Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation in latest

2009-04-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 9, 2009, at 12:18 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Apr 9, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: weird, as the catcodes look ok Hmm, I'll do some more tests later; I'll be offline until Sunday night. But it doesn't work in mkii either, so the bug probably is with the pattern file

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation in latest

2009-04-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 9, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: weird, as the catcodes look ok Hmm, I'll do some more tests later; I'll be offline until Sunday night. But it doesn't work in mkii either, so the bug probably is with the pattern file. Thomas

[NTG-context] hyphenation in latest

2009-04-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, Hans, I get no hyphenation for ancient Greek with the latest beta (and, as I have seen, a couple of betas before that). Test file (I hope this doesn't get butchered in the mail): \usetypescriptfile[type-gentium] \usetypescript[gentium] \setupbodyfont[gentium,12pt] \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2009-04-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 6, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: This has nothing to do with Hans' beta. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/48892 but I'm clueless. The binaries have been compiled on Debian Etch. Does pdfTeX work on your machine? Mojca Hi Mojca, I usually run a luatex

[NTG-context] latest beta, xp interface

2009-04-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, is this a known problem with interface=xp? If so, sorry for the noise... \starttext This is \pagenumber\ of \lastpage \page This is \pagenumber\ of \lastpage \stoptext All best Thomas ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] Perfect Mac OS X Installation?

2009-04-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 4, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Markus Hubig wrote: Hi @all, i've done a fresh install of ConTeXt Minimals on my Mac OS X box. Now I like to put my setup steps into a small script so my brother can use it. It wold be nice if someone can give me some comments ... maybe I missed something, maybe I

Re: [NTG-context] Strange extra page with xetex ...

2009-04-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 3, 2009, at 10:05 AM, Markus Hubig wrote: Hmm, don't know what's the latest 'zip'. I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 and installed and updated ConTeXt Minimals using the first-setup.sh script. The included XeTeX says: 'This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.7 (Web2C 7.5.6)' This is

[NTG-context] New module simpleslides

2009-03-31 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Dear list members, We're happy to announce the initial release of the simpleslides module. It has taken us somewhat longer than we anticipated, but now it's there! simpleslides is a module that facilitates the creation of presentations in ConTeXt. It provides a few macros to position

Re: [NTG-context] New module simpleslides

2009-03-31 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 31, 2009, at 9:57 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Can you remove the date from the filename. No, I'm afraid it doesn't let me change this any more. This looks realy strange - if I create the zip with textools, I get a filename t- XXXt-2009.03.31.zip, and when I upload this to the

[NTG-context] latext beta + xetex

2009-03-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, there's a bug somewhere in the latest beta when using it with XeTeX (which I normally don't use, but I have a stubborn pdf file which luatex refuses to embed...). Simple testfile \starttext Hello world \stoptext produces a spurious sss in the output. All best Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] latext beta + xetex

2009-03-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Willi, On Mar 30, 2009, at 11:44 AM, Willi Egger wrote: Is your file also containing Metapost/Metafun code? Nope, and it turned out the pdf file does embed, I had a typo in one of the module files... But the bug in XeTeX is still real! All best Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] colored labels in mp

2009-03-27 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 27, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Lutz Haseloff wrote: 2009/3/27 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com Am 27.03.2009 um 13:37 schrieb Eythan Weg: Hi, the following does not seem to use color. Am I missing something? Never used this feature before... I use mkiv with luatex 0.36.

Re: [NTG-context] Problem creating a typescript for Adobe Avenir

2009-03-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Markus, you're on the right track; just two or three small corrections, and you should be in business: On Mar 25, 2009, at 8:21 PM, Markus Hubig wrote: My map file looks like this (texnansi-adobe-avenir.map): texnansi-AVENI17 Avenir-Heavy 4 AVENI17.ttf texnansi.enc

Re: [NTG-context] Updating minimals

2009-03-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Willi, On Mar 26, 2009, at 9:23 AM, Willi Egger wrote: Hi, While running the first-setup.sh script I get the following error: receiving file list ... done sent 37 bytes received 132 bytes 112.67 bytes/sec total size is 5749572 speedup is 34021.14 dyld: Symbol not found:

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

2009-03-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 25, 2009, at 9:43 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Sorry, I tested only on my Intel Mac at home this morning. texlua on OSX-PPC is still broken. It works with my self-compiled LuaTeX 0.36.0 Should I send my luatex/texlua binary to anyone? Greetlings, Hraban Hmm, it's broken on your

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

2009-03-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Sorry again, I should really test before I post :-( Running mtx-update (--context=beta) I get: ./bin/mtx-update.lua:432: attempt to index global 'statistics' (a nil value) Have you tried mtxrun --selfupdate ? I know I got this

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

2009-03-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 24, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: 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 Yes, though - I compiled luatex from trunk yesterday and am experiencing

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

2009-03-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 24, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: 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 Hi, I was just updating the binaries when the server at contextgarden went

Re: [NTG-context] Itemize symbol

2009-03-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 24, 2009, at 4:54 PM, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Hello, How can I get a symbol used in itemize, mode 2 (bold dash)? Best, Vaytcheslav You want to read chapter 10.6 of the ConTeXt manual; your question is answered on the second page of that chapter. Thomas

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

2009-03-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 24, 2009, at 2:07 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Mar 24, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: 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 Hi, I was just

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

2009-03-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 24, 2009, at 10:43 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: This means that your version of LuaTeX is not any newer than the one already present in the binaries, so nothing gets compiled at all. You need to compile manually (stepping into the folder, running build.sh), copy the resulting binary to the

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta (MKII/Greek module)

2009-03-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 22, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: i need a small test file ... It doesn't get smaller than that: :-) \starttext \language[ancientgreek] Hello World! \stoptext Thomas ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta (MKII/Greek module)

2009-03-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 22, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: ok, new beta for testing Works here! Thanks Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2009-03-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 17, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, In the process of a major cleanup and code split I uploaded a beta. Some important changes are: - initialization code is ready for upcoming luatex - language files have been cleaned up - core-table stuff is renamed to tabl-table stuff -

Re: [NTG-context] Module taspresent

2009-03-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 19, 2009, at 4:50 AM, Curious Learn wrote: \usemodule[taspresent][style=bluegray] BlueGray which is the way it is explained in the manual \starttext A presentation \stoptext Does anyone have an idea why this is

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2009-03-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 19, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: hm, works ok here i uploaded a new beta ... once this one is installed, successive upgrades (unzipping tmf file) should trigger auto-format generation at a next run ... only tested here Hans Yup, works here too now; thanks! Oh, and it's a

Re: [NTG-context] Module taspresent

2009-03-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 19, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Lutz Haseloff wrote: Hi Thomas, Hi all, Curious is right, no colors here too, with [style=BlueGray], even with the demo.tex from the module archive. (using last beta 2009.03.18 21:58 MKIV , LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.36.0-2009031820) Greetings Lutz Yes

[NTG-context] inclusion of pdf figures

2009-03-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Excuse me if this has been reported before, but I couldn't find anything in the archive: has inclusion of pdf figures been broken in mkiv for longer or just in the most recent release? This works in mkii and fails in mkiv: \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] inclusion of pdf figures

2009-03-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 14, 2009, at 10:32 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: it's luatex itself, hartmut is working on it right now so expect a new version after the weekend Hans OK, I see, thanks! Maybe I'll drive over to Schwetzingen and yell at Hartmut to motivate him... Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] New beta

2009-03-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 12, 2009, at 2:20 AM, Jesse Alama wrote: Why not local command = string.format(luatex --fmt=%s --lua=%s %s, string.quote(formatfile), string.quote(scriptfile), string.quote(filename)) Good catch! Looks like this fixed it for me! ok, fixed I just re-ran first-setup.sh

Re: [NTG-context] New beta

2009-03-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 13, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: I don't know what's going wrong, but I also get the problem again. It worked the other day, but today, even with the fixed mtx- metatex.lua, I get the error again. Hans? Thomas Hi Hans, in latest: context/tex/texmf-context/tex

Re: [NTG-context] New beta

2009-03-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 13, 2009, at 3:37 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: ah .. new luatex needed, i'll make a tem pworkaround Hmm, OK, I took today's trunk and now can generate the formats, but still no joy: MtxRun | loading configuration for /Users/tas/context/tex/texmf/web2c from

Re: [NTG-context] New beta

2009-03-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 13, 2009, at 3:58 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: hard to trace that one ... can you oatch that function to function input.report(fmt,...) -- for scripts too print(fmt,...) if input_locate or input.verbose then logs.report(input.banner or report,format(fmt,...)) end end and see

Re: [NTG-context] New beta

2009-03-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 13, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: since you're in 'latest mode' ... here is an experimental feature that you can test in the mkiv version of your modules I'm always in latest mode, I'm a classicist :-) But just so I can plan ahead (as soon as I have a working mkiv again): in

Re: [NTG-context] betas

2009-03-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 13, 2009, at 6:54 PM, luigi scarso wrote: ok here too This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.35.0 ConTeXt ver: 2009.03.13 17:35 MKIV fmt: 2009.3.13 int: english/ english OK here too, on OS X! (I'll check linux later) Thomas

[NTG-context] New beta

2009-03-10 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, the new beta has been so quietly accepted that I'm wondering if I'm the only one who can't use it. With every file, I get this error: MtxRun | loading configuration for /Users/tas/context/tex/texmf/web2c from /Users/tas/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/

Re: [NTG-context] New beta

2009-03-10 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 10, 2009, at 8:45 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: No problems on my side so far, did it help to update the scripts. Wolfgang Interesting. I just checked, and I get the same error on linux and OS X. Minimals, updated to 2009.03.08 23:41. Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] New beta

2009-03-10 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 10, 2009, at 11:03 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: mtxrun --selfupdate luatools --selfupdate OK, for a change, I now get a different error: MtxRun | loading configuration for /Users/tas/context/tex/texmf/web2c from /Users/tas/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/

Re: [NTG-context] New beta

2009-03-10 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 10, 2009, at 11:32 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: OK, for a change, I now get a different error: MtxRun | loading configuration for /Users/tas/context/tex/texmf/ web2c from /Users/tas/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/ 408a90c432ceda2c1e4a80ad5d0e5350/trees/

Re: [NTG-context] New beta

2009-03-10 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 11, 2009, at 12:17 AM, luigi scarso wrote: Is local command = string.format(luatex --fmt=%s --lua=% %s, string.quote(formatfile), string.quote(scriptfile), string.quote(filename)) correct ? Why not local command = string.format(luatex --fmt=%s --lua=%s %s,

Re: [NTG-context] modife the style of taspresent

2009-03-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 9, 2009, at 3:36 AM, Bill Long wrote: Thanks! The grammar is right, but it still can't work. Since I wrote that module... Your description is not very descriptive. What do you mean it can't work? Any error messages, what's going wrong? Moreover: taspresent was my first attempt

Re: [NTG-context] Bib module...

2009-03-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 7, 2009, at 10:47 PM, Willi Egger wrote: Hi Taco, thanks for your reply. Unfortunately correcting/changing the example file does not result in what I would expect. I purged all files first, then compiled the example. Hi Willi, I don't know why, but if you correct lines 22-23

Re: [NTG-context] overarc

2009-03-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 5, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Currently, there is no such feature. Are you looking at the functionality of the arcs package of latex? If so, it will be easy to add it to ConTeXt. The main trouble is that the glyph for \overarc is missing from the fonts. Arcs.sty takes

Re: [NTG-context] 1/2 symbol

2009-03-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 4, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Hello, Easy question: how to get 1/2 symbol without entering math mode (using Minion Pro font)? Best, Vyatcheslav Have you tried \onehalf or ½ (in mkiv)? Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] 1/2 symbol

2009-03-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 4, 2009, at 10:40 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: What the combination to get ½ on a mac? Sadly, there doesn't seem to be a keyboard shortcut; I inserted it via the Character Palette. Thomas ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta - Math error

2009-03-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 3, 2009, at 9:09 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Yes, unfortunately it does... strange, since it works ok here; maybe deleting the font cache helps I meant, unfortunately it does work since this made finding the error much harder... Anyway, I have now found a minimal file that shows one

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta - Math error

2009-03-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 2, 2009, at 11:32 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: does this work at your end? \starttext $\approx$ \stoptext Yes, unfortunately it does... Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add

Re: [NTG-context] \usemodule question

2009-02-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 26, 2009, at 11:55 AM, Alan Stone wrote: Doesn't \usemodule issue a search in parent directories when the module is not found in the working directory ? Why should it? Look at the variable TEXINPUTS in texmf.cnf. In TL2008: TEXINPUTS.tex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{plain,generic,}//

Re: [NTG-context] Can't compile LuaTeX beta 0.35.0 (on OS X)

2009-02-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 24, 2009, at 8:48 PM, Andreas Harder wrote: Hello, if I try to compile the actual LuaTeX beta, the compilation ends with the following error: ld: in ../../libs/luasocket/src/socket.a, archive has no table of contents collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [luatex] Error 1

Re: [NTG-context] Can't compile LuaTeX beta 0.35.0 (on OS X)

2009-02-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 25, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: She surely would have done so already if we hadn't all told her to 'brake a leg' in Bohinj. :) Best wishes, Taco Oops, is Mojca ill? Anyway, I see that the linux minimals now have the 0.35 luatex. Would anything speak against updating

Re: [NTG-context] basic luatex/minimals problem

2009-02-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 25, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Alan Bowen wrote: Now that the debris on my computer from determining the right way to reset LM, let me restate what my luatex problems are: Note: I have moved the contents of my personal texmf folder into Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-project 1.

Re: [NTG-context] LM typsescript problem

2009-02-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 24, 2009, at 1:43 PM, Alan Bowen wrote: The minimals (both the stable and the beta versions) in contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/$platform/bin seem to be frozen at 2009.01.18 14;39. I vaguely recall that there was going to be a mismatch between the minimals on the Garden and the

Re: [NTG-context] LM typsescript problem

2009-02-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
When I add this at the beginning of the file: \definebodyfontenvironment[10.5pt] \starttypescript [serif] [default] [size] \definebodyfont [10.5pt] [rm] [default] \stoptypescript \definebodyfontenvironment[9.5pt] \starttypescript [serif] [default] [size] \definebodyfont

Re: [NTG-context] LM typsescript problem

2009-02-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 24, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Alan Bowen wrote: Thanks, Thomas! Its does indeed compile. But the font size for the Greek is still wrong. Alan With your test file, I get properly scaled Greek output both in text and footnotes. So what is wrong with your output? Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] LM typsescript problem

2009-02-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 24, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Alan Bowen wrote: The Greek is not scaled at 2.15 See the attachment. Alan Here's my output: test.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ If your question is of interest to

Re: [NTG-context] LM typsescript problem

2009-02-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 24, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Alan Bowen wrote: Well, that is what it should be. So the problem is definitely on my box. But where? I have no idea right now about how to test this further. Alan I'm aware we have made you install lots of versions, in vain. Nevertheless, I would suggest

Re: [NTG-context] LM typsescript problem

2009-02-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 24, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Alan Bowen wrote: Thomas— Did you test this on a Mac? Alan Yes: sw_vers ProductName:Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.5.6 BuildVersion: 9G55 ctxtools --contextversion CtxTools | context version: 2009.02.17 18:50 (/Users/tas/context/tex/

Re: [NTG-context] LM typsescript problem

2009-02-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 24, 2009, at 6:36 PM, Alan Bowen wrote: Thomas— I updated my original ConTeXtMinimals with --context=alpha (ConTeXt ver: 2009.02.24 16:36 MKII) and tried the test file. By the way, I got the same errors as before when the install script came to luatex, so I guess that is still

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 23, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: For scaling, we can specify a size, some thing like: \setupbodyfont[arabic=foo,20pt,latin=bar,18pt] or so. I don't know Arabic, but I've done similar things for Greek, and that is not a good interface. You want a scaling factor, so users

Re: [NTG-context] LM typsescript problem

2009-02-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
This is a problem with math support in a particular beta version a few weeks ago. It has been fixed in the meantime; the latest beta works normally, but in order to install it, you will have to either wait for Taco to make a new snapshot of luatex available at supelec.fr or compile luatex

Re: [NTG-context] basic luatex/minimals problem

2009-02-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 21, 2009, at 12:07 AM, Alan Bowen wrote: Aditya— luatools --expand-var TEXMF gets {/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-project,/Applications/ ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-fonts,/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/ texmf-local,/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-intel,/

Re: [NTG-context] question for the xml-experts

2009-02-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 19, 2009, at 3:10 PM, luigi scarso wrote: see http://codespeak.net/lxml/tutorial.html#namespaces Luigi, thanks so much for your patient replies. I have now begun to play with python's lxml. It offers a lot, maybe too much for a beginner. One advantage for my immediate needs that

Re: [NTG-context] question for the xml-experts

2009-02-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 19, 2009, at 11:39 AM, luigi scarso wrote: FOO = etree.Element(FOO) emph = etree.Element(emph) [child.tag for child in foo.iterdescendants(tag = '{urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:text:1.0 }span' ) ] ['{urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:text:1.0}span'] span = [child for

Re: [NTG-context] Cyrillic in most simple way

2009-02-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Vyatcheslav, excellent that you need Cyrillic, you will be our beta-tester and guinea pig! We have now included a typescript for the Gentium font in the minimals. You can just say \uestypescriptfile [type-gentium] % don't know if it is enabled by default \usetypescript [gentium]

Re: [NTG-context] question for the xml-experts

2009-02-15 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Luigi and Khaled, thanks a lot for your replies! Luigi: I had a look at python lxml; it looks very powerful and interesting, and I will try and see if can make use of it. Why do you translate your xml sources into tex instead of using the mkiv mechanism for processing xml, is it because of

[NTG-context] question for the xml-experts

2009-02-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, this is not a question about direct technical details, but more of a conceptual problem, and I would love to have your input and ideas on this. I will be editing several edited volumes in my field (humanities, classics). From experience, I know that it's impossible to make

Re: [NTG-context] question for the xml-experts

2009-02-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 14, 2009, at 7:25 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hi Thomas, why don't you take a look at the OpenOffice export function, I saw it's possible to convert a document to xhtml and this could be a start for you. Wolfgang Hi Wolfgang, thanks for the suggestion! I had, in fact, tried

Re: [NTG-context] question for the xml-experts

2009-02-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 14, 2009, at 7:31 PM, Patrick Gundlach wrote: Yes, it does. At my company we clean up (and reorganize) XML data with XSLT all the time. We are happy users of saxon 9 (http://saxon.sourceforge.net/) which is an xslt 2.0 engine. Learning XSLT is not trivial (but not too hard either), but

[NTG-context] interesting arrange effect with interface=xp

2009-02-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I just stumbled upon an interesting, if unwanted effect with the xp interface. Minimal document: \setuppapersize[A6][A4] \setuparranging[2*4] \starttext \dorecurse{8}{\input knuth \par \page} \stoptext Please compile with texexec --lua --interface=xp --arrange and enjoy :-)

Re: [NTG-context] interesting arrange effect with interface=xp

2009-02-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 9, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Nothing new, see: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20090113.193821.22c66787.en.html Wolfgang Shoot! Sorry for the noise... Thomas ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] interesting arrange effect with interface=xp

2009-02-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 9, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Jan-Erik Hägglöf wrote: Setting /home/djsameman/context/tex as TEXROOT. djsame...@lundby:~$ cd Dokument/context/funwith_xp_iface/ djsame...@lundby:~/Dokument/context/funwith_xp_iface$ texexec --lua --interface=xp --arrange ^^

[NTG-context] latest beta

2009-02-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, with the latest beta of this morning and the latest luatex, a call like texexec --lua --env=mystyle myfile.xml fails, the environment file is not read (there is no error about not finding it in the log). Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta

2009-02-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 5, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: ah .. in core-def.tex ... \appendtoks \directsetup{*runtime:modules}\to \everyjob 's' missing in modules OK, but now I get: ! LuaTeX error main ctx instance:1: attempt to index global 'ptbs' (a nil value) stack traceback:

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta

2009-02-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 5, 2009, at 5:19 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Do you use the last LuaTeX version? I tried a example you send me and it works without problems. This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.33.1-2009020413, build unknown Wolfgang This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.33.1-2009020508, build 1856

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta

2009-02-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 5, 2009, at 5:36 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.33.1-2009020508, build 1856 I'll try with an older version of luatex, maybe the trunk version (which I compiled today) has a problem. Thomas Nope, I get exactly the same error with luatex 0.33.0

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta

2009-02-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 5, 2009, at 5:59 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Nope, I get exactly the same error with luatex 0.33.0; not with all of my xml files, however. I'll have to see if I can isolate the error. Thanks for your reply, Wolfgang. Best Thomas OK, one problem is math support. Here's a minimal

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt en presentations

2009-02-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 4, 2009, at 8:07 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 04.02.2009 um 18:50 schrieb Cecil Westerhof: I am still a novice with ConTeXt en TeX. I have suddenly to make a presentation. I am thinking about doing this with ConTeXt. I saw the articles in the wiki. Someone some other good

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt en presentations

2009-02-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 4, 2009, at 9:36 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: You mean the link which is mentioned in the wiki? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Presentations#Additional_modules Wolfgang Oh yes, I hadn't seen that Aditya put up a link! Thanks for the hint. Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt en presentations

2009-02-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 4, 2009, at 9:44 PM, Peter Münster wrote: And then, it would be nice to get it included into the minimals! Cheers, Peter That was our secret plan, and after that, world domination and profit! Thomas ___

Re: [NTG-context] combination

2009-01-29 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 28, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Nicolas Luchier wrote: Hello, I searched the mailing archive but found nothing about my problem. I have 3 figures to put into combination 2*2. The way it is handle it that the third figure is place below the first one, which is quite logical. I'd rather have

Re: [NTG-context] lua questions

2009-01-29 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 23, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: it uses the syntax lpeg.Ca which my lpeg doesn't recognize and which I can't find in the lpeg manual. [useful information snipped] just run such script using mtxrun --script yourscript.lua as luatex (texlua) has

Re: [NTG-context] installing fonts pdftex

2009-01-27 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 27, 2009, at 12:28 AM, Mohamed Bana wrote: Hi Thomas, Hi, please address questions to the mailing-list, not to me personally. 1. when is the last time you tried to install a font manually using texfont? i've been trying to get install warnockpro and cronospro - both of which

Re: [NTG-context] lua questions

2009-01-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 23, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: here is a variant that implements a function (and does not use the env trick) do local add = function (x,y) return x+y end local P,Ca,Cc= lpeg.P,lpeg.Ca,lpeg.Cc local symbols = {

[NTG-context] lua questions

2009-01-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, this is a bit OT and should probably go to a lua list, but since some people here are very proficient in lua and I feel less embarrassed about noob questions here... I have a half-functioning python script to convert entries from a classics database into the bibtex format. I want

Re: [NTG-context] gfs neohellenic typescript

2009-01-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 21, 2009, at 5:41 PM, Antoine Junod wrote: Hello list, Has anyone already written a typescript for the beautiful gfs neohellenic (for mkii)? A+ -AJ If you want to use this font with mkii, you'll need much more than just a typescript, at the least tfms + encodings + mapfiles.

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe ArnoPro in mkiv

2009-01-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 24, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Aug 20, 2008, at 8:59 PM, abbg...@city.ac.uk wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schmitz at uni-bonn.de writes: Hi all, I'm trying to use the Adobe ArnoPro font (just testing if it will work with ConTeXt). The font does work

Re: [NTG-context] weird bug updating minimals

2009-01-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 17, 2009, at 8:52 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: and so on. Now this box has several more or less abandoned installations of darwinports and fink, but this looks like it's trying to link to the library provided by the system (OS X 10.5.6) and complaining it's too

Re: [NTG-context] weird bug updating minimals

2009-01-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 18, 2009, at 7:52 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello Thomas, I'm guessing blindly. Can you please try which rsync otool -L /wherever/is/rsync and check if all the libraries exist. On my machine I have: /usr/bin/rsync: /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0,

[NTG-context] weird bug updating minimals

2009-01-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, Mojca, after Taco resolved one issue with the latest luatex, I was trying to update on my osx-ppc box, and I am encountering a strange bug: when I run the ./first-setup.sh script, the rsync processes fail with this message: MtxRun | using script: ./bin/mtx-update.lua dyld:

Re: [NTG-context] weird bug updating minimals

2009-01-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 17, 2009, at 6:20 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hmmm ... libiconv? Is that comming from luatex? The only dependencies listed on this computer seem to be: Well, good question... It looks like this happens when the script tries to run rsync, but I have no reason why this should involve

Re: [NTG-context] alpha

2009-01-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 7, 2009, at 12:20 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: i did that already Hans OK, let the fun begin: the new alpha is a bit picky about fonts. A run with Microsoft's TimesNewRoman font (ttf) doesn't produce a pdf. Compilation doesn't stop; in the log, these are the last lines: load otf |

Re: [NTG-context] alpha

2009-01-06 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 6, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi Hans, I just tried the new alpha with luatex snapshot 0.31.3 on linux. My typescripts break with this message: LuaTeX error main ctx instance:1: attempt to call field 'install_feature' (a nil value) stack traceback: main ctx instance:1:

Re: [NTG-context] alpha

2009-01-06 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 6, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Yes, luatools --generate followed by luatools --ini --compile cont-en ah, i see, that command is gone; just don't install the feature but use it OK, thanks. this solved the problem; my document compiled now. Will do more tests in the next

Re: [NTG-context] question about MPpositiongraphic

2009-01-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 3, 2009, at 3:26 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \newcount\synizesisnumber \define[1]\synizesis {\advance\synizesisnumber\plusone \setMPpositiongraphic{POS-\number\synizesisnumber}{placesynizesis} \hpos{POS-\number\synizesisnumber}{#1}} Wolfgang Wow - so simple, and so efficient!

[NTG-context] question about MPpositiongraphic

2009-01-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, first, best wishes for the New Year to all of you - may 2009 bring peace and fortune and world domination for ConTeXt! And my little question - trivial for the resident experts, I guess, but I can't find a solution: I want to write a little macro that will allow me to place a

Re: [NTG-context] Greek module problem

2008-12-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 20, 2008, at 12:43 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 20.12.2008 um 00:31 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Mojca, I'm a bit slow tonight: what's weird about these files? I have never seen [ and in map files before, but most probably

Re: [NTG-context] Greek module problem

2008-12-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 19, 2008, at 10:45 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Alan Bowen wrote: Hi, Mojca, The key line in my preamble is \usemodule[ancientgreek] [font=Alkaios,scale=1,altfont=GreekOxoniensis,altscale=0.9] I get the same error message no matter what Greek font I call

Re: [NTG-context] File fails to compile

2008-11-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 30, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Charles Doherty wrote: Dear all, I made a poster about two months ago. Today I cloned it to make a different one. I am using MacTex 2008 distribution and XeConTeXt . I am using fonts such as Hoefler, Gentium, Junicode etc. The original file and the new one

Re: [NTG-context] The rules of Chinese breaking lines don't work

2008-11-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Khaled Hosny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:54:50AM +, Yue Wang wrote: Hi, Hans: This is a serious bug, and actually this is why chinese is not working in LiYanrui's mail. Font features don't work in typescripts, but still

Re: [NTG-context] The rules of Chinese breaking lines don't work

2008-11-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 1, 2008, at 3:28 AM, Yue Wang wrote: no, it's a bug of ConTeXt. Hans had already fixed that. (Context version hasn't changed, but the font-ini.mkiv changed in the TRUNK. with the new font-ini.mkiv from Hans, the problem is solved. remember: ConTeXt version is only the number

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