[NTG-context] Re: New user here!

2025-06-16 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 at 17:44, John Was wrote: > Thanks Taco. I'm sure I'll get the hang of the new tabular commands > eventually - though reproducing the example on pp. 274-5 of the Not so > Short Introduction doesn't quite work (the second column is shifted a line > down from the first column -

[NTG-context] Karl Berry "Wizard of Systems"

2025-04-10 Thread luigi scarso
https://x.com/TeXUsersGroup/status/1909459838838751675 """ TUG news: Motion 2025.2 is almost unanimously (with Karl Berry abstaining) approved. The motion awards Karl Berry with with a lifetime membership and the title of "Wizard of Systems" in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the Te

[NTG-context] Re: MetaPost behaviour differs between standalone and \startreusableMPgraphic

2025-02-19 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 at 04:41, Gavin via ntg-context wrote: > > I whole heatedly support converting TikZ to MetaPost! > I don't think it will happen soon, if ever . Instead, these two can be useful tools to have at hand: https://ipe.otfried.org/ https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/ -- luigi __

[NTG-context] Re: images with alt text

2025-02-05 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 at 16:44, Florent Michel wrote: > Hi, > > It seems that the accessibility page has moved here: > https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Input_and_compilation/Accessibility . > Maybe the last example is suitable? > > (It seems to correctly embed the alt text in the pdf; this can be chec

[NTG-context] Donald E. Knuth. — The Grapholinguistic Model of TeX (interview) — “All Questions Answered”

2024-12-10 Thread luigi scarso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVSuM84SS3M Talk given at the Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century Conference, on October 24th, 2024. https://grafematik2024.sciencesconf.org/

[NTG-context] Re: (ConTeXt LMTX) (Beginner) how do i set up vertical CJK?

2024-10-07 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 at 09:10, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > On 10/6/2024 8:40 PM, Felix wrote: > > https://pastebin.com/Cg8ZPDVK > > > > I have the code listed above and I am wondering how I can get CJK text > to be in a vertical form (along with Vietnamese. I know l2r as an option > exists

[NTG-context] TUG 2024: Hàn Thế Thành talk just now

2024-07-21 Thread luigi scarso
https://www.youtube.com/c/texusersgroup ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl

[NTG-context] TUG meeting live

2024-07-19 Thread luigi scarso
https://youtube.com/c/texusersgroup Live from today until sunday -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.n

[NTG-context] Building OpenType math fonts

2024-07-18 Thread luigi scarso
https://github.com/notofonts/math/blob/main/documentation/building-math-fonts/index.md by Khaled Hosny -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-

[NTG-context] Zed editor

2024-07-15 Thread luigi scarso
https://zed.dev/ It supports Tree-sitter. -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-c

[NTG-context] https://behdad.org/text2024/

2024-07-08 Thread luigi scarso
https://behdad.org/text2024/ A lot of stuff. -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/nt

[NTG-context] Re: Japanese

2024-03-15 Thread luigi scarso
[probably off-topic , my apologies ] For a project in my spare time (i.e. no deadlines) I am collecting all kind of info I can find on the net (so free/non free fonts, books , specs, images raster /vectorial..whatever) on the Kaiti (楷体) or “Regular style” https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/type_i

[NTG-context] Re: Japanese

2024-02-29 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 at 20:53, Emanuel Han via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > Thank you all for your suggestions and contributions to the wiki. > > I don't intend to nag, but when looking at what ConTeXt is producing, I > need to state that the result is still far away from a properly t

[NTG-context] LuaTeX 1.18.0

2024-02-21 Thread luigi scarso
The upcoming version 1.18.0 has some changes that are not compatible with previous versions but should only apply in kpse mode: 1) the debug library is disabled; can be enabled with --luadebug 2) os.rename os.remove and lfs library functions are checked from kpse to see if the path is legal I'm

[NTG-context] Re: upload

2024-02-15 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 at 13:47, Hans Hagen wrote: > > Hi, > > as we're around texlive code freeze time we're also in upload mode > > - i uploaded a new lmtx > - i also added linux and windows 32 bin (as it seems to have users) > > - we're now using lua 5.5 which has one restriction (was already > an

[NTG-context] Re: Using plain TeX commands in ConTeXt

2024-01-24 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 at 16:55, Shiv Shankar Dayal < shivshankar.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for correcting me, Wolfgang. I meant only TeX commands not plan TeX > macros. > > TeX primitives ? -- luigi ___ If your q

[NTG-context] Re: context version 20240118 (was: "Registerhaltigkeit")

2024-01-18 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 at 13:00, Thomas Meyer wrote: > What is going on? > > Yesterday I got a perfect on-grid-written document! > But today, with the newest context-version (20240118) all changed for the > worse. > > I may not get a reply to this e-mail either! > > > Am 17.01.24 um 20:57 schrieb Th

[NTG-context] Re: After Compiling the Context test, there was no PDF.

2024-01-16 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 at 12:49, Shiv Shankar Dayal < shivshankar.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > Please paste line no. 238 of your input file. > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 4:11 PM Ursula Hermann < > ursula.herm...@univie.ac.at> wrote: > >> Dear List, >> >> >> >> After Compiling in the Folder: >> >> >> >> T

[NTG-context] Limit of the size of the email message is 100KB.

2024-01-15 Thread luigi scarso
Hi all, the ml has (as always as far as I can remember) the limit of 100KB for the maximum size of the message. I have noticed that lately several messages are over the limit, and all I can do is write to the sender and discard the message, and this could happen a couple of days later the messag

[NTG-context] Modernizing Parametric type design A case study of Nupuram Malayalam typeface

2023-11-04 Thread luigi scarso
https://typoday.in/spk_papers/Santhosh_Thottingal_Typoday2023.pdf and https://twitter.com/santhoshtr/status/1577596445917470722 Long live to metapost & metafont (& mflua :-) :-) :-) ) -- luigi ___ If your question is

[NTG-context] Re: list of modules: need changes/testing/response

2023-08-31 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 20:18, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Hi all, esp. module authors! > > I went through the list of modules on https://modules.contextgarden.net/ > (dl/) and the list that controls module installation for “--script > install-modules". > > I removed all font-related modules from

[NTG-context] MAPS nr 53

2023-08-22 Thread luigi scarso
An unmissable issue of MAPS, totally dedicated to MetaPost by Taco. Once free I will put it in the mp repository. -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maill

Re: [NTG-context] Off topic: Does a 'free for commercial use' flared-sans font exist in the world?

2023-06-18 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Sun, 18 Jun 2023 at 21:56, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > On 6/18/2023 8:37 PM, Carlos via ntg-context wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 06:53:06PM +0200, Hans Hagen via ntg-context > wrote: > >> What is PFC data? > > > > The glyph containers on a table-based SFNT format > > So just shap

Re: [NTG-context] knuth

2023-06-05 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 at 15:18, Alan Braslau via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > > On 04/06/23 04/06/23, 15:57, Berend de Boer via ntg-context wrote: > >> Probably some on this list already checked how well chatgpt answers > >> questions about domains one knows well and then probably noted

Re: [NTG-context] knuth

2023-06-01 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 at 11:45, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > Hi, > > Probably some on this list already checked how well chatgpt answers > questions about domains one knows well and then probably noted that in > spite of impressive wording, one can run into quite incorrect answers. > > One ca

[NTG-context] Luatex 1.17.0 announcement.

2023-05-27 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
(Sorry for the delay, I wanted to be sure that building phase was over) == LuaTeX 1.17.0 2023-04-29 == - A breaking backward compatibility change: by default the socket librar

Re: [NTG-context] [ update message ]

2023-05-07 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Sun, 7 May 2023 at 16:05, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > On 5/7/2023 3:18 PM, vm via ntg-context wrote: > > running the sh install.sh script to update to the latest version i get a > > message: > > > > /home/vm/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/luatex: unrecognized option > > '--socket' > >

Re: [NTG-context] PDF 2.0 standard documents now free

2023-04-06 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 at 09:02, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > On 4/6/2023 8:07 AM, luigi scarso via ntg-context wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 at 07:54, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context > > mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl>> wrote: > > > >

Re: [NTG-context] PDF 2.0 standard documents now free

2023-04-05 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 at 07:54, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > Am 05.04.23 um 20:09 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: > > On 4/5/2023 7:48 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: > >> Forwarding from Mastodon: > >> > >> Adobe, Apryse, Foxit and PDFAssociat

Re: [NTG-context] update / punctuation / math

2023-04-02 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 at 13:57, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > On 4/2/23 11:19, luigi scarso via ntg-context wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 at 11:06, Mikael Sundqvist via ntg-context > > mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl>> wrote: > > > >

Re: [NTG-context] update / punctuation / math

2023-04-02 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 at 10:35, luigi scarso wrote: > > > On Sat, 1 Apr 2023 at 10:28, Hans Hagen via ntg-context < > ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> > As a side note (it's 2 april now) > the concrete font of the pdf is not rendered we

Re: [NTG-context] update / punctuation / math

2023-04-02 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 at 11:06, Mikael Sundqvist via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > > If you talk about the math font, I do not see what you mean. Daniel > has worked a lot on his fonts, and they now work well. > indeed the body font is not concrete opentype math but it looks very simila

Re: [NTG-context] update / punctuation / math

2023-04-02 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Sat, 1 Apr 2023 at 10:28, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > Hi, > > As a side note (it's 2 april now) the concrete font of the pdf is not rendered well both on web and t on win/linux desktop . No surprise, I did some experiments with mflua years ago and my results had the same problem. I

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt features in pandoc 3

2023-01-23 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 at 08:30, juh via ntg-context wrote: > > For my own writing I was using Markdown --> Pandoc --> ConTeXt for quite > a while and was happy with it, too. Recently I switched to Org-Mode as I > started to use org-roam to organize my Zettelkasten and want to make use > of the org-

Re: [NTG-context] atan2 function

2022-10-14 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 at 14:58, Taco Hoekwater via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > > > > On 14 Oct 2022, at 14:26, Alan Braslau via ntg-context < > ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > > > > Are you using MP in scaled integer or in doubleprecision mode? > > > > I have not looked into the MP angle

Re: [NTG-context] PDF viewer

2022-09-23 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 8:08 PM Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > Hi all, > I compiled a kind of wishlist what we need or look for in a new or > enhanced open source PDF viewer, as discussed e.g. at the 2021 meeting. > > https://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDF_viewer >

Re: [NTG-context] debugging lmtx and firefox (was: TeXGyre Heros on Firefox)

2022-07-25 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 7:52 PM Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > > Sadly, as already reported, LuaTeX doesn’t work on Linux anymore. > > hm at least luatex on x86-64 is still ok, as far as I know. -- luigi ___

[NTG-context] Luatex 1.15.0 announcement.

2022-04-03 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
== LuaTeX 1.15.0 2021-12-31 == New primitive \matheqdirmode. By default the short skip detection is not adapted to r2l typesetting and that hasn't been the case since the start o

Re: [NTG-context] LuaMetaLa(!)TeX

2022-02-13 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 11:33 AM Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > WTF, someone wrote a LaTeX format for LuaMetaTeX already 3 years ago: > https://github.com/zauguin/luametalatex > > > sure -- he is not "someone", we know Marcel . -- luigi __

Re: [NTG-context] XMP metadata schema yields invalid PDF/A

2022-02-05 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 1:33 PM luigi scarso wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 1:28 PM Karl Pettersson > wrote: > >> >> > >> > From what I understand, ConTeXt applies a custom Dublin Core schema >> > containing just a redefinition of dc:

Re: [NTG-context] XMP metadata schema yields invalid PDF/A

2022-02-05 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 1:28 PM Karl Pettersson wrote: > > > > > From what I understand, ConTeXt applies a custom Dublin Core schema > > containing just a redefinition of dc:description, which is not coherent > > with how dc:description is written by the application. > > > > This patch to lpdf-pda

Re: [NTG-context] XMP metadata schema yields invalid PDF/A

2022-02-05 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 9:48 AM Karl Pettersson wrote: > > Attach metadata xml for the non-validating and validating example > (extraced with `pdfinfo -meta | xmllint format -`) in the > Github issue. > > Here is a reference to the description element. Note that only > description seems to be rede

Re: [NTG-context] XMP metadata schema yields invalid PDF/A

2022-02-04 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 11:11 PM Karl Pettersson via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 10:25:27PM +0100, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > > On 2/4/2022 7:29 PM, Karl Pettersson via ntg-context wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > PDF/A files generated using ConTeXt fail v

Re: [NTG-context] XMP metadata schema yields invalid PDF/A

2022-02-04 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 10:26 PM Hans Hagen via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > On 2/4/2022 7:29 PM, Karl Pettersson via ntg-context wrote: > > Hi > > > > PDF/A files generated using ConTeXt fail validation with veraPDF, and > > the reason seems to be that the dc:description metadata is

Re: [NTG-context] Critical Editions?

2022-01-07 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 6:25 PM hanneder--- via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > > Probably the situation in South Asian Studies (Indology) is peculiar. > As I indicated, there are mostly no budgets for book typesetting in > Indology and > I know of no real expert for typesetting in this

Re: [NTG-context] Critical Editions?

2022-01-05 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 12:54 PM Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > On 1/5/22 9:43 AM, luigi scarso via ntg-context wrote: > > [...] > > quite old (2014), but perhaps still interesting: > > embedding of a tei-xml into a tagged pdf > > h

Re: [NTG-context] Critical Editions?

2022-01-05 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 12:00 AM Jean-Pierre Delange via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > Thomas, > Even if I am an occasional user of CTX (mainly class courses for beginners > and sophomore or by trying to write samples of what it is possible to > achieve with it), and if I think I am aw

Re: [NTG-context] problem with MkIV/TeXlive/TEXMFCACHE

2021-08-30 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 12:48 PM Rainer J.H. Brandt via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > luigi scarso via ntg-context writes: > > > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 10:35 AM Rainer J.H. Brandt via ntg-context < > > > > ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > &

Re: [NTG-context] problem with MkIV/TeXlive/TEXMFCACHE

2021-08-30 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 11:49 AM Rainer J.H. Brandt via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > Hello Luigi, > > you asked: > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 10:35 AM Rainer J.H. Brandt via ntg-context < > > ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > > > > > Dear experts, > > > > > > I want to use ConTeXt MkIV as

Re: [NTG-context] problem with MkIV/TeXlive/TEXMFCACHE

2021-08-27 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 10:35 AM Rainer J.H. Brandt via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > Dear experts, > > I want to use ConTeXt MkIV as supplied by TeXlive 2021. > After installation, I ran "mtxrun --generate". > I also tried "context --generate". > Both create output in the wrong place

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt exporter for Org Mode

2021-08-10 Thread luigi scarso via ntg-context
On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 10:01 AM Jason Ross via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > Hello, > > I have developed a ConTeXt exporter for Org Mode. It is available at > https://github.com/Jason-S-Ross/ox-context > > The exporter provides custom environments for each Org Mode entity > in an eff

Re: [NTG-context] lmtx upload

2021-06-24 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 7:29 PM Hans Hagen wrote: > Hi, > > I uploaded a new version. I got sidetracked by an experiment. We can > read from zip files, but as I had some tar archives I wondered if we > could read from them. They happened to be compressed. It uses an already > present infrastructu

ntg-context@ntg.nl

2021-06-17 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 11:33 AM luigi scarso wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 10:53 PM Alan Braslau > wrote: > >> On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 17:14:22 +0200 >> luigi scarso wrote: >> >> > > Did you try this one? >> > > >> >

ntg-context@ntg.nl

2021-06-17 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 10:53 PM Alan Braslau wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 17:14:22 +0200 > luigi scarso wrote: > > > > Did you try this one? > > > > > > http://www.xpdfreader.com/download.html > > > > > > I doesn't workunde

ntg-context@ntg.nl

2021-06-16 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 9:00 PM Hans Hagen wrote: > On 6/15/2021 8:47 PM, luigi scarso wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 8:29 PM Hans Hagen > <mailto:j.ha...@xs4all.nl>> wrote: > > > > On 6/15/2021 7:53 PM, Alan Braslau wrote:

ntg-context@ntg.nl

2021-06-15 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 8:29 PM Hans Hagen wrote: > On 6/15/2021 7:53 PM, Alan Braslau wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 13:07:04 +0200 > > Hans Hagen wrote: > > > >> the windows mupdf viewer is somewhat crippled (no selection) but > >> searching for something shows the right bbox > > > > I do not

ntg-context@ntg.nl

2021-06-15 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 9:13 AM Hans Hagen wrote: > On 6/15/2021 12:21 AM, Richard Mahoney wrote: > > Thank you very much for this Hans. And especially for resolving > > what looks like quite a complex issue in next to no time. > > > > As it happens I've found LMTX just fine for "production", so

Re: [NTG-context] Incorrect sorting in \completelistofabbreviations for numbers

2021-06-10 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:39 AM Markus Brandt < markus.bra...@sit.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote: > yes, seems like they are sorted by tag. But that’s not useful, since you > cannot use numbers in a tag. This tag is just the workaround for > abbreviations that include numbers. > > > \abbreviation[0123]{

Re: [NTG-context] Incorrect sorting in \completelistofabbreviations for numbers

2021-06-10 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:08 AM Markus Brandt < markus.bra...@sit.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I think I've found a sorting bug in \completelistofabbreviations in the > latest LMTX (and probably also MKIV). When using this minimal example > > \abbreviation[OTT]{123}{One, Two, and Th

Re: [NTG-context] LMTX install

2021-05-23 Thread luigi scarso
Il Dom 23 Mag 2021, 12:14 jbf ha scritto: > Then something is not making sense (to me). > > .bashrc clearly shows: export > PATH=$PATH:/home/me/bin/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin, so does that not > mean that bin can be found via the path? So why does 'context > myfile.tex' not work? > > If I run

Re: [NTG-context] \char not working with private unicodes

2021-05-12 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 3:41 PM Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > > > On 11 May 2021, at 15:16, Hans Hagen wrote: > > > > On 5/11/2021 2:08 PM, Jairo A. del Rio wrote: > >> Hi, list! Following this thread: > https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/596610/how-to-use-luatex-with-large-unicode-codepoint >

Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting parameters for a single page

2021-05-11 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 10:29 AM wrote: > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > > Von: Hans Hagen > > Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. Mai 2021 00:13 > > An: mailing list for ConTeXt users ; Maier, Denis > > Christian (UB) > > Betreff: Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting parameters for a single page > > > > On 5/

Re: [NTG-context] simpleslides gives 'input stack overflow'

2021-05-10 Thread luigi scarso
On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 11:25 PM Adam Reviczky wrote: > Hi, > > Looks like it is a problem with "StartPage" and "StopPage" in metapost. > > I get the same error with any MP graphic using those commands. > > More minimal example (without simpleslides) as per the wiki: > https://wiki.contextgarden.n

Re: [NTG-context] How to write readable source files?

2021-04-24 Thread luigi scarso
On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 11:53 AM Jan U. Hasecke wrote: > > Hi all, > > how do you format your ConTeXt source files? > > I recently discovered prettier which reformats source files for > different markup > and programming languages such as html, markdown, json etc. > > There are some other tools a

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: missing Lua API in binaries

2021-04-23 Thread luigi scarso
On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 1:33 AM Sylvain Hubert wrote: > You're right, I just checked the symbols of luatex and they contain all > the APIs of lua 5.3. > So I guess the problem is specific to luametatex and the latest context. > > > but in any case you should compile against the luatex headers, no

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: missing Lua API in binaries

2021-04-23 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 10:08 PM Sylvain Hubert wrote: > Dear Devs, > > Sorry if this is not the best place for reporting bugs. > > I'm trying to use the lpeglabel library written in C and delivered as > lpeglabel.so. > > $ ls > testlabel.lua lpeglabel.so > $ cat testlabel.lua > require("lpeglabe

[NTG-context] Luatex 1.13.1 announcement.

2021-04-02 Thread luigi scarso
== LuaTeX 1.13.1 2021-04-02 == Fixed an unwanted space in btex etex in metapost, introduced after a patch for troff. -- luigi __

[NTG-context] Luatex 1.13.0 announcement.

2021-03-28 Thread luigi scarso
== LuaTeX 1.13.0 2021-03-12 == This is the release for TeX live 2021. Callback for nesting level used in tracingmacros. It is is a variant of \tracingstacklevels by Petr Olsak im

Re: [NTG-context] composing commands

2021-02-05 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 11:47 PM Hans Hagen wrote: > > never call a diaeresis an umlaut and vise versa ... hm latin is vice versa (or versa vice) italian is viceversa english is vice versa https://forvo.com/word/vice_versa/ I think that the latin one is the classic (or "restituta") pronunciat

Re: [NTG-context] midi

2021-02-04 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 4:16 AM Fabrice L wrote: > > I usually do images ; if you or the list ever want to see more, the site > https://art-aleatoire.com is to show my work, and all you can see there > is made by me using 100% MetaFun, with sometimes the help of you and the > list, and all the tim

Re: [NTG-context] dutch calendars 3 months

2021-01-05 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 1:14 PM Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > > Being Dutch, I never realised there was such a thing as a “Dutch > calendar”. > > These are just calendars? What makes them “Dutch” from an Italian > viewpoint? > > Best wishes, > Taco > > The reference site treccani says https://www.tre

[NTG-context] dutch calendars 3 months

2021-01-05 Thread luigi scarso
I guess this is a challenge for Willi : a module to typeset "dutch calendars" as in https://www.calendari.it/ (I am not involved at all with the site, it's the first I have found ) I like the slim version, with 3 months, the saint(s) of the day, the moon phases, the week number, the day from the b

Re: [NTG-context] Off-topic: Struggles with LPEG grammar

2020-12-21 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 2:36 PM Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > > > On 21 Dec 2020, at 14:08, Mojca Miklavec > wrote: > > > > Dear Taco, > > > > On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 13:46, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > >>> On 21 Dec 2020, at 13:16, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >>> > >>> My only explanation would be that perha

Re: [NTG-context] Install Problems with 64 bit ARM Linux

2020-11-28 Thread luigi scarso
On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 11:18 AM Hans Hagen wrote: > looks nice (specs and such) indeed, maybe as a next tablet (i haven't > tested tex on the very old nexus in a while); probably a little faster > than the rpi 4 > these also look interesting e.g. https://tinker-board.asus.com/prod_tinker-board

Re: [NTG-context] new upload

2020-11-26 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 6:10 PM Hans Hagen wrote: > On 11/26/2020 6:07 PM, luigi scarso wrote: > > > > > > Il Gio 26 Nov 2020, 18:00 Hans Hagen > <mailto:j.ha...@xs4all.nl>> ha scritto: > > > > On 11/26/2020 5:10 PM, luigi scarso wrote: > >

Re: [NTG-context] new upload

2020-11-26 Thread luigi scarso
Il Gio 26 Nov 2020, 18:00 Hans Hagen ha scritto: > On 11/26/2020 5:10 PM, luigi scarso wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 5:00 PM Hans Hagen > <mailto:j.ha...@xs4all.nl>> wrote: > > > > Of course, if they care about luatex cs support th

Re: [NTG-context] new upload

2020-11-26 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 5:00 PM Hans Hagen wrote: > Of course, if they care about luatex cs support they > could send an M1 mini to Mojca for the compile farm for some real testing. > very likely luatex will run full native on M1 on next texlive, following http://www.tug.org/mactex/aboutarm.htm

[NTG-context] Guit meeting 2020

2020-09-11 Thread luigi scarso
GuIT (Gruppo Utilizzatori Italiani di TeX, official Italian TUG) is pleased to announce the GuITmeeting 2020, the 17th edition of the Italian conference on TeX, LaTeX and digital typography.   The conference, organized by GuIT and Sissa Medialab srl of Trieste, will be held online on the 31st of

Re: [NTG-context] Commands with arguments before in ConTeXt

2020-06-29 Thread luigi scarso
On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 10:48 PM Jairo A. del Rio wrote: > I've read the following is not possible in TeX > > \def#1\macro{blabla#1} > > where arguments come before. The only partial exceptions are commands like > \atop or \over, which are in fact primitives. Is there a way to do this in > ConTeX

Re: [NTG-context] Installing on arm64

2020-06-10 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 9:07 PM Hans Hagen wrote: > On 6/10/2020 7:47 PM, luigi scarso wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 7:27 PM Hans Hagen > <mailto:j.ha...@xs4all.nl>> wrote: > > > > On 6/10/2020 7:07 PM, Lutz Haseloff wrote: &g

Re: [NTG-context] Installing on arm64

2020-06-10 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 7:27 PM Hans Hagen wrote: > On 6/10/2020 7:07 PM, Lutz Haseloff wrote: > > I think, there is simply no rule for aarch64 in install.sh > > > > I now patched it in a better way. > > ok > > > The binaries for aarch64 work like a charm on my device, a Samsung > > Galaxy A50 Sm

Re: [NTG-context] Checking existence of a macro (control sequence) by Lua

2020-05-27 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:43 AM wrote: > Off-topic: your email are always marked as spam by my gmail . Are you sure that your address setup is ok ? -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, p

Re: [NTG-context] bug in \doifinset

2020-05-27 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 11:28 PM Pablo Rodriguez wrote: > > Without commas, lists are harder both to read and to write (at least, to > me). > > what about \starttext \startTEXpage[offset=1em] \doifinsetelse{i7}{% i4,% i5,% i7,% } {yes}{no} \stopTEXpage \stoptext here seems to work. --

Re: [NTG-context] METAPOST: How do I get this 'max' cutafter to work?

2020-04-22 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 9:30 AM Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > In contrast, intersectionpoint finds the first intersection on the > non-reversed paths, which > is the base of the arrowhead. > > IIrc , it's the first in shuffle order @ Incidentally, if the given cubics intersect more than once, the p

Re: [NTG-context] Question: Are there any ConTeXt aware scientific pulishers yet

2020-04-16 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 9:08 AM Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > > > Am 15.04.2020 um 22:52 schrieb denis.maier.li...@mailbox.org: > > I’m using a Python script to convert DOCX to ConTeXt. c# under linux is also a valid option. -- luigi __

[NTG-context] Luatex 1.12.0 announcement.

2020-03-30 Thread luigi scarso
== LuaTeX 1.12.0 2020-03-15 == This is the release for TeX live 2020. --shell-restricted now forbids loading of dso (dll/so object) Scaled virtual font Aadditional primitives \e

Re: [NTG-context] Quizz

2020-03-17 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 9:40 AM Hans Hagen wrote: > > I have no problem coming up with additional styles of code for remote > learning and student support but it has to have some 'direction' and not > be too random. > > one constrain could be "it works under google chrome > Version 79.0.3945.130"

Re: [NTG-context] Quizz

2020-03-16 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 11:14 AM Hans Hagen wrote: > On 3/15/2020 10:34 AM, Fabrice Couvreur wrote: > > Hi, > > With the Coronavirus pandemic, my school will close like all the others. > > We chose to work with Microsoft Teams. I know how to file Math exercises > > written with ConteXt and export

Re: [NTG-context] Quick question about dual output pdf and epub

2020-03-04 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 9:51 AM Hans Hagen wrote: > > (in the meantime i actually gave away my ebook reader ... now i wait > till color shows up in e-ink which might give me a reason to play a bit > more) > > https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-unveils-preview-worlds-first-fold

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode 13 – save the \dodo!

2020-02-05 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 10:38 AM Arthur Reutenauer < arthur.reutena...@normalesup.org> wrote: > > Just for the record: it is not true at all that Unicode is “mostly > emojis” nowadays. Even today, the vast majority of characters added > each year is 90% non-emoji. I make this point at every Con

Re: [NTG-context] Transparency in PNGs becomes black in PDF/X

2019-12-20 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 11:00 AM Peter Rolf wrote: > Hi Hraban, > > PDF/X-1a:2001 doesn't support transparency. You have to use PDF/X-4(p) > for that (the first X variant that supports transparency). > PDF/A-2|3 may also be an option. These formats also support transparency. > > > Peter > > confi

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Segmentation fault

2019-12-11 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 12:10 AM Hans Hagen wrote: > On 12/11/2019 12:03 AM, luigi scarso wrote: > > I guess that we have to check if catcodetable -1 is already defined... > i already sent you a patch, probbaly also ok for trunk > Committed revision

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Segmentation fault

2019-12-11 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 1:28 AM Henri Menke wrote: > In this case I wanted to generate the thin space (\,). My expectation > (which worked elsewhere) was that full expansion will turn "\string\\," > into "\\," where the two backslashes have catcode 12 and will not be > expanded further. Then th

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Segmentation fault

2019-12-10 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 12:10 AM Hans Hagen wrote: > On 12/11/2019 12:03 AM, luigi scarso wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 9:27 PM Henri Menke > <mailto:henrime...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > Dear devs, > > > > The examp

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Segmentation fault

2019-12-10 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 9:27 PM Henri Menke wrote: > Dear devs, > > The example below crashes LuaTeX with a segmentation fault. It is > reproducible > with LuaTeX 1.10.1 7143 and LuaTeX 1.11.2 7226. To this end I built 7226 > from > source with --debugopt to get a backtrace, which can be found

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Segmentation fault

2019-12-10 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 9:27 PM Henri Menke wrote: > Dear devs, > > The example below crashes LuaTeX with a segmentation fault. It is > reproducible > with LuaTeX 1.10.1 7143 and LuaTeX 1.11.2 7226. To this end I built 7226 > from > source with --debugopt to get a backtrace, which can be found

Re: [NTG-context] PDF/A-3a attachment support query

2019-12-06 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 4:26 PM Peter Rolf wrote: > > So we have only basic support for "PDF/A-3a", the more advanced features > of that format are not supported yet. The main problem here is the > lacking PDF/A documentation (ISO pay wall). > A complete installation of verapdf has a very detai

[NTG-context] NewComputerModern

2019-11-24 Thread luigi scarso
https://ctan.org/pkg/newcomputermodern """ This is a new assembly of Computer Modern fonts plus glyphs for non latin alphabets which are considered compatible in style to CM fonts. The fonts contain Latin and accented Latin letters and combinations, Greek (monotonic and polytonic), and Cyrillic.

Re: [NTG-context] R module

2019-11-24 Thread luigi scarso
On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 4:12 AM Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Sat, 23 Nov 2019, Fabrice L wrote: > > Thanks for your answer. I did not know about the filter module. I had a > > look; the module is powerful… but complex to install. > > Why do you say so? If you are using context-minimals, then this c

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt as a service

2019-11-23 Thread luigi scarso
On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 1:02 PM Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > Don’t exaggerate. Or maybe your company didn’t think about which tags are > really necessary. > A proper configuration that doesn’t allow nonsense, even if users paste > text from Word documents, is not such a big effort. > > I can’t

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