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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 22 Jun '20

22 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 — currently stored as ‘unpublished’ or ‘misc'.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 28 Oct '19

28 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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Difference in right justification in LMTX
by Joseph Canedo 11 Oct '19

11 Oct '19

Dear list. Given the following MWE (could not reproduce with smaller example). \setuppapersize[A5][A5] \definefontfeature[base][mode=node, protrusion=quality, expansion=quality] \definefontfamily[mainfont][serif][EBGaramond][features=base] \setupalign[hanging, lesshyphenation, hz] \setupbodyfont[mainfont, 9pt] \showframe \starttext les bestes/ & sus toute la terre/ & sus tout reptile qui bouge sur surete sur la {\righttoleft terre. Dieu} donc crea l'homme a son image. \stoptext I notice that LMTX seems to add some small gap at right margin in the 1st typeset line. I attach the pdf I get with luatex and lmtx. The showframe directive makes it more visible. Joseph

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List of Symbols/Abbreviations/Glosses with more then two entries
by Thomas Welter 11 Oct '19

11 Oct '19

The synonym "sym" defined by \definesynonyms[sym][syms][\symdesc] can take 2 entries by default: \sym[<RefName>]{<ShortName>}{<LongName>} For theses and whitepapers in the natural sciences and in engineering it is needed to introduce another entry for the unit: \sym[<RefName>]{<ShortName>}{<Unit>}{<LongName>} (<-- This does of course not compile, take it as a feature request) e.g. \sym[Salpha]{\alpha\ }{$[W~m^{-2}~K^{-1}]$}{Heat Transfer Coefficient} where \sym[Salpha]{\alpha\ }{$[W~m^{-2}~K^{-1}]$ Heat Transfer Coefficient} cannot be a good workaround since \symdesc{Salpha} should not include the unit. And of course I want the unit entry to be in a separate column when calling \placelistofsynonyms[sym] In LaTeX I accomplished this with glossaries and glossary-mcols. Is there some neat trick to get this behaviour "the ConTeXt way" (maybe with some Lua + *.aux)? The next step would be to define the table headers of the list of symbols such as "Symbol \NC Unit \NC Description"... Thanks in advance and kind regards, Thomas

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Documentation of change / Evolving documents
by Axel Kielhorn 11 Oct '19

11 Oct '19

Hi, I often have documents that are not finished but need to change over time. A client changes their mind, laws are changed, … While working with the document, I want to see the changes. When the document is finally finished, I only want to see the change history. I came up with the following. When the mode is „change“ the date (or version) is shown in the margin and the change is printed in red. Without mode „change“ only the change history is printed. What I want now is to change the layout of the register. Adding some vspace around the date and printing the date in bold. Is there a way to achieve this or am I on the wrong way? (Should the date be the indicator, thus giving me the layout I want?) \enablemode[change] \setuppapersize [A4][A4] \setuplayout [width=middle, backspace=1.5in, cutspace=1.5in, height=middle, topspace=0.75in, bottomspace=0.75in] \setupbodyfont[11pt] \defineregister [change] \setupregister [change] [ indicator=no %% no letter style=sansbold, %% headings textstyle=slanted, %% entries pagestyle=bolditalic, %% page refs n=1, %% columns ] \def\ChangeV#1#2{\change{#1+#2}\doifmode{change}{\inmargin{\tx #1}{\red #2\par}}} \def\ChangeD#1#2{\change{#1+#2}\doifmode{change}{\inmargin{\tx #1}{\red #2\par}}} \starttext \ChangeV{V. 1.0}{Fertig!} \input knuth \ChangeD{2018-12-22}{Fertig!} \ChangeD{2018-12-23}{Letzter Fehler beseitigt.} \input knuth \ChangeD{2018-12-23}{Allerletzter Fehler beseitigt.} Ende \startsection[title={History}] \placechange \stopsection \stoptext

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Lower limit of integrals shifted
by Mikael P. Sundqvist 19 Sep '19

19 Sep '19

Hi, the output of \setupmathematics[ integral=nolimits, ] \starttext \startTEXpage[offset=2bp] $\displaystyle\int_0^1x^2\,dx=\frac{1}{3}$ \stopTEXpage \stoptext is attached. Clearly, the lower limit in the integral is not correctly placed. With hope of a quick fix, Mikael

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(no subject)
by Denis Maier 18 Aug '19

18 Aug '19

Hi, I am typesetting a newsletter using newcolumnsets, and I am struggling with placing my graphics. Why isn't the graphic on page 2 at the bottom (code below)? Best, Denis ``` \usemodule[newcolumnsets,simulate] \useMPlibrary[dum] \setupbodyfont [palatino] \setuphead[section][style=\bfa\ss] \setuplayout [grid=yes] \setuplayout [backspace=20mm, cutspace=15mm, width=middle, height=middle] \setupsystem [random=1234] \setuppagenumbering [ alternative=, location=, ] \setupfootertexts [Laubblatt 2019/1] [{\externalfigure[cow][height=15mm]}] \setupfooter [style=\ss] \setuptolerance [verytolerant,stretch] \definecolor[color-1][.5(red,green)] \definecolor[color-2][.5(green,blue)] \definecolor[color-3][.5(blue,red)] \definecolor[color-4][.5(white,black)] \definecolor[color-5][.5(white,color-4)] \startuniqueMPgraphic{frame} fill OverlayBox withcolor \MPcolor{color-1} ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \startuniqueMPgraphic{contrast} fill OverlayBox withcolor \MPcolor{color-2} ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \defineoverlay[frame] [\uniqueMPgraphic{frame}] \defineoverlay[contrast][\uniqueMPgraphic{contrast}] \definecolumnset[example][n=2] %\setupcolumnsetstart[example][1][1][2] %\setupcolumnsetstart[example][1][2][4] %\setupcolumnsetlines[example][1][1][-5] %\setupcolumnsetlines[example][1][2][-5] \definecolumnsetspan[wide] [n=2, background=contrast, color=white, ] \starttext \startcolumnset[example] \startcolumnsetspan[wide] \subject{Einleitung} {\tfx\setupinterlinespace\em \dorecurse{1}{\fakewords{50}{100}\par} } \stopcolumnsetspan \placefigure [btrl,none] {} { \externalfigure[placeholder][width=\columnsetspanwidth{1}] } \dorecurse{5}{\fakewords{50}{100}\par} \placefigure [btrl,none] {} { \externalfigure[placeholder][width=\columnsetspanwidth{2}] } \dorecurse{5}{\fakewords{50}{100}\par} \stopcolumnset \stoptext ```

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about SimpleSlides
by Atsuhito Kohda 02 Aug '19

02 Aug '19

Hi all, SimpleSlides is very useful for novice users so I do use it. But I encountered few problems which, I'm afraid, might be known. When we use a style BigNumber (or Embossed), an error occured: --------- tex error > tex error on line 87 in file /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/third/simpleslides/s-simpleslides-BigNumber.tex: ! Undefined control sequence l.87 \beginOLDTEX --------- I modified s-simpleslides-BigNumber.tex as follows: comment out from line #87 to #99 % \beginOLDTEX ... % \endLUATEX except line #98 \definefontsynonym [BigNumberFont] [name:texgyreherosbold] then it seems to work fine. But I suspect unconditional definition is not good so I'd like to know the correct fix. Another problem is with style Split. Browsing simpleslides.pdf, I think date, author, title and page number should be displayed on each slide but, in fact, we can't see them except page number. It seems, e.g. the following in s-simpleslides-Split.tex fails to get the "date". draw \sometxt[simpleslides:sometxt:left]{\getvariable{simpleslides:title}{date}} I think it is very helpful to see date, title on a slide so I'd like to know the fix. Thanks in advance. Best regards, Atsuhito Kohda

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