August 2013 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Setting structureuservariable
by Felix Ingram 21 Oct '13

21 Oct '13

Hello all, I've discovered the magic of structureuservariabl and have therefore converted all my headings to use the start/stop syntax. It's raised a few quick questions though: 1. Is \startchapter \stopchapter etc the "proper way" to do things from now on? Or is it really just up to the user? 2. Is there a way to provide a default value for a structureuservariable? I'd like to set a reference number based on a global counter if the user doesn't supply their own. 3. In a similar vein - is it possible to define a reference for a section if the user doesn't provide one. E.g. if they provide \startchapter[title=My Example Chapter] instead of: \startchapter[chap:examplechapter][title=My Example Chapter] can I set the reference for them? (I will have some sections that could be usefully auto-referenced). Many thanks in advance, Felix

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How to enable tabular numerals with simplefonts and otf?
by Peter Münster 20 Oct '13

20 Oct '13

Hi, How can I enable tabular numerals please? Test file, that does not work: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[LinLibertineIO][size=10pt, tnum=yes] \starttext \addff{tnum} \setff{tnum} 565656565656X\par 000000000000X \stoptext --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- TIA for any help! -- Peter

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Find all words set into the margin
by "H. Özoguz" 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

I use \definefontfeature[default][default][expansion=quality,protrusion=quality] \setupalign[hz,hanging] \usetypescript[times] \setupbodyfont[times,11pt] \setuptolerance[verystrict] Is there a command or a macro to find all occurences in a file (or projekt), where some word is printed into the margin? (Maybe because of bad hyphenation or something else.) - Would be perfect for manual check-up and corrections! Thanks. Huseyin

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mtxrun --script server help broken
by Thomas A. Schmitz 16 Sep '13

16 Sep '13

Hi, was trying to use the help server this morning while I was offline, and it doesn't work, AFAICS. Here's the error: mtx-server | running at port: 31415 mtx-server | document root: /mnt/shared/context/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua mtx-server | main index file: unknown mtx-server | scripts subpath: /mnt/shared/context/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua mtx-server | context services: http://localhost:31415/mtx-server-ctx-startup.lua mtx-server | request from: 127.0.0.1 mtx-server | request data: GET /mtx-server-ctx-startup.lua HTTP/1.1 mtx-server | requested url: /mtx-server-ctx-startup.lua mtx-server | requested action: /mtx-server-ctx-startup.lua mtx-server | performing action: /mtx-server-ctx-startup.lua mtx-server | locating script: /mnt/shared/context/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtx-server-ctx-startup.lua mtx-server | loading script: /mnt/shared/context/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtx-server-ctx-startup.lua mtx-server | return type: function mtx-server | saving script: function mtx-server | running script: /mnt/shared/context/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtx-server-ctx-startup.lua mtx-server | time spent with client: 0.000 seconds mtx-server | request from: 127.0.0.1 mtx-server | request data: GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1 mtx-server | requested url: /favicon.ico mtx-server | requested action: /favicon.ico mtx-server | performing action: /favicon.ico mtx-server | requested file '/favicon.ico' mtx-server | handling error 404: Not Found mtx-server | time spent with client: 0.000 seconds mtx-server | request from: 127.0.0.1 mtx-server | request data: GET /mtx-server-ctx-help.lua HTTP/1.1 mtx-server | requested url: /mtx-server-ctx-help.lua mtx-server | requested action: /mtx-server-ctx-help.lua mtx-server | performing action: /mtx-server-ctx-help.lua mtx-server | locating script: /mnt/shared/context/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtx-server-ctx-help.lua mtx-server | loading script: /mnt/shared/context/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtx-server-ctx-help.lua mtx-server | return type: nil mtx-server | handling error 404: Not Found mtx-server | time spent with client: 0.000 seconds mtx-server | request from: 127.0.0.1 mtx-server | request data: GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1 mtx-server | requested url: /favicon.ico mtx-server | requested action: /favicon.ico mtx-server | performing action: /favicon.ico mtx-server | requested file '/favicon.ico' mtx-server | handling error 404: Not Found mtx-server | time spent with client: 0.000 seconds From time to time, it's wonderful to have offline help (and I still miss Patrick's emacs etexshow...) Thomas

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installing two ConTeXt trees
by Alan Bowen 06 Sep '13

06 Sep '13

I would like to install two ConTeXt trees on my laptop, one for work in progress and another for testing, and to run them using TeXShop (if that is feasible). Are there any instructions for this? I have searched the wiki and TeXShop help files but have not seen anything that indicates how to do this. I currently have a system-wide installation of the ConTeXt standalone. Alan

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How to redefine \section temporaly?
by Romain Diss 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Hi all, I wrote some articles with context and they contain (of course) sections. Now I have to include all these articles in a book but each article should become a section of the book. So I wonder if there is a way to convert the \section command of the article files into \subsection in the book. Minimal not working (but supposed to explain my problem) example: %%% article.tex \startsection[title=A first point] ... \stopsection \startsection[title=A second point] ... \stopsection %%% book.tex % command to make the \section of the input articles become \subsection % commands \startsection[title=My first article] \input article \stopsection %%% end I know I can change the \section commands of the article.tex into \ArticleSection and switch with \definehead[ArticleSection][section] \definehead[ArticleSection][subsection] depending of the context, but it would be better (for me) to not modify the article.tex files. Any ideas? Thank in advance. -- Romain Diss <romain.diss(a)yahoo.fr>

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letter module: File ended while scanning use of \buff_gobble
by Peter Münster 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Hi, How could I embed \startletter/\stopletter in a macro please? This does not work: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- \usemodule[letter] \def\myStartLetter{\startletter} \def\myStopLetter{\stopletter} \myStartLetter \input tufte \myStopLetter --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- TIA for any hints, -- Peter

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texlive vs. Context minimal on Windows
by john Culleton 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

I know that Context Minimals is more up to date than texlive, which is updated yearly. But texlive when installed on Windows adds a menu under "programs" that is very handy for beginners. I don't have an internet conection for my windows partition. (Some nonsense about a driver for my ethernet board.) So I ask the question: when a user downloads Context Minimals on a Windows partition what must they do to run the programs such as context and mtxrun? Go to a text console? I am writing a book about using Context for novels, so my question is not idle. About 90% of my audience will be using Windows. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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outer floats on doublesided pages
by R. Ermers 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Dear all, I have problems with the placement of floats. I need them to be placed in the outer edge of the text, but Context puts them in the middle of the page. The outer, inner, outeredge, inneredge, commands do not work. Right and left do work. Preferably the criterium option should also work, e.g. criterium=0.67. A minimal test file is attached. Try it out with a dummy, or with cow picture, or with any other picture of your liking. I updated my context installation today to a bèta version. The version is: 2013.08.30 02.05. All help is welcome! Many thanks in advance, Robert %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided,location=footer] \definefloat[edgefigure][figure] \setupfloat [edgefigure] [leftmargindistance=-\outercombitotal, rightmargindistance=-\outercombitotal, default={outer,none,low,high}] \setupcaption[edgefigure][number=no] \useexternalfigure[cow][./cow.pdf] \starttext \startsection[title={insight},reference=insight] \placeedgefigure[][]{}{\framed[frame=off]{\externalfigure[cow][scale=150]}} When the first volume of Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming was published in 1969, it was typeset using hot metal type set by a Monotype Corporation typecaster with a hot metal typesetting machine from the 19th century which produced a "good classic style" appreciated by Knuth. When the second edition of the second volume was published, in 1976, the whole book had to be typeset again because the Monotype technology had been largely replaced by photographic techniques, and the original fonts were no longer available.[4] When Knuth received the galley proofs of the new book on 30 March 1977, he found them awful.[5] Around that time, Knuth saw for the first time the output of a high-quality digital typesetting system, and became interested in digital typography. The disappointing galley proofs gave him the final motivation to solve the problem at hand once and for all by designing his own typesetting system. On 13 May 1977, he wrote a memo to himself describing the basic features of TeX.[6] \placeedgefigure[][]{}{\framed[frame=off]{\externalfigure[cow][scale=150]}} He planned to finish it on his sabbatical in 1978, but as it happened the language was not frozen until 1989, more than ten years later. Guy Steele happened to be at Stanford during the summer of 1978, when Knuth was developing his first version of TeX. When Steele returned to MIT that autumn, he rewrote TeX's I/O to run under the ITS operating system. The first version of TeX was written in the SAIL programming language to run on a PDP-10 under Stanford's WAITS operating system. For later versions of TeX, Knuth invented the concept of literate programming, a way of producing compilable source code and cross-linked documentation typeset in TeX from the same original file. The language used is called WEB and produces programs in DEC PDP-10 Pascal. \placeedgefigure[][]{}{\framed[frame=off]{\externalfigure[cow][scale=150]}} When the first volume of Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming was published in 1969, it was typeset using hot metal type set by a Monotype Corporation typecaster with a hot metal typesetting machine from the 19th century which produced a "good classic style" appreciated by Knuth. When the second edition of the second volume was published, in 1976, the whole book had to be typeset again because the Monotype technology had been largely replaced by photographic techniques, and the original fonts were no longer available.[4] When Knuth received the galley proofs of the new book on 30 March 1977, he found them awful.[5] Around that time, Knuth saw for the first time the output of a high-quality digital typesetting system, and became interested in digital typography. The disappointing galley proofs gave him the final motivation to solve the problem at hand once and for all by designing his own typesetting system. On 13 May 1977, he wrote a memo to himself describing the basic features of TeX.[6] He planned to finish it on his sabbatical in 1978, but as it happened the language was not frozen until 1989, more than ten years later. Guy Steele happened to be at Stanford during the summer of 1978, when Knuth was developing his first version of TeX. When Steele returned to MIT that autumn, he rewrote TeX's I/O to run under the ITS operating system. The first version of TeX was written in the SAIL programming language to run on a PDP-10 under Stanford's WAITS operating system. For later versions of TeX, Knuth invented the concept of literate programming, a way of producing compilable source code and cross-linked documentation typeset in TeX from the same original file. The language used is called WEB and produces programs in DEC PDP-10 Pascal. \stopsection \stoptext

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Get rid of LuaTeX warning on duplicate destination identifier
by Aditya Mahajan 31 Aug '13

31 Aug '13

Hi, I am trying to pick up on an old thread of creating an overview page [1]. Basically, the idea is to create an overvew slide at the end of a presentation that shows the first page of different sections in a presentation. Based on Wolfgang's answer in that old thread, I save the relevant pages in a box, and then display them again at the end of the presentation. This works, except that I get a series of warnings: l.86 \placeoverviewpage LuaTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier (name{aut:10}) has been already used, duplicate ignored How do I get rid of these? I am afraid that I cannot create a small example illustrating this warning, so I am attaching the complete test file. [1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/72556/focus=72571 Aditya

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