April 2019 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

serial letters
by Henning Hraban Ramm 24 May '19

24 May '19

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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Strange behavior concerning pdf-output of externalfigures
by Rudolf Bahr 16 May '19

16 May '19

Dear list, I'm getting unexplainable artefacts in the pdf-output. My MWE is: ------------------ \starttext \externalfigure [input.png] [width=100mm] \stoptext ------------------ I append the output "MWE.pdf" and the input-figure "input.png" for comparison. I'm experiencing the artefacts with some figures which are all several years old. Until now it never happened in conTeXt programs. Because I installed a new OS (LinuxMint) on my workstation at the same time I tried 3 pdfviewers (okular, evince, xpdf) all with the same result. I'm using LuaMetaTeX, Version 2.00.0, ConTeXt ver: 2019.04.13 17:25 MKIV beta fmt: 2019.4.15 Please, do you have any idea what could be the reason? Best wishes, Rudolf

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XML xmldoif struggle!
by Geert Verhaag 03 May '19

03 May '19

Hi, I've the following XML tag in my XML file: <invoice number="194-002" client="RPMB-0012"> <currency>EURO</currency> ..... with invoice being the root tag! Now I have a setup defined as below (only part!): \startxmlsetups xml:invoice:invoice \xmlfirst{#1}{currency} \par \xmldoif{\xmlfirst{#1}{currency}}{contains(text(),'EURO')} { Euro set! \par } ..... The \xmlfirst{#1}{currency} command prints EURO as expected. But the xmldoif command doesn't cause the Euro set be printed?! What's wrong here? The manual xml-mkiv.pdf doesn't give me any hint on how to make this work! Regards, Gerard --

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Hyphenation questions
by Dmitry Starostin 01 May '19

01 May '19

1. is there an analog to \hyp{} command from the 'hyphenat' package? Double words with a dash happen all too often. 2. how to switch language for just three words for correct hyphenation? 3. if the citation in APS format falls out of the right margin, what needs to be changed to adjust it? 4. In APS, I cannot figure out how to make a space appear between the numbers for cited sources. [1, p. 1,2, p. 2]. But [1, p. 1, 2, p. 2] is what is desired. In one case it did appear automatically, but all others don't work. \cite[righttext={{{, p.~1}},{{, p.~2}}}][book1,book2]

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How to write a wiki page?
by Rudolf Bahr 01 May '19

01 May '19

Hello All! I'd like to write a wiki page on special Fraktur fonts, but I don't know how to begin technically. Are there rules? Certanly, but where? To whom would I send the result to correct it with respect to format, ConTeXt commands, English language, bringing it into the ConTeXt wiki and so on? Greetings, Rudolf

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Footnotes in xtables
by Clyde Johnston 01 May '19

01 May '19

How do you get footnotes to work in xtables? I get the superscript next to the text but the footnote does not appear at the bottom of the page. Thanks, Clyde MWE: \starttext \startxtable \startxrow \startxcell Alpha \stopxcell \startxcell Beta\footnote{Footnote Here} \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell Beta \stopxcell \startxcell Alpha\stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtable \stoptext

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several blocks of text in the margin
by Fabrice Couvreur 01 May '19

01 May '19

Hi How to put several blocks of text in the margin without them encroaching each other ? Thank. Fabrice \setuplayout [width=12cm, rightmargin=5cm] \definemathmatrix [pmatrix][matrix:parentheses][simplecommand=MATRIX] \unexpanded\def\pcent#1{#1\,\%} \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] Une population, à effectif stable, se répartit entre deux régions A et B. On suppose que chaque année : \startitemize[1] \item \pcent{30} des habitants de la région A déménagent pour la région B (les autres restent dans la région A); \item \pcent{20} des habitants de la région B déménagent pour la région A. \stopitemize La situation peut être représentée par le graphe probabiliste suivant : Les sommets A et B représentent les régions A et B. \m{0,3} est la probabilité de passage de la région A vers la région B ; la probabilité de passage de la région A vers elle-même est donc égale à \m{0,7}. En considérant les sommets dans l'ordre alphabétique, ,la matrice \m{M} de transition du graphe est : \startformula M=\MATRIX{0.7,0.3;0.2,0.8}. \stopformula \stopuserdata \dorecurse{4}{\input ward} %-> playing with the number to adjust \startuserdata[margintext] Une population, à effectif stable, se répartit entre deux régions A et B. On suppose que chaque année : \startitemize[1] \item \pcent{30} des habitants de la région A déménagent pour la région B (les autres restent dans la région A); \item \pcent{20} des habitants de la région B déménagent pour la région A. \stopitemize La situation peut être représentée par le graphe probabiliste suivant : Les sommets A et B représentent les régions A et B. \m{0,3} est la probabilité de passage de la région A vers la région B ; la probabilité de passage de la région A vers elle-même est donc égale à \m{0,7}. En considérant les sommets dans l'ordre alphabétique, ,la matrice \m{M} de transition du graphe est : \startformula M=\MATRIX{0.7,0.3;0.2,0.8}. \stopformula \stopuserdata \input ward \stoptext

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No menu bar option for Adobe Reader
by Paul Schalck 01 May '19

01 May '19

Hi, I use the "Hide menu bar" option extensively in Adobe Acrobat Reader to get a cleaner interface. To this end, I usually hack lpdf-mis.lua after a ConTeXt upgrade to create a \setupinteractionscreen[option=nomenubar] switch. I wonder if it would be possible to add this little feature to the source code. Perhaps it can be useful to others as well. Greetings! Paul Attachment: patch + modified lpdf-mis.lua (from ConTeXt MkVI 2019.04.25)

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underscore hyphenation in LMTX
by Pablo Rodriguez 01 May '19

01 May '19

Dear list, I have the following sample: \startluacode function document.addfunnyhyphen(tfmdata) local underscore = utf.byte("_") local char = tfmdata.characters[underscore] tfmdata.characters[0xFE000] = { width = 0, height = 0, depth = 0, commands = { { "right", -char.width }, { "down", char.depth }, { "slot", 1, underscore }, } } end utilities.sequencers.appendaction("aftercopyingcharacters","after", "document.addfunnyhyphen") \stopluacode \definehyphenationfeatures [whatever] [righthyphenchar="FE000] \setuphyphenation[method=traditional] \sethyphenationfeatures[strict, whatever] \setuppapersize[A10, lanscape] \starttext \startmakeup[standard] \hsize\zeropoint \tt definebodyfont \stopmakeup \stoptext I get the underscore hyphenation with latest ConTeXt beta (LuaTeX-1.10), but not with latest LMTX (LuaTeX-2.0). Am I missing something here? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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LMTX and system fonts
by Pablo Rodriguez 01 May '19

01 May '19

Dear list, fonts are my main problem using LMTX (on both Windows and Linux platforms). In Windows (I installed it again from scratch yesterday), system fonts (from c:/windows/fonts/) are simply ignored (I don’t know why). In Linux, a symlink in tex/texmf-fonts/ to the directory where fonts are stored doesn’t work either. The weird thing is that the ConTeXt Suite in both OSes works fine with system fonts or the mentioned symlink. What am I missing here? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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