April 2021 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

"Scheduled" downtime of the contextgarden server
by Mojca Miklavec 05 Apr '21

05 Apr '21

Dear ConTeXters, There will be a "scheduled" downtime of the contextgarden.net server for maintenance reasons (the part that's hosted in Slovenia; that excludes wiki & modules, but includes the old distribution, buildbot CI, CTAN, TL pretest & w32tex mirror, ...) in one of the following days. It's not yet clear when exactly the downtime will happen (and all the lockdowns etc. make that even harder to predict) and I'm also not entirely sure how long it will take, this is just to give you a notice upfront. Mojca (PS: I hope that TL 21 won't need any further builds, else we can postpone this.)

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SVG comments, transparency, and extended font styles
by Thangalin 03 Apr '21

03 Apr '21

Issues encountered with version 2021.03.31 18:04. 1. Comments in SVG % SOF \startbuffer[svg] <svg viewBox="0 0 100 100" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <g><circle cx="50" cy="50" r="20"/></g></svg> \stopbuffer \starttext \placefigure{}{\includesvgbuffer[svg][conversion=mp]} \stoptext % EOF Expected: Black circle, no border, comment lines ignored. Actual: Empty square. 2. Transparent stroke % SOF \startbuffer[svg] <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1"> <polygon fill="#eeffff" stroke="transparent" points="500,10 500,0 0,0 0,10" /> </svg> \stopbuffer \starttext \placefigure{}{\includesvgbuffer[svg][conversion=mp]} \stoptext % EOF Expected: Light cyan rectangle, no border (it's transparent). Actual: Light cyan rectangle with visible border. 3. Inkscape font specification We discussed this previously: Inkscape extends the SVG specification with a custom style class ("-inkscape-font-specification") that allows its users to refine font styles. % SOF \startbuffer[svg] <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 154.6 19.3" width="155" height="19"><text x="-6.7" y="-2.3"><tspan x="-1.9" y="15" style="-inkscape-font-specification:'Roboto, Ultra-Light';font-family:Roboto;font-size:20px;font-weight:200">Roboto Ultra-Light</tspan></text></svg> \stopbuffer \starttext \placefigure{}{\includesvgbuffer[svg][conversion=mp]} \stoptext % EOF Expected: "Roboto Ultra-Light" appears in Roboto Ultra-Light font. Actual: Empty square. Supporting this via MetaPost would help maintain backwards compatibility (with ConTeXt invoking Inkscape). Thank you!

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Floating objects next to text mess up paragraph spacing
by Daniel Barker 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

Hi all, I have noticed that placing a floating object next to text with location "left", "right", etc. seems to move the current paragraph slightly up, resulting in too little space between the current and previous paragraph. This can be seen quite clearly in the output of the following example: \setupbodyfont[dejavu, serif, 12pt] \starttext \samplefile{lorem} \startplacefigure[location={right, none}] \framed[width=3cm, height=2cm]{graphic} \stopplacefigure \samplefile{lorem} \samplefile{lorem} \stoptext I am using the current (2021.03.31 18:04) version of ConTeXt LMTX. On ConTeXt live, which seems to be running an older version, this does not occur, i.e. the spacing is even, as I would expect it to be. I assume this is a bug, or am I doing something wrong? Thank you, Daniel

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Running a couple of context statements in a linux bash shell heredocument?
by Alexander Rosenstock 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

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README for pending new subscribers March 2021
by Taco Hoekwater 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

Hi all, Regretfully, we have had problems with a hacker messing with the html subscription page of this mailing list. In mitigation, we have disabled web - based subscription requests completely. From now on, subscription to this mailing list can only be requested by sending an email message to ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl with “subscribe" as the Subject. Unfortunately, it was impossible for us to differentiate between "hacked" and “legit” subscription requests made during the month of March 2021 so to prevent our mail server from being blacklisted as email sender we have had to discard all pending subscription requests. This means that anyone that has tried to subscribe to ntg-context during the past month (that has not received a confirmation message from mailman welcoming them to the mailing list) will have to re-start the subscription process. Apologetically, Taco — Taco Hoekwater E: taco(a)bittext.nl genderfluid (all pronouns)

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KeenWrite + ConTeXt: a sneak peek
by Thangalin 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

Hi all! Here's a screenshot showing a PDF file created using ConTeXt, exported from my text editor, KeenWrite: https://ibb.co/SNg19Sn Notice the areas highlighted with rounded red rectangles: * Export PDF button (top-left) * Exported file name and ConTeXt processing time (lower-left) * Settings for the --path option (preferences dialog, top) * Settings for the --environment option (preferences dialog, bottom) * Document stats (lower-right) The app has a preview tab that is updated in real-time, which can be repositioned or closed and is shown to the left. Shown on the right is the PDF document generated using ConTeXt by clicking the export PDF button. App screenshots: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite#screenshots Thoughts? Ideas for ConTeXt integration features? P.S. Thank you for all the hard work that has gone into ConTeXt: it's truly a splendid piece of software to use.

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