ConTeXt Group Journal 2012 Table of Contents

ConTeXt Group Journal 2012 Table of Contents

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hi all,

After a bit more of a delay even after the initial one-year delay,
I am happy to report that the ConTeXt Group Journal for 2012 goes
to the printer's today. This is the proceedings issue for the 6th
ConTeXt meeting that took place in Breskens, The Netherlands on
October 8-12, 2012.




Contents
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  5 Dayplan

  7 CrafTeX — Mari Voipio

  8 MetaPost: PNG Output — Taco Hoekwater

    The latest version of Metapost (1.80x) has a third output backend:
    it is now possible to generate PNG bitmaps directly from within
    Metapost.

10 Database publishing with the speedata Publisher — Patrick Gundlach

11 Minutes of the 2nd ConTeXt Group membership meeting — Willi Egger

13 MetaPost path resolution isolated — Taco Hoekwater

    A new interface in MPLib version 1.800 allows one to resolve
    path choices programmatically, without the need to go through
    the MetaPost input language.

19 Parsing PDF content streams with LuaTeX — Taco Hoekwater

    The new pdfparser library in LuaTeX allows parsing of external
    pdf content streams directly from within a LuaTeX
    document. This paper explains its origin and usage.

24 MFLua: Instrumentation of MF with Lua — Luigi Scarso

    We present MFLua, a MetaFont version which is capable of code
    instrumentation and has an embedded Lua interpreter that
    allows glyphs curves extraction and post-processing. We also
    show and discuss an example of a MetaFont source processed by
    MFLua to output an OpenType font.

36 Conference portfolio — Willi Egger

    In accordance to the conference's theme, a workshop for making
    a portfolio binder has been held. The portfolio was made so it
    could carry the papers for the conference, such as preprints
    of the proceedings, additional papers and the carpenter's
    pencil given to each participant. The construction is made
    from a single sheet of cardboard with folded flaps along three
    sides, so that it completely envelopes the content. The
    portfolio is held closed by a black elastic band.

41 Simple Spreadsheets — Hans Hagen

    Occasionally a question pops up on the ConTeXt mailing list
    where answering it becomes a nice distraction from a boring
    task at hand. The spreadsheet module is the result of such a
    diversion. As with more support code in ConTeXt, this is not a
    replacement for ‘the real thing’ but just a nice feature for
    simple cases. Of course some useful extensions might appear in
    the future.

52 Oriental TeX: optimizing paragraphs — Hans Hagen & Idris Samawi Hamid

    One of the objectives of the Oriental TeX project has always
    been to play with paragraph optimization. The original
    assumption was that we needed an advanced non-standard
    paragraph builder to Arabic done right but in the end we found
    out that a more straightforward approach is to use a
    sophisticated OpenType font in combination with a paragraph
    postprocessor that uses the advanced font capabilities. This
    solution is somewhat easier to imagine than a complex
    paragraph builder but still involves quite some juggling.

82 MlbibTeX and Its New Extensions — Jean-Michel Hufflen

    These last years, MlbibTeX's kernel functions have been reused
    and extended in order to put new programs about bibliographies
    into action. Examples are the hal program, allowing an open
    archive site to be populated, the mlbiblatex program, building
    bibliographies suitable for the biblatex package, the
    mlbibcontext program, doing the same task for ConTeXt
    documents. We show how all these programs are organised, and
    explain how some operations can be refined or extended. For a
    point of view related to efficiency, the programs mlbiblatex
    and mlbibcontext are written using Scheme only, so they are
    more efficient than analogous programs that would interpret a
    .bst bibliography style of bibTeX.

92 Demonstration of the ‘mlbibcontext’ Program — Jean-Michel Hufflen

    This short statement aims to sketch the broad outlines of the
    presentation performed at the 6th ConTeXt meeting.

94 Abstracts without papers

96 Participant list of the 6th ConTeXt meeting

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