March 2013 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Re: [NTG-context] Attach source to pdf
by pol stra 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

> Is there a way to automatically attach the source file to the produced pdf? \setupinteraction [state=start] \starttext \attachment[file=attachfile.tex, title=Some file, author=Me] \stoptext Ok. It works, thank you.

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Attach source to pdf
by pol stra 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

Hello, Is there a way to automatically attach the source file to the produced pdf? Thanks

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List of bugs and quirks
by Marco Patzer 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Hi Hans, > maybe after the current is made (which happens sometime within the > next two weeks) > > best make sure that we have no serious bugs (experimental features apart) I think it's better to start a new thread for this issue. I maintain a small list of bugs and quirks which I would like to share. I don't know if the issues are considered bugs or not. I posted most of them to the mailing list at some point, but AFAIK they have not been fixed for whatever reason. Usually there are simple workarounds or I have some code which fixes the issue. Others are still unresolved. Act upon as you see fit. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Wrong spacing in \unit when no number is given \starttext \starttabulate \NC wrong spacing \EQ (\unit{micro mol}) \NC\NR \NC spacing OK \EQ (µmol) \NC\NR \NC spacing OK \EQ (3\,µmol) \NC\NR \NC spacing OK \EQ (3 \unit{micro mol}) \NC\NR \NC spacing OK \EQ (\unit{3 micro mol}) \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Newline after \placelegend fails \starttext \startplacelegend \startcontent Foo \stopcontent \startcaption Bar \stopcaption \stopplacelegend \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% way setting does not work in \setupcaptions %% The way setting cannot be applied globally to all floats using %% \setupcaptions. For the prefix value it works. \setupblackrules [width=4cm, height=1cm] %% prefix is applied, way is not \setupcaptions [prefix=no, way=bytext] %% prefix and way are applied %% \setupcaption %% [figure, table] %% [prefix=no, %% way=bytext] \starttext \dorecurse{2}{% \startchapter [title=Chapter] \dorecurse{2}{% \startplacefigure \blackrule \stopplacefigure \startplacetable \blackrule \stopplacetable} \stopchapter} \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Wide descriptions protruding into the margin \definedescription [description] [alternative=hanging, width=broad] \starttext \startdescription{conclusion that} \input knuth \stopdescription \startdescription{conclusion that the designer of a new system must not only be literally} \input knuth \stopdescription \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% interaction mode focus=current does not work for footnotes and floats \setupinteraction [state=start,focus=standard] \starttext \in{figure}[foo] \startplacefigure [reference=foo] \stopplacefigure \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% the \stop… line of database module environment must not be indented, %% spurious line otherwise \usemodule [database] \defineseparatedlist [CSV] [before=\bTABLE, after=\eTABLE, first=\bTR, last=\eTR, left=\bTD, right=\eTD] \starttext %% indentation with spaces works \startCSV alpha, 10 beta, 20 gamma, 30 \stopCSV %% indentation with tabs produces spurious extra line \startCSV alpha, 10 beta, 20 gamma, 30 \stopCSV %% some weird indentation works, but looks awkward \startplacetable \startCSV alpha, 10 beta, 20 gamma, 30 \stopCSV \stopplacetable \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% MetaPost Location throws error \startuseMPgraphic{foo} %% works %% fill Field[Header][Text]; %% error fill Area[Header][Text] shifted Location[Header][Text]; \stopuseMPgraphic \starttext \useMPgraphic{foo} \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Marco

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userpagenumber
by Thomas A. Schmitz 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Hi, shouldn't this work? \setupuserpagenumber[number=34] \starttext \dorecurse{20}{\userpagenumber \page} \stoptext I must admit that I'm pretty confused about pagenumbering; there are too many options of \setup...pagenumber and \setup...pagenumbering for my simple brain now, and I often don't know which is supposed to do what. All best Thomas

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mptopdf problem: he is broken and asking for fix
by Martin Bruchanov 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Hi, I'm using: MPtoPDF 1.4.1 : running 'mpost --mem=mpost linejoin.mp' This is MetaPost, version 1.800 (kpathsea version 6.1.1dev) Attached sources give following error: This is MetaPost, version 1.800 (kpathsea version 6.1.1dev) 26 MAR 2013 22:04 **linejoin.mp (mpost.mp (/mnt/data/tex/texmf/metapost/base/plain.mp Preloading the plain mem file, version 1.004) ) (./linejoin.mp (./line_makro.mp) [1 ! This can't happen (degenerate spec). endfig->scantokens.extra_endfig;shipit; endgroup l.24 endfig ; I'm broken. Please show this to someone who can fix can fix So I hope, there is someone who can fix :) Best regards, BruXy -- Martin Bruchanov Skype : bruxytronics WWW : http://bruxy.regnet.cz/ GPG-Key : http://bruxy.regnet.cz/bruxy-gpg.key (0x8107ED53) Linked-In : http://www.linkedin.com/in/bruxy Google+ : http://gplus.to/BruXy

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\setuphead [bodypartlabel=]
by Alan BRASLAU 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

\setuplabeltext [chapter=Chapter ] enables a label in chapter headings. Sometimes, one wants to have an unnumbered chapter-level structure that otherwise appears in the table of contents, bookmarks, marking, etc. without having to make many special definitions. One suggests: \definehead [NOchapter] [chapter] \setuphead [NOchapter] [incrementnumber=no,number=no,bodypartlabel=] \starttext \startNOchapter [title=Introduction] \stopNOchapter \startchapter [title=First chapter] \stopchapter \stoptext And then adding NOchapter to the contents combined list, to the bookmarks, and so on, not to speak about marking. Ugh! Much easier would be the occasional use of \startchapter [title=Introduction,incrementnumber=no,number=no,bodypartlabel=] \stopchapter but this does not work! One gets: "Chapter Introduction". That this does not work I suppose might be somewhat of a bug... Even better, more coherent, more logical, would be \startchapter [title=Introduction,incrementnumber=no,number=no,label=no] \stopchapter (Note that "label=no" is used for lists). This would also have the advantage of allowing the chapter labeltext to be defined for each language, rather than be empty, so that it could then be simply turned on or off. In fact, label=no would be the default setup. Alan

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Rebuilding font cache fails
by Marco Patzer 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Hi, rebuilding the font cache fails in the latest beta. I didn't check the last few beta, though. mtxrun --script fonts --reload ..beta/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtx-fonts.lua:173: attempt to index global 'arguments' (a nil value) Marco

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\setupenumerations, alternative=serried is ignored when setting up multiple enumerations
by Tobias Columbus 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Hi list, While learning the very basics of context, I stumbled upon the following bug: When I try to use \setupenumerations in the latest beta (2013.03.22 12:06) for multiple enumerations, the alternative=... is ignored for all but the first enumeration. A minimal example demonstrating what I mean is attached. This bug, however, seems not to be present in the TL version (2012.05.30) of context. I don't know if this is a well-known bug and apologize in advance if this happens to be the case. Tobias

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\setupheadertexts [section]
by Alan BRASLAU 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Hello, \setupheadertexts [chapter] will center the current chapter title (or abbreviated version using marking=) in the running page headers. However, how can one also put unnumbered chapter-level titles (\starttitle\stoptitle) in the running headers? \setupheadertexts [chapter,title] seems natural but does not work. Also, what seems to be a bug, the running text does *not* get reset to empty upon leaving the chapter. Below is a minimal illustration (nonworking as it is incomplete, only a snippet) \setupheadertexts [chapter] \starttext \startpart % lets have some structure... Some introductory text... \startchapter [title=Getting started] Some text... \stopchapter \page [yes] Some trailing remarks... % the header here still contains "Getting started" \stoppart \stoptext Alan

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Re: [NTG-context] man pages for ConTeXt: looking for volunteers
by Sietse Brouwer 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Sietse wrote: > 5. Lastly, I think it would be good to include a standard SEE ALSO > block at the end of each man page, to list all the scripts we have man > pages for. Hans wrote: >> sure, we can add stuff How about this? <seealsos> <seealso name="context">Compile a ConTeXt file or recompile ConTeXt.</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-babel">Convert LaTeX Babel codes for Greek into UTF-8</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-base">ConTeXt TDS Management Tool (aka luatools)</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-cache">Manage the ConTeXt and MetaTeX cache</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-chars">Generate MkII character tables</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-check">Check ConTeXt file for syntax errors</seealso>  <seealso name="mtx-colors">Show International Color Consortium table for a file</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-context"> (See `context`)</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-epub">Create ePub zip file</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-fcd">Convenience script for fast directory-changing</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-flac">Collect Flac albums in XML file</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-fonts">Inspect and manage the ConTeXt font database</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-grep">A simple Lua-based grep</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-interface">Lists of ConTeXt commands (for text editors)</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-metapost">Compile MetaPost to PDF</seealso>  <seealso name="mtx-metatex">MetaTeX process management</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-modules">Extract `%D`-style documentation from ConTeXt module source files</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-package">Merge: replace loadmodule(...) calls with module contents</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-patterns">Produce files for ConTeXt describing hyphenation patters</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-pdf">Inspect metadata and font info of PDFs</seealso>  <seealso name="mtx-profile">LuaTeX profiler</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-rsync">Rsync helper script</seealso> <seealso name="mtxrun">MetaTeX factotum: run scripts and get info</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-scite">Convert spelling dictionaries to SciTE Lua format</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-server">Simple webserver</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-texworks">TeXworks startup script</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-timing">Process timing data after `context --timing` run</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-tools">Tools to glob directories into XML</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-unzip">Simple unzipper</seealso> <seealso name="mtx-update">Updating script for ConTeXt minimals, used by first-setup.sh</seealso>  <seealso name="mtx-watch">Watch a file for changes</seealso> </seealsos>

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