February 2011 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

grid=verytolerant causes overlapping
by Andreas Harder 11 Feb '11

11 Feb '11

Hi all, if one sets the grid option to verytolerant the list entries overlap. Is this a but or did I miss something? \setuppapersize[A5][A5] % \setuplayout[grid=yes] % OK % \setuplayout[grid=tolerant] % OK \setuplayout[grid=verytolerant] % -> overlapping \setupheads[expansion=yes] \starttext \showgrid \placelist[chapter,section,subsection,subsubsection] \def\SampleHead{\dorecurse{10}{test } test} \dorecurse {5} {\chapter{\SampleHead} \section{\SampleHead} \subsection{\SampleHead} \subsubsection{\SampleHead}} \stoptext Greeting Andreas

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gridsnapping question
by Andreas Harder 11 Feb '11

11 Feb '11

Hello, I've another grid question: What is the goal of all the grid options? It seems that neither the head nor the following text is aligned to the grid. I've adapted the grid-001-example. \setuppapersize[A5][A5] \setuplayout[grid=tolerant] \setupbodyfont[palatino] \def\ChapterTest#1% {\setuphead[chapter][grid={#1}] \startchapter[title={Test: #1}] test \par test \par test \stopchapter \startchapter[title={Test: #1\\test\\test}] test \par test \par test \stopchapter} \definegridsnapping[whatever][strut,offset:-2pt] \definegridsnapping[chapter] [mindepth,maxheight,local] \starttext \showgrid % \showbaselinecorrection \title{Test: no grid option} test \par test \par test \processcommalist [strut, {local,strut}, {strut,top:3}, normal, bottom, both, broad, fit, first, last, high, low, line, halfline, max, min, none, whatever, chapter] \ChapterTest \stoptext Greeting Andreas

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odd end-of-line error w/ Minion Pro
by Daniel Lyons 11 Feb '11

11 Feb '11

Hi, I'm seeing a strange behavior with Minion Pro in OTF and the simplefont package. I'm not sure if it only happens with simplefont because I don't know how to set up a typescript. In any case, in breaking a line between roman and italic text, ConTeXt is losing a bit of space at the end of line. I thought it might be related to using hz or hanging alignment, or the quality option for protrusion and expansion, but it seems to happen even with these features disabled. Very unclear what could be causing this. Is it a known issue? What is this kind of bad behavior called? I've attached an image to which I've added a red line to show where the 'a' is leaving extra space before the newline. Thanks again, — Daniel Lyons

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serial letters with letter module
by R. Ermers, Midden Oosten Perspectief 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Dear All, I have been using Hans' old correspondence module with an xml - rng database as documented for a number of years. I now want to switch to Wolfgang's letter module, but do not know how to connect it to the xml database. For example, commands like: \XMLprocesscontacts[./../../adressen-xml/adressen.xml] \setvariables [letter:data] [address=\XMLflush{address}, prefix=\XMLflush{prefix} ] do not work anymore. Could anyone (Wolfgang?) help me out in this ? I have installed both mkiv and mkii. Thanks on beforehand, Robert

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qpdf broken with beta since 2001/02/08
by Reviczky, Adam 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Hi I have a problem using qpdf (http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/) with context beta since 2011.02.08. Don't really know whose fault it is, but there might be something wrong with mkiv. All I want to do is generating a linearized (web optimized) pdf using qpdf as hinted on this list (see http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2011/055626.html) I was able to use it until context beta 2011.02.08, and getting an error since. Here's what I'm doing: 1) test.tex contains %%% \starttext Hello world! \stoptext %%% 2) running "context test.tex" to make the pdf 3) running "qpdf --linearize test.pdf out.pdf" which creates the optimized out.pdf So up until and including context beta 2011.02.05 everything was working. --- reviczky@calcium ~/Desktop % qpdf --linearize test.pdf out.pdf reviczky@calcium ~/Desktop % --- But since beta 2011.02.08 (10:06) I get just a very brief error: --- reviczky@calcium ~/Desktop % qpdf --linearize test.pdf out.pdf operation for Name object attempted on object of wrong type 2 reviczky@calcium ~/Desktop % :( --- Does anyone have a clue what might go wrong here? Does context beta (mkiv) generates broken pdf's now? How can I check that? qpdf isn't too helpful with that: --- checking test.pdf PDF Version: 1.6 File is not encrypted File is not linearized No syntax or stream encoding errors found; the file may still contain errors that qpdf cannot detect --- Perhaps there's something new in context that breaks the qpdf check? Adam

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Re: [NTG-context] qpdf broken with beta since 2001/02/08
by Reviczky, Adam 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Thanks Hans! > I can see the problem here. I'll upload a new beta. (There is some > experimental stuff due to luatex backend changes that I need to disable). That solved the problem. It works now with the newest beta! Adam

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Speech bubbles
by Ian Lawrence 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Evening all: Has anyone got a nicer \speechbubble definition up their sleeve? Here is not-nice one, so you know the floor: \define [1] \speechBubble {\blank \framed [width=.6\textwidth ,autowidth=force,align={flushleft}, background=color, backgroundcolor=darkblue, foreground=color, foregroundcolor=white, frame=off,corner=0,backgroundoffset=5pt,] {#1} ~~~ \tfd \startcolor[darkblue]{'} \stopcolor \tfa \blank} Called with things like: \speechBubble {They could be above or below the frequency we can hear, so called infra-sound or ultra-sound, or the amplitude could be just too small: so not enough power in the radiating pathway for the detector to respond.} I guess there are some people with xs metapost skills out there... But is there as simple way to get a nice curved pointer left or right from the bottom of that rounded rectangle frame?

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Inconsistent handling of ligatures
by Christian 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Dear all, I found the attached oddity in one of my documents produced by context using mkiv. The two words (both clipped in the screenshot) are in the same line (last line in a justified paragraph), yet they are handled differently. Additional info: MinionPro-Regular.otf LuaTeX, Version beta-0.60.1-2010092008 (rev 3657) ConTeXt ver: 2009.11.26 16:28 MKIV fmt: 2011.1.28 int: english/english Is there an explanation for that? Cheers Christian

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width of tabs inside \startTEX ... \stopTEX
by Mojca Miklavec 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Hello, I love tabs for some reason. However when I use them inside \startTEX ... \stopTEX they are exactly 1 character long in MKII and of zero width in MKIV. Is it possible to change that somehow? In particular it would make sense to have some other default (I would suggest 4, but anything is probably better than zero) and to have it configurable. Thanks, Mojca

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Using virtual fonts defined with lua-code
by Ulrike Fischer 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Hello, The luatex documentation contains in section "7.2.2 Example virtual font" an example how to define a virtual font "cmr10-red". The font is defined by adding the code to the define_font callback. Does some interface exists in contex/mkiv which allows to use such virtual fonts together with the normal font loading code? E.g. could I move the code for the font to some file ("cmr10-red.vflua") so that a request \font\mytest="cmr10-red" will simply find this file and use the code like vf, tfm or otf-files are found and used when needed? -- Ulrike Fischer

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