Re: [NTG-context] update lmtx
On 11/26/2021 11:10 AM, Alain Delmotte via ntg-context wrote: Hi! Le 22/11/2021 à 22:37, Hans Hagen via ntg-context a écrit : Hi, We're still working on the math so updated lfg files buit not many other things apart from a few fixes. In the process I ran into another area where ms eems to take the lead: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/math-in-office/unicode-math-braille-sequences/ and although it aims at msword I gave that a go for context so we now have a "braille-basic" module (style) that we (can) use (and run as demo) for playing with math spacing because we basically have a monospace font. If there is any interest in braille as alternative output we can extend that. I'm pretty sure that we need to adapt some (general spacing related) presets to this situation. Hans I remember having contact with people in the braille association in Belgium. To prepare braille text you need to follow certain rules, it is not just using braille symbols. sure, there are subtle details (leading chars and so) and there's also some 'shortcut' system So it is better to ask braille specialist about the requirements for good braille text. I'll wait and see what demands show up ... at least some basics are there. Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl - ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] update lmtx
Hi! Le 22/11/2021 à 22:37, Hans Hagen via ntg-context a écrit : Hi, We're still working on the math so updated lfg files buit not many other things apart from a few fixes. In the process I ran into another area where ms eems to take the lead: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/math-in-office/unicode-math-braille-sequences/ and although it aims at msword I gave that a go for context so we now have a "braille-basic" module (style) that we (can) use (and run as demo) for playing with math spacing because we basically have a monospace font. If there is any interest in braille as alternative output we can extend that. I'm pretty sure that we need to adapt some (general spacing related) presets to this situation. Hans I remember having contact with people in the braille association in Belgium. To prepare braille text you need to follow certain rules, it is not just using braille symbols. So it is better to ask braille specialist about the requirements for good braille text. Alain ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] update lmtx
On 11/25/2021 12:22 PM, Alain Delmotte via ntg-context wrote: Hi, In the new upload for Windows 10/64 there is a new file "modules.bat". When I did launch it it went through all my harddisk and most of the time there was a line saying: "File has vanished..." those were about files outside the context-lmtx folder. (See the two attached images) I crashed the action. afaik there is no modules.bat file and looking at your screen shots i see all kind of files that are not in lmtx so something fishy is happening on your machine Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl - ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] update lmtx
Hi, In the new upload for Windows 10/64 there is a new file "modules.bat". When I did launch it it went through all my harddisk and most of the time there was a line saying: "File has vanished..." those were about files outside the context-lmtx folder. (See the two attached images) I crashed the action. How can I have the modules installed in "C:\Users\Alain\context-lmtx\tex" and have the module use working? Thanks, Alain Le 22/11/2021 à 22:37, Hans Hagen via ntg-context a écrit : Hi, We're still working on the math so updated lfg files buit not many other things apart from a few fixes. In the process I ran into another area where ms eems to take the lead: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/math-in-office/unicode-math-braille-sequences/ and although it aims at msword I gave that a go for context so we now have a "braille-basic" module (style) that we (can) use (and run as demo) for playing with math spacing because we basically have a monospace font. If there is any interest in braille as alternative output we can extend that. I'm pretty sure that we need to adapt some (general spacing related) presets to this situation. Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl - ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___ ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] update lmtx
Hi, We're still working on the math so updated lfg files buit not many other things apart from a few fixes. In the process I ran into another area where ms eems to take the lead: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/math-in-office/unicode-math-braille-sequences/ and although it aims at msword I gave that a go for context so we now have a "braille-basic" module (style) that we (can) use (and run as demo) for playing with math spacing because we basically have a monospace font. If there is any interest in braille as alternative output we can extend that. I'm pretty sure that we need to adapt some (general spacing related) presets to this situation. Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl - ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] update lmtx
Hi, The end of the week update provides: \starttext \startTEXpage[offset=10pt] \starttabulate[|c|c|c|] \NC 1 \NC second column \NC third column \NC \NR \NC 2 \NC second\NC third\NC \NR \NC 3 r \NS[1][r]second & third \NC \NR \NC 3 c \NS[1][c]second & third \NC \NR \NC 3 l \NS[1][l]second & third \NC \NR \stoptabulate \stopTEXpage \stoptext where \NS means that there will be a span over columns (I needed such a span fro a manual but it only covers simple cases). There is also a new lowlevel manual, this time on marks (aka markings), think of running headers and so. I'm considering replacing the marking code by new code that I already have one my machine. In mkiv we;ve always used a more powerful alternative for the marks that than what luatex and friends provide but in luametatex I added a few of the missing pieces to the engine in addition to what already what there for a while. But I need Wolfgang to go over the code in order to identify possible side effects first. Hans ps. Because Dutch telecom (who so far took over all the providers we ever had so we had to change a few times) now completely quits web services we need to switch provider (again; so much for synergy) so the upcoming week there might be glitches in accessing the installer (we don't fallback on the garden yet). - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl - ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] update lmtx / luametatex 2.05
Hi, I uploaded an update of lmtx. The current version of luametatex is 2.05 which is kind of the first supposedly stable release because it incorperates most of what was on my agenda for the first phase (functionality level 20200229 which was when it happened). Of course I expect there to be bugs but not much that can't be solved fast. This version will be the starting point for Wolfgang and me to explore future possibilities (more deep down in the context source code as well as in the engine). We'll see. Although the performance of lmtx compared to mkiv is hit by more time onsuming backend code, it gets compensated by some optimizations elswehere, a smaller memory footprint, etc. As no one complains about performance it doesn't matter much anyway. Unless you used luajittex there will be no real difference in most cases. We're in tex live code freeze time so I don't want to change much to the lua and tex part of the distribution right now but nevertheless there has been some minor (practical) adaptations in applying fonts that also reflects on mkiv but that should not be noticeable in practice (also because I rejected some adaptations that had a performance impact in mkiv). Mojca and I decided to support yet another platform, this time arm 64 bit for which we use a raspberry pi running ubuntu 64 bit, which brings the platforms supported by the build bot to 15: freebsd freebsd-amd64 openbsd6.5 openbsd6.5-64 openbsd6.6 openbsd6.6-64 linux-armhf linux-aarch64 linuxlinux-64 osx-64 mswinwin64 plus windows-clang-x86_64 and windows-x86_64 because they help to identify issues (and provide useful compiler warnings) but for now we stick to the mingw variants because they run a few percent faster than the (smaller) native windows version. For those interested in tiny machines: the rpi performs roughly one third of what my laptop does which is not bad, although I suppose a more modern intel gen 10 i9 machine will be quite a bit faster. The benchmark is processing the luametatex manual which takes about 12 seconds on the laptop (252 pages, lots of tables, 250+ mp images, 20+ fonts files). A 64 rpi is a little faster than the 32 bit variant. Because tex is a single thread/core process overclocking the little thingie has a positive effect too. Anyway, it makes us confident that when the source gets into the distribution, which depends on the upcoming repository setup and should not interfere with the tl code freeze, users can compile themselves, something that can contribute to a more comfortable feeling of independence of complex and large compilation infrastructures. Hopefully I didn't mess up too much, Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl - ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___