Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt mkiv on Ubuntu (Hardy alpha)

2008-01-17 Thread luigi scarso
What about $ luatools --variables and $texlua -help -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt mkiv on Ubuntu (Hardy alpha)

2008-01-17 Thread luigi scarso
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Documents/tex practice$ luatools --variables Nothing ? Strange, here $luatools --variables AFMFONTS=.:$TEXMF/fonts/afm//:$OSFONTDIR// BIBINPUTS=.:$TEXMF/bibtex/bib// BIBINPUTS.bibtex8=.:$TEXMF/bibtex/{bib,}// BSTINPUTS=.:$TEXMF/bibtex/{bst,csf}//

Re: [NTG-context] Movies

2008-01-18 Thread luigi scarso
On Jan 18, 2008 8:51 AM, Andrea Valle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mojca, another italian for meeting -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org ___ If your question is of interest to

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Quick ref for Lua ?

2008-01-18 Thread luigi scarso
On Dec 31, 2007 1:04 AM, Arthur Reutenauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK , found it http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaShortReference Also http://pgl.yoyo.org/luai/i/about -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

Re: [NTG-context] PDF/A with ConTeXt

2008-02-07 Thread luigi scarso
Records management systems prefer to receive their PDFs compliant with the PDF/A standard (subset of PDF 1.4). Is there any mechanism in ConTeXt/pdfTex to specify the PDF output should comply with PDF/A? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A What about postprocessing pdf with latest

Re: [NTG-context] DEB of Context 2008-01-28 anybody?

2008-02-13 Thread luigi scarso
I have a mkiv/mkii up and running, so if i can help. -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the

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

2008-02-13 Thread luigi scarso
I would not do it like that again, these days I would use lpeg, but it was not nearly as complicated to do it in tex macros as I had anticipated. A bit off-topic: suppose that I , while I'm making format , I need to trace macro definitions (\edef,\xdef,\def,\let and eventually alias like

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

2008-02-13 Thread luigi scarso
A bit off-topic: suppose that I , while I'm making format , I need to trace macro definitions (\edef,\xdef,\def,\let and eventually alias like \let\define\def, so also \define too,...) This can be do only hacking web source , or not ? If you set \tracingassigns=1

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

2008-02-19 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 8:01 PM, George N. White III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider the trivial test file: - % example from: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bibliography % Format using: % $ texexec --once t-cont % $ bibtex t-cont % $ texexec

[NTG-context] [OT] Metapost wiki

2008-02-27 Thread luigi scarso
Just to propagate informations. From http://tug.org/pipermail/metapost/2008-February/001215.html Well the wiki is now setup. http://metapost.tlhiv.org Anonymous users can't edit pages, but anyone (for now) can create an account. I've themed it so that it doesn't look like everyone else's

[NTG-context] New context release

2008-03-11 Thread luigi scarso
New official release http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm (yes, I'm not sleeping...:) ) -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org ___ If your question is of interest to others as

Re: [NTG-context] New context release

2008-03-11 Thread luigi scarso
Both Hans and Luigi are just too fast for me, I can't keep up. This in not true, really. I discovered mplib-alpha just two days ago, with a delay of only two months. -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

[NTG-context] New context release

2008-03-12 Thread luigi scarso
http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm It's the first time that I see a release time 00:00 by an epsilon -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org ___ If your question is of

[NTG-context] setupexternalfigures broken ?

2008-03-18 Thread luigi scarso
setupexternalfigures seems broken on ConTeXt ver: 2008.03.11 23:55 MKIV fmt: 2008.3.18 int: english/english This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.25.0-2008031821 I'm only able to include images from current dir. -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

Re: [NTG-context] setupexternalfigures broken ?

2008-03-18 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 18, 2008, at 11:18 PM, luigi scarso wrote: setupexternalfigures seems broken on ConTeXt ver: 2008.03.11 23:55 MKIV fmt: 2008.3.18 int: english/ english This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.25.0

Re: [NTG-context] setupexternalfigures broken ?

2008-03-20 Thread luigi scarso
Maybe I can do better I still have this in a production line This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.20.2-2008010918 ConTeXt ver: 2008.01.11 12:09 MKIV fmt: 2008.1.14 int: english/english and there are no problems with setupexternalfigures If you tell me how, I can make a configuration summary

[NTG-context] On compiling latest luatex

2008-03-20 Thread luigi scarso
ctangle is needed to compile latest luatex . It's not a problem, but justtex.zip and linuxtex.zip from pragma don't have ctangle (maybe in minimals ?) , so they are a bit incomplete. -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

Re: [NTG-context] setupexternalfigures broken ?

2008-03-22 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:18 PM, luigi scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: setupexternalfigures seems broken on ConTeXt ver: 2008.03.11 23:55 MKIV fmt: 2008.3.18 int: english/english This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.25.0-2008031821 I'm only able to include images from current dir. Same

Re: [NTG-context] On compiling latest luatex

2008-03-22 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:00 PM, luigi scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ctangle is needed to compile latest luatex . It's not a problem, but justtex.zip and linuxtex.zip from pragma don't have ctangle (maybe in minimals ?) , so they are a bit incomplete. Fixed in latest 0.25.1 -- luigi

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting documentation

2008-03-24 Thread luigi scarso
Personally, these days I just download the files from Luigi's website http://www.logosrl.it/context/modules/current/ Aditya Unfortunatly, they are outdated. Currently I'm working on luatex http://www.logosrl.it/context/luatex and context mkiv http://www.logosrl.it/context/mkiv/ List of

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: Chaos TV #122 «Typesettin g»

2008-03-24 Thread luigi scarso
2008/3/24 Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you're interested in historical typesetting, here's a documentary about line-o-type typesetters from the 1960s. (Italian production in English, see last link) Thank you very much !! -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex .

Re: [NTG-context] setupexternalfigures broken ?

2008-03-25 Thread luigi scarso
Same problem with ConTeXt ver: 2008.03.24 23:24 MKIV fmt: 2008.3.25 int: english/english This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.25.1-2008032510 ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry

Re: [NTG-context] MKIV/LuaTeX roadmap

2008-03-25 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Santy, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been following the MKIV developments on the list, but don't have a good feeling for the overall stability/robustness/completeness of the new code. Can someone who has the high-level insight (Hans, Taco?) please

Re: [NTG-context] setupexternalfigures broken ?

2008-03-26 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am convinced this is not related to the version of the executable. All file discovery is carried out by Hans' lua code. I have sent some logs offlist to Hans -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex .

Re: [NTG-context] MKIV/LuaTeX roadmap

2008-03-26 Thread luigi scarso
See also http://www.gust.org.pl/BachoTeX/2008/prog.html -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the

Re: [NTG-context] Software manual template request

2008-04-01 Thread luigi scarso
Until now we have two way to document sources: for *tex file texmfstart texexec --luatex --modules somefile.tex for lua texmfstart texexec --luatex --ctx=x-ldx somefile.lua (both may need some setup to work) Actually this is the quickest way to have the more accurate dev. documentation, and I

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt meeting moved to October/November

2008-04-02 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:15:00 -0600, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry to inform you that due to some other unavoidable obligations at the faculty, I have been forced to

Re: [NTG-context] luatex feature question/request

2008-04-04 Thread luigi scarso
There actually is a way to modify the input lines just before they are parsed by luatex, but that is really only suitable for converting 8-bit encodings to utf-8. (I was going to post an example abusing that method, but there are way many things that can go wrong, so I changed my mind)

Re: [NTG-context] luatex feature question/request

2008-04-04 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: luigi scarso wrote: There actually is a way to modify the input lines just before they are parsed by luatex, but that is really only suitable for converting 8-bit encodings to utf-8. (I was going to post

Re: [NTG-context] ConTEXt - produced book

2008-04-08 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Jörg Hagmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear list members, My biochemistry textbook has been published by orell füssli as an UTB book. I would like to thank all the members of this list, and Hans in particular, for their help (acknowledgements in the Thank you

Re: [NTG-context] first steps with XeTeX

2008-04-08 Thread luigi scarso
I guess I'll re-publish my typescripts as soon as I'm actively using luaTeX - and as soon as I relaunch my website on Django (planning that for some months now...) What about Plone ? this year... Only visiting DRUPA (printing fair). Maybe I will there too. Let's stay in tune. -- luigi

[NTG-context] [OT] random Computer Science paper generator

2008-04-08 Thread luigi scarso
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ it would be nice to have something in context. -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please

Re: [NTG-context] a sort of marking

2008-04-09 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Andrea Valle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Why don't you play with \startTEXpage ? Because I don't know how does it work $ cd tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base $ grep startTEXpage * (hint: see page-app.tex) Use the source, luke ! -- luigi it's new . it's

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] random Computer Science paper generator

2008-04-09 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: luigi scarso wrote: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ it would be nice to have something in context. Sorry, missing some words ; it should be it would be nice to have something in context to show on the wiki I'm sure

[NTG-context] [OT] PDF/A conference

2008-04-09 Thread luigi scarso
I will be in amsterdam for first pdf/a conference. Maybe someone too: if so we can manage to meet. But i will also in amsterdam saturday, and i would like to buy some books (in english) about typography , exp. arabic typography . Open to any suggestions (about titles and bookshop) -- luigi it's

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] random Computer Science paper generator

2008-04-09 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: luigi scarso wrote: On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: luigi scarso wrote: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ it would be nice to have something in context. Sorry

Re: [NTG-context] ConTEXt - produced book about ConTeXt

2008-04-09 Thread luigi scarso
ConTeXt is not a simple language library, but a full typing system which need a true documentation. True So, even if a command reference could be read online (or in source code ;-), True; actually there is something at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso/modules.pdf but I'm

Re: [NTG-context] new version luatex / mkiv

2008-04-10 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, There is a new version of luatex and mkiv. You need to update them together. The best place to get them is the contextgarden (which will probably have the new versions pretty soon). This release of is rather

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt ultraminimals (was re: Perl/Ruby dependency)

2008-04-11 Thread luigi scarso
See my reply to Hans (about five minutes before this message); it's complexity of installation and options, not disc usage, that I'm trying to minimize. A bit off-topic: mayb we can also think a context-live iso img. -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

Re: [NTG-context] MkIV and DVI output

2008-04-11 Thread luigi scarso
at some point i will redo the backends, but i wonder if it really makes sense to support dvi any longer; i'd rather prepare for future formats xps ? -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt ultraminimals (was re: Perl/Ruby dependency)

2008-04-11 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 4:32 PM, luigi scarso wrote: See my reply to Hans (about five minutes before this message); it's complexity of installation and options, not disc usage, that I'm trying to minimize

Re: [NTG-context] MkIV and DVI output

2008-04-11 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: luigi scarso wrote: at some point i will redo the backends, but i wonder if it really makes sense to support dvi any longer; i'd rather prepare for future formats xps ? mars A very nice subject to discuss here

Re: [NTG-context] MkIV and DVI output

2008-04-11 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Martin Schröder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/4/11, luigi scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED]: xps ? http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/pdftex/2007-April/007112.html hmm, http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2007/024777.html hans wrote ...i will look into that some time

Re: [NTG-context] Streams

2008-04-12 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Roman Sigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello For a publication project in phonetics and dialectology I'd like to print the phonetic transcription and the dialect text in a two column setup. I would be interested to use context for that (more flexibility

[NTG-context] Error: Illegal entry in bfrange block in ToUnicode CMap

2008-04-14 Thread luigi scarso
I have a catalog.pdf Title: catalog Subject: Keywords: Author: Creator:ConTeXt - 2008.04.11 00:07 Producer: luaTeX-0.25.2 CreationDate: Mon Apr 14 14:58:34 2008 ModDate:20080414 Tagged: no Pages: 158 Encrypted: no Page size: 595.276 x

Re: [NTG-context] Error: Illegal entry in bfrange block in ToUnicode CMap

2008-04-14 Thread luigi scarso
Is the error in the original pdf or in the redistilled one? in the redistilled one -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org ___ If your question is of interest to others as well,

Re: [NTG-context] Error: Illegal entry in bfrange block in ToUnicode CMap

2008-04-14 Thread luigi scarso
Then it's easy: it is a ghostscript bug. or maybe a xpdf bug, given that ghostscript has no problem to show it. BTW, what does this error mean ? -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

Re: [NTG-context] chapter setup / table of contents

2008-04-14 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ahoi! In a volume of proceedings, each chapter has an author and title and sometimes a subtitle. The ToC entry should look like: Author: Title \hfill Page (no indents!) At the moment I've this setup:

Re: [NTG-context] chapter setup / table of contents

2008-04-14 Thread luigi scarso
a bit of lua code ? \startluacode MyStuff = {} SecCount = 0 SecIndexCount = 0 \stopluacode \definelistplacement[MyListItem][none]#1#2#3{% \ctxlua{SecIndexCount = SecIndexCount +1} %% Do something with %%\ctxlua{tex.sprint(MyStuff[SecIndexCount])} %% }

Re: [NTG-context] Module documentation

2008-04-15 Thread luigi scarso
On Luigi Scarso's page (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso/modules.pdf) he suggests the following: texexec --module --pdf core-tab.tex sooner I will move this stuffs to supelec -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

Re: [NTG-context] Architecture Sketch

2008-04-15 Thread luigi scarso
And I suspect these two facts are related.. :) no, taco is on linux (well, i hope..) Nevertheless, I have used both and find the linux environment better in general. Everything is there and my distribution (debian) takes care of things. Sometimes I am impatient and want to experiment with

Re: [NTG-context] Architecture Sketch

2008-04-15 Thread luigi scarso
in order to prevent users asking hey, there will be latex 3, when will there be acontext 3 i skipped the 3 and went for the 4 ... ... the mark part was inspired by deep purple using mk as tag for each new combination (which got my attention when i found out that steve morse was part of

Re: [NTG-context] Architecture Sketch

2008-04-15 Thread luigi scarso
,[ Question ] | What will happen to folks like me who just need/want to write great | documents using ConTeXt? ` it depends: i get fat, for example. - yes, I am with Linux (DebianGNU/Linux) hey , like me! - GNU Emacs also me - my adorable cat :-) two little daughter (and

[NTG-context] Lost in columnset

2008-04-16 Thread luigi scarso
I realize that in \definecolumnsetarea[one][right][x=1,y=25,nx=2,ny=18,page=19,state=start] page=19 is relative to \startcolumnset[AAA] ...\stopcolumnset not to \realfolio . So, what about [right] ? Is related to \realfolio or to page ? -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex .

Re: [NTG-context] Lost in columnset

2008-04-18 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:19 PM, luigi scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realize that in \definecolumnsetarea[one][right][x=1,y=25,nx=2,ny=18,page=19,state=start] page=19 is relative to \startcolumnset[AAA] ...\stopcolumnset not to \realfolio . So, what about [right] ? Is related

Re: [NTG-context] maybe OT? ConTeXt on an EEEPC

2008-04-20 Thread luigi scarso
http://www.ink-media.com/index.html -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] letter

2008-04-24 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: have you called luatools --generate because this is neccesary for MkIV to let it find new files in your TeX tree. Ok! I have learned this now. Is this a replacement or an additive to

Re: [NTG-context] Fatal error: catcode push/pop mismatch. Fix this!

2008-04-24 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, luigi scarso wrote: hmm, new for me. Fatal error: catcode push/pop mismatch. Fix this! \wait= (sorry, no more info ) We are hoping for a hint about what input caused this ? yes, I'm trying

Re: [NTG-context] Fatal error: catcode push/pop mismatch. Fix this!

2008-04-24 Thread luigi scarso
Sorry, a bit more. specials : fdf loaded ) (./layout-electrolux-enh.tex (/home/usr7/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-pre.tex) color : mpcmyk color space is supported color : mpspot color space is supported color : system rgb is global activated interaction

[NTG-context] Missing character in texgyreheros

2008-04-28 Thread luigi scarso
Sorry for the noise, but i'm in the middle between an old context mkii (2005) and mkiv stylesheet for a greek utf-encoded file and i'm a bit confused. While using Heros font, I have: Missing character: There is no ώ (974) in font

Re: [NTG-context] reference manual for cont-en.lua

2008-04-29 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Peter Münster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is there a reference manual for the functions in cont-en.lua? Or just a function index? There are really a lot of nice functions, for example table.serialize(), for the every-day usage! maybe texmfstart

Re: [NTG-context] Missing character in texgyreheros

2008-04-29 Thread luigi scarso
2008/4/28 luigi scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry for the noise, but i'm in the middle between an old context mkii (2005) and mkiv stylesheet for a greek utf-encoded file and i'm a bit confused. While using Heros font, I have: Missing character: There is no ώ (974) in font /home/usr7

[NTG-context] Missing greeks characters in texgyreheros

2008-04-30 Thread luigi scarso
See also Missing character in texgyreheros \startluacode function greek_sub(line) line = line:gsub('ά','\\buildtextaccent\\textacute\\greekalpha{}') line = line:gsub('έ','\\buildtextaccent\\textacute\\greekepsilon{}') line = line:gsub('ή','\\buildtextaccent\\textacute\\greeketa{}') line =

Re: [NTG-context] Missing greeks characters in texgyreheros

2008-04-30 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 30, 2008, at 11:37 AM, luigi scarso wrote: I'm not searching for the perfect way, just a way to print a greek pdf Suggestions welcome. Well, the easiest solution is: use a font that does have a full

Re: [NTG-context] Missing greeks characters in texgyreheros

2008-04-30 Thread luigi scarso
ie \usetypescript[postscript] is ok. You could use Microsofts new Vista fonts (Cambria, Corbel, Consolas ...) Can we share a link , or licences problems may arise ? -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

Re: [NTG-context] Missing greeks characters in texgyreheros

2008-04-30 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 30, 2008, at 12:06 PM, luigi scarso wrote: I need an opentype like helvetica , plus some times and courier; ie \usetypescript[postscript] is ok. I'm not sure I understand. Why opentype

Re: [NTG-context] Missing greeks characters in texgyreheros

2008-04-30 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 30, 2008, at 12:47 PM, luigi scarso wrote: sorry 1) in my luatex env. \usetypescript[postscript] is linked with tex gyre font collections 2) opentype because they are so easy to install

Re: [NTG-context] two small questions about the mkiv roadmap

2008-04-30 Thread luigi scarso
indeed, but i need someone to write me a xul application that will reuse the already opened window firefox ? Not IE ? -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org ___ If your question is

Re: [NTG-context] Minimum file length.

2008-05-03 Thread luigi scarso
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:50 PM, John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing an e-book where pdf file length is an issue. For the minimal Hello world file I get the following lengths: tex+dvips+ps2pdf 2820 pdftex 5630 texexec 22,173 what about fonts of

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost 1.004 announcement

2008-05-03 Thread luigi scarso
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 1, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: The MetaPost team is happy to announce a new release of MetaPost: -- MetaPost 1.004

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost 1.004 announcement

2008-05-04 Thread luigi scarso
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Peter Münster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 03 2008, luigi scarso wrote: 1. for my linux box, I just grabbed the linux tarball, but the binaries in there still declare they're version 1.003. Is that an oversight, or are those indeed old binaries

Re: [NTG-context] reference manual for cont-en.lua

2008-05-04 Thread luigi scarso
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Peter Münster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 29 2008, luigi scarso wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Peter Münster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a reference manual for the functions in cont-en.lua? Are you talking about l-table.lua

Re: [NTG-context] reference manual for cont-en.lua

2008-05-04 Thread luigi scarso
No, it's a generated file (merge of several lua-files). It should be on your hard drive at the same place as the format file cont-en.fmt. Ah yes, now I see it; it's in the cache dir -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

Re: [NTG-context] bachotex

2008-05-06 Thread luigi scarso
also in linux with totem (actually no audio :( ) On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for mac and windows users ... http://www.river-valley.tv/conferences/bachotex2008/ -

Re: [NTG-context] bachotex

2008-05-06 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Olivier Guéry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux here and everything seems to work… Ubuntu hardy heron / firefox3 last beta / mplayer plugin (but I also can see the flash movies). oh yes, also here before updating to 8.04 -- luigi it's new . it's powerful .

Re: [NTG-context] enableregime in mkiv

2008-05-12 Thread luigi scarso
Text line contains an invalid utf-8 sequence. Ah yes, I rember: there are 2~3 tex files in base/ with this problem. I have a list, but it's not update to last context distro (I will do soon) . I believe that with file command (under linux) one can discover them. Perhaps with a preprocessing

[NTG-context] hack in type-siz

2008-05-15 Thread luigi scarso
\starttext \definetypeface [boldmath] [mm] [boldmath] [latin-modern] [modern] [encoding=texnansi] $a \times b$ $a \boldsymbol{\times} b$ \stoptext (from core-mat.tex) gives ? blobpath asked: cmbx7 .otf ? blobpath do: /opt/luatex/tex/texmf-linux (cmbx7 .otf) ? blobpath do:

[NTG-context] missing btex ..etex in mp figure

2008-05-15 Thread luigi scarso
In \starttext \startTEXpage \startlua metapost.process(metafun,{beginfig(1);, a=.7in; b=0.5in;, z0=(0,0); z1=(a,0); z2=(0,b);, z0=.5[z1,z3]=.5[z2,z4];, draw z1..z2..z3..z4..cycle;, drawarrow z0..z1;, drawarrow z0..z2;, label.top(btex $a$ etex, .5[z0,z1]);, label.lft(btex $b$ etex, .5[z0,z2]);,

Re: [NTG-context] missing btex ..etex in mp figure

2008-05-17 Thread luigi scarso
Ok. In next example, f0 is hide \starttext \startTEXpage\startMPcode %beginfig(2); h=2in; w=2.7in; path p[], q[], pp; for i=1.5,2,4: ii := i**2; p[i] = (w/ii,h){1/ii,-1}...(w/i,h/i)...(w,h/ii){1,-1/ii}; endfor for i=.5,1.5: q[i] = origin..(w,i*h) cutafter p1.5; endfor pp =

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt ultraminimals

2008-05-18 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Patrick Gundlach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What about an image to run with a virtual machine ? Much better. But also much bigger. Having an ubuntu/context (vmware) image is not hard to create, but it will take something like 2 gig. Nice idea, though.

Re: [NTG-context] \this ??

2008-05-19 Thread luigi scarso
A good exercise for my dutch dictionary... 2008/5/18 Rene van Hassel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Waarom werkt \this niet onder ConTeXt?? In de file staat: \setupoutput[pdftex] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction [state=start, title={Try-Out Document},

Re: [NTG-context] inclusion from image database broken (mkii+mkiv)

2008-05-20 Thread luigi scarso
i can make a minimal example(100kb), so you can look into it when you have time. there are still problems with clipping in mkiv, but my first try to create a breaking minimal failed. so far db problems and clipping in mkiv are the only issues left (rest looks pretty good!). ok , plus your tex

Re: [NTG-context] [LUATEX] uname() volunteers needed

2008-05-22 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Yue Wang wrote: I think it is better to only return a table while calling the Lua function. The table contains key=value pairs for {sysname=,nodename=,release=, version=,machine=}. For Windows, you just fill

Re: [NTG-context] [LUATEX] uname() volunteers needed

2008-05-22 Thread luigi scarso
hmm, we must what david says about that, see http://granthinam.blogspot.com/search/label/Conference report Kastrup, one of the developers of LuaTeX, funny, the luatex team is 3*h (hoekwater, henkel hagen) ... small is beautiful (efficient and effective) -) yes, but 3hk is one thousand 3h..

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt ultraminimals

2008-05-25 Thread luigi scarso
But this might get off-topic!?!? yes, better stop here -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl /

Re: [NTG-context] mapper and xml

2008-05-28 Thread luigi scarso
something \startxmlsetups mynode \ctxlua{collectors.remapper.convert(babelgreek,[[\xmlflush{#1}]]) \stopxmlsetups (with a final } ) ! LuaTeX error ./toks-ini.lua:291: attempt to index local 'tok' (a nil value). but untestedand that kind of stuff is pretty low on my agenda now that

Re: [NTG-context] How could a typesetting system be today?

2008-05-30 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 30 May 2008, Maurí­cio wrote: Hi, Just because I'm curious: how could a typesetting system like TeX be if it was created today? luatex http://www.luatex.org There is ant http://ant.berlios.de/ River

Re: [NTG-context] How could a typesetting system be today?

2008-05-30 Thread luigi scarso
There are still some areas where you need a programmable system, even trivia like chapter dependant running titles (in ConTeXt: headertexts). Isn't indesign programmable too ? I know people who use it in an automatic workflow for db publishing -- luigi

Re: [NTG-context] How could a typesetting system be today?

2008-05-31 Thread luigi scarso
Last night I remembered two more things that TeX can't do, but every layout app can: - text flow around other elements (images) \parshape ? - really working multiple-column layout in context columnset with two pass strategy -- luigi

Re: [NTG-context] How could a typesetting system be today?

2008-05-31 Thread luigi scarso
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Yue Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/31/08, luigi scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last night I remembered two more things that TeX can't do, but every layout app can: - text flow around other elements (images) \parshape ? I forword an email

Re: [NTG-context] How could a typesetting system be today?

2008-05-31 Thread luigi scarso
- much faster (i.e. I don't need to wait for several TeX runs e.g. if I need to check if some tweak fixed my page breaking) On average true for manual composition, maybe false for automatic workflow - optical (vs. metrical) kerning hz ? - a GUI ;-) and thus layout by let's try how it looks

Re: [NTG-context] How could a typesetting system be today?

2008-06-01 Thread luigi scarso
- a GUI ;-) and thus layout by let's try how it looks Almost true. Here it seems that there is a way to embed latex in scribus http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Working_with_latex_frames Also http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/2007-January/024109.html -- luigi

Re: [NTG-context] markup format --- ConTeXt (Out of Topic)

2008-06-05 Thread luigi scarso
(other message not related to ConTeXt could now be send off-list please) true. My problems is What is out of topic in this mailing list ? :) -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please

Re: [NTG-context] markup format --- ConTeXt (Out of Topic)

2008-06-06 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Maurice Diamantini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le 5 juin 08 à 09:15, luigi scarso a écrit : (other message not related to ConTeXt could now be send off-list please) true. My problems is: What is out of topic in this mailing list ? :) Because the problem

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt ultraminimals

2008-06-06 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Gour wrote: Mojca == Mojca Miklavec writes: Hmm, Mojca Guys, why don't you wait a bit more. In a not-so-distant-future Mojca LuaTeX will ship with the whole operating system anyway. (Web

Re: [NTG-context] How to implement this document's navigational system ?

2008-06-10 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Having discovered LaTeX a few weeks ago, I'm considering switching to ConTeXt instead. :O) Hence, while playing with ConTeXt, I'd like to know... How to implement this type of document navigational system/panel:

Re: [NTG-context] Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope)

2008-06-13 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ( Oops, pushed inadvertedly some key on my keyboard and the message was away while in GMail - here's the sequel... ) Having heard Linux is, amongst other things, far more stable I might be tempted to play with it and

Re: [NTG-context] Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope)

2008-06-14 Thread luigi scarso
Linux Distribution chooser: answer some questions and there you go... http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/ Results were *very* close to your suggestions. That was fun! It actually proposed the distro I'm using (Mandriva). Even for me (I'm using ubuntu) -- luigi

Re: [NTG-context] PDF ISO Standard ISO 32000-1:2008

2008-07-08 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: luigi scarso wrote: http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=51502 i assume that the free ref manual at the adobe site is ok too I expect differences --and iso is better

[NTG-context] Bug in \underbar ?

2008-07-23 Thread luigi scarso
Sorry for this innacurate email, but I'm seeing something strange with \underbar. I'm using columnset with 2 columns, and \underbar appear in a \section head customization. luatex --vers This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.29.0-2008072308 ConTeXt ver: 2008.05.21 15:21 MKIV fmt: 2008.7.23 int:

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