July 2015 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

reverse page order and reverse page numbering in one part of a book
by talazem＠fastmail.fm 24 Jul '15

24 Jul '15

Dear all, I am producing a book that is divided into two sections. The book is published in English, and thus it runs left to right. Part one is an academic study in English. Part two is a critical edition of an Arabic text. The book is exactly 100 pages long, with fifty pages going to the English study, and fifty pages to the Arabic edition. In Part One (which includes all the front matter of the book, such as the table of contents, etc.): the page ordering runs left-to-right, the pagination runs from 1 to 50, and the page numbers should be printed in Arabic numerals. However, in Part Two (the Arabic text): the page ordering should run right-to-left, the page numbers should run in “reverse” pagination (in which “page 1" of the critical edition begins at the “back” of the book), and the page numbers should be printed in Hindi numerals. In other words, the structure of the book’s pages would be as follows (ellipses used to jump): 1 2 3 … 48 49 50 ٥٠ ٤٩ ٤٨ … ٣ ٢ ١ I would like the Table of Contents then to look something like this: Forward . . . . . . v English Study . . . 1 Arabic Edition. . . ١ Index of names. . . ٥٠ So my question is: is this currently possible in ConTeXt, to produce a single PDF, with such a TOC, from one file? Or am I bringing on too much of a headache upon myself, and it is easier to produce two separate files — but if so, how would one produce a TOC that includes the parts and page numbers of both documents? Many thanks, and best wishes, Talal

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Critical editions with ConTeXt
by MANUEL GONZALEZ SUAREZ 24 Jul '15

24 Jul '15

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User-Defined Commands With Key-Value Options
by Joas Yannick 23 Jul '15

23 Jul '15

On 7/20/2105 11:28 AM Joas Yannick wrote: > > > On 7/20/2105 0:50 AM Hans Hagen wrote: > > So how would you like to use lua? Is the data stored in lua? > > Yes, I imagine that the data (for instance, the value of > the keys "number", "name", "abbreviation", "title", etc.) > is stored somewhere when the compilation process reads, say, > "\startbiblebook", and that they are available to define the > the formatting done by "\startbiblebook". > > Thank you. I have found this wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Commands_with_KeyVal_arguments But since I do not know Lua, I would appreciate that someone gets me started with my example. Many thanks, Yours sincerely.

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Illegal parameter number in definition
by juh 23 Jul '15

23 Jul '15

Hi all, I am totally new to ConTeXt. I am a long time LaTeX user and I got interested in ConTeXt by a posting from Pablo in the Pandoc mailing list. So he is to blame if you have to read silly questions from me in the future. ;-) To learn a bit more about ConTeXt I try to make an environment to typeset TEI-XML files from http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de (DTA) I ran into a problem with this XML from DTA: <head> <hi rendition="#g">Zehenter Brief.</hi> </head><lb/> <p><hi rendition="#in">S</hi>ie sind also mit mir darinn einig, und durch den Innhalt meiner I tried to map the rendition attribute to ConTeXt with this code: \startxmlsetups xml:teisetups \xmlsetsetup{#1}{*}{-} \xmlsetsetup{#1}{TEI|text|body|div|head|p|lb}{xml:*} \xmlsetsetup{#1}{hi[@rendition='#g']}{xml:hi} \stopxmlsetups The attribute of '#g' makes trouble. I get the following error message. tex error > error on line 5 in file tei-style.tex: ! Illegal parameter number in definition of \14>:xml:teisetups <to be read again> g <argument> ...lb}{xml:*}\xmlsetsetup {##1}{hi[@rendition='##g ']}{xml:hig} \syst_setups_start_xml_indeed ...1\expandafter {#3 } l.5 \stopxmlsetups 1 \startxmlsetups xml:teisetups 2 \xmlsetsetup{#1}{*}{-} 3 \xmlsetsetup{#1}{TEI|text|body|div|head|p|hi|lb}{xml:*} 4 \xmlsetsetup{#1}{hi[@rendition='#g']}{xml:hig} 5 >> \stopxmlsetups I think that I kind of understand the message. The hash '#' isn't allowed in this place. Is it possible to escape the hash somehow or to solve this issue in an other way? TIA juh -- Das ZEN von Pandoc Bücher und E-Books einfach und professionell produzieren http://www.amazon.de/Das-ZEN-von-Pandoc-professionell/dp/1505218799/ Paperback (232 Seiten) und E-Book

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issue with hyphenation in linenotes
by Pablo Rodriguez 23 Jul '15

23 Jul '15

Dear list (especially Hans, Thomas or Luigi), some time ago I reported (http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2013/076021.html) a bug with not hyphenated code in linenotes. Now I have an updated sample that seems to fix it: \setuppapersize[A8] \starttext \startlinenumbering This text shows a \startlinenote[one]{bariant H} variant \stoplinenote[one]. This text shows a \startlinenote[two]{bariant H}\prewordbreak variant\stoplinenote[two]. This text shows a \startlinenote[three]{bariant H}\prewordbreak variant\stoplinenote[three]. \stoplinenumbering \stoptext It seems that locating \prewordbreak before the text to be hyphenated (and not after it) enables hyphenation in body. Is this a bug or is it actually the way \prewordbreak should work? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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can't run external lua library
by DesdeChaves 23 Jul '15

23 Jul '15

I'm trying to reuse a old library to generate poisson numbers. In old context versions the library works fine, but in the current beta (ConTeXt ver: 2015.07.16 13:30 MKIV beta fmt: 2015.7.23 int: english/english) the execution fails. This code works perfectly in lua 5.3 but not in luatex. why? \startluacode require "meurandist" ARRAY_SIZE=3 arr=meurandist.new_int(ARRAY_SIZE) meurandist.rpoisson(arr,ARRAY_SIZE,4) for i=0,ARRAY_SIZE-1 do print(meurandist.int_getitem(arr,i)) end \stopluacode Thanks a lot Jorge

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issue with mailbox.org
by Pablo Rodriguez 22 Jul '15

22 Jul '15

Dear list, I have tried to reply to the message from Jan Urlich three times and it was rejected those three times, because of the following error: "ntg-context(a)ntg.nl": SMTP error from remote server after RCPT command: host: mx-1.mf.surf.net 5.7.1 82.165.159.42: on real-time blacklist zen.spamhaus.org Sorry, but I cannot negotiate which servers or IP addresses my mail provider uses. I don’t know whether the rejection is exclusively related to mailbox.org or it will happen with all my replies to any message from the list. Is there any way to whitelist my address for the mailing list? Sorry for the problems, but I have already experienced this and I would like to fix it forever. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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fonts not found with newotf
by Pablo Rodriguez 22 Jul '15

22 Jul '15

Hans, as reported in a previous message, using beta from 2015.07.16 13:30, enabling the newotf module in the following sample makes the Mechanica fonts not being loaded in the final PDF document: \usemodule[newotf] \definefontfamily [txfont] [tt] [Mechanica] [tf=file:Mechanica.otf, it=features:slanted, sc=file:MechanicaSC.otf] \setupbodyfont[txfont] \starttext \tt Test {\it amfe} {\sc amfe} \stoptext The attached newotf-error.log contains the error message. Since both font files were generated with FontForge, I would like to know what they are missing to report upstream to the FontForge developers. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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SyncTeX (TeXworks) - \enabledirectives[system.synctex] (now with attachments)
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 22 Jul '15

22 Jul '15

Hello, two questions related to SyncTeX (and maybe on TeXworks): 1. The following code: ---- \enabledirectives[system.synctex] \starttext Hello! \startluacode % line 6 context("Something") \stopluacode \stoptext ---- doesn't produce SyncTeX file (SyncTeX.synctex.gz). When I compile the file with "context.exe --synctex" option, the file is produced. Does it mean that "\enabledirectives[system.synctex]" is deprecated? 2. In the code above, text "Hello!" is generated in "normal TeX scope" whilst "Something" is generated from within Lua. When I click "Jump to source" from TeXworks editor and previewer, jumping from "Something" works well and goes to the source "SyncTeX.mkiv" correctly. "Jumping to source" from "Something" yields "Cannot read file <directory-of-the-source-file>" error (see attached picture). I don't know whether this relates to ConTeXt or rather TeXworks; for the case it should relate to ConTeXt, would it be possible generate an anchor (e.g.) to the nearest encapsulating \startluacode (if present; or \ctxlua, \cldcontext and so), so that "Jump to source" over "Something" would jump to \startluacode on "line 6"? 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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Scheizzdiewandan
by Peter Rolf 22 Jul '15

22 Jul '15

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/nigel-richards-scrabble-weltmeister-kann-kei…

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