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Merging font support modules
by Aditya Mahajan 07 Apr '13

07 Apr '13

Hi everyone, I was browsing through the third party modules, and noticed that there are a few packages that provide typescripts for fonts. I think that it will be worthwhile to clean up and merge these modules, so as to reduce the amount of clutter. I am listing all the font related modules below, and asking if these are still needed; or should some of these be moved to an obsolete/ branch or merged with other modules. - Chinese font support (by Wolfgang Schuster; provides fonts, perhaps merge with cwTeX font module, also by Wolfgang) - GFSDidot Opentype fonts (I cannot browse through that! Should this be moved to obsolete branch?) - Greek (by Thomas Schmitz; provides fonts as well as typescripts, so this module cannot be merged) - Storm font support (Again, I cannot browse through that. Should this be moved to obsolete branch?) - Lucida bright font support (by Vit Zyka: do we still need these support files, or can this be moved to obsolete?) - Support for cwTeX fonts (by Wolfgang Schuster provides fonts and typescripts. Can this be merged with Chinese font support?) - Typescript (by Wolfgang Schuster, provides typescripts for a variety of fonts. I think that all modules that only distribute font typescripts should be merged with this one.) - URW Garamond support (by Peter Münster; is this still needed? If so, this should be merged with the typescript module) - URW Gothic support (by Taco Hoekwater; is this still needed? If so, this should be merged with the typescript module). What do others feel about such pruning and merging of packages? Aditya

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Luajittex 0.76.0 announcement
by luigi scarso 06 Apr '13

06 Apr '13

New beta release of luajittex. Site: https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/luajittex/ svn repo.: svn checkout --username anonsvn https://foundry.supelec.fr/svn/luajittex/tags/beta-0.76.0 -- luigi

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Luatex 0.76.0 announcement
by Taco Hoekwater 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

Hi, I have just uploaded the archives for a new luatex release, 0.76.0, which has a few fixes for beta 0.75.0, and synchronizes the code with the development version of TeXLive 2013. Changes: * Metapost 1.801. * Small patches from TeXLive 2013, as well as an update to the latest libraries (libpng, poppler, etc.) * Speed up printing (of TeX strings) to the terminal and log. * New lua function node.end_of_math(). * Fixed a memory leak in the lua function pdfscanner.scan(). The archives can be downloaded from supelec as usual: https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/luatex/ You could also check out the sources via anonymous svn: svn co --username anonsvn --password anonsvn \ https://foundry.supelec.fr/svn/luatex/tags/beta-0.76.0 Bugs and feature requests can be added to the issue tracker at http://tracker.luatex.org Have fun, Taco

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MetaPost 1.801 announcement
by Taco Hoekwater 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

I am happy to announce a new release of MetaPost: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost 1.801 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a bugfix release for 1.800. The win32 binary as well as a source archive can be downloaded immediately from the files section at https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost/ If you want to build MetaPost yourself, you can also do an anonymous subversion checkout: $ svn checkout --username anonsvn https://foundry.supelec.fr/svn/metapost/tags/1.801 The password is anonsvn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in MetaPost version 1.801: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * fixed an off-by-one error in the SVG output that prevented the last font's glyphs from actually being output to the svg file under prologues:=3; * fixed a bug in bbox calculations in that caused the max y to be set based on the maximum x coordinate internal value instead of the maximum y coordinate. * fixed a bug where metapost incorrectly produced a 'degenerate spec' error. * build fixes for various platforms imported from TeXLive 2013, as well as the latest kpathsea development etc. Have fun! Taco Hoekwater, for the MetaPost team, April 5, 2013.

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Nested \setupXXX commands
by Wolfgang Schuster 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Hi Hans, there is a problem with the command handler and nested \setup… commands. In the following example the setting for the “two” environment are ignored. <example> \defineenumeration[one][text=One] \defineenumeration[two][text=Two] \setupenumeration[one,two][alternative=serried,color=red] \starttext \startone First enumeration. \stopone \starttwo Second enumeration. \stoptwo \stoptext </example> The reason for this behavior is the \setupcounter call in \everysetupenumeration. When you look at the internal code for \setupenumeration (mult-aux.mkiv) you see that the first element in \setupernumeration (i.e. “one”) is processed with \mult_interfaces_with_comma_list_element, at the end of this macro \everysetupenumeration. At this point \setupcounter is used which redefines \mult_interfaces_with_comma_list_element. This redefined version is used for the next element (i.e. “two”) in \setupenumeration and the values are no passed (“alternative” and “color”) to \setupcounter. \unexpanded\def\mult_interfaces_install_setup_handler#1#2#3#4#5#6#7#8% {\ifx#3\relax\let#3\empty\fi \unexpanded\def#2{\dodoubleempty#4}% \unexpanded\def#6{\mult_interfaces_get_parameters{#1#3:}}% no every ! don't change it \newtoks#5% \newtoks#8% \unexpanded\def#4[##1][##2]% maybe helper {\let#7#3% \ifsecondargument \def\mult_interfaces_with_comma_list_element####1% we will have a simple one as well {\edef#3{####1}% \mult_interfaces_get_parameters{#1#3:}[##2]% \the#5}% \processcommalist[##1]\mult_interfaces_with_comma_list_element \else \let#3\empty \mult_interfaces_get_parameters{#1:}[##1]% \the#5% \fi \let#3#7% \the#8}} Wolfgang

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strc-ren.mkiv
by Wolfgang Schuster 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Hi, \unexpanded\def\strc_rendering_initialize_alternatives {\edef\currentheadalternative {\headparameter \c!alternative}% - \ifcsname\??headplacementalternative\currentheadalternative\endcsname \else + \ifcsname\currentheadalternativehash\s!parent\endcsname \else \let\currentheadalternative\v!normal % cf. mkii \fi \edef\currentheadrenderingsetup {\headalternativeparameter\c!renderingsetup}% \edef\currentheadrenderingalternative{\headalternativeparameter\c!alternative}% \ifx\currentheadrenderingalternative\empty \let\currentheadrenderingalternative\v!vertical \fi \ifx\currentheadrenderingalternative\v!horizontal \global\setfalse\headisdisplay % global \else \global\settrue\headisdisplay % global \fi} Wolfgang

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MetaPost 1.800 announcement
by Taco Hoekwater 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

I am happy to announce a new release of MetaPost: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost 1.800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version will be the one included in TeXLive 2013. The major changes compared to MetaPost 1.504 that was in TeXLive 2012 are: * Support for IEEE double (64 bit) internal calculations as well as traditional 32-bit scaled arithmetic, by means of a command-line switch (--numbersystem=double). * Bitmap (png) output support. * The C and lua APIs have been extended to allow path control point resolution without going through the Metapost input language. * The code for picture shipout now uses "double" for all floating point values. This can give small differences in the actual output files in traditional mode due to the required scaled -> double conversion, but it was necessary to support the new numerical backend code. The win32 binary as well as a source archive can be downloaded immediately from the files section at https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost/ If you want to build MetaPost yourself, you can also do an anonymous subversion checkout: $ svn checkout --username anonsvn https://foundry.supelec.fr/svn/metapost/tags/1.800 The password is anonsvn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in MetaPost version 1.800: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * A new string valued internal "outputformatoptions" is used by 'png' output format to control the png file format. In the future, this internal may become used for options to the other output formats as well. The syntax for "outputformatoptions" is a space-separated list of settings. Individual settings are keyword+'='+value. The only currently allowed ones are: format=[rgba|rgb|graya|gray] antialias=[none|fast|good|best] No spaces are allowed on the left, nor on the right, of the equals sign inside a setting. The assignment that would match the compiled-in default setup is: outputformatoptions := "format=rgba antialias=fast"; however, "outputformatoptions" is initially the empty string. Some notes on the (new) PNG output formats: - The 'rgb' and 'gray' subformats have a white background. The 'rgba' and 'graya' subformats have a transparent background. - Bitdepth is always 8. - In all cases, the image is initially created in 8-bit RGB mode. For 'gray' and 'graya', the RGB colors are reduced just before the actual PNG file is written, using a standard rule: g = 0.2126*r + 0.7152*g + 0.0722*b - CMYK colors are always converted to RGB during generation of the output image using: r = 1 - (c+k>1 ? 1 : c+k); g = 1 - (m+k>1 ? 1 : m+k); b = 1 - (y+k>1 ? 1 : y+k); - If you care about color conversions, you should be doing a "within <pic>" loop inside "extra_endfig". The built-in conversions are more of a fallback. * A new string-valued internal "outputfilename", which is set by "shipout" to the value of the just created file name. Until the first shipout has occurred, it is the empty string. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What is fixed in MetaPost version 1.800: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Fixed a number of bugs where Metapost loaded the default font map file multiple times, resulting in lots of "fontmap entry for `<fontname>' already exists, duplicates ignored" warnings. * The "glyph <> of <>" operation could crash on fonts with empty subpaths in the charstrings. * Fixed a bug in the postscript encoding reader that caused a buffer overflow (fatal error) for encoding files that do not end with a newline. * Sped up png creation a bit by using smarter libpng options. * In the 'double' numbersystem, lots of precision was lost due to a bad internal conversion of fractions to scaled values. This affected the "rotated by", "directiontime", "sind" and "cosd" primitives, as well as internal dependency calculations. * In the 'double' numbersystem, an internal rounding error caused "directiontime" to return bad results for requests near zero. * There was a big scaling miscalculation while outputting glyphs in SVG mode with "prologues:=3". The output labels were so big that they fell completely outside of the generated image. * A problem resulting in 'This can't happen (endinput)' caused by a missing "end" at the end of the run was fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Legal notice / license / bug reports ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost is a system for producing graphics developed by John Hobby at AT&T, based on Donald Knuth's Metafont. The MetaPost home page is http://tug.org/metapost. MetaPost is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The MetaPost development project is currently hosted at Supelec, https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost; with a bug tracker at http://tracker.luatex.org/. Please report bugs and request enhancements through there if possible. Alternatively, you can reach us through the <metapost(a)tug.org> mailing list as well. Have fun! Taco Hoekwater, for the MetaPost team, March 19, 2013.

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new font trickery
by Hans Hagen 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Hi, I implemented this: \setupbodyfont[pagella] \starttext \dorecurse{10}{ \dorecurse{20}{ \start What \recursedepth\recurselevel\space \feature{smallcaps} What \recursedepth\recurselevel\space \feature{oldstyle} What \recursedepth\recurselevel\space \stop } \par } \stoptext A reasonable fast cummulative feature switcher (so its different from addff cum suis). I'm not aure about the name yet. Also, such features have a semi-global nature in the sense that redefining 'oldstyle' has no effect, but that's sort of natural. Of course it's somewhat slower than defining a font with specific features enabled. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Luajittex 0.75.0.1 announcement
by luigi scarso 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

New beta release of luajittex with luajit 2.0.1 patched with Hotfix#1 (see http://luajit.org/download.html) -- luigi

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Luatex 0.75.0 announcement
by Taco Hoekwater 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

Hi, I have just uploaded the archives for a new luatex release, 0.75.0. Most noticeable changes: * New expandable primitive \Uchar. * Metapost 1.790. * New version of lnodelib.c with speedups by Hans and Luigi. Also added some extra sanity checks to the Lua node field setting functions. * Support 'umath' in tex.extraprimitives(), so that formats can make the \Umath* primitives unprefixed, now that they will be provided by XeTeX as well. * Removed a bunch of deprecated primitives * \AlephVersion, \Alephrevision, \Alephversion, \Alephminorversion * \OmegaVersion, \Omegarevision, \Omegaversion, \Omegaminorversion * \omathcode, \odelcode, \omathchardef, \omathchar, \omathaccent, \odelimiter, \oradical * \Umathbotaccent, \Umathaccents * Fix large file support. * Fix Lua's loadfile(). * Removed the cidmap callbacks again (let that be done by user lua code after the fact). * Removed the fatal error on fonts where num_glyphs is too high, as that problem is actually harmless. * Some compilation issues under Win32 and Solaris resolved. NOTE: You still need an 'installed' pkg-config while building luatex. Either install pkg-config for your platform, or make sure there is a binary linking to /bin/true while configuring. The requirement is for the executable 'pkg-config' itself, not for any particular package. * Allow math extender objects to be zero width. * The 'epdf' library has been extended to deal with finding and saving embedded files (catalog:numEmbeddedFiles() and catalog: embeddedFile, new EmbFile object). The archives can be downloaded from supelec as usual: https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/luatex/ You could also check out the sources via anonymous svn: svn co --username anonsvn --password anonsvn \ https://foundry.supelec.fr/svn/luatex/tags/beta-0.75.0 Bugs and feature requests can be added to the issue tracker at http://tracker.luatex.org Have fun, Taco

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