August 2019 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Re: [NTG-context] \setupcolumnsetlines does not work
by Wolfgang Schuster 17 Aug '19

17 Aug '19

Denis Maier schrieb am 17.08.2019 um 16:45: > Ok. So no need to load the module first. Good. > > So the second argument is an absolute pagenumber, not relative to > where to columnset starts... But then, this here should work: No, you set relative numbers (I checked it) but the first columnset environment ends on the third page because you leave just enough space on the second page to fit the text which produces an empty third page. Wolfgang

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\setupcolumnsetlines does not work
by Sytse Knypstra 17 Aug '19

17 Aug '19

In an effort to balance columns in a columnset layout, I found that in the following minimal example this effect is not obtained. After commenting out the first three lines after \starttext the result is ok. I am wondering what I overlooked this time. \definecolumnset[Two][n=2]  \starttext  \startcolumnset[Two]  \input knuth  \stopcolumnset  \page \setupcolumnsetlines[Two][1][1][9]  \startcolumnset[Two]  \input knuth  \stopcolumnset  \stoptext  Thank you for your suggestions, Sytse Knypstra

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ConTeXt Meeting 2019 registration details and tshirts
by Taco Hoekwater 17 Aug '19

17 Aug '19

Hi all, Because I received some email requests on whether registration is still open for the ConTeXt meeting in Bassenge and what to do about day visits et cetera, here is the nitty gritty on that: * As of today, there is room left for 10 extra participants, so late registrations are still possible. * Nevertheless, if you are certain you want to attend; better make sure to register shortly. You’ll be sorry if there is a sudden influx of dozens of new ConTeXt users from CCCamp and registrations have to be closed because of lack of room ;) * There are no single rooms available any more. * Registration will be closed on Sunday September 8 even if we are not full up by then, as some dinner ingredients need to be ordered in advance. * Day visits and partial attendance are both possible, but must be announced before September 8 if you want to stay for dinner and/or overnight (see above). Note further that overnight stays are subject to availability of empty beds. Fees for such visits: Lunch: €10; Dinner: €30; Overnight stay: €40. * The registration form can be used for day visits and partial attendance as well as for “normal” registration: https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2019/register.shtml but emailing me personally works fine as well. I hope that covers everything. Feel free to contact me directly if I forgot something. Then, there is a note on T-shirts needed: At the moment, we do not have enough registrations for a balanced budget. This means we had to cancel the free conference T-shirt, sorry! However, all is not lost: Pavneet Arora will be producing T-shirts for those that are willing to pay cash on delivery at Bassenge. Expected price is around €15 per shirt. Because of production times, reservation is both required and urgent. The production order should be made next Monday or Tuesday at the latest, so if you want one (or more) of the T-shirts, decide quickly! Pavneet will probably post a screenshot of the final logo design later today, and I am sure he will answer any additional questions you may have. Best wishes, Taco

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The odd semantics of \begincsname
by Henri Menke 17 Aug '19

17 Aug '19

Dear list, According to the LuaTeX documentation: “The \begincsname primitive is like \csname but doesn’t create a relaxed equivalent when there is no such name.” I thought it would be possible to use this fact to skip the \relax-ed definition when \def-ining a new control sequence, but the following MWE fails with \inaccessible: \expandafter\gdef\csname yes\endcsname{} \expandafter\gdef\begincsname no\endcsname{} \bye Is this a bug or is this behaviour intended? Could this be fixed by making manufacture_csname aware whether it is in a def_cmd context or not? Cheers, Henri

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radiobuttons
by Henning Hraban Ramm 16 Aug '19

16 Aug '19

Hi, coming back to an old form project I find that something changed WRT to form fields. For one, some fields appear smaller and shifted upwards – I managed to fix that with setups. What I can’t change is behaviour of radiobuttons: if I click one, all rbs of one group activate, and I can’t deactivate them any more. In my project all of the fields are duplicated on other pages, and while all other fields’ contents get copied, it doesn’t work for radiobuttons; my minimal example unfortunately can’t show that. \setupinteraction[state=start] \setupfield[MMradio][ option=printable, frame=overlay, corner=round, height=1em, width=1em, align=bottom, ] \definefield[chooseTeX][radio][MMradio][rbContext,rbLatex,rbOther][rbContext] \definesubfield[rbContext][][] \definesubfield[rbLatex][][] \definesubfield[rbOther][][] \starttext I want to use \field[rbContext] \CONTEXT\ \field[rbLatex] \LaTeX\ \field[rbOther] other. \page Just to confirm: I want to use \field[rbContext] \CONTEXT\ \field[rbLatex] \LaTeX\ \field[rbOther] other. \stoptext Greetlings, Hraban

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Fwd: OSFONTDIR and Windows 10
by Henning Hraban Ramm 16 Aug '19

16 Aug '19

> Am 2019-08-15 um 08:08 schrieb Huseyin Özoguz <h.oezoguz(a)mmnetz.de>: > > I just moved to Win 10 (coming from Win 7) with a fresh system and installed Context. > > My problem: The manual installed fonts are not stored in "Windows/Font" like before, but in "AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Fonts" – the default Fonts, which came with windows, are still there in Windows/Font. > > If I change OSFONTDIR to the new path and execute "mtxrun --script font --reload" after that, the new fonts are found by Context, but that seems no good way, because now the default-fonts are not found. > > How to solve this situation? How can I prevent Win10 from installing manual installed fonts into this other path and instead install it into "Windows/Font"directly? (Other programs like Corel etc. have no problems finding those other fonts, regardles of there location or OSFONTDIR.) > > Another solution: Give Context two pathes to look for fonts, is that possible? OSFONTDIR is like other PATH variables, it can contain several paths, separated by ; (at least on Linux and OSX, maybe it’s : on Windows). My OSFONTDIR is rather lengthy to include my collections of commercial and free fonts (beware, that makes ConTeXt slow). Greetlings, Hraban --- https://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.dreiviertelhaus.de GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD

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Fwd: ConTeXt Group Newsletter August 2019
by Henning Hraban Ramm 15 Aug '19

15 Aug '19

Thank you, Taco! > = ConTeXt Meeting blurb = > > If you have not registered yet, please consider joining us at YES, register NOW if you didn’t already! > = Chaos Communication Camp = > > CG Board member Henning Hraban Ramm is representing the ConTeXt community > at the Chaos Communication Camp 2019 in the 'LaTeX Village’ (set up in > conjunction with Dante e.V.) > > https://events.ccc.de/camp/2019/wiki/Village:LaTeX > > If any of you are in the neighbourhood of Ziegeleipark Mildenberg, Zehdenick, > Germany between August 21 and 25, I am sure he would love to see some visitors > (Zehdenick is about 60km north of Berlin). No, sorry, that won’t work – tickets are sold out. Of course I’d be glad to meet other ConTeXt users in our lovely LaTeX lab ;) BTW our neighbours are the latex loving Kinky Geeks - no coincidence… :D There will be 5 kids in our village, I’m curious what questions they’ll bring up… Greetlings, Hraban --- https://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.dreiviertelhaus.de GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD

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OSFONTDIR and Windows 10
by Huseyin Özoguz 15 Aug '19

15 Aug '19

Hello, I just moved to Win 10 (coming from Win 7) with a fresh system and installed Context. My problem: The manual installed fonts are not stored in "Windows/Font" like before, but in "AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Fonts" – the default Fonts, which came with windows, are still there in Windows/Font. If I change OSFONTDIR to the new path and execute "mtxrun --script font --reload" after that, the new fonts are found by Context, but that seems no good way, because now the default-fonts are not found. How to solve this situation? How can I prevent Win10 from installing manual installed fonts into this other path and instead install it into "Windows/Font"directly? (Other programs like Corel etc. have no problems finding those other fonts, regardles of there location or OSFONTDIR.) Another solution: Give Context two pathes to look for fonts, is that possible? Thank you. -- Huseyin Özoguz Schilfweg 52a 27751 Delmenhorst E-Mail: h.oezoguz(a)mmnetz.de Tel.: 0176/20203416

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ConTeXt Group Newsletter August 2019
by Taco Hoekwater 14 Aug '19

14 Aug '19

In this newsletter: * 2018 journal progress * ConTeXt Meeting updates * Chaos Communication Camp * Board elections * Becoming a CG member = 2018 journal progress = Our next ConTeXt Group journal issue is printed! Printed copies will reside below my desk until the meeting. The Table of Contents is online at: https://articles.contextgarden.net/journal/2018.html The PDFs are not yet publicly available but current CG Members can send me an email for an advance copy of any of the article PDFs. If you are not a member, you will have to wait until summer 2020. = ConTeXt Meeting updates = There is now a preliminary programme available on the meeting website (address below). Due to financial considerations, this will likely be our last visit to ’t Sjetootje. If you would like to visit the castle with us, you should register now :) = ConTeXt Meeting blurb = If you have not registered yet, please consider joining us at ’t Sjetootje, Bassenge-Boirs, Belgium on September 16–21, 2019. 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. 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! = Chaos Communication Camp = CG Board member Henning Hraban Ramm is representing the ConTeXt community at the Chaos Communication Camp 2019 in the 'LaTeX Village’ (set up in conjunction with Dante e.V.) https://events.ccc.de/camp/2019/wiki/Village:LaTeX If any of you are in the neighbourhood of Ziegeleipark Mildenberg, Zehdenick, Germany between August 21 and 25, I am sure he would love to see some visitors (Zehdenick is about 60km north of Berlin). = 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! Our previous newsletter already provided one tentative new board member, but ideally we would like at least one more candidate. = 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. = That’s all for now = Keep happy ConTeXting! Best wishes, Taco

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Convert SVG to MetaPost
by Jon Wong 13 Aug '19

13 Aug '19

Hi all, Is it possible to convert SVG to MetaPost? Currently, I have Bash scripts in my workflow to invoke Inkscape (converting SVG to PDF). I don’t like to allow shell access to TeX. If I can convert SVG to MetaPost, I will gladly Git-track MetaPost files instead of SVG files. That will do away with having to convert SVG into PDF (via Inkscape). Regards Jon

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