[NTG-context] Re: upload

2024-02-15 Thread Hans Hagen
a 5.5 which has one restriction (was already announced a while ago): hm, I don't see lua 5.5 around ... perhaps Lua 5.4.5 ? it's beta stuff but luametatex is an good test for it as it used a lot of lua so it's s way to

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-14 Thread Joaquín Ataz López
, how to understand and utilize the underlying engine itself (the low level LuaMetaTeX), how to even use DocBook with ConTeXt, etc. (I do realize that there already are manuals for lua in ConTeXt and on LuaMetaTeX, etc., and manuals on various different parts of ConTeXt, and I'll certai

[NTG-context] Re: Fwd: Re: Context lmtx for 32bit under LUBUNTU 18.04

2024-02-14 Thread Hans Hagen
use luametatex anyway). 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

[NTG-context] Fwd: Re: Context lmtx for 32bit under LUBUNTU 18.04

2024-02-14 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
: Henning Hraban Ramm Dear Henning, --- Your instructions: PWD=`pwd` cd tex/texmf-context/source/luametatex sh build.sh cp build/native/luametatex "$PWD/tex/texmf-linux/bin/" cd "$PWD" --- My actions: I created a 'context' folder in my h

[NTG-context] Fwd: Re: Context lmtx for 32bit under LUBUNTU 18.04

2024-02-13 Thread Alain Delmotte
ut if this a too complicate problem, I'll stand with the TeX Live Context. Just compile it yourself. In your installation root (where install.sh is): PWD=`pwd` cd tex/texmf-context/source/luametatex sh build.sh cp build/native/luametatex "$PWD/tex/texmf-linux/bin/" cd "$PW

[NTG-context] Re: Context lmtx for 32bit under LUBUNTU 18.04

2024-02-13 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
his a too complicate problem, I'll stand with the TeX Live Context. Just compile it yourself. In your installation root (where install.sh is): PWD=`pwd` cd tex/texmf-context/source/luametatex sh build.sh cp build/native/luametatex "$PWD/tex/texmf-linux/bin/"

[NTG-context] An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-11 Thread SirColeman via ntg-context
hes things like how to program it using lua, how to understand and utilize the underlying engine itself (the low level LuaMetaTeX), how to even use DocBook with ConTeXt, etc. (I do realize that there already are manuals for lua in ConTeXt and on LuaMetaTeX, etc., and manuals on various different p

[NTG-context] Re: Suggestions and problems of the manuals

2024-01-26 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
and. 2. The section "Script kerning" (line 127 -- 203) in math-features.tex descibes the \mathscriptboxmode primitive which was removed in Luametatex. Wolfgang ___ If your question is of interest to others as w

[NTG-context] Re: Using plain TeX commands in ConTeXt

2024-01-24 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
Rephrasing the question, can > > LuaMetaTeX/ConTeXt compile > > plain TeX files. If yes, how can I do that? > > You mix up two different things here. > > 1. Plain TeX is a collection of TeX macros like ConTeXt or LaTeX. > > 2. LuaMetaTeX is a program like pdfTeX or LuaTe

[NTG-context] Re: Using plain TeX commands in ConTeXt

2024-01-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Shiv Shankar Dayal schrieb am 24.01.2024 um 16:37: For example: \kern, \parindent and so on. Rephrasing the question, can LuaMetaTeX/ConTeXt compile plain TeX files. If yes, how can I do that? You mix up two different things here. 1. Plain TeX is a collection of TeX macros like ConTeXt or

[NTG-context] Re: Using plain TeX commands in ConTeXt

2024-01-24 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
For example: \kern, \parindent and so on. Rephrasing the question, can LuaMetaTeX/ConTeXt compile plain TeX files. If yes, how can I do that? On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 9:02 PM Hans Hagen wrote: > On 1/24/2024 2:55 PM, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: > > Dear List, > > > > Can we u

[NTG-context] Re: Using plain TeX commands in ConTeXt

2024-01-24 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/24/2024 2:55 PM, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: Dear List, Can we use plain TeX commands which are available in LuaMetaTeX in an arbitrary manner or are there any restrictions? what do you mean with arbitrary plain tex commands

[NTG-context] Using plain TeX commands in ConTeXt

2024-01-24 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
Dear List, Can we use plain TeX commands which are available in LuaMetaTeX in an arbitrary manner or are there any restrictions? -- Respect, Shiv Shankar Dayal ___ If your question is of interest to others as well

[NTG-context] Re: After Compiling the Context test, there was no PDF.

2024-01-24 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
yal > *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 16. Jänner 2024 13:42 > *An:* mailing list for ConTeXt users > *Betreff:* [NTG-context] Re: After Compiling the Context test, there was > no PDF. > > > > I just updated my ConTeXt distribution and it is working fine for me. > > > >

[NTG-context] Re: After Compiling the Context test, there was no PDF.

2024-01-24 Thread Ursula Hermann
al mailto:shivshankar.da...@gmail.com>> wrote: Please paste line no. 238 of your input file. On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 4:11 PM Ursula Hermann mailto:ursula.herm...@univie.ac.at>> wrote: Dear List, After Compiling in the Folder: This is LuaMetaTeX, Version 2.10.11 initex (C:/Us

[NTG-context] Re: OpenBSD install failed

2024-01-23 Thread Damien Thiriet via ntg-context
tall the binaries and compile the basic test doc with \input tufte Thanks a lot! Dear Hraban, Did you try to compile your own binaries? You need CMake and a C compiler. PWD = your installation directory PLATFORM = openbsd7.4-amd64 (if that’s still right) cd $PWD/tex/texmf-context/source/luame

[NTG-context] Re: OpenBSD install failed

2024-01-22 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
-openbsd7.4-amd64/ Did you try to compile your own binaries? You need CMake and a C compiler. PWD = your installation directory PLATFORM = openbsd7.4-amd64 (if that’s still right) cd $PWD/tex/texmf-context/source/luametatex sh build.sh cp build/native/luametatex "$PWD/tex/texmf-$PLATFOR

[NTG-context] Re: After Compiling the Context test, there was no PDF.

2024-01-22 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
> \starttext > \input knuth > \stoptext > > > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 5:30 PM luigi scarso > wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 at 12:49, Shiv Shankar Dayal < > shivshankar.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Please paste line no. 238 of y

[NTG-context] Re: After Compiling the Context test, there was no PDF.

2024-01-22 Thread Ursula Hermann
24 at 12:49, Shiv Shankar Dayal mailto:shivshankar.da...@gmail.com>> wrote: Please paste line no. 238 of your input file. On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 4:11 PM Ursula Hermann mailto:ursula.herm...@univie.ac.at>> wrote: Dear List, After Compiling in the Folder: This is LuaMetaTeX, Version 2.10.11

[NTG-context] Re: After Compiling the Context test, there was no PDF.

2024-01-22 Thread Ursula Hermann
hankar Dayal mailto:shivshankar.da...@gmail.com>> wrote: Please paste line no. 238 of your input file. On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 4:11 PM Ursula Hermann mailto:ursula.herm...@univie.ac.at>> wrote: Dear List, After Compiling in the Folder: This is LuaMetaTeX, Version 2.10.11 initex (C:

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

2024-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/19/2024 7:13 PM, Bruce Horrocks wrote: On 19 Jan 2024, at 09:31, Hans Hagen wrote: On 1/18/2024 11:15 PM, Bruce Horrocks wrote: On 18 Jan 2024, at 18:56, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: I understand that why it is slow, but the problem is that the difference is too high. My book has lot

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

2024-01-19 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 19 Jan 2024, at 09:31, Hans Hagen wrote: > > On 1/18/2024 11:15 PM, Bruce Horrocks wrote: >> On 18 Jan 2024, at 18:56, Shiv Shankar Dayal >> wrote: >>> >>> I understand that why it is slow, but the problem is that the difference is >>> too high. >>> My book has lots of math, so perhaps

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

2024-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/19/2024 11:00 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 19.01.24 um 10:31 schrieb Hans Hagen: (that said: luametatex runs fine on my mobile phone) What’s the smallest/oldest device someone tried LMTX on? (We were joking about “Hans’ thermostate and Alan’s fridge“…) Would it run on some 8 bit

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

2024-01-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
> On 19 Jan 2024, at 11:00, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > Am 19.01.24 um 10:31 schrieb Hans Hagen: >> (that said: luametatex runs fine on my mobile phone) > > What’s the smallest/oldest device someone tried LMTX on? > (We were joking about “Hans’ thermostate and Ala

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

2024-01-19 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 19.01.24 um 10:31 schrieb Hans Hagen: (that said: luametatex runs fine on my mobile phone) What’s the smallest/oldest device someone tried LMTX on? (We were joking about “Hans’ thermostate and Alan’s fridge“…) Would it run on some 8 bit homecomputer? (I’d guess the RAM is too limited, and

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

2024-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
ance over time because the ages of dohbling performance every year are past. There are several factors that impact performance: tex engine : quite a bit faster in luametatex mp engine : quite a bit faster in luametatex lua engine : not much we can do about but inefficient macros and usage can off

[NTG-context] Re: LuaMetaTeX code

2024-01-19 Thread Henri Menke via ntg-context
On Fri, 2024-01-19 at 13:56 +0530, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: > Dear Hans, > > I saw the C code of LuaMetaTeX and I saw a lot of gotos which is not > good > coding practice. These potions of code which have goto should be > refactored. https://xkcd.com/292/ > I am a C progra

[NTG-context] Re: LuaMetaTeX code

2024-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/19/2024 9:31 AM, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: I see code like # define luametatex_version          210 # define luametatex_revision         10 # define luametatex_release          10 # define luametatex_version_string   "2.10.10" starting with C99 these become unnecessary. Rather they should

[NTG-context] Re: LuaMetaTeX code

2024-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/19/2024 9:26 AM, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: Dear Hans, I saw the C code of LuaMetaTeX and I saw a lot of gotos which is not good coding practice. These potions of code which have goto should be refactored. I am a C programmer, but I know very little of TeX. If you can point me towards

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

2024-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/19/2024 1:33 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: \starttext \dorecurse{5000}{\ReadFile{knuth}} \stoptext I'll send you the PDFs offlist. lmtx defaults to 'modern' so you need to \setupbodyfont[modern] for mkiv Hans -

[NTG-context] Re: LuaMetaTeX code

2024-01-19 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
uot;; > > > > These ensure type-safety in the code and are good coding practice. > > > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 1:56 PM Shiv Shankar Dayal < > shivshankar.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Hans, > > > > I saw the C code of LuaMetaTeX and I saw a lot of

[NTG-context] Re: LuaMetaTeX code

2024-01-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
rsion_string="2.10.10"; > > These ensure type-safety in the code and are good coding practice. > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 1:56 PM Shiv Shankar Dayal > wrote: > Dear Hans, > > I saw the C code of LuaMetaTeX and I saw a lot of gotos which is not good > coding

[NTG-context] Re: LuaMetaTeX code

2024-01-19 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
210; const char* luametatex_version_string="2.10.10"; These ensure type-safety in the code and are good coding practice. On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 1:56 PM Shiv Shankar Dayal < shivshankar.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Hans, > > I saw the C code of LuaMetaTeX and I saw a lot

[NTG-context] LuaMetaTeX code

2024-01-19 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
Dear Hans, I saw the C code of LuaMetaTeX and I saw a lot of gotos which is not good coding practice. These potions of code which have goto should be refactored. I am a C programmer, but I know very little of TeX. If you can point me towards where should I start for TeX(perhaps TeX Book or TeX

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

2024-01-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 19 Jan 2024, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > On 1/19/2024 12:34 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Jan 2024, Hans Hagen wrote: > > > >> Of course we'll never be as fast as (pure) plain tex (no layers added) or > >> latex (which often is advocated as faster than context). > > >

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

2024-01-18 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 1/19/2024 12:34 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 18 Jan 2024, Hans Hagen wrote: Of course we'll never be as fast as (pure) plain tex (no layers added) or latex (which often is advocated as faster than context). I was curious, so did a quick experiment: typeset \input knuth 500 times. Here

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

2024-01-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 18 Jan 2024, Hans Hagen wrote: > Of course we'll never be as fast as (pure) plain tex (no layers added) or > latex (which often is advocated as faster than context). I was curious, so did a quick experiment: typeset \input knuth 500 times. Here are the results: pdflatex: 547 pages/sec l

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

2024-01-18 Thread Bruce Horrocks
On 18 Jan 2024, at 18:56, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: > > I understand that why it is slow, but the problem is that the difference is > too high. > My book has lots of math, so perhaps that is the reason. Option 1: Buy or borrow a faster computer. You'll get your desired speed-up far faster th

[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 Han

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

2024-01-18 Thread Gavin via ntg-context
in almost an instant using PDFTeX which is about 450+ > pages but my math book takes around 30 seconds averaging ~40 pages/second. > > Why LuaMetaTeX is so slow? How can I speed it up? > -- > Re

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

2024-01-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/18/2024 7:56 PM, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: In comparison to LaTeX with LuaHBTeX, ConTeXt with LuaMetaTeX is lightning fast. pdfTeX is 8bit, and Knuth’s plain TeX is very low level – for a fairer comparison, try the TeXbook on LuaMetaTeX (I don’t know if “plain” works

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

2024-01-18 Thread Mikael Sundqvist
Hi, On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 7:58 PM Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: > > > > >> In comparison to LaTeX with LuaHBTeX, ConTeXt with LuaMetaTeX is >> lightning fast. >> >> pdfTeX is 8bit, and Knuth’s plain TeX is very low level – for a fairer >> comparison, try

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

2024-01-18 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
In comparison to LaTeX with LuaHBTeX, ConTeXt with LuaMetaTeX is > lightning fast. > > pdfTeX is 8bit, and Knuth’s plain TeX is very low level – for a fairer > comparison, try the TeXbook on LuaMetaTeX (I don’t know if “plain” works > though). > I understand that why it is slo

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

2024-01-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
“The TeXbook” (having been written by Knuth himself) may be optimized for speed. Your math book may use features (I’m guessing again) that require more resources than the features used by “The TeXbook”. Why LuaMetaTeX is so slow? How can I speed it up? https://www.pragma-ade.com/general

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

2024-01-18 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
f) may be optimized for speed. Your math book may use features (I’m guessing again) that require more resources than the features used by “The TeXbook”. > Why LuaMetaTeX is so slow? How can I speed it up? https://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/musings.pdf#page=96 might explain why Lua

[NTG-context] Why LuaMetaTex is so slow?

2024-01-18 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
I can process TeXBook in almost an instant using PDFTeX which is about 450+ pages but my math book takes around 30 seconds averaging ~40 pages/second. Why LuaMetaTeX is so slow? How can I speed it up? -- Respect, Shiv Shankar Dayal

[NTG-context] Re: How to obtain older versions of LMTX?

2024-01-17 Thread Otared Kavian
te: >> >> Hi Gavin, >> >> Thanks for your reply. Does TeX Live contain LuaMetaTeX (LMTX)? >> That is because I need LMTX to typeset a presentation for which most of the >> content is ready, but using features from LMTX… >> >> Best regards: Otared

[NTG-context] Re: How to obtain older versions of LMTX?

2024-01-17 Thread Otared Kavian
Thanks for your reply. Does TeX Live contain LuaMetaTeX (LMTX)? >> That is because I need LMTX to typeset a presentation for which most of the >> content is ready, but using features from LMTX… > You can try to fetch > > https://github.com/contextgarden/context > > as

[NTG-context] Re: How to obtain older versions of LMTX?

2024-01-17 Thread Gavin via ntg-context
Hi Otared, Yes, it contains LMTX. I am using TeX Live 2023 right now for a project, and it reports "ConTeXt ver: 2023.05.05 18:36 LMTX”. Gavin > On Jan 17, 2024, at 3:13 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: > > Hi Gavin, > > Thanks for your reply. Does TeX Live contain LuaMetaT

[NTG-context] Re: How to obtain older versions of LMTX?

2024-01-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/17/2024 11:13 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi Gavin, Thanks for your reply. Does TeX Live contain LuaMetaTeX (LMTX)? That is because I need LMTX to typeset a presentation for which most of the content is ready, but using features from LMTX… You can try to fetch https://github.com

[NTG-context] Re: How to obtain older versions of LMTX?

2024-01-17 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Gavin, Thanks for your reply. Does TeX Live contain LuaMetaTeX (LMTX)? That is because I need LMTX to typeset a presentation for which most of the content is ready, but using features from LMTX… Best regards: Otared > On 17 Jan 2024, at 23:01, Gavin via ntg-context wrote: > >

[NTG-context] Suggestions and problems of the manuals

2024-01-17 Thread Gerion Entrup
ext/base/mkiv/lpdf-pdx.xml' mkiv lua stats > used config file: selfautoparent:/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua mkiv lua stats > used cache path: /home/gerion/context/tex/texmf-cache/luametatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e mkiv lua stats > resour

[NTG-context] Re: After Compiling the Context test, there was no PDF.

2024-01-16 Thread Ursula Hermann
Please paste line no. 238 of your input file. On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 4:11 PM Ursula Hermann mailto:ursula.herm...@univie.ac.at>> wrote: Dear List, After Compiling in the Folder: This is LuaMetaTeX, Version 2.10.11 initex (C:/Users/Hermann/Downloads/context-mswin/tex/texmf-context/tex/cont

[NTG-context] Re: After Compiling the Context test, there was no PDF.

2024-01-16 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
mail.com> wrote: > >> Please paste line no. 238 of your input file. >> >> On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 4:11 PM Ursula Hermann < >> ursula.herm...@univie.ac.at> wrote: >> >>> Dear List, >>> >>> >>> >>> After Compiling in the

[NTG-context] Re: After Compiling the Context test, there was no PDF.

2024-01-16 Thread luigi scarso
>> >> >> After Compiling in the Folder: >> >> >> >> This is LuaMetaTeX, Version 2.10.11 initex >> >> (C:/Users/Hermann/Downloads/context-mswin/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/cont- >> en.mkxl(context.mkxl(syst-ini.mkxl >> ! Undefined contr

[NTG-context] Re: After Compiling the Context test, there was no PDF.

2024-01-16 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
Please paste line no. 238 of your input file. On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 4:11 PM Ursula Hermann wrote: > Dear List, > > > > After Compiling in the Folder: > > > > This is LuaMetaTeX, Version 2.10.11 initex > > (C:/Users/Hermann/Downloads/context-mswin/tex/texmf-c

[NTG-context] After Compiling the Context test, there was no PDF.

2024-01-16 Thread Ursula Hermann
Dear List, After Compiling in the Folder: This is LuaMetaTeX, Version 2.10.11 initex (C:/Users/Hermann/Downloads/context-mswin/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/cont- en.mkxl(context.mkxl(syst-ini.mkxl ! Undefined control sequence. \immutable\defcsname\tocharacter \tabasciicode

[NTG-context] Wiki update

2024-01-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi all, I just updated the wiki ConTeXt to 20240108. The tag on the wiki by default uses luametatex (LMTX), but if you want luatex instead (MKIV), you can still do that by using . There have been some problems recently because Hans’ new binaries needed a newer version of various system

[NTG-context] Re: LMTX schema for poster

2024-01-11 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
r meant to present some sort of logical structure. I'm happy for it to be decorative, in which case fewer labels might be better. ConTeXt “wraps” the LuaMetaTeX binary, since it handles the input as well as the output. I wasn’t sure how to show what controls what. 5. Similar to the box st

[NTG-context] Re: Chemnitz, Leipzig, Call for Poster

2024-01-11 Thread Fabrice L
; – overview of layout areas (I re-made Sietse’s drawing from the wiki for my > book) > - workflow diagrams > – parts of LuaMetaTeX > – artwork by Eçir Baff (art-aleatoire.com) > – Hans’ recent christmas card / memory game artwork > > But I don’t want just a wild collection of

[NTG-context] Re: Chemnitz, Leipzig, Call for Poster

2024-01-10 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
stmas card memory” patterns as a background (thanks, Hans!). I tried to sketch the relationship of Lua/TeX/MetaPost in LuaMetaTeX and ConTeXt LMTX around it, with different inputs and PDF/XML output – don’t know yet how to make this easily understandable… ConTeXt is interesting for people

[NTG-context] Re: Chemnitz, Leipzig, Call for Poster

2024-01-07 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
measures), maybe also in Arabic – dodo & cow drawings from Mikael’s math manual – overview of layout areas (I re-made Sietse’s drawing from the wiki for my book) - workflow diagrams – parts of LuaMetaTeX – artwork by Eçir Baff (art-aleatoire.com) – Hans’ recent christmas card / memory

[NTG-context] Re: Solaris 11 SPARC Support [SEC=OFFICIAL]

2024-01-05 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 1/5/2024 12:54 AM, Michael Wigston via ntg-context wrote: Hi, Would you consider supporting Solaris 11 on SPARC? Alternatively if you could provide documentation how to build Context on "SunOS sun4v" hardware would also be beneficial. I have compiled luametatex, but getting b

[NTG-context] Solaris 11 SPARC Support [SEC=OFFICIAL]

2024-01-04 Thread Michael Wigston via ntg-context
Hi, Would you consider supporting Solaris 11 on SPARC? Alternatively if you could provide documentation how to build Context on "SunOS sun4v" hardware would also be beneficial. I have compiled luametatex, but getting below error when trying to create cache and not sure if

[NTG-context] Re: QR Code

2023-12-21 Thread Ursula Hermann
in (dvips.exe): OK* C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\dvips.exe TeX-Bin (ps2pdf.exe): OK* C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\ps2pdf.exe TeX-Bin (dvipdfmx.exe): OK* C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\dvipdfmx.exe TeX-Bin (mf.exe): OK* C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9

[NTG-context] Re: QR Code

2023-12-19 Thread Ursula Hermann
ou see in the pdf. Are you using MkIV (LuaTeX) or LMTX (LuaMetaTeX)? What’s your ConTeXt version, and how did you install it? (TeX live, Linux distribution, LMTX distribution?) I guess a missing EPS means you load the MkIV version of the module, probably because "m-zint". Is there an err

[NTG-context] Re: QR Code

2023-12-18 Thread Michal Vlasák
On Mon Dec 18, 2023 at 9:35 PM CET, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote: > On 12/18/23 20:34, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > [...] > > Are you using MkIV (LuaTeX) or LMTX (LuaMetaTeX)? > > Many thanks for your reply, Hraban. > > I understood my issue with your rep

[NTG-context] Re: QR Code

2023-12-18 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
On 12/18/23 20:34, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > [...] > Are you using MkIV (LuaTeX) or LMTX (LuaMetaTeX)? Many thanks for your reply, Hraban. I understood my issue with your reply (I known, your answer is intended to Uschi). It is also in the sent file: Creator: LuaMetaTeX 2.10.11 20

[NTG-context] Re: QR Code

2023-12-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
pdf. Are you using MkIV (LuaTeX) or LMTX (LuaMetaTeX)? What’s your ConTeXt version, and how did you install it? (TeX live, Linux distribution, LMTX distribution?) I guess a missing EPS means you load the MkIV version of the module, probably because "m-zint". Is there an error me

[NTG-context] Re: QR Code

2023-12-18 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
On 12/18/23 17:05, Ursula Hermann wrote: > […] > I got what you see in the pdf. Hi Uschi, I‘m on Linux64 using LuaMetaTEx. Contrary to the explanation from https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Barcodes#Zint_module, I need the zint package installed on Fedora. I have safely removed the whole co

[NTG-context] Re: externalfigure crashed

2023-11-22 Thread Hans van der Meer via ntg-context
t;> The problem persists. Here the new logfile. >> >> 1. What is the version of your Luametatex binary? >> >> luametatex --version >> This is LuaMetaTeX, Version 2.10.11 > > For me, it is the same: > > This is LuaMetaTeX, Version 2

[NTG-context] Re: externalfigure crashed

2023-11-22 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 22 Nov 2023, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Hans van der Meer schrieb am 22.11.2023 um 21:22: > > The problem persists. Here the new logfile. > > 1. What is the version of your Luametatex binary? > >     luametatex --version >     This is LuaMetaTeX, Version 2.10.11

[NTG-context] Re: externalfigure crashed

2023-11-22 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hans van der Meer schrieb am 22.11.2023 um 21:22: The problem persists. Here the new logfile. 1. What is the version of your Luametatex binary?     luametatex --version     This is LuaMetaTeX, Version 2.10.11 2. What do you get in your log-file with the following example!     \starttext

[NTG-context] Re: context not producing synctex output that my synctex program can use

2023-11-15 Thread Jim
faik there is no binary ... there is a library that has to be compiled into > a pdf viewer that intercept some 'goto the text file' command and then > launches an editor (afik the library has some heuristics build in wrt boxes > and nesting and so); at the tex end there is also a

[NTG-context] Re: context not producing synctex output that my synctex program can use

2023-11-12 Thread Hans Hagen
an impact on runtime) wrt the synctex file, that one is generated by context (so we don't use the synctex code in luatex and as luametatex has no backend there it's even completely absent ... context generates the file itself which is also a bit more efficient) Unfortunately, it’s

[NTG-context] Several math features broke for me in new Debian version

2023-11-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
2u1 but gives me this error in 2023.05.05.20230730+dfsg-2: resolvers | formats | executing runner 'run luametatex format': /usr/bin/luametatex --jobname="./test.tex" --socket --shell-escape --fmt=/home/kumar/.texlive2023/texmf-var/luametatex-cache/context/f91975063

[NTG-context] Example is not working

2023-11-03 Thread Ursula Hermann
: context.exe --synctex=-1 "mathtry.tex" Startup Folder: C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\cont-tmf\doc\context\sources\general\magazines resolvers | formats | executing runner 'run luametatex format': luametatex --jobname="./mathtry.tex" --socket --shell-escape -

[NTG-context] Re: Cron /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror

2023-09-18 Thread Hans Hagen
ike a mismatch in binary (you can compile luametatex yourself and then update the bin if ther eis some platform issue) the compile farm is down (Mojca has to replace the machine) so I can't check i

[NTG-context] Re: Using structureuservariables before the heading

2023-09-14 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
wing in the lowlevel-macros manual: «Traditional TEX has three prefixes that can be used with macros: \global, \outer and \long. The last two are no-op's in LuaMetaTEX and if you want to know what they do (did) you can look it up in the TEXbook.» So, \long is gone, but why is that? Is t

[NTG-context] \dontleavethemode

2023-09-12 Thread Ursula Hermann
\test\mkiv resolvers | formats | executing runner 'run luametatex format': luametatex --jobname="./pablo.tex" --socket --shell-escape --fmt=C:/Users/Hermann/Downloads/context-mswin/tex/texmf-cache/luametatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/luametate

[NTG-context] (no subject)

2023-09-04 Thread Ursula Hermann
}}\dontleavehmode\hairline \startformula a^n + b^n = c^n. \stopformula \stoptext I get: Command Line: context.exe --synctex=-1 "blackrule1.tex" Startup Folder: \\ub.univie.ac.at\U_Dom\Users G-L\Hermann\Documents\Texlive resolvers | formats | executing runner 'run luametatex forma

[NTG-context] After compiling

2023-09-04 Thread Ursula Hermann
\stoptext I get: Command Line: context.exe --synctex=-1 "blackrule1.tex" Startup Folder: \\ub.univie.ac.at\U_Dom\Users G-L\Hermann\Documents\Texlive resolvers | formats | executing runner 'run luametatex format': luametatex --jobname="./blackrule1.tex&qu

[NTG-context] Re:

2023-09-04 Thread Ursula Hermann
: context.exe --synctex=-1 "blackrule1.tex" Startup Folder: \\ub.univie.ac.at\U_Dom\Users G-L\Hermann\Documents\Texlive resolvers | formats | executing runner 'run luametatex format': luametatex --jobname="./blackrule1.tex" --socket --shell-escape --fmt

[NTG-context] Re: Reinserting a section title followed by (continued) after a page break

2023-09-04 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
art of a larger experiment. In luametatex we have a few more ways to influence the page builder and also get more reliable info about the state so far. It is something Mikael and I are experimenting with (using large complex mixed text/math documents) in the perspective of par and page building. We wi

[NTG-context] Re: Building luametatex with Lua symbols exposed

2023-09-02 Thread Michal Vlasák
On Wed Aug 30, 2023 at 6:23 PM CEST, Jairo A. del Rio wrote: > Hi, beloved list. Since sources are in the distribution, I've tried > compiling luametatex by setting LMT_STRIP in CMakeLists.txt to 0, yet the > resulting binary still warns about undefined symbols, such as lua_get

[NTG-context] Building luametatex with Lua symbols exposed

2023-08-30 Thread Jairo A. del Rio
Hi, beloved list. Since sources are in the distribution, I've tried compiling luametatex by setting LMT_STRIP in CMakeLists.txt to 0, yet the resulting binary still warns about undefined symbols, such as lua_gettop, when an external library is loaded in Lua. Any ideas on how to solve it? Than

[NTG-context] Re: hyphenation inside quotation

2023-08-22 Thread Hans Hagen
ation and the patch but since than Hans added a few new features to Luametatex to improve the quotation mechanism and the patch results now in the unwanted side effect. I always had \setupdelimitedtext[quotation][method=font] in my environments without really understanding it (remark: enables ha

[NTG-context] Re: hyphenation inside quotation

2023-08-22 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
w new features to Luametatex to improve the quotation mechanism and the patch results now in the unwanted side effect. I always had \setupdelimitedtext[quotation][method=font] in my environments without really understanding it (remark: enables hanging quotation marks). So both methods (font

[NTG-context] Re: zint 2.12.0 barcode generator

2023-08-21 Thread Keith McKay
lt;https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Barcodes> 1) I had to create the path $TEXROOT/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/lib/luametatex/zint 2) I symbolic linked directly to the homebrew created libzint library $ cd $TEXROOT/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/lib/luametatex/zint $ ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/zint

[NTG-context] Re: zint 2.12.0 barcode generator

2023-08-20 Thread Bruce Horrocks
t 2.12.0 works for me on an x64 Mac mini using ConTeXt ver: 2023.08.10 02:59 Following the instructions here <https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Barcodes> 1) I had to create the path $TEXROOT/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/lib/luametatex/zint 2) I symbolic linked directly to the homebrew created libzint l

[NTG-context] Re: zint 2.12.0 barcode generator

2023-08-20 Thread Keith McKay
maybe there is some subtle error (like there was when > we upgraded to 2.11). > > Unfortunately I am unable to take a closer look until the end of the > month. In the meantime can you please try to compile the library > yourself? Here are the instructions: > > https://

[NTG-context] Re: zint 2.12.0 barcode generator

2023-08-20 Thread Michal Vlasák
rself? Here are the instructions: https://github.com/contextgarden/luametatex-optional-libraries I.e. on Linux (please adjust for macOS): git clone --recursive https://github.com/contextgarden/luametatex-optional-libraries.git cd luametatex-optional-libraries cmake -S . -B

[NTG-context] Re: hyphenation inside quotation

2023-08-19 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
there was no problem with hyphenation and the patch but since than Hans added a few new features to Luametatex to improve the quotation mechanism and the patch results now in the unwanted side effect. Wolfgang ___ If

[NTG-context] Re: redefine space to be the same as \␣ similar to knuthian approach

2023-08-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/18/2023 8:48 PM, Carlos wrote: And with luatex frozen for better or for worse, I better stick to plain tex not sure what frozen has to do with it ... it will be around and maintained forever but no fundamental new functionality will be added that said: luametatex is of not much use when

[NTG-context] Re: startitemize[a, text] space in LMTX

2023-08-16 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 8/16/2023 9:27 PM, Xavier B. wrote: OK. Thanks but it's about luatex [https://tracker.luatex.org/changelog_page.php]. Does we use luametatex? lmtx uses luametatex ... luatex dev is basically frozen (has to be stable because used by several macro packages now)

[NTG-context] Re: startitemize[a, text] space in LMTX

2023-08-16 Thread Xavier B.
OK. Thanks but it's about luatex [https://tracker.luatex.org/changelog_page.php]. Does we use luametatex? On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 21:07:47 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster ha escrit: > Xavier B. schrieb am 16.08.2023 um 20:38: > > Thanks. > > Anyway do ypu have public triaging bugs

[NTG-context] An error which is not in .log file

2023-08-15 Thread Xavier B.
mple group entered at line 27: \begingroup 0:0: bottomlevel mkiv lua stats > used config file: selfautoparent:/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua mkiv lua stats > used cache path: /home/xan/bin/context-current/tex/texmf-cache/luametatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e mkiv lua stats >

[NTG-context] Re: Why overbar is so big

2023-08-13 Thread Mikael Sundqvist
Hi, On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 9:13 AM Xavier B. wrote: > > So, > > Finally is it a bug in MKIV? It seems you fix some kind of bug in your > messages. Is it true? > > > The output with Luametatex is correct but Luatex creates a raised bar > >

[NTG-context] Re: Why overbar is so big

2023-08-13 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
e are talks by Mikael at tug meetings on YT. The output with Luametatex is correct but Luatex creates a raised bar (and different linebreaking). \showglyphs \startTEXpage[offset=1ex] \ruledhbox{$\overline{OA} = \overbar {OA} = 4.2$} \par \ruledhbox{$\und

[NTG-context] Re: Why overbar is so big

2023-08-13 Thread Xavier B.
So, Finally is it a bug in MKIV? It seems you fix some kind of bug in your messages. Is it true? > The output with Luametatex is correct but Luatex creates a raised bar > (and different linebreaking). > > \showglyphs > > \startTEXpage[offset=1ex] > \ruledh

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