August 2020 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

\checkpage in the TOC
by Willi Egger 12 Aug '20

12 Aug '20

Hello! humble, in another book I am trying to improve the list of contents. On different places occur page breaks which should be addressed and corrected. I tried to use the method \checkpage[][], however my attempts are not succesful. For your reference I include a screenshot of the problematic pagebreak. \definepagechecker [willi] [method=1,before=,after=,inbetween={\page}] \setuplist [chapter] [prefix=no, sectionnumber=no, headnumber=no, alternative=command, command=\Mychaptercommand, inbetween={\checkpage[willi][lines=4]} Thank you for advice! Kind regards Willi ]

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\setfirstline is applied to whole paragraph
by Nicola 12 Aug '20

12 Aug '20

When I typeset the example at https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/definefirstline (reported below for your convenience), \setfirstline is applied to the whole first paragraph, which is laid out on a single line (hence, it is cropped at the edge of the page). Besides, the second \setfirstline is not applied at all, i.e., there are no small caps. If I comment out the first \setfirstline, then the second one does produce small caps, but again, a whole paragraph is set in small caps, not just the first line. $ context --version mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 1.03 mtx-context | mtx-context | main context file: /Users/nicola/Applications/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/context.mkiv mtx-context | current version: 2020.08.11 15:59 mtx-context | main context file: /Users/nicola/Applications/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/context.mkxl mtx-context | current version: 2020.08.11 15:59 Nicola %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \setupbodyfont [heros] %% important: smallcaps capable font! \definefirstline [italicfirstline] [ alternative=line, style=italic, ] \definefirstline [smallcapsfirstline] [ alternative=line, color=darkred, style=smallcaps, ] \starttext % \setfirstline[italicfirstline] \input knuth \par \setfirstline[smallcapsfirstline] \input knuth \par \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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\title with extra content in toc
by jbf 12 Aug '20

12 Aug '20

Still dealing with \title, but am creating a separate thread because the question is different. As well as using \title within frontmatter (my previous question was about the header not appearing on final page if it is an odd/recto page) I am also using it in the main body for 'chapters' that I don't want numbered, and of course, have ensured that such \title items can appear in the TOC. But I want to add a one-word comment in brackets to the title that appears in the TOC, so that I get: Chapter title (comment).......... 5 or whatever the page number is. Is there are way I can add extra content to an item that appears in the TOC? In this case it would be the same comment in each instance, but my question assumes that there could also be a need for different comments, none of which appear in the 'chapter' title in the main body. Am using MkIV BTW, Julian

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further to the earlier header question
by jbf 12 Aug '20

12 Aug '20

Clearly I am now getting myself quite confused where headers are concerned, and have sought as much info as I can on the wiki, but am not getting the desired results. We are talking about ConTeXt MkIV and a doublesided document. If I only use \chapter throughout and have my setup as: \setupheadertexts [{\hfill\getmarking[chapter]\hfill}][] [{\hfill\documentvariable{metadata:title}\hfill}][] then everything works as it should: Chapter title as header on recto pages and book title as header on verso pages. And as chapters change so does the header on the recto page. But this book has some 'chapters' that need to be unnumbered, for which I am using \title in the main body (as well as in frontmatter). Everything else about this choice works, except for the recto headers. If I use ONLY the setup above, then fairly obviously the numbered Chapters work, but those with \title continue to use the previous Chapter header for the recto pages (the verso pages with the book title is okay). So I understand that I may need to also give a command for the \title 'chapters' to act the way the other numbered chapters do. So I thought I could do this by simply adding the same set of commands above, but this time using title: \setupheadertexts [{\hfill\getmarking[*chapter*]\hfill}][] [{\hfill\documentvariable{metadata:title}\hfill}][] \setupheadertexts [{\hfill\getmarking[*title*]\hfill}][] [{\hfill\documentvariable{metadata:title}\hfill}][] However, when I do this, I get strange behaviour: now the numbered chapters do not show their recto header at all (the verso book title still appears though). The unnumbered \title chapters now show the headers but the same behaviour as indicated above occurs - the next numbered chapter after that carries the previous unnumbered chapter's title. Obviously I cannot do things the way I am doing it, but I cannot find how to do it. The other behaviour is the one I noted in an earlier post - if I get \title (used for an introduction) in the frontmatter to work with the correct headers, in the case of this Introduction (which is seven pages), the last of the recto pages does not bear the header 'Introduction'. Perhaps this is expected behaviour? Julian

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header text on final page of section
by jbf 12 Aug '20

12 Aug '20

I am using \title within frontmatter for an introduction. The \setupheadertexts for title (recto and verso pages) is: \setupheadertexts [{\hfill\getmarking[title]\hfill}][] [{\hfill\documentvariable{metadata:title}\hfill}][] Now, that setup (this time for [chapter]) works correctly for chapters in the main body of text, but for some reason that I am unaware of, in the case of the 'Introduction', I get a header text ('Introduction' is the text) where I should */except for the last page of the introduction/* (There are seven pages in the intro, so it is the 7th, therefore odd-numbered page that is missing the header). I would like to understand why this is happening and, of course, be able to adjust something so that I do get the header on that page, as I do for the other pages. Julian

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Page number 0 in Table of Contents with makeup
by Nicola 11 Aug '20

11 Aug '20

Consider this example: \definemakeup[toc][align=middle] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \starttext \startfrontmatter \startmakeup[toc] \placecontent \stopmakeup %\setuppagenumber[number=1] \startchapter[title={A}]\stopchapter \startchapter[title={B}]\stopchapter \stopfrontmatter \stoptext The first entry in the ToC has page number 0. I can fix it by uncommenting the commented line or by removing the makeup. Is this expected behaviour? If so, why? Nicola

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new upload - matching gimmick
by Hans Hagen 11 Aug '20

11 Aug '20

Hi, For those who like playing around you can use lua pettern matching in a match loop: \starttext \doloopovermatch {(\letterpercent w+) *(\letterpercent w*)} {aa bb cc dd} { [ \doloopovermatch {(\letterpercent w)(\letterpercent w)} {#1} {(##1 ##2)} \doloopovermatch {(\letterpercent w)(\letterpercent w)} {#2} {(##1 ##2)} ] } \blank \doloopovermatch {(\letterpercent d+)} {this 1 is 22 a 333 test} { [#1] } \blank \doloopovermatch {(.-)\letterpercent{\bf (.-)\letterpercent}(.*)} {this is {\bf a} test} {#1{\it not #2}#3} \blank \doloopovermatch {([\letterpercent w]+)} {\cldloadfile{tufte.tex}} { [#1] } \stoptext Probably not that useful (I never needed it but that doesn't say much) but it fits in the repertoire of loops. 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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new upload - hyphenation
by Hans Hagen 11 Aug '20

11 Aug '20

Hi, One can suppress hyphenation with: \setupalign[nothyphenated] but it has some limitations. The low level switches are \nohyphens and \dohyphens. Anyway, this mechanism has now been improved a bit: \starttext \startbuffer NEDERLANDS\par Nederlands\par nederlands\par \CONTEXT \par test\-test\par test-test \par \stopbuffer \blank \start \nl \hsize 2mm \getbuffer \stop \blank \blank \start \nl \hsize 2mm \nohyphens \getbuffer \stop \blank \startbuffer \nohyphens NEDERLANDS {\dohyphens Nederlands} nederlands\par \stopbuffer \blank \start \nl \hsize 2mm \getbuffer \stop \blank \startbuffer NEDERLANDS {\nohyphens Nederlands} nederlands\par \stopbuffer \blank \start \nl \hsize 2mm \getbuffer \stop \blank \stoptext We can (and probably will) add more granularity in this but now \nohyphens will also deal with explicit \discretionary (as used in the \CONTEXT definition) as well as \- and - in addition to the normal pattern driven hyphenation. It also obeys grouping. (this improvement concerns lmtx only) 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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How can I use ConTeXt from TeXLive2020 ?
by Otared Kavian 11 Aug '20

11 Aug '20

Hi all, I suggested to a friend, who is using plain TeX and LaTeX, to switch to ConTeXt, and since he is using TeXShop on MacOSX with a version of TeXLive2020 (named MacTeX2020), I thought he would just typeset a simple test document with the option « ConTeXt (LuaTeX) » from the menu in TeXShop, where it does appear. Unfortunately when doing this all he gets in the log file is: /sw/bin/init.csh: No such file or directory. mtxrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua' and I could not help him make the format (I do not have access to his machine, and I was trying to explain what to do on the phone). He cannot (or does not want) to install a standalone version of ConTeXt, and he thinks that since ConTeXt exists in TeXLive2020 it should work out of the box, as do plain TeX and LaTeX. My opinion is that he is right… But since for the tim ebeing this is not the case, can anyone explain what to do in order to enable ConTeXt running from TeXLive2020? Thanks in advance for any help: Otared K.

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How to set pdfminorversion in LMTX?
by Aditya Mahajan 10 Aug '20

10 Aug '20

Hi, How do I set pdfminorversion in LTMX. Both \pdfminorversion and \pdfvariable minorversion fail with undefined control sequence. Thanks, Aditya

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