June 2014 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

win2k and context
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

Can you please tell me the latest context version (mkiv) working with win2k and the download position?

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Text around figure
by MANUEL GONZALEZ SUAREZ 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

Hi! I would like to know how I have to do to make a figure appear surrounded by text. In LaTeX this is accomplished with packages "picins" and "picinpar" but I think that in ConTeXt we only can use the \startfiguretext ... \stopfiguretext environment, although the effect is not the same. I send an example. Greetings and thank you very much.

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Rotate multiline text
by Aditya Mahajan 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

Hi, I want to rotate a multiline text by 90 degrees, and I thought that \framed[orientation=90] should do that. But it does not work as expected. \defineframed[tightbox] [align=middle, width=fit, height=fit] \defineframed[rotatebox][tightbox][orientation=90] \starttext \startlines ABC \rotatebox{Random \crlf text } ABC ABC \rotate{\tightbox{Random \crlf text }} ABC \stoplines \stoptext I would like \rotatebox to behave the same as \rotate{\tightbox{..}}, but it does not. It appears that the width (or height?) or \rotatebox is set to broad. Am I missing a magic option or is this a bug? Aditya

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Re: [NTG-context] Orphans/Widows in the Index
by Jan Tosovsky 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

On 2014-04-23 Jan Tosovsky wrote: > > in my auto-generated two column index (registry) there are > several cases of widows - it is the last item of the given > letter which overflows to next column/page: > > --------------- (start page) ------- > Usti 29 (! alone !) > > V > Vamberk 18 > ... > ... > > > There are also few cases of orphans, but this is not so strange: > ... > ... > Josef 29 > > K > Karel 69 (! alone !) > ---------------- (end page) --------- > > In my setup I have defined (with no luck): > > \startsetups[grid][mypenalties] > \setdefaultpenalties > \setpenalties\widowpenalties{2}{10000} > \setpenalties\clubpenalties {2}{10000} > \stopsetups > > \setuplayout[grid=yes, setups=mypenalties] > After finishing another duties I am back ... and still facing these issues. I think both cases could be eliminated by establishing a new constraint to the 'key letter': (1) There must be 0 or at least 3 lines at the beginning of the page/column before the Key letter. (2) There must be at least 2 lines after the Key letter. Can this be somehow set in my source file? Thanks, Jan

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small indexing glitch if index entry has extra {}
by Sanjoy Mahajan 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

Here's a small glitch with indexing, which I ran into by chance and enclose a minimal example. Because of the extra {} in the entry \index{{two dimensional}} the index duplicates the entry: t two dimensional 1 two dimensional 1 \setupregister[index][n=1] \starttext \index{two dimensional}test1 test \index{{two dimensional}}test2 \blank[3*big] \placeindex[criterium=all] \stoptext

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second-level seeindex entry nested too deeply
by Sanjoy Mahajan 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

I think the following minimal example is giving an incorrect index. As ascii, the index comes out as a area 1 ellipse 1 see United Kingdom, area whereas the "see United Kingdom, area" should be indented the same as the ellipse second-level entry. It comes out okay if I delete the \index{area+ellipse} entry. (P.S. What's the setupregister key that puts the "see ..." entry in italic? I seem to have turned it off in my environment file somewhere. Oh, it's 'pagestyle', but then how can one separately set the style of the pagenumbers from the style of the "see ..."?) That aside, here's the example (run with 2014.05.17 MkIV): \setupregister[index][n=1] \starttext hello \index{area}area and \index{area+ellipse}area of an ellipse \seeindex{area+United Kingdom}{United Kingdom, area} \blank[3*big] \placeindex[criterium=all] \stoptext

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ConTeXt meeting 2014 update
by Taco Hoekwater 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

Hi all, Some new information is now available on the upcoming meeting, so here is an update with all the news. http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2014 == NTG Meeting == The NTG has set the fees for attendance of the NTG’s anniversary meeting, which will follow immediately after our meeting. If you want to stay around for that (program on Saturday and Sunday, with talks in Dutch), please check the box on the registration form. Or, if you have registered already, send me an email message. Additional fee: 50 EUR for NTG members, 70 EUR for other people, to be paid in cash. == T-shirt ? == No, not this time. We are pretty sure most of you have enough meeting shirts already, so we decided to do something different this time. In keeping with the “Cookery” meeting theme, the goody bag will have a full-sized kitchen apron instead. In fact, there will be two different apron designs each featuring a commissioned drawing by Duane Bibby. The designs will remain secret for a while longer (possibly even until the actual meeting) but we are willing to tell you that there will be “lion” and “lioness” versions, and each one is cooking up a big bowl of ConTeXt soup. On the meeting registration form you can select which version you want to receive as part of the goody bag. There is also a checkbox to pre-order the other one (get a matching pair!). After the meeting, the aprons will remain available as ConTeXt merchandise, which is why there will not be a date or place mentioned on the apron. When the time comes, we will let you know how and where to order (by then of course there will be pictures as well). == Programme == No actual schedule has been made up yet, but there are quite some entries on the Abstracts page by now. It looks to me like it is going to be a very interesting programme! Have a look for yourself, and feel free to request talks on any other subject you are interested in: http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2014/abstracts.shtml == Registration reminder == With only *one week* to go before the early bird deadline expires, now would be a great time to register! http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2014/register.shtml Hoping to see many of you in Bassenge, Taco

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Resetting \setupTABLE
by Troy Henderson 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

What is the "proper" way to reset the setups made by \setupTABLE so that successive TABLEs do no inherit the properties set by previous TABLEs? -- Troy Henderson

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\placeinitial trickery?
by Alan Bowen 22 Jun '14

22 Jun '14

I am setting some late Greek text which uses characters of a Coptic origin and am having a problem when the Coptic letters are to be set as drop characters. It works if they do not have diacritical marks but fails when the diacriticals must be entered as non-combining. The appended code shows the problem and, incidentally, why non-combining marks are needed. (I would attach the .pdf file if I knew the list’s protocol for attachments.) The question is: Is there a way to get \placeinitial to take the first two characters of the opening word? In the example below, I need case 4 to work so that it looks like case 2. Alan \definefontfamily[mainface][serif][IFAO Grec Unicode][] \setupbodyfont[mainface,10pt] \definefontsynonym[DropFont][name:IFAO Grec Unicode] \defineinitial [Greek] [location=margin, font={DropFont sa 3}, n=2, color=black, distance=-1em, hoffset=1.25em] \starttext \placeinitial[Greek]Ⲥελήνη {\red Coptic capital sima}\quad\input ward \placeinitial[Greek]Ἡλίου {\red Greek capital eta with dasia (combining)}\quad\input ward \placeinitial[Greek]Ⲏ̔λίου {\red Coptic capital hate with dasia (combining)}\quad\input ward \placeinitial[Greek]῾Ⲏλίου {\red Coptic capital hate with dasia (non-combining)}\quad\input ward \stoptext

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really strange bug in ConTeXt
by Pablo Rodriguez 22 Jun '14

22 Jun '14

Dear list, using the latest beta from 2014.06.18 17:19, I’m facing the weirdest bug in ConTeXt I‘ve ever experienced. I’m writing a book on ConTeXt (already 330 pages). Compilation breaks when ConTeXt tries to add a sectioning level. I have tried to get a minimal sample, but all I can get is the whole source document. I have already tried for hours. The error I get with luajittex is the following: pages > flushing realpage 326, userpage 322 structure > sectioning > chapter @ level 2 : 1.3 -> Índice de órdenes mtx-context | fatal error: no return code, message: luajittex: execution interrupted Just in case you wonder, I get the same error without luajittex: pages > flushing realpage 326, userpage 322 structure > sectioning > chapter @ level 2 : 1.3 -> Índice de órdenes mtx-context | fatal error: no return code, message: luatex: execution interrupted The weirdest thing is that compilation is right, if I comment a one-line paragraph or if I add another paragraph (with no command inside, only pure text). .tuc and .log files from right and wrong compilation are avaiable at http://www.ousia.tk/right.tuc, http://www.ousia.tk/right.log, http://www.ousia.tk/wrong.tuc, and http://www.ousia.tk/wrong.log. Is there no way to get a more verbose log that could point to the bug? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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