July 2021 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

one quick remark about textext.dflt (vs textext.dlft)
by Garulfo 05 Sep '21

05 Sep '21

Hi all, one remark, I was expecting to be allowed to use textext.dlft but finally the appropriate command appears to be textext.dflt which require to switch F and L letters. Is it on purpose ? would it make sense to have a dlft version to match LeFT ?

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Re: [NTG-context] Strange new behaviour of the mailing list
by Henning Hraban Ramm 21 Aug '21

21 Aug '21

> Am 31.07.2021 um 21:19 schrieb Bruce Horrocks <bruce.horrocks(a)icloud.com>: > > On 31 Jul 2021, at 14:56, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> wrote: >> >> Ah, I didn’t recognize you mean this. >> >> Since the mail goes through the mailing list software, the sender must not be the original sender any more – ntg.nl is not allowed to send emails for a different domain. Many securely configured mail servers reject “faked” sender addresses, as they should. Look up DANE etc. > > That's all well and good but it obscures the sender in your mail client. If you look at the screen shot you can see that the older emails all display the sender's name in the list. Under the new system (just the topmost entry, shown selected) every email comes from "ntg-context(a)ntg.nl" which is completely useless when you want to visually scan down the list for a particular person. It doesn’t make sense to argue about this, but it’s apparently a setting (or unchangeable behavior) of your Email app. My Apple Mail 12.4 on Mojave shows the same message like attached (dark mode). Hraban

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Unicode normalization and Hebrew in ConTeXt
by Joey McCollum 18 Aug '21

18 Aug '21

I am typesetting a document in Hebrew that includes pointing (e.g., vowels, shin and sin dots, dagesh, etc.) using ConTeXt. The Hebrew text that I want to typeset has been normalized into Unicode's NFC canonical form. It is well-known that the Unicode canonical ordering of Hebrew points conflicts with the recommended mark ordering of specific points based on their functions (see https://www.sbl-site.org/Fonts/SBLHebrewUserManual1.5x.pdf for more on this topic). Thankfully, many typesetting engines automatically reorder the points to ensure that they are combined according to the specifications of many fonts. I'm pretty sure that XeLaTeX is one of these, as it typesets Hebrew letters with multiple points correctly even when the Hebrew text is in NFC form. My question is, can ConTeXt with LuaTeX handle the same situation correctly? In the following minimal example, ConTeXt typesets pointed Hebrew correctly when the characters are in the typographically recommended order, but not when they are in Unicode canonical order: ``` %Setup Hebrew text font: \definefontfeature[f:pointedhebrew][default][ ccmp=yes, mark=yes, script=hebr ] \definefontfamily[hebrew] [rm] [SBL Hebrew] [features=f:pointedhebrew] %Set the body font: \setupbodyfont[hebrew] %Set up right-to-left alignment: \setupalign[r2l] \starttext %Characters after normalization, in Unicode canonical order (bet + segol + dagesh + final nun): בֶּן %A word with characters in typographically recommended order (bet + dagesh + segol + final nun): בֶּן \stoptext ``` I typeset this using ConTeXt version 2020.03.10, as released with TeXLive 2020. I got the SBL Hebrew font from https://www.sbl-site.org/educational/BiblicalFonts_SBLHebrew.aspx. According to the font's user manual (see the link above the MWE), the font should be able to combine the marks to form the correct glyph regardless of their order after the consonant, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. I also tried using the predefined "hebrew" featureset, but that did not change anything. Is there some other OpenType feature or featureset I need to enable to fix this, or is there some module or option I can include to get ConTeXt to typeset Unicode-normalized Hebrew as if it were ordered in the recommended way, like XeLaTeX does? I see that the uninormalize module is mentioned in the thread "XeLaTeX, LuaLaTeX, fontspec, unicode and normalization" on TeX Stack Exchange ( https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/229044/xelatex-lualatex-fontspec-un…) can that be used with ConTeXt? Thank you, Joey

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Footnotes in columns
by Clyde Johnston 13 Aug '21

13 Aug '21

I can no longer print the footnotes when I using columns in LTMX. If I remove the \{start|stop}columns, it works fine. This works on my old MKIV 2018.07.02 14:39 version. \setupcolumns[n=2,rule=off,balance=no] \starttext \startcolumns \input ward\footnote{A small footnote here} \stopcolumns \stoptext Context Version: 2021.01.24 16:07 Clyde

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Harvard bibliography style
by Jorge Manuel 10 Aug '21

10 Aug '21

Dear Sirs Is there a way to set my bibliography style to Harvard specifications? Tanks four your support Have a nice day Jorge Magalhães

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Code document and simpleslides and create in one go the document with simpleslides added
by Jeroen 06 Aug '21

06 Aug '21

Is there an easy way to write a Context document and also code simpleslides in the same document so that the simpleslides are automatically added to the document as for example an appendix? Ie one tex document with Context code, perhaps with some \input and something like a two-pass job. I was thinking if the simpleslides could be saved as a number of png images and then with the recurse add them to the document with placefigure. Jeroen

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img.scan in lmtx?
by Henning Hraban Ramm 05 Aug '21

05 Aug '21

Hi, I use the lua function img.scan{filename}, but in lmtx I get "attempt to index a nil value (global 'img')", so I guess this got renamed or moved? HR

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Strange new behaviour of the mailing list
by Otared Kavian 02 Aug '21

02 Aug '21

Hi all, I noticed that beginning July 27th, the messages distributed by the ConTeXt mailing list appear to be from Mailing list for ConTeXt users without the actual name of the sender appearing. It may be dependent on the mail client I am using (Mail.app on MacOS 11.4), but I wonder whether something has changed on mailing list server, and whether if there is something I can do to have the old behaviour (which was convenient when one wanted to follow up mails from some specific contributors). Also has anybody else noticed this change? Thanks in advance for any hint. Best regards: Otared

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multimedia PDF in ConTeXt
by Pablo Rodriguez 31 Jul '21

31 Jul '21

Hi Michal and Hans, many thanks for your patch to fix multimedia objects in PDF and your extremely interesting and in-depth explanation about multimedia in PDF. Many thanks to Hans for the release of an updated latest with also updated documentation. Although I don’t read Czech, just out of curiosity, is your bachelor thesis available on the net, Michal? Thanks to theses.cz, I found https://is.muni.cz/th/t8qpp/DP_Vlasak_Michal_2015.pdf (only a name coincidence, I guess). Using your sample, I have two questions: \starttext \setupinteraction[state=start] \useexternalrendering[myvideo][video/mp4][video.mp4][embed=yes] \definerenderingwindow[myrenderingwindow] [width=\textwidth, height=\textwidth] \placerenderingwindow[myrenderingwindow][myvideo] \stoptext Is there no way to have the video as an embedded file in the PDF document? (I mean, that the file is listed when the attachment panel is displayed.) The second question is addressed to Hans: would it be possible that \placerenderingwindow could have another option and text as in \framed? A workaround would be to add a layer, but too complex only for adding usage instructions for the media usage. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Verbatim text in a frame
by Jeroen 31 Jul '21

31 Jul '21

I am using the following preamble to put a frame around verbatim text. How can I have all the text start some 5pt from the frame and how can I get rounded corners, corner=0 does not seem to work \setupcolors[state=start] \setupcolor[xwi] \definetextbackground [Code] [frame=on, framecolor=black, %corner=0, %offset=10pt, background=color, backgroundcolor=gray, location=paragraph] \setuptyping [before={\blank\starttextbackground[Code]}, after={\stoptextbackground\blank}] \starttext \starttyping example \stoptyping \stoptext

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