March 2020 - ntg-context

\startquotation and citations
by Michael Guravage 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

Greetings, I would like to add a citation to a block quotation. Wolfgang proposed a solution <https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg55956.html>back in May 2011. With \star-stopquotation, the left quotation mark protrudes to the left of the text. With Wolfgang's solution, the quotation marks are aligned with the text. For consistency's sake, I need cited and non-cited quotations to appear alike. A lot has changed in the last nine years. Is there a newer way to achieve this behavior? Cheers, Michael

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Distance between table rows
by Tim Steenvoorden 25 Mar '20

25 Mar '20

Hi all, Trying to make my life a bit easier to add distances between tabulate rows. Found the \TB macro on the wiki. But why does below code _not_ add extra space when using the freshly defined \SR command below. So between the _second_ and _third_ row? Some TeX expansion thing going on here? ``` \define\SR {\NC\NR\TB[halfline]} \starttabulate[|r|l|] \NC one \NC two \NC\NR \NC two \NC three \SR \NC four \NC five \NC\NR \TB[halfline] \NC five \NC six \NC\NR \stoptabulate ``` Cheers, Tim

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reference a paragraph
by Alan Braslau 25 Mar '20

25 Mar '20

Hello, One creates references for structure elements as, for example, \startsubject [reference=sub:mysubject] ... \stopsubject and then can refer to these using, e.g. \on{page} [sub:subject] How might one reference a *paragraph*, for example? Parallel syntax might suggest \startparagraph [reference=p:myparagraph] but this is not implemented. Perhaps there is another referencing command that I am not aware of? Thank you Alan

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Changing default rule thickness (globally)
by Benjamin Buchmuller 25 Mar '20

25 Mar '20

Hi! I would like to change the rule thickness that is used by default in ConTeXt. However, from the command documentation (http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/qrcs/setup-en.pdf) I see that I would need to basically change this for \basegrid[rulethickness=...] \setupbar[rulethickness=...] \setupchemical[rulethickness=...] \setupeffect[rulethickness=...] \setupfillinlines[rulethickness=...] \setupfillinrules[rulethickness=...] \setupframed[rulethickness=...] \setuplinefillers[rulethickness=...] \setupmarginrules[rulethickness=...] \setupmixedcolumns[rulethickness=...] \setupnote[rulethickness=...] \setupparagraphs[rulethickness=...] \setupsidebar[rulethickness=...] \setuptables[rulethickness=...] \setuptabulation[rulethickness=...] \setuptextbackground[rulethickness=...] \setuptextrules[rulethickness=...] \setupthinrules[rulethickness=...] \setupxtable[rulethickness=...] (And for \setupbackgrounds for [top header text footer bottom].) I’m sure there is a more elegant way to do this. But how? Cheers Benjamin

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How to calculate the height of text of a certain width?
by Rudolf Bahr 25 Mar '20

25 Mar '20

Hello dear All, the following MWE works best: \definelayer[LAY] \starttext \setlayerframed[LAY] [x=0pt,y=20pt] [frame=on, width=300pt, align={right,}] % tolerant}] {\input ward } \flushlayer[LAY] \stoptext Now, it could have a favourable effect on designing a page if the height of a text of certain width could be calculated in advance, depending of the font. Is there a way? As I fear, TeX's means "\setbox" woun't work with aligned texts. Best wishes, remain healthy, Rudolf

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Re: [NTG-context] startcombination place reference left of images instead below
by Christoph Hintermüller 24 Mar '20

24 Mar '20

Hi Wolfgang On Mon, 2020-03-23 at 17:56 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > > Did my first tabulate/itemize example work for you? > > I have no problem including your graphic in a table although the > size > isn't perfect. > > \starttext > > \startplacetable[title={some caption},reference={fig:somefig}] > \startitemize[a][stopper=)] > \starttabulate > \NI \startMPcode input heap ; \stopMPcode \NC\NR > \stoptabulate > \stopitemize > \stopplacetable > > \stoptext > > Without the actual error message it's hard to tell what's wrong but > I > guess your installation doesn't know the \NI command for tabulate. > > The best would be to update your three year old ConTeXt version. > I finally managed to update to 2018 for JonathanF ubuntu ppa the most recent texlive packages are broken in terms of context missing dependencies and dlls. The wiki tells that \NI should be available since fall 2017 but seems as if in texlive 2018 still not incorporated but wiki ( https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tabulate) also talks about undocumented \itemtag and that works for my installation. \starttext \startplacetable[title={some caption},reference={fig:somefig}] \startitemize[a][stopper=)] \starttabulate \NC \itemttag \NC \startMPcode input heap ; \stopMPcode \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stopitemize \stopplacetable \stoptext Thanks again Xristoph -- -- Christoph Hintermüller Dipl.-Ing. Dr. MBA. MSc JKU Institute of Biomedical Mechatronics Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz, Austria, Cell: +43 650 8827347 Tel. +43 732 2468 4813 Email: christoph.hintermueller(a)jku.at

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Re: [NTG-context] startcombination place reference left of images instead below
by Christoph Hintermüller 24 Mar '20

24 Mar '20

Hi Wolfgang > Did my first tabulate/itemize example work for you? > > I have no problem including your graphic in a table although the > size > isn't perfect. > > \starttext > > \startplacetable[title={some caption},reference={fig:somefig}] > \startitemize[a][stopper=)] > \starttabulate > \NI \startMPcode input heap ; \stopMPcode \NC\NR > \stoptabulate > \stopitemize > \stopplacetable > > \stoptext > > Without the actual error message it's hard to tell what's wrong but > I > guess your installation doesn't know the \NI command for tabulate. > > The best would be to update your three year old ConTeXt version. > It seems so I tried to update everything using the latest distributeion of texlive for Ubuntu 18.04 form launchpad.net jonathanf but it seems as he does not really verify the context and luatex packages. Do you know a wroking ubuntu debian repo/ppa for installing context and all related? Alternatively as i do get lua errors what luaversion would you recommend and what additional lua packages are necessary possibly not considered by jonathanf? What alternative installation packages do you recommend exempt compiling from sources? Best Xristoph -- -- Christoph Hintermüller Dipl.-Ing. Dr. MBA. MSc JKU Institute of Biomedical Mechatronics Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz, Austria, Cell: +43 650 8827347 Tel. +43 732 2468 4813 Email: christoph.hintermueller(a)jku.at

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troubles with latin modern and mutool
by Damien Thiriet 24 Mar '20

24 Mar '20

Hello, I am facing some unexpected troubles while splitting my lessons to send them to my pupils. My idea was to use mutool draw to extract only the pages of my presentations relevant to my lesson of the day. Unfortunately, when I do for example mutool draw -o file-beginning.pdf file.pdf 2,5 This extracts pages 2 to 5 I got those warnings warning: cannot create ToUnicode mapping for GWKFXT+LMSans10-Regular The resulting pdf is perfectly readable on my computer, but some pupils claimed they received garbage encoding and an unreadable pdf (on OSX at least). This might be a mutool bug, so I don't send any MWE. Do you know any alternative to mutool draw to send clean pdf from pages of my presentations? Regards, Damien Thiriet

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LMTX running on macOS Catalina; fuzzy paragraphs; unwanted whitespace
by T. Kurt Bond 23 Mar '20

23 Mar '20

I got LMTX running on macOS Catalina. I followed the directions here <https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Installing_ConTeXt_LMTX_on_MacOS> for versions prior to Catalina, including authorizing the mtxrun script through Security & Privacy General tab. The first run of install.sh stopped with the errors: cp: cannot stat '/Users/tkb/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtxrun.lua': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat '/Users/tkb/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtx-install.lua': No such file or directory So I ran install.sh again. This time it said a bunch of things were missing and downloaded them. It seemed to finish ok, so I ran context on my document and it produced a PDF! (The ConTexT with TeXLive 2018 and TeXLive 2019 both died on this document with different unhelpful errors, by the way.) Both LMTX and TeXLive 2019 ran 5 to 10 times slower than TeXLive 2018, and both complain about "fuzzy paragraphs" with a list of U+XXXX codepoints. What's that mean? However, the PDF has unwanted whitespace in many areas. - It has unwanted whitespace between the entries in the Table of Contents. - It has unwanted whitespace before and after section headings, despite me having "before={},after={}" in the \setuphead commands for all the levels of sections. - And it had a large unwanted white space between paragraphs until I \setupwhitespace[none]. I'd prefer a little bit of white space between paragraphs, but I tried \setupwhitespace[0.5ex] and \definemeasure[between][0.25ex] with \setupwhitespace[\measure{between}], and \setupwhitespace[5pt] but all those went back to way too much white space between paragraphs. Any ideas? -- T. Kurt Bond, tkurtbond(a)gmail.com

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Re: [NTG-context] startcombination place reference left of images instead below
by Wolfgang Schuster 23 Mar '20

23 Mar '20

Christoph Hintermüller schrieb am 23.03.2020 um 17:09: > Hi Wolfgang > > On Mon, 2020-03-23 at 15:56 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >> This is not possible but maybe the following is a alternative for >> you. >> >> The tabulate can be used in combination with an item group to have >> auto >> generated numbers in a given column. >> >> \starttext >> >> \startitemize[a][stopper=)] >> \starttabulate >> \NI First entry \NC\NR >> \NI Second entry \NC\NR >> \NI Third entry \NC\NR >> \NI Fourth entry \NC\NR >> \stoptabulate >> \stopitemize >> >> \stoptext >> > I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if I want something which > is not possible at all > > I tired to ammend your above example as follows > > \placetable[] > [fig:somefig] > {some caption} > { > \startuseMPgraphic{heap_add_start_with_3} > input images/heap; > \stopuseMPgraphic > \startitemize[a][stopper=)] > \starttabulate > \NI { \useMPgraphic{heap_add_start_with_3} } \NC\NR > \stoptabulate > \stopitemize > } > > But id do get an "Undefined control sequence" for the \stoptabulate > command. > > Is it cause i try to use \useMPgraphic inside tabulate column? or is it > something else. You have to provide a *working* minimal example because the following dummy graphic works. \starttext \startplacetable[title={some caption},reference={fig:somefig}] \startuseMPgraphic{heap_add_start_with_3} draw fullcircle scaled 4cm ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startitemize[a][stopper=)] \starttabulate \NI \useMPgraphic{heap_add_start_with_3} \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stopitemize \stopplacetable \stoptext Wolfgang

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