Bug / feature request tracking

Bug / feature request tracking

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hi all,

Some of you may be aware of the fact that there is a bug /
feature request tracker for ConTeXt. The URL is:

   http://context.literatesolutions.com/collector

I have to do a call-to-arms for the people that have made
feature requests and / or found bugs in the past few months,
especially if the extension /solution has not been included
in the latest distribution (2005.10.27).

Will you all please have a look at the current list, and see
if I have added your item(s) already?

I have a rather large archive of context-related email (because
I let it slip for a while), and  I fear that may have missed
some extant bugs. This is quite important, because if it is not
in the list, it is much less likely to get fixed.

Greetings,
Taco

Re: Bug / feature request tracking

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

Taco,

great to have your bug collector, and let's hope it'll be a bug  
squasher before long...

I had submitted a couple of bugs and feature requests for the index  
command that don't seem to be resolved and which didn't make it to  
your list. I'd say they are fairly critical because they will really  
mess up index generation:

1. index ranges inserted via \startregister[index] will gobble all  
other entries for the term;

2. \seeindex gives an error and will foul up the .tui file when  
processed with newtexexec;

3. again with newtexexec: capital letters at the beginning of terms  
are disregarded for the index, thus Taco will be sorted under "a."

4. and a feature request: it would be good to have some formatting  
options like LaTeX makeidx offers: \index{keyword|textit} will  
produce a page-number in italics in the register. That would be  
immensely useful to produce a structured index.

All best

Thomas

On Nov 7, 2005, at 6:50 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Some of you may be aware of the fact that there is a bug /
> feature request tracker for ConTeXt. The URL is:
>
>   http://context.literatesolutions.com/collector
>
> I have to do a call-to-arms for the people that have made
> feature requests and / or found bugs in the past few months,
> especially if the extension /solution has not been included
> in the latest distribution (2005.10.27).
>
> Will you all please have a look at the current list, and see
> if I have added your item(s) already?
>
> I have a rather large archive of context-related email (because
> I let it slip for a while), and  I fear that may have missed
> some extant bugs. This is quite important, because if it is not
> in the list, it is much less likely to get fixed.
>
> Greetings,
> Taco
>
> _______________________________________________
> ntg-context mailing list
> ntg-context@ntg.nl
> http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: Bug / feature request tracking

[Taco Hoekwater]

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Taco,
> 
> great to have your bug collector, and let's hope it'll be a bug  
> squasher before long...

I've added your register items, thanks.

I forgot to point out in my original post that the software for
the collector is kindly provided and hosted by Michael Guravage
and his company (http://www.literatesolutions.com).

I am only the person (tries) to manages the list of issues.

Greetings,
Taco

Re: Bug / feature request tracking

[andrea valle]

Taco,
should I add the metafun bug?

-a-



On 7 Nov 2005, at 20:14, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>> Taco,
>> great to have your bug collector, and let's hope it'll be a bug  
>> squasher before long...
>
> I've added your register items, thanks.
>
> I forgot to point out in my original post that the software for
> the collector is kindly provided and hosted by Michael Guravage
> and his company (http://www.literatesolutions.com).
>
> I am only the person (tries) to manages the list of issues.
>
> Greetings,
> Taco
>
> _______________________________________________
> ntg-context mailing list
> ntg-context@ntg.nl
> http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
>
>
Andrea Valle
DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione
Università degli Studi di Torino
andrea.valle@unito.it

Re: Bug / feature request tracking

[Taco Hoekwater]

andrea valle wrote:
> Taco,
> should I add the metafun bug?
> 

No need, I did that one already.

Taco

Re: Bug / feature request tracking

[Vit Zyka]

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Taco,
> 
> great to have your bug collector, and let's hope it'll be a bug  
> squasher before long...
> 
> I had submitted a couple of bugs and feature requests for the index  
> command that don't seem to be resolved and which didn't make it to  your 
> list. I'd say they are fairly critical because they will really  mess up 
> index generation:
> 
> 1. index ranges inserted via \startregister[index] will gobble all  
> other entries for the term;
> 
> 2. \seeindex gives an error and will foul up the .tui file when  
> processed with newtexexec;
> 
> 3. again with newtexexec: capital letters at the beginning of terms  are 
> disregarded for the index, thus Taco will be sorted under "a."

Yes, I agree.

> 4. and a feature request: it would be good to have some formatting  
> options like LaTeX makeidx offers: \index{keyword|textit} will  produce 
> a page-number in italics in the register. That would be  immensely 
> useful to produce a structured index.

This is already present in the ConTeXt even in more general way then in 
the LaTeX is. More info in the manual.

vit

> All best
> 
> Thomas
> 
> On Nov 7, 2005, at 6:50 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Some of you may be aware of the fact that there is a bug /
>> feature request tracker for ConTeXt. The URL is:
>>
>>   http://context.literatesolutions.com/collector
>>
>> I have to do a call-to-arms for the people that have made
>> feature requests and / or found bugs in the past few months,
>> especially if the extension /solution has not been included
>> in the latest distribution (2005.10.27).
>>
>> Will you all please have a look at the current list, and see
>> if I have added your item(s) already?
>>
>> I have a rather large archive of context-related email (because
>> I let it slip for a while), and  I fear that may have missed
>> some extant bugs. This is quite important, because if it is not
>> in the list, it is much less likely to get fixed.
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Taco

Re[2]: Bug / feature request tracking

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Monday, November 7, 2005 Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

> 4. and a feature request: it would be good to have some formatting
> options like LaTeX makeidx offers:
> \index{keyword|textit} will  
> produce a page-number in italics in the register. That would be
> immensely useful to produce a structured index.

I have the following, in my PhD thesis

\setupindex[pagestyle=normal]
\setupregister[index][def][pagestyle=bold]
\def\indexdefinition#1{\index[def::]{#1}}
\def\defterm#1{\leavevmode{\indexdefinition{#1}\it#1}}
\def\deftermx#1#2{\leavevmode{\processcommalist[#2]\indexdefinition\it#1}}
\def\useterm#1{\leavevmode{\index{#1}#1}}
\def\usetermx#1#2{\leavevmode{\processcommalist[#2]\index#1}}


the 'def' is an index 'class', which can be formatted
differently from the others. I use it to makr the definition
of a term (the other commands are just shorthands :)). You
can set up as many classes as you want and format each of
them as you wish. Much better than the LaTeX way :) More
details in the manual.

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

Re: Re[2]: Bug / feature request tracking

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

Giuseppe, Vit,

I stand corrected. Thanks for pointing this out -- I'm ashamed I  
didn't look past p. 213 of the manual. And of course this is much  
more flexible than the LaTeX way - how could I ever doubt it?

I will correct the entry in the bug collector and apologize for the  
noise.

Thanks, and best

Thomas

On Nov 8, 2005, at 11:05 AM, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

> Monday, November 7, 2005 Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>
>> 4. and a feature request: it would be good to have some formatting
>> options like LaTeX makeidx offers:
>> \index{keyword|textit} will
>> produce a page-number in italics in the register. That would be
>> immensely useful to produce a structured index.
>
> I have the following, in my PhD thesis
>
> \setupindex[pagestyle=normal]
> \setupregister[index][def][pagestyle=bold]
> \def\indexdefinition#1{\index[def::]{#1}}
> \def\defterm#1{\leavevmode{\indexdefinition{#1}\it#1}}
> \def\deftermx#1#2{\leavevmode{\processcommalist[#2]\indexdefinition 
> \it#1}}
> \def\useterm#1{\leavevmode{\index{#1}#1}}
> \def\usetermx#1#2{\leavevmode{\processcommalist[#2]\index#1}}
>
>
> the 'def' is an index 'class', which can be formatted
> differently from the others. I use it to makr the definition
> of a term (the other commands are just shorthands :)). You
> can set up as many classes as you want and format each of
> them as you wish. Much better than the LaTeX way :) More
> details in the manual.
>
> -- 
> Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
>
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Re: Bug / feature request tracking

[Steffen Wolfrum]

Hi Taco,

was the request tracker changed? I remember 3 months ago I wrote an  
entry at  http://context.literatesolutions.com .
It was something like the fifths entry I think, but I can't remember  
wether it was called collector (I remember it looked different).

However, now I cannot find it anymore.

So, here is the request again "feature request for placefigure   
extension":

*** request start ***

Hi,

it would be great if the \placefigure macro could be extended to
combinations like

\placefigure{top,left}

or

\placefigure{bottom,outer}


The reason for this request is that we use ConTeXt a lot for
typesetting books from "arts and humanities".

There we often have to place a lot of (more then 100) figures at
"fixed" positions like top-outer and bottom-inner, wrapped by text.

I guess it's not a trivial feature to be implemented in TeX's
paragraph processing, but I know it might be worth the effort:
ConTeXt's way to deal with fonts and text is so superior that it
should be also accessible for disciplines that besides text also rely
on images - as the arts and humanities do.

Steffen

*** request stop ***

Thank you!

Steffen






Am 07.11.2005 um 18:50 schrieb Taco Hoekwater:
> Hi all,
>
> Some of you may be aware of the fact that there is a bug /
> feature request tracker for ConTeXt. The URL is:
>
>   http://context.literatesolutions.com/collector
>
> I have to do a call-to-arms for the people that have made
> feature requests and / or found bugs in the past few months,
> especially if the extension /solution has not been included
> in the latest distribution (2005.10.27).
>
> Will you all please have a look at the current list, and see
> if I have added your item(s) already?
>
> I have a rather large archive of context-related email (because
> I let it slip for a while), and  I fear that may have missed
> some extant bugs. This is quite important, because if it is not
> in the list, it is much less likely to get fixed.
>
> Greetings,
> Taco
>
> _______________________________________________
> ntg-context mailing list
> ntg-context@ntg.nl
> http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
>

Re: Bug / feature request tracking

[Taco Hoekwater]

Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
> Hi Taco,
> 
> was the request tracker changed? I remember 3 months ago I wrote an  
> entry at  http://context.literatesolutions.com .
> It was something like the fifths entry I think, but I can't remember  
> wether it was called collector (I remember it looked different).
> 
> However, now I cannot find it anymore.
> 
> So, here is the request again "feature request for placefigure   
> extension":

re-inserted. IIRC, there has been a crash of the collector some
time ago, forcing a re-install from backup.

Taco

Re: Bug / feature request tracking

[Christopher Creutzig]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:

>    http://context.literatesolutions.com/collector

 I especially like the deadline entries. :-)


regards,
	Christopher, catching up on older mails

Re: Bug / feature request tracking

[Steffen Wolfrum]

... but I guess they are not too serious, unfortunately  :(

Steffen (collector item no.53)




Am 19.11.2005 um 17:21 schrieb Christopher Creutzig:

> Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
>>    http://context.literatesolutions.com/collector
>
>  I especially like the deadline entries. :-)
>
>
> regards,
> 	Christopher, catching up on older mails
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Re: Bug / feature request tracking

[Hans Hagen]

Steffen Wolfrum wrote:

> ... but I guess they are not too serious, unfortunately  :(

well, some requests are kind of tricky, some even impossible to implment 
in todays tex -)

Hans

Re: Bug / feature request tracking

[Steffen Wolfrum]

can you give a new deadline - or is no.53 a sad example for  
"impossible to implement"  :,(

Steffen



Am 24.11.2005 um 12:35 schrieb Hans Hagen:

> Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
>
>> ... but I guess they are not too serious, unfortunately  :(
>
> well, some requests are kind of tricky, some even impossible to  
> implment in todays tex -)
>
> Hans
>

Re: Bug / feature request tracking

[Taco Hoekwater]

Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
> can you give a new deadline - or is no.53 a sad example for  "impossible 
> to implement"  :,(

I don't think this is feasible in the current TeX engines, so
you probably have to wait for an extension to pdfetex or another
extended engine. That means you're looking for a deadline that is
a few years in the future, at the earliest.

(unless you can find a programmer to work on it)


Taco