November 2019 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

serial letters
by Henning Hraban Ramm 11 Nov '24

11 Nov '24

How would you approach serial letters, e.g. to all members of a club? (Actually I need to send out donation receipts.) I’d like to use the letter module, since my usual letter design is using it. I can export the addresses to CSV, JSON, Lua tables or whatever or transfer them to a SQLite db. Would it make more sense to read them in Lua and combine this data with a buffer, or to write a single tex file for every letter? I know how to do the latter, but I’d like to learn a more ConTeXt-ish way. Would it make sense to use the bibliographies module? Greetlings, Hraban --- https://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.dreiviertelhaus.de GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD

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t-downsample.lua
by Peter Münster 17 Oct '24

17 Oct '24

Hi, Please find attached a new version of the module, with some ideas from Marco. Later, I'll upload it to modules.contextgarden.net. Here a usage example: \usemodule[downsample] \setupexternalfigures[ location=default, % find hacker.jpg and mill.png cache=/tmp, % where to put the low resolution images resolution=50, % resolution in DPI conversion=downsample.pdf] % use this module \starttext \externalfigure[hacker][width=0.4\textwidth] \setupexternalfigures[resolution=20] \externalfigure[mill][width=4in, height=3in] \setupexternalfigures[resolution=200] \externalfigure[mill][width=4in, height=3in] \stoptext Hans, it would be nice, to apply this patch, to trigger new conversion, when figure dimensions change: --- grph-inc.lua~ 2019-02-14 17:04:12.000000000 +0100 +++ grph-inc.lua 2019-02-17 08:45:38.129971581 +0100 @@ -864,6 +864,14 @@ newbase = prefix .. newbase end local hash = "" + local width = figures.current().request.width + local height = figures.current().request.height + if width then + hash = hash .. "[w:" .. width .. "]" + end + if height then + hash = hash .. "[h:" .. height .. "]" + end if resolution then hash = hash .. "[r:" .. resolution .. "]" end TIA, -- Peter

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\type ignores space between command and bracket
by Wolfgang Schuster 02 Feb '24

02 Feb '24

Hi, in the following code example the result from \type lacks the space between \cmd and the following left bracket. \starttext \starttyping \cmd [...] \stoptyping \type{\cmd [...]} \stoptext Wolfgang

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Laundry symbols (now: altered picture)
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 02 Jan '22

02 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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Re: [NTG-context] Transparency (Metapost)
by Jeong Dal 01 Dec '19

01 Dec '19

> \ Dear Fabrice, I got color and transparency using the following command in LMTX(metafun). fill p withcolor yellow withtransparency(1, .75); I hope that it helps. Best regards, Dalyoung

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Transparency (Metapost)
by Fabrice Couvreur 30 Nov '19

30 Nov '19

Hello, I have a little trouble with the management of transparency : the colors are not respected. Thank you. Fabrice \starttext \startMPcode defaultfont := "texgyrepagella-regular*default" ; defaultscale :=0.8; color brown; brown = (0.165,0.42,0.42); path twos, threes; twos = fullcircle xscaled 4cm yscaled 2cm rotated 180 shifted 42 left; threes = fullcircle xscaled 4cm yscaled 2cm shifted 42 right; fill twos withcolor transparent(1,0.4,brown); fill threes withcolor transparent(1,0.4,yellow); draw twos; draw threes; label("...",(1.5cm,0)); label("...",(0,0)); label("...",(-1.5cm,0)); label.top("yeux marron",(-1.5cm,1.25cm)); label.top("cheveux blonds",(1.5cm,1.25cm)); \stopMPcode \stoptext [image: blond.jpg]

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missing files in cld-mkiv
by Damien Thiriet 30 Nov '19

30 Nov '19

Hi, Files cld-005.pdf are missing in my version of the clm-mkiv manual. Regards, Damien Thiriet

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Re: [NTG-context] [LMTX urgent] core keeps getting dumped after 2019.11.28 LMTX update
by Hans Hagen 29 Nov '19

29 Nov '19

On 11/29/2019 12:17 PM, Floris van Manen wrote: > > > On 29-11-2019 10:34, Hans Hagen wrote: >> On 11/29/2019 7:32 AM, Floris van Manen wrote: >>> Anyone? >>> >>> After updating LMTX to the latest version 2019.11.28, context stopped >>> working, only to produce core dumps ... >>> >>> Any hints as how to resolve this? >> wipe the cache > > i removed the cache using: > rm -r tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context > > without much improvement... I think that i found the reason so i'll do a new upload later. There have been a few (not that large) changes in the engine wrr to (1) font memory used at the tex end (not dramatic but for huge fonts it matters), (2) some (potential) improvements of hz and protrusion (removing dead code and improving directional awareness) and (3) normalzation of node lists (very experimental but won't kick in normally). Thanks for testing betas, 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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