Re: [NTG-context] Retrieving original value of enviroment variable HOME

2020-05-10 Thread context
e context(environment.oldhome or "??") \stopluacode \stoptext ChkEnv.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document -- generator : luat-sta.lua -- state tag : whatever return { ["context"]={ ["version"]="beta", }, ["engines"]={ ["luatex&

Re: [NTG-context] error during the installation of luametatex

2020-05-09 Thread Hans Hagen
36 pages/second Ok, that is not bad (I think on my already old machine one run took some 18 seconds for luatex and of course in mkii with pdftex I could watch a movie while processing the file.) The memory footprint also looks ok, especially given all these graphics. (in most cases lmtx has

Re: [NTG-context] lmtx vs mkiv

2020-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
ngine=luatex" at the top line of the source file (but no pdftex and xetex in this installer). FWIW, the lmtx installation ships with the latest experimental luatex binary but normally that should not have consequences, but it does permits testing occasional updates. Hans The binary f

Re: [NTG-context] lmtx vs mkiv

2020-04-05 Thread Axel Kielhorn
e > the engine in the usual way with "% engine=luatex" at the top line of the > source file (but no pdftex and xetex in this installer). I updated LMTX on MacOSX 10.13 today. The luatex binary in not executable, thus when I run axel$ context --luatex --version mtx-context

[NTG-context] lmtx vs mkiv

2020-04-03 Thread Hans Hagen
ource file (but no pdftex and xetex in this installer). FWIW, the lmtx installation ships with the latest experimental luatex binary but normally that should not have consequences, but it does permits testing occasional updat

Re: [NTG-context] Quizz

2020-03-17 Thread Hans Hagen
k and score calculations) but it's mkii (so you need to run pdftex). Maybe I should check it with mkiv too. Could you please tell us where to find that file, even if it is only with mkii? (I need to prepare some material for my students, for the same reason as Fabrice…). Where? On my machine,

Re: [NTG-context] Quizz

2020-03-16 Thread Otared Kavian
t; and score calculations) but it's mkii (so you need to run pdftex). Maybe I > should check it with mkiv too. Could you please tell us where to find that file, even if it is only with mkii? (I need to prepare some material for my students, for the same reason

Re: [NTG-context] Quizz

2020-03-16 Thread Hans Hagen
tions) but it's mkii (so you need to run pdftex). Maybe I should check it with mkiv too. Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands

Re: [NTG-context] Install Tikz in LMTX tree

2020-03-10 Thread Henri Menke
se seem to have met that requirement. I really don't want to write a huge cascade of if-s to test for different engines. > afaik there has never been a formal etex version 1 (in use) an

Re: [NTG-context] Install Tikz in LMTX tree

2020-03-10 Thread Hans Hagen
#x27;s default to etex .. you can try to put this at the top of yuor file \newcount\eTeXversion \eTeXversion = 2000 \newcount\eTeXrevision \eTeXrevision = 0020 afaik there has never been a formal etex version 1 (in use) and never a fundamental revision ... in lmtx we no longer have these version

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts from various .otf to work with \bold, \emph, \bf, \bfa ...

2020-02-06 Thread context
pentype/public/lm/lmroman10-italic.otf usedmethod=database system > 12: filename=lmroman10-bolditalic filetype=otf format=otf foundname=d:/Ctx-Beta/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman10-bolditalic.otf fullname=d:/Ctx-Beta/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman10-bolditalic

Re: [NTG-context] Official file ending?

2020-02-05 Thread Hans Hagen
nuth’s TeX than a bloated pdfTeX/LuaTeX. Indeed, although I admit that I added some primitives that I felt were missing (which is why we will have foo.lmtx source files). Hans - Hans Hage

Re: [NTG-context] Official file ending?

2020-02-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
f how to apply primitives. Maybe not PlainTeX, but plain TeX. E.g. we usually use TeX primitives like \def (even if we have \define), while with LaTeX you use \newcommand, similar with \vbox and others. I understood LuaMetaTeX, as a stripped-down typesetting engine, would be closer to the spir

Re: [NTG-context] beta vs current

2020-01-30 Thread Hans Hagen
rse be the yearly tex live snapshots and these will have the year attached to them. So, effectively nothing changes, apart from the fact that we no longer use the labels (and distinction on the website). I like this change. A more fundamental distinction is between the versions: pdftex|xetex

Re: [NTG-context] beta vs current

2020-01-30 Thread Henri Menke
py of some tree is >> cheap. >> >> There will of course be the yearly tex live snapshots and these will >> have the year attached to them. >> >> So, effectively nothing changes, apart from the fact that we no longer >> use the labels (and distinction on t

Re: [NTG-context] beta vs current

2020-01-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
them. So, effectively nothing changes, apart from the fact that we no longer use the labels (and distinction on the website). I like this change. A more fundamental distinction is between the versions: pdftex|xetex : mkii (probaly not used that much any longer) luatex|luajittex : mkiv (also th

[NTG-context] beta vs current

2020-01-30 Thread Hans Hagen
t from the fact that we no longer use the labels (and distinction on the website). A more fundamental distinction is between the versions: pdftex|xetex : mkii (probaly not used that much any longer) luatex|luajittex : mkiv (also the test for luatex dev) luametatex : lmtx (the (upcoming)

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: \adjustspacing=1 does not disable expansion

2019-12-05 Thread Hans Hagen
On 12/5/2019 1:39 AM, Henri Menke wrote: It actually seems as if the documentation of LuaTeX is wrong here, because the behaviour of `\adjustspacing=1' is compatible with `\pdfadjustspacing=1` in pdfTeX.  From the pdfTeX manual:     When \pdfadjustspacing is set to 1, font expansion is ap

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: \adjustspacing=1 does not disable expansion

2019-12-04 Thread Henri Menke
It actually seems as if the documentation of LuaTeX is wrong here, because the behaviour of `\adjustspacing=1' is compatible with `\pdfadjustspacing=1` in pdfTeX. From the pdfTeX manual: When \pdfadjustspacing is set to 1, font expansion is applied after TeX’s normal paragraph bre

Re: [NTG-context] Pb with tikz, \pdfsavepos and friends

2019-09-10 Thread Henri Menke
nd does it correctly with lualatex. >> So I would suggest a bug report at https://github.com/pgf-tikz/pgf. > I just assume that Henri deals with it in due time. For some reason TikZ tries to load the pdftex driver when used in ConTe

Re: [NTG-context] texexec is deprecated?

2019-08-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 at 13:42, Jon Wong wrote: > > I was able to use `context’ but not `texexec’. The latter (`texexec —pdf > test.tex’) tells me that some format file (`cont-en.fmt’) can’t be found. > > Is `texexec’ obsolete? texexec is only for Mark II (8-bit pdfTeX, XeTeX)

Re: [NTG-context] mkii to mkiv - what an ancient user needs to know

2019-06-12 Thread Duncan Hothersall
t because font encodings are > gone and input is utf8 by default that might need to be changed. > Structure has more options. I think the biggest conceptual change in the > setups has been the way footnotes are co

Re: [NTG-context] mkii to mkiv - what an ancient user needs to know

2019-06-12 Thread Hans Hagen
e options. I think the biggest conceptual change in the setups has been the way footnotes are configured. Of course there are new commands too. So, a small example triggering the issue would help, Hans ps. Of course the biggest change is that luatex is

Re: [NTG-context] adjusting tikz pictures

2019-04-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
ns of this approach, then you can learn metapost/tikz :-) If you follow this route, then I would add \usepackage[pdftex,active,tightpage]{preview} \setlength\PreviewBorder{2mm} \PreviewEnvironment{tikzpicture} in the latex preamble. This will create standalone pages that are the same size the t

Re: [NTG-context] Lua error with fontstrip in today’s beta

2019-04-12 Thread Alan Braslau
On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 23:19:34 +0200 Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > minimals installation (2019.04.12 17:43, still not lmtx) Ah, when I first started using ConTeXt, MkIV was somewhat experimental and it was still recommended to use MkII (with pdftex) for "production". Now we a

Re: [NTG-context] optional hyphenation patterns in ancient Greek

2019-03-25 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
a remnant from Mark II, as in pdfTeX and XeTeX it would have resulted in an error; in ConTeXt it just becomes a no-op, which thus shadows LuaTeX’s behaviour that could actually have been useful. The situation in Mark IV is documented in languages-mkiv.pdf which is part of the distribution: Hans re

[NTG-context] upcoming betas

2018-12-05 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi We currently have mkii : which uses pdftex/xetex mkiv : which uses lua(jit)tex 1.10 and next year we will also have lmtx : which runs luatex functionally there is no difference between mkiv and lmtx but there are some diferences under the hood. It might also turn out to be a bit

Re: [NTG-context] Sources of Tutorial.text.pdf

2018-11-28 Thread Tommaso Gordini
still here. — When > the second author agrees I can deliver them to you. — However there is a > warning to be made, that the project is 10 years old and was built in > pdfTeX/ConTeXt MKII. > > > > Hi Willi, > > > > I sent the files to T

Re: [NTG-context] Sources of Tutorial.text.pdf

2018-11-28 Thread Willi Egger
the authors, yes I have these file still here. — When the >> second author agrees I can deliver them to you. — However there is a warning >> to be made, that the project is 10 years old and was built in pdfTeX/ConTeXt >> MKII. > > Hi Willi, > > I sent the files to T

Re: [NTG-context] Sources of Tutorial.text.pdf

2018-11-28 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018, Willi Egger wrote: As being one of the authors, yes I have these file still here. — When the second author agrees I can deliver them to you. — However there is a warning to be made, that the project is 10 years old and was built in pdfTeX/ConTeXt MKII. Hi Willi, I sent

Re: [NTG-context] Sources of Tutorial.text.pdf

2018-11-28 Thread Willi Egger
Hello Tommaso, As being one of the authors, yes I have these file still here. — When the second author agrees I can deliver them to you. — However there is a warning to be made, that the project is 10 years old and was built in pdfTeX/ConTeXt MKII. Kind regards Willi > On 28 Nov 2018, at

[NTG-context] Luatex 1.09.0 announcement (following)

2018-10-25 Thread luigi scarso
.10 for next texlive 2019, and in our minds "stable" means "in the long term like pdftex". In practice this means that luatex comes with lua 5.3.4, that luajittex uses luajit 2.1 beta3, and that context will assume and support this setup for a long time. This also means that we

[NTG-context] Problem updating 32b version

2018-10-24 Thread Procházka Lukáš Ing .
pdf ... echo. :ruby echo okay > ok.log ruby -e "File.delete('ok.log')" if not exist "ok.log" goto end echo. echo The distribution has been downloaded but if you want to run pdfTeX and/or XeTeX you echo need to run this script with the following directive: echo. e

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun scaling problem

2018-10-01 Thread luigi scarso
ve 2019/dev) > > The LuaTeX team is Hans Hagen, Hartmut Henkel, Taco Hoekwater, Luigi > Scarso. > > LuaTeX merges and builds upon (parts of) the code from these projects: > > tex : Donald Knuth > etex : Peter Breitenlohner, Phil Taylor and friends > omega : John Plaice and

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun scaling problem

2018-10-01 Thread Lutz Haseloff
and builds upon (parts of) the code from these projects: tex : Donald Knuth etex : Peter Breitenlohner, Phil Taylor and friends omega : John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous aleph : Giuseppe Bilotta pdftex: Han The Thanh and friends kpathsea : Karl Berry, Olaf Weber and

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with luatex experimental on linux armhf

2018-06-27 Thread Lutz Haseloff
lor blue; >>> \stopMPpage >>> >>> Is there anything I can do or is it a problem of the source? >> >> >> checking now >> >> -- >> luigi >> > >The example is ok on my Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2 >I assume luatex experiment

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with luatex experimental on linux armhf

2018-06-27 Thread luigi scarso
n my Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2 I assume luatex experimental, because luatex trunk is still with poppler . # luatex --credits This is LuaTeX, Version 1.09.0 (TeX Live 2018) The LuaTeX team is Hans Hagen, Hartmut Henkel, Taco Hoekwater, Luigi Scarso. LuaTeX merges and builds upon (parts of)

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2018-06-23 Thread Lutz Haseloff
friends omega : John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous aleph : Giuseppe Bilotta pdftex: Han The Thanh and friends kpathsea : Karl Berry, Olaf Weber and others lua : Roberto Ierusalimschy, Waldemar Celes and Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo metapost : John Hobby, Taco Hoekwater, Luigi

Re: [NTG-context] Trim blank space of a PDF page

2018-05-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
>>> >>>>> Ideally - to process a single page PDF into another file, with >>>>> the one page cropped... >>>> >>> >>> The ‘pdfcrop’ command from TeXLive can do that for you on the >>> command line. It is based around ghostsc

Re: [NTG-context] Trim blank space of a PDF page

2018-05-23 Thread Alan Braslau
rop a page of a PDF via > >>> ConTeXt? > >>> > >>> Ideally - to process a single page PDF into another file, with > >>> the one page cropped... > >> > > > > The ‘pdfcrop’ command from TeXLive can do that for you on the >

Re: [NTG-context] Trim blank space of a PDF page

2018-05-23 Thread Hans Hagen
from TeXLive can do that for you on the command line. It is based around ghostscript which can automatically find the crop area, then uses pdftex,luatex,or xetex to create a new pdf. It is doable to come up with a solution in ConTeXt if you do not mind specifying the cropbox manually, but automatic

Re: [NTG-context] Trim blank space of a PDF page

2018-05-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
pdfcrop’ command from TeXLive can do that for you on the command line. It is based around ghostscript which can automatically find the crop area, then uses pdftex,luatex,or xetex to create a new pdf. It is doable to come up with a solution in ConTeXt if you do not mind specifying the cropbox man

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: Re: roadmap

2018-05-16 Thread Hans Hagen
only a very small percentage of readers will notice (at that time we did experiments with hz, the expansion in pdftex: in fact nobody noticed that too, real interesting was that texies commented on all kind of things related to how tex is supposed to work: a clear demonstration that the average user

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: Re: roadmap

2018-05-16 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
hat only a >>> very small percentage of readers will notice (at that time we did >>> experiments with hz, the expansion in pdftex: in fact nobody noticed >>> that too, real interesting was that texies commented on all kind of >>> things related to how tex is supp

[NTG-context] Fwd: Re: roadmap

2018-05-16 Thread Hans Hagen
scale the text area (i actully implemented that an hour later) ... his opinion was that only a very small percentage of readers will notice (at that time we did experiments with hz, the expansion in pdftex: in fact nobody noticed that too, real interesting was that texies commented on all kind of

Re: [NTG-context] roadmap

2018-05-16 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
ter) ... his opinion was that only a > very small percentage of readers will notice (at that time we did > experiments with hz, the expansion in pdftex: in fact nobody noticed > that too, real interesting was that texies commented on all kind of > things related to how tex is supposed

Re: [NTG-context] roadmap

2018-05-15 Thread Hans Hagen
at an hour later) ... his opinion was that only a very small percentage of readers will notice (at that time we did experiments with hz, the expansion in pdftex: in fact nobody noticed that too, real interesting was that texies commented on all kind of things related to how tex is supposed to wo

Re: [NTG-context] Installing fonts in a ConTeXt Docker (texfont tool missing?)

2018-04-13 Thread luigi scarso
(or do you want to use) context mkii ? > > > texfont is still shipped as you can see in tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/perl and you can run it with $ mtxrun --script texfont --help Do, for r mkii you need to provide in some way pdftex, perl and ruby (for the scripts under tex/t

Re: [NTG-context] rulecolor in columns

2018-02-23 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD Am 2018-02-23 um 13:50 schrieb Gerard : > Thanks Thomas, > > I use Texworks with Context (pdftex)... > > With the code below, I get the text in blue and separator in red. See the > command \setupcolors[textcolor=red] and \color[blue] before \startco

Re: [NTG-context] rulecolor in columns

2018-02-23 Thread Gerard
Thanks Thomas, I use Texworks with Context (pdftex)... With the code below, I get the text in blue and separator in red. See the command \setupcolors[textcolor=red] and \color[blue] before \startcolumns. Gérard --- exemple basique- \enableregime[utf-8] \mainlanguage[fr

Re: [NTG-context] italic correction after math

2018-02-13 Thread Hans Hagen
rts it but i never really used xetex myself and i haven't used pdftex in a decade) Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands

Re: [NTG-context] italic correction after math

2018-02-13 Thread Hans Hagen
$ test\par % combination of 1 and 3 \stoptext hm, seems that i messed up a pointer ... i'll fix it ... (xetex inserts a kern of 2.45pt after the math in latex). context inserts 2.938pt (luatex uses the opentype route so it might be different than xetex and

Re: [NTG-context] ligature exceptions

2017-09-27 Thread Hans Hagen
change is that adding a brace group in the middle of a word (like in of{}fice) does not prevent ligature creation." With pdftex it does avoid ligatures, but not reliably. There are cases where the brace group disappear when pdftex tries out hyphenation points. in traditional tex hyphenation is in

Re: [NTG-context] ligature exceptions

2017-09-27 Thread Ulrike Fischer
dle of a word (like in of{}fice) does not prevent ligature creation." With pdftex it does avoid ligatures, but not reliably. There are cases where the brace group disappear when pdftex tries out hyphenation points. -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.trou

Re: [NTG-context] TeXworks or TeXItEasy as ConTeXt editors

2017-08-05 Thread Jean-Pierre Delange
are under TeXworks : you must have "ConTeXt MKIV" just beside the green arrow. If your compilation doesn't work maybe it is because you are trying to compile your *.tex file with another executable (pdftex, pdflatex, or anything else...). Very good idea to build some Spanis

Re: [NTG-context] Log message "Unknown filter 'DCTDecode'"

2017-06-16 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Fri, 16 Jun 2017 11:08:21 +0200 schrieb luigi scarso: >> I can't reproduce it either in a current minimals, but miktex had >> for a few days a similar bug which affected pdftex and (according >> Christian) also luatex: https://sourceforge.net/p/miktex/bugs/2605/ &g

Re: [NTG-context] Log message "Unknown filter 'DCTDecode'"

2017-06-16 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > I can't reproduce it either in a current minimals, but miktex had > for a few days a similar bug which affected pdftex and (according > Christian) also luatex: https://sourceforge.net/p/miktex/bugs/2605/ The message from him

Re: [NTG-context] Log message "Unknown filter 'DCTDecode'"

2017-06-16 Thread Ulrike Fischer
code' > > This happens if the document includes JPEG images, e.g: > > \starttext > \externalfigure[hacker.jpg] > \stoptext > > > > not here, with that image. I can't reproduce it either in a current minimals, but miktex had for a few days a similar bug which a

Re: [NTG-context] next beta

2017-06-13 Thread Hans Hagen
-clever will be limited. (Ignore the implementation details, which were a series of hacks to make things work in pdftex, but section 14 explains the different display math layouts and a strategy to choose between them. It will be really nice to have something comparable in ConTeXt. You mean

Re: [NTG-context] next beta

2017-06-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
://ctan.math.washington.edu/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/breqn/breqn.pdf (Ignore the implementation details, which were a series of hacks to make things work in pdftex, but section 14 explains the different display math layouts and a strategy to choose between them. It will be really nice to have something

Re: [NTG-context] description renders unintended results (LUATEX BUG?)

2017-03-07 Thread Alan Braslau
On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 18:04:34 +0100 Floris van Manen wrote: > The incorrect nesting seems to be connected to the luatex engine. > If i have the same source compiled by pdftex, it works as intended. > > So is the different rendering an intended feature of luatex, or a > simple bug

Re: [NTG-context] description renders unintended results (LUATEX BUG?)

2017-03-07 Thread Floris van Manen
The incorrect nesting seems to be connected to the luatex engine. If i have the same source compiled by pdftex, it works as intended. So is the different rendering an intended feature of luatex, or a simple bug? .F > On 6 Mar 2017, at 00:34, Floris van Manen wrote: > > Is there a

Re: [NTG-context] Different column modes and NAW

2016-12-19 Thread Mikael P. Sundqvist
> (except the source) for the newcolumnsets? I want to be able to have > images span both columns and it would be nice if it played well with > sections as well. > > Best regards, Mikael Dear list, (I got some information offlist from Hans regarding NAW, it seems they used an old pdftex

Re: [NTG-context] "fake" space for better reflow

2016-11-30 Thread Hans Hagen
e space (there are quite a number of questions on tex.SX where the heuristic fails, e.g. in code listings), while reflow seems to need glyphs. The speech of Ross Moore on TUG14 seems to indicate that \pdfinterwordspaceon was introduced in pdftex to get around this problem. http://river-valley.zeeba.tv/

Re: [NTG-context] "fake" space for better reflow

2016-11-30 Thread Ulrike Fischer
ste use an heurisitic more or less based on the size of the space (there are quite a number of questions on tex.SX where the heuristic fails, e.g. in code listings), while reflow seems to need glyphs. The speech of Ross Moore on TUG14 seems to indicate that \pdfinterwordspaceon was introduced in pdf

Re: [NTG-context] copyfont and font features

2016-11-17 Thread Ulrike Fischer
th pdflatex + lualatex), that's imho the reason why microtype >> copies the fonts. > > in fact that is also the case with pdftex: afaik expansion and > protrusion values are global and once a font is used they get frozen Yes, exactly. > > in luatex (at least the lua fo

Re: [NTG-context] copyfont and font features

2016-11-17 Thread Hans Hagen
t has been expanded with different stretch limit. (with pdflatex + lualatex), that's imho the reason why microtype copies the fonts. in fact that is also the case with pdftex: afaik expansion and protrusion values are global and once a font is used they get frozen in luatex (at least the

Re: [NTG-context] copyfont and font features

2016-11-17 Thread Hans Hagen
py at the tfm level. One can just use \let\testb\testa instead. Information related to fonts at the lua end is not known to \copyfont. If the second: Is there in the fontloader a replacement which can be used to copy fonts? I think the \copyfont primitive was introduced in pdftex as a ki

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and duotone graphics

2016-11-01 Thread Hans Hagen
m for conversions ... (it's how we deal with eps and svg input) Here is the link to the script http://stdin.fr/Bazar/SpotColorImages see chapter 3 in the colors-mkiv.pdf manual in the distribution; this kind of magic is already present for a while (we actually did it in pdftex / mkii in som

Re: [NTG-context] texexec in ConTeXt Standalone does not work

2016-10-29 Thread Asim ConTeXt
you. >>> I want to use MkII because, as far as I know, MkII uses pdfTeX; which is >>> stable. While MkIV uses LuaTeX; which is yet in development. Further, >>> pdfTeX is better at microtypography. >>> >> > In what respect better? The mechanism in Luatex is

Re: [NTG-context] texexec in ConTeXt Standalone does not work

2016-10-28 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/28/2016 9:06 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: On 10/28/2016 08:35 PM, Asim ConTeXt wrote: Thank you. I want to use MkII because, as far as I know, MkII uses pdfTeX; which is stable. While MkIV uses LuaTeX; which is yet in development. Further, pdfTeX is better at microtypography. In what

Re: [NTG-context] texexec in ConTeXt Standalone does not work

2016-10-28 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 10/28/2016 08:35 PM, Asim ConTeXt wrote: > Thank you. > I want to use MkII because, as far as I know, MkII uses pdfTeX; which is > stable. While MkIV uses LuaTeX; which is yet in development. Further, > pdfTeX is better at microtypography. > Am I correct at these two points?

Re: [NTG-context] texexec in ConTeXt Standalone does not work

2016-10-28 Thread Jean-Pierre Delange
command :| mtxrun --script fonts --list --pattern=AnyFont* --all (you can play with * before and/or after the Font name)) |Hope that helps,| |JP | Le 28/10/2016 à 20:35, Asim ConTeXt a écrit : Thank you. I want to use MkII because, as far as I know, MkII uses pdfTeX; which is stable. While

Re: [NTG-context] texexec in ConTeXt Standalone does not work

2016-10-28 Thread Asim ConTeXt
Thank you. I want to use MkII because, as far as I know, MkII uses pdfTeX; which is stable. While MkIV uses LuaTeX; which is yet in development. Further, pdfTeX is better at microtypography. Am I correct at these two points? I would like to hear from you. I found that my system fonts are located

Re: [NTG-context] pdftex error message in TeXWorks

2016-08-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/13/2016 4:12 PM, Vya. Y. wrote: Hello, After updating to the latest beta, TeXWorks shows an error message every time I open and compile a document. ("The procedure entry point could not be located in the dynamic link library"). I don't undestand how pdftex is involved wh

[NTG-context] pdftex error message in TeXWorks

2016-08-13 Thread Vya. Y.
Hello, After updating to the latest beta, TeXWorks shows an error message every time I open and compile a document. ("The procedure entry point could not be located in the dynamic link library"). I don't undestand how pdftex is involved when I compile to luatex. Rega

Re: [NTG-context] Hyphenation errors (again or still) in recent mkiv

2016-08-02 Thread Henri Menke
wrong hyphenations. I have LuaTeX, Version 0.95.0 (TeX Live 2016) on openSUSE 13.2 (Harlequin) (x86_64) and correct hyphenations. Wolfgangs minimal example \starttext \hsize=1mm would synthesize enumerate \stoptext produces would syn- the- size enu- mer- ate which is what pdfTeX produces as well for

Re: [NTG-context] first-setup.bat weirdness II: xetex etc.

2016-07-20 Thread Hans Hagen
irst-setup.bat weirdness I: cloned system" -- it seems appropriate to put this one out to the forum as well. Any explanations and advice would be appreciated. Never had these problems using when updating manually... Thanks in advance and if you do a fresh install with --engine=luatex then you&#x

[NTG-context] first-setup.bat weirdness I: cloned system

2016-07-19 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
up.bat again on the windows7 machine, got the following errors: = mtx-context | running command: pdftex --ini --etex --8bit cont-en.mkii \dump warning: c:/ConTeXt/tex/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf:49: (kpathsea) No cnf value on lin e: OSFONTDIR =. This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592

Re: [NTG-context] \mainlanguage[pe]

2016-07-06 Thread Mojca Miklavec
ariants. was this dropped in MkIV or was there > never a persian language environment even in MkII? MkII (read: ConTeXt with pdfTeX) doesn't support typesetting in Arabic script at all. And support for XeTeX has always been limited in ConTeXt. So it's not really strange if the languag

Re: [NTG-context] Help with configuring Textadept to work with ConTeXt

2016-05-15 Thread
ex warning: f:/Sandbox/ConTeXt/tex/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf:49: (kpathsea) No cnf value on line: OSFONTDIR =. This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.17 (TeX Live 2016/W32TeX) (preloaded format=cont-en) \write18 enabled. ---! f:/Sandbox/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-win64/web2c/pdftex/cont-en.fmt doesn't

Re: [NTG-context] Help with configuring Textadept to work with ConTeXt

2016-05-15 Thread Jean-Pierre Delange
m TeXWorks configuration with ConTeXt Standalone : there is no way to compile directly with pdftex. You must compile with ConTeXt MK IV luatex. For such a result, you have to set preferences in your Textadept with the good PATH (where textadept can find the setuptex of CTX). It's a good thing

[NTG-context] Help with configuring Textadept to work with ConTeXt

2016-05-14 Thread
n" to my system path - I downloaded and unzipped Textadept and also added the folder to my system path. - I opened a *.tex file with Textadept and pressed "Tools->Compile" but I only got an error message: > pdflatex -file-line-error -halt-on-error "untitled-3.tex&q

Re: [NTG-context] Microtypography in ConTeXt

2016-04-06 Thread Hans Hagen
refers to latex which for sure will have some way to set up these feaures; i don't know about plain support in context protrusion and expansion is supported in mkii (pdftex) and mkiv (luatex) .. in mkiv there is a bit more control there is no preprocessing involved (these two features are j

Re: [NTG-context] Microtypography in ConTeXt

2016-04-06 Thread Jan Tosovsky
On 2016-04-06 Hans Hagen wrote: > On 4/5/2016 11:51 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: > > On 2016-04-05 Hans Hagen wrote: > >> On 4/5/2016 10:55 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: > >>> > >>> according to http://texdoc.net/texmf- > >>> dist/doc/latex/microtype/micr

Re: [NTG-context] Microtypography in ConTeXt

2016-04-06 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/6/2016 6:48 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2016-04-06 um 03:51 schrieb Jan Tosovsky : Note that character protrusion requires pdfTeX (version 0.14f or later), LuaTeX, or XeTeX (at least version 0.9997). Font expansion works with pdfTeX (version 1.20 for automatic expansion) or

Re: [NTG-context] Microtypography in ConTeXt

2016-04-06 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/5/2016 11:51 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: On 2016-04-05 Hans Hagen wrote: On 4/5/2016 10:55 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: according to http://texdoc.net/texmf- dist/doc/latex/microtype/microtype.pdf pdfTeX offers fine tuning of: (1) Character protrusion (2) Font expansion (3) Tracking (4

Re: [NTG-context] Microtypography in ConTeXt

2016-04-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2016-04-06 um 03:51 schrieb Jan Tosovsky : > > Note that character protrusion requires pdfTeX (version 0.14f or later), > LuaTeX, or > XeTeX (at least version 0.9997). Font expansion works with pdfTeX (version > 1.20 for > automatic expansion) or LuaTeX. The package will

Re: [NTG-context] Microtypography in ConTeXt

2016-04-05 Thread Jan Tosovsky
On 2016-04-05 Hans Hagen wrote: > On 4/5/2016 10:55 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: > > > > according to http://texdoc.net/texmf- > > dist/doc/latex/microtype/microtype.pdf > > pdfTeX offers fine tuning of: > > (1) Character protrusion > > (2) Font expansion >

Re: [NTG-context] Microtypography in ConTeXt

2016-04-05 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/5/2016 10:55 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: Dear All, according to http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/microtype/microtype.pdf pdfTeX offers fine tuning of: (1) Character protrusion (2) Font expansion (3) Tracking (4) Additional kerning (5) Interword spacing AFAIK ConTeXt covers 1+2+(3?). In

[NTG-context] Microtypography in ConTeXt

2016-04-05 Thread Jan Tosovsky
Dear All, according to http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/microtype/microtype.pdf pdfTeX offers fine tuning of: (1) Character protrusion (2) Font expansion (3) Tracking (4) Additional kerning (5) Interword spacing AFAIK ConTeXt covers 1+2+(3?). In recent discussion Hans mentioned

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt installation and configuration on Win 10 x64

2016-03-10 Thread Hans Hagen
s meant with bad boxes? i read "Underfull \hbox (badness 1) in paragraph..." but don't know how to fix this. Warnings fron pdftex will dissapear when you switch to MkIV :-). "Underfull \hbox" may be caused by wrong hyphenation? Would it be possible that you were compil

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt installation and configuration on Win 10 x64

2016-03-09 Thread
es? i read "Underfull \hbox (badness 1) in paragraph..." but don't know how to fix this. Warnings fron pdftex will dissapear when you switch to MkIV :-). "Underfull \hbox" may be caused by wrong hyphenation? Would it be possible that you were compiling a German (or no

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt installation and configuration on Win 10 x64

2016-03-09 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
e but fix it. > and what is meant with bad boxes? i read "Underfull \hbox (badness > 1) in paragraph..." but don't know how to fix this. Warnings fron pdftex will dissapear when you switch to MkIV :-). "Underfull \hbox" may be caused by wrong hyphenation? Would

Re: [NTG-context] strange output in math display mode

2015-12-23 Thread Hans Hagen
2} \over 2} it can lead to exponential number of branches. With \frac{\text{hello}}{2}, TeX "knows" what style to use for the arguments. So, extra processing is not needed (at least, this is the idea in LuaTeX; in PDFTeX, multiple sizes need to be generated). This can lead to some s

Re: [NTG-context] strange output in math display mode

2015-12-22 Thread Alan BRASLAU
al number of branches. > > With \frac{\text{hello}}{2}, TeX "knows" what style to use for the > arguments. So, extra processing is not needed (at least, this is the > idea in LuaTeX; in PDFTeX, multiple sizes need to be generated). This > can lead to some slightl

Re: [NTG-context] strange output in math display mode

2015-12-22 Thread Aditya Mahajan
ntial number of branches. With \frac{\text{hello}}{2}, TeX "knows" what style to use for the arguments. So, extra processing is not needed (at least, this is the idea in LuaTeX; in PDFTeX, multiple sizes need to be generated). This can lead to some slightly faster processing. Also see htt

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with first setup of StandAlone ConTeXt

2015-12-17 Thread Bruce Boghosian
note that de Boer's document, "LaTeX in proper ConTeXt" >>>> recommends compiling from the command line using texexec rather than >>>> context. This does not work for me. The command "texexec" exists, and I >>>> can run it, but it do

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with first setup of StandAlone ConTeXt

2015-12-16 Thread Otared Kavian
exexec" exists, and I >>> can run it, but it does not produce a .pdf file -- just a .tmp file. >> >> That document is a very old one. Nowadays context is preferred to >> texexec (also known as Mark II

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with first setup of StandAlone ConTeXt

2015-12-16 Thread Bruce Boghosian
eferred to > texexec (also known as Mark II or MkII). If you installed context with > --engines=luatex you explicitly did not installed prerequisites for > Mark II (pdftex with fonts etc.). > > Mojca > __

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