June 2017 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Unicode text conversion
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. 16 Jun '17

16 Jun '17

Hello, does ConTeXt contain a built-in Lua conversion routine to convert text in UTF-16 (and others) to UTF-8 string? Something like: ---- \startluacode local str = "A unicode string" -- Or e.g. string loaded from a file str = convert(str, "utf16", "utf8") context(str) \stopuacode ---- TIA. 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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Re: [NTG-context] typesetting serial letters in Context
by r.ermers＠hccnet.nl 16 Jun '17

16 Jun '17

Hi Thomas, Thanks for your advice. I would like to have a system with which I can send letters to people in my database. It would be nice to be able to make selections according to labels (probably with xmlatt), but that can be done later. I am not a programmer - when I read the documentation, I do not understand enough of it to the extent to port it to a new program, but I can adapt and try existing code. Thusfar I have been trying to use the letter module with the xmltext and xmlflush commands. What can be done to make this work? Thanks! Robert \usemodule[letter] \startbuffer[participants] <contacts> <contact class='participant' label='Hendriks'> <formalname>Hendriks</formalname> <informalname>Karel</informalname> <prefix>mr.</prefix> <initials>K.</initials> <courselevel>levelA</courselevel> <coursedate>1 june 2017</coursedate> <city>Arnhem</city> <address> Mr. K. Hendriks Grotestraat 5 1234 Arnhem </address> </contact> <contact class='participant' label='Janssen'> <formalname>Janssen</formalname> <informalname>Piet</informalname> <initials>P.</initials> <prefix>mr.</prefix> <courselevel>levelA</courselevel> <coursedate>1 june 2017</coursedate> <city>Nijmegen</city> <address> Mr. P. Janssen Kortestraat 8 1234 Nijmegen </address> </contact> </contacts> \stopbuffer \startxmlsetups xml:setups \xmlsetsetup{#1}{contacts|contact|address|prefix}{xml:*} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregistersetup{xml:setups} \startxmlsetups xml:contacts \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:contact %\setupletter[ % name={Sender}, % email={}, % signature={X}] \startletter [opening={Dear \xmltext{#1}{/prefix} \xmltext{#1}{/formalname},}, closing={Kind regards,}, signature={X}, toaddress={\xmltext{#1}{/address}}, subject={Interesting offer}] \input knuth %\xmltext{#1}{/informalname} %Without the letter instructions, the code yields the names in informalname. \stopletter \stopxmlsetups \starttext \xmlprocessbuffer{main}{participants}{} \stoptext tex error on line 17 in file /Users/mac/Documents/doc/moperspectief/brieven/brieven2mkiv.tex: ! Use of \correspondence_start_parameters doesn't match its definition \doifelsenextoptional ...\def \m_syst_action_yes { #1}\def \m_syst_action_nop... \setupletter ...bleargument \correspondence_setup [\v!letter ] \14>:xml:contact #1->\setupletter [name={Sender},email={},signature={X}]\def... l.17 } \14>:xml:contacts #1->\xmlflush {#1} l.7 } ' > Op 15 jun. 2017, om 19:02 heeft Thomas A. Schmitz <thomas.schmitz(a)uni-bonn.de> het volgende geschreven: > > On 06/15/2017 10:51 AM, r.ermers(a)hccnet.nl wrote: >> I still cannot generate letters from my xml database > > So what are you missing? Make a complete minimal example (you can pack the xml part into a buffer and then use \xmlprocessbuffer), then people will try to help you. Right now, we can't even guess where your problems lie. And writing "I'm not a programmer, so I can't read documentation" is not very motivating - you've been told where to begin, and you appear to be making some progress, so show us what you have. > > Thomas

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typesetting serial letters in Context
by r.ermers＠hccnet.nl 15 Jun '17

15 Jun '17

Hello all, I have been using Context mkii with the x-corres.mkii module for a number of years now, for many different purposes (mailings, certificates, etc). The module works with an xml (actually rng) file with the following structure: <contacts> <contact label=“pietjanssen"> <formalname>Janssen</formalname> <informalname>Piet</informalname> </contact> </contacts> The contents of each item is grabbed and put in the document by means of the command \XMLflush{formalname}. I would like to shift to mkiv now with all its possibilities. Yet there is no x-corres.mkiv. Who can help me out? Regards, Robert

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Re: [NTG-context] great stuff
by Giulio Bilotta 15 Jun '17

15 Jun '17

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next beta
by Hans Hagen 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Hi, experimental in next beta: \starttext test \startbuffer \placeformula \startformula x\dorecurse{100}{+#1x^{#1x}}=10 \stopformula test \startformula x\dorecurse{100}{+#1x^{#1x}}=10 \stopformula test \stopbuffer \par \setupformula[split=no] \getbuffer \par \par \setupformula[split=yes] \getbuffer \par \stoptext i.e. (poor mans) multiline display math Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Footnotes in paragraph form + annotating them in margin
by Michelle Rodzis 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Dear list, in my document I have several kinds of footnotes including footnotes in paragraph form. In some cases I need to annotate these. The annotation should to appear in the outer margin of the page and in line with the annotated footnote. I tried a few different approaches, but none yields exactly the result I want to obtain: 1. I defined a seperate footnote type for the annotations according to the wiki, but the annotations are centered in the margin and not in line with the footnote(s) they refer to. 2. As suggested on the mailinglist some time ago, I tested \myCustomFootnote{Text.\margintext[scope=local]{Annotation.}} but since I have \definenote[myCustomNote][paragraph=yes], no text in the margin is displayed unless I delete this parameter (which unfortunately is no option for my document layout). Do you have any ideas how to solve this? Thanks in advance and best regards, Michelle

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Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting all documents in a project
by Mike O'Connor 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

Thanks for the explanation and wiki.contextgarden.net link. Should ConTeXt simply refuse to process the project file, instead of the message that it is producing a project PDF? In some cases might it be helpful to regenerate in one pass the complete set of products for a project. I guess that is a job for a shell script rather than TeXShop. Thanks again Henri, Mike

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Character translation with Luaotfload
by Hans Åberg 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

Since Luaotfload is extracted from ConTeXt, I figure people here will know this: In the code below, math mode '.' and ',' are translated into ':'and ';', which seems to occur because that is what ASCII/Unicode has in those positions, unlike CMMI. So how to correct this? The issue is really trying to find get texinfo.tex working with Unicode fonts using LuaTeX, as it probably does not work with ConTeXt. (Later versions of the former use LuaTeX UTF-8 directly without translations.) ---- \input luaotfload.sty \font\stix={file:STIX-Regular.otf} at 10pt \font\stixit={name:STIXMath-Regular} at 10pt \font\stixsc={file:STIX-Regular.otf} at 7pt \font\stixscsc={file:STIX-Regular.otf} at 5pt \stix \textfont0=\stix \textfont1=\stixit % Translates ',' into ';'. \scriptfont0=\stixsc \scriptscriptfont0=\stixscsc \scriptfont1=\stixsc \scriptscriptfont1=\stixscsc \textfont2=\stix \textfont3=\stix Hello 𝑃, ±, $𝑥 = ±𝑦_𝑃$, $$𝑃_0, …, 𝑃_{𝑘 - 1} ⊢ 𝑃.$$ \end ----

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nested \xmlprocessfile calls
by Meer, Hans van der 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

In a document <root> <file name="file1"/><file name="file2"/></root> a series of xml files is processed. The nodes processed are as usual defined in \xmlsetsetup{#1}\writestatus{}{MARKER}{node1|node2|..}{name:*}\stopxmlsetups \xmlregistersetup{name:setups} The root is called with \xmlprocessfile{root}{filename}{} and has a setup as follows: \startxmlsetups name:root % each inner <file> node is in turn called with \xmlprocessfile{root-node in file}{filename from attribute}{} \stopxmlsetups The problem is that the \xmlsetsetup is called each time one of the file's is processed, as shown by the MARKER in the log. However, it is the intention to process the setups one and for all. How can the apparent rereading on the defining setups be restricted to an inital setup only? Hans van der Meer

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Position of standard footnotes that are set-up in floats
by Sebastian L. 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

Hello together, I have the following example: I place a simple float (a graphic) in the text within \startplacefigure...\stopplacefigure and create a footnote with the graphic's source, that I want to be placed as simple footnote at the bottom of the page. CTX, LuaTX do this just fine. But when the float is being set on the next page, due to spacing, then the footnote remains on the initial page, i.e. the footnote stays on page 1, whereas the float with its description text and the footnote marker are set on page 2. Is it possible to make the footnote's location depend on the location of the float, rather than where the last text passage was before the float? An example: \startplacefigure[title={Heijunkabox \footnote{source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/Box.svg}}, reference=gfxHeijunka, location=] \externalfigure... \stopplacefigure Thanks in advance for any suggestions, Sebastian.

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