August 2014 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

\resetsetups
by Rik Kabel 14 Aug '14

14 Aug '14

Dear list, In a number of notes (recent and in the list archive) I have seen \resetsetups, used (always) as in a block of code like this from Gerben Wierde: \startsetups chapter:before \page[left] \noheaderandfooterlines \startalignment[left,nothyphenated] \startnarrower[4*left] \em \getbuffer[chapter:quote] \stopnarrower \stopalignment \resetsetups[quote:text] \page[right] \noheaderandfooterlines \blank[force,2*big] \stopsetups What is the purpose of \resetsetups in this code? I see no different result without it, and all I can determine from list and document searches is that this is a vestigal command from x-fo processing. -- Rik

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Arabic-Latin Modern Fixed
by Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد 14 Aug '14

14 Aug '14

[This announcement is dedicated to the 110% recovery and return of our visionary and fearless leader Hans Hagen: Three cheers to you, Hans!!!] Dear gang, It's my pleasure to announce the release of Arabic-Latin Modern Fixed, a monospaced font that extends TeX-Gyre Latin Modern Mono 10 Regular. It has been uploaded to CTAN, although I do not know how long it will take for the CTAN people to approve and publish it. Eventually it will make it's way into the ConTeXt minimals as well. Until then, you may use this private link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pulgaxshzr5bcmy/almfixed.zip README.txt is reproduced below. Future plans include both bold and proportional versions. Enjoy and Best wishes Idris -- Idris Samawi Hamid Professor of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ==========README.txt========== Typeface Family: Arabic-Latin Modern Font: Arabic-Latin Modern Fixed Style: Regular Version: 0.92 Author: Idris Samawi Hamid Date: August 5, 2014 License: Arabic-Latin Modern Fixed is licensed under the GUST Font License with one important adjustment: It is requested, as well as legally *required*, that derived works be distributed only after changing the names of the fonts comprising this work. http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/licenses/GUST-FONT-LICENSE.txt/vi… Contains: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/doc/almfixed-dtk.pdf http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps; http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/tt; Some notes, in no particular order: 1. For more extensive documentation, examples, and background; see almfixed-dtk.pdf. 2. The final version number (per any future fixes, maintenance etc.) is intended to be Version 1.10. 3. Arabic-Latin Modern Fixed is an extension of TeX-Gyre Latin Modern Mono 10 Regular. Every glyph and opentype feature of the Latin Modern Mono has been retained, with minor improvements. On the other hand, we have changed the vertical metrics of the font. Although the Arabic script is designed to use the same x-size as Latin Modern Mono, the former script needs greater ascender and descender space. And there are cases (such as certain kinds of academic assignment and definitely mixed Latin and Arabic text) where Latin can use the extra vertical space as well. Otherwise, only the vertical metrics prevents this from being a drop-in replacement for Latin Modern Mono . Of course one can always set the vertical metrics in TeX to match LM Mono. 4. Every Arabic glyph in each Unicode-code block is supported (up to Unicode 7.0): Arabic, Arabic Supplement, Arabic Extended, Arabic Presentation-Forms A, and Arabic Presentation-Forms B. 5. This is a totally original design, using the Knuthian letters as inspiration. Indeed, virtually all Arabic characters were developed on the foundation of a study of the Latin Modern Mono letters 'l', 'r', and 'c'. In other words, this is a genuine extension of the original Knuthian design to an authentic and culturally authentic Arabic typing font. 6. There are two versions of the font: ps and tt. The Type~1 version is for print applications (and usually the default for TeX). The TrueType version is for on-screen applications such as text editors. Hinting in the tt version is much better for on-screen, at least on Microsoft Windows. 7. The most unique feature of Arabic-Latin Modern is in its treatment of vowels and diacritics. Each vowel and diacritic (ALM Fixed contains a total of 68 such glyphs) can now be edited horizontally within any text editor or processor. I believe this is the very first opentype Arabic font ever to have this capability. Editing complex Arabic texts will now be much easier to input and to proofread. 8. At least 12 additional format characters are included; see almfixed-dtk.pdf for details. Also designed a glyph representation for U+00A0 (no-break space), as well as U+25CC (dotted circle). 9. Arabic-Latin Modern Mono will be a boon to scholars, academics, coder editors, and anyone who wants to manage the entry of the wide array of Unicode Arabic text for editing, verbatim, or other purposes. ==============================

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Bug with vimtyping: no line numbers
by Günter Kolousek 14 Aug '14

14 Aug '14

I think there is a bug in the (latest) beta that was not there earlier this year. In particular, it worked (and still works) in the version current version: 2014.03.19 23:11 but it show *no* line numbers at all in the (latest) beta: current version: 2014.07.30 10:31 A minimal example follows: \usemodule[vim] \setupvimtyping[% numbering=yes,% numberdistance=2em] \definevimtyping[cpp][syntax=cpp] \starttext \startcpp #include <iostream> int main() { std::cout << "Hello, world!" << std::endl; } \stopcpp \stoptext Sadly, I'm not a ConTeXt nor a lua expert so maybe anybody can help? Regards, Günter p.s.: BTW, I still could not resolve the bug with integrating tikz but I verified that it works with the stated version above (2014.03.19 23:11) on my system (nothing else changed).

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processallactionsinset and default
by Christoph Reller 14 Aug '14

14 Aug '14

Hi! The "default" value works well for processaction but apparently does not for processallactionsinset. What am I missing? Example: \def\A{A} \def\XX{} \def\Un{Un} \processaction[\A][A=>Yeah!,default=>Def.,unknown=>Huh?]% \processaction[\XX][A=>Yeah!,default=>Def.,unknown=>Huh?]% \processaction[\Un][A=>Yeah!,default=>Def.,unknown=>Huh?] \processallactionsinset[\A,\XX,\Un][A=>Yeah!,default=>Def.,unknown=>Huh?] Output: Yeah!Def.Huh? Yeah!Huh?Huh? Thanks for any help, Christoph

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I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn
by Mohamed Gad 14 Aug '14

14 Aug '14

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Class diagram in Ctx?
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

Hello, I'd like to create a "class diagram" (or "hierarchy chart") with ConText, something like: [class A] | \ V V [class B] [class C] Could anyone hint me how to start? Or which module to use? TikZ? - An initial hint would be appreciated, I'll study next... Thanks in advance, 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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Footnote Placement in Columnsets
by David Baßler 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

Dear all, a couple of days ago I asked about placing footnotes in columnsets in only the first column. I haven't received an answer and found this http://skryb.info/m/ntg-context%40ntg.nl/45C100C2.5050500%40econ.muni.cz on Google, which is basically the same question and also unanswered. So I just thought I try again: I use a two columns columnsets layout and want to place the footnotes in the first column only. I tried \setupnotation[footnote][ location=firstcolumn] but this didn't work as expected it puts the footnotes into both columns. If it is not possible to do this, I need to know. I am using the current version of ConTeXt that comes with the MacTeX-2014 Distribution. Cheers, David PS: I am new to mailing lists like this, so I wasn't sure if I should post it again or wait. I'm sorry if I am too impatient.

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Subformula numbering problem
by Maggyero 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

The second formula has NO NUMBER (example taken from the ConTeXt Garden's Math/Display page): \starttext \startsubformulas[eq:1] \placeformula[eq:first] \startformula c^2 = a^2 + b^2 \stopformula \placeformula[eq:second] \startformula c^2 = a^2 + b^2 \stopformula \stopsubformulas Formula (\in[eq:1]) states the Pythagora's Theorem twice, once in (\in[eq:first]) and again in (\in[eq:second]). \stoptext

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8th ConTeXt Meeting, Bassenge-Boirs, Belgium
by Taco Hoekwater 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

Hi all, The main news compared to my previous message is that there is now a preliminary program online: http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2014/pr2014.pdf If you have not checked it out yet, have a look, see if there is anything that draws your fancy, and perhaps reconsider registering for the meeting. In any case, I wanted to remind you that registration for the 8th International Context Meeting is still open. http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2014 We are making a return visit to Jan @ 't Sjetootje, the same place where we had our fifth meeting in 2011. Those of you that were present in 2011 will remember that our host Jan was constantly busy cooking wonderful food for us. To celebrate our return visit, the theme for this year's meeting is: ConTeXt Cookery which means that we are planning for talks and tutorials on both culinary and programming recipes and / or cookbooks. Jan has promised to take care of a hands-on culinary workshop :) Further, we can promise a working internet connection, and also that there will not be any completely underground full day excursions. As it happens, Bassenge-Boirs is also the birth place of the official ConTeXt Group, so in a way we are going back to our "roots". Even if you cannot join us for the meeting, please consider becoming a member (if you are not already). The meeting proceedings are going to be published as the next issue of the Context Group journal, but there are more advantages to membership. See http://group.contextgarden.net/ for more information about the ConTeXt Group. We are looking forward to meeting you in Bassenge, Best regards, Taco Hoekwater on behalf of the organizing committee http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2014

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Distances between chapter and setion titles and text
by Robert Blackstone 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

Dear list, Is it possible, in mkiv, to fine-tune the distance between a chapter head and a section head, between the end of a section and the following section head, and between a section head and the beginning of the text? My problem is the following: In the revision of a thesis, to economize on processing times, I have done all corrections in the bodymatter, or even parts of it, using the setups of the entire project. But when I now add the front matter these above-mentioned distances have slightly increased, by 3 to 5 mm, with a rather devastating effect on the precise placement of large floats. At the beginning of a new chapter the difference is one textline (double line spacing), which does not seem a big deal but with nearly 500 pages of text it leads to nasty results. In my setups I have for the heads \setuphead[chapter][ header=empty, page={yes,header,right}, number=yes, alternative=middle, style=\tfa \bf, after={\blank[0.5cm]}, ] en \setuphead[section][ style=tfa, number=yes, alternative=left, indentnext=no ] Changing "after={\blank[0.5cm]}" to "after={\blank[0.1cm]}" or omitting it altogether did not have any effect. If the culprit is to be found in the Frontmatter, or its specific setups, what should I look for? Thanks in advance for any help. Best regards, Robert Blackstone

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