May 2013 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

fontloader: “can't convert <float> into tounicode”
by Philipp Gesang 04 May '13

04 May '13

Hi, loading this font: https://collab.itc.virginia.edu/access/content/group/26a34146-33a6-48ce-001… causes the fontloader to emit a dozen or so messages of the kind fonts > loading > can't convert 7.27550912993e+22 into tounicode fonts > loading > can't convert 3.1248073774797e+32 into tounicode fonts > loading > can't convert 4.731809353839e+27 into tounicode ... example code: \starttext foo {\definedfont[file:TibMachUni-1.901b.ttf*tibetan at 33pt]༡༢་༣༤་༥༦་༧༨} bar \stoptext is this harmless? The typeset result appears to be satisfying. Best regards, Philipp

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\placepublications with criterium=chapter
by Enrique Jiménez Gallego 04 May '13

04 May '13

Hi, I am porting a book from mkii to mkiv and I have found an issue with the bibliography module. As Alan Braslau pointed out on 23 Mar, using \placepublications [criterium=chapter] at the end of each chapter does not show a cited reference if the reference is cited in an earlier chapter. This may be a bug. Indeed, in mkii the reference was printed. Is there any way in mkiv to "reset" the references at the end of each chapter to fix the issue? Minimal example (sample.bib in tex/texmf-context/tex/context/bib/): \setupbibtex[database={sample}] \setuppublications[alternative=num,criterium=chapter] \starttext \chapter{One} Some text.\cite[hh2010a] \subject{References} \placepublications[criterium=chapter] \chapter{Two} Another text.\cite[hh2010a] \subject{References} \placepublications[criterium=chapter] \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] Automatic replacement?
by "H. Özoguz" 04 May '13

04 May '13

Thanks luigi, but it does not work for my characters, see here: \definefont[tradoa][name:trado*arabic at 20pt] % or file:amiri-regular.ttf*... file:alq.ttf \directlua{ local function replace_txt (buffer) buffer=string.gsub(buffer,"اللهِ","اللَّـه") return buffer end callback.register("process_input_buffer",replace_txt) } \starttext my text {\setupalign[r2l] \tradoa اللَّـه} \stoptext "trado" ist just the font "traditional arabic", nearly every system have it, so you should be able to compile this. It does not replace the character. Huseyin

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Best Practise!?
by Verhaag, G.C.H.M. 04 May '13

04 May '13

Hi ConTeXt User's, I'm currently considering a new project, but wondering whether I'd choose for a MkII or MkIV basis? I've been using MkIV for some time now, but have the impression that it is less well documented than the MkII setup. Please correct me when I'm wrong here! Okay, the help of this mailing list and of course http://wiki.contextgarden.net solved most of the problems I encountered. However the mailing list dependency makes me feel a bit uncomfortable. Maybe that's the way it works, because the development is very dynamic! Any suggestions are very much appreciated. Thanks in advance! Regards, Verhaag, G.C.H.M.

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Automatic replacement?
by "H. Özoguz" 04 May '13

04 May '13

Is it possible to define an automatic replacement? I want to replace every اللَّـه by اللهِ First is a combination of letters, second is the correct arabic one-symbol for the name "Allah". I know, I can do this in the editor, but would helpful, if it is possible in the compiling. Huseyin

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problems with the invoice module from contextgarden
by Martin Scholz 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hi guys, today I tried to use the invoice module from contextgarden http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Invoice first it spit errors about userdata.numberformat in combination with %, after commenting it out and not using it, I now get that error: ) (invoicefunctions.tex ! LuaTeX error [string "\directlua "]:24: unexpected symbol near '%'. system > tex > error on line 112 in file invoicefunctions.tex: LuaTeX error ... 102 userdata.InvoiceTextLine(item.text) 103 end 104 end 105 printperhour = (hoursum > 0) and (amountsum == (hoursum * userdata.invoice.perhour)) 106 --userdata.invoice.hours = hoursum 107 --userdata.invoice.amount = amountsum 108 userdata.InvoiceSumLine("gesamt", printperhour) 109 context.stoptabulate() 110 end 111 112 >> \stopluacode } \luat_start_lua_code_indeed ...nd \directlua {#1}} l.112 \stopluacode anyone can help here? Thx Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz

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Arabic typesetting, one more
by "H. Özoguz" 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hi there, I have the following example with the font "traditional arabic", but the question is possibly independent from the font. The code: \definefont[Shehw][name:traditionalarabicnormal*arabic at 24pt] % or file:amiri-regular.ttf*... file:alq.ttf \def\Arab[#1]{\noindentation \setupalign[r2l]\Shehw#1} \starttext \Arab[ اللَّـهِ ]\blank \Arab[ اللهِ ] \stoptext (The lower one is the correct symbol, the upper one not.) If you can't compile, look at the attachment. The upper one has the typographical correct symbol under it (below left, "kassra", looks like a slanted hyphen). This kassra has a nice distant from the word "Allah". But the lower example, the correct "Allah", has a far too big distant from its kassra. Why? This does not happen e.g. in CorelDraw, where the distant is nice in both examples. Huseyin

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Re: [NTG-context] TABLE frame
by "H. Özoguz" 03 May '13

03 May '13

Done with \setupTABLE[frame=off]. Huseyin

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Re: [NTG-context] Table
by "H. Özoguz" 03 May '13

03 May '13

> Do minipages support page breaks? And floats? > > Did you try this: > http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2012/068387.html ? No, they do not, but this was ok for that bilingual project. No, I did not try this solution, and to be honest: I hope not to have, because it seems too complicated for me to implement it. I usually only work with .tex files in ConText, nothing more. But maybe, if there is no other way, I have to come back to that. Thanks for the info. Huseyin

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Re: [NTG-context] Table
by "H. Özoguz" 03 May '13

03 May '13

One thing to add: In LaTex I realized this with minipages: \newcommand{\kum}[2]{ \begin{minipage}[t]{0.445\textwidth} \small #1 \end{minipage} \begin{minipage}[t]{0.05\textwidth} ~ \end{minipage} \begin{minipage}[t]{0.445\textwidth} \begin{arab}[voc] \raggedleft #2 \end{arab} \end{minipage} \begin{minipage}[t]{0.06\textwidth} ~ \end{minipage} } This sets very well the german and the arabic text, with different interlinespaces. Is there a possibility to copy this into ConText? Huseyin

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