I needed it; but inserting \usemodule[tikz] in my preamble has this effect: Hi Jean that's a known problem when using an older version of tikz together with

Re: [NTG-context] latest release doesn't make

2008-02-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 17, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Ahoi, just tried to update via ctxtools, but making formats stops at Greek hyphenation patterns: (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/patterns/lang- agr.pat ! Nonletter. l.234 ᾿ 2ρ1῾2ρ If I press r to

Re: [NTG-context] bib module and pdftex 1.40.7: Virtual memory exhausted using MiKTeX-2.7

2008-02-27 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 20, 2008, at 10:05 AM, luigi scarso wrote: Just the other day, I encountered a mysterious error which may or may not be related. I upgraded to pdftex 1.40.7 on all my boxes. This was smooth on my intel-macs (OS X 10.5.2). On my powerpc-mac, I got a TeX capacity exceeded! error with

Re: [NTG-context] bib module and pdftex 1.40.7: Virtual memory exhausted using MiKTeX-2.7

2008-02-27 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 27, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: that looks quite small to me Hans Question is: where does this value come from? Since it only occurs in 1.40.7, it must be some default value set during compilation of pdftex, I assume? Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] new mkiv beta

2008-02-27 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 27, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Feb 26, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, I uploaded a beta release. The biggest change is that image inclusion in mkiv has changed. Currently it's still some mix of tex and lua code, and the backend code

Re: [NTG-context] bib module and pdftex 1.40.7: Virtual memory exhausted using MiKTeX-2.7

2008-02-27 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 27, 2008, at 1:05 PM, Martin Schröder wrote: How did you get the pdftex binary? Did you fiddle with --disable- largefile? Best Martin I simply ran the build.sh script. Thomas ___ If your question is

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt with XeTeX (beginner question)

2008-03-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Have a look at this thread: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080119.170549.5a52968f.en.html This may be the same problem. Thomas On Mar 4, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Adam Baker wrote: Hello, I am using MikTeX 2.7 with XeTeX 0.997 and ConTeXt version 2008.01.28 21:28. Working off of

Re: [NTG-context] lua problem with Windows Vista

2008-03-06 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 6, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Johan Sandblom wrote: MkII seems to work after this but when I run luatools --generate luatools --ini --compile --verbose cont-en I get the output below which looks like a lua error. luatex version is snapshot-0.22.0-2008021623. I do not know enough about lua

Re: [NTG-context] MKIV format generation with context-beta: context.tex not found

2008-03-10 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 10, 2008, at 3:51 PM, Peter Münster wrote: Hello, I've just tried the beta version too, and I get another error (very early): \input context.tex : cannot find input file context.tex My command: texexec --make --all --luatex What could be the reason for this problem? I just

[NTG-context] processing xml in mkiv

2008-03-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, xml processing is about the last part of my ConTeXt stuff where I haven't been able to switch to mkiv; I just can't get my head around it... 2 questions: 1. When I try to process a xml-file with my old (mkii) environments, the output looks OK, but I always get a first page with the

Re: [NTG-context] processing xml in mkiv

2008-03-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 16, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:29:49 +0100 Thomas A. Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, xml processing is about the last part of my ConTeXt stuff where I haven't been able to switch to mkiv; I just can't get my head around it... 2

Re: [NTG-context] processing xml in mkiv

2008-03-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 16, 2008, at 6:16 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: indeed ther eis something weird, but it may as well be something in lautex itself, so taco has to look into it too what happens is: \def\processXMLfilegrouped#1{{\enableXML\processfile{#1}\relax \ifmmode\else\par\fi}} it looks like the new

Re: [NTG-context] processing xml in mkiv

2008-03-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 17, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: It is a bug in luatex, but not an easy one to fix. The simplest workaround (for now) is to patch core-job.lua. Best wishes, Taco --- core-job.lua~ 2008-02-13 12:01:06.0 +0100 +++ core-job.lua2008-03-17

[NTG-context] Numbering in margin

2008-03-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I want some numbers to appear in the paragraph. It's for a commentary, so the numbering isn't continuous, but pretty arbitrary. The problem is, I need two sets of numbers (for sections and subsections), and I want both in the margin, like so: 1 1 Some text 3 More text

Re: [NTG-context] Numbering in margin

2008-03-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 18, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi all, I want some numbers to appear in the paragraph. Oh shoot, please make that: appear in the margin. Thomas ___ If your question is of interest

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