February 2021 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

A not so short introduction to ConTeXt Mark IV
by Joaquín Ataz López 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

Hello to all: Two months ago I informed to the list that I had written an introduction in Spanish to ConTeXt Mark IV. This interested several people, and in order to increase their potential audience, a member of this list (native English speaker) has proceeded to translate my text into English. It is precisely the members of this list who need no introduction at all, but it can sometimes be useful to help someone get started with the fascinating typesetting system that is ConTeXt. As for the English translation, I have made some small changes to the Spanish version, so anyone who understands Spanish and prefers to read it in its original language can download the new version: Both versions are available at the following links - Spanish: https://webs.um.es/jal/docs/introCTX_esp.pdf - Engilish: https://webs.um.es/jal/docs/introCTX_eng.pdf Soon I will send both texts, with their source files, to the documentation section of the CTAN repository. -- Joaquín Ataz López Derecho Civil Universidad de Murcia

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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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Log overful boxes
by denis.maier＠ub.unibe.ch 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

Hi, How can you add information about underfulor overful boxes to the log? Ideally both vboxes and hboxes. Best, Denis

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Write to tuc file
by denis.maier＠ub.unibe.ch 07 Mar '21

07 Mar '21

Hi, I want to split a PDF produced by context automatically at certain points. I was thinking I could add information about the desired breakpoints to the tuc file, but I don't know how you do this. Any hints? Best, Denis

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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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Genealogy and context
by David van Diepen 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

Hello, My son is very much interested in genealogy. He already has collected information on thousands of people. Now it would be nice to be able to present this information in the form of a book. There is a possibility to have this done by a commercial service, however then it's not possible to adapt the format or to insert custom text. Media can be added but not in the way we like it. Genealogical information is stored as structured data. I have added a fragment of an Gramps XML file below. In such a file there are events, people, families and other groupings of data and these are linked by handles. What we would like to produce is a book with a number of blocks on every page describing a family: Father, mother, dates of birth and death, date of marriage, occupations and children. It would also be good it there are references to the grandparents. My question is: Where should I get started with a project in which a document is generated automatically from data? As far as I know context should be very suitable for this but I don't have any experience with this. Until now I've used context to make documents without any data being added automatically, except for the bibliography. Thank you in advance, David van Diepen Example Gramps XML file is below: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE database PUBLIC "-//Gramps//DTD Gramps XML 1.7.1//EN" "http://gramps-project.org/xml/1.7.1/grampsxml.dtd"> <database xmlns="http://gramps-project.org/xml/1.7.1/"> <header> <created date="2021-02-03" version="5.1.2"/> <researcher> </researcher> </header> <events> <event handle="_eaa1eb8157f4e812f219719a7b" change="1612382260" id="E1746"> <type>Birth</type> <dateval val="1886-05-01"/> <place hlink="_eaa1eb79a6e5b1f282813dc5826"/> <citationref hlink="_eaa1eb815867f8610a89cf6ce74"/> </event> <event handle="_eaa1eb8158f53693508394c0c48" change="1612382260" id="E1747"> <type>Death</type> <dateval val="1886-05-18"/> <place hlink="_eaa1eb79a6e5b1f282813dc5826"/> <citationref hlink="_eaa1eb815964a4157b91beb0bcb"/> </event> <event handle="_eaa1eb99c423cc862cf41d591a7" change="1612382270" id="E6977"> <type>Marriage</type> <dateval val="1883-03-11"/> <place hlink="_eaa1eb79a6e5b1f282813dc5826"/> <citationref hlink="_eaa1eb99c4870fe758b76275a86"/> </event> </events> <people> <person handle="_eaa1eb8157e1aa01007c5a920d1" change="1612382260" id="I0987"> <gender>F</gender> <name type="Birth Name"> <first>Catharina</first> <surname>Geldof</surname> </name> <eventref hlink="_eaa1eb8157f4e812f219719a7b" role="Primary"/> <eventref hlink="_eaa1eb8158f53693508394c0c48" role="Primary"/> <childof hlink="_eaa1eb79b3313e7e3c96019665c"/> </person> <person handle="_eaa1eb7a37226ca41e414cd2f36" change="1612382258" id="I0049"> <gender>M</gender> <name type="Birth Name"> <first>Cornelis</first> <surname>Geldof</surname> </name> <eventref hlink="_eaa1eb7a3735b3bd6acb1a5aa1c" role="Primary"/> <eventref hlink="_eaa1eb7a3831437df21bf3f6924" role="Primary"/> <eventref hlink="_eaa1eb7a3942a2fb185331a9edf" role="Primary"/> <childof hlink="_eaa1eb7a39a2dfce87e06b0adab"/> <parentin hlink="_eaa1eb79b3313e7e3c96019665c"/> </person> <person handle="_eaa1eb7a3a54ad77d5f29a821c9" change="1612382258" id="I0050"> <gender>F</gender> <name type="Birth Name"> <first>Maatje</first> <surname>de Voogd</surname> </name> <eventref hlink="_eaa1eb7a3a731714abad9183560" role="Primary"/> <eventref hlink="_eaa1eb7a3b74da1e4ff36adcaab" role="Primary"/> <eventref hlink="_eaa1eb7a3c8685236291abfcbc9" role="Primary"/> <childof hlink="_eaa1eb7a3cd3853b21c39baab9a"/> <parentin hlink="_eaa1eb79b3313e7e3c96019665c"/> </person> </people> <families> <family handle="_eaa1eb79b3313e7e3c96019665c" change="1612382261" id="F0016"> <rel type="Married"/> <father hlink="_eaa1eb7a37226ca41e414cd2f36"/> <mother hlink="_eaa1eb7a3a54ad77d5f29a821c9"/> <eventref hlink="_eaa1eb99c423cc862cf41d591a7" role="Family"/> <childref hlink="_eaa1eb79b0b8526fca40e502ca"/> <childref hlink="_eaa1eb815521c4281a23ee688d2"/> <childref hlink="_eaa1eb8157e1aa01007c5a920d1"/> <childref hlink="_eaa1eb815a9647c05a8560739f3"/> <childref hlink="_eaa1eb815d632b4145a6a964cd1"/> <childref hlink="_eaa1eb81603107eb844e1d0a1ce"/> <childref hlink="_eaa1eb816306fa3946fe9a88f1b"/> <childref hlink="_eaa1eb81651258b725548dba1dc"/> <childref hlink="_eaa1eb8167243fc0ae5b90986c1"/> <childref hlink="_eaa1eb818cf2e229c88b97b192e"/> <childref hlink="_eaa1eb818ec579ca7141aa0efbe"/> <childref hlink="_eaa1eb8191314350b99ec3ade67"/> </family> </families>

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