Re: [NTG-context] Installing MKiv

2007-08-12 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 13 août à 01:54:50 "Idris Samawi Hamid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment: | The only way I got it to stop was by initializing the setuptex script | BEFORE opening my editor. If I initialize setuptex afterwards it does not | work. Actually I'm not within an editor, just in the shell, typ

Re: [NTG-context] Installing MKiv

2007-08-12 Thread luigi scarso
On 8/13/07, Jean Magnan de Bornier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le 12 août à 22:45:00 "luigi scarso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment: > > | > > | > I'm certainly missing something obvious? > | hmm maybe mktexlsr > | 5a/ mktexlsr ; luatools --generate > | 6/ texmfstart texexec --make --all --pdf

Re: [NTG-context] Installing MKiv

2007-08-12 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 12 août à 21:45:09 Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment: | anyhow, tomorrow there will be a new release of luatex (some font fixes) | and i'll generate new minimals then I'll look forward to that, thx -- jean _

Re: [NTG-context] Installing MKiv

2007-08-12 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 12 août à 22:45:00 "luigi scarso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment: | > | > I'm certainly missing something obvious? | hmm maybe mktexlsr | 5a/ mktexlsr ; luatools --generate | 6/ texmfstart texexec --make --all --pdftex | 7/ texmfstart texexec --make --all --luatoolss did you mean luatex h

Re: [NTG-context] font file size

2007-08-12 Thread luigi scarso
> Is there any limit for size of font? no. Can you write down your steps for installation, so I can reproduce the problem on my box? -- luigi If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! mailli

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Support Package for Notepad++.

2007-08-12 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:01:37 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It also has global utf-8 support (as opposed to local utf-8 support > which scintilla does not support). It also has global bidirectional support (as opposed to local bidirectional support which scintilla do

[NTG-context] ConTeXt Support Package for Notepad++.

2007-08-12 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear fellow gangsters, At long last, I have completed a ConTeXt setup package for Notepad++. See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/images/8/87/Npp_ConTeXt.zip Some background: I come from the WinEdt world originally. However WinEdt, while a fantastic TeX editor (perhaps the best), has a couple of

[NTG-context] font file size

2007-08-12 Thread zs
Hi all, while getting context/luatex to work, I experiment with fonts. I play with DejaVu fonts. I found that when I use DejaVuSerif.ttf I get what I want, but when I use DejaVuSans.ttf context produces nothing. It seems to process document without any error message and gives no pdf. I made some

Re: [NTG-context] Installing MKiv

2007-08-12 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi Jean, On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:21:17 -0600, Jean Magnan de Bornier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > LuaTools | using format name > /tmp/luatex-cache/context/formats/cont-en.fmt > LuaTools | no luc/lua with name /tmp/luatex-cache/context/formats/cont-en > LuaTools | > LuaTools | runtime: 0.12 sec

Re: [NTG-context] magazine demo hangs forever

2007-08-12 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:01:17 -0600, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > luigi scarso wrote: >> On 8/12/07, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Aditya Mahajan wrote: >>> The practex module uses tex gyre pagella fonts. So you need to have the fonts in your distribution. I have no

Re: [NTG-context] magazine demo hangs forever

2007-08-12 Thread Hans Hagen
luigi scarso wrote: > On 8/12/07, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> >>> The practex module uses tex gyre pagella fonts. So you need to have >>> the fonts in your distribution. I have not tested them with luatex >>> yet. >> mkiv assumes tex-gyre fonts to be installed

Re: [NTG-context] em = slanted?

2007-08-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: > Yes, I meant, why Context's defaults are different from latex's (and > plain tex) because i hardly used, plain, only used latex for one document, then moved on to lamstex, inrstex and then started making a package that was configurable nd and could handle dutch; i know

Re: [NTG-context] Installing MKiv

2007-08-12 Thread luigi scarso
On 8/12/07, Jean Magnan de Bornier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > luigi wrote: > | > Hi all, Following nice reports I read on the list as well as the mag-12 > | > instructions I installed a context minimal linux distribution and > | > lua-5.1.2. > | hmm, try > | http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.1.tar.gz

Re: [NTG-context] trouble generating mkiv format

2007-08-12 Thread luigi scarso
On 8/12/07, Hans van der Meer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After installing context aug9 and starting up luatex I get the following tex > error on > luatools --ini --compile --verbose cont-en > > ... > ) > (/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/regi-ini.tex > (/usr/local/texlive/texmf-l

[NTG-context] trouble generating mkiv format

2007-08-12 Thread Hans van der Meer
After installing context aug9 and starting up luatex I get the following tex error on luatools --ini --compile --verbose cont-en ... ) (/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/regi-ini.tex (/usr/ local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/regi-ini.mkiv)) (/usr/ local/texlive/texmf-loc

Re: [NTG-context] Installing MKiv

2007-08-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > > actually then, even pdftex is broken! weird anyhow, tomorrow there will be a new release of luatex (some font fixes) and i'll generate new minimals then Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] magazine demo hangs forever

2007-08-12 Thread luigi scarso
On 8/12/07, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aditya Mahajan wrote: > > > The practex module uses tex gyre pagella fonts. So you need to have > > the fonts in your distribution. I have not tested them with luatex > > yet. > > mkiv assumes tex-gyre fonts to be installed Should they be included

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType typescripts

2007-08-12 Thread Pascal de Bruijn
On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 19:45 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > Pascal de Bruijn wrote: > > > I generate two versions: > > - tabular lining figures > > - proportional old style figures > > if you want to to such things ... use xetex or luatex ... less work that > way since then you can control things wit

Re: [NTG-context] Installing MKiv

2007-08-12 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
luigi wrote: | > Hi all, Following nice reports I read on the list as well as the mag-12 | > instructions I installed a context minimal linux distribution and | > lua-5.1.2. | hmm, try | http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.1.tar.gz > | > % engine=luatex | > \starttext | > Hello from luatex | > \blank | >

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType typescripts

2007-08-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Pascal de Bruijn wrote: > I still haven't got LuaTeX running properly. Something I wonder about is > why all those installation instructions weren't executed before creating > the tarballs. well, taco and i and a few others have mkiv running fro quite a while no (before it went beta) ... the pro

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType typescripts

2007-08-12 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Pascal, > How should I write my typescript so I can easily choose between the > versions of the fonts? Does this help: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Font_Variants ? Patrick ___ If your question is of interest t

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType typescripts

2007-08-12 Thread Pascal de Bruijn
On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 19:34 +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote: > Hi Pascal, > > > > How should I write my typescript so I can easily choose between the > > versions of the fonts? > > Does this help: > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Font_Variants > Hmm I think so. I'll give it a shot. Thanks. --

Re: [NTG-context] magazine demo hangs forever

2007-08-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: > The practex module uses tex gyre pagella fonts. So you need to have > the fonts in your distribution. I have not tested them with luatex > yet. mkiv assumes tex-gyre fonts to be installed Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType typescripts

2007-08-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Pascal de Bruijn wrote: > I generate two versions: > - tabular lining figures > - proportional old style figures if you want to to such things ... use xetex or luatex ... less work that way since then you can control things with features Hans ---

Re: [NTG-context] mimimal typescripting

2007-08-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: > Dear Hans, > > I fully understand that such complex typescripts can be the only way to use > full-featured professional fonts. But if I have only one ttf with one kind > of typeface in it, should I write it all? XeTeX style was very appealing for > many people,

Re: [NTG-context] magazine demo hangs forever

2007-08-12 Thread Hans Hagen
luigi scarso wrote: > On 8/12/07, luigi scarso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 8/12/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Dear Luigi, >>> >>> Sorry, I overlooked that \startstext \stoptext pair. :o) >>> >>> Believe it or not, but the working script produces... texmfstart texex

[NTG-context] OpenType typescripts

2007-08-12 Thread Pascal de Bruijn
Hi, I'm trying to write my own OpenType installation script. So far I have run otftotfm to install my fonts and create tfm files. Now I need to generate a typescript files, but the documentation I've read sofar puzzles me. >From a base font "AGaramond-Pro" containing three weights: - Regular - S

Re: [NTG-context] magazine demo hangs forever

2007-08-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, luigi scarso wrote: > On 8/12/07, luigi scarso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 8/12/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Dear Luigi, >>> >>> Sorry, I overlooked that \startstext \stoptext pair. :o) >>> >>> Believe it or not, but the working script produc

Re: [NTG-context] em = slanted?

2007-08-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Hans Hagen wrote: > Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Just a question for my curiousity: why \em switches to Slanted, not Italic? >>> (I found this while setting up my own typescript for luatex.) >> >> I don't kn

Re: [NTG-context] magazine demo hangs forever

2007-08-12 Thread luigi scarso
On 8/12/07, luigi scarso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/12/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Luigi, > > > > Sorry, I overlooked that \startstext \stoptext pair. :o) > > > > Believe it or not, but the working script produces... texmfstart texexec > > --mode=demo s-p

Re: [NTG-context] magazine demo hangs forever

2007-08-12 Thread luigi scarso
On 8/12/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Luigi, > > Sorry, I overlooked that \startstext \stoptext pair. :o) > > Believe it or not, but the working script produces... texmfstart texexec > --mode=demo s-ptj-01.tex text of a white paper! I expected to get magazine > dem

Re: [NTG-context] magazine demo hangs forever

2007-08-12 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Dear Luigi, Sorry, I overlooked that \startstext \stoptext pair. :o) Believe it or not, but the working script produces... texmfstart texexec --mode=demo s-ptj-01.tex text of a white paper! I expected to get magazine demo. :o) P.S. Respectfully, did you consider set your name and surname to

Re: [NTG-context] mimimal typescripting

2007-08-12 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Dear Hans, I fully understand that such complex typescripts can be the only way to use full-featured professional fonts. But if I have only one ttf with one kind of typeface in it, should I write it all? XeTeX style was very appealing for many people, and verbose font definitions may distract

Re: [NTG-context] Installing MKiv

2007-08-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > Hi all, Following nice reports I read on the list as well as the mag-12 > instructions I installed a context minimal linux distribution and > lua-5.1.2. After everything seemed ok I lauch a compilation of this > test-file (found on the wiki): > > % engine=luatex >

Re: [NTG-context] magazine demo hangs forever

2007-08-12 Thread luigi scarso
On 8/12/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > The script try > > %engine=luatex > \starttyping > texmfstart texexec --mode=demo s-ptj-01.tex > \stoptyping > > hangs forever... %engine=luatex %% save this as test002.tex \starttext \starttyping texmfstart texexec --mode=

Re: [NTG-context] Installing MKiv

2007-08-12 Thread luigi scarso
> Hi all, Following nice reports I read on the list as well as the mag-12 > instructions I installed a context minimal linux distribution and > lua-5.1.2. hmm, try http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.1.tar.gz > % engine=luatex > \starttext > Hello from luatex > \blank > LUA > \startlua > a = 1.5 > b = 1.

Re: [NTG-context] mimimal typescripting

2007-08-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: > Hello, > > I'm wondering why before defining a typeface I must define a synonym for it. > For example, my minimal working definition for Vladimir Script fontface is > > \starttypescript [serif] [vladimirscript] > \definefontsynonym [Serif][name:vladimir][featu

Re: [NTG-context] em = slanted?

2007-08-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Just a question for my curiousity: why \em switches to Slanted, not Italic? >> (I found this while setting up my own typescript for luatex.) > > I don't know the reason for difference in defaults, but it

[NTG-context] Installing MKiv

2007-08-12 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Hi all, Following nice reports I read on the list as well as the mag-12 instructions I installed a context minimal linux distribution and lua-5.1.2. After everything seemed ok I lauch a compilation of this test-file (found on the wiki): % engine=luatex \starttext Hello from luatex \blank LUA \sta

[NTG-context] magazine demo hangs forever

2007-08-12 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello, The script %engine=luatex \starttyping texmfstart texexec --mode=demo s-ptj-01.tex \stoptyping hangs forever... -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky ___ If your question is of interest to others as well,