March 2018 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Broken Index Behavior?
by Brian Wedde 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '18

I put ConTeXt on a new server. It works fine except that it is not aggregating index results. I have isolated it to a single line, but i do not understand why it breaks indexing. Feedback from anybody would be immensely helpful. I have already spent way too much time figuring this out. %Minimal example: % ConTeXt ver: 2017.05.15 21:48 MKII fmt: 2017.8.17 int: english/english \enableregime[utf] \starttext \index{Aardvark}Aardvark \index{Baboon}Baboon \index{Camel}Camel \pagebreak \index{Baboon}Baboon \placeindex[compress=yes] \stoptext Outputs Index like this: A Aardvark 1 B Baboon 1 C Camel 1 B Baboon 2 and issues warning when compiling: references : duplicate reference [][Index:b] on page 2 However, if i remove this line, it works fine: \enableregime[utf] I need that line to be able to handle diacritics in the text however. I cannot upgrade to mkIV yet as there is a complex toolchain involved. Running this example with the same installation files and same input returns different results when run on my local workstation versus this new machine i am working on. It also works fine on the live.contextgarden.net tool. Can anyone think of a reason why adding "\enableregime[utf]" would break the index aggregator? File permissions? Missing tool? Something wrong with fonts? Some other context-sensitive misconfiguration? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks a bunch.

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prevgraf change if page break occurs in a paragraph
by Joseph Canedo 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '18

Hello, I am aware that ConTeXt betas might use experimental luaTeX changes (I use both stable and latest and run both), just wanted to report a change in prevgraf result. Apparently with latest beta it reports the number of lines in last page of paragraph (only tested with pars on 2 pages maximum, haven’t tried longer ones). Simple MWE reproduces the case: \starttext \dorecurse{15}{ A\\ B\\ C\\ D\\ E\\ F\\ G\\ H\\ I\\ J\\ K\\ L \\M\\ N. \the\prevgraf } \stoptext Using ConTeXt online always reports « 14 » after the letters, latest ConTeXt reports different numbers if the par before it has been split in 2 pages. Thanks Joseph

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Notepad++ for ConTeXt - Version 0.98
by Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '18

Dear ConTeXt gang, A continuing desideratum for ConTeXt is a user-friendly writing and editing environment, where the range of application of the category “user-friendly” includes especially non-experts in programming or software development. The lack of such an environment is one factor that inhibits the wider use of ConTeXt. Despite its immense power, precision, and flexibility: At present it is not generally feasible for instructors and researchers in, e.g., the humanities to assign the use of ConTeXt to students, or to use it to collaborate on projects. In addition, the first author (Idris) especially required a ConTeXt editor with, among other features, bidirectional capabilities to serve both academic writing as well as the needs of the Oriental TeX project, including the Zahrāʾ (aka Husayni) typeface system under current development. In the course of an ongoing effort to address these lacunae, in 2017 a project to develop a set of utilities for the Windows editor Notepad++ was launched. After months of development and testing, Luigi and I are proud to present to the ConTeXt community Notepad++ for ConTeXt: Lexer and Macro Utilities for editing ConTeXt Documents Version 0.98 This package includes I. A plugin for Notepad++ that implements, for the ConTeXt document processing system, i) a language lexer for semantic highlighting of TeX, LuaTeX, and ConTeXt commands; ii) autocompletion of commands with full support for calltips (set in columns); iii) tagging and insertion of markup and templates, with support for mnemonic keys. II. A color scheme and two complementary Notepad++ themes: Silver Twilight Hi and Silver Twilight Lo. Notepad++ for ConTeXt is available here: https://github.com/luigiScarso/context-npp https://github.com/luigiScarso/context-npp/blob/master/install/Npp-for-ConT… as well as here: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/File:Npp-for-ConTeXt.zip For a future TeXLive DVD: The package will be available under texmf-dist/context/data/npp/context The complete manual for Notepad++ ConTeXt, along with its TeX sources, may be found in the following directory of the zip: /Npp-for-ConTeXt/doc/npp-context-manual.pdf It may also be downloaded here: https://github.com/luigiScarso/context-npp/tree/master/doc The README follows this announcement. NOTA BENE: The old wiki page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Notepad++ is currently obsolete and needs to be updated in its entirety. Further development is planned beyond this initial release. We warmly welcome and look forward to feedback and suggestions for improvement from the ConTeXt community! Best wishes Idris and Luigi ============== REAMDE.md: *Notepad++ for ConTeXt: Lexer and Macro Utilities for editing ConTeXt Documents Version 0.98* This package includes I. A plugin for Notepad++ that implements, for the ConTeXt document processing system, i) a language lexer for semantic highlighting of TeX, LuaTeX, and ConTeXt commands; ii) autocompletion of commands with full support for calltips (set in columns); iii) tagging and insertion of markup and templates, with support for mnemonic keys. II. A color scheme and two complementary Notepad++ themes: Silver Twilight Hi and Silver Twilight Lo. Notepad++ for ConTeXt is available here: https://github.com/luigiScarso/context-npp https://github.com/luigiScarso/context-npp/blob/master/install/Npp-for-ConT… as well as here: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/File:Npp-for-ConTeXt.zip For a future TeXLive DVD: The package will be available under texmf-dist/context/data/npp/context The complete manual for Notepad++ ConTeXt, along with its TeX sources, may be found in the following directory of the zip: /Npp-for-ConTeXt/doc/npp-context-manual.pdf It may also be downloaded here: https://github.com/luigiScarso/context-npp/tree/master/doc Completing development of the C++ plugin and lexer was done by the current maintainer, Luigi Scarso (ConTeXt Development Team). Original C++ plugin and lexer development was done by Dr. Jason Wu (Colorado State University). Project vision and development planning (as well as the two themes and color scheme) are by Professor Idris Samawi Hamid (Colorado State University). The Notepad++ for ConTeXt lexer is strongly influence by the plugin WebEdit by Alexander Iljin: https://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/files/WebEdit/ This plugin aims to support the editing of ConTeXt documents in a number of ways. This includes some integration with the standalone distribution of ConTeXt. (For more information on ConTeXt see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page http://www.pragma-ade.nl/index.htm .) This plugin includes a language lexer for semantic highlighting of ConTeXt commands; it also includes a system for tagging and inserting of markup and templates, with support for mnemonic keys. In its first phase of development, the plugin borrowed some ideas and implementations from other plugins (notably WebEdit); and, from the experience of Professor Hamid, several macros and customizations. In the second phase, a significant part of development was devoted to translating the xml documentation files of ConTeXt (= the English interface files that list and classify commands, see below) into the relevant xml configuration files of Notepad++, and to look for an efficient way to edit a document while minimizing the need to access the documentation. One outcome of this effort is the current autocompletion calltip mechanism, which provides columnar representation of the documentation for each autocompleted command, and equivalent to that provided by setup-en.pdf ("ConTeXt commands EN"). (In a ConTeXt distribution it lies at the end of this path: /tex/texmf-context/doc/context/documents/general/qrcs/setup-en.pdf) One of the fundamental differences between ConTeXt and traditional programming languages is the huge quantity of keywords (=commands, macros) and parameters (= command arguments) in ConTeXt. Fortunately, nearly all of them are described in the interface files of the standalone distribution, under tex/texmf-context/tex/context/interface/mkiv. Here one finds the file context-en.xml, which is constituted by the concatenation of all of the the other interface files. The build.cmd script, under the /scripts folder of Npp-for-ConTeXt.zip, reads context-en.xml and results in two files, i) /Program Files (x86)/Notepad++/plugins/Config/ConTeXt.xml, which is used by the ConTeXt lexer for Notepad++, and ii) /Program Files (x86)/Notepad++/plugins/APIs/context.xml, which is used by the autocompletion and calltips mechanism. The build.cmd script is a batch script that has to be executed outside Notepad++; under the hood it runs the Python2.7 script command_primitives_api.py with the correct command line options; if xmllint.exe is installed it checks to make sure that the files saved are well-formed. The Npp-for-ConTeXt.zip ships with versions of Config/ConTeXt.xml and APIs/context.xml that take as reference the official ConTeXt that is shipped with the TeXLive 2018 distribution (see https://www.tug.org/texlive/) So the build.cmd script is useful if the user has a different (possibly updated) standalone distribution. The switches at command line of command_primitives_api.py are usage: command_primitives_api_new.py [-h] [-m MTXCMD] [-i IFCFILE] [-u IFCUFILE] [-c CMDFILE] [-p PRIMFILE] [-d CHARDEF] [-r MACROCHARDEFFILE] optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -m MTXCMD, --mtxcmd MTXCMD ConTeXt mtxrun program -i IFCFILE, --ifcfile IFCFILE ConTeXt XML interface file -u IFCUFILE, --ifcufile IFCUFILE ConTeXt XML interface user file -c CMDFILE, --cmdfile CMDFILE ConTeXt XML command file -p PRIMFILE, --primfile PRIMFILE ConTeXt primitives.lua script -d CHARDEF, --chardef CHARDEF ConTeXt char-def.lua file -r MACROCHARDEFFILE, --macrochardeffile MACROCHARDEFFILE ConTeXt macro-chardef.lua script and the build.cmd sets the following -m mtxrun.exe ^ -c %CTXDIR%\tex\texmf-context\tex\context\base\mkiv\mult-prm.lua ^ -i %CTXDIR%\tex\texmf-context\tex\context\interface\mkiv\context-en.xml ^ -d %CTXDIR%\tex\texmf-context\tex\context\base\mkiv\char-def.lua The above assumes that the user sets the correct standalone in %CTXDIR%. It's important to note that this is the standalone also used by the ConTeXt plugin. Usually there is no need to pass --primfile PRIMFILE and --macrochardeffile MACROCHARDEFFILE, because they should be generated by the python script. The option --ifcufile IFCUFILE is useful if the user wants to add the documentation of a set of private macros: in this case it's necessary to know the syntax of that documentation, where the ConTeXt XML command files are taken as reference. Another component introduced in the plugin is the user's macro window, enabled with Ctrl+'-'. The idea is to offer to the user a way to quickly insert one's most used macros, set and saved under the section entitled [Markup] in /Roaming/Notepad++/plugins/config/ConTeXt.ini The body of the macro to insert must contain a single '|', which is a placeholder for the selected text; the macro can be selected with the mouse or by hitting the Return key. It may also be selected by typing a shortcut key. The Esc key closes the window. For example, if the user needs to insert a macro '\framed', as in \framed[frame=on]{...} (where '...' signifies some text to be operated upon by the command), and with a single key 'f' as shortcut, the text to set in ConTeXt.ini is (f)\framed[frame=on]{|} Note the full parenthesis that enclose the key shortcut - '(f)' in this case. The user's macros stored in ConTeXt.ini can be edited from Plugin->ConTeXt->Edit Config; once saved it has to be re-loaded with Plugin->ConTeXt->Load Config (no need to restart Notepad++). For the sake of readability, the string '%n' in the body of the text is translated into a newline. The shortcut can be a sequence of A-Za-z0-9 characters, i.e. (d0) and (sst) are valid shortcuts. But for longer keys or keys which require pressing Shift for input, perhaps one will need to set a specific delay: This can be done under the [CommandsSetups] section of ConTeXt.ini via, e.g., usermacro:elapse=500 and or usermacro:elapse_shift=600 The time is in milliseconds. A second mechanism (also adopted from the WebEdit plugin) are tempaltes. Under the section of ConTeXt.ini entitled [Templates], there is a list of text strings and their replacements: In the edit field of Notepad++ the user types <text> and Alt-'\'; <text> is replaced by <replacement>. The rules are the same as for those of the user's macros set under [Markup]. Finally, the standard Notepad++ right-click mechanism offers the usual insert text menu. Use Plugins - ConTeXt - Update Right-click menu to add one's markup macros. These ways of inserting markup tags are independent, so it's possible to have several ways to insert the same text. However, it's likely that in a future release this will be simplified or streamlined. -- Idris Samawi Hamid, Professor Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80512

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tex error Argument of \titlecmd has an extra }
by 真我风采 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '18

Dear list, I got a tex setting file env-plain.tex from Internet and reference it in project-openstack-source-analysis.tex, when I used the the command "context project-openstack-source-analysis", the result of output shows "tex error > tex error on line 19 in file /root/openstack_doc/project-openstack-source-analysis.tex: ! Argument of \titlecmd has an extra }". I don't know the reason of this error.How to fix this error? Many thanks for your help! the evn-plain.tex file content is below: \startenvironment env-plain % C 代码高亮抄录模块 %\usemodule[pretty-c] % 中文字体模块，支持中西文字体设置与标点微排版 % 下载地址: http://github.com/liyanrui/t-zhfonts %\usemodule[zhfonts] %\setupzhfonts[feature][onum=yes, pnum=yes] %\setupzhfonts[latin, mono][regular=Monaco(a)0.8] %\zhfonts[rm,14pt] % ascii 数学公式模块 \usemodule[asciimath] \setupinteraction[state=start, color=darkblue, contrastcolor=darkblue, focus=standard] % 适合 A4 纸张打印的版式 \setuplayout[backspace=25mm, width=150mm, rightmargin=10mm, topspace=20mm, header=15mm, footer=10mm, height=260mm,] % \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] % 封面 layout \newdimen\AppendicesTextWidth \AppendicesTextWidth=\textwidth \advance\AppendicesTextWidth by\rightmarginwidth \definelayout[normal][width=\AppendicesTextWidth] % 页眉与页脚 \setuppagenumbering[location=] \newdimen\headerwidth \headerwidth=\the\textwidth \advance\headerwidth by \rightmarginwidth \newdimen\LineWidth \LineWidth=2pt \def\HeaderFrame#1{% \framed[width={\headerwidth}, frame=off, offset=none, bottomframe=on, framecolor=darkgray, rulethickness=\LineWidth]{\ss#1}} \def\PageFrame{% \inframed[width=14mm, height=6mm, frame=off, offset=0pt, framecolor=darkgray, background=color, backgroundcolor=darkgray]{\color[white]{\ssx\pagenumber}}} \def\HeadStr#1{\headnumber[#1]\hskip1em\getmarking[#1]} \def\RightHeader{\HeaderFrame{\HeadStr{section}\hfill\PageFrame\hbox to -\LineWidth{}}} \def\LeftHeader{\HeaderFrame{\hbox to -\LineWidth{}\PageFrame\hfill\HeadStr{chapter}}} \def\FooterFrame#1{% \framed[width={\headerwidth}, frame=off, offset=0pt]{#1}} \def\BookNameFrame[#1]{% \framed[width=fit, height=fit, frame=off, offset=2pt, background=color, backgroundcolor=darkgray]{% \color[white]{\ss \rotate[rotation=#1]{GLIB 学习笔记}}}} \def\RightFooter{\FooterFrame{\hfill\BookNameFrame[-90]}} \def\LeftFooter{\FooterFrame{\BookNameFrame[90]\hfill}} \startsetups Text \setupheadertexts[text][\RightHeader][][][\LeftHeader] % \setupfootertexts[text][\RightFooter][][][\LeftFooter] \stopsetups \startsetups Appendices \def\RightAppendicesHeader{\HeaderFrame{\ssx\getmarking[title]\hfill% \PageFrame\hbox to -\LineWidth{}}} \def\LeftAppendicesHeader{\HeaderFrame{\hbox to -\LineWidth{}\PageFrame\hfill\ssx 附录}} \setupheadertexts[text][\RightAppendicesHeader][][][\LeftAppendicesHeader] \stopsetups \startsetups Empty \setupheadertexts[text][][][][] \setupfootertexts[text][][][][] \stopsetups % 标题 \setupheads[indentnext=yes] \definepagebreak[headpagebreak][yes, header, footer, odd] \setuphead[chapter,title][header=empty, style=\ssc, page=headpagebreak,] \def\HeadOffset{\hbox to -10mm{}} \def\chaptercmd#1#2{\hbox to \hsize{#2\hfill\switchtobodyfont[48pt]{% \color[darkgray]{#1}}\HeadOffset}} \setuphead[chapter][command=\chaptercmd,after={\blank[2cm]}] \def\ContentTitle#1{% \inframed[width=fit, height=fit, frame=off, offset=4pt, loffset=10mm, roffset=10mm, framecolor=darkgray, background=color, backgroundcolor=darkgray]{\color[white]{#1}}} \def\titlecmd#1#2{\hbox to \hsize{\hfill% \ContentTitle{#2}\HeadOffset}} \setuphead[title][command=\titlecmd,after={\blank[2cm]}] \setuphead[section, subject][style=\ssa] % 段落 \setupindenting[first,always,2em] \setupinterlinespace[line=1.5em] \setupheads[indentnext=yes] \setupwhitespace[big] \setupfootnotes[bodyfont=9pt] % 抄录 \setuplinenumbering[style=small,location=text,color=darkgreen] \setuptype[style=\ttx] %\setuptype[space=on] \setuptyping[bodyfont=9pt, numbering=line, before=\blank, after=\blank] \setupitemize[paragraph, packed, broad] % 目录 \setupcombinedlist[content][alternative=c,aligntitle=yes,interaction=pagenumber] \setuplist[section][margin=2em,] \setuplist[subsection][margin=5em,] \setuplist[subsubsection][margin=8em,] % 封面 \defineoverlay[CruxOrnament][\useMPgraphic{crux}] \def\CruxFramed#1{\framed[frame=off,width=12cm,height=fit]{#1}} \startuseMPgraphic{crux} color ccc ; pair p, h[], v[] ; u := \overlaywidth ; v := \overlayheight ; hdelta := .15u ; vdelta := .03v ; drawoptions (withpen pensquare scaled 2pt) ; randomseed := day + time*epsilon ; show time * epsilon ; for i :=1 upto 128 : ccc := (uniformdeviate (1), uniformdeviate (1), uniformdeviate (1)) ; p := (uniformdeviate (u), uniformdeviate (v)) ; h0 := (xpart (p) - uniformdeviate (hdelta) , ypart (p)) ; h1 := (xpart (p) + uniformdeviate (hdelta) , ypart (p)) ; v0 := (xpart (p), ypart (p) - uniformdeviate (vdelta)) ; v1 := (xpart (p), ypart (p) + uniformdeviate (vdelta)) ; draw h0 -- h1 withcolor transparent(1,.4,ccc) ; draw v0 -- v1 withcolor transparent(1,.4,ccc) ; endfor ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startsetups BG \defineoverlay[bg][\useMPgraphic{crux}] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=bg] \stopsetups \definestartstop[BG][commands=\setups{BG}] % misc \setupheadtext[en][pubs=参考文献] \setupheadtext[en][content=目录] \setupheadtext[en][index=索引] \setuplabeltext[en][figure=图\;] \setuplabeltext[en][table=表\;] \setupcaptions[style=\tfx,headstyle=\normal] % 数学公式自动设置标点间距 \setupmathematics[autopunctuation=no] % 开启 ascii 模式 \asciimode \stopenvironment the project-openstack-source-analysis.tex file content is below: \environment env-plain \starttext \startBG \setuplayout[normal] \startstandardmakeup \midaligned{\CruxFramed{\ssd OpenStack源码分析}} \vfil \stopstandardmakeup \stopBG \startfrontmatter \setuplayout[reset] \setuppagenumbering[conversion=romannumerals] \setuppagenumber[number=1] \completecontent % \completelistoffigures % \completelistoftables \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \setuppagenumbering[conversion=numbers] \setuppagenumber[number=1] \setups{Text} \component component-01-openstack-outline \component component-02-openstack-nova \page \setups{Empty} \stopbodymatter \startappendices \setups{Appendices} \title{参考文献} \placepublications \title{索引} \placeindex \page \setups{Empty} \stopappendices \startbackmatter \stopbackmatter \stoptext

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steps module
by John Kitzmiller 04 Mar '18

04 Mar '18

Adjust shading and outline of cells and text in steps module, or not available as written? Something like \startSTEPtable[frame=off], etc. I have grabbed the code to modify for local input, but I have made a terrible mess of it!

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Table of contents: style and subject
by Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد 04 Mar '18

04 Mar '18

Dear gang, Here's a strange situation: In approach I) we get the subject heading in the TOC, but style=bold doesn't work. In approach II) style=bold works, but the subject heading doesn't show up. For each approach, how do we get both subject heading and style=bold in the TOC? Between I) and II), which is the current recommended standard practice for MKIV? See below and attached scratch. Toggle the two \start|stoptext environments. Best wishes Idris ============== \setuphead[subject] [incrementnumber=yes, % keep track of the number number=no] % but don't show it \starttext % Approach I \starttitle[title={Table of Contents},reference={}] \start \setupcombinedlist[content] [list={subject,section,subsection,subsubsection},alternative=c,style=bold] \setupinterlinespace[line=1.4ex] \placecontent \stop \stoptitle \page \startsection[title={Section One},reference={}] new page \page \stopsection \startsection[title={Section Two},reference={}] new page \page \stopsection \startsubject[title={Subject},reference={}] \stopsubject % \stoptext % \starttext % Approach I % \starttitle[title={Table of Contents},reference={}] % \start % \setupcombinedlist[{subject,section,subsection,subsubsection}] % [alternative=c,style=bold] % \setupinterlinespace[line=1.4ex] % \placecontent % \stop % \stoptitle % \page % \startsection[title={Section One},reference={}] % new page \page % \stopsection % \startsection[title={Section Two},reference={}] % new page \page % \stopsection % \startsubject[title={Subject},reference={}] % \stopsubject % \stoptext ============== -- Idris Samawi Hamid, Professor Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80512

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Primes and type1 math fonts
by Mikael P. Sundqvist 03 Mar '18

03 Mar '18

Hans, I asked on StackExchange (https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/418228/52406) about non-working primes in mathdesign. Henri Menke came up with a solution that works well, using the definition of primes from plain TeX. Could we make it an option somehow to use this, like \setupmathematics[oldprimes=yes] or something? /Mikael

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Back again with lucida problems
by Eric Detrez 03 Mar '18

03 Mar '18

I don't find any hint to my problem. I bought Lucida fonts from Tugboat. I want to get small caps AND primes (P'(x)) It seem I can't have both When I use \usetypescript[lucida] \setupbodyfont[lucidaot,10pt,rm] I don't have smallcaps When I use \usetypescript[lucida] \setupbodyfont[lucida,10pt,rm] primes are ugly Did I miss something ?

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Finding a
by T. Kurt Bond 03 Mar '18

03 Mar '18

If I have a module I want to use from several documents in different places in my home directory tree, is there some directory under my directory where I can put the module where it will be found? Someplace under $HOME/texmf for instance? -- T. Kurt Bond, tkurtbond(a)gmail.com and http://consp.org/~tkb

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\eqalign not working in latest beta
by Alan Bowen 02 Mar '18

02 Mar '18

\eqalign does not seem to be working in the latest beta. MWE taken from the garden: \starttext \startformula \eqalign{ t_{L,\text{early}} & = t_{L,\text{late}} = t_{L,\text{ray}} \cr & = 6\ \mu m \cr } \stopformula \stoptext Alan

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