May 2014 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Figure numbering with parts
by Pol Stra 17 May '14

17 May '14

Hello, I want to number my figures like this: partnumber.sectionnumber.figurenumber I didn't find documentation on \setupnumber. I tried: \setupnumber[figure][way=bypart, numberpart=yes] \setupnumber[figure][way=bypart, numberpart=yes, prefixsegments=part] But when changing part, the numbering starts again at 1. Thanks

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ConTeXt Garden Examples Maintenance
by Thangalin 17 May '14

17 May '14

Hi, The ConText Garden wiki has numerous short example sprinkled throughout its pages. I presume that they are hard-coded in the page. if the example breaks (due to a ConTeXt bug or backwards-incompatible enhancement), I imagine there is no notification. What do you think about creating a repository of examples that are included by embedding a website address instead of direct text? For example: 1. User visits wiki. 2. User edits a page (e.g., Command/setuphead). 3. User names and uploads a .tex document. 4. System generates unique hyperlink for .tex document. 5. System generates and includes embed code into wiki page, such as: <context href="http://wiki.contextgarden.net/context/examples/file.tex" /> <context href="/context/examples/file.tex" /> Also, source="yes" and mode="mkiv" should be the default. Then, if the person editing the page wants to include the output, the full example might resemble: <context href="/context/examples/file.tex"> This produces: <context output="yes" href="/context/examples/file.tex"> Having the complete examples separated allows the snippets to be tested automatically. Broken .tex examples (unless explicitly flagged) would result in notifications being sent to the page maintainer(s). A broken example could be flagged as: <context notify="no" href="/context/examples/file.tex"> Another advantage is that all the examples could be downloaded and possibly referenced in other media. Kindest regards.

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Bug with TikZ module ?
by Fabrice Couvreur 17 May '14

17 May '14

Hi, Why the three words are not aligned on the baseline ? Regards, Fabrice \usemodule[tikz] \starttext \starttikzpicture[level/.style={sibling distance=10mm}] \node{}[grow=right] child{node{J}} child{node{R}} child{node{B} child{node{J}} child{node{R}} child{node{B} child{node{J}} child{node{R}} child{node{B}}} }; \node at (3,-0.75) {$\vdots$}; \node at (4.5,0.25) {$\vdots$}; \node at (1.5,-2.5) {toit}; \node at (3,-2.5) {fenêtre}; \node at (4.5,-2.5) {porte}; \stoptikzpicture \stoptext

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LuaTeX-plain File Database Problem
by Aíre Funvake 16 May '14

16 May '14

Hi all, Never felt so incompetent in my life -- just cannot get LuaTeX to find fonts or `*.tex` files for use with `\input <filename>`, or `font\xxx = <font-or-filename>`. Even though, these commands were executed (all I could find): mktexlsr mtxrun --script base --generate luatools --generate context --generate mtxrun --script fonts --update --force mtxrun --script fonts --udpate --simple Tried putting files in (in the roots and subdirectories): ~/texmf ~/ctx/tex/texmf-project ~/ctx/tex/texmf-local ~/ctx/tex/texmf-fonts Checked if the file could be found: luatools --find-file xxxx.tex <--- finds it luatools --find-file xxx.otf <--- finds it mtxrun --locate xxxx.tex <--- finds it mtxrun --locate xxx.otf <--- finds it kpsewhich/where <--- finds only if in `~/texmf` In .tex file (even when files are in `~/texmf` dir): \input xxxx or xxxx.tex <--- no luck \font\myfont = name:xxxx <--- no luck \font\myfont = file:xxxx.otf <--- no luck Sorry, but reading and searching for hours did not bring any solu- tion. Not sure if there is a configuration file like `texmf.cnf` or the `context.cnf` that must be modified, or and environment var- iable like `TEXMFHOME` (default seems to be `~/texmf`, and that's OK, if only it would only work). Sorry to spam this list with questions which may seem very fundamental to you. Hope to be able to reciprocate sometime. What am I missing? Thank you kindly, Aíre.

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basic question on imposition
by Pablo Rodriguez 16 May '14

16 May '14

Dear list, I’m trying to build a booklet from an existing PDF document, my code is the following (copied from the wiki long time ago): \setuppapersize [A5][A4,landscape] \setuparranging [2UP,doublesided] \setuplayout [backspace=0pt, topspace=0pt, width=middle, height=middle, location=middle, header=0pt, footer=0pt, grid=no, marking=off] \starttext \insertpages[document.pdf][width=0pt] \stoptext It works perfectly, but I would like to achieve the same effect, only imposing 4 pages on each side of the paper (8 pages per sheet). Replacing the first two lines with: \setuppapersize [A6][A4] \setuparranging [2*4] rearranges all pages, but not the way I want. With the previous option, I have to cut the paper in four. I would like to avoid this. I would like to cut the A4 in two landscape A5 to be folded (not cut) in two A6 pages. Which is the way to get this imposition? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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interword spacing
by Trond Thorbjørnsen 16 May '14

16 May '14

Hi, Is there a way to represent spaces explicitly with context, as described here: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/21053/xelatex-and-missing-spaces-in-… Certain fonts, for example Minion Pro, have small little interword spacing. This is a problem for highlighting on Goodreader on ipad. -Trond

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Re: [NTG-context] newbie questions
by Joan & Gary 16 May '14

16 May '14

Interested in computer typesetting a Bible. Sent from my iPad

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Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Typographical quality of various engines
by luigi scarso 15 May '14

15 May '14

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Jan Tosovsky <j.tosovsky(a)email.cz> wrote: > On 2014-05-15 luigi scarso wrote: > > On 5/14/2014 10:21 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: > > > > > > I've finished a rough comparision of various engines for > > > their typographical quality: http://drifted.in/publishing/ > > > > Another point could be the "server" property... the swiglib project is > > an attempt to cover this side > > > > https://swiglib.foundry.supelec.fr/ > > I am sad seeing lot of technical details without single sentence covering > benefits for the end user... > > It depends on the "end user" term. It's the other side of digital typography: high speed of "low quality" jobs, where the core is the automatic workflow and the "end user" is often a "traditional programmer" . -- luigi

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Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Typographical quality of various engines
by luigi scarso 15 May '14

15 May '14

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Jan Tosovsky <j.tosovsky(a)email.cz> wrote: > On 2014-05-15 Hans Hagen wrote: > > On 5/14/2014 10:21 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > > > I've finished a rough comparision of various engines for their > > > typographical quality: http://drifted.in/publishing/ > > > > > > From my point of view the ConTeXt is the best offering in this > > > field to date, so congratulation! > > > > > > If you find something inappropriate or misleading in my text, please > > > comment or let me know. > > > > > > If my ConTeXt examples could be written more efficiently, I am open > > > to fix it. > > > > Font expansion only, applied to a limited character subset > > > > Is that true? It is applied to any character that you want, of course > > given that you associate expansion factors, but that happens for quite > > some characters in context. > > Good point, it should be clarified it is a default vector set, which can be > further customized (extended). > My info is based on this Wiki http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Protrusion > pointing to this source code: > http://source.contextgarden.net/font-ext.lua > > By that subset I mean the table vectors['default'] > > > > Concerning homogenization, context has support for dynamically aplying > > feature (alternates) to improve the look and feel but of course not > > many fonts have multiple variants for glyphs grouped in stylistic > > alternates so this mechanism is hardly used (only for some arabic). > > Yes, I am aware of this, but it is indeed not very obvious from the text. > > Thanks for your suggestions, > > Jan > > Another point could be the "server" property... the swiglib project is an attempt to cover this side https://swiglib.foundry.supelec.fr/ -- luigi

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Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Typographical quality of various engines
by Hans Hagen 15 May '14

15 May '14

On 5/15/2014 7:39 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: > On 2014-05-15 Hans Hagen wrote: >> On 5/14/2014 10:21 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: >>> Dear All, >>> >>> I've finished a rough comparision of various engines for their >>> typographical quality: http://drifted.in/publishing/ >>> >>> From my point of view the ConTeXt is the best offering in this >>> field to date, so congratulation! >>> >>> If you find something inappropriate or misleading in my text, please >>> comment or let me know. >>> >>> If my ConTeXt examples could be written more efficiently, I am open >>> to fix it. >> >> Font expansion only, applied to a limited character subset >> >> Is that true? It is applied to any character that you want, of course >> given that you associate expansion factors, but that happens for quite >> some characters in context. > > Good point, it should be clarified it is a default vector set, which can be > further customized (extended). > My info is based on this Wiki http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Protrusion > pointing to this source code: > http://source.contextgarden.net/font-ext.lua > > By that subset I mean the table vectors['default'] yes but we also initialize all similar shapes >> Concerning homogenization, context has support for dynamically aplying >> feature (alternates) to improve the look and feel but of course not >> many fonts have multiple variants for glyphs grouped in stylistic >> alternates so this mechanism is hardly used (only for some arabic). > > Yes, I am aware of this, but it is indeed not very obvious from the text. > > Thanks for your suggestions, > > Jan > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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