[NTG-context] lpdf.checkedkey has problem with false values

2014-09-15 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Developers and All, lpdf.checkedkey routine from lpdf-ini.lua has problems with accessing false boolean values, it returns them as nil. Is it by design or neglect? (I vaguely remember stumbling on this problems before, so there is a chance that I have already got the answer, but have

Re: [NTG-context] lpdf.checkedkey has problem with false values

2014-09-15 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Peter, More a lua design decision. 'nil' is equal to 'false' here I know no CS theory behind lua design, but try this: \starttext \startluacode if nil == false then io.write(nil == false\n) end if nil ~= false then io.write(nil ~= false\n) end \stopluacode TEST \stoptext and get nil

Re: [NTG-context] lpdf.checkedkey has problem with false values

2014-09-15 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Aditya, Peter and All, I think that what Peter meant was: the real issue is not teaching me lua and improving the style of my example, but my complaint (correct or not) about inability of lpdf.checkedkey to correctly fetch false boolean values: they are fetched as nil, just as if they were

Re: [NTG-context] lpdf.checkedkey has problem with false values

2014-09-15 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, well, they're just not treated special IMHO, they have to be treated special. you can try this (untested) I have tested it. It adds nice enhancement, but does not fix the bug In the following case local a = {} a[e] = blabla a[t] = true a[f] = false a[x] = true a[y] = false a[z] =

Re: [NTG-context] lpdf.checkedkey has problem with false values

2014-09-15 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, more like function lpdf.checkedkey(t,key,variant) thank you. That works. Please, commit. Michail PS. lpdf.checkedkey issue was raised while I reviewed 3D PDF support. But there are greater problems: It seems that u3d inclusion stopped to work in the current (2014.09.06 20:59)

Re: [NTG-context] Interactive U3D in .pdf via ConTeXt?

2014-05-18 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear luigi, you wrote: I've to play a bit with width , height and the 3D controls of the adobe reader to have a nice view, You could just use movie15 parameters (from Laurana.tex in the archive you mention) 3Daac=60, 3Droll=0, 3Dc2c=0 745.639 0, 3Droo=745.639, 3Dcoo=22.607 -1618.68 -149.864,

[NTG-context] scientific notation in PDF file

2014-05-18 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Developers and All, when I create a PDF dictionary with a small number local mydict = lpdf.dictionary { TT = 0.01 } lpdf.flushobject(mydict) I get in PDF /TT 1e-18 that confuses the Adobe Reader (if dictionary is used). As far as I can investigate,

Re: [NTG-context] 3D annotations problems

2012-09-09 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans and All, On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Michail Vidiassov mas...@iaas.msu.ru wrote: the examples from back-u3d.mkiv fail to work with latest beta (rectangled undefined message appears instead of annotation), but if \textwidth is replaced by in in the tex file 3D annotations

Re: [NTG-context] 3D annotations problems

2012-09-09 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Wolfgang and All, On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com wrote: in the latest minimals (2012.09.06 23:03) the following example from back-u3d.mkiv fails to work \useexternalfigure [test] [test.prc] [width=0.5\textwidth, ... It should work

Re: [NTG-context] 3D annotations problems

2012-09-09 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Just a follow up - the old way width=0.5\textwidth still works for png external figures. Is it considered non-kosher now and is to be changed everywhere to the new one “width=\the\dimexpr0.5\textwidth\relax” whenever possible to avoid potential problems?

[NTG-context] 3D annotations problems

2012-08-18 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans and All, the examples from back-u3d.mkiv fail to work with latest beta (rectangled undefined message appears instead of annotation), but if \textwidth is replaced by in in the tex file 3D annotations appear OK. Is that a bug, a feature or some transitional state of ConTeXt (case when

[NTG-context] hidden attachments broken

2012-08-17 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans and All, if I use example from scrn-wid.mkvi \attachment[file=oeps.tex,title=Oeps,author=Hans,subtitle=TeX File,method=hidden] empty file gets embedded and all specs are lost. If I remove method=hidden all is OK - file is there, I can see supplied information in Adobe Reader list of

Re: [NTG-context] attachment attaches twice - the fix was minimal

2011-04-29 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, when you fixed the bug with attachment being listed twice in the attachment list, you also enhanced attachment support On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Hans Hagen wrote: as far as i can see there were a couple of issues: attachments without associated annotation, and labeling and both are

Re: [NTG-context] attachment attaches twice - the fix was minimal

2011-02-28 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Hans Hagen wrote: to be precise, the attachment is attached once but is listed twice by Adobe Reader. i'll patch lpdf-wid on one hand your patch fixes the bug that is in the Subj. of the thread, but it does just that and nothing more. It is a pity to see

Re: [NTG-context] attachment attaches twice - the fix was minimal (?)

2011-02-28 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Hans Hagen wrote: to be precise, the attachment is attached once but is listed twice by Adobe Reader. i'll patch lpdf-wid on one hand your patch fixes the bug that is in the Subj. of the thread, this is a bit of a weird comment given that i haven't uploaded

Re: [NTG-context] attachment attaches twice - more research

2011-02-23 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Hans Hagen wrote: i'll patch lpdf-wid but somehow I get the impression that it's more a viewer issue (the list shown seems to be a merge of filename as well as symbolic names while a clever list builder should look at the referred objects) ... but maybe no one

Re: [NTG-context] attachment attaches twice - more research

2011-02-23 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Hans Hagen wrote: Attachments have some history in pdf and each version was slightly different. as far as I understand ConTeXt now can not link file attachment to arbitrary picture, just to some predefined icons. Am I right? Is it going to change? Soon?

Re: [NTG-context] \useattachment: Embedding files in PDFs - was attachment attaches twice - more research

2011-02-21 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, I'd like to remind you about an old problem report -- From: Tobias Burnus Date: 2008-01-04 16:01 +300 I can use \useattachment to embed/attach files in a PDF file. I can use: \useattachment[whatever][title][newname][test.tex] \attachment[whatever] This creates an attachment

Re: [NTG-context] attachment attaches twice

2011-02-20 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, to be precise, the attachment is attached once (can be seen if one inspects the sample PDF files in uncompressed form with any text or binary editor - if you do not have Adobe Acrobat), but is listed twice by Adobe Reader. Sincerely, Michail

Re: [NTG-context] attachment attaches twice - more research

2011-02-20 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Developers, On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Michail Vidiassov wrote: to be precise, the attachment is attached once but is listed twice by Adobe Reader. PDF spec states -- An embedded file stream shall be included in a PDF document in one of the following ways: • Any file specification

Re: [NTG-context] attachment attaches twice - please, do not fix by trimming

2011-02-20 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Hans Hagen wrote: to be precise, the attachment is attached once but is listed twice by Adobe Reader. code in lpdf-wid.lua sends everything to EmbeddedFiles - including files associated with a location on a page in the document i'll patch lpdf-wid it'd be

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2010.05.08 - 3D annotations

2010-05-13 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, This current context is meant for texlive 2010, but there is a little time before the final freeze of the texlive repository, so there will be a bugfix update in a week or so. If you have pending urgent bugs (especially in mkii) this would be an excellent time to report them. is it

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2010.05.08 - 3D annotations

2010-05-13 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, On Thu, 13 May 2010, Hans Hagen wrote: On 13-5-2010 12:16, Michail Vidiassov wrote: is it worth trying to fix 3D annotations now? I have a patch I have posted here (3D annotations thread), but it is both a fix for errors (like == used instead of = ) and a work-around for missing

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2010.05.08 - 3D annotations

2010-05-13 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, On Thu, 13 May 2010, Hans Hagen wrote: well, i'm that someone but indeed i didn't test it (as i have no test files on my system anyway) .. are those tests you sent free? i.e. can i add them to the testbed? patch and test case attached patched roughly that way ... new beta on

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2010.05.08 - pdfboolean problem

2010-05-12 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, You could try the mailing list, but a better approach to bug reporting is to simultaneously create a tracker item at this url: http://tracker.luatex.org/search.php?project_id=2 done that http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=393 it seems pdfboolean function akways returns true if

Re: [NTG-context] 3D annotations

2010-05-04 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear gummybears, On Tue, 4 May 2010, gummybears wrote: I read your email (17 april 2010) on the mailing list and applied the two patches to my Context minimal distro (the very latest version). When I run your test.tex through context the preview image test.png is not

Re: [NTG-context] 3D annotations

2010-04-17 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, I wrote to you thank you for your latest effort to put u3d support in a working state, but more thanks for more effort, but May be a more robust way is to read first 3 bytes of the model file, since U3D or PRC signature is always there - that can be done instead of relying on

Re: [NTG-context] The ConTeXt book

2010-04-01 Thread Michail Vidiassov
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Martin Schröder wrote: Good news - if it isn't an April hoax. :-) and a good one, one you _want_ to believe...___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the

Re: [NTG-context] U3D inclusion

2010-03-27 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear gummybears (and hopefully Hans), On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, gummybears wrote: After a couple of tests here are my findings *) The preview does not work at this moment. I only see a light blue square which can be activated. After which the 3d viewer shows the embedded 3d image The developers

[NTG-context] PDF annotations problems - was: status of node.write

2010-03-25 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Hans Hagen wrote: when given examples of something that does not work i can repair it in lpdf-ini.lua one can find the following utility function for setting a boolean config parameter: local function pdfboolean(b,default) if ((type(b) == boolean) and

[NTG-context] 3D annotations - was: status of node.write

2010-03-25 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Hans Hagen wrote: there is u3d support presen tbut nobody tested it thank you for your latest effort to put u3d support in a working state, but as of now even the most basic test from back-u3d.mkiv does not work and is not supposed to: grph-u3d.lua needs

Re: [NTG-context] 3D annotations

2010-03-25 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Michail Vidiassov wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Hans Hagen wrote: there is u3d support presen tbut nobody tested it thank you for your latest effort to put u3d support in a working state, but now that Adobe has fallen in love with a new 3D format, PRC

[NTG-context] status of node.write

2010-03-24 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, I notice that broken code for inserting movies uses node.write in codeinjections.insertmovie (in back-pdf.lua), while figures.checkers.mov (in grph-inc.lua) expects text return from codeinjections.insertmovie to feed to texsprint(ctxcatcodes. The 3D annotation code (it also seems not

Re: [NTG-context] status of node.write

2010-03-24 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Luigi and All, On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, luigi scarso wrote: I'm pretty sure that I still don't understand much , but I have written an article for including swf in mkiv , cfr am I correct to assume that swf inclusion works ok and is done in a current kosher way in latest minimals and so

Re: [NTG-context] status of node.write

2010-03-24 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Luigi and All, On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, luigi scarso wrote: Hans provided me the skeleton -- like yours u3d files --- and I must rewrite a 2nd article to implement the mkiv way. And where the mkiv way is to be studued? What kinds of inclusion not only work, but are implemented in the modern

[NTG-context] MAPS - free PDF version

2010-03-24 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, what is the current policy of NTG regarding Subj.? The links to 2008 issues of MAPS (36 and 37) result in The PDF version of this document will be available one year after the paper version. In 2010 that message is somewhat confusing. Sincerely, Michail

Re: [NTG-context] status of node.write

2010-03-24 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, when given examples of something that does not work i can repair it take a look at http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2010/047898.html - it is about problem with movies, but movies and u3d are both done via annotations, thus there are similarities. it is already coded .. see

[NTG-context] luatex pdf.immediateobj(streamfile error on Mac OS X Intel 64

2010-03-22 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, I am running Mac OS X 10.6.2, latest minimals luatex is beta-0.52.0-2010031913, Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64 the fillowing file test.tex fails to compile with context test.tex \nopdfcompression \startluacode local attr = lpdf.dictionary {}

Re: [NTG-context] luatex pdf.immediateobj(streamfile error on Mac OS X Intel 64

2010-03-22 Thread Michail Vidiassov
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Anway, it runs ok here with rev. 3535 on linux 32. Don't have access to a 64-bit machine right now. latest minimals Debian 5.0.4, Linux debian 2.6.2-2-amd64 luatex beta-0.52.0-2010031622 ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, dynamically linked for

[NTG-context] including movies broken?

2010-03-18 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, it seems including movies does not work: \starttext \placefigure[here]{none}{\externalfigure[demo.mov][width=0.7\textwidth, height=.7\textwidth, label=demo]} \stoptext processed with context test_mov.tex results in ! LuaTeX error

Re: [NTG-context] U3D inclusion

2010-01-24 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear gummybears, On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, gummybears wrote: For anyone interested, the 3d file was produced with Asymptote 1.91 (http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/) May you provide asy, png, prc and pdf (both ConTeXt and Asymptote-LaTeX versions)? Sincerely, Michail PS. That was me who

[NTG-context] first-setup mtxrun error on Intel Mac

2009-10-18 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, I run Mac OS X 10.6 (Intel) running first-setup.sh (in empty dir, if that matters) results in /Users/master/context.new/bin/mtxrun:5416: attempt to index global 'tex' (a nil value) Any ideas? Sincerely, Michail

Re: [NTG-context] Cambria integral operator

2009-10-15 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Taco, On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Taco Hoekwater wrote: I have been playing around a bit with the new ConTeXt Minimals and especially Cambria Math. I couldn't figure out, however, why the integral operator always comes out at about half the size of \sum or \prod. No, that is clearly not right.

Re: [NTG-context] Multi-line labels in MetaPost

2009-08-22 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, I have fixed this by using: label.rt(textext(\framed[frame=off,align=right]{One\\Two}),origin); And what about proper tables there? Replacing One\\Two in the above code with $ \startmathmatrix \NC 1 \NC 1 \NR \NC 1 \NC 1 \NR \stopmathmatrix $ or \starttable{|cm|cm|} \NC 1 \NC 1

Re: [NTG-context] Integration limits with Cambria Math

2009-08-17 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Taco Hoekwater wrote: While the space after the inlined subscripts does look excessive, it faithfully matches the font's MATH table: the integrals in cambria math have a massive italic correction even though they fit in their bounding boxes quite nicely. Maybe

Re: [NTG-context] hdotsfor replacement

2009-08-17 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Aditya and All, On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Aditya Mahajan wrote: is there a replacement of hdotsfor from LaTeX to fill several cells in a matrix row with one long series of dots? Not that I know of. Currently, you can manually do this using TeX primitives. \startformula \startmathmatrix

Re: [NTG-context] Integration limits with Cambria Math

2009-08-16 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Taco, On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Taco Hoekwater wrote: I get too much space between the integral sign and limits of integration. Is it a bug? Are there fixes/workarounds? Do you recall whether this was ok earlier? I did not use integral with limits before, I am new in ConTeXt land.

[NTG-context] hdotsfor replacement

2009-08-16 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, is there a replacement of hdotsfor from LaTeX to fill several cells in a matrix row with one long series of dots? Sincerely, Michail ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add

[NTG-context] leqslant for Cambria Math

2009-08-12 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, using Cambria + Cambria Math (\usetypescript[cambria] \setupbodyfont[cambria]) makes Unicode math input and typesetting instantly possible (great for a newbie, even if not FSF-kosher) - but for missing glyphs for leqslant\geqslant. What is the right way to fix or work around such

Re: [NTG-context] leqslant for Cambria Math

2009-08-12 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Aditya Mahajan wrote: using Cambria + Cambria Math makes Unicode math input and typesetting instantly possible but for missing glyphs for leqslant\geqslant. There is not much that we can do when the glyph is missing from the font. In principle, we can create a

Re: [NTG-context] support for SUBSCRIPT THREE etc. ?

2009-07-21 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans and All, On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Hans Hagen wrote: Superscript works well, but not the subscript: \starttext x³ x₃ \stoptext Unicode sub/superscripts aren't real sub/superscripts, and there use is discouraged. Most fonts will align those subscript glyphs to the base line not bellow

Re: [NTG-context] 3D PDF support (AKA asymptote support)

2009-06-06 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Hans Hagen wrote: a draft for an analog of LaTeX movie15 package for including Adobe Reader compatible 3d models into PDF files is at i'll have a look at it next week; the interface needs some more thinking from my side; in principle we should not use

[NTG-context] 3D PDF support (AKA asymptote support)

2009-06-05 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, Mojca and All, a draft for an analog of LaTeX movie15 package for including Adobe Reader compatible 3d models into PDF files is at http://www.iaas.msu.ru/tmp/movie15context.tgz . Almost no docs/comments inside, but questions are of course welcome. You'd better take a brief look at

Re: [NTG-context] 3D PDF support (AKA asymptote support)

2009-06-05 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Luigi, On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, luigi scarso wrote: a draft for an analog of LaTeX movie15 package for including Adobe Reader compatible 3d models into PDF files is at hi michael some time ago Renaud Aubin discover http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/ 2008-11-22 19:132008-11-22 18:13 

Re: [NTG-context] 3D PDF support (AKA asymptote support)

2009-06-05 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Renaud, On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Renaud Aubin wrote: Asymptote may be a better choice since it supports newer PRC 3D format, that is much richer in features and has better prospects when it comes to support and development by Adobe. Ouch, another new 3D format! This will never end. I bet no

Re: [NTG-context] 3D PDF support (AKA asymptote support)

2009-06-05 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Luigi, On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, luigi scarso wrote: Asymptote may be a better choice since it supports newer PRC 3D format Ouch, another new 3D format! This will never end. I bet no valuable Open Source modeler (i.e. blender) support this one. The fact that asy supports PRC is

Re: [NTG-context] asymptote support

2009-06-03 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, I wrote I have developed code to create 3D annotations some months ago (to do what movie15 does in LaTeX), but now (latest beta) it does not work. Since movie inclusion I have used as a base is also broken ( \placefigure[here]{none}{\externalfigure[demo.mov][width=0.7\textwidth,

Re: [NTG-context] asymptote support

2009-06-03 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Hans Hagen wrote: Since movie inclusion I have used as a base is also broken fixed Beta in minimals this morning ... did not include the movie. well, i get the movie here; did you specify the width and height? Sorry, tested with Apple viewer, Adobe Reader

Re: [NTG-context] asymptote support

2009-06-02 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Mojca and All, the unique feature of Asymptote is 3D PDF. I have developed code to create 3D annotations some months ago (to do what movie15 does in LaTeX), but now (latest beta) it does not work. Since movie inclusion I have used as a base is also broken (

Re: [NTG-context] asymptote support

2009-06-02 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Mojca, On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Mojca Miklavec wrote: It will help a lot if you could post a link to some file to be included, so that Hans has something to play with in hand. http://www.navone.org/Media/Movies/AlienSong_mp4.mov Sincerely, Michail

[NTG-context] Producing dvi

2009-04-19 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, is it possible to produce dvi in mkiv? What is the command line? Are there limitations (like no opentype, no unicode math)? DVI has to be fit for dvips use. The reason for my question - Asymptote vector drawing tool sets labels by processing PS output of LaTeX and relies on the PS

Re: [NTG-context] Producing dvi

2009-04-19 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Hans Hagen wrote: is it possible to produce dvi in mkiv? DVI has to be fit for dvips use. The reason for my question - Asymptote vector drawing tool sets labels by processing PS output of LaTeX and relies on the PS being made by dvips. you can produce dvi

Re: [NTG-context] Producing dvi

2009-04-19 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Hans Hagen wrote: If mkiv does not produce dvi (now? never will? not intended to?), what about mkii? sure, mkii can produce dvi for several drivers And what about the first part of the question? The (negative?) answer is implied in your other post, but what

Re: [NTG-context] Producing dvi

2009-04-19 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Mojca, On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Mojca Miklavec wrote: If Asymptote is not able to handle PDF files, maybe Asymptote itself would need extensions. (When I last tried to use Asymptote I gave up since I was not able to figure out how to install it and started using other tools.) This

[NTG-context] Producing EPDF

2009-04-19 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, is it possible to and howdoi produce EPDF (in mkiv if it matters). By EPDF I mean EPS like PDF, pagesize == bounding box of what is really printed with minimal or no white border. Reason to do that - produce with ConTeXt one-two line short labels for another program (Asymptote).

Re: [NTG-context] Producing dvi

2009-04-19 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Mojca and All, On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Mojca Miklavec wrote: (When I last tried to use Asymptote I gave up since I was not able to figure out how to install it and started using other tools.) It would be really nice if someone would be ready to spend time to include asymptote in TeX Live.

[NTG-context] PDF ExtensionLevel

2009-03-24 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, Is there any way in ConTeXt to set PDF ExtensionLevel, as per http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/adobe_supplement_iso32000.pdf and like %PDF 1.7 /Type /Catalog /Extensions /ADBE /BaseVersion /1.7 /ExtensionLevel 3 Sincerely,

Re: [NTG-context] font-win.tex

2009-03-10 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Taco and All, Taco Hoekwater wrote: type-mac for Mac OS (are .dfont fonts working in LuaTeX 0.40). That would be nice, but I am not sure I will get around to implementing it (besides time constraints, it is never easy to develop for a platform one doesn't actually have). BTW, how the

Re: [NTG-context] My printer vs. Times New Roman

2009-03-09 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Vyatcheslav, On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: I have Samsung ML-1615 laser printer. When I print an MS Word document typesetted in Times New Roman, the printer uses internal (hardware) font resource, and hardcopy is very smooth and nice. When I print a pdf generated by

Re: [NTG-context] MinionPro problems

2009-02-27 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, I have a comment only on a minor issue and just warning, not error: On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Does somebody know what the following means? (Was working a few monthes ago) load otf | warning: The glyph named mu is mapped to U+00B5. But its name indicates it

[NTG-context] Unicode Math - what it is

2009-02-13 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, sorry for a stupid question, the unicode math that is about to come means formula input using Unicode Math instead of tex commands as suggested in Unicode Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v2.pdf or use of the Unicode

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode Math - what it is

2009-02-13 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Mojca and All, sorry for a stupid question, the unicode math that is about to come means formula input using Unicode Math instead of tex commands as suggested in Unicode Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics The answer to your question might as well be a tiny bit of yes because I'm

Re: [NTG-context] embedding 3d pdf

2009-01-01 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, I am slowly implementing Subj. for mkiv + luatex combo and it already kinda works.. Is there anyone on the list now interested in testing/using it? Sincerely, Michail ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Attachments

2008-12-25 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, I agree, it should be documented better. I figured the usage from the source and trial and error. i wrote it when it was just available bug bugged in the viewer so it never made it into some myway since i never used it except from demos is the functionality supposed to work in

Re: [NTG-context] Does ConTeXt really support russian language?

2008-12-25 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Andrey and All, On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, Andrey Riabushenko wrote: Works on ConTeXt Minimals, but does not work on TeX Live 2008 and teTeX 3.0. In there a solution that will work on every of three distributions? teTeX is abandoned by te and is considered obsolete, is not it? Is really

[NTG-context] calling a function with complex parameters

2008-12-07 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, I need to fill a lua table with data, and some values may be tables. How to supply that data from ConTeXt? The most straightforward way is to make user fill a string with lua code of table initiaiser and then use loadstring. In this case the syntax is laconic, but resilence in case of

Re: [NTG-context] can not include movie AKA embedding 3d pdf

2008-12-06 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Hans Hagen wrote: i uploaded an alpha zip which has mov inclusion working Where to? website Sorry for stupid question :( That inclusion does really work but for a minor problem - label parameter is ignored and the label (or name as it is displayed by the

[NTG-context] Optical scaling

2008-12-03 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, among advertised advantages of TeX there used to be optical scaling, when text in the same font but in different sizes has different shapes of glyphs. That used to be the feature of metafont fonts and derived PostScript ones (like cm-super). But it seems now, with TeX Gyre becoming the

Re: [NTG-context] Optical scaling

2008-12-03 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: That used to be the feature of metafont fonts and derived PostScript ones (like cm-super). Or Latin Modern, also derived from the meta sources. But it seems now, with TeX Gyre becoming the default free fonts set, it seems the idea is

Re: [NTG-context] can not include movie AKA embedding 3d pdf

2008-11-30 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Hans Hagen wrote: i uploaded an alpha zip which has mov inclusion working Where to? Is there any way in luatex/context to include a pdf file with annotations (without losing them). Not necessary embedding it into a page, but also as currently not, at some

Re: [NTG-context] embedding 3d pdf

2008-11-28 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Luigi and All, On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, luigi scarso wrote: Renaud Aubin wrote: See http://www.nibua-r.org/ConTeXt/devel/ while the macros there are a great improvement from what was posted on the list and look extandable for my purposes the other question remains - does it

Re: [NTG-context] can not include movie

2008-11-28 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans and All, you wrote: ConTeXt user manual says movies are just like figures, but when I process works ok in pdftex \placefigure [here] {none} {\externalfigure[texwork.mov][width=0.7\textwidth, height=.7\textwidth,label=demo,preview=yes]} in luatex i simply didn't implement it

Re: [NTG-context] can not include movie AKA embedding 3d pdf

2008-11-28 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans and All, On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Hans Hagen wrote: But where to look for luatex-related code to use as an example and starting point for u3d handling? not there; maybe next year And also concerning mov including he wrote in luatex i simply didn't implement it yet (will do it soon)

[NTG-context] can not include movie

2008-11-27 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, ConTeXt user manual says movies are just like figures, but when I process \starttext \placefigure[here]{none}{\externalfigure[demo.mov][width=0.7\textwidth, height=.7\textwidth, label=demo, preview=yes]} \stoptext with context filename.tex using the latest minimals without any

Re: [NTG-context] embedding 3d pdf

2008-11-26 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, Renaud Aubin wrote: See http://www.nibua-r.org/ConTeXt/devel/ while the macros there are a great improvement from what was posted on the list and look extandable for my purposes (thanks, Renaud), the other question remains - does it make sense to try to implement 3d model embedding in

[NTG-context] embedding 3d pdf

2008-11-22 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, since ConTeXt lacks support for embedding 3D models (U3D or PRC) into PDF (btw, is pdf annotations support in context/luatex combination fit for end-user or is in transition?) I have tried to embed some 3D PDFs from http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/gallery/3D%20graphs/ and

Re: [NTG-context] Has anybody used asymptote without LaTeX?

2008-10-10 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Zhichu Chen wrote: If I want to embed the .prc file into a pdf document, all I need to do is specify the correct /Subtype and mime type. That's very easy. I think creating 3D presentations without any commercial or mouse- clicking-GUI interface becomes

Re: [NTG-context] Has anybody used asymptote without LaTeX?

2008-09-29 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, And how to embed .prc files into the .pdf document? I have made a standalone embedder some time ago, reproducing capabilities of movie15 LeTeX package and somewhat extending them. If anybody is interested it can be put in shipable state. Sincerely, Michail

[NTG-context] incorrect/absent PostScript names for some greek characters

2008-05-11 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans and All, in char-def.lua there are no adobename for greekDelta AKA GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA greekOmega AKA GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA greekmuAKA GREEK SMALL LETTER MU because adobenames Delta, Omega and mu are used for INCREMENT, OHM SIGN, textmu AKA MICRO SIGN. While the