January 2021 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name
by Marco Patzer 08 Jul '21

08 Jul '21

Hi! LMTX and MkIV behave differently if dots are used in the file name. Example: printf '%s\n' '\starttext\null\stoptext' > foo.10.tex && context foo.10.tex MkIV: → foo.10.pdf LMTX: → foo.pdf Is this intentional? This is LuaMetaTeX, Version 2.06.05 current version: 2020.05.25 23:39 Marco

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Hyphenation again
by Denis Maier 06 Jun '21

06 Jun '21

Hi, another weird thing: In this example I use \startexceptions to set hyphenation exceptions: ``` \mainlanguage[en] \startexceptions[en] appli-cable obli-gated \stopexceptions \setuplayout[width=1cm] \starttext \currentmainlanguage \currentlanguage \hyphenatedword{applicable} applicable \hyphenatedword{obligated} obligated \stoptext ``` What am I missing? Best, Denis

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Hyphenation patterns
by Denis Maier 09 Apr '21

09 Apr '21

Hi, where can I find the hyphenation patterns used by ConTeXt? I have two wrongly hyphenated words, and I want to check whether this is due to incorrect patterns. (I tried the source browser... not much luck so far.) The words are: 1. applicable => hyphenated as applic-able 2. obligated => hyphenated as oblig-ated I know I can use \hyphenation to correct that, but I wanted to check the patterns nevertheless. Best, Denis

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Markdown module in LMTX
by Christoph Reller 28 Mar '21

28 Mar '21

Hi, In recent versions of ConTeXt LMTX, the builtin markdown module is missing. (Files m-markdown.[lua|mkiv]) Just copying this module from an earlier version shows that they don't work anymore. MWE: ConTeXt file: -- 8< ------------------------------------------ \usemodule[markdown] \starttext \processmarkdownfile{file.md} \stoptext -- 8< ------------------------------------------ file.md: -- 8< ------------------------------------------ Title ===== Here comes a paragraph text. -- 8< ------------------------------------------ Are there plans to add and update this module? Cheers, Christoph

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printing the current date
by Peter Münster 13 Mar '21

13 Mar '21

Hi, I would expect, that \currentdate prints the current date, but it does not: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- \starttext \date[d=1]% first day of this month, ok \date% again first day, last parameters are used, this is ok \currentdate% same as \date, but I would expect the day of today... \stoptext --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- How could I print the current date please? TIA for any hints, -- Peter

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externalizing TikZ graphics
by Henning Hraban Ramm 06 Mar '21

06 Mar '21

Hi, did anyone succeed in externalizing TikZ graphics with ConTeXt? It’s about a project with hundreds of diagrams that (in the current state) clutter the main directory with cryptically-named PDFs (at least sorted by component name) and that on each ConTeXt run take a lot of runtime (I guess also the many log lines slow the process). In 2013, Aditya said it wasn’t possible to externalize pgf/TikZ graphics as documented in the pgf manual, and "perhaps" it would make sense to use his filter module: https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2013/071162.html Did anyone try to do that? I didn’t find anything in this list’s archives. The original pgf way is two-pass, and you’d need to call LaTeX with the intended graphics name as --jobname; that’s far too much of a hassle for that many graphics. I generally like how the filter module works, as you can also define the name of every buffer, but my only experience with that is my LilyPond setup. If nobody has better advice, I’ll try to come up with a filter setup. That would mean we’d avoid the tikz module, every TikZ diagram will get written to a buffer of configurable name, and that (with preamble setup) will get run through LaTeX. I read pgf had some restrictions in plain TeX mode, but perhaps we can also use LuaTeX in plain mode to avoid the LaTeX dependency. Best, Hraban

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lmtx-20210118 | Corruption with rotated floats
by Richard Mahoney 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

List members, I've found that recent versions of LMTX seem to have broken table and figure floats using rotation. Lmtx-20210118 with for example: \placetable[here,90] results in the trashing of all subsequent body text in the PDF. This can be corrected with something such as: \placetable[here] ... \framed[orientation=90] (although one looses the ability to rotate the title of the table). The last really stable version of LMTX, which I'm finding that I'm constantly returning to as my default, is lmtx-20200920. This error has been occurring for some time now, and unfortunately, while I would like to keep up the recent releases of LMTX, it is essential that I should be able to rotate tables and images. Does anyone know of a fix. Best, Richard -- T +6433121699 M +64210640216 E rmahoney(a)indica-et-buddhica.org IM https://t.me/rmahoney W https://indica-et-buddhica.org/ Indica et Buddhica Littledene Bay Road Oxford NZ

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font fallback hook (alphabet suspects)
by Jano Kula 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

Hello to everybody! Warning: 50 % of Greek glyphs in MWE, so they might be randomized :) Is there any hook in the font fallback? There are some Greek, Hebrew, etc. words used in the text. While proofreading, the editor would like to check these words separately (glyphs from different alphabets, unusual symbols, ...), so I'd like to typeset the warning (margin note), where these words are located. To avoid usual markup \greek{ὀρφανῖος} it could be useful to typeset a margin note whenever the defined fallback is called. The unfamiliar symbols could be in the main font and no fallback would be called then (one can still define the fallback with the main font as in the MWE, bold used for the illustration), but you might have a better ideas how to point out these suspects. The margin note is ment for searching PDF where one cannot search for color (basic viewer), which could be the other approach (also visible in print). I think, the color could be achieved with finalizers. One should also think of hyphenation and l2r/r2l direction, so in the end the usual approach might be the best way. You might use other approaches, how to deal with suspects of this type. Below the MWE for font fallbacks with distribution fonts. Not critical, just looking for ideas. Thank you, Jano \definefontfallback[Fallback] [file:DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf] [0x0370-0x03FF] [force=yes,rscale=1] \definefontfallback[Fallback] [file:DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf] [0x01F40,0x01FD6] [force=yes,rscale=1] \starttypescriptcollection[DejaVu] \starttypescript[serif] [DejaVu] [name] \definefontsynonym[Serif] [file:DejaVuSerif.ttf] [fallbacks=Fallback] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[DejaVu] \definetypeface[DejaVu][rm][serif] [DejaVu][default] \stoptypescript \stoptypescriptcollection \setupbodyfont[DejaVu] \starttext from ὀρφανῖος, thus \stoptext

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Bib support broken in lmtx
by Philipp A. 30 Jan '21

30 Jan '21

Hi! A pretty minimal document using a bibliography is broken for me: test.lmtx: \enableregime[utf-8] \mainlanguage[en] \usebtxdataset[default][test.bib] \setupbtx[dataset=default] \usebtxdefinitions[apa] \starttext \cite[authoryear][angerer2016] %\placelistofpublications[default][method=dataset] \stoptext test.bib: @Article{ angerer2016, author = {Angerer, Philipp and Haghverdi, Laleh and B{\"{u}}ttner, Maren and Theis, Fabian J and Marr, Carsten and Buettner, Florian}, doi = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btv715}, issn = {14602059}, journal = {Bioinformatics}, language = {en}, number = {8}, pages = {1241--1243}, title = {{Destiny: Diffusion maps for large-scale single-cell data in R}}, url = { http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/doi/10.1093/bioinformatics/… files/103/Angerer et al. - 2016 - destiny diffusion maps for large-scale single-cel.pdf}, volume = {32}, year = {2016} } This log occurs: ❯ context test.lmtx resolvers | formats | executing runner 'run luametatex format': ~/Library/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/luametatex --jobname="test" --fmt=~/Library/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/luametatex/cont-en.fmt --lua=~/Library/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/luametatex/cont-en.lui --c:currentrun=1 --c:fulljobname="./test.lmtx" --c:input="./test.lmtx" --c:kindofrun=1 --c:maxnofruns=9 --c:texmfbinpath="~/Library/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin" system > system > ConTeXt ver: 2020.12.24 17:30 LMTX fmt: 2020.12.25 int: english/english system > system > 'cont-new.mkxl' loaded open source > level 1, order 1, name '~/Library/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/cont-new.mkxl' system > beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.mkiv close source > level 1, order 1, name '~/Library/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/cont-new.mkxl' system > files > jobname 'test', input './test.lmtx', result 'test' fonts > latin modern fonts are not preloaded languages > language 'en' is active open source > level 1, order 2, name './test.lmtx' *publications > adding bib data to set 'default' from source 'test.bib'* open source > level 2, order 3, name ~/Library/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/publ-imp-apa.mkvi' close source > level 2, order 3, name '~/Library/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/publ-imp-apa.mkvi' fonts > preloading latin modern fonts (second stage) fonts > 'fallback modern-designsize rm 12pt' is loaded *publications > analyzing previous publication run for 'default'publications > no entry 'angerer2016' found in dataset 'default'* backend > xmp > using file '~/Library/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/lpdf-pdx.xml' pages > flushing realpage 1, userpage 1, subpage 1 close source > level 1, order 3, name './test.lmtx' mkiv lua stats > used config file: selfautoparent:/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua mkiv lua stats > used cache path: ~/Library/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e mkiv lua stats > resource resolver: loadtime 0.004 seconds, 0 scans with scantime 0.000 seconds, 0 shared scans, 13 found files, scanned paths: <none> mkiv lua stats > stored bytecode data: 476 modules (0.204 sec), 95 tables (0.012 sec), 571 chunks (0.216 sec) mkiv lua stats > traced context: maxstack: 1517, freed: 0, unreachable: 1517 mkiv lua stats > cleaned up reserved nodes: 58 nodes, 435 lists of 434 mkiv lua stats > node memory usage: 6 attribute, 3 attribute_list, 1 glue, 36 glue_spec, 3 kern, 2 penalty, 1 temp, 1 whatsit mkiv lua stats > node list callback tasks: 8 unique task lists, 7 instances (re)created, 38 calls mkiv lua stats > used backend: pdf (backend for directly generating pdf output) mkiv lua stats > jobdata time: 0.001 seconds saving, 0.001 seconds loading mkiv lua stats > callbacks: internal: 0, file: 0, direct: 0, late: 0, function 0, total: 0 (0 per page) mkiv lua stats > randomizer: resumed with value 0.37495928832999 mkiv lua stats > loaded patterns: en::1, load time: 0.000 mkiv lua stats > loaded fonts: 2 files: latinmodern-math.otf, lmroman12-regular.otf mkiv lua stats > font engine: otf 3.112, afm 1.513, tfm 1.000, 7 instances, 3 shared in backend, 3 common vectors, 0 common hashes, load time 0.156 seconds *mkiv lua stats > publications load time: 0.004 seconds, 1396 bytes, 1 definitions, 0 shortcuts* mkiv lua stats > font embedding time: 0.006 seconds, 1 fonts mkiv lua stats > result saved in file: test.pdf, compresslevel 1, objectcompresslevel 3 mkiv lua stats > used platform: osx-64, type: unix, binary subtree: texmf-osx-64 mkiv lua stats > used engine: luametatex version: 2.0808, functionality level: 20201222, format id: 551, compiler: clang mkiv lua stats > tex properties: 740027 hash slots used of 2097152, 45811 control sequences, approximate memory usage: 28 MB mkiv lua stats > lua properties: engine: lua 5.4, used memory: 45 MB, ctx: 43 MB, max: 46 MB, symbol mask: utf (τεχ) mkiv lua stats > runtime: 0.457 seconds, 1 processed pages, 1 shipped pages, 2.190 pages/second system | total runtime: 0.474 seconds of 0.529 seconds Best, Phil

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font bug in latest from 2021.01.29 19:44?
by Pablo Rodriguez 30 Jan '21

30 Jan '21

Dear list, this sample cannot be compiled with latest LMTX (2021.01.29 19:44). \enableexperiments[fonts.compact] \definefontfamily [mainface] [rm] [TeX Gyre Pagella] \definefontfamily [mainface] [mm] [TeX Gyre Pagella Math] \setupbodyfont [mainface, 12pt] \starttext \input zapf \stoptext I get the following error message: I was looking for a control sequence whose current meaning has been defined by \font or a valid font id number. mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 256 Previous latest from compiles the sample perfectly fine. Could anyone confirm this bug? Mamy thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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