ntg-context November 2016

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error with floats in xtables with defined width
by Michael Eidenbenz 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

Hello, this M(not)WE gives me the following error: You can't use `\prevdepth' in restricted horizontal mode Is this a bug? I'm running: 2016.11.24 12:05 MKIV beta thanks Michael \starttext \startxtable \startxrow % \startxcell \startxcell[width=10cm] % this leads to an error \placefigure[][]{}{\externalfigure[][]} \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtable \stoptext

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Different text versions in columns?
by Henning Hraban Ramm 27 Nov '16

27 Nov '16

Hi, this is related to the current thread about TwoColumns, but different: For changes in bylaws or similar legal texts, I need to typeset the old and new version side by side, while paragraphs should start at the same height, different lengths of paragraphs to be balanced with whitespace. I’d like to have both versions on one page (i.e. in columns). That means, the streams module is not suitable, if it would work in MkIV at all. Is there a better solution than using a table? (And which one is best?) Greetlings, Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD

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Re: [NTG-context] TwoColumns in two different languages, with alternate text on even and odd page.
by Jean-Pierre Delange 27 Nov '16

27 Nov '16

Dear List, I've made 2 mistakes : 1) a false link to a PDF text; 2) Giving a large PDF text. There is the link to Petr Březina paper on TeX and bilingual editions, that I've previously mentionned : http://mujweb.cz/petr-brezina/libelli/bilingue.pdf Certainly, as Wolfgang put it, there is probably some ways to achieve the goal mentionned in the title of this thread : 2 parallel texts synchronized on the same page, in 2 different languages. Maybe through the "stream" macros. JP ----- Mail original ----- De: "Jean-Pierre Delange" <adeimantos(a)free.fr> À: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Envoyé: Dimanche 27 Novembre 2016 12:27:31 Objet: Re: [NTG-context] TwoColumns in two different languages, with alternate text on even and odd page. Dear List, I fear I made a mistake with this paper's address : https://zimbra.free.fr/service/home/~/bilingue.pdf?auth=co&loc=fr&id=253997… Please, read it as attached file. Best, JP ----- Mail original ----- De: "Jean-Pierre Delange" <adeimantos(a)free.fr> À: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Envoyé: Samedi 26 Novembre 2016 18:51:11 Objet: Re: [NTG-context] TwoColumns in two different languages, with alternate text on even and odd page. Hi Arthur, Hans, Pablo and other brave ConteXT users ! The only development I've found on the subject matter of this thread is from Petr Březina (but in French), with some examples of historical printing material (like Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine and M. Tullius Cicero, Pro A. Licinio Archia poeta oratio. Rede für den Dichter A. Licinius Archias. Lateinisch / Deutsch. Übersetzt und herausgegeben von Otto Schönberger, bibliographisch ergänzte Ausgabe 1990, printed in Germany 1996, Reclam, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-15-001268-6. Petr Březina works with pure TeX, in order to imitate F. Didot in printing a bilingual text on 2 parallel paragraphs (see "Tâche n° 4", within his test, page 12). At the end of this file, there are some examples (see specially pages 26,27,28) : https://zimbra.free.fr/service/home/~/bilingue.pdf?auth=co&loc=fr&id=253997… ----- Mail original ----- De: "Arthur Reutenauer" <arthur.reutenauer(a)normalesup.org> À: "Mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Envoyé: Vendredi 25 Novembre 2016 23:33:59 Objet: Re: [NTG-context] TwoColumns in two different languages, with alternate text on even and odd page. On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 01:16:28PM +0100, Jean-Pierre Delange wrote: > I make a statement on a part of the Arthur's reply (" there are no real-life examples of documents that use it") : in fact, there are rare examples of such printing materials : scholar editing and printing of Ancient texts are mainly (if I am right) such printing material (including Ancient Armenian or Georgian liturgic hymns). That’s not what I meant. There is an experimental mechanism in ConTeXt called streams that could be part of the solution to your problem, but there are no publicly available documents that make use of it. The commands for creating and managing streams are in the file page-str.mkiv; there are short examples at the end. I mention this because this is typically the kind of issue that need serious input from users in order to become a meaningful feature. Best, Arthur ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________

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Wrtiting in two languages
by Ursula Hermann 26 Nov '16

26 Nov '16

Hy evreybody! If i write a text in acient greek and in german side by side, how can I do this? The mainlanguage should be german . But is that the right way if i wright: \starttext Hier bin ich and then i write side by side \startgreek and\stopgreek \stoptext ? Thanks for helping Uschi

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copy & paste source code from documents
by Tobias Berndt 26 Nov '16

26 Nov '16

Dear List, currently, I have to compose technical documents with a lot of source code in it. There're readers demands for a way to copy&paste this source code directly from those documents into their terminals. I tried ConTeXt’s attachment functionality, it is … ok. But most people don’t like files attatched to PDFs. Moreover, they must open it in an editor before getting contents in terminals. So, is there any possibility in ConTeXt/Lua a document reader can click on a source code statement and the content of an external file (the plain code, without any typesetting) will be loaded into the clipboard, so that they can paste this plain source code into their terminal programs to use it directly? Any help is welcome, Tobias

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first and last note in page
by Pablo Rodriguez 26 Nov '16

26 Nov '16

Hans, I have the following sample: \setuppagenumbering[A6] \setupheadertexts[{\getmarking[chapter]}] \definesectionblock [whatcomeslast] [lastmatter] [number=no] \setupsectionblock [lastmatter] [page=no, after=\page] \setupnote [footnote] [location=text] \starttext \chapter{Knuth} \dorecurse{50}{\input knuth\footnote{\input zapf}} \chapter{Notes}\placefootnotes \stoptext Is there any way to have the first and last footnote number in header text, so that it will be "Notes 5 to 10"? I think something like \firstreferenceinpage[footnote] and \lastreferenceinpage[footnote] would make sense here. (This could be also applied to \firstreferenceinpage[linenumber] and \lastreferenceinpage[linenumber].) Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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startxtable, stopxtable in macro
by Michael Eidenbenz 25 Nov '16

25 Nov '16

why does this produce an TeX capacity exeeded error? thanks Michael \define\startTable{\startxtable} \define\stopTable{\stopxtable} \starttext \startTable \startxrow \startxcell hello \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopTable \stoptext

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gridline question
by Csikos Bela 24 Nov '16

24 Nov '16

Dear list members: I use \setuplayout[grid=yes] option in my document to snap lines to gridlines. But I don't want figure text to be snapped to grids. Figure text is typeset in smaller fonts and the lineskip becomes too big. How can I turn snap to grid off for a block of text or for figures or figure legends? Here is an example: \setuplayout[grid=yes] %\showgrid \setupcaptions[location=bottom,width=fit,align=last,headstyle={\tfxx},style={\tfxx}] \starttext \input ward \input tufte \placefigure{An example figure. \input ward }{\framed[width=0.5\textwidth]{A figure}} \input zapf \stoptext Thank you in advance, bcsikos

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Strange behaviour of itemize inside tabulate
by Willi Egger 21 Nov '16

21 Nov '16

Hello, I have the following minimal example % \setupitemgroup % [itemize] % [each] % [autointro,packed] % [symbol=2] \starttext \starttabulate[|l|p|] \NC \bf Druk procedé \NC \bf Opmerking \NC\NR \NC Offset \NC \strut weinig problemen als onverpakt\crlf \NC\NR \NC Digitaal \NC beduidend lager i.v.m. warmte fixatie. \startitemize \startitem zo snel mogelijk weer verpakken na het printen. \stopitem \stopitemize\par \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stoptext When not uncommenting the setupitemgroup the tabulate appears as expected. However with the setupitemgroup enabled the row containing the itemize is shifted up and overlays the first row… Do I miss something? Thank you for looking at this. Kind regards Willi

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Problem with setuptagging and ebgaramond font
by Rik Kabel 21 Nov '16

21 Nov '16

This was submitted over a year ago, but probably got lost in the run-up to the 2015 annual meeting. It is still a problem with ConTeXt ver: 2016.11.18 22:20 MKIV beta fmt: 2016.11.19 int: english/english luajittex, 1.0.1. I am happy to provide a pdf and log file, or other traces, if that helps. %% When tagging state=start and the font is ebgaramond, %% no hyphens are printed at word breaks. %% %% When tagging state=start and the font is libertine, %% or any font other than ebgaramond that I have tried, %% hyphens are printed at word breaks. %% %% When tagging is not started and the font is ebgaramond, %% hyphens _are_ printed at word breaks. %% \setuptagging[state=start]% remove this line for comparison \setupbodyfont[ebgaramond]% \setupbodyfont[libertine] \starttext \hsize7cm \input zapf \par \input zapf \par \input zapf \par \input zapf \par \input zapf \par \input zapf \par \stoptext Bug, or error on my part? -- Rik

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