10+ reasons why I still use MKII

* 10+ reasons why I still use MKII
@ 2010-05-12 13:48 Mojca Miklavec
  2010-05-12 14:44 ` Taco Hoekwater
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From: Mojca Miklavec @ 2010-05-12 13:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Dear Hans,

since you have promissed another hotfix release for TL 2010, here's a
list of issues that I had with my thesis and MKIV (some have already
been fixed in the due time, but many remained). I probably wouldn't
have had those "problems" if I was designing my document in MKIV from
scratch, but just recompiling in MKIV didn't work out for several
reasons listed below.

1.) Minimal example:

\usetypescript[iwona]
\setupbodyfont[iwona]
\starttext
$a+b$
\stoptext

Output:

!define font    : font with name Iwona-Math-Letters-Regular is not found
!define font    : unknown font Iwona-Math-Letters-Regular, loading aborted
!define font    : unable to define Iwona-Math-Letters-Regular as
\*iwona6ptmmmr33*
!define font    : font with name Iwona-Math-Letters-Regular is not found
!define font    : unknown font Iwona-Math-Letters-Regular, loading aborted
!define font    : unable to define Iwona-Math-Letters-Regular as
\*iwona8ptmmmr22*
!define font    : font with name Iwona-Math-Letters-Regular is not found
!define font    : unknown font Iwona-Math-Letters-Regular, loading aborted
!define font    : unable to define Iwona-Math-Letters-Regular as
\*iwona11ptmmmr11*
!define font    : font with name Iwona-Math-Letters-Regular is not found

etc. I need to figure out why, though it works (I don't see
deficiencies in output yet).

2.) Recently discussed on the mailing list - stopper has no influence in MKIV:

\setupcaptions[stopper={:}]
\starttext
\placefigure{title}{\framed{bla}}
\stoptext

3.) Bibliography citations give different result with the same setup
(different numbers and different spacing in \placepublication - might
be also worth testing with grid typesetting as I wasn't able to set up
the alignment properly in MKII last time when I have tried). I'm not
sure which one is right, but there's probably no reason to produce
different results.

\usemodule
	[bib]
\setuppublications
	[alternative=num,
	 criterium=all,
	 sorttype=cite]

\starttext
\startpublication[k=a,t=article]\arttitle{a}\stoppublication
\startpublication[k=b,t=article]\arttitle{b}\stoppublication
\startpublication[k=c,t=article]\arttitle{c}\stoppublication

x\cite[a,b,c]

\placepublications
\stoptext

4.) The following problem must have appeared recently (it was working
ok in September): in MKII the encoding is completely screwed up:

\usemodule[gnuplot]
\enableregime[utf-8]

\starttext
\startGNUPLOTscript[integrated risetime]
plot sin(x) t 'šin(čix)'
\stopGNUPLOTscript
\useGNUPLOTgraphic[integrated risetime][1]
\stoptext

A slightly more basic example:

\enableregime[utf-8]
\starttext
\startbuffer[gnu]
\startMPcode
draw \sometxt{čšž};
\stopMPcode
\stopbuffer
čšž
\getbuffer[gnu]
\stoptext

5.) Weird formula number placement when long equations are used in MKIV

\def\oklepaj#1{\left(#1\right)}
\starttext
\placeformula
\startformula
{\dot N}(t)=
  A\oklepaj{\exp\oklepaj{-\frac{t-t_0}{τ_{\text{eksp.}}}}-\exp\oklepaj{-\frac{t-t_0}{τ_{\text{fast}}}}}+
  B\oklepaj{\exp\oklepaj{-\frac{t-t_0}{τ_{\text{eksp.}}}}-\exp\oklepaj{-\frac{t-t_0}{τ_{\text{slow}}}}}
\stopformula
\stoptext

6.) I know that \NR is not the most appropriate way to go into next
row, but the following gives considerably different results in MKII
and MKIV:

\starttable[|l|]
\NC \type{a} \NC\NR
\NC \type{a} \NC\NR
\NC \type{a} \NC\NR
\stoptable

7.) I know that there's a longstanding left vs. right bug, but
flushleft is no solution in the following case (compare MKII and MKIV
again):

\definedescription
  [latexdesc]
  [headstyle={\ss\bf},style=normal,align=left,location=hanging,width=fit,margin=0cm]

\latexdesc{step E (expectation):} \input tufte

\latexdesc{step M (maximization):} \input tufte

8.)

\definetypeface [boldmath] [mm] [boldmath] [latin-modern] [default]
\starttext
$\boldsymbol{\theta}$
\stoptext

9.) Note the big difference of when the formula starts vertically on page:

\starttext
\startformula
a+b
\stopformula
\stoptext

10.) Different square root shape/variant used:

$\frac{1}{\sqrt{2πσ_i^2}}$

Original formula:
\startformula
\startcases
  \NC ρ_0, \NC for $i=0$, \NR
  \NC ρ_i\,\frac{1}{\sqrt{2πσ_i^2}}\exp\biggl(-\frac{\left(x_j-μ_i\right)^2}{2σ_i^2}\biggr),
\NC for $i\in\left\{1,2\right\}$. \NR
\stopcases
\stopformula
but I cannot reproduce the big difference it makes in original
document on a smaller scale.

11.) Missing bibliography entries:

\usemodule[bib]
% this line spoils the show
\setuppublications[alternative=num]

\setuppublicationlayout[webpage]{%
	\inserttitle{\bgroup\it }{\egroup. }{}%
	\inserturl{}{}{}%
}

\startpublication
	[k=FAIR,t=webpage,u=http://www.gsi.de/fair/]
	\biburl{http://www.gsi.de/fair/}
	\title{FAIR -- Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research}
\stoppublication

\starttext
\cite[FAIR]\par
\placepublications
\stoptext

12.) \nocite[nonexistent] generates an empty [n] in bibliography in
MKII, while it has zero effect in MKIV (it should at least generate an
error).

13.) Different spacing

\setupwhitespace[big]
\def\dictentry#1#2{\hbox{\bf#1}\hbox{\hbox to 1em{}\hbox{#2}}\blank[4mm]}
\starttext
\dictentry{clipping}{preboj}
\dictentry{clustering}{gručenje}
\stoptext

14.) Two very weird issues with section alignments, but I'll continue
later - I need some fresh air now.

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Mojca
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