January 2016 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

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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Troubles installing on windows
by Vya. Y. 28 Mar '16

28 Mar '16

> looks like a new binary and old context .. .maybe something went wrong in the update? Hans Thank you, Hans. Where can I download the latest ConTeXt, with Windows binaries? I cannot find it on Pragma Ade and, unfortunatelly, many links in the garden are broken. Regards, Vyatcheslav

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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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Re: [NTG-context] Protrusion cancellation by index term
by Hans Hagen 21 Mar '16

21 Mar '16

On 2/22/2014 2:38 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: > On 2014-02-22 Jan Tosovsky wrote: >> >> when a punctuated phrase appears at the beginning of the line, it is >> not protruded correctly when preceded by an index term. >> >> ... \index{foo}>Bar< ... >> >> A minimal example is available at >> http://drifted.in/other/sample.tex >> >> I cannot place the space character between these two parts (which >> helps) as I sometimes need to join this and the previous phrase with >> the non-breaking space. >> > > It is more serious issue than expected. Consider next two variants: > > (1) sentence, \index{primary}>Primary< > (2) sentence,\index{primary} >Primary< > > When the line is broken after a comma: > ad 1) starting guillemet is not protruded > ad 2) ending comma is not protruded > > When \index is surrounded by spaces from both sides, the space is rendered > at the beginning of the next line (resulting in 'indenting'). > > :-S > > I'd be grateful for ignoring any non document content preceding punctuation > to avoid its influence on protrusion. well, think of it like this: [something]<text>[something else] with [something] being bound to < ... so that is then the boundary of the word, not < ... i might know a solution (but such -major- changes have to fit into my schedule) 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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Setting expansion depth limit for metapost
by Michal Suszko 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

I'm preparing quite long presentation -- nearly 3000 sides, 900 figures (500 distinct PNG files). I'm using ConTeXt MkIV installed using minimals (2010.03.12 19:49). Recently I'm hitting MetaPost capacity limit on expansion depth: !mplib : mp terminal: ! MetaPost capacity exceeded, sorry [expansion depth=10000]. Increasing expand_depth in texmf.cnf and regenerating formats with context --make doesn't help. expansion depth is still at 10000 in error message. texmf.cnf in texmf-local I've changed is reported by context as first one in log line starting with "mkiv lua stats : used config path" What am I missing? Michal

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Supported architectures for minimals (any ppc users out there?)
by Mojca Miklavec 06 Feb '16

06 Feb '16

Hi, I would suggest dropping support for linux-ppc for the ConTeXt distribution unless somebody objects. I'm surprised about the number of ppc users on Mac (and would be curious to get more off-list feedback from those still using it). TeX Live planned to drop support this year, but it seems that it's staying for now. We are currently cross-compiling the binaries, but at the moment both luajittex and metapost compilations seem to be broken. We also don't seem to have any kfreebsd or sparc-solaris users, but as long as their builders enjoy supplying the binaries, that's fine by me ;) On the other hand I need to sit down one day and fix support for cygwin. I'm sorry that this didn't happen yet. Mojca

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which is the best/right element for elements in cover and title pages?
by Pablo Rodriguez 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Dear list, I have a template to generate book cover and title page for different documents. A sample of the output may be found at https://github.com/ousia/from-pandoc-to-context/blob/master/doc/from-pandoc… (first two printed pages). Right now, their layout is hardcoded, such as for the title page (minimal version): \starttitlepagemakeup \vfill {\itd\BookTitle}\par}\blank[big] {\resetbreakpoints\itb\setupinterlinespace \BookSubtitle']}\par}\blank[3*big] {\sc \TheAuthor}{\\}} \vfill \PublishingDate \vfill \Publisher \stoptitlepagemakeup I want to be abole to customize this. But I don’t know which is the right element for those items. I mean, a head would be meaningless here for book title, subtitle, author, publisher and release date. They appear only once in the document. Which is the right element for those items? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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ConTeXt vs Beamer
by Saša Janiška 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Hello, I have just checked that my first post to this list was more than 10yrs ago (end of 2002). Then I was working on some full-sized books and ended up with LyX/LaTex. Later, had few attempts to switch to ConTeXt, but as a result I reduced even my LyX/LaTeX usage and was using light markups like rst/AsciiDoc for my writing needs without higher-quality typesetting. Yesterday I had to help my wife to put together some medicine-related presentation for the meeting at her working place and used LyX/LaTeX with Beamer class. Considering that there might be need to do such thing more often in the future as well as possibility that I might have to produce lot of presentations for my public lectures/workshops based on philosophy (iow. no need of math), I am again in the position to consider ConTeXt, but this time mostly for presentations. I'm (well) aware of ConTeXt's advantage in the sense of being complete package without clashing of different packages which usually happens in LaTeX world, I wonder if someone can give some piece of advice to learn and/or switch ConTeXt for preparing presentations instead of learning lot of LaTeX packages? How does ConTeXt compare for the purpose vs LaTeX/Beamer? I'm on Linux (running Debian Sid) and use Vim as my primary editor so wonder if ConTeXt users recommend to e.g. prepare drafts of their documents like rst/AsciiDoc/markdown and then convert them into ConTeXt with tool(s) like Pandoc? Sincerely, Gour -- Therefore, without being attached to the fruits of activities, one should act as a matter of duty, for by working without attachment one attains the Supreme.

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Hyphenation list ignored
by Francisco Gracia 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

This is to report a problem I am presently experiencing with Context. The symptom is that the contents of an hyphenation list, implemented as an outstanding file, I use for typesetting a lating text are no longer taken into account when performing the hyphenation operations. This happens with the current version of Context and apparently has been operative during the last month or two. I have checked older jobs performed in preceding months and the process worked as it should. Nothing has been altered in the way of working on this side or in the running script. Kind regards Francisco

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RTL tips and tricks
by Mohammad Hossein Bateni 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

I started this page on the Wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/RTL The plan is to fill it gradually with guidelines of how to do things in right-to-left and bidirectional documents and will include information on what works and what does not. Feel free to add your tips and tricks and point out things that do not work (yet). —MHB

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