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footnotes in columns not working
by Charles Doherty 22 Jul '19

22 Jul '19

Dear Hans, I have been typesetting a Newsletter using ConTeXt since 2003. I have updated the programme regularly and made adjustments to my template as needed. Following the most recent update I have problems with footnotes in columns. Depending on the number and length of the footnotes I have varied between placing them at the end of each column or as a list at the end of each page using: \setupnote[footnote][location=columns] or commenting out %\setupnote[footnote][location=columns] to get what I need. In the attached image I had commented out %\setupnote[footnote][location=columns] expecting to get footnotes arranged one beneath the other at the bottom of the page but I get them in two columns and both run off the page. Can you help on this? I attach an .png of the result. Thanks, Charlie

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font switching commands
by Atsuhito Kohda 22 Jul '19

22 Jul '19

Hi all "Manuals-ConTeXt wiki" provides us very important and useful information and we find cont-eni.pdf in "overview". In the manual, font switching commands \vi, \vii, \viii, \ix, \x, \xi, \xii are explained in p.113 but it seems they don't work except \vi and \xi. >From my simple test with ConTeXt, \xi produces a greek letter "ξ" as in traditional TeX and \vi seems to do nothing. Is the above explanation obsolete or is additional setup necessary? I'd like to know what is the real situation of these commands. Thanks in advance. Best regards, Atsuhito Kohda

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Quotation marks
by Dmitry Starostin 20 Jul '19

20 Jul '19

I understand it might have been deliberately and for various reasons, but ConTeXt has no analogue for {``} and {''} for quotes. \quotation is a replacement, but it is awkward if you write a draft in ConTeXt and make the final variant in pdfLatex. Is there a ready solution for the quotation marks as marked out in the text? Or one needs to write his own macro for this?

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Issue with \hbox attrSomeAttr=Val (LTMX only)
by Joseph Canedo 19 Jul '19

19 Jul '19

Dear list With LMTX the Following MWE does not seem find attribute value (it does with luatex 1.10) \defineattribute[MarginNode][public] \newbox\MyBox \startluacode local nuts = nodes.nuts local margin_node_attr = attributes.public('MarginNode') function test_attribute(box_id) local box = nuts.takebox(box_id) local margin_node = nuts.getattr(box, margin_node_attr) context('Expected 555=' .. (margin_node or '(nil)')) end \stopluacode \starttext Test. \the\MarginNodeattribute \setbox\MyBox\hbox attr\the\MarginNodeattribute=555{Test} \ctxlua{test_attribute(\the\MyBox)} \stoptext Thanks

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Side figure bug in mkiv?
by Duncan Hothersall 19 Jul '19

19 Jul '19

I think I have identified a bug in the side figure mechanism which is demonstrated by the minimal example below. The {\bf …} construct causes the para in which it appears to stop behaving properly with the side figure, and the text overflows. The preceding and following paras which don't have {\bf …} do behave properly. I wondered if emphasis like \bf should be done differently (with a start/stop mechanism?) in mkiv, but I found nothing to suggest it. \starttext Blah blah. \placefigure[right,none]{}{\externalfigure[cow][width=0.30\makeupwidth]} Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. {\bf Blah blah} blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. \stoptext Thanks for any help. Duncan

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preventing page break
by Floris van Manen 19 Jul '19

19 Jul '19

Hello List, What is the preferred way in context to prevent a page break happening between the heading(s) of a section and, for instance, the first 3 lines of the following paragraph? \section(one) \subsection(one two} %--- no page break here One two three for ... One two three for ... One two three for ... %- from here page breaks allowed Thanks .Floris

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Using \currentreferencenumber triggers “has a hidden number” in log file
by Marco Patzer 18 Jul '19

18 Jul '19

Hi, I use \enabletrackers [structures.referencing.empty] to catch references by number to sections without a number. The log file contains “has a hidden number…” in that case. I have a command that uses \currentreferencenumber which triggers the “has a hidden number…” warning in the log file. But that command takes care not to output the contents of that variable. But merely using it in an \doif\currentreferencenumber is sufficient to trigger the log message. Example: \enabletrackers [structures.referencing.empty] \def\foo[#1]{%% \doifreferencefoundelse{#1}{%% \doifelse\currentreferencenumber\emptyreference {Foo}{Bar}}%% } \setuphead [section] [number=no] \starttext \startsection [title=Foo, reference=sec:foo] \samplefile{knuth} \stopsection \foo[sec:foo] \stoptext Then check the log file for “has a hidden number”. 1) How to not trigger the log message when checking \currentreferencenumber? Or alternatively 2) Is there a better way to find invisible references? Marco

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Column spacing in MathML in mkiv
by Duncan Hothersall 18 Jul '19

18 Jul '19

Hi all. If I want to set the space between columns in a MathML <mtable>, how do I do it? Minimal non-working example below (set the attribute columnspacing to anything you like and it seems to be ignored). Is this a bug or is there a feature I've missed? \usemodule[mathml] \starttext \xmlprocessdata{}{<formula> <math xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'> <mtable columnalign="right center left" columnspacing="1em"> <mtr> <mtd><mi>a</mi><mi>b</mi></mtd> <mtd><mo>=</mo></mtd> <mtd><mi>c</mi><mi>d</mi></mtd> </mtr> <mtr> <mtd><mi>e</mi><mi>f</mi></mtd> <mtd><mo>=</mo></mtd> <mtd><mi>g</mi><mi>h</mi></mtd> </mtr> </mtable> </math></formula>}{} \stoptext Many thanks. Duncan

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[OT] veraPDF v1.14
by luigi scarso 18 Jul '19

18 Jul '19

https://www.pdfa.org/verapdf-1-14-released/ -- luigi

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bug with fonts in LMTX (Win7)?
by Pablo Rodriguez 17 Jul '19

17 Jul '19

Hi Wolfgang, I’m afraid LMTX cannot use \ss and \cg fonts in this sample (on Win7): \definefontfamily[mainface][rm][TeX Gyre Heros] \definefontfamily[mainface][mm][TeX Gyre Termes Math] \definefontfamily[mainface][ss][Gill Sans MT][tf=file:GIL_____.TTF] \definefontfamily[mainface][tt][Cousine] \definefontfamily[mainface][cg][Arial Narrow][tf=file:ARIALN.TTF] \setupbodyfont[mainface] \startbuffer \ConTeXt\ is awesome!\par \stopbuffer \starttext \startTEXpage[offset=1em] \getbuffer \ss\getbuffer \tt\getbuffer \cg\getbuffer \stopTEXpage \stoptext The fonts are there (as reported in https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2019/094955.html) I don’t know whether this issue could be fixed. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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