[NTG-context] Re: Why LuaMetaTex is so slow?

2024-01-18 Thread Joseph Wright
On 18/01/2024 20:55, Gavin via ntg-context wrote: That’s fast enough for me. That's surely the key statement - 'fast' here is a personal thing, and 40 pages a second is fast enough for many people. It's certainly fast when you look at what LuaMetaTeX is doing, as Hans has said. Joseph

[NTG-context] Re: How to use Adobe Acrobat Reader (free) as the pdf viewer when compiling file in Windows Terminal (Windows)

2024-09-09 Thread Joseph Wright
On 10/09/2024 06:52, Felix wrote: I want to use Adobe Acrobat Reader (free) and I always get this message when I have my Windows Terminal, vs code and acrobat setup backend > quitting because file 'Chapter 4 Assignment.pdf' cannot be opened for writing I run into no problems with usin

Re: [NTG-context] Luatex 0.85.0 announcement

2015-11-23 Thread Joseph Wright
On 21/11/2015 10:03, luigi scarso wrote: > New luatex release, 0.85.0 > > It's really a big change respect to 0.81.0 > (see NEWS for a full report) > and, well, there can be bugs (that of course we will solve). > > > The archives can be downloaded from supelec as usual: > > https://fo

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: [OS X TeX] ConTeXt issues

2011-09-10 Thread Joseph Wright
istributed file; for example, if TEXMFVAR was changed in -- the installer. -- return { TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2011/texmf-var' } -- Joseph Wright ___ If your question is of interest to others as well

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: [OS X TeX] ConTeXt issues

2011-09-10 Thread Joseph Wright
t was my first port of call after 'context' failed from my MacTeX installation. However, there does not seem to be any Tikz in the minimals, and I needed that. Setting up Tikz is not so straight-forward. I've managed to get a working system on my PC, but would of cour

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: [OS X TeX] ConTeXt issues

2011-09-10 Thread Joseph Wright
changed in >> -- the installer. >> -- >> return { TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2011/texmf-var' } >> -- >> Joseph Wright > > Were you, by any chance, an early adopter who didn't install the new > version of MacPorts once it was officially rel

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: [OS X TeX] ConTeXt issues

2011-09-10 Thread Joseph Wright
On 10/09/2011 12:04, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Since you seem to have posted your original question to another > mailing list, can you please at least leave a reply that the issue was > solved (and how you solved it)? Of course: will do. -- Jose

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: [OS X TeX] ConTeXt issues

2011-09-10 Thread Joseph Wright
ow level resource management but if the > proper interfaces are used this should work now Hello Hans, Thanks for that: I had not investigated the options for first-setup. -- Joseph Wright ___ If your question is of i

Re: [NTG-context] Layout for writing a letter

2009-01-20 Thread Joseph Wright
Cecil Westerhof wrote: > I am just starting with working with ConTeXt. I was wondering if there > is a good template for writing letters? > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Letter_style, perhaps? -- Jose

Re: [NTG-context] When to migrate from MKII to MKIV?

2009-02-04 Thread Joseph Wright
will also take "author generated" PDFs, so I assume ConTeXt/LaTeX/plain/whatever. The thing with chemical formulae is that while in-line ones are okay as text ("CH2=CH2 + H2O -> CH3-CH2OH"), complex structures are really a pain to enter in TeX (despite many valiant eff

Re: [NTG-context] [tex-live] Announcing TLContrib

2010-10-09 Thread Joseph Wright
What's the upload procedure for package authors? Do I just send to the server my .tds.zip, or is there more to it than that. At the moment things are a bit sparse on the site :-) -- Joseph Wright ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] [tex-live] Announcing TLContrib

2010-10-09 Thread Joseph Wright
On 09/10/2010 09:38, Taco Hoekwater wrote: On 10/09/2010 10:03 AM, Joseph Wright wrote: What's the upload procedure for package authors? Do I just send to the server my .tds.zip, or is there more to it than that. At the moment things are a bit sparse on the site :-) Did you miss the

[NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-01 Thread Joseph Wright
7;official' response, as things do seem a little confusing (at least to me). I'm happy to post something as a reply to the question if I know what the position is (or indeed if it is "read what we've put and g

[NTG-context] Table "modules"

2018-10-28 Thread Joseph Wright
Hello all, Looking at management of global Lua tables (for the obvious cases ...), I notice that all of the core Mk IV files use the construct if not modules then modules = { } end modules["From a ConTeXt point-of-view, is it acceptable for third-parties to use this construct, or is i

Re: [NTG-context] Table "modules"

2018-10-29 Thread Joseph Wright
On 28/10/2018 16:06, Joseph Wright wrote: Hello all, Looking at management of global Lua tables (for the obvious cases ...), I notice that all of the core Mk IV files use the construct     if not modules then modules = { } end     modules[" From a ConTeXt point-of-view, is it accep

Re: [NTG-context] Welcome to LMTX

2019-04-01 Thread Joseph Wright
On 01/04/2019 15:55, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi all, After more than a decade of mkiv and luatex it's time to move on to a new stage. After all, nowadays a ten-year old program is considered to be really old, especially for those who consider a manual typeset three years ago as an indication of lac

Re: [NTG-context] Archlinux: updated BPKGBUILD for luametatex

2021-12-15 Thread Joseph Wright via ntg-context
On 15/12/2021 20:32, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote: This corresponds the "Download" link on the CTAN page of each package, but unfortunately, is not always in TDS format. For example, for pgf (which is locate at /graphics/pgf/base), we have https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/base.zip

Re: [NTG-context] TUG 2023

2023-01-04 Thread Joseph Wright via ntg-context
On 04/01/2023 16:50, Thomas A. Schmitz via ntg-context wrote: Hi everybody, an excellent year 2023 to all of you - I hesitate to say "it can only get better from 2022." That's what we thought last year, and boy were we wrong and did it get worse... Let's hope that this year will be more peace