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Re: lua
by Thanh Han The 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 06:53:38PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > Hi, > > Recently i've started looking into Lua, a language meant for embedding > in programs. It has a small footprint, and by reading themanukl i get > the impression that it's a pretty well designed and clever language. So > (after playing with lua and scite, which has it embedded) i started > wondering about including lua in pdftex. Of course i'm dependent on > others but i'm curious abotu wat members of this list think of it. It > has quite a clever function model. Especially because it has a small > footprint (some 100-150 k) it would add a lot to pdftex but at little cost. > > think of on the one hand: > > \dimen0=\lua{tex.todimen(tex.thedimen(0)+tex.thedimen(2)} > > kind of things, or > > \setbox2=\hbox to \lua{tex.todimen(somevar)} > {\lua{tex.text("abcde")}} > > and alike. Of course the interface is to be determined, but a > startingpoint can be access to box dimensions and registers and the > ability to pipe text (strings) back into teh tex inpt stream. > > whatdoyouthink ... sounds interesting. I did a quick search on google to learn more on this, and I like more the idea. Lua seems to be quite suitable for this purpose: small, fast, simple syntax. Having it embedded certainly makes a lot of fun. Who will give it a try? :) Thanh

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Re: Cron <tex@server> /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror
by Taco Hoekwater 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hi Hans, Cron Daemon wrote: > context/current/cont-tmf.zip This zip contains a whole series of extra map files in two new subdirs of map/pdftex/context: fonts/map/pdftex/context/new/*.map fonts/map/pdftex/context/old/psclean.map fonts/map/pdftex/context/old/texnansi-bh-lucida.map as well as: fonts/map/pdftex/context/conbinemap.rb I just want to verify that that is intentional. Taco

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distro zips
by Taco Hoekwater 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Hi Hans (and others), I've been playing with the linuxtex.zip today, and I've noticed some things that may or may not be interesting to you: * it would be better to use tar.bz2 archives (instead of zip). The archive would be quite a bit smaller, and the file permissions would remain unaltered (so that the exes are actually executable after extraction). * the binaries can be stripped to gain some 1.6 megabytes of compressed size (4 mb uncompressed): 51 files, 3091342 bytes uncompressed, 1473221 bytes compressed vs. 51 files, 7230683 bytes uncompressed, 3068044 bytes compressed * cm-super is still included, but should be obsolete now thanks to latin-modern, right? * likewise for the cs/pl/vnr metrics. * perhaps this is even true for the CM pfb files? * the executables that are included are a bit old (pdfetex 1.21a, mpost 0.641). * And of course the 64bit version has no executables at all. Does it make sense for me to (attempt to) clean this up, or would my changes get lost soon anyway? Perhaps me or someone else can even start maintaining these files for you (using a project on FP's SVN server)? Taco

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[Fwd: [tex-fonts] FPL-Neu 0.9]
by Hans Hagen 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

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exTeX and Fonts
by Mojca Miklavec 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

I was in the Bavarian "TeX Stammtisch" on Saturday and one of the exTeX developers was with us (Michael Niedermair, m.g.n AT gmx.de) and presented the project shortly. Perhaps some of you already saw it at EUROTeX. If they get it working the way they plan to, it can become quite interesting. I can't imagine how that complex work can be done and kept up-to-date, but for ConTeXt I would say the same before I saw it working. The Bible needed approximately 6 minutes to compile and write every single box to an XML file (700 MB). PDF output is in development. The reason I'm writing is: He was asking for some ideas about how to support fonts. As here are some font gurus (Adam, Hans, etc.), perhaps you can give him some tips or present your point of view/how it should be done properly since they don't want to make it the way it is implemented in the standard TeX. The second presentation was about the extentions to palatino fonts: http://home.vr-web.de/was/x/FPL/ (some letters redesignes, but mostly missing characters added, so that no virtual font is needed any more, some kerning data added, ...) They would be glad to get any feedback. Mojca

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xml and tuo files
by Hans Hagen 21 Jul '05

21 Jul '05

Hi, FYI \unprotect \mathchardef \utf@h=2048 \def\numbertoutf#1% {\ifnum#1<128 \rawcharacter{#1}% \else\ifnum#1<2048 \rawcharacter{\the\numexpr192+#1/64\relax}% \rawcharacter{\the\numexpr128+#1-(#1/64)*64\relax}% \else % 3 bytes \rawcharacter{\the\numexpr224+#1/4096\relax}% \rawcharacter{\the\numexpr128+(#1-(#1/4096)*4096)/128\relax}% \rawcharacter{\the\numexpr128+(#1-(#1/4096)*4096)+(#1-(#1/4096)*4096)/128\relax}% \fi\fi} \def\numbertoutf#1% raw characters are not active {\ifnum#1<\utf@g \rawcharacter{#1}% \else\ifnum#1<\utf@h \rawcharacter{\the\numexpr\utf@d+#1/\utf@a\relax}% \rawcharacter{\the\numexpr\utf@g+#1-(#1/\utf@a)*\utf@a\relax}% \else \rawcharacter{\the\numexpr\utf@e+#1/\utf@b\relax}% \rawcharacter{\the\numexpr\utf@g+(#1-(#1/\utf@b)*\utf@b)/\utf@g\relax}% \rawcharacter{\the\numexpr\utf@g+(#1-(#1/\utf@b)*\utf@b)+(#1-(#1/\utf@b)*\utf@b)/\utf@g\relax}% \fi\fi} \unprotect \def\v!xml{xml} \setupXMLprocessing [\c!escape=e] \def\XMLprocessingparameter#1% {\csname\??xp#1\endcsname} \appendtoks \defineXMLargument[\XMLprocessingparameter\c!escape]\getXMlentity \to \aftersetupXMLprocessing Hi, In the end i want more clever tuo/xml interaction, but for the moment i can provide: \bgroup \catcode`\<=\active \long\gdef\expandxmlargument#1\to {\begingroup \let\uppercase\firstofoneargument \def\getXMLhexcharacter##1{\numbertoutf{"##1}}% \def\getXMLdeccharacter##1{\numbertoutf{##1}}% \def\getXMLentity##1{<e>##1</e>} \def<{\noexpand<}% \xdef\@@globalexpanded{#1}% \endgroup \convertcommand\@@globalexpanded\to} \egroup \installexpander \v!xml {\expandxmlargument} \protect \setuphead[chapter][expansion=xml] \setuplist[chapter][textcommand=\enableXML] \enableregime[utf] \starttext \placelist[chapter] \defineXMLargument[chapter]{\chapter} \startXMLdata <chapter>test ë test &oeps; test <e>ediaresis</e></chapter> \stopXMLdata \stoptext I hope that i got the utf converter right Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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context sources
by Taco Hoekwater 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Mojca Miklavec wrote: > - Has anyone thought about enabling the source browser and "live" on > older ConTeXt distributions? I'm not sure if this brings anything and is > also not on the priority list, but perhaps someone will be interested in > the development of ConTeXt or some strange behaviour/bugs can be > checked/compared in two different versions ... That reminds me: shall I request a context-archive project from Fabrice to contain (some of) the old context release sources? I have 28 archives from 20040630 to 20050627, that together are all the official releases during that year. It will be easy to import these into SVN Taco

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latin modern 0.89.3
by Taco Hoekwater 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

Hi, I've created a new zip file for the version of Latin Modern that is now in CTAN (version 0.89.3, dated may 14, 2005). Compared to cont-lmt.zip on the pragma site, the following has changed: * moved fonts/otf/ to fonts/opentype/public/lm/ * lowercased all otf filenames * added file fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmslanted9-italic.otf * deleted subtree fonts/tfm/cs (no longer used) * deleted subtree fonts/tfm/pl (no longer used) * deleted subtree fonts/tfm/vnr (no longer used) * added file fonts/enc/dvips/lm/t5psn.enc * added subtree fonts/map/dvips (for latex) * added subtree tex/ (for latex) Looking at it from the other direction, the new cont-lmt contains * The two main subtrees from ctan fonts/ and tex/ (*not* doc/) * additional subtree fonts/enc/context * additional subtree fonts/map/pdftex/context The important thing is that this is now a fully self-contained runtime distribution: all latex/dvips support files are now included as well as the context/pdftex support files. I've uploaded the file to http://tex.aanhet.net/temp/cont-lmt-0.89.3.zip Hans, can you fetch that file to replace the current cont-lmt.zip (after your approval of course)? Then I can fix the instructions on the wiki page so that it is correct again. Perhaps you have to change something in the context map files btw., because there is a remark in the 00readme that says: 05.14.2005 corrected pltext-lm.map and vnrtext-lm.map and comment typos in cmtext-lm.map and cmtext-lm-interpolated Perhaps you can ask somebody what precisely has happened? It must surely be a minor change because there are no new files. Greetings, Taco

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[Fwd: Re: [NTG-context] startMPgraphics in texshow?]
by Taco Hoekwater 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

Hi, Is the idea to generate the XML definitions in texshow-web's edit environment? If yes, I start creating a few. It would shift the burden from Hans to the entire dev-context team. Taco -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [NTG-context] startMPgraphics in texshow? Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:12:36 +0200 From: Vit Zyka <vit.zyka(a)seznam.cz> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> References: <42B164AF.7070101(a)creutzig.de> <42B2AA5D.2070905(a)wxs.nl> h h extern wrote: > Christopher Creutzig wrote: > >> Salvete, >> >> it seems that the whole family of MPgraphics commands is missing in >> texshow – looking for “graphics” turns up no matches. Are they >> generated by some magical macro or missing because of their capital >> letters? > > no, just lazyness on my side > > if someone collects a list of missing ones i can add them I started the new section "Missing items in the texshow web" at http://contextgarden.net/Bugs_and_workarounds vit _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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cbgreek
by Patrick Gundlach 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Hi, while playing a bit with cbgreek (Maps article) i found out that I had to patch type-cbg.tex to get things working: type-cbg.tex: \definefontsynonym [CBGreek-Mono-Medium-Normal] [gttn1000] type-cbg.tex: \definefontsynonym [CBGreek-Mono-Medium-Oblique] [gtto1000] type-cbg.tex: \definefontsynonym [CBGreek-Mono-Medium-Italic] [gtti1000] type-cbg.tex: \definefontsynonym [CBGreek-Mono-Medium-UprightItalic] [gttu1000] type-cbg.tex: \definefontsynonym [CBGreek-Mono-Medium-Caps] [gttc1000] type-cbg.tex: \definefontsynonym [CBGreek-Mono-Medium-Leipzig] [gttl1000] type-cbg.tex: \definefontsynonym [CBGreek-Mono-Medium-Roman] [gttr1000] to \definefontsynonym [CBGreek-Typewriter-Medium-Normal] [gttn1000] \definefontsynonym [CBGreek-Typewriter-Medium-Oblique] [gtto1000] \definefontsynonym [CBGreek-Typewriter-Medium-Italic] [gtti1000] \definefontsynonym [CBGreek-Typewriter-Medium-UprightItalic] [gttu1000] \definefontsynonym [CBGreek-Typewriter-Medium-Caps] [gttc1000] \definefontsynonym [CBGreek-Typewriter-Medium-Leipzig] [gttl1000] \definefontsynonym [CBGreek-Typewriter-Medium-Roman] [gttr1000] (Mono -> Typewriter) Now, I've got problems with my mapfiles, but this will be solved soon. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

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