June 2019 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

How to get a minimal context installation
by Denis Maier 22 Jun '19

22 Jun '19

Hi, the homepage says that the included fonts increase the installation to 200mb while the macros themselves are rather small. Is there a way to install only what is absolutely necessary? I'll be using system fonts anyway... Best, Denis

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ConTeXt Group Newsletter
by Taco Hoekwater 21 Jun '19

21 Jun '19

In this newsletter: * 2018 journal progress * ConTeXt Meeting updates * Board elections * 2018-2019 membership invoices * Becoming a CG member * Membership promo action = 2018 journal progress = Production of the 2018 CG journal has finally started. With articles by Alan Braslau, Willi Egger, Hans Hagen and Taco Hoekwater, this will be a varied and even rather substantive issue. CG Members that attend the 2019 ConTeXt meeting will receive their copy at that meeting. The other CG members will find the journal issue in their mailbox about a week later. This is the first issue that will use the free IBM Plex Sans and IBM Plex Mono font families instead of the commercial Alwyn New and Inconsolata. See https://www.ibm.com/plex/ if you are interested in this new font family. = ConTeXt Meeting updates = We filled in the abstracts page with the parts of the program that we already know right now. We have quite a varied program already, and more is yet to come! The ConTeXt meeting is an excellent way to get help with any problems you may have in ConTeXt, to learn about future directions of ConTeXt and LuaTeX, or just to talk and have a drink with other ConTeXt users. You do not have to be a ConTeXt Group member to attend the meeting, but members do get a meeting fees discount worth more than the CG membership fees for a year. In fact, if you attend for the very first time, there is an extra discount for that as well. Oh, and there are now just nine days left for the early registration discount! For registration and other information, see the website at https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2019 The 13th ConTeXt Meeting is sponsored by Dante e.V (www.dante.de) and NTG (www.ntg.nl) as well as by Pragma ADE (Hans & Ton) and Bittext (Taco). We are very grateful to all our sponsors! = Board elections = The ConTeXt meeting is also the location of the annual CG membership meeting. This year, no less than four board members are forced to resign according to the bylaws. We are looking for CG members to help fill those spots in the board. If you are interested in joining the CG board, please send a message to any of the current board members and we will get in touch with you. We can really use the help! = 2018-2019 membership invoices = The invoices for the membership fees for the current period (2018-2019) will be sent out digitally early next week. = Becoming a CG member = Our official stated purpose: * to promote the ConTeXt typographic system; * provide its users with infrastructure and information; * support its development; * provide a platform for discussion of quality automated typography; * serve as a meeting place for people who want the best possible typography for the languages and writings of the world; * organise congresses and trainings for users and ConTeXt developers to meet; * provide financial support to those involved in documentation and ConTeXt development, including through their participation in conferences; * produce and sell printed materials on ConTeXt; * sell advertising items for ConTeXt. The more members we have, the more we can do. If you are not a member already, please consider registering at https://group.contextgarden.net/register.shtml Membership fees are €40 per year for normal members, €20 for students, and €200 for institutions and corporations. = Membership promo action = ConTeXt Group currently has close to 50 members. We have in fact been close to 50 members for a few years now, but we never seem to actually reach that number. So as a special promotion, the 50th active member will have their meeting fees waived for their first membership period (2018-2019 or 2019-2020 at your option). = That’s all for now = Keep happy ConTeXting! Best wishes, Taco

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Wrong breaks in footnote for column texts
by Wolfgang Schuster 20 Jun '19

20 Jun '19

Hi Hans, as mentioned a few times by others long footnote entries have problems with line breaks. In mixed columns you get a single line for each entry and in page columns the width for the entries is wrong. \starttext \dorecurse{2}{\samplefile{dawkins}\footnote{\samplefile{jojomayer}} } \page \startmixedcolumns \dorecurse{2}{\samplefile{dawkins}\footnote{\samplefile{jojomayer}} } \stopmixedcolumns \page \setupnote[footnote][alternative=columns,n=2] \startpagecolumns \dorecurse{2}{\samplefile{dawkins}\footnote{\samplefile{jojomayer}} } \stoppagecolumns \stoptext Wolfgang

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Tagged blocks
by Jan Willem Flamma 19 Jun '19

19 Jun '19

Dear list members, I would like to add a tag to a block so I can easily select a few blocks and print them in another chapter. In the below MWE I would like to print the normal (non-tagged) block in the first chapter. The second block with the tag [exam] should not be processed in the first chapter and only appear in the second chapter. According to the wiki and reference manual it should be possible using either \useblocks or \selectblocks but I can't get it to work. Who can help me out? Best regards, Jan Willem Flamma \defineenumeration[question][location=margin,text=Question,way=bychapter] \defineenumeration[answer] [location=margin,text=Answer] \defineblock[question] \defineblock[answer] \hideblocks[question] \hideblocks[answer] \starttext \startchapter[title=Chapter for regular questions] \beginquestion \startquestion Normal question \stopquestion \endquestion \beginanswer \startanswer Normal answer \stopanswer \endanswer \beginquestion[exam] \startquestion Exam question \stopquestion \endquestion \beginanswer[exam] \startanswer Exam answer \stopanswer \endanswer \startsection[title=Questions] \useblocks[question][criterium=chapter] \stopsection \startsection[title=Answers] \useblocks[answer][criterium=chapter] \stopsection \stopchapter \startchapter[title=Chapter for exam questions] \startsection[title=Exam Questions] %\useblocks[question][exam] %<--- does not work \stopsection \startsection[title=Exam Answers] %\useblocks[answer][exam] %<--- does not work \stopsection \stopchapter \stoptext

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XML Export: Suppressing Presentation Forms in Arabic Script Fonts
by Hamid,Idris 19 Jun '19

19 Jun '19

Dear gang, Just documented the following in the wiki: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Export#Suppressing_Presentation_Forms_in_Ara… For those who use certain commercial Arabic-script fonts with XML export: In the course of ConTeXt processing, many standard codepoints from the U+600 block are substituted with those from a subset of Presentation Forms B, which breaks the input in critical ways. Many thanks to Hans for pointing out this simple way to solve the issue. For details, see the link above. Best wishes Idris -- Idris Samawi Hamid, Professor Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80512

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Typesetting Markdown -- Part 3
by Thangalin 17 Jun '19

17 Jun '19

Hi all! The third part of the series describes a way to perform continuous integration when writing Markdown that is typeset using ConTeXt. https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/06/16/typesetting-markdown-part-3/ Suggestions for improvement are welcome. Thank you.

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newlines in return Lua string
by Hans van der Meer 15 Jun '19

15 Jun '19

From \ctxlua{tex.print(hvdm.myluacall("\xmlatt{#1}{argument}"))} Lua returns a string containing newline characters '\n'. In ConTeXt this returned string is printed as one line, the embedded newlines are not honoured. I thought to replace with \crlf in this manner: string1 .. "\\crlf" .. string2 but the returned \crlf are not executed as such. How to force \crlf's in the executed return? dr. Hans van der Meer

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Tagged PDF Best Practice Guide: Syntax
by luigi scarso 14 Jun '19

14 Jun '19

https://www.pdfa.org/resource/tagged-pdf-best-practice-guide-syntax/ -- luigi

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Re: [NTG-context] Something wrong after ConTeXt installation, could somebody help me please?
by Wolfgang Schuster 14 Jun '19

14 Jun '19

Ursula Hermann schrieb am 13.06.2019 um 10:10: > > How can I do the changes you wrote me? > I don't use Winedt and have therefore no idea where you can change the compiler settings. Wolfgang

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aligning rotated text in a natural table
by Martin Althoff 12 Jun '19

12 Jun '19

I am trying to align rotated text horizontally and vertically in a table cell. Vertically is no problem, horizontally it fails. Non-rotated text is, of course, fine. What can I do to fix the problem? Thanks for suggestions. Martin using: mtx-context | current version: 2019.05.18 10:42 PDF of my output is attached. MWE: \starttext \setupTABLE[c][1][width=7mm] \setupTABLE[c][2][width=30mm] \setupTABLE[r][each][align={lohi,middle},height= 50mm] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD \rotate[270]{\switchtobodyfont[8pt]a bit more text} \eTD \bTD blah \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext

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