January 2017 - 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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Undefined control sequence: \pdfpxdimen
by Aditya Mahajan 22 Jun '20

22 Jun '20

The drops module uses the primitive \pdfpxdimen in a couple of places, but that is no longer defined in the current beta. What is the equivalent command now? Examples of usage: \pdfpxdimen1in\relax\divide\pdfpxdimen\numexpr\dropsparameter\c! resolution\relax % set actual pixel dimension Aditya

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Outputting custom types in MKiv bibliography
by Mike O'Connor 11 Mar '20

11 Mar '20

Hello, I’m trying to create my first publication using ConTeXt mkiv. All going well except for the bibliography formatting. Previously I have used LaTeX, standard entry types in BibTeX, and custom output formats using Biblatex. My publication cites lots of historical sources, viz.: (1) Newspaper articles — currently stored as ‘article’ types in BibTex. (2) Archival sources (historic letter, some leather-bound volume, a catalogued box of old photographs, etc.) — currently stored as ‘unpublished’ or ‘misc'. I would prefer to store these (in BibTeX, buffer, lua, or xml) as custom types (eg. ‘newspaper’, ‘archivalItem’), create setups for how they are output and which fields I output. I found a ’newspaper’ type (and other non-BibTeX types) defined in publ-imp-apa.mkiv as: \startsetups btx:apa:list:newspaper \fastsetup{btx:apa:list:article} \stopsetups I hoped this would mean I could output something: Boxing. (1903, September 13). The Sunday Times, p.8 However, if I create an item of type 'newspaper’ and \cite it I get an output of all stored fields: newspaper: [day: 13] [journal: {The Sunday Times}] [month: 09] [pages:8][title: {Boxing.}] [type: newspaper article] [year: 1903] A similar thing happens if I try to cite the standard BibTeX type ‘misc’. If I store the newspaper item as type ‘article’ I get: “Boxing.”, The Sunday Times, 8, 1903. (missing day and month) Is it relevant that there is a problem when I include \showbtxfields[rotation=30] in my document? The resulting table has ‘*’ for fields in ‘article’, ‘book’, ‘demo-a’, ‘demo-b’ but the columns for ‘newspaper’ and ‘misc’ are empty. Any pointers gratefully received. Cheers, Mike O’Connor P.S. I am working in TeXShop on OSX (10.11.3), and it reports: This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.80.0 (TeX Live 2015) (rev 5238) ConTeXt ver: 2015.05.18 12:26 MKIV current fmt: 2016.3.19 int: english/english

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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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Parallel output of source data
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Hello, is there a way to let ConTeXt to flush the input stream in parallel into an output buffer, like: ---- \starttext A \startoutput{Test.mkiv} Hello! \startitemize \item Item \stopitemize \stopoutput B \stoptext ---- which would produce: ---- Test.mkiv Hello! \startitemize \item Item \stopitemize ---- Thank you in advance. Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka | mailto:LPr@pontex.cz Pontex s. r. o. | mailto:pontex@pontex.cz | http://www.pontex.cz | IDDS:nrpt3sn Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 241 096 751 (+420 720 951 172) Fax: +420 244 461 038

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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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Creating SVG: using MetaFun, exporting proper units, conversion to DXF
by Mojca Miklavec 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

Hi, I want to play with CNC and don't yet have any experience with CAD software (nor the licence for the expensive ones) other than perhaps some Blender, so I decided to try to use the super ugly route with metapost -> svg -> dxf -> g-code for the first time. I have a few questions. (1) I love Hans' shortcuts in metafun, but I seem to remember that things like input metafun; or perhaps input mp-tool; used to work, so that I don't have to remember to use mpost -mem=metafun my-drawings.mp when compiling the graphics. Did the method with "input" ever work (or is it supposed to work)? Now I'm getting a bunch of weird errors. I would love to specify everything in the source file and then just call mpost. If that doesn't work, that's fine, I can still add "-mem=metafun", but ... (2) I guess that using "raw metapost" is the only sane way to generate SVG. If I use metapost inside ConTeXt that's probably not going to work, right? (3) Is there any way to convince the SVG output mode to generate something like <svg ... width="100.0mm" height="100.0mm" ... > rather than <svg ... width="283.46456692913387" height="283.46456692913387" ... > because the program I use to convert SVG to DXF has troubles interpreting "points" properly. I read somewhere that they assume 90 points per inch because that's Inkskape's default. (4) Does anyone have a better proposal for conversion into DXF (or G-code)? I'm currently playing with FreeCAD and I've seen some tutorials showing that AutoCAD can open PDF directly, but I don't want to buy AudoCAD just for the sake of converting files. (Not to mention that FreeCAD's SVG importer crashes when reading output from MetaPost unless I manually remove parts of the SVG, but that's an unrelated problem that I'm somehow able to overcome.) Thank you, Mojca

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