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gnuplot-module broken under lmtx
by Christian Prim 10 Apr '19

10 Apr '19

Hi It's little off-topic as there are officially no modules included in lmtx. But when I used the modules from a mkiv-installation, there was little to no problem. But with the gnuplot-module I can't fix the error myself. MWE: \usemodule[gnuplot] \startGNUPLOTscript[sin] plot sin(x) \stopGNUPLOTscript \starttext \placefigure[here]{Sine Test}{\useGNUPLOTgraphic[sin]} \stoptext Under mkiv everything is fine. mkiv creates a file gnuplot-gnuplot-1.plt, sends this file to gnuplot and uses the output gnuplot-gnuplot-1-ctx.tex. Under lmtx only the files gnuplot-gnuplot-1.tmp and gnuplot-gnuplot-inclusions.tmp are created. When I copy the correct .plt file from a mkiv-run, no gnuplot-gnuplot-1-ctx.tex is generated. If I copy the correct -ctx.tex file from a mkiv-run, I still get an error. Relevant part from the logfile of a working mkiv-run: modules > 'gnuplot' is loaded open source > level 3, order 4, name '/home/user/context/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/third/gnuplot/t-gnuplot.mkiv' loading > Gnuplot module open source > level 4, order 5, name '/home/user/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/fonts/mkiv/type-imp-texgyre.mkiv' close source > level 4, order 5, name '/home/user/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/fonts/mkiv/type-imp-texgyre.mkiv' close source > level 3, order 5, name '/home/user/context/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/third/gnuplot/t-gnuplot.mkiv' fonts > preloading latin modern fonts (second stage) fonts > 'fallback modern-designsize rm 12pt' is loaded open source > level 3, order 6, name 'gnuplot-gnuplot-1-ctx.tex' close source > level 3, order 6, name 'gnuplot-gnuplot-1-ctx.tex' metapost > initializing instance 'metafun:1' using format 'metafun' and method 'default' metapost > loading 'metafun' as '/home/user/context/tex/texmf-context/metapost/context/base/mpiv/metafun.mpiv' using method 'default' metapost > initializing number mode 'scaled' floatblocks > '1' placed (here) from a lmtx-run (no .plt-file and -ctx.tex given): modules > 'gnuplot' is loaded open source > level 3, order 4, name '/home/user/lmtx/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/third/gnuplot/t-gnuplot.mkiv' loading > Gnuplot module open source > level 4, order 5, name '/home/user/lmtx/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/fonts/mkiv/type-imp-texgyre.mkiv' close source > level 4, order 5, name '/home/user/lmtx/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/fonts/mkiv/type-imp-texgyre.mkiv' close source > level 3, order 5, name '/home/user/lmtx/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/third/gnuplot/t-gnuplot.mkiv' fonts > preloading latin modern fonts (second stage) fonts > 'fallback modern-designsize rm 12pt' is loaded mtxrun | mtxrun | executing: gnuplot gnuplot-gnuplot-1.plt mtxrun | mtxrun | /home/user/lmtx/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/mtxrun.lua:26166: attempt to call a nil value (field 'exec') aaa > mtxrun --direct gnuplot gnuplot-gnuplot-1.plt floatblocks > no block given floatblocks > '1' placed (here) lmtx with given .plt and -ctx.tex-file: modules > 'gnuplot' is loaded open source > level 3, order 4, name '/home/user/lmtx/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/third/gnuplot/t-gnuplot.mkiv' loading > Gnuplot module open source > level 4, order 5, name '/home/user/lmtx/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/fonts/mkiv/type-imp-texgyre.mkiv' close source > level 4, order 5, name '/home/user/lmtx/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/fonts/mkiv/type-imp-texgyre.mkiv' close source > level 3, order 5, name '/home/user/lmtx/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/third/gnuplot/t-gnuplot.mkiv' fonts > preloading latin modern fonts (second stage) fonts > 'fallback modern-designsize rm 12pt' is loaded mtxrun | mtxrun | executing: gnuplot gnuplot-gnuplot-1.plt mtxrun | mtxrun | /home/user/lmtx/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/mtxrun.lua:26166: attempt to call a nil value (field 'exec') aaa > mtxrun --direct gnuplot gnuplot-gnuplot-1.plt open source > level 3, order 6, name 'gnuplot-gnuplot-1-ctx.tex' close source > level 3, order 6, name 'gnuplot-gnuplot-1-ctx.tex' metapost > initializing instance 'metafun:1' using format 'metafun' and method 'default' metapost > loading 'metafun' as '/home/user/lmtx/tex/texmf-context/metapost/context/base/mpiv/metafun.mpiv' using method 'default' metapost > initializing number mode 'scaled' floatblocks > '1' placed (here) tex error > tex error on line 1 in file gnuplot-gnuplot-1-ctx.tex: ! Undefined control sequence <argument> \GNUPLOTfile -ctx.tex \fourthoffivearguments #1#2#3#4#5->#4 <write> set output "\@@GNUPLOTresult " <inserted text> }\endwrite <argument> \shipoutscratchbox \page_shipout_box #1->\clf_shipoutpage #1 \relax \global \setbox #1\emptybox ... ...l.8 \stoptext 1 >> % Written by ConTeXt terminal for GNUPLOT on: 2019-04-10 16:12 CEST 2 % GNUPLOT version: 5.0.5, terminal version: 1.0.0 (2011-11-05) 3 % See also http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Gnuplot 4 % 5 \startGNUPLOTgraphic[1] 6 string gnuplotversion; gnuplotversion := "5.0"; 7 string termversion; termversion := "1.0"; 8 % scaling factor, width and height of the figure 9 a := 1cm; w := 12.700a; h := 7.620a; % (5in, 3in) 10 % temporary variable for storing the path and images 11 save p, img, ima; path p; string img, ima; The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue, and I'll forget about whatever was undefined. mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 256 Sorry, can't help more, as I don't know where the problem is. Thanks for fixing it in time, when the modules get installed with lmtx. Christian

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Text in the margin
by Fabrice Couvreur 10 Apr '19

10 Apr '19

Hi, Wolfgang suggested this to put text in the margin but since some updates it does not work anymore : \setuplayout [width=12cm, rightmargin=5cm] \defineuserdata [margintext] [alternative=margintext] \defineuserdataalternative [margintext] [renderingsetup=userdata:margintext] \startsetups [userdata:margintext] \margindata [inright] [%style=\smallbodyfont, style={\switchtobodyfont[9pt]}, width=\rightmarginwidth, align={flushleft,broad}] {{\bf Exemple — }\getinlineuserdata} \stopsetups \starttext \startuserdata[margintext] \input ward \stopuserdata \stoptext Thank you. Fabrice

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Strange behavior in math mode: < and minus sign give leftarrow
by Otared Kavian 10 Apr '19

10 Apr '19

Hi Hans, While testing old documents with lmtx, I noticed that with recent versions of mkiv, as well as LuaMetaTeX, there is a strange behavior in math mode: when the characters < and - follow each other one gets \leftarrow… This is embarrassing when one writes inequalities for negative numbers. So one has to separate them in order to obtain with curly braces. Can this be fixed or is it intended ? \starttext $\alpha < -1$ $\alpha \leftarrow 1$ $\alpha < {-1}$ $\alpha {<} - 1$ \stoptext Best regards: OK

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DIN lang folder with crop marks
by Benjamin Koppe 10 Apr '19

10 Apr '19

Hallo, I'm new to ConTeXt and am crazy enough to start with something nonstandard. Of course I got stuck pretty fast. I started out with this: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/DIN_lang_folder and then found some info on crop marks here: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/PaperSetup#Crop_marks I tried different options (marked=on, market=colour, marked=color..., something with \setuplayout[location={middle,middle}]...) Some times the crop marks don't show at all, sometimes they are set off a bit so they don't fit with the actual document. I added the whole file as I really do not knwo (yet) how to reduce things... Thanks for any help De Benny

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Fwd: SyncTeX and Skim/TeXShop
by Nicola Vitacolonna 10 Apr '19

10 Apr '19

Sorry, forgot to forward to the mailing list: > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Nicola Vitacolonna <nvitacolonna(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] SyncTeX and Skim/TeXShop > Date: 10 April 2019 at 17:50:26 CEST > To: Hans Hagen <j.hagen(a)xs4all.nl> > > Hans, OK, > thanks for the feedback. I was able to get TeXShop to work as explained by OK—that’s already a progress. I prefer to use Vim, so I’ll see whether I can cook something myself using AppleScript and Skim and parsing the ConTeXt-generated .synctex file. Is the synctex format currently used by ConTeXt described anywhere? > > Thanks again, > Nicola

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Re: [NTG-context] Referencing the page on which an endnote was generated
by Huseyin Özoguz 10 Apr '19

10 Apr '19

Hi, you can always set *\pagereference[bla] *into the text and reference to the pagenumber of the reference with *\at[bla]*. Is that what you wanted? Huseyin Özoguz -- Huseyin Özoguz E-Mail: h.oezoguz(a)mmnetz.de

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SyncTeX and Skim/TeXShop
by Nicola Vitacolonna 10 Apr '19

10 Apr '19

Hi, is anyone using ConTeXt with Skim, or TeXShop, on macOS? SyncTeX used to work fine with ConTeXt in both apps. Now, it seems that ConTeXt has started to generate a .synctex file rather than a .synctex.gz, and the format seems to have changed (?). As I haven’t followed recent (or perhaps not so recent) developments in this area, do you have any suggestions to make SyncTeX work again? I am using Skim, but any PDF viewer would be fine if Skim cannot be used for the purpose any longer. Thanks in advance, Nicola

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Referencing the page on which an endnote was generated
by Rik Kabel 10 Apr '19

10 Apr '19

List, I would like to create headings for the endnotes appendix chapter of a book with headings like "Notes for pages x–y" but can find no way to capture x and y. Is there a way to get those page numbers to insert into the header? -- Rik

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Emacs with context lmtx
by Fabrice Couvreur 09 Apr '19

09 Apr '19

Hi, I compile all my files with Emacs and standalone context. I would like to compare context lmtx. I added this in my .emacs file but it does not work. ############################################################################# (eval-after-load "context" '(setq TeX-command-list (cons '("ConTeXt" "PATH=/home/viserion/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin:$PATH context --purgeall %s" TeX-run-command nil t :help "Run context (MarkIV)") TeX-command-list) ("ConTeXt" "PATH=/home/viserion/data/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin:$PATH context --purgeall %s" TeX-run-command t t :help "Run context (LMTX)") t) ) ############################################################################# For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. File mode specification error: (wrong-type-argument symbolp (ConTeXt PATH=/home/viserion/data/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin:$PATH context --purgeall %s TeX-run-command t t :help Run context (LMTX))) Thank you. Fabrice

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endnotes customizing how?
by Hans van der Meer 09 Apr '19

09 Apr '19

In typesetting my endnotes with \placenotes[endnote] I seem unable to unfluence the text characteristics. I tried things like (1) \setupnotes[endnote][textcolor=blue] (2) changed fonts before the \ bgroup\bf\placenote\egroup call (3) \startsetups[setups:endnotes] \setupwhitespace[0pt] \stopsetups % textstyle influences endnotemarker in the text. \setupnote[endnote][textcommand=\hifnmarker,before=\directsetup{setups:endnotes}] (4) \setupnotes[endnote][bodyfont=italic] Where (3) made a difference in linespacing, nothing else does. How can one determine the text characteristics of the endnotes? dr. Hans van der Meer

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