bugs

bugs

[Hans Hagen]

Hi all, 

The latest pdftex beta has a nasty bug in \pdfobj which makes thsiu
versions of pdftex incompatible with packages that use this primitive! So,
if you use widgets and alike, you'd better use an old version. Since the
previous beta (17) als has a bug in \pdfobj, better revert to an even older
one (maybe even 14d), since Thanh is not available to sort it out. 

There are few other problems, but these are less important. 

Hans

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Bugs

[Dirar BOUGATEF]

Hi,

Is there a special place to report bugs ?

I have noticed that align=right aligns text on the left edge of a frame 
where it should align left as it says (and left aligns right).

Is this normal ?

Re: Bugs

[David Antos]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:19:56PM +0000, Dirar BOUGATEF wrote:
> I have noticed that align=right aligns text on the left edge of a frame 
> where it should align left as it says (and left aligns right).
> 
> Is this normal ?

Sure. Think of it as ragged-right and ragged-left. This is one of the
first questions in all ConTeXt FAQs, it has deep historical reasons, and
it constantly confuses beginners :-)

D.A.

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# (Came in evening after sleeping most of day, to get computer at better time.)
# (Some day we will have personal computers and will live more normally.)
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Re: Bugs

[Christopher Creutzig]

David Antos wrote:

> Sure. Think of it as ragged-right and ragged-left. This is one of the
> first questions in all ConTeXt FAQs, it has deep historical reasons, and

  If nothing important has crept past me, being the first question in 
all ConTeXt FAQs is something trivially true, given the number of 
ConTeXt FAQs in existence. :-))

Christopher

Re: Bugs

[David Antos]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 04:15:34PM +0100, Christopher Creutzig wrote:
> >Sure. Think of it as ragged-right and ragged-left. This is one of the
> >first questions in all ConTeXt FAQs, it has deep historical reasons, and
> 
>  If nothing important has crept past me, being the first question in 
> all ConTeXt FAQs is something trivially true, given the number of 
> ConTeXt FAQs in existence. :-))

You're a mathematician, aren't you :-))))) Have a look at
http://contextgarden.net/, great material is there.

And this is documented in http://contextgarden.net/Right_and_left,
nevertheless, you're right, it isn't an FAQ :-)

D.A.

-- 
The Czechs announced after Sputnik that they, too, would launch a satellite.
Of course, it would orbit Sputnik, not Earth!

Re: Bugs

[Hans Hagen]

David Antos wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 04:15:34PM +0100, Christopher Creutzig wrote:
> 
>>>Sure. Think of it as ragged-right and ragged-left. This is one of the
>>>first questions in all ConTeXt FAQs, it has deep historical reasons, and
>>
>> If nothing important has crept past me, being the first question in 
>>all ConTeXt FAQs is something trivially true, given the number of 
>>ConTeXt FAQs in existence. :-))
> 
> 
> You're a mathematician, aren't you :-))))) Have a look at
> http://contextgarden.net/, great material is there.
> 
> And this is documented in http://contextgarden.net/Right_and_left,
> nevertheless, you're right, it isn't an FAQ :-)

but it qualifies as CAQ: constantly asked question and an WPA (Wiki Provided 
Answer)

Hans

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Re: Bugs

[Hans Hagen]

Dirar BOUGATEF wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a special place to report bugs ?
> 
> I have noticed that align=right aligns text on the left edge of a frame 
> where it should align left as it says (and left aligns right).
> 
> Is this normal ?

yes, historic reasons: raggedright = right

you can use flushleft flushright if you like them more

Hans

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RE: Re[2]: Bugs

[Dirar BOUGATEF]

I was pretty sure it wasn't a bug, at least not the big ones you see when 
you have holidays in Africa ;)

Anyway, it would be great to be able to switch that to proper behaviour.

Could anyone answer my second question which is :

Is there any place to report bugs ..

and are there release notes for new context versions ?

Re: Bugs

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hello Dirar,

> Could anyone answer my second question which is :

> Is there any place to report bugs ..

Tobias (it was Tobias, wasn't it?) once setup a bugzilla site for
ConTeXt. But I guess it was never really used. And no ther are no
places besides the mailinglist to report bugs.

> and are there release notes for new context versions ?

Taco does an excellent job on this: goto
http://contextgarden.net/Release_Notes and see what is there. (And
many many thanks to Taco for this!)

Patrick
-- 
ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net

RE: Re[2]: Bugs

[Dirar BOUGATEF]

Thanks all.

Would be nice to know how to switch the left and right keywords to do the 
opposite of what it does now.

Re: Bugs

[h h extern]

Dirar BOUGATEF wrote:
> Thanks all.
> 
> Would be nice to know how to switch the left and right keywords to do 
> the opposite of what it does now.

there is a switcj but it would spoil the use of modules,

you can use flushleft and flushright as alternatives

Hans


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Re: Bugs

[Dirar BOUGATEF]

Looks great to me. Thanks Hans.

Dirar.