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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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Typesetting hebrew in a table...
by Willi Egger 12 Aug '19

12 Aug '19

Hi all, my brother is studying Ifrith and wants to have a dictionary. The idea is to typeset left German and right Ifrith in a /bTABLE…\eTABLE environment. When trying to typeset the Ifrith text is not broken into lines correctly i.e. it is leaping into the cell reserved for the German text. — How to correct this behaviour? I attach a rather minimal sample. Kind regards! Willi

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texexec is deprecated?
by Jon Wong 12 Aug '19

12 Aug '19

Hi all, I did a quick standalone install of Mark IV: ```shell mkdir ~/context cd ~/context wget http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/first-setup.sh sh first-setup.sh --modules=all --context=current --engine=luatex’) ``` Set the correct paths and env in `~/.bashrc': ```shell # Add ConTeXt platform=osx-64 PATH=~/context/bin:~/context/tex/texmf-$platform/bin:$PATH source ~/context/tex/setuptex export PATH ``` (By the way, the latest lmtx installer is missing the `setuptex' file.) I was able to use `context’ but not `texexec’. The latter (`texexec —pdf test.tex’) tells me that some format file (`cont-en.fmt’) can’t be found. Is `texexec’ obsolete? The 2013 ConTeXt manual still uses it, though. Regards Jon

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Re: [NTG-context] white space after a float in a column
by Sytse Knypstra 12 Aug '19

12 Aug '19

Hi all, In my recent question I had overlooked the possibility of using \startplaceintermezzo ... \stopplaceintermezzo and inserting a \blank before the \stopplaceintermezzo. Sorry for this stupid mistake and the noise. With kind regards, Sytse Knypstra

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Some macros (Metafun)
by Fabrice Couvreur 11 Aug '19

11 Aug '19

Hello, In the Metafun manual, Hans uses macros like drawpath p ; drawcontrollines p ; drawpoints p ; drawcontrolpoints p ... How to use them in a document ? Where to find source codes ? For example, the following code does not work : \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{path} path p ; p := (1cm,1cm)--(1.5cm,1.5cm)..(2cm,0cm)..cycle ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startMPcode p := p .. cycle ; swappointlabels := true ; drawpath p ; \stopMPcode \stoptext Thank you Fabrice

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Re: [NTG-context] Wrong MetaPost text output
by Henri Menke 11 Aug '19

11 Aug '19

On 8/11/19 10:51 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: > I'll do this (lmtx): > > metapost > use 'textext(.....)' instead of 'btex ..... etex' > metapost > rewrapping btex ... etex at the outer level [[dummy]] > metapost > rewrapping btex ... etex at the outer level [["foo"]] > metapost > rewrapping btex ... etex at the outer level [[bar]] > > when this is seen > > def drawtest = > draw btex dummy etex shifted (0,0); > draw btex "foo" etex shifted (1.5cm,0); > draw btex bar etex shifted (3cm,0); > enddef; > > rewrapping can work kind of ok, but it is still more fragile than textext (which can also be used with variables and concatinated strings and such, which probably is what one wants to do in macros) Thank you for the quick repsonse. This looks good to me. However, could you tell me a way to get the correct baseline with textext? When I use \startMPpage draw btex dummy etex shifted (0,0); draw btex foo etex shifted (1.5cm,0); \stopMPpage the baseline is the one that I would expect from TeX, i.e. at the depth of the “y” is removed or otherwise correctly accounted for. In contrast when I use \startMPpage draw textext("dummy") shifted (0,0); draw textext("foo") shifted (1.5cm,0); \stopMPpage the baseline will be below the depth of the “y” which is sometimes unwanted. > > Hans > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl > -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Wrong MetaPost text output
by Henri Menke 11 Aug '19

11 Aug '19

Dear devs, There seems to be a bug in the MetaPost integration of ConTeXt. The MWE below should produce three different labels “dummy foo bar” but instead produces “bar bar bar”. The same example works correctly in plain MetaPost. Originally reported on https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/503773/strange-behaviour-of-the-bte… Cheers, Henri --- \starttext \startMPpage def drawtest(expr i) = %i is not used here draw btex dummy etex shifted (0,0); draw btex foo etex shifted (1.5cm,0); draw btex bar etex shifted (3cm,0); enddef; drawtest(5); \stopMPpage \stoptext

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white space after a float in a column
by Sytse Knypstra＠home.nl 10 Aug '19

10 Aug '19

Dear list members, I am struggling with floats in a two-column layout. I understand that there are three up-to-date mechanisms for columns: columnsets, pagecolumns and pagegrids. However, in neither setup I succeed in producing some extra vertical whitespace after the float if a caption is omitted (i.e. location=none in \setupcaption). My example:   \definepapersize[square21][width=21cm,height=21cm]  \setuppapersize[square21][square21]  \definecolumnset[Two][n=2]  \setupcolumnset[Two]  \setupcaption[intermezzo][location=none,spaceafter=1cm]  % no value for spaceafter seems to work \setuptolerance[verytolerant,stretch]  \setupframedtexts[frame=on,corner=round,width=local]  \setuplayout[grid=yes]  \starttext  \startcolumnset[Two]  \input knuth \par   \placeintermezzo[bottom][]{}  \startframedtext  \input tufte \par  \stopframedtext   \input knuth \par  \stopcolumnset \stoptext If 'columnset' is replaced everywhere by 'pagecolumns' or by 'pagegrid' through a find-and-replace operation, the result remains identical. Is it possible to insert more vertical white space after the intermezzo? A secondary remark: \placeintermezzo always puts the framed text at the top of the next column, no matter whether the parameter is top or bottom. But this is not a big deal. Sytse Knypstra

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[feature] update
by Floris van Manen 09 Aug '19

09 Aug '19

I do a daily update of the context distribution using the command sh ./first-setup.sh --modules=all --engine=luatex This works well, but is rather verbose on the screen. Would it be possible to have a less verbose version? Or that the script could check some kind of a checksum before deciding to download all data? Or download only part of the data (saving on some carbon footprint ;-) Thanks. .Floris

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