September 2018 - ntg-context

Laundry symbols (now: altered picture)
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 03 Jan '22

03 Jan '22

Hello ConTeXters, is there a way how to get laundry symbols into ConTeXt? - The image is copied from "The Comprehensive LATEX Symbol List", Scott Pakin. TIA. Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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Undefined control sequence: \pdfpxdimen
by Aditya Mahajan 23 Jun '20

23 Jun '20

The drops module uses the primitive \pdfpxdimen in a couple of places, but that is no longer defined in the current beta. What is the equivalent command now? Examples of usage: \pdfpxdimen1in\relax\divide\pdfpxdimen\numexpr\dropsparameter\c! resolution\relax % set actual pixel dimension Aditya

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Outputting custom types in MKiv bibliography
by Mike O'Connor 11 Mar '20

11 Mar '20

Hello, I’m trying to create my first publication using ConTeXt mkiv. All going well except for the bibliography formatting. Previously I have used LaTeX, standard entry types in BibTeX, and custom output formats using Biblatex. My publication cites lots of historical sources, viz.: (1) Newspaper articles — currently stored as ‘article’ types in BibTex. (2) Archival sources (historic letter, some leather-bound volume, a catalogued box of old photographs, etc.) — currently stored as ‘unpublished’ or ‘misc'. I would prefer to store these (in BibTeX, buffer, lua, or xml) as custom types (eg. ‘newspaper’, ‘archivalItem’), create setups for how they are output and which fields I output. I found a ’newspaper’ type (and other non-BibTeX types) defined in publ-imp-apa.mkiv as: \startsetups btx:apa:list:newspaper \fastsetup{btx:apa:list:article} \stopsetups I hoped this would mean I could output something: Boxing. (1903, September 13). The Sunday Times, p.8 However, if I create an item of type 'newspaper’ and \cite it I get an output of all stored fields: newspaper: [day: 13] [journal: {The Sunday Times}] [month: 09] [pages:8][title: {Boxing.}] [type: newspaper article] [year: 1903] A similar thing happens if I try to cite the standard BibTeX type ‘misc’. If I store the newspaper item as type ‘article’ I get: “Boxing.”, The Sunday Times, 8, 1903. (missing day and month) Is it relevant that there is a problem when I include \showbtxfields[rotation=30] in my document? The resulting table has ‘*’ for fields in ‘article’, ‘book’, ‘demo-a’, ‘demo-b’ but the columns for ‘newspaper’ and ‘misc’ are empty. Any pointers gratefully received. Cheers, Mike O’Connor P.S. I am working in TeXShop on OSX (10.11.3), and it reports: This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.80.0 (TeX Live 2015) (rev 5238) ConTeXt ver: 2015.05.18 12:26 MKIV current fmt: 2016.3.19 int: english/english

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Luatex 1.08.0 announcement
by luigi scarso 29 Oct '19

29 Oct '19

============================================================== LuaTeX 1.08 2018-08-28 ============================================================== (1) This release is a prelude to 1.10, the next stable iteration of LuaTeX after version 1.00. (2) Lua 5.3 is now considered to be default and we might use 5.4 in version 1.10. There are no real functional changed expected. You still need to rename the binary for 5.3! (3) Binary mode is no longer available in MPlib but it is still available in stand alone MetaPost. This simplifies compilation and reduces dependencies. (4) The dependency on Poppler for pdf image inclusion has been removed. We now use a small dedicated library written by Pawel Jakowski. We no longer need c++ compilers. We're in the process of making it behave well on all platforms. It has been tested on intel platforms. (5) We know that there can be some (alignment) issues with the arm platform but these are looked into. Therefore, later this year we will release 1.09. Version 1.10 is planned for TeXlive. We hope that ffi works ok on intel and arm platforms at that point. (6) There have been some extensions to the Lua libraries and some callbacks have been added. Also, a few new primitives have been introduced. The documentation mentions the stable extensions. (7) There are the usual bug fixes and cleanups but there have been no real fundamental changes in the API. The LuaTeX team

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Re: [NTG-context] [Context] Xindy
by Gour 22 Jul '19

22 Jul '19

>>>>> "Mojca" == Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists(a)gmail.com> writes: Mojca> Hello Gour, This is not a question for this mailing list, but Mojca> rather for Hans himself. OK. Mojca> ConTeXt doesn't use makeindex, so I don't really understand your Mojca> complaints about makeindex. Well, I mentioned 'makeindex' in the context of the tool which cannot properly handle Unicode, afaik. Mojca> What features exactly do you miss? I'm not sure if indexing-feature in ConTeXt allow me to use English, Croatian and Sanskrit diacritics (not Devanagari) all in one document and define that I want e.g. that \'{s}, \d{s} has to be sorted under 'Š' ? In short, xindy allows one to define his own sort-rules. Mojca> It makes no sense to discuss distributing something before it can Mojca> be used with ConTeXt.) Right, that's why also asked "Now I'm interested how is support for Xindy in ConTeXt" hoping that the context-distribution list has enough knowledgeable people able to answer it. Excuse me for the noise...redirecting to other list... Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Zagreb, Croatia | GPG key: D19DB797 ----------------------------------------------------------------

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double followtokens?
by Pablo Rodriguez 02 Jan '19

02 Jan '19

Dear list, I have the following sample: \useMPlibrary[txt] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{followtokens} path RotPath ; RotPath := reverse halfcircle ; % path RotPath ; RotPath := halfcircle rotatedaround (origin, 180) ; \stopuseMPgraphic \followtokens{Just follow the tokens} \stoptext How can I get both paths (in diverse directions)? I would like to repeat the same text twice, separating both sentences with a character. I have to ask this, beause MetaPost is all Greek to me. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Font installation help needed!
by Geert Verhaag 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

Hi, I'm currently using ConTeXt version: mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 0.60 mtx-context | mtx-context | main context file: /home/verhaag/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.mkiv mtx-context | current version: 2013.08.11 20:23 I'd like to use the Advent Pro font, so I downloaded the font and have 7 ttf files available. After looking around for some manual I found: "Integrating TrueType Fonts into ConTEXt" by Thomas A. Schmitz. Immediately I run into problems when trying to run the texfont command. My Linux (ubuntu 14.04) says: The program 'texfont' is currently not installed. I did a standalone installation years ago of this version of ConTeXt, and don't dare to upgrade because I might run into other issues, sorry! Any hints on how to procede installing the Advent Pro font to this version of ConTeXt are very much welcomed! Regards, Gerard --

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accessing glyphs in the private area
by Ulrike Fischer 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

The font Coelacanth (on CTAN) has glyphs in the private area. Between 2/2017 (luaotfload in texlive 2017) and now the storing and accessing of this glyphs has changed. In the lua of the font of 2017 I find e.g. [62860]={ ["boundingbox"]=165, ["index"]=2622, ["unicode"]=62860, ["width"]=523, and the glyph can be accessed with \Uchar62860 In the current lua I now find [983910]={ ["boundingbox"]=195, ["index"]=2622, ["unicode"]=62860, ["width"]=523, }, and \Uchar62860 not longer works, one has to use \Uchar983910. Is this change intentional? How is one supposed to access such chars? The manual says about \Uchar that it "expands to the associated Unicode character." but this seems no longer to be true. A context example to test is \starttext \font\test={name:Coelacanth:mode=node;script=latn;language=DFLT;+tlig;} \test 1.: \Uchar62860 2.: \Uchar983910 \stoptext The question was triggered by this tex.sx question https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/453224/using-glyphs-in-the-corporat… https://github.com/u-fischer/luaotfload/issues/7 -- Ulrike Fischer https://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/

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table making ugly column sizes, how to fix?
by David Walther 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Full example at the bottom. I'm making a table. So far so good. Every so often I want to make something like a section header. Regular table rows are like this: \bTR\bTC \eTC\bTC NightShift \eTC\bTC Tension Lines 146 - 150 \eTC\eTR For the section headers, I do this, and they look the way I want: \bTR\bTC 30. \eTC \bTC[nc=2,align=center,style=] \bf{Foo Bar} \eTC\eTR But then the regular lines have ugly line breaks and suddenly the column size of column 3 is squeezed. This shouldn't be, we have the whole page to work with. So, when I do my section headers this way, the columns come out sized nicely, but the section header isn't styled the way I want it: \bTR\bTC 30. \eTC \bTC\eTC \bTC[align=center] \bf{Foo Bar} \eTC\eTR Below is my minimal example you can cut and paste. How do I do the section headers without messing up the column sizing? \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided,location=none,page=no] \setupfootertexts[\sans{Source: http://mywebsite}] \setupheadertexts[test column text wrapping] \setupheadertexts [] [Page \userpagenumber\ of \lastuserpagenumber] [Page \userpagenumber\ of \lastuserpagenumber] [] \setuppapersize[letter, portrait] \setuplayout[topspace=0.5in, backspace=1in, height=10in, width=7in, header=0.5in, footer=0.5in, headerdistance=0in, footerdistance=0in] \switchtobodyfont[12pt] \starttext \setupTABLE[split=repeat] \setupTABLE[r][each][toffset=3pt, boffset=3pt, loffset=3pt, roffset=3pt] \setupTABLE[c][each][leftframe=off,rightframe=off,align=right] \setupTABLE[c][first][frame=off,align=left] \setupTABLE[c][2][style=\tfx\it,align=left] \bTABLE \bTABLEhead \bTR\bTH Col1 \eTH\bTH Col2 \eTH\bTH Col3 \eTH\eTR \eTABLEhead \bTABLEnext \bTR\bTH Col1 \eTH\bTH Col2 \eTH\bTH Col3 \eTH\eTR \eTABLEnext \bTABLEbody \bTR\bTC \eTC\bTC NightShift \eTC\bTC Tension Lines 146 - 150 \eTC\eTR % This displays the way I want, but breaks the regular rows. \bTR\bTC 30. \eTC \bTC[nc=2,align=center,style=] \bf{Foo Bar} \eTC\eTR % This works with the regular rows, but doesn't look how I want. %\bTR\bTC 30. \eTC \bTC\eTC \bTC[align=center] \bf{Foo Bar} \eTC\eTR \eTABLEbody \eTABLE \stoptext

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Which color model shall I use
by Jan U. Hasecke 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Hi, I would like to know, how to define colors to have a good printing quality. I am currently producing print materials for a company where all colors were defined for online usage first, so we started with defining RGB colors and then derived CMYK colors. What is the best approach for defining colors in print materials? What color model shall I use? RGB or CMYK? For the background. We have some SVG graphics we use on the website. They are defined in RGB color model. And we use them in the print materials as well. I tend to define RGB colors in my print documents so that the colors of the included SVG files match the defined colors I use elsewhere in the document. Eg. the Corporate-Blue of the Logo (SVG) will match the Blue of the headlines. I could as well define CMYK colors in the document but then I have two different color models in one document and I fear that the colors are printed in different hues. What would you do? TIA juh

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