May 2014 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

“Case-insensitive” sorting for \placelistofsynonyms?
by Benjamin Buchmuller 01 Jun '14

01 Jun '14

Hi list, according to case-insensitive sorting for \placeregister[…][…, method=…], I tried to figure out how to achieve similar results for \placelistofsynonyms (has method-key too). I tried this modified minimal example (that originally was proposed by Hans here: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2010/052950.html) but failed: \setuplayout[topspace=1cm,height=middle] \setupbodyfont[11pt] \starttext \definesynonyms[abbr][abbrs][\unabbr] \def\Test#1{\vbox{{\bf#1}\blank\placelistofabbrs[criterium=all,language=cz,method={#1}]}\blank} wanted result: oá öb Oč Öď Oo Öo oo öo Öq öř Oš oů \blank \startcolumns[n=2] \Test{before} \Test{first} \Test{default}\Test{after}\Test{last} \stopcolumns \page wanted result: oá öb Oč Öď Oo Öo oo öo Öq öř Oš oů \blank \startcolumns[n=3] \Test{mc,mm,uc} \Test{mc,zm,uc} \Test{mc,pm,uc} \Test{zc,mm,uc} \Test{zc,zm,uc} \Test{zc,pm,uc} \Test{pc,mm,uc} \Test{pc,zm,uc} \Test{pc,pm,uc} \stopcolumns \page wanted result: oá öb Oč Öď Oo Öo oo öo Öq öř Oš oů \blank \startcolumns[n=3] \Test{mm,mc,uc} \Test{zm,mc,uc} \Test{pm,mc,uc} \Test{mm,zc,uc} \Test{zm,zc,uc} \Test{pm,zc,uc} \Test{mm,pc,uc} \Test{zm,pc,uc} \Test{pm,pc,uc} \stopcolumns \page \dorecurse {2} { \page \recurselevel: \abbr{oá}{oáz} \abbr{öb}{öbz} \abbr{Oč}{Očz} \abbr{Öď}{Öďz} \abbr{oo}{ooz} \abbr{öo}{öoz} \abbr{Oo}{Ooz} \abbr{Öo}{Öoz} \abbr{Öq}{Öqz} \abbr{öř}{öřz} \abbr{Oš}{Ošz} \abbr{oů}{oůz} done } \stoptext Is there yet another way to modify sorting behaviour? Many thanks for your help!

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Character and word spacing
by Rik Kabel 31 May '14

31 May '14

I am setting some text from Geoffrey Dowding's /Finer Points in the Spacing and Arrangement of Type/. I am trying to set it using his recommendations. For those not familiar with his book, the key point is that he promotes extremely tight spacing to achieve a uniform density across the page in the belief that this leads to a pleasing presentation and improved readability. Among his recommendations is that an opening single quote together with the space preceding it should take up no more space than a normal word space, and similarly following a closing single quote; that the space after some punctuation be minimized (some of his commas appear to have perhaps just a hairspace, following them); that the space between punctuation and letters be adjusted according to the shape of the letter; and that 'and' be replaced by '&' as necessary to improve word spacing. While this last is probably beyond the scope of ConTeXt, I am hoping that the first few might be managed through \definecharacterspacing, \setupcharacterspacing, and \setcharacterspacing. Alas, I have found no documentation on this set of commands, and what I see in the source is opaque. If you have pointers to the details of these commands, or other suggestions for such typographic exercises, please let me know. -- Rik Kabel

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bug in \setuptagging?
by Pablo Rodriguez 31 May '14

31 May '14

Dear list I experience weird results with latest beta (2014.05.30 23:26). Here is the sample: \setuppapersize[A6] \setuptagging[state=start] \setuptyping[margin=yes,align={right,broad}] \starttext \starttyping \setuptyping[margin=yes, align={right,broad}] \stoptyping \stoptext If I disable \setuptagging, output is fine. But with \setuptagging enabled, the typing environment doesn’t display multiple lines. Am I doing something wrong or have I hit a bug? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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bug in latest beta (2014-05-30 18:07)
by Pablo Rodriguez 31 May '14

31 May '14

Hans, I’m afraid that the latest beta contains a bug that prevents the compilation of any document. Error is the following (complete log available at http://www.ousia.tk/nocache.log) Ouch---my internal constants have been clobbered! ---case 1 mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 1 Could you fix it? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Tagged PDF - Math
by Christoph Reller 30 May '14

30 May '14

Hi, ConTeXt can produce tagged PDF - this is really cool! (At the moment ConTeXt/luaTeX seems to be the only macropackage/TeX-engine that is able to do this.) What is the status of producing structure information for math? After a quick evaluation I observe two issues: 1. Empty entry in RoleMap: ConTeXt wisely uses the RoleMap entry of the StructTreeRoot element in a PDF to map structure element names to standard element names. In PDF terms, RoleMap is a dictionary with keys and values. Unfortunately, certain math elements seem to lead to a corrupt RoleMap, e.g., the usage of a square root results in an empty dictionary key with corresponding value "\Span". A minimal example is: \setuptagging[state=start] \starttext \startformula \sqrt{A} \stopformula \stoptext 2. Structure element contains index of type "real number": According to the PDF Reference V 1.7 (see Table 10.10) a structure element dictionary's "K" entry can be an integer (e.g. "2") that denotes an index for a marked-content sequence. When tagging math, ConTeXt sometimes produces a real value (e.g. "2.000") instead. A minimal example is: (In this example the last element "B" receives such a "real number" index) \setuptagging[state=start] \starttext \startformula A = B \stopformula \stoptext I am using ConTeXt version 2014.05.27 13:38. Thanks in advance for any feedback. Christoph

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Special look of \item
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 30 May '14

30 May '14

Hello, is there a way how to achieve the following look of items inside \staritemize ... \stopitemize: |<-- textwidth ------>| * Item - abc def ghi jlk mn op qrst uw xyz Some other text that belongs to the item. * Longer item - abc def ghi jlk mn op qrst uw xyz Some other text that belongs to the longer item. ---- \starttext \startitemize \item Item - abc def ghi jlk mn op qrst uw xyz Some other text that belongs to the item. \items Longer item - abc def ghi jlk mn op qrst uw xyz Some other text that belongs to the longer item. \stopitemize \stoptext ---- I played with h-, v-, t-, s- and other boxes, with b/eTABLE but I'm not able to get the desired result... Thank you in advance. Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 241 096 751 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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request for cooperation to the editor "texstudio" has support for ConTeXt
by Juan jose 30 May '14

30 May '14

regards My name is john and i am a science student , had always used latex , but I recently introducing me to ConTeXt , I always used latex editor TeXstudio ( http://texstudio.sourceforge.net/ ) but unfortunately this is not supported of ConTeXt now , I do not want to switch to another editor ( if I suggest auctex , but I thought ) because texstudio is good, and I am of those who think that if a project is missing something better to help implement it. So I turned to the task of making the request for support had texstudio ConTeXt , and kindly told that if they wished to have support for ConTeXt unfortunately texstudio project authors do not have time and do not know much so I asked ConTeXt help, but so far I 'm introducing ConTeXt and would be outrageous to create something as useful as is the Auto Completion and ConTeXt syntax analysis . I ask for help to some of you who work with the authors ( they can contact them are very open ) to texstudio has full support for ConTeXt in principle would help complete syntax files and auto-complete , and if you want to create a partnership between the I think the two projects texstudio authors I would be delighted . The entry in which this feature is asked : http://sourceforge.net/p/texstudio/feature-requests/701/ (the last comment explains how to implement context in texstudio , even in early stage ) the mailing address of the authors are : *Benito van der Zander ( author ) :* benito(a)benibela.de ( Please mention " texstudio " in the subject , if you write a mail ) or http://sourceforge.net/u/benibela/profile/ *Tim Hoffmann : *http://sourceforge.net/u/userid-1903580/profile/ *Jan Sundermeyer :* http://sourceforge.net/u/jsundermeyer/profile/ The language on which it is built is qt / c + + if anything , I would appreciate that someone who is knowledgeable and wants to collaborate with texstudio help the project thank you very much

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Tagged PDF - Standard structure type for list elements
by Christoph Reller 30 May '14

30 May '14

Hi, I have found a small bug in line 62 of strc-tag.lua: item = { pdf = "Li", nature = "display" }, The standard structure type for list elements is "LI" not "Li". Please correct the line to item = { pdf = "LI", nature = "display" }, A minimal example to reproduce is: \setuptagging[state=start] \starttext \startitemize \item One \stopitemize \stoptext I am using ConTeXt Version 2014.05.27 13:38. Thanks, Christoph

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placement of graphics across coluums.
by john Culleton 30 May '14

30 May '14

In Scribus, (which has many shortcomings compared to Context for book length documents,) there is one trick that is pretty easy. In a double column document one can place a graphic in another layer that is part in one column and part in another, but not spanning either column completely. Then the texts in each column can be made to flow around the graphic. I have looked in "It's in the details" and the "Columns" document but I cannot find this specific example. I thought I saw one years ago. Is such a trick possible in Context without heroic special coding? -- 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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Centering tabulate env. using \setuptabulate
by Devendra Ghate 28 May '14

28 May '14

I expect follow MWE to produce a centered table. But it does not. Am I making any obvious mistake. --------------- \definetabulate[centeredTable][|r|l|] \setuptabulate [centeredTable] [align={middle}] \starttext \startcenteredTable \HL \NC I want this table \NC aligned in the center.\NR \HL \stopcenteredTable \stoptext ---------------- This also *doesn't* work. --------------- \setuptabulate [align={middle}] \starttext \starttabulate[|r|l|] \HL \NC I want this table \NC aligned in the center.\NR \HL \stoptabulate \stoptext ---------------- -- Devendra Ghate

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