June 2014 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

distinguishing index entries according to function by using \setupregister
by Sanjoy Mahajan 08 Jun '14

08 Jun '14

In MkII, one could configure the index to have different types of page entries, e.g. roman and italic, by using \setupregister, as in the example at <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupregister>. That doesn't work with a fairly recent MkIV (2014.05.17 beta). I see that it's a long-standing feature request: <http://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context%40ntg.nl/msg67495.html> So, it is probably not on the short-term feature list. But, if it is on the list, please let me know, as I'll keep using it for my textbook! Otherwise, I'll just make all the page entries the same style. The perfect is the enemy of the good, especially after 19 years... (Right now with 2014.05.17 beta, using the feature, say as \index[definition::]{commutativity}commutativity, gives an entry alphabetized according to the "definition::" key.) Regards, -Sanjoy

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Samples updates and bibtex entries
by Rik Kabel 07 Jun '14

07 Jun '14

Hans, The file samples.tex requests updated bibliography data for some of the samples. Since the file is a few years old, it is not clear if this information has already been provided. If it is still needed, here are entries for three of the sources and a note on the source of another, along with corrections for a few typos. The first bibtex entry was lifted from Google Boooks, the other two from the ACM Digital Library. @book{dawkins2000unweaving, title={Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder}, author={Dawkins, R.}, isbn={9780547347356}, url={http://books.google.com/books?id=ZudTchiioUoC}, year={2000}, publisher={Houghton Mifflin Harcourt} } @book{Hofstadter:1985:MTQ:537101, author = {Hofstadter, Douglas R.}, title = {Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern}, year = {1985}, isbn = {0465045405}, publisher = {Basic Books, Inc.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, } @book{Tufte:1990:EI:78223, author = {Tufte, Edward}, title = {Envisioning Information}, year = {1990}, isbn = {0-9613921-1-8}, publisher = {Graphics Press}, address = {Cheshire, CT, USA}, } reich.tex is a list of the voice samples from Steve Reich's 1995 composition /City Life/. Corrections for dawkins.tex, douglas.tex, and knuth.tex: In each set, the first line is taken from the current sample file and the second is a correction. The dawkins.tex and douglas.tex corrections are based on scanned images on Google Books, the knuth.tex correction is based on my personal copy of the book (first edition second printing). dawkins.tex is from pages 145 and 146 of the book come down head. Everybody on the right had to will it to be come down heads. Everybody on the right had to will it to be to sit down. Then those who remained were divided into two, to sit down. Then those that remained were divided into two, I also note that all of the quotes in the Dawkins source are single-quotes, not double-quotes as in dawkins.tex, \quote{}, not \quotation{}. This is unusual for a book printed in the USA by an American publisher, so perhaps Dawkins wanted it that way. douglas.tex is from page 260 of the book of his forthcoming books, from the typesetting and layout of his forthcoming books|=|from the typesetting and layout not become as well known or available. not become as well known or as available. Not only is the concept exiting and clearly well executed, Not only is the concept exciting and clearly well executed, There are a few other differences, but these are most likely due to publisher's style sheet and the lack of availability of logotypes for TeX and Metafont. knuth.tex is from page 50 of the book from the chaff and separate the sheep from the goats. from the chaff, and separate the sheep from the goats. -- Rik Kabel

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\useMPlibrary[dum] in 2014-06-05 MKIV
by Rik 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

The following works fine in TL13, producing a PDF with the expected rectangle full of colored balls under the TL viewer, Sumatra PDF viewer, and Firefox, as it did under the prior MKIV beta (2014-06-01). Under the current MKIV, it produces a PDF that displays no image when viewed with Firefox or Sumatra PDF, but shows an irregular blob of colored balls (which might be cropped to the expected triangle) when viewed with the TL viewer or Chrome. \useMPlibrary[dum] \starttext \externalfigure[xxx] \stoptext So, I would suppose that something has changed in the way the image is put into the page. Can somebody suggest an option to reverse this behavior, either in ConTeXt or in the viewers? -- Rik Kabel

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\MetaFont in 2014-06-05 MKIV
by Rik 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

The following produces two lines with the Metafont logo when using TL13, but fails in the current MKIV with the identical complaint for either of the lines commented out: Type1: Could not understand Type1 font: C:/ConTeXt/tex/texmf/fonts/type1/hoekwater/mflogo/logo10.pfb \starttext \METAFONT \MetaFont \stoptext -- Rik Kabel

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bug with \setuplist[part][after={\blank[samepage, big]}]
by Pablo Rodriguez 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Dear list, I don’t have a minimal sample (yet), but I have added the command above to force part titles in contents to be with the next part title. Well, the contents take five pages and two of them finish with a part title. Am I missing something or is this a bug? And if it were a bug, would it be related to wrong page breaks with titles? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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\setupquotation [indenting=no] error
by Alan BRASLAU 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Minimal example: \setupquotation [indenting=no] % Undefined \p_indenting error \starttext Knuth: \startquotation \input knuth \stopquotation Ward: \startquotation \input ward \stopquotation \stoptext Alan

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Keyword order problem
by Rik Kabel 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Keyword order appears to matter for the \blank command. The following example shows all orderings for the set {dimension, nowhite, samepage}, some of which work and some of which do not. It also shows two orderings of {dimension, nowhite, samepage, disable}; one works and the other does not. This happens with TL13 as well as the 2014-06-01 beta. I can find no discussion of keyword ordering in the wiki, on the mailing list, or in the manuals. Is this intentional, and if so, with what other commands are keywords similarly constrained? Whether or not this is intentional, can a developer please provide a suggested ordering to use until this is better documented or corrected? The order that keywords are presented in the wiki and in the reference manual are among those that fail. \starttext \subject{Without disable} 12pt,samepage,nowhite\blank[12pt,samepage,nowhite] works 12pt,nowhite,samepage\blank[12pt,nowhite,samepage] fails samepage,12pt,nowhite\blank[samepage,12pt,nowhite] fails samepage,nowhite,12pt\blank[samepage,nowhite,12pt] works nowhite,12pt,samepage\blank[nowhite,12pt,samepage] works nowhite,samepage,12pt\blank[nowhite,samepage,12pt] works \subject{With disable} 12pt,samepage,nowhite,disable\blank[12pt,samepage,nowhite,disable] works samepage,12pt,nowhite,disable\blank[samepage,12pt,nowhite,disable] fails \stoptext -- Rik Kabel

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internal mptopdf converter skips some glyphs in labels
by Sanjoy Mahajan 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

The internal mptopdf converter in MkIV omit some glyphs in the labels. Here's a minimal example (test.tex): \starttext \externalfigure[testfig.1][frame=on] \blank \externalfigure[testfig-1.pdf][frame=on] \stoptext And testfig.1 is produced by testfig.mp beginfig(1) label(btex $\Omega$ etex, (0,0)); currentpicture := currentpicture scaled 5; endfig; end Here's testfig.1 to save a step in debugging: %!PS %%BoundingBox: -18 -18 18 18 %%HiResBoundingBox: -17.98805 -17.0195 17.98798 17.0195 %%Creator: MetaPost 1.803 %%CreationDate: 2013.08.09:1612 %%Pages: 1 %*Font: cmr10 49.81323 9.96265 0a:8 %%BeginProlog %%EndProlog %%Page: 1 1 0 0 0 setrgbcolor -17.98805 -17.0195 moveto (\012) cmr10 49.81323 fshow showpage %%EOF Then do: mptopdf testfig.1 context test.tex xpdf test.pdf The first framed box, using the internal mps->pdf conversion, is empty. The second framed go, using the pdf file produced by mptopdf, correctly contains \Omega. With \enabletrackers[graphics.conversion,graphics.inclusion], the log has the following lines, none of which seem to pinpoint the problem: graphics > inclusion > checking conversion of 'testfig.1', fullname 'testfig.1', old format 'mps', new format 'pdf', conversion 'default', resolution 'default' graphics > inclusion > no converter for 'mps' to 'pdf' [MP to PDF] graphics > inclusion > checking conversion of 'testfig-1.pdf', fullname 'testfig-1.pdf', old format 'pdf', new format 'pdf', conversion 'default', resolution 'default' graphics > inclusion > no converter for 'pdf' to 'pdf' graphics > inclusion > new graphic, using hash 'testfig-1.pdf->1->crop->unknown->unknown->unknown->' (Though I don't believe the "no converter for 'mps' to 'pdf'" diagnostic.) This is with Context 2013.05.28 00:36 MKIV (TL2013 on Debian). -Sanjoy

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Margin heading problem, was Re: sections
by Rik Kabel 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

On 2014-06-01 12:52, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 6/1/2014 5:40 PM, Rik wrote: > >> Is this also the cause of problems I noted with heading placed into the >> margin, as in the example below? > > no, unrelated, try this: > > \setuphead > [section] > [after={\strut\blank[-2*line,samepage,disable]}, > command=\SectionCommand, > distance=0pt] > > \define[2]\SectionCommand{\inleft{XXXXXX}} That was fine until it ran into \setupwhitespace with a non-zero value. Fiddling with the after key \blank does not appear to help. \define[2]\MarginHead{\inmargin{#1\\#2}} \setuphead [section] [command=\MarginHead, distance=0pt, after={\strut\blank[-2*line,samepage,disable]}] %% With no \setupwhitespace, or any \setupwhitespace setting that %% results in zero interparagraph whitespace, all is well. %setupwhitespace [none]% okay %setupwhitespace [fix]% okay %% With non-zero interparagraph whitespace, the heading separates %% from the text \setupwhitespace [line]% bad \starttext \startchapter[title={Weisman}] \input weisman\par \input weisman \startsection[title={Thuan}] \input thuan\par \input thuan \stopsection \stopchapter \stoptext -- Rik Kabel

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grid + description + superscript
by Trond Thorbjørnsen 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

Superscript in math in a description, results in a blank line, see the example. Is there a way to avoid this? -Trond Thorbjørnsen \setuplayout[grid=yes] \definedescription[desc][ inbetween={\blank[none]}, before={\blank[none]}, after={\blank[none]}, margin=no, ] \starttext \desc{foo} bar baz \desc{foo} bar baz \desc{foo} bar $x_j$ baz \desc{foo} bar baz \desc{foo} bar baz \par \stoptext

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