March 2017 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

display current section number in \writestatus
by Rik Kabel 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

ConTeXters, What is the best way to get the current section number in a basic format (pt.ch.s.ss... as displayed in the log in structure sectioning entries) for display in a custom log entry (via \writestatus)? I have tried \fullheadnumber and such, but cannot find something appropriate. -- Rik

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Bug in Natural Tables
by Henri Menke 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Dear list, I wanted to show off the wonders of Natural Tables in TeX.SX but the table I wanted to make escapes out of the page. Why does the width explode so much? MWE is below. Cheers, Henri --- \starttext \startTABLE[align={lohi,middle}] \NC OSI-Schicht \NC[nx=6] Umsetzung \NC\NR \NC Anwendungsschicht \NC[nx=2,ny=3] SOME/I \NC[nx=2,ny=3] AVB/TSN \NC[nx=2,ny=3] DoIP \NC\NR \NC Darstellungsschicht \NC\NR \NC Sitzungsschicht \NC\NR \NC Transportschicht \NC[nx=3] TCP \NC[nx=3] UDP \NC\NR \NC Vermittlungsschicht \NC[nx=3] IPv4 \NC[nx=3] IPv6 \NC\NR \NC Sicherungsschicht \NC[nx=6] Ethernet \NC\NR \NC Bitübertragungsschicht \NC[nx=2] 100BASE-TX \NC[nx=2] 100BASE-T \NC[nx=2] 1000BASE-T \NC\NR \stopTABLE \stoptext

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TOC in presentations
by Jose Luis Arellano 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Dear list, After learning ConTeXt for a while, I have decided to try to make my own slides, but I will like to use a list of contents in every page. Can anybody post an example or link to start? Thanks in advance

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(off-topic) concatenating signed PDF documents
by Pablo Rodriguez 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Dear list, I have a question for users with more knowledge on digitally-signed PDF documents. Is it possible to concatenate PDF documents (each signed by a different certificate [by a different person]) into a single PDF document without invalidating any signature? I tried to join all PDF files with pdftk, but digital signatures in the resulting file were invalid. I guess that I’m trying something impossible, but I’ll really appreciate the confirmation from somebody with experience in digital-signed PDF documents. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Feature Request: xtables extensions
by Henri Menke 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Dear devs, Natural Tables are quite handy but their syntax is a little verbose. \bTABLE \bTR \bTD ... \eTD \eTR \eTABLE There exist nice extensions which make the format less verbose by mapping \startTABLE \NC ... \NR\NR \stopTABLE back to the original macros. The new method for tables, called xtables, is faster and seems to have less problems than Natural Tables. However, the syntax is even more verbose \startxtable \startxrow \startxcell ... \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtable Can we have similar abbreviations as for Natural Tables? I am thinking of something like \startXTABLE \NC ... \NR\NR \stopXTABLE I tried myself rewriting tabl-nte.mkiv for xtables but it is not straightforward. What do you think of this proposal? Kind regards, Henri

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Re: [NTG-context] description renders unintended results (LUATEX BUG?)
by Alan Braslau 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

You can see from your log that context --pdftext is running the MKII macros and context is running MKIV macros. The two systems are very different, MKII being "frozen" and MKIV having evolved in some ways significantly. It is not a question of TeX engines, but rather of entire systems. But it sounds like you want to be using an itemize or enumeration rather than a description. \startitemize [n] \startitem one \startitemize [a] \startitem two \stopitem \startitem three \stopitem \stopitemize \stopitem \startitem four \startitemize [a,continue] \startitem five \stopitem \startitem six \startitemize \startitem seven \stopitem \startitem eight \stopitem \startitem nine \stopitem \stopitemize \stopitem \stopitemize \stopitem \startitem ten \stopitem \stopitemize Alan

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description renders unintended results
by Floris van Manen 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

The documentation on page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Description provides sample code to stack multiple levels of description such as: \setuppapersize[A5] \definedescription[descr][ headstyle=bold, style=normal, align=left, location=hanging, width=broad, margin=1cm ] \starttext \startdescr{Para} This is a shorter item label, and some text that talks about it. The text is wrapped into a paragraph, with successive lines indented. This is another paragraph under the "Para" item. \startdescr{Sub Item} This is a description of an item which is within the "Para" item. \stopdescr \startdescr{Sub Item} Another Sub Item \stopdescr \stopdescr \startdescr{Short} A short item that's not part of that really long "Para" item. \stopdescr \stoptext which should generate the included rendering. But reality is somewhat more diverse … My current context / luatex, as well as the online context engine come up with a different rendering Even when you correct for the right/left alignment, the itemising does not properly stack up: It there a work around ? $ context --version mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 0.63 mtx-context | mtx-context | main context file: /Applications/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/context.mkiv mtx-context | current version: 2016.09.24 12:40 $ luatex --version This is LuaTeX, Version 1.0.0 (TeX Live 2017/dev) Thanks .Floris van Manen

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pdfinfo
by Csikos Bela 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

Dear context users: In latex I could use \pdfinfo command to add information metadata to pdf file: Title, Author, Creator, Producer, CreationDate, ModDate, Subject, Keywords. I found that I can set title, author, subtitle (=subject) and keyword with \setupinteractions command. How can I set the remaining ones (CreationDate, ModDate, Creator, Producer)? Thank you in advance, bcsikos

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list items not broken in lines
by Pablo Rodriguez 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

Dear list, I have the following sample: \setupinteraction[state=start, color=, style=, contrastcolor=] \enabledirectives[references.border] \startsetups[placelist:section] \startalign[center] \setupinterlinespace[line=2.8ex] \placelist[section] [alternative=d, pagenumber=no, headnumber=no, style=\itx, criterium=local] \par \stopalign \stopsetups \setuplist[chapter][after=\directsetup{placelist:section}] \starttext \placelist[chapter] \dorecurse{4}{\chapter{Chapter} \dorecurse{20}{\section{Section from This Chapter}}} \stoptext I would like to avoid line breaks in section items. Which would be the right way of doing it? This would be similar (I think) to know how to get the "{this is a expression}" with no line break inside (and not using "~"). Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Disable structure sectioning messages on console
by Aditya Mahajan 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

Hi, Is it possible to disable the `structure > sectioning >` messages that are displayed on the console? Thanks, Aditya

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