August 2018 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Buffer within a \def
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. 10 Aug '18

10 Aug '18

Hello, I'm not very familiar with using buffers, so a basic question: Is it possible to use buffers within a \def? The following sample doesn't compile: ---- \def\T{ \startbuffer[Buf] a b ccc d e f \stopbuffer \getbuffer[Buf] } \starttext \T A \stoptext ---- What's wrong? 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 Mob.: +420 702 033 396

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stix2-mathscr with ConTeXt
by Fabrice Couvreur 10 Aug '18

10 Aug '18

Hello, Is it possible to get this type of letter with ConTeXt ? Thank you Fabrice [image: mathscr.png]

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referencing the equation
by Jeong Dal 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

Dear, The examples in mathalign.pdf(p4 - ) tells us the method of referencing the equation. The numbers for the equation is written as (1.1), and in the text, it is written as (1.1). That is the numbers are always surrounded by ( , ). In the output of the following code, the equations are numbered surrounded by (). But there is no (), when we referece it. What is the difference between MWE and mathalign.pdf. Thank you for reading. Best regards, Dalyoung

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12th ConTeXt Meeting (2018)
by Alan Braslau 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

Gentle ConTeXt user, * Do you still struggle with lua? (I do, because it is magic and mysterious) * Are you baffled by MetaPost? (because MetaPost is beautiful and particular) * Are you itching to get Hans to fix this or fix that? (or are you willing to learn what you are doing wrong) * Do you want to meet in person some of those who write and answer emails on this mailing list? * Do you want to blow us away with some fabulous new idea, or impress us with some really beautiful typeset text? * Do you want to attend fun lectures and presentations from morning 'till night? * Do you want to perhaps code until who knows when? * Or perhaps you wish to partake in some good Czech beer and some excellent Czech wine (with moderation)? * Or simply, do you not want to miss out on a really great time?? Then we wish to bring your attention the the 12th International ConTeXt Meeting to be held in Prague-Sibrina in the Czech Republic from Sunday September 2nd through Saturday September 8th, 2018. http://meeting.contextgarden.net *A fun time will be had by all!* Alan "... and may your night be restful"

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resetting footnote counter
by Robert Zydenbos 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

What I've done is the following: I've made a zip archive (see attachment) with a few relevant files – the two first files that will be a part of the book: preface.tex and how-to-use.tex, together with an environment file manual-environment-xasia.tex with a lot of settings, and the starting file sample.tex which puts everything together. This does not need odd things like exotic fonts, and it does not contain uncommon tables etc. I've changed the main font to TeX Gyre Termes, which all of us have (so I assume, since it comes with the major TeX distributions), so there should be no problems there either; but if there is an error message, you can comment out line 12 in manual-environment-xasia.tex and de-comment line 13 to turn the font into Times (or you can change the name of the font to anything you have on your computer). Right now I am using an iMac with the latest OS installed. The 'footnotes' will be placed at the end of the chapters (i.e., they will be endnotes). If you run sample.tex through ConTeXt and XeTeX (i.e., MkII) and look at the final page, you will see that the footnote / endnote marker has not been reset. Robert > On 9. Aug 2018, at 16:37, Aditya Mahajan <adityam(a)umich.edu> wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Aug 2018, Robert Zydenbos wrote: > >> I have tried ‘\resetcounter [footnote]’ (a suggested solution on that web page), but it does not work (at least not in MkII+XeTeX). ‘\setupcounter [footnote] [0]’ (also suggested on that web page) is rejected as an error. > > Can you post a minimal example. Because the following works in MKII (counter reset at each chapter) […]

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resetting footnote counter
by Robert Zydenbos 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

A simple footnote question this time. I would like to print endnotes at the end of every chapter in my book, and then reset the footnote counter so that in the next chapter the first note will be ‘1’ again. I suppose this should be done by means of \setupfootnotes – but with which parameter? Robert

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seeindex problem with recent betas
by Rik Kabel 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

With older versions of ConTeXt (including that in TL18) seeindex entries pointing to a multi-level (plussed) index entry worked (visually, at least) without complaint. The output might look like: Digby, John 73 Dilbert see Adams+Scott Dirac, Paul 287 or Digby, John 73 Dilbert see Adams, Scott Dirac, Paul 287 where the second part is a literal repeat of what is in the second argument of seeindex. (It is not, however, linked to the plussed entry as it would be to a single-level entry.) However, current version (2018.07.27 19:12) generates a result like: Digby, John 73 Dilbert Dirac, Paul 287 along with the warning: structure > registers > invalid crosslink : Adams+Scott, ignored Surely it is better to display the non-linked see entry as before (together with the warning message so that the non-linking is pointed out) and have a printable document than it is to display an empty entry! -- Rik

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Define the dimensions of a layout
by Fabrice Couvreur 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

Hello, I want the text area to be surrounded by a margin of 20 mm (top, right, left and bottom). I have already done this to have a left and right margin of 20 mm. \setuplayout [height=middle, backspace=20mm, width=middle] I think that I must now have : topdistance + header + headerdistance = 20mm footerdistance + footer + bottomdistance + bottom = 20 mm How to do ? Thanks Fabrice

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question regarding \placefloats
by Susanne G. Loeber 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

Dear Reader, I have a document with figures and tables. I have tried to use the command \placefloats to create a list of all my floats as recommended on the page Floating Objects, section Flushing floats. There it states: The command \placefloats outputs all pending floats. I hoped to get a list with all tables, all figures and all other possible floats.That list would either be sorted per chapter or sorted per float. However, I was not able to make it work at all. In the appendix, you can find my struggles. First: \placefloats does not work. \placelistoffloats does not exist as a command My solution is two seperate commands, one for the tables \placelistoftables and one for the figures \completelistoffigures. Question: how to use \placefloats correctly to get a list of all floats? Second: \startcombination[1*2] looks nice, but does not add information to the \placelistoffigures . My solution is to place the \startcombination inside a \placefigure. Question: Is there a better way? Kind regards, thanks, Susanne

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faulty to unicode mapping of chars encoded with surrogate pairs?
by Ulrike Fischer 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

when I compile the following with context \pdfvariable compresslevel=0 \starttext $f$ \stoptext I get in the pdf 1 beginbfchar <0515> <D875DC53> endbfchar D875DC53 is according to http://www.russellcottrell.com/greek/utilities/surrogatepaircalculator.htm the codepoint 2D453 and this is not a valid unicode point. As a result copy& paste doesn't work correctly. A similar example with xelatex writes D835DC53 (remark the 3 instead of the 7) instead in the pdf which gives the correct code point 1D453 and copies fine. lualatex gives the faulty value too. -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/

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