bug in \setuparranging

Yue Wang

22 Sep 2011 22 Sep '11

6:07 a.m.

Hi, Hans: There's a bug in \setuparranging. The following case is easy to be understood: - I try to typeset "zapf" into a A4 landscape paper - For the final output pdf, I want to rotate all the pages by 270 degrees. This sounds strange. But it is useful in vertical typesetting of CJK language. (for example, use xetex font definition's :vertical feature to rotate all the fonts used, typeset on normal paper, and rotate the page back. I certainly hope someday I can use MKIV's muti-dir omega features, but now it's broken so this is the best way I can find) The code is listed below: \setuppapersize[A4,landscape][A4] \setuppaper [nx=1,ny=1] \setuparranging [XY, rotated, 270] \setupcolors [state=start] \setupbackgrounds [page][page][background=screen] \setuppagenumbering [state=stop] \starttext \input zapf \stoptext The bug: - in MKIV, it output no pages at all - in MKII (both xetex and pdftex), the output page is not, however, A4. but rather a square page with width=height=A4 height. I hope this bug can be fixed soon. By the way, are there other ways to rotate pages other than setuparranging? From my daily use I found setup arranging is pretty buggy. sometimes it even affects the layout of the contents. So most time I have to compile a pdf, and than use setup arranging to rearrange the pdf again to make the contents safe. Yue Wang

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Yue Wang

22 Sep 22 Sep

8:54 a.m.

Hi, I think the bug appears in setup paper size as well: \setuppapersize[A4,landscape] \input zapf \bye produces the wrong result. Yue Wang On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Yue Wang wrote:

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Hi, Hans:

There's a bug in \setuparranging.

The following case is easy to be understood:

- I try to typeset "zapf" into a A4 landscape paper - For the final output pdf, I want to rotate all the pages by 270 degrees.

This sounds strange. But it is useful in vertical typesetting of CJK language. (for example, use xetex font definition's :vertical feature to rotate all the fonts used, typeset on normal paper, and rotate the page back. I certainly hope someday I can use MKIV's muti-dir omega features, but now it's broken so this is the best way I can find)

The code is listed below:

\setuppapersize[A4,landscape][A4] \setuppaper [nx=1,ny=1] \setuparranging [XY, rotated, 270] \setupcolors [state=start] \setupbackgrounds [page][page][background=screen] \setuppagenumbering [state=stop]

\starttext \input zapf \stoptext

The bug:

- in MKIV, it output no pages at all - in MKII (both xetex and pdftex), the output page is not, however, A4. but rather a square page with width=height=A4 height.

I hope this bug can be fixed soon.

By the way, are there other ways to rotate pages other than setuparranging? From my daily use I found setup arranging is pretty buggy. sometimes it even affects the layout of the contents. So most time I have to compile a pdf, and than use setup arranging to rearrange the pdf again to make the contents safe.

Yue Wang

Aditya Mahajan

4:38 p.m.

On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Yue Wang wrote:

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I think the bug appears in setup paper size as well:

\setuppapersize[A4,landscape] \input zapf \bye produces the wrong result.

What do you mean by "wrong result". \setuppapersize[A4,landscape] \starttext \input zapf \stoptext works fine (ver: 2011.09.20). See attached pdf. Aditya

Yue Wang

8:34 p.m.

Hi, Aditya:

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What do you mean by "wrong result".

\setuppapersize[A4,landscape]

\starttext \input zapf \stoptext

works fine (ver: 2011.09.20). See attached pdf.

I know. MKIV works in this short sample. but XeTeX and pdfTeX don't, as my first mail indicated. See attached pdf And, MKIV is buggy too. try the first mail's example (after upgrading to the latest version it does not blank page anymore. but it's still wrong). Yue Wang

Aditya Mahajan

8:46 p.m.

On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Yue Wang wrote:

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Hi, Aditya:

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What do you mean by "wrong result".

\setuppapersize[A4,landscape]

\starttext \input zapf \stoptext

works fine (ver: 2011.09.20). See attached pdf.

I know. MKIV works in this short sample.

but XeTeX and pdfTeX don't, as my first mail indicated.

See attached pdf

I haven't investigated what is going wrong, but a quick fix is \setuppapersize[A4,landscape][A4,landscape]

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And, MKIV is buggy too. try the first mail's example (after upgrading to the latest version it does not blank page anymore. but it's still wrong).

I don't understand the arranging code, but doesn't the following also do what you want (without the arranging) \setuppapersize[A4,landscape,rotated,270][A4] Aditya

Yue Wang

8:59 p.m.

Hi, Aditya and Hans: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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I haven't investigated what is going wrong, but a quick fix is

\setuppapersize[A4,landscape][A4,landscape]

I don't understand the arranging code, but doesn't the following also do what you want (without the arranging)

\setuppapersize[A4,landscape,rotated,270][A4]

Yes, I know these tricks. A quick workaround to this problem is to use the \setuppapersize[A4,landscape][A4,landscape] and then add either %\pdfpagesattr{/Rotate 90} --pdftex, luatex %\special{pdf:put @pages <>} --xetex, dvipdfmx or the more generic way: \doPDFpagesattribute{/Rotate 90} And that did fix my problem temporary. But things are not going as expected, and it's better to fix these bugs, isn't it? Yue Wang

Aditya Mahajan

9:04 p.m.

On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Yue Wang wrote:

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Hi, Aditya and Hans:

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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I haven't investigated what is going wrong, but a quick fix is

\setuppapersize[A4,landscape][A4,landscape]

I don't understand the arranging code, but doesn't the following also do what you want (without the arranging)

\setuppapersize[A4,landscape,rotated,270][A4]

Yes, I know these tricks. A quick workaround to this problem is to use the

\setuppapersize[A4,landscape][A4,landscape]

and then add either

%\pdfpagesattr{/Rotate 90} --pdftex, luatex %\special{pdf:put @pages <>} --xetex, dvipdfmx

or the more generic way:

\doPDFpagesattribute{/Rotate 90}

And that did fix my problem temporary.

But things are not going as expected, and it's better to fix these bugs, isn't it?

Sure. But I was also answering you second question about rotating a page without using arranging. Aditya

Yue Wang

2 Oct 2 Oct

2:10 a.m.

Hi, Hans: this bug is still not solved. Yue Wang On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Yue Wang wrote:

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Hi, Aditya and Hans:

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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I haven't investigated what is going wrong, but a quick fix is

\setuppapersize[A4,landscape][A4,landscape]

I don't understand the arranging code, but doesn't the following also do what you want (without the arranging)

\setuppapersize[A4,landscape,rotated,270][A4]

Yes, I know these tricks. A quick workaround to this problem is to use the

\setuppapersize[A4,landscape][A4,landscape]

and then add either

%\pdfpagesattr{/Rotate 90} --pdftex, luatex %\special{pdf:put @pages <>} --xetex, dvipdfmx

or the more generic way:

\doPDFpagesattribute{/Rotate 90}

And that did fix my problem temporary.

But things are not going as expected, and it's better to fix these bugs, isn't it?

Sure.

But I was also answering you second question about rotating a page without using arranging.

Aditya

Wolfgang Schuster

7:46 a.m.

Am 02.10.2011 um 04:10 schrieb Yue Wang:

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Hi, Hans:

this bug is still not solved.

It’s a feature to prevent impossible settings. %\setuppapersize[A5][A4] \setuppapersize[A4][A5] \starttext \showframe A5 or A4? \stoptext When you try to use a page (e.g. A4) which is larger then the paper (e.g. A5) context use the larger value for the papersize. Maybe it makes sense to disable this mechanism when one arranges the pages but then \setuppapersize has to bet set after \setuparranging. Wolfgang

Yue Wang

3 Oct 3 Oct

5:15 p.m.

btw, is there some way to rotate all the glyphs in a given range (like the xetex's font:vertical feature) vrt2 doesn't seems to work in this way. On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Yue Wang wrote:

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Hi, Hans:

this bug is still not solved.

Yue Wang

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Yue Wang wrote:

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Hi, Aditya and Hans:

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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I haven't investigated what is going wrong, but a quick fix is

\setuppapersize[A4,landscape][A4,landscape]

I don't understand the arranging code, but doesn't the following also do what you want (without the arranging)

\setuppapersize[A4,landscape,rotated,270][A4]

Yes, I know these tricks. A quick workaround to this problem is to use the

\setuppapersize[A4,landscape][A4,landscape]

and then add either

%\pdfpagesattr{/Rotate 90} --pdftex, luatex %\special{pdf:put @pages <>} --xetex, dvipdfmx

or the more generic way:

\doPDFpagesattribute{/Rotate 90}

And that did fix my problem temporary.

But things are not going as expected, and it's better to fix these bugs, isn't it?

Sure.

But I was also answering you second question about rotating a page without using arranging.

Aditya

Hans Hagen

5:49 p.m.

On 3-10-2011 19:15, Yue Wang wrote:

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btw, is there some way to rotate all the glyphs in a given range (like the xetex's font:vertical feature) vrt2 doesn't seems to work in this way.

I never looked into that (so an example text + font is needed). 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

Yue Wang

6:51 p.m.

Hi, Hans Here's an example of vertical typesetting in XeTeX. %tex=xetex \setuppapersize[A4,landscape,rotated, 270] \definefontsynonym [song][name:AdobeSongStd-Light\xetexcolon vertical] \definefont[Song][song at 14pt] \starttext \Song 你好 \stoptext In this case all glyphs in AdobeSongStd-Light are rotated 90 degrees via xetex vertical, and rotated back via paper definition. I'm wondering how to do that in LuaTeX. Also, in vertical typesetting, latin glyphs do not need to be rotated. I'm doing this since omega multi-dir is not quite working at least for the moment. Yue On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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On 3-10-2011 19:15, Yue Wang wrote:

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btw, is there some way to rotate all the glyphs in a given range (like the xetex's font:vertical feature) vrt2 doesn't seems to work in this way.

I never looked into that (so an example text + font is needed).

Hans

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Wolfgang Schuster

6:07 p.m.

Am 03.10.2011 um 19:15 schrieb Yue Wang:

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btw, is there some way to rotate all the glyphs in a given range (like the xetex's font:vertical feature) vrt2 doesn't seems to work in this way.

Does your document only contain text or also graphics, tables etc.? Wolfgang

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