Re: [NTG-context] future versions - synctex

2018-08-21 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/21/2018 4:46 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Are the x and y values in pts (post script points or big points?) measured from the top-left corner? afaik bottom up base points the script will look into the synctex file and figure out where to go to. Basically all the viewer needs to do is

Re: [NTG-context] future versions - synctex

2018-08-21 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 21 Aug 2018, Hans Hagen wrote: On 8/21/2018 3:04 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2018, Hans Hagen wrote: Anyway, a better support for "pick-in-PDF-and-go-to-source" (synctex), namely when user "tunes" the docs to their final stage, would be great. I think that the current

Re: [NTG-context] future versions - synctex

2018-08-21 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/21/2018 3:04 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2018, Hans Hagen wrote: Anyway, a better support for "pick-in-PDF-and-go-to-source" (synctex), namely when user "tunes" the docs to their final stage, would be great. I think that the current approach to hard code synctex libraries

Re: [NTG-context] future versions - synctex

2018-08-21 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 21 Aug 2018, Hans Hagen wrote: Anyway, a better support for "pick-in-PDF-and-go-to-source" (synctex), namely when user "tunes" the docs to their final stage, would be great. I think that the current approach to hard code synctex libraries into a viewer is a limitation (instead an

Re: [NTG-context] future versions - synctex

2018-08-21 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/21/2018 10:00 AM, Procházka Lukáš Ing. wrote: When building a document (or more precisely: documentation which consists of many documents), I'm widely referring to other files via \input, \component etc., I'm widely using \defs, \defines and \buffers defined in separate files (as these

Re: [NTG-context] future versions - synctex

2018-08-21 Thread Procházka Lukáš Ing .
Hello, a bit later - I was thinking if to react here, after reading all about synctex and complicated support for complicatedly assembled source files - but my personal experience/wish... On 7/24/2018 11:02 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Hi Hans, all, One needed feature

Re: [NTG-context] future versions

2018-07-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2018-07-25 um 19:50 schrieb Hans Hagen : >> In any case, I would very much appreciate another “frozen” release like MK >> II that one can use for documents that need to be retypeset over years >> (like my lecture notes that need an update every few years). > > When we have luatex 1.10 that

Re: [NTG-context] future versions

2018-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/25/2018 3:12 PM, Weber, Matthias wrote: I have an entirely different suggestion, possibly fitting the description of a possible “lean” version. One important feature of TeX has been the longevity of the documents. This is of course of little interest to those of us who typeset a

Re: [NTG-context] future versions

2018-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/25/2018 6:18 PM, Alan Braslau wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 09:50:58 -0400 Rik Kabel wrote: On 7/25/2018 04:19, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2018-07-25 um 03:29 schrieb Rik Kabel : I would ask for more stylistic or semantic tagging to be added to the XML export. A good example is that of

Re: [NTG-context] future versions

2018-07-25 Thread Alan Braslau
On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 09:50:58 -0400 Rik Kabel wrote: > On 7/25/2018 04:19, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > Am 2018-07-25 um 03:29 schrieb Rik Kabel > > : > >> I would ask for more stylistic or semantic tagging to be added to > >> the XML export. A good example is that of bibliographies, where >

Re: [NTG-context] future versions

2018-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/25/2018 3:50 PM, Rik Kabel wrote: On 7/25/2018 04:19, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2018-07-25 um 03:29 schrieb Rik Kabel : I would ask for more stylistic or semantic tagging to be added to the XML export. A good example is that of bibliographies, where font styles carry significant

Re: [NTG-context] future versions

2018-07-25 Thread Rik Kabel
On 7/25/2018 04:19, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2018-07-25 um 03:29 schrieb Rik Kabel : I would ask for more stylistic or semantic tagging to be added to the XML export. A good example is that of bibliographies, where font styles carry significant semantic meaning (depending on the

Re: [NTG-context] future versions

2018-07-25 Thread Weber, Matthias
I have an entirely different suggestion, possibly fitting the description of a possible “lean” version. One important feature of TeX has been the longevity of the documents. This is of course of little interest to those of us who typeset a book/journal for publishing and care little about it

Re: [NTG-context] future versions

2018-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/25/2018 12:03 PM, Richard Mahoney | Indica et Buddhica wrote: Agree wholeheartedly, and possibly also support for Tibetan. define support ... what is needed - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE

Re: [NTG-context] future versions

2018-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/25/2018 9:45 AM, Robert Zydenbos wrote: On 24. Jul 2018, at 20:43, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, […] That said, a logical question is how about next versions of context. Are there fundamental features missing? Is more needed? […] At the risk of sounding like a scratched, repeating gramophone

Re: [NTG-context] future versions

2018-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/25/2018 3:29 AM, Rik Kabel wrote: On 7/24/2018 14:43, Hans Hagen wrote: I would ask for more stylistic or semantic tagging to be added to the XML export. A good example is that of bibliographies, where font styles carry significant semantic meaning (depending on the standard used:

Re: [NTG-context] future versions

2018-07-25 Thread Richard Mahoney | Indica et Buddhica
- From: Robert Zydenbos Reply-to: mailing list for ConTeXt users To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Subject: Re: [NTG-context] future versions Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 09:45:47 +0200 Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.8.2) On 24. Jul 2018, at 20:43, Hans Hagen wrote: > Hi, > > […] > That sai

Re: [NTG-context] future versions

2018-07-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2018-07-25 um 03:29 schrieb Rik Kabel : > I would ask for more stylistic or semantic tagging to be added to the XML > export. A good example is that of bibliographies, where font styles carry > significant semantic meaning (depending on the standard used: italic for book > titles, ibold or

Re: [NTG-context] future versions

2018-07-25 Thread Robert Zydenbos
On 24. Jul 2018, at 20:43, Hans Hagen wrote: > Hi, > > […] > That said, a logical question is how about next versions of context. Are > there fundamental features missing? Is more needed? […] At the risk of sounding like a scratched, repeating gramophone record -- support for Indic scripts

Re: [NTG-context] future versions

2018-07-24 Thread Rik Kabel
On 7/24/2018 14:43, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, Around the upcoming context meeting we expect to release luatex 1.09 (or 1.10 ... yet undecided) which is the prelude to the next year tex live version. It's another step towards a stable version in terms of functionality as we don't expect much more

Re: [NTG-context] future versions

2018-07-24 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/24/2018 11:02 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Hi Hans, all, One needed feature that would be of general use is better support for synctex. Thinking especially of structural elements such as headings, footnotes, etc. which mostly do not work with synctex - i.e., clicking

Re: [NTG-context] future versions

2018-07-24 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Hi Hans, all, On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 12:43:51 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, Around the upcoming context meeting we expect to release luatex 1.09 (or 1.10 ... yet undecided) which is the prelude to the next year tex live version. It's another step towards a stable version in terms of

Re: [NTG-context] future versions

2018-07-24 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 07/24/2018 09:07 PM, Hans van der Meer wrote: > I am using XML a lot for structured data and typesetting them with > hopefully not too much attention to detail — although I must confess > often being a hopeless perfectionist. But is it possible to use ConTeXt without paying attention to the

Re: [NTG-context] future versions

2018-07-24 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 07/24/2018 08:43 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > [...] > It's not my intention to implement each possible feature as core feature > (no one would document it anyway). Also, as development is basically a > spare time effort, don't expect complex commercially interesting niches > to come for free

Re: [NTG-context] future versions

2018-07-24 Thread Hans van der Meer
I am using XML a lot for structured data and typesetting them with hopefully not too much attention to detail — although I must confess often being a hopeless perfectionist. If there are general improvements that can be made in that direction, I would welcome them. Although I apologise not

[NTG-context] future versions

2018-07-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, Around the upcoming context meeting we expect to release luatex 1.09 (or 1.10 ... yet undecided) which is the prelude to the next year tex live version. It's another step towards a stable version in terms of functionality as we don't expect much more to be added (in fact, I'm wondering