ntg-context October 2021

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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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