February 2016 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Laundry symbols (now: altered picture)
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 02 Jan '22

02 Jan '22

Hello ConTeXters, is there a way how to get laundry symbols into ConTeXt? - The image is copied from "The Comprehensive LATEX Symbol List", Scott Pakin. TIA. 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: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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Re: [NTG-context] [Context] Xindy
by Gour 22 Jul '19

22 Jul '19

>>>>> "Mojca" == Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists(a)gmail.com> writes: Mojca> Hello Gour, This is not a question for this mailing list, but Mojca> rather for Hans himself. OK. Mojca> ConTeXt doesn't use makeindex, so I don't really understand your Mojca> complaints about makeindex. Well, I mentioned 'makeindex' in the context of the tool which cannot properly handle Unicode, afaik. Mojca> What features exactly do you miss? I'm not sure if indexing-feature in ConTeXt allow me to use English, Croatian and Sanskrit diacritics (not Devanagari) all in one document and define that I want e.g. that \'{s}, \d{s} has to be sorted under 'Š' ? In short, xindy allows one to define his own sort-rules. Mojca> It makes no sense to discuss distributing something before it can Mojca> be used with ConTeXt.) Right, that's why also asked "Now I'm interested how is support for Xindy in ConTeXt" hoping that the context-distribution list has enough knowledgeable people able to answer it. Excuse me for the noise...redirecting to other list... Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Zagreb, Croatia | GPG key: D19DB797 ----------------------------------------------------------------

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Feature request: \digits command
by Morgan Brassel 29 Apr '18

29 Apr '18

Hi everyone, The \digits command is really great when it comes to typeset numbers in different languages. However, I miss one functionality from the numprint package in latex: when you type for example $e-5$, you get 10^{-5} (with no dot in front of it). Would it be possible to add an option to \digits to reproduce this? Best wishes, Morgan

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Label problems with \definelabel and \defineenumeration, in and out of footnotes
by Rik Kabel 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

The example below documents the problems. In short, \definelabel suppresses paragraph indent when the label is at the beginning of a paragraph and fails to print the label or generate references with alternative=inmargin (or inright, or inleft) when in a footnote. \defineenumeration fails to work in a footnote. \setupindenting[yes,small] \definelabel [ID][ %\defineenumeration[ID][ text=, after=, before=, headcolor=red, alternative=inright, ] \starttext \starttitle[title={Label testing}] \startsubject[title={Problems with \tex{definelabel}}] This is a test. It is only a test. \ID[id1]This paragraph should be indented, with an ID number in the margin. When \tex{ID} is placed at the beginning of the paragraph, as it is here, the paragraph is not indented. This paragraph has a footnote.\footnote{% \ID[id2]The ID number is not printed in the margin with {\tt alternative=inright}, {\tt alternative=inmargin}, or {\tt alternative=inleft}. Without any {\tt alternative} the ID number is printed where the macro appears. The positioning is unsatisfactory using {\tt alternative=right}.% } The footnote has an ID number which should be printed in the right margin. This \ID[id3]paragraph has an ID, but it is not at the beginning of the paragraph and the paragraph is properly indented. The value of the ID number indicates that \tex{ID} in the footnote of the previous paragraph incremented the associated counter, but the failure of the references (\tex{in} and \tex{at}) to id2 suggests that there are other problems. \dorecurse{3}{ ID id#1 is \in[id#1] and is on page \at[id#1].\par} References for footnotes are generated without \tt{alternative=}. \stopsubject \startsubject[title={Problems with \tex{defineenumeration}}] When \tex{definelabel} is changed to \tex{defineenumeration}, the example fails to compile. It does not properly handle the \tex{ID} in the footnote, complaining of an extra \} or forgotten \tex{endgroup}. \stopsubject \stoptitle \stoptext -- Rik

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Bug: Paragraph formatting on new page after placefigure
by Andreas Becker 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

ConTeXt version: 2015.08.21 19:57 In the PDF output of the following code, the first text line on the second page only spans half the textwidth. However, below the figure, the text should span the whole width. \starttext \placefigure[right][]{caption} { \externalfigure[nop][width=0.5\textwidth,height=19cm] } \input lorem \input lorem \input lorem \stoptext Regards, Andreas Becker

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Problem with definelabel and footnotes
by Rik Kabel 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

I have a document with hundreds of labels generated by \definelabel. They are used to index quotations in the text. Some of these occur in notes. Previously I had all such notes at the end of the book, as endnotes, but an editor requested a version with the notes as traditional footnotes. When the notes with labels appear in footnotes, the labels are not printed. The MWE below demonstrates the problem. I would expect to see a red 2 at the end of the first line of the footnote. I have tried to use \defineenumeration instead of \definelabel, but I cannot get a comparable result to what I have with definelabel. Is this a bug in the footnote typesetting, or a problem with my expectations? \setuppapersize[A6] \definelabel [Qi][text=,alternative=inright,headcolor=red] \definenote [pagenote] \setupnotation [pagenote][way=bypage,numberconversion=set 2] \definenote [endnote] \setupnotation [endnote][way=bytext,location=none,conversion=numbers] \starttext {\Qi}An index in the margin.\par Text with a numbered endnote with an index\endnote{% {\Qi}The numbered endnote with its index. The numbered endnote with its index. The numbered endnote with its index.% } and a marked pagenote with an index.\pagenote{% {\Qi}The marked pagenote, but where is the index? The marked pagenote, but where is the index? The marked pagenote, but where is the index?% }\par \page The endnote follows.\par \placenotes[endnote] \stoptext -- Rik Kabel

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\showmathfontcharacters ?
by Meer, H. van der 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

Why do I get an error on \starttext \showmathfontcharacters \stoptext When that macro is defined in s-mat-10.mkiv as \unexpanded\def\showmathfontcharacters {\dodoubleempty\doshowmathfontcharacters} ConTeXt ver: 2013.04.16 12:08 MKIV beta fmt: 2013.4.19 int: english/english ! Undefined control sequence. 9 >> \showmathfontcharacters Hans van der Meer

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MKIV caption separator, revisited
by Rik Kabel 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

Has any progress been made in the past few years implementing modifiable separators for captions under MKIV? This was raised as an issue by (at least) Mojca Miklavec in December 2010 (http://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context%40ntg.nl/msg51542.html) and by Andy Thomas 18 months later (http://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context%40ntg.nl/msg63937.html) (Their issues with stopper have been resolved. In MKIV it is numberstopper.) Here is an MWE demonstrating the problem. It compiles cleanly, but the separator remains the default period. With MKII, it generates a figure with a hyphen and not a period. \setupcaptions[separator=-] \setupexternalfigures[location=default] \starttext \chapter{Chaptername} \section{Sectionname} \placefigure[here][fig:1]{Caption}{\externalfigure[cow.pdf]} \in{See Figure}{.}[fig:1] \stoptext -- Rik Kabel

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Last version standalone ConTeXt issue.
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

Hello ConTeXist. In the latest version ConTeXt it stopped working my macros which contents function he once advised me Taco. It is low level lua code. Can anyone advise me what the problem is, eventually. how to replace Lua code in my function to make it work again? Macros worked at least 6 years and now crashes. Here is my function: function thirddata.handlecsv.texmacroisdefined(macroname) -- check whether macroname macro is defined in ConTeXt -- function is used to test whether the user has defined the macro \macroname. If not, it needs to define any default value if token.csname_name(token.create(macroname)) == macroname then return true else return false end end Is there any alternative (ConTeXt like), which is should be possible use in Lua code? Thanx Jaroslav Hajtmar

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problem with \startcolumns[distance=0pt]
by Peter Münster 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

Hi, The distance is not 0pt here (MKIV): --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- \starttext \startcolumns[distance=0pt] \input tufte \stopcolumns \stoptext --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- -- Peter

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