May 2011 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

[OT] Passing a Language through the Eye of a Needle
by luigi scarso 21 May '11

21 May '11

How the embeddability of Lua impacted its design Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, and Waldemar Celes, lua.org http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1983083 -- luigi

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endnotes/critical apparatus
by Daniel Schopper 21 May '11

21 May '11

Dear list, I’m fiddling around with a simple apparatus for critical editions with endnotes. For now this is working ok - but I’m wondering if somebody could advise me on some aspects of it (see below). Here’s a minimal example: \newwrite\enotes \newread\readenotes \immediate\openout\enotes = \jobname.en \immediate\write\enotes{ % \noexpand\let\noexpand\stretchednormalcase=\noexpand\relax \noexpand\let\noexpand\tfc=\noexpand\relax \noexpand\let\noexpand\bf=\noexpand\relax % \noexpand\let\par=\noexpand\relax % seems to make luatex hang? } \newcount\entrycounter \entrycounter=0 \setuplabeltext[en][lines=,line=] \def\enseparator{\crlf} \long\def\appEntry#1#2{ \expandafter\startline[line:\the\entrycounter]% \expandafter\pagereference[page:\the\entrycounter]% {#1} \expandafter\stopline[line:\the\entrycounter]% \immediate\write\enotes{% {\expandafter\at[page:\the\entrycounter]}/{\noexpand\csname inline\expandafter\endcsname[line:\the\entrycounter]}~{#1}] {#2}\enseparator% }% \global\advance\entrycounter by 1\relax } \def\printendnotes{ \immediate\closeout\enotes \page[right] \expandafter\input\jobname.en } \starttext \startlinenumbering That’s a \appEntry{\bf lemma}{That’s a variant reading…}. \input tufte\crlf But then there’s a blackrule \appEntry{\blackrule[width=5cm]\crlf and a linebreak}{-- which we don’t want to repeat in the apparatus.}. \stoplinenumbering \printendnotes \stoptext Now, this is obviously a really primitive approach (I’m still learning…) which I’d like to improve in some ways: - How can I get rid of the blackrule in the apparatus? \noexpand\let\blackrule[#1]=\noexpand\relax throws an error (You can't use `macro parameter character #' in vertical mode.) while \noexpand\let\blackrule=\noexpand\relax eliminates the rule but simply prints the arguments in the square brackets. (Same holds true for every macro with arguments.) - What to do if I’d want to gobble \crlf or \par in the lemma while using them as separators after each apparatus entry? I tried to \let them to \relax, which ends in luatex getting stuck when it tries to import the .en-file. - How could I reset gobbled commands like \bf to their original meaning (I’d like to ignore \bf inside a lemma but still be able to have bold page numbers at the beginning of the apparatus entry)? I’m sure there are much more elegant ways to do this (probably in lua?), maybe someone could provide me with a hint where to start from? Thanks in advance, Daniel

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text fragments in arabic
by R. Ermers 21 May '11

21 May '11

Dear all, I have some fragments of Arabic in my dutch context document (mkiv). I tried the environment ara-sty on the wiki, but Context halts at \setcharactermirroring[1] Then I found in an e-mail on the internet the suggestion to give up on setcharactermirroring and use instead these instructions: %\setupdirections[bidi=global] or \setupdirections[bidi=local] I replaced charactermirroring by \setupdirections[bidi=local] but there seems to be a problem with that too. The environment ara-sty apparently interferes with the section headings in my document anyway, perhaps because it is designed for documents whose mainlanguage is Arabic. I found elaborate suggestions to typeset a 'hello' document in Arabic, but my document contains mixed text. (When I uncomment ara-sty, the document is typeset normally.) Note that I have been typesetting Arabic texts in Latex (starting with ArabTeX) and xelatex (unicode) for years now, but I expected that typesetting Arabic in Context / Luatex is more complicated. Thus I have two questions: 1. which module should I load or which commands should I add to the preambule for typesetting Arabic, 2. how should I mark the Arabic fragments in my text? e.g. {\RT عقل}? Thanks in advance! Robert

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Last names
by Flavien Lambert 20 May '11

20 May '11

Dear all, could you tell me how to prevent a name from being splitted in two pieces if it is at the end of a line? Thanks, -- Flavien. ---------------------------- "Quantum objects are completely crazy but, at least, they are all crazy in the same way." R.P. Feynman.

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Where to place typescripts so that they are globally accessable?
by John Magolske 20 May '11

20 May '11

I'm using MkIV installed from minimals, and have set up a typescript (type-lemonde.tex) for a font I'm using. It works fine when I copy type-lemonde.tex into the working directory, but I'd like to have it in one central location rather than having to copy it around to multiple project directories. I see: 1. Copy the typescript files into either $TEXMF/tex/texmf-fonts/tex/context/user $TEXMF/tex/texmf-project/tex/context/user http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts_in_LuaTeX But `echo $TEXMF` comes up blank. What should TEXMF be set to? Is $TEXMF the same as the "ConTeXt path" mentioned here: A typescript must live in your project folder or in another folder in your ConTeXt path (e.g., (texmf)/tex/context/user) http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TypeScripts I've tried several things including: ~/context/tex/texmf-fonts/tex/context/user/type-lemonde.tex ...but can't seem to get anything to work. Thanks for any help, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact

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Re: [NTG-context] Can't show chinese in presentation mode
by 王雨施 20 May '11

20 May '11

I have solve the problem already. The presentation mode use bodyfont ss, So the Chinese character could not show. I fixed it by using some other fonts support Chinese. Thanks

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Can't show chinese in presentation mode
by 王雨施 20 May '11

20 May '11

Hi, I am using context to write a presentation. I use simplefonts module to use Chinese. It works ok with my paper. But when I write the presentation and use --mode=presentation the Chinese characters do not show, but when I use --mode=handout it works well. Why ? Can anyone help me ? Thanks.

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by barndog1946＠gmail.com 20 May '11

20 May '11

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[NTG-context] Suppress the citation number counts in the list of figures?
by seasoul 19 May '11

19 May '11

Dear All, I asked the same question in another post, but no replies except Thomas A. Schmitz asked me to make an example. In that post, I asked how to get the abosulute value of the bib entry, it is very confusing. Therefore, I made the example as below: Take the sample.bib in the wiki as the database file. Based on the citation sequence, "hh2010b" is expected to be the third reference, but because it is included in the figure caption, and the figure caption will be listed in the figure list at the beginning of the file, "hh2010b" becomes the first reference. How to make it the third reference? The resulting list of figure should be "The caption of this figure includes the citation, but this citation sequence is expected to be the same as in the paragraph[3]" instead of "The caption of this figure includes the citation, but this citation sequence is expected to be the same as in the paragraph[1]" \usemodule[bib] \setupbibtex[database=sample] %sample.bib in the wiki \setuppublications[sorttype=cite] \setuppublications[alternative=num,criterium=cite] \setuppublications[numbering=yes] % Show reference numbers in the generated list. \starttext \startfrontmatter % List of figures \title{List of Figures} \writetolist[Title] {} {List of Figures} \writebetweenlist [Title] {\blank} \placelist[figure][criterium=all] \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter This is the first place for citation\cite[hh2010]. This is the second place for citation\cite[hh2010a]. This is the third place for citation\cite[hh2010b]. This is the fourth place for citation\cite[Eijkhout1991]. \placefigure[][fig:sample] {The caption of this figure includes the citation, but this citation sequence is expected to be the same as in the paragraph\cite[hh2010b].} {\framed{\tfd figure caption with citation}} \stopbodymatter \startbackmatter \placepublications[criterium=text] \stopbackmatter \stoptext Many thanks.

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key=val in cld syntax: val not protected
by pmlists＠free.fr 19 May '11

19 May '11

Hello, With this test.cld file, the "= blub" is not printed: context.starttext() context.startchapter{title = "bla = blub"} context.stopchapter() context.stoptext() Workaround: context.startchapter{title = "{bla = blub}"} But according to the documentation http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cld-mkiv.pdf at page 16, the workaround shouldn't be needed. -- Peter

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