July 2015 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Adjusting Kerning/Spacing between Letter
by Malte Stien 27 May '16

27 May '16

Hi, I am trying to typeset some strings in {\tt ...}, but they turn out to be pretty wide. So, I would like to compress those bits of text a little. Any hints on how I could do that locally, that is without adjusting the entire font. Thank you, Malte.

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Bugs with minimals 2015.05.24 12:42
by david.boerschlein＠juno.com 24 May '16

24 May '16

(*) tex error > error on line 1 in file /var/www/vhosts/door43.org/tools/nototest.tex: ! Undefined control sequence l.1 \useregime [utf] 1 >> \useregime[utf] 2 \enableregime[utf] Version: 2015.05.24 12:42 (*) Upgrading with "first-setup.sh" deleted all the third-party fonts which we had spent months installing. (*) Installing the "context=current" installed a "beta" version of luatex: context --version mtx-context | current version: 2015.05.24 12:42 luatex --version This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.80.0 (TeX Live 2015) (rev 5238) (*) http://tug.org/pracjourn/2005-2/schmitz/schmitz.pdf (none of the commands texfont, ttf2afm, updmap, come with the latest ConTeXt minimals 2015.05.24 12:42) [Is this really the up-to-date documentation on how to install a true-type font?] It does not seem to discuss what to do if all we have is an ".otf" but no ".ttf" (*) Documentation request: typescripts for "ttf" and "otf" files which may or may not have bold, italics, etc with fallback-families and Unicode ranges and separate files for Unicode-ranges (e.g., Google Noto fonts). David Boerschlein (214) 412-3275 home office land (585) 278-4687 cell www.linkedin.com/in/davidboerschlein ____________________________________________________________ Old School Yearbook Pics View Class Yearbooks Online Free. Search by School & Year. Look Now! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/556da14029abe214072e9st01duc

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Support for Optional Content Groups
by Chris Chapman 22 May '16

22 May '16

I am new to ConTeXt (coming from LaTeX), and am really impressed. Great work! I am working on a document that has layers that I want to be screen-only, similar in approach to this: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/167846/implementing-full-page-screen… I am assuming that Optional Content Groups would be the best way to do this. How would I set something up like this in ConTeXt/LuaTeX? I know I could make a screen-only version and a print version of the output pdf, but I want to have my cake and eat it too ;) Thanks in advance, Chris Chapman

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new features
by Hans Hagen 22 May '16

22 May '16

Hi, (mostly for Thomas) In the next beta: When you include files in another file (using xmlinclude) we now register what gets included. There are two new commands: \xmlinclusion{#1} : the current inclusion \xmlinclusions{#1} : a list of inclusions the first one backtracks till it find a name and the second one will locate the root if needed. This option can be handy for tracing (i.e. seeing where input comes from). Another addition is that \definemode[something][keep] define an undefined mode; the keep makes sure that the already set value is kept (another option is 'yes'). Using defined modes (that is, set with: \enabledmode, \disablemode or \definemode) can be tested about twice as fast as undefined modes which can make a small difference when modes are tested lots of times. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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bibliography tool
by Gour 22 May '16

22 May '16

I was browsing docs in the contextgarden but not sure what is available for handling bibliography in ConTeXt today? Afaict, RefTeX is for LaTeX only, I recall there was(is). (My dev environment is Debian Linux/Emacs/AUCTeX.) Sincerely, Gour -- Whatever action a great man performs, common men follow. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.

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MacOsX Mavericks and Luatex
by Pierre Bovet 19 May '16

19 May '16

Hi all! It seems that Luatex (0.76 2013/04/05) don't works with Mavericks? Thank's in advanced for your help and testimonies Best wishes -- Pierre Bovet Documentaliste technique | Chargé de sécurité CFST Tel : +41 (0) 26 401 61 56 Courriel : pierre67(a)me.com

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Overlays as background in textbackground
by Marco Patzer 18 May '16

18 May '16

Hi, overlays are not displayed when used as a background for textbackground. Is this a bug or are overlays not supported? \defineoverlay [myoverlay] [\ssd Foo] \definetextbackground [mybackgroundColour] [background=color, backgroundcolor=gray] \definetextbackground [mybackgroundOverlay] [background=myoverlay] \starttext %% overlay works \framed [background=myoverlay, align=normal] {\input knuth\par} %% background=color works \startmybackgroundColour \input knuth \stopmybackgroundColour %% overlay is missing \startmybackgroundOverlay \input knuth \stopmybackgroundOverlay \stoptext Marco

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halign broken
by Meer, H. van der 16 May '16

16 May '16

There seems something very much amiss with \halign in later ConTeXt versions. This typesets fine in PlainTeX and is an example taken from a textbook. \tabskip=1em\halign{% \hfil\it#\hfil&\hfil#\hfil&#&\hfil#\crA&B&C&D\cr} Also in contextversion 2012.05.30 (from a TeXlive distribution). But it fails at least in ConTeXt ver: 2013.03.20 10:34 MKIV and in ConTeXt ver: 2013.04.16 12:08 MKIV beta with the following error ! Only one # is allowed per tab. system > tex > error on line 5 in file fixedwidth.tex: Only one # is allowed per tab ... 1 \starttext 2 contextversion=\contextversion\par 3 \tabskip=1em 4 \halign{% 5 >> \hfil\it#\hfil&\hfil#\hfil&#&\hfil#\cr 6 A&B&C&D\cr} 7 \stoptext l.5 \hfil\it#\hfil&\hfil# \hfil&#&\hfil#\cr Why? How primitive it may be, I would like to use \halign now and then. Hans van der Meer

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Re: [NTG-context] Hanging punctuation misalignment in footnotes
by Wolfgang Schuster 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Am 22.02.2014 um 01:25 schrieb Jan Tosovsky <j.tosovsky(a)email.cz>: > On 2014-02-22 Jan Tosovsky wrote: >> >> when hanging in footnotes is enabled and the starting character is a >> punctuation, it is not protruded. However, the same character in the >> footnote body works fine. When both cases are close each other, it >> looks weird, see the screenshot: >> >> http://drifted.in/other/footnote_alignment.png >> >> Would it be possible make this behaviour uniform - either do not >> protrude it >> on the starting (left) edge or protrude it everywhere? >> > > A minimal example is available at > http://drifted.in/other/sample.tex There are two things which prevent the protrusion of the opening quote at the begin of the paragraph. One of these can be avoided with a change in the setup for footnotes but not the other without destroying the layout of the footnote text. One problem is the way how context places the footnote number in front of the text, by default context uses the \llap command to move the number into the left margin but this prevents also the protrusion of the opening quote. You can avoid this problem when you change the footnote setup to \setupnotation[footnote][alternative=margin]. <example> \definefontfeature[default][default][expansion=quality,protrusion=quality] \setupbodyfont[modern] \setupalign[hanging] \showframe[text][text] \starttext »Text« \noindent\hbox to 0pt{}»Text« \noindent\hbox to 0pt{\hss}»Text« \stoptext </example> The second problem which prevents the opening quote to protrude are the struts which are added by context at the begin and end of the footnote content and there is no way to disable them because they are needed to have proper spacing between the individual footnote texts on the same page. <example> \definefontfeature[default][default][expansion=quality,protrusion=quality] \setupbodyfont[modern] \setupalign[hanging] \showframe[text][text] \starttext »Text« \strut »Text« \stoptext </example> In the example below where I took care of these two problems (don’t take care of \begstrut in this way in your real document because it will cause many problems, it’s just for educational purpose) to show you this is what caused the unwanted output. <example> \definefontfeature[default][default][expansion=quality,protrusion=quality] \setupbodyfont[modern] \setupalign[hanging] \showframe[text][text] \setupnotation[footnote][alternative=margin,align=hanging] \starttext \let\begstrut\relax First Footnote.\footnote{»\input{ward}«} Second Footnote.\footnote{»\input{ward}«} \stoptext </example> Wolfgang

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metafun
by Herbert Voss 24 Mar '16

24 Mar '16

It is a hard job to understand how all works ... I tried to create the first example of the documentation "Page 257 Anchors and layers", but failed with mkii and iv. The page is created, but without the graphical elements. Not using \startbuffer--\stopbuffer makes no difference. MTXrun | current version: 2010.07.30 11:35 Herbert \starttext \section {Anchors and layers} \startbuffer[a] \setMPpositiongraphic{X-1}{mypos:arrow}{to=X-2} \setMPpositiongraphic{X-2}{mypos:arrow}{to=X-3} \stopbuffer \startbuffer[b] In a previous section we saw that some \hpos {X-1} {words} were \hpos {X-2} {circled} and connected by an \hpos {X-3} {arrow}. As with most things in \CONTEXT, marking these words is separated from declaring what to do with those words. This paragraph is keyed in as: \stopbuffer \getbuffer[a,b] \stoptext

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