December 2020 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Quirk with \userpagenumber, datasets and the .tuc file
by Bruce Horrocks 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Here's an odd quirk... I wanted to get at some of my dataset data for use outside of ConTeXt so I thought I would just extract it from the .tuc file. MWE: \definedataset [MyDS][delay=yes] \starttext \input tufte \setdataset [MyDS] [ title={Test title}, page={\userpagenumber}, ] \stoptext In the TUC file I get: utilitydata.job.datasets.collected={ ["MyDS"]={ { ["index"]=1, ["order"]=1, ["page"]="1\\relax ", ["realpage"]=1, ["title"]="Test title", }, }, } Note the \\relax following the page number. This isn't a problem for me at the moment but I wondered if it is something that needs to be looked at? -- Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK

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not working command in LMTX
by Pablo Rodriguez 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Dear list, I have the following sample: \definecounter[minpagecounter][way=bypage] \def\minipagecounter {\incrementcounter[minpagecounter][1] \rawcounter[minpagecounter]} \starttext \dontleavehmode\dorecurse{4}{\minipagecounter\\} \stoptext LMTX gives only 0 as values. MkIV increments the counter. I know that something has changed in the command definition in LMTX, but I don’t know what I have to do to adapt it for this case. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Spacing in s-pre-50 (or better alternatives)
by Jairo A. del Rio 08 Dec '20

08 Dec '20

Hi everyone. I've tried using s-pre-50 for a series of "Beamer-like" presentations. An example: \usemodule[s-pre-50] \starttext \StartSteps \starttitle[title=Random speak party] \FlushStep \input jojomayer \FlushStep Cows and lovebirds are nice. \FlushStep Food smells weird after COVID-19. \FlushStep \CONTEXT\ rocks.\FlushStep \stoptitle \StopSteps \stoptext How should I adjust spacing between steps? With \startitemize ... \stopitemize, spacing options such as "packed" seem to be ignored. Although I love JavaScript animations, I need a PDF > PNG (> WEBM/MP4) flow and s-pre-50 is the only environment which fits my current needs. Any suggestions or alternatives? Thank you in advance. Cordially, Jairo

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issue with line breaking and images
by Pablo Rodriguez 08 Dec '20

08 Dec '20

Hi Hans, I have the following MWE: \setupexternalfigures[location=default] \starttext \dontleavehmode \dorecurse{80}{\externalfigure[cow][width=.075\textwidth] } \stoptext MkIV does break the lines to compose a paragraph, but LMTX doesn’t use the space to break. In fact, it doesn’t add the space. There is a simple workaround for that (explicitly adding "\ " between the closing bracket and the closing brace). But I wonder whether this might point to a more general issue in LMTX (or my lack of understanding of MkXL). Mnay thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Confusion with fonts
by T. Kurt Bond 08 Dec '20

08 Dec '20

I've got a small ConTeXt source file, that is a minimization of a file generated by the the ConTeXt output of pandoc using pandoc features to set the main font to ebgaramond: \definefallbackfamily[mainface][rm][CMU Serif][preset=range:greek, force=yes] \definefontfamily[mainface][rm][ebgaramond] \definefontfamily[mainface][mm][Latin Modern Math] \definefontfamily[mainface][ss][Latin Modern Sans] \definefontfamily[mainface][tt][Latin Modern Typewriter][features=none] \setupbodyfont[mainface] \starttext Is this text in Pagella? \stoptext When I run it through context it works and produces output that uses the EBGaramond font. The following also work: antykwapoltawskiego, asana, cambria, charter, ebgaramond, gentium, inconsolata, iwona, kurier, lato, punknova, stix, and xits. But other things, like palatino and pagella and dejavu. Those end up using Latin Modern Roman. I realize I don't understand ConTeXt's font handling and typescripts very well, could someone explain why some of those things work, and others don't? I'll note that pandoc generates this because it lets users of pandoc specify different fonts for the main body font, the math font, the sans font, and the mono font. Can anybody suggest a different way of doing that, which works more often or more simply? -- T. Kurt Bond, tkurtbond(a)gmail.com, https://tkurtbond.github.io

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How can I make "natural table" be exactly as wide as the textwidth?
by T. Kurt Bond 08 Dec '20

08 Dec '20

Setting maxwidth and textwidth on the \bTABLE doesn't seem to do anything. -- T. Kurt Bond, tkurtbond(a)gmail.com, https://tkurtbond.github.io

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Concerning \startTEXpage ... \stopTEXpage... again
by Jairo A. del Rio 07 Dec '20

07 Dec '20

Hi. Thanks to Hans for the quick fixes. However, some examples are still misbehaving. See the following: \setupbodyfont[70pt] \starttext \startTEXpage \framed{$a >> n = \left\lfloor\frac{a}{2^n}\right\rfloor$} \stopTEXpage \stoptext It works in MkIV, but it has the right margin cut with LMTX. Also, both MkIV and LMTX give cropped formulas when \framed is absent in the example above. Thank you in advance for any feedback. Best regards, Jairo :)

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Re: [NTG-context] troubles with setuphead, page=right
by Damien Thiriet 06 Dec '20

06 Dec '20

> \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] That solved the problem, thanks. Damien Thiriet

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Bugs using \startTEXpage ... \stopTEXpage, Metapost and text
by Jairo A. del Rio 06 Dec '20

06 Dec '20

Hi. The following: \starttext %Using \startMPpage instead doesn't help \startTEXpage[width=1920px,height=1080px,margin=1em] \startplacefigure[location=force,number=no] \startMPcode draw textext("some text"); \stopMPcode \stopplacefigure \stopTEXpage \stoptext gives a normal output in MkIV, but buggy output in LMTX. It seems only TeX commands in Metapost (textext, thetextext, etc.) are affected. Am I missing something? Thank you in advance. Regards, Jairo :)

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troubles with setuphead, page=right
by Damien Thiriet 06 Dec '20

06 Dec '20

Hi, \setuphead[subject] [page={yes,right}] \starttext \startsubject[title=test 1] \input ward \stopsubject \startsubject[title=test 2] \input ward \stopsubject \stoptext makes the job on ConTeXt online, but doesn't with my lmtx version. Did the syntax change in lmtx? Best regards, Damien Thiriet

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