October 2021 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Addition of authortitle sorttype for bibliographies
by Joey McCollum 05 Oct '21

05 Oct '21

Hi, I've had to make another update to the general publications support code in order to implement a feature of the SBL rendering. Denis Maier has opened some issues on the context-sbl GitHub repo ( https://github.com/jjmccollum/context-sbl) to offer some helpful suggestions about needed features and bug fixes. One issue was that SBL should order list entries by author and title. Thankfully, there is already an authordate sortmethod defined in publ-aut.lua (probably to support the Chicago rendering), so I was able to use it as a template for the following authortitle sort sequence: ``` publications.sortmethods.authortitle = { sequence = { { field = "author", default = "", unknown = "" }, { field = "title", default = "", unknown = "" }, { field = "date", default = "9998-13-32", unknown = "9999-14-33" }, -- some specifications allow date instead of year, month, day { field = "year", default = "9998", unknown = "9999" }, { field = "month", default = "13", unknown = "14" }, { field = "day", default = "32", unknown = "33" }, { field = "index", default = "", unknown = "" }, }, } ``` I added this to publ-aut.lua because publications.sortmethods.authoryear is defined in that file, but if another location is more appropriate, then feel free to let me know, and I can move it! Otherwise, if this looks okay to include in a future update, then feel free to incorporate it! Joey

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Metafun's utflen not working in certain contexts
by Jairo A. del Rio 05 Oct '21

05 Oct '21

Hi, list. The following works for MkIV, but not LMTX (adapted from here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/617597/how-can-i-use-luas-string-le… ): \startMPinclusions vardef MotMystere(expr taille, speciale, index) = save avant,apres,case; numeric avant,apres; path case; case := fullsquare scaled 13; avant := speciale-1; %For Unicode, use "utflen" instead apres := utflen(taille) - speciale; if avant >= 1: for j=1 upto avant: draw (case rotated 180 cutafter point 3 of case rotated 180) shifted (-13j,-13*index); endfor; fi; label.lft (index,point 3.5 of case shifted (-13*avant,-13*index)); draw case yshifted (-13*index); fill case yshifted (-13*index) withcolor \MPcolor{gray-8}; if apres > 0: for j=1 upto apres: draw (case cutafter point 3 of case) shifted (13j,-13*index); endfor; fi; enddef; \stopMPinclusions \starttext An example with "enigma" \startMPcode MotMystere("enigma",4,1) \stopMPcode \stoptext

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Text expander
by Luis Montgomery 03 Oct '21

03 Oct '21

Has anyone used a "text expander" like Espanso https://espanso.org to ease work with ConTeXt? Ex. - trigger: ":s1" replace: "\\startsection\n$|$\n\\stopsection" Best regards Luis Antelo

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Dumb question about ligatures
by Bruce Horrocks 03 Oct '21

03 Oct '21

I'm using a TTF file that has no ligature capability as a built-in feature. It does however have glyphs for fi and fl but ConTeXt isn't substituting them. So the question is: what do I need to do to persuade ConTeXt to do fi & fl ligature substitution? — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK

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ConTeXt's equivalent of standalone class
by noib3 02 Oct '21

02 Oct '21

Coming from LaTeX, when I had some TikZ pictures I wanted to add in my document I would usually keep them on a separate file, I would compile them with the standalone class so that the resulting PDF's size would be limited to exactly the dimensions of the figure. I would then import the compiled PDF in my main document. All this to not slow down compilation times. What's the ConTeXt equivalent of this workflow? How can I keep the PDF dimensions limited to the figure?

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Running the examples from METAFUN-p
by Alain Delmotte 01 Oct '21

01 Oct '21

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running tikz
by Alain Delmotte 01 Oct '21

01 Oct '21

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