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\type ignores space between command and bracket
by Wolfgang Schuster 02 Feb '24

02 Feb '24

Hi, in the following code example the result from \type lacks the space between \cmd and the following left bracket. \starttext \starttyping \cmd [...] \stoptyping \type{\cmd [...]} \stoptext Wolfgang

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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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img.scan in lmtx?
by Henning Hraban Ramm 05 Aug '21

05 Aug '21

Hi, I use the lua function img.scan{filename}, but in lmtx I get "attempt to index a nil value (global 'img')", so I guess this got renamed or moved? HR

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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 — currently stored as ‘unpublished’ or ‘misc'.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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body text invades space for notes
by Pablo Rodriguez 04 Mar '20

04 Mar '20

Dear list, I’m afraid to admit that ConTeXt notes are increasily problematic for me. I don’t think this is special to me and I hope we can discuss the general issue. Bottom notes are somewhat tricky in ConTeXt. The user expects that these notes (either footnotes, or linenotes) aren’t moved to the next page. I mean, no reader expects to find a full footnote in the next page from the one that calls it. (At least, I have never seen that in any book read or paged through.) There may be good reasons for that, but ConTeXt doesn’t enable this by default. Both options "split=verystrict" and "scope=text" have to be used in "\setupnote". This translated in wrong space before notes when paragraph form was used. I was very interested to use these (line)notes for critical editions, but sometimes the text run into the notes. I’m afraid that left linenotes extremely problematic to be used. With the arrival of LMTX, space before footnotes is more problematic than before. No paragraph notes, see the attached sample (wrong-6.png). In other cases, ConTeXt seems to ignore totally that the page bottom contains footnotes. I cannot provide minimal samples. Consider that if it were so easy to reproduce, problably the issue would have been gone long ago. Even when one avoids the problematic bottom partition (which I did in that case by removing the "before" option from "\setupnote[footnote]"), there is clearly an issue with the footnote having its space before remaining blank from the body text (wrong-2.png). My first question is why the bottom notes have problems to preserve the space before them (and simultaneously remain in the same page where they come from). This applies also for paragraph notes. My second question is what can be improved to achieve what may be considered as a basic typographic feature. Sorry for not providing more than output samples. Bear with me. I may not be an expert user, but I think I’m a frequent ConTeXt user. And I don’t think it is totally wrong to consider this a basic feature that needs to be improved. Many thanks for your help in advance, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Some questions regarding math typesetting
by TeXnician 29 Feb '20

29 Feb '20

Dear list, while doing some math typesetting, I have found the following features not working in LMTX: 1. Non-displaystyle operators are simply not shown (try \sum or \lim in text or scriptstyle). This works in MkIV (and iirc in LMTX versions from before november). 2. \underbrace{x}_{y} stopped working. It produces an underbrace but the subscript is not centered below the brace. It will show up as right subscript. This works in MkIV. 3. \startformulas does not allow numbering formulas because the number will run into the next column. I have posted this at https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/518262/context-number-formulas-side… and Henri Menke tested that it broke in 2017. Aditya Mahajan mentioned that it is a bug. For the upper two cases: Is anything wrong with my LMTX installation or did I miss some upgrade instructions for math in LMTX? Many thanks for an answer.

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[HOWTO] spanning xtable cells
by Floris van Manen 07 Feb '20

07 Feb '20

Does anyone knows a hint to get the stacked boxes to the correct size? When usinig non-zero values for the options spaceinbetween and/or columndistance the cells of the xtable will not properly size when spanning over rows and/or columns. e.g. \starttext \startxtable[spaceinbetween=2mm, columndistance=2mm, corner=round] \startxtablebody \startxrow \startxcell[ny=3] a1 \stopxcell \startxcell[nx=2] a2/3 \stopxcell \startxcell[ny=3] a4 \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell b2 \stopxcell \startxcell b3 \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell c2 \stopxcell \startxcell c3 \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell[nx=3] d1/2/3 \stopxcell \startxcell d4 \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell e1 \stopxcell \startxcell e2 \stopxcell \startxcell e3 \stopxcell \startxcell e4 \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtablebody \stopxtable \stoptext

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14th ConTeXt Meeting (2020), Sibřina, Czech Republic
by Jano Kula 05 Feb '20

05 Feb '20

Dear all, as you may have noticed: the 14th ConTeXt Meeting will be held in Sibřina, Czech Republic on *September 6–12 (Sun–Sat), 2020* Meeting people you know from the list is always a great pleasure and fun as are discussed topics on LuaTeX, LuaMetaTeX, ConTeXt and their practical usage. Talks are not compulsory neither to give nor to attend. Still everyone is welcome to even few minutes presentation on her/his experiences or troubles and challenges. Registration will begin on May 1. There will be cheaper early-bird period May–June and discount for newcomers. For more information see the meeting page <https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2020/>. To have an impression of the meeting see photos from Sibřina in 2018 <https://kostverlorenvaart.blogspot.com/2018/09/context-meeting-2018-in-czec…> by Frans. See you in September! Jano on behalf of the ConTeXt Group

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margintext and floats in the margin
by Otared Kavian 31 Jan '20

31 Jan '20

Hi, Is it possible to put some short notes in the margin, together with a float? Below is an example, which puts the float on top of the text in the margin. The option « stack=yes » works fine for the margintext when there is no float, but it does not seems to be an option which puts the figure and margintext in a sort of stack. Thanks for any advice: Otared K. % begin margintext-float.tex \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuplayout[ width=120mm, leftmargin=25mm,rightmargin=50mm] \setupmargindata[margintext] [align=raggedright, stack=yes, location=outer, style={\rm}] \showframe \startbuffer[sine] numeric u ; u = 5mm ; draw function (1,"x","1.5*sin(x)",0,710/113,.01) scaled u withcolor transparent(1,.5,darkblue) withpen pencircle scaled 2pt ; \stopbuffer \starttext This is some text.\margintext{This is a remark in the margin.} This is some more text.\margintext{This text is also in the margin.} \startplacefigure[location=outermargin,number=no] \scale[width=\rightmarginwidth]{\processMPbuffer[sine]} \stopplacefigure \stoptext % end margintext-float.tex

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