May 2009 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Capital number when onum=yes?
by Corsair 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi all, I have `onum=yes' in my font features and it works great. But how can I type a capital number in this case? I want to use capital numbers in pagenumbers. Thanks! Corsair Sun -- There is no emotion; there is peace. There is no ignorance; there is knowledge. There is no passion; there is serenity. There is no death; there is the Force.

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Opentype features
by Arun Dev 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hello, I am using Context Mark II + XeTeX. I would like to know the following things. 1. How to use opentype font features. I tried the following code but it is not working. \definefontfeature[myfontfea][+onum] \definetypeface[Libertine][rm][Xserif][Linux Libertine O][default][features=myfontfea] \setupbodyfont[Libertine,12pt] 2. Is there an eqivalent code to the following XeLaTeX code. \defaultfontfeatures{Scale=MatchLowercase} 3. How to use Cambria Math font to typeset math.

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rscale in latest beta
by Thomas A. Schmitz 10 May '09

10 May '09

Hi all, the "rscale" key does not work for my Greek module in the latest beta ConTeXt ver: 2009.05.08 21:48 MKIV The font always stays the same size, no matter what value I give. It did work in the version 2009.04.21. I haven't been able to reproduce the error in a minimal file yet., but maybe Hans can say which files are likely to be the culprit so I can run a diff between these two versions? All best Thomas

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beta (21.04.2008)
by Peter Rolf 10 May '09

10 May '09

Hi, finally found some time to test the latest beta. I get a couple of undefined control sequences here (mkiv). \doPDFpageattribute \doPDFaddtocatalog \PDFobjectreferenceB (overprinting) Best wishes, Peter

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lots of luatex process/instances (ps xa| grep lua / top -----sort by memory)
by Amaël Broustet 10 May '09

10 May '09

Dear context users, at first a lot of warm thanks for help and comments on using t-simpleslides. On a different matter, I now have the following problem : I do a lot of testing trying compiling my slides (using the following command : "context essai.tex"). Sometimes, I get errors and an interactive prompt that I kill with either ctrl+C or ctrl+Z (at random). I noticed that my computer was swapping (2Go RAM). With "ps xa | grep lua" I get 34 process. Using "top" and sorting by memory used the processes, I noticed 7 instances of luatex and 5 of texlua on the first page for a total of 800MB of resident memory. Did I miss something using context (I do "context essai.tex" each time that I want compile changes) ? "killall luatex" and kill -15 PID does nothing. Best, Amaël

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setuptex changes in minimals (was: bugs in beta)
by Mojca Miklavec 10 May '09

10 May '09

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:46, Yanrui Li wrote: > > Recently I have found some environment variables in setuptex script > are commented out sometimes, such as TEXMFLOCAL, TEXMFCONTEXT and so > on. Is this be done deliberately? Yes (we were bored during some Polish talks at BachoTeX). The reason for setuptex setting all those variables in the old days was to override tetex's environmental variables, but in principle this is not needed at all unless tetex is present on computer. The reason for removing them again was to make sure that Hans' scripts work properly even when no environmental variable is set (which will be the case on TeX Live for example). The only variable change that's really needed is fixing PATH, but it's so convenient to be able to run ". /path/to/setuptex" instead of typing the long export PATH="/path/to/minimals/bin:$PATH" We nevertheless left two or three variables since ConTeXt didn't yet work properly without them, but we'll remove those as well. If anyone uses minimals on tetex, we can create an additional file again that would enable complete isolation. We didn't clean up the windows script yet as it would need some more testing (and we had enough problem by minimals not running at all on unix), but that's still on TODO list ... We also silently added TEXMFHOME (while Hans was not watching), but maybe we need to change the exact path. If you have any particular question or request about that, let us know. Mojca

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\setbuffer
by Wolfgang Schuster 10 May '09

10 May '09

Hi Hans, why is \setbuffer not defined with \long, I want to use it as part of a macro and need it to allow paragraphs as content. Can you change this? TIA, Wolfgang

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Multiple letters
by Otared Kavian 10 May '09

10 May '09

Hi all, I have to write a letter to a few dozens candidates in which some parts are not identical. I may have the list of the persons, and the changing part for each of them in a file (named for instance "list-of- candidates.tex") on which each line corresponds to one person and the fields are sperated by commas (or any other suitable character). What would be the best way of coding this in ConTeXt? Here is the example I have in mind: %%% begin the body of the letter Dear \MmeOrSir\ \FirstName\ \FamilyName, We have received your application and we thank you for your interest in our institution. \AnswerToApplication. With our best regards, etc… %%% end the body of the letter The four commands \MmeOrSir, \FirstName, \FamilyName, \AnswerToApplication should correspond to the columns 1 through 4 of each line of the file "list-of-candidates.tex" as follows: %%% begin list-of-candidates.tex Madam , Joan , of Arc , {You will be interviewed very soon} Mr , Groucho , Marx , {We are sorry, but this position is only for non smoking candidates} \endinput %%% end list-of-candidates.tex Thank you for help: OK

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Re: [NTG-context] Combining figures
by Robert Blackstone 09 May '09

09 May '09

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > > > On May 9, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Robert Blackstone wrote: > > > Both work. Thank you. Stupid of me to forget or neglect a pair of > > empty curly braces. > > > > > I don't know if this is of any comfort to you, but you're not alone: > > http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20050406.125324.0c9e677e.en.html > > Thomas > > Some comfort, yes, thank you. The tricky thing was that I coiuld not find any clue in the logfile: leaving out both empty curly braces generates no error message and the file typesets beautifully except for this one detail, a vertical instead of the desired horizontal arrangement of two figures. But when one leaves out only one of the empty curly braces the file does not typeset at all and there is a clear (well, fairly clear) error message. Like what happens for instance when one leaves out the {} for the caption after \placefigure[][]. A useful experience anyway. Thanks again. Best regards, Robert Blackstone

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\savebuffer disappeared
by Mojca Miklavec 09 May '09

09 May '09

Hello Hans, The macro \savebuffer seems to have disappeared from mkiv. What's now the official way to write out chunks of code into a file? \startbuffer[abc] Module stopped working !?#$?!@! \stopbuffer \savebuffer[abc] Thanks, Mojca

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