March 2018 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Circled text in metapost
by Gerhard Kugler 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

Hi, in documentations I can find various examples of circled text. But copying them I had no success till now. I want to place text in half circles of various radiuses. Is there anywhere a simple example? My greatest problems seem to be in the embedding code. Gerhard -- Gerhard Kugler Bensheim

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Strange behaviour of \start/stopplacefigure
by Tomas Hala 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

Hi, in the example below I came across the very strange behaviour of key location: if I use values none or top, the following paragraph is indented according to the settings whereas if I use the value bottom, the first line of the following paragraph starts just on the left, without any indentation. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for a help, Tomáš %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% TL2017 \starttext \indenting[yes,2em,first] \setupfloat[indentnext=yes] 1none. \input knuth \startplacefigure[location={none,}] \setupcaption[width=0.45\makeupwidth,align={nothyphenated,middle},textcommand=\crlf,distance=0cc] \startfloatcombination[2*1] \placefigure{caption left}{\externalfigure[cow.pdf][height=5cm]} \placefigure{caption right}{\externalfigure[cow.pdf][height=5cm]} \stopfloatcombination \stopplacefigure 1top. \input knuth \startplacefigure[location={top,none,}] \setupcaption[width=0.45\makeupwidth,align={nothyphenated,middle},textcommand=\crlf,distance=0cc] \startfloatcombination[2*1] \placefigure{caption left}{\externalfigure[cow.pdf][height=5cm]} \placefigure{caption right}{\externalfigure[cow.pdf][height=5cm]} \stopfloatcombination \stopplacefigure 1bottom. \input knuth \startplacefigure[location={bottom,none,}] \setupcaption[width=0.45\makeupwidth,align={nothyphenated,middle},textcommand=\crlf,distance=0cc] \startfloatcombination[2*1] \placefigure{caption left}{\externalfigure[cow.pdf][height=5cm]} \placefigure{caption right}{\externalfigure[cow.pdf][height=5cm]} \stopfloatcombination \stopplacefigure 1end. \input knuth !!! NOT INDENTED \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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structureuservariable
by Henning Hraban Ramm 31 Mar '18

31 Mar '18

Please consider: \starttext \startchapter[title=Test][author=Tufte] \input tufte\par Author: \structureuservariable{author} \startsection[title=Section] \input knuth\par Author: \structureuservariable{author} (empty!) \stopsection \stopchapter \stoptext i.e. the variable that I define in chapter is reset in the next section. But I need it for the whole chapter (i.e. for a head text). Is there some setting to avoid that reset? Greetlings, Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD

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Bug in wrapped placefigure
by Henri Menke 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

Dear devs, When a figure is wrapped in a paragraph and that paragraph is the first in a section, ConTeXt adds spurious vertical space above the text (eyeballing it, I'd say it is \topskip). Find MWE with workaround below. Found at https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/423817 Cheers, Henri --- \setupwhitespace[big] \starttext \startsection[title=section] \startmode[fix] % Set default whitespace \setupwhitespace[none] \stopmode \startplacefigure [location={right}, title={just a dummy figure}] \externalfigure[dummy][width=.5\textwidth] \stopplacefigure \input lorem \startmode[fix] % Restore whitespace \setupwhitespace[big] \stopmode \input lorem \stopsection \stoptext

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Combine overlapping margin notes with separator
by Benjamin Epstein 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

Hello! I am typesetting a text with line numbers in the margin and am interested in combining them if two should end up on the same line, dividing them with a comma or something like that. With the code below, the first line of the output contains an overlapping "1" and "2" in the margin. I would like the "1" and "2" not to be overlapping, nor to be stacked like \setupmargindata[stack=yes] would get me, but rather to automatically combine those that would overlap to get something like "1,2". Current output: https://i.imgur.com/RaTQ1ZO.png Desired output: https://i.imgur.com/oWKigTX.png Is there a reliable way to implement this? Any help would be appreciated! *** \starttext \inmargin{1}Now we are engaged in a great civil war. \inmargin{2}We are testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. \inmargin{3}We are met on a great battle-field of that war. \stoptext *** Thank you, Benjamin

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(fake) bold as font feature
by Pablo Rodriguez 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

Hans, would it be possible to add a embold feature (similar to the slanted font feature) that fakes the bold font with \starteffect[both]...\stopeffect and it doesn’t strecht the font? This was already requested by Ulrike Fischer (https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2017/090094.html) Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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How to setup the footnote number in local footnotes
by Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد 26 Mar '18

26 Mar '18

Dear gang, Consider the following: ============== \starttext \startframedtext[width=fit,frame=off,offset=0pt] % \startlocalfootnotes[n=2] \startlocalfootnotes \input ward \startfootnote \input ward \stopfootnote \placelocalfootnotes \stoplocalfootnotes \stopframedtext \stoptext ============== See attached: 1) Would like the footnote-number counter to start at 2, not 1. 2) Alternatively, would like to be able to define a conversion that sets the footnote numeral to 2. 3) Uncommenting the line % \startlocalfootnotes[n=2] doesn't work, although it is mentioned here: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/startlocalfootnotes So that must be for MKII.. Any pointers in setting up 1) and 2) are much appreciated. Thank you in advance! Best wishes Idris -- Idris Samawi Hamid, Professor Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80512

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decomposed u umlaut
by Henning Hraban Ramm 25 Mar '18

25 Mar '18

Ahoi, I’ve one annoying problem with ConTeXt: all üs (small u umlauts) seem to be encoded as decomposed unicode or something like that, at least every ü breaks into u + garbage if I copy some text from a ConTeXt PDF to an app that doesn’t really support Unicode. All other characters within Latin-1, including umlauts, are no problem, that’s why I think the problem might be in ConTeXt’s font handling. (Actually, this is about my invoice addresses that I copy from PDF to the German Post postage webshop. The site is quite new and I can’t understand how a big company can buy such crappy software. I already complained, there are more problems, but of course got only a template answer.) Greetlings, Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD

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linux binaries split?
by Thomas A. Schmitz 25 Mar '18

25 Mar '18

Hi, I wanted to use my minimal installation on arch linux this morning and received this error: Binaries for platform 'linuxmusl-64' are missing. (There is no folder "/mnt/shared/context/tex/texmf-linuxmusl-64/bin") provide a proper tex root (like '. setuptex /something/tex') Looking into setuptex, I see indeed a test for "libc=musl" or "libc=glibc," so it appears that we now have two sets of binaries for linux-64? Is this supposed to be a long-term thing or just in the preparation for texlive 2018? (I share my minimal directory between several linux installations, so I assume I would need both sets?) Thank you, and all best Thomas

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Question about a pair of floating fugures
by Tomas Hala 25 Mar '18

25 Mar '18

Hi all, I struggled with a pair of figures which will float together in a text, each with its own caption. I found out the following solution and I would like to ask whether this is the "oficial" and the best way how to do it. \starttext \placefigure{}{\dontleavehmode\externalfigure[a.jpg]\externalfigure[a.jpg]\externalfigure[a.jpg]} or \placefigure{}{\dontleavehmode\externalfigure[a.jpg]\hfill\externalfigure[a.jpg]\hfill\externalfigure[a.jpg]} \stoptext Best, Tomáš

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