March 2016 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Greek letter fall back for math
by Alan Bowen 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

Assuming that it is possible, I have been trying to substitute the Greek letters of my main font for those used in the math font. (if it works, it should look better on the page than what I have now.) So, what have I missed/messed up in the following? \definefontfamily[mainface][serif][Brill][ [protrusion=quality, expansion=quality, mode=node, force=yes, ] \definefallbackfamily[mainface][mm][TeX Gyre Pagella][preset=math:digitsnormal,features=f:oldstyle] \definefallbackfamily[mainface][mm][Brill][range=0391-03A9,03B1-03C9] \definefontfamily[mainface][mm][TeXGyre Termes Math] \setupbodyfont[mainface,36pt] \starttext \emph{λ α μ β δ α} \m{λαμβδα} 0123456780 \m{0123456780} \stoptext Alan

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in next beta
by Hans Hagen 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

\starttext \setuplistalternative [c] [filler=symbol, symbol=\hbox to .25em{\periodcentered}, symcolor=darkred, symstyle=\bf] \startsubject[title=Contents] \placelist[section][criterium=all,alternative=c] \stopsubject \startsection[title=D. Ward] \input ward \stopsection \startsection[title=E.R. Tufte] \input tufte \stopsection \stoptext -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Apply a start/stop command pair to certain subsections
by Tom Harrop 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

Hello, I'm a new Context user, and I have a question about conditional formatting of paragraphs. I'm typsetting a CV. I am using pandoc to generate the .tex file from Markdown before compiling the pdf with context. Because pandoc inserts the body of the document from one variable ($body), I would like to avoid using e.g. \startmycommand and then \stopmycommand to modify individual subsections. What I can do from Markdown is tag the headings, so that (for example) the "Publications" subsection starts as "\subsection[pubs]{Publications}". I would like to know if there is a way to automatically apply a start/stop command pair to the "pubs" subsection(s), or if it better to do this with an external script that modifies the .tex file before I call context. Below is an example where I can get the output I'm looking for (paragraphs in the "pubs" subsection have a hanging indent) by defining a start/stop command pair and manually applying it to the "pubs" subsection. If anyone has any tips to apply this automatically to the "pubs" subsection(s) but not the "text" subsections, I'd appreciate it! I have searched the wiki, read through the "Context: an excursion" document and looked around in the mail archive and stackexchange, but I didn't find exactly what I want. Many thanks for reading, Tom Harrop ---Example below--- \definestartstop [negindent] [ before={% \startnarrower[left]% \setupindenting[-\leftskip,yes,first]% \setuphead[subsection][indentnext=yes]% }, after=\stopnarrower, ] \starttext \subsection[text]{Normal text} I would like the text in this subsection to appear without indents. In the following subsection I need hanging indents. \startnegindent \subsection[pubs]{Publications} Jaynes, Julian. {\os 1990}. {\em The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind}. New York City: Houghton Mifflin Company. Pye, David. {\os 1995}. {\em The Nature and Art of Workmanship}. London: The Herbert Press. Persson, Tomas. {\os 2008}. {\em Pictorial Primates: A Search for Iconic Abilities in Great Apes}. Lund: Lund University Cognitive Studies. \stopnegindent \subsection[text]{More text} This subsection should be back to normal. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. \stoptext

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ConTeXt installation and configuration on Win 10 x64
by L.S.-Soc&Gam 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

i downloaded ConTeXt from contextgarden and so far i saw three options to download first i found folders setup and setup2? which one should i use? in one of them there are win32 and win64 zips. and in the other are win32, win64 plus a mswin zip. which one is the correct one? since i am on Win10x64 i downloaded context-setup-win64.zip. i unzipped the file, started command as admin and went to Con dir. there i entered: first-setup.bat --modules=all everything went fine and i added the win64 folder which Con installer showed me at the end to my system paths. as far as i know, an update is done the same way. please correct me if i am wrong. in TeXnicCenter i added a new profile. on (La)TeX register i have activated: Run LaTeX in this profile. in the path to compiler field i entered: F:\Sandbox\ConTeXt\tex\setuptex.bat & F:\Sandbox\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-win64\bin\texmfstart.exe question: do i need both entries? in the command line field i entered: texexec.rb --batch --nonstop --pdf --color "%bm" --synctex=-1 BibTeX is deactivated, MakeIndex isn't used either. well and it works. but not without ruby: why do i need ruby? i would use mkiv only if i could. i also worked with Hex color codes but then everything is black untill i add \setupcolor[hex] to the document. i read that this line is only needed in mkiv, so again i am wondering why i am obviously using mkii instead of mkiv... the last question for now is: how can i stop pdfTeX.exe from warning me that no GlyphToUnicode entry has been inserted yet. i read somewhere that this can be ignored but nobody explains what this is and how it works. i just don't want to read this every time but fix it. and what is meant with bad boxes? i read "Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph..." but don't know how to fix this. i would also have questions related to SciTE, because i can't make UTF-8 work following the desctiption on contextgarden, but for now i would be happy if i could take the most out of context within TeXnicCenter. Thanks in advance, Sebastian

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new user needs help with ConTeXt installation and configuration
by L.S.-Soc&Gam 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

hey guys, this is my first mail here so please bear with me. i read on TeX exchange that it's best to subscribe to this mailing list in order to get help with ConTeXt. but since i only see advanced stuff related posts i would like to ask politely if this is the right place to ask noob questions or should i go to another place? thanks in advance, sebastian

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weird behavior of brackets in block quotations
by Alan Bowen 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

We use “[...]” in quotations to indicate departures from the written text. In the latest beta, “[...]” is a problem in block quotations and [] does not appear in the output. \setupdelimitedtext [blockquote] [before={\blank[small,fixed]}, after={\blank[small,fixed]}] \starttext [t]he quotation goes as follows: \startblockquote [t]he science of astrology was developed in, most probably, \stopblockquote \input ward \stoptext “[...]” is OK in the body text and “[]” appears in the output. But, in the block quotation, “[…]” gets the error message: tex error > tex error on line 14 in file /Users/bowen1/Desktop/TestTeX/test.tex: ! Missing number, treated as zero tex error > tex error on line 9 in file /Users/bowen1/Desktop/TestTeX/test.tex: ! Missing number, treated as zero <to be read again> t \spac_narrower_method_analyze ...c_narrower_mid #1 \relax \fi \syst_helpers_repeat_with_command ..._again [#1]#5 \else \syst_helpers_repeat... \17>>1 ..._process_comma_list_with_parameters {#1} \syst_helpers_do_process_c... \syst_helpers_do_process_comma_list ...rgument #1, ]\relax \global \advance \... \spac_narrower_start_apply ...narrower_initialize \advance \leftskip \dimexp... ... l.9 [t] he science of astrology was developed in, most probably, 1 \setupdelimitedtext 2 [blockquote] 3 [before={\blank[small,fixed]}, 4 after={\blank[small,fixed]}] 5 6 \starttext 7 [t]he quotation goes as follows: 8 \startblockquote 9 >> [t]he science of astrology was developed in, most probably, 10 \stopblockquote 11 \input ward 12 \stoptext Alan

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How to avoid overriding a control sequence?
by Nicola 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

How do I check in ConTeXt whether a control sequence is already defined (to avoid redefining it by accident)? Marginally related to the above, I have tried to use \show, only to discover, to my surprise, that it gives an error. For example: \show\NL \end Does ConTeXt override some of TeX primitives? Nicola

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Bug in startitemize
by Otared Kavian 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

Hi Hans, It seems that with the new beta (ConTeXt ver: 2016.03.04 10:39 MKIV beta fmt: 2016.3.7), there is a bug with random itemization. I cannot tell exactly when this feature has been broken. The problem is that for instance in the following example, sometimes the item C is repeated three times, sometimes A is repeated twice, etc. \starttext \startitemize[n,random] \startitem A \stopitem \startitem B \stopitem \startitem C \stopitem \stopitemize \stoptext Best regards: OK

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non-splitting footnotes
by Brian Ballsun-Stanton 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

Hi folks, http://context.fedarch.org/Context/trapChapter16_petra.pdf page 7-8 there's a very large space due to a footnote. I've tried to induce footnote splitting (I just updated to mtx-context | current version: 2016.03.04 10:39) but it doesn't seem to work. All the discussion on this list is... 8 years old. What is a correct way of solving the long footnote not splitting over pages problem (besides shooting the author?) Cheers, -Brian

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OT: OpenType vs. TrueType
by Wolfgang Schuster 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

Hi, I think the following video is interesting because it answers the questions which font format you should use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM5tN88CX30 German speaking users can watch the following video: https://vimeo.com/41494356 or read this article: http://www.typografie.info/3/page/artikel.htm/_/wissen/mythos-opentype-r270 Kind regards, Wolfgang Schuster

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