Re: [NTG-context] Typescript struggles

2010-12-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On 12/16/2010 04:15 PM, Willi Egger wrote: Hi all, what is wrong with the following typescript file? - Sorry the font's name is Nothing.otf \starttypescript [handwriting] [nothing] \definefontsynonym [Nothing-Regular][file:Nothing] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [handwriting] [nothing]

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 16-12-2010 8:31, luigi scarso wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Marco Pessottomelmo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello there. Yesterday I was trying to typeset a very, very long document (about 3000 pages in A4). Well, mkiv died with a PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (stack

Re: [NTG-context] Three column nomenclature settings?

2010-12-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 01.12.2010 um 14:50 schrieb seasoul: Nomenclature can be considered as a type of synonyms. Therefore, I can define a nomenclature as : \definesynonyms[nomenclature][nomenclatures][\infull] \setupsynonyms[nomenclature] [criterium=all,location=serried] here I use location=serried,

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On 12/17/2010 07:52 AM, luigi scarso wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Jonas Steinn...@jonasstein.de wrote: Yesterday I was trying to typeset a very, very long document (about 3000 pages in A4). Well, mkiv died with a PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (stack overflow (out of

Re: [NTG-context] FR: Wiki: Button to include code area

2010-12-17 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Am 17.12.2010 um 06:38 schrieb Jonas Stein: My Featurerequest for the Wiki: in some wikis its possible to enhance the buttons in the edit window with own tags. I would suggest to add context source=yes $text /context that should work like the link button that creates

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-17 Thread Vedran Miletić
2010/12/17 Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com On 12/17/2010 07:52 AM, luigi scarso wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Jonas Steinn...@jonasstein.de wrote: Yesterday I was trying to typeset a very, very long document (about 3000 pages in A4). Well, mkiv died with a PANIC: unprotected

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-17 Thread Martin Schröder
2010/12/17 Vedran Miletić riva...@gmail.com: How high is the limit now? Just curious, since I saw LuaTeX building _a paragraph_ lasting few hundred pages without problems (on the other hand, pdfTeX couldn't do it). Which limit? For the simple knuth case most likely the size of your harddisk is

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On 12/17/2010 10:44 AM, Vedran Miletić wrote: How high is the limit now? There is nothing hardcoded anywhere, but I suspect that after a few million pages some limit somewhere will be reached eventually: either the harddisk gets full, or your pdf reader will be unable to open the pdf due to

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 17-12-2010 10:44, Vedran Miletić wrote: How high is the limit now? Just curious, since I saw LuaTeX building _a paragraph_ lasting few hundred pages without problems (on the other hand, pdfTeX couldn't do it). I've done tests with tens of thousands of pages with mkiv with no problem so

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-17 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Friday 17 December 2010 10:49:27 Martin Schröder wrote: And you'll get problems with pdfs with millions of objects (i.e. pages), as readers can't cope with them. Which readers: do you refer to computer programs or to humans? (This is what Herbert Simon calls bounded rationality.) Alan

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-17 Thread Martin Schröder
2010/12/17 Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com: pdf due to its internal limits (luatex will happily create 10GB pdfs). The code allows ca. 1TB; that should be enough for everyone (I hope I don't live to see the day that it isn't :). Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-17 Thread Martin Schröder
2010/12/17 Alan BRASLAU alan.bras...@cea.fr: Which readers: do you refer to computer programs or to humans? Programs. You'll hit implementation limits in Adobe Reader. Best Martin ___ If your question is of

[NTG-context] contextgarden.net

2010-12-17 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, I have mentioned it at the last context conference: I am looking for a person (or a group) to take over the server contextgarden.net. Not only the wiki or the modules section or ..., but the complete server. I have started everything more then seven years ago and we (= you) have all made

[NTG-context] Bug: delay in \getmarking

2010-12-17 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, I don't no exactly when it changed, but it still worked in ConTeXt ver: 2010.09.05 13:23 MKIV. Now, there is a one page delay in \getmarking! Please run minimal exmaple below and look at page 7: Section = 1.2 B Header = 1.2 A Steffen --- \setuppagenumbering

Re: [NTG-context] Marginal line numbers

2010-12-17 Thread Jon Crump
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 16.12.2010 um 22:28 schrieb Jon Crump: In python-speak I'd interpret context.color() as a method call on a module 'context'. Could you, or anyone, direct me to any documentation for this module and

Re: [NTG-context] Typescript struggles

2010-12-17 Thread Willi Egger
Gosh, how stupid can I be? - Indeed the t! Willi On 17 Dec 2010, at 09:29, Taco Hoekwater wrote: On 12/16/2010 04:15 PM, Willi Egger wrote: Hi all, what is wrong with the following typescript file? - Sorry the font's name is Nothing.otf \starttypescript [handwriting] [nothing]

[NTG-context] why lua?

2010-12-17 Thread Jonas Stein
i'd like to make a small presentation for friends about context. Why do we use lua and not python or perl or... Where can i find the features for lua for this job? Kind regards, -- Jonas Stein n...@jonasstein.de

Re: [NTG-context] why lua?

2010-12-17 Thread Martin Schröder
2010/12/17 Jonas Stein n...@jonasstein.de: Why do we use lua and not python or perl or... Where can i find the features for lua for this job? RTFAQ: http://www.luatex.org/faq.html HTH. HAND. ___ If your question is

[NTG-context] [OT] quvira fonts

2010-12-17 Thread luigi scarso
http://quivira-font.com/ -- luigi ___ 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 :

Re: [NTG-context] why lua?

2010-12-17 Thread Philipp A.
2010/12/17 Jonas Stein n...@jonasstein.de i'd like to make a small presentation for friends about context. Why do we use lua and not python or perl or... you can. google for “luatex lunatic”. you’ll have to build a little module defining the macros you use, though. (like \ctxpython,

Re: [NTG-context] Marginal line numbers

2010-12-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 16, 2010, at 10:28 PM, Jon Crump wrote: Thomas, et alia. Thanks so very much! I now have this: \startluacode function filter(s) if math.mod(s,5) == 0 then context.color( { darkred }, s ) end end \stopluacode \define[1]\MyNumber% {\ctxlua{filter(#1)}\endgraf}

Re: [NTG-context] Marginal line numbers

2010-12-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 16, 2010, at 10:28 PM, Jon Crump wrote: Thomas, et alia. Thanks so very much! I now have this: \startluacode function filter(s) if math.mod(s,5) == 0 then context.color( { darkred }, s ) end end \stopluacode \define[1]\MyNumber% {\ctxlua{filter(#1)}\endgraf}

Re: [NTG-context] why lua?

2010-12-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 17-12-2010 4:20, Jonas Stein wrote: i'd like to make a small presentation for friends about context. Why do we use lua and not python or perl or... Where can i find the features for lua for this job? you can find arguments in presentations and articles and mk.pdf - nice language (pascal

Re: [NTG-context] why lua?

2010-12-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 17-12-2010 11:35, Philipp A. wrote: 2010/12/17 Jonas Steinn...@jonasstein.de i'd like to make a small presentation for friends about context. Why do we use lua and not python or perl or... you can. google for “luatex lunatic”. you’ll have to build a little module defining the macros you

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] quvira fonts

2010-12-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 17-12-2010 10:57, luigi scarso wrote: http://quivira-font.com/ it has a lot of extra symbols and also math characters ... (no otf math features afaiks) Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA

Re: [NTG-context] why lua?

2010-12-17 Thread Philipp Gesang
On 2010-12-17 16:20:31, Jonas Stein wrote: i'd like to make a small presentation for friends about context. Why do we use lua and not python or perl or... Where can i find the features for lua for this job? After all those arguments in favor of Lua the only thing I can add are valid reasons

Re: [NTG-context] Bug against minimals

2010-12-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 16-12-2010 8:46, Xan wrote: Hi, With latest stable minimals version I don't get correct output of the metapost article (I attach it) But with the texlive package with ubuntu 8.04 (and only with 8.04; with 10.10 I have the same problem), it works. I think it's a bug Thanks, Xan. next make

Re: [NTG-context] why lua?

2010-12-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 18-12-2010 12:27, Philipp Gesang wrote: On 2010-12-1716:20:31, Jonas Stein wrote: i'd like to make a small presentation for friends about context. Why do we use lua and not python or perl or... Where can i find the features for lua for this job? After all those arguments in favor of Lua

Re: [NTG-context] why lua?

2010-12-17 Thread Philipp A.
hans, some of the things you said are a bit unclear to me: 2010/12/18 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl Ah .. the extending vs the embedding debate ... well, an argument could have been that we don't want to extend python -) see last paragraphs. I've only used Pascal, Modula2, Perl (after all that

Re: [NTG-context] why lua?

2010-12-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010, Philipp A. wrote: my dream for luatex/context would be a built-in lua interpreter (because lua is so fucking small) and optional modules for other, heavier, scripting languages (perl, ruby), which you don’t have to install. i don’t care if python is embedded or extended, i

[NTG-context] New to this

2010-12-17 Thread Anand Raj
Hi, I have a html page containing mathml and svg content. How can i make use of the pragma script? How can i integrate with php? Thanks ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to