September 2020 - dev-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Re: [dev-context] [NTG-context] update and meeting
by Taco Hoekwater 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

Hi Hans, > On 15 Sep 2020, at 18:44, Hans Hagen <j.hagen(a)xs4all.nl> wrote: > > (2) Another change is in the \startdocument mechanism. This (already old and rusted) wrapper runs on top of variables but we think no one knows (or uses) that. So, it now is a real wrapper with inheritance and such. It is dedicated to Tomas Hala who had to struggle with the old one but still gave a presentation using it. Here's an example: > > \definedocument[thesis] > > \setupdocument[a=b,e=f] > \setupdocument[thesis][a=x,c=d] > > \startsetups[document:start] > START > \stopsetups > > \startsetups[thesis:stop] > STOP > \stopsetups > > \startthesis > > (\currentdocument/a): \documentvariable{a}\par > (\currentdocument/c): \documentvariable{c}\par > (\currentdocument/e): \documentvariable{e}\par > > \stopthesis The auto-inheritance of the setups does not work yet, because the \definedocument[thesis] does not set up local version of the before= and after= keys of \startthesis. \definedocument (re)defines the value of the actual setup “thesis:start” correctly to inherit the parent’s \directsetuo, but because the actual before and after keys are inherited from the (document) parent as well, the effect on \startthesis still remains equivalent to this: \setupdocument [thesis] [before=\directsetup{document:start}, after=\directsetup{document:stop}] Best wishes, Taco

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Re: [dev-context] [NTG-context] update and meeting // towards 'in'
by Tomas Hala 19 Sep '20

19 Sep '20

Hi Hans, # We also considered that in order to enforce the use of si units the # 'in' should go away but that has been postponed (it is anyway last # in the checked keywords so has no overhead). I do not remember details of the discussion about 'in' but I would like to say that 'in' is quite important unit, especially for Americans. We have to take into consideration that paper and other things are sold in inches in the USA and it is not very comfortable to recalculate it to the metric system. So I vote for keeping it forever, eg. till Americans will completely convert to SI. Best wishes, Tomáš

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Running lists
by Tomas Hala 17 Sep '20

17 Sep '20

Hi all, playing with itemize environment (reverberations of our discussion with Wolfgang at the meeting) I came across the wrong settings of running lists: \starttext %\startitemize[a] \startitemize[a,text] \item xxx \item yyy \stopitemize \stoptext gives items in the running list with both parentheses and moreover a dot. For English (which is a default language) items letters (and figures as well) should be only in parentheses and without a dot. Wolfgang confirmed that there is no option to disable the stopper for running items only and proposed to add additional values to the placestopper key, e.g. \setupitemize [each] [placestopper=yes|no|inline|display] Best wishes, Tomáš

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CGModules update: vim syntax highlighting version 2020.09.15 published.
by modules＠contextgarden.net 15 Sep '20

15 Sep '20

Aditya Mahajan submitted an update to the vim syntax highlighting package. Version number: 2020.09.15 License type: BSD License (simplified) Wants to be in ConTeXt distribution: yes Wants to be synced with CTAN: yes Summary description: This module uses Vim editor's syntax files to syntax highlight verbatim code in ConTeXt Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bugfix release to fix a bug introduced by a change in how ConTeXt handles hyphenation. See https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2020/099435.html for bug report and the fix ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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\grabuntil
by Wolfgang Schuster 08 Sep '20

08 Sep '20

Hi, the \grabuntil command fails when it uses \begincsname to create the delimiter. \unprotect \protected\def\grabuntil#1% %{\expandafter\syst_helpers_grab\expandafter{\begincsname#1\endcsname}} {\expandafter\syst_helpers_grab\expandafter{\csname#1\endcsname}} \protect \def\starttest{\grabuntil{stoptest}\quotation} \starttext \starttest xxx \stoptest \stoptext Wolfgang

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Dumping the equivalence table
by Taco Hoekwater 07 Sep '20

07 Sep '20

Hi, A while ago I posted a trick to Paul Mazaitis about dumping the hash table using tex.hashtokens(). Recently I noticed that while the command works in lmtx, it seems to miss entries, making it somewhat useless for what we tried to do (compare the hash before and after a complicated command like \definefloat. I have no idea what could be wrong, except perhaps it misses chained hash entries or something? Taco

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Tracing outputbox in lmtx
by Taco Hoekwater 07 Sep '20

07 Sep '20

Hi, Not really a bug, but: in \tracingall, traditional engines also dump the contents of the \outputbox to the log. This is currently missing in lmtx, and I would really like it back ;) Taco

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Reset breakpoints for verbatim
by Wolfgang Schuster 07 Sep '20

07 Sep '20

Hi Hans, in verbatim mode a reset for breakpoints is missing. \setbreakpoints[compound] %\appendtoks % \resetbreakpoints %\to \everyinitializeverbatim \starttext \starttyping xxx(aaaa) \stoptyping \stoptext buff-ver.mkiv|mkxl (line 38ff): \appendtoks \the\everyresettypesetting \resetfontfeature \resetcharacterspacing + \resetbreakpoints \to \everyinitializeverbatim Wolfgang

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