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Re: PracTeX Journal Number 2 out
by Patrick Gundlach 14 May '05

14 May '05

Hi, >> Since we're in an archiving mood, what about (pointers to) the >> electronic >> MAPS articles... I'm just starting to go through the archives now, and >> there's some interesting stuff there. (Both of historical and practical >> interest.) > > an option there is to use an xml variant of bibtex (or better mlbibtex) > to describe the entries; it would also gives us a nice textbed for teh > current and future bib modules that gives me an idea.... let's see what I can do on the train to my father's home this afternoon. Expect a maps.contextgarde.net section soon. Patrick

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[Fwd: [NTG-context] Re: storm font]
by Taco Hoekwater 14 May '05

14 May '05

Patrick wrote: >> I would like to incorporate the distr to the garden, but I believe it >> needs some file/dir name changes. Suggestions are welcomed. > >If you think of a clever way, please tell me where/how to put your >typescripts + .. on garden. I could even add a new section: >fonts.contextgarden.net if this sounds appropriate for collecting >stuff like yours. Patrick, my vote is against a separate interface for this. Perhaps split the stuff at modules.cg.net into modules/fonts/docs/packages subtrees, but I really like the 'central repository' idea. Taco

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Expandable lowercase/uppercase
by Taco Hoekwater 12 May '05

12 May '05

Hi, I'm thinking about adding two new primitives called \lccoded and \uccoded, with the following rules for \lccoded (you have to imagine a suitable reverse for \uccoded): \let\ea\expandafter \catcode`L=12 \lccode`T=0 \ea\def\ea\test\ea{\lccoded {Some Little Text \AE ?}} make \test equal to \def\test{some Little Text \AE?} so, no expansion occurs in the <general text> following \lccoded, and only characters with \catcode == 11 as well as \lccode <> 0 will be changed, and nothing else. Would that be usable, or is something else/better needed? Greetings, Taco

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Fwd: [NTG-context] margin kerning issues
by Adam Lindsay 10 May '05

10 May '05

Idris brings up protrusion. I don't see his particular problem, but it provides a good test bed (see doc text inline): \setupoutput[pdftex]% \setupfontsynonym[cmr10][handling=normal] \usetypescript[cmr] \setupbodyfont[10pt] \setupalign[hanging] \setuplayout[width=4.2in] \showframe \starttext \dorecurse{40}{testing\hyphen\ test\hyphen\ } \blank \dorecurse{40}{testing- test- } \blank \dorecurse{40}{testing\endash\ test\endash\ } \blank \dorecurse{40}{testing-- test-- } %D Which is fine. But this sort of thing has always bothered me: \blank \dorecurse{40}{testing||\ test||\ } %D However, this is my current working hack (I prefer this %D stretched compound hyphen to the current, overlapping one): \definecharacter compoundhyp {\scale[sx=1.5]{\hyphen}} \installdiscretionaries || \compoundhyp \blank \dorecurse{40}{testing||\ test||\ } \stoptext So I wanted to run this past you all. Is this a bad idea on any level? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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Time primitives
by Taco Hoekwater 10 May '05

10 May '05

Hi Hans, Would new (pdf)etex primitives like these help benchmarking context? Two static read-only values that amend the normal TeX ones like \time and \year, giving the passed seconds since 1 jan 1970 at start-of-run: \epochseconds % integer part \microseconds % fractional part (between and 0-1000000) And one dynamic one: \microinterval % interval since start-of-run, in microseconds The static seconds and microseconds have be split in two because the multiplication of two C long-s cannot fit in one \count register. I need the initialization values only so that I can create meaningful intervals, but I thought it might be useful to have them available. If you prefer something more or different, let me know. Taco

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C pretty printing
by Taco Hoekwater 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Sounds like something for http://modules.contextgarden.net. It would need a bit of documentation though, even if it is just a single page. I don't have time to look at this now, but I will get back to you in a week or so. Greetings, Taco Nikolai Weibull wrote: > > Anyway, I've attached it here. Perhaps we can make something standard > of it?, > nikolai

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Dense Encoding (was: Re: [dev-context] enco-uc fixes)
by Adam Lindsay 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

[resent without attachment] Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 26 Apr 2005 02:11:04 +0200: >> 3) The concept sounds sort of like EC encoding (in its relationship with >> TS1), but with less of the backwards-compatibility "cruft". Should I take >> that as a starting point, or work with texnansi? > >qx Okay, take a look at <http://homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/nieuwxtwo.pdf>. Is that the sort of coverage you're interested in? Do you need Turkish? (I blew dotlessi away earlier on, and forgot to put it back in) The layout (ordering of the characters) needs some work. The strategy for keeping punctuation was those that fall in normal text, and are likely to be governed by a kern/ligature, should stay. Let me know if you object to any that are still in. Characters that fell in (only) Latin, Esperanto, Sami, Greenlandic, or Latin Extended-B didn't make the cut. Thoughts? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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enco-uc fixes
by Adam Lindsay 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

Hey all. A couple enco-uc fixes to be confirmed: \definecharacter threequarter {\uchar0{190}} % was threequarters, oops \definecharacter ordmasculine {\uchar0{186}} % wasn't defined \definecharacter ordfeminine {\uchar0{170}} % wasn't defined \definecharacter percent {\uchar0{37}} % wasn't defined \definecharacter textunderscore {\uchar0{95}} % wasn't defined %D Not sure, because it can be a chore to create yet another font: %\definecharacter trademark {\uchar{33}{34}} % wasn't defined %D This isn't defined in many fonts, but it should be consistent: \definecharacter textminus {\uchar{32}{18}} In other news, would a TeX'n'Unicode encoding interest anyone? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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wordright
by Adam Lindsay 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

Hi all. In my occasional trawl for goodies, I came across \wordright in core-spa. It seems to try to solve a little problem I encountered a while ago, but in current ConTeXt, it doesn't seem very happy. Reverting back to something suggested in the code seems to make it happier. I'm still learning the internals, so does anyone understand this enough to say why it's a bad idea? \starttext \dorecurse{5}{something } \wordright{--someone} \dorecurse{6}{something } \wordright{--someone} \dorecurse{7}{something } \wordright{--someone} \textrule \unprotect \def\dowordright[#1]% {% don't change \groupedcommand {\removeunwantedspaces \hfill \allowbreak % changed back from \hskip\zeropoint \strut \hfill \quad % decent spacing \hbox} {\doifelse{#1}\v!right{\kern-\rightskip}{\doifsomething{#1}{\kern-#1}}% \parfillskip\zeropoint \par}} \protect \dorecurse{5}{something } \wordright{--someone else entirely} \dorecurse{6}{something } \wordright{--someone else entirely} \dorecurse{7}{something } \wordright{--someone else entirely} \stoptext -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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Re: [NTG-context] new beta
by Adam Lindsay 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

[back to the dev list...] Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:20:03 +0200: >Adam: in texexec.pl the cal to ctxtools should be prefixed by texmfstart >(texmfstart texexec --make ...) I had already tried that (yesterday's beta) when I sent the previous email. Same (null) effect: % ruby /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/ texmfstart.rb texexec --make --all TeXExec 5.3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 total run time : 0 seconds (no, I don't have the texmfstart or ctxtools or other new-ish stubs in my /bin directory) ...or are you saying to edit texexec.pl ? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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