July 2021 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Fontsizes in Adobe Acrobat vs ConTeXt
by denis.maier＠unibe.ch 29 Jul '21

29 Jul '21

Hi, I have to reproduce a book layout that was done in Adobe Indesign, and I don't really manage to get the right fontsizes, i.e. according to Acrobat Pro the fonts are consistently a bit smaller then expected. That may well be an Adobe problem, it's just that I have to aim for rather specific target values... As you can see below the deviation is not so significant with the normal font size and bigger sizes, but more so with the smaller sizes. % ---------------------------------------------------------------------- \setupbodyfont[10pt] \definebodyfontenvironment [default] [xx=0.7, x=0.85, a=1.175, b=1.5, ] \starttext {\tfxx Smallest } % => expected 7pt, actual 5.98pt {\tfx Small} % => expected 8.5pt, actual 7.97pt {\tf Normal} % => expected 10pt, actual 9.96pt {\tfa Larger} % => expected 11.75pt, actual 11.71pt {\tfb Largest} % => expected 15pt, actual 14.94pt \stoptext % ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Any ideas, how I could get that right? (The project uses Noto Serif, but the same happens there.) Thanks for you help, Denis

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Re: [NTG-context] Different Styles of Typing
by Hans Hagen 29 Jul '21

29 Jul '21

On 7/28/2021 10:12 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > 2. Rather than adding a additional argument to \starttyping etc. provide > a \startnamedtyping with a mandatory argument with the name of the > instance. ok, but i do need to check the before/after wrt setup > To save a few lines of code a flag (e.g. \ifinstance) can be used to set > the start/stop command for the buffer. > > > \protected\def\startnamedtyping[#1]% > {\instancefalse\buff_verbatim_typing_start{#1}} i noticed that we had a comment about startnamedtyping ... makes me wonder, are there more instance commands that we need to extend with a 'named' variants Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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footnote not appearing
by jbf 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

Is there any reason why the following MWE does not produce the footnote at the bottom of the page? It seems like the use of framedtext is preventing it, but am not sure why. Can I get around this problem and still have framed text? Julian \setupframed[location=middle] \startframedtext[width=.77\makeupwidth,corner=round] The poems of St John of the Cross have been important for me in recent years. This is John’s prayer from a verse in his Spiritual Canticle:\footnote{John of the Cross, {\em Spiritual Canticle}, stanza 32. } \startblockquote You looked with love upon me, and deep within, your eyes imprinted grace. This mercy set me free, held in your love’s embrace, to lift my eyes adoring to your face. \stopblockquote I wonder how often John prayed that prayer. \stopframedtext

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ligature exceptions
by Thomas A. Schmitz 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

Hi all, just two quick questions: a couple of weeks ago, there was a long discussion on ligature exceptions in, e.g., German. Hans provided an elegant new mechanism (\startlanguageoptions). So my two questions: 1. Is the old mechanism (\replaceword[eg][Auflage][Au{fl}age]) now obsolete? I tried using it, but unwanted ligatures still occurred. If it is indeed deprecated, I'll add a note to the wiki (this would mean that the current texlive version does not have the new mechanism and the latest lmtx doesn't use the old one, so that's somewhat problematic). 2. Both mechanisms only work for complete words, is that right? So I can't just provide a pattern such as "uf|forder," I have to provide a full list with all inflected forms: auf|fordern auf|fordert auf|fordernd Auf|forderung Auf|forderungen and for 1-3 also the forms with a capital letter. Thank you! Thomas

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Different Typing Styles
by Jeroen 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

Is there a way to have two different styles of typing. I tried the following, but it does not seem to work. \setuptyping[abc][style=\ttx] \setuptyping[def][style=\ttxx] \starttext \starttyping[abc] example example \stoptyping \starttyping[def] example example \stoptyping \stoptext Thanks Jeroen

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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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Different Styles of Typing
by Jeroen 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

Is there a way to have two different types of typing. I tried the following, but it does not seem to work. \setuptyping[abc][style=\ttx] \setuptyping[def][style=\ttxx] \starttext \starttyping[abc] text text \stoptyping \starttyping[def] text text \stoptyping \stoptext

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LMTX mtxrun --script fonts --reload --force isn't finding fonts in tex/texmf-fonts
by T. Kurt Bond 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

Hello. I'm trying to get LMTX to use my fonts on Fedora 33 Linux. I've got LMTX installed in the directory /sw/versions/context/lmtx and I've put copies of the fonts I'd like to use in /sw/versions/context/lmtx/tex/texmf-fonts. Some of them are truetype and some of them are opentype. When I run mtxrun --script fonts --reload --force it says fonts | names | scanning path '/sw/versions/context/lmtx/tex/texmf-fonts' for otf files fonts | names | 0 otf files checked, okay and later fonts | names | scanning path '/sw/versions/context/lmtx/tex/texmf-fonts' for ttf files fonts | names | 0 ttf files checked, okay Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong? -- T. Kurt Bond, tkurtbond(a)gmail.com, https://tkurtbond.github.io

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Adobe Acrobat accessibility criteria
by Connor P. Jackson 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

Hello ConTeXt friends, I am newly exploring ConTeXt in search of a better way to produce PDF/UA-1 accessible and PDF/A compliant documents programmatically. From my early experiments, ConTeXt docs appear to fully satisfy the veraPDF validator, but Adobe Acrobat’s Accessibility Checker has three qualms with ConTeXt-produced documents: 1. The document is configured to display the file name rather than the title in the top of the window (DisplayDocTitle == True is what I think is required). See here <https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/PDF18.html>. 2. "Tagged Annotations" fails, suggesting that the document’s links are not properly tagged. I believe the issue is missing "Link - OBJR” (object reference) tags. See here <https://amp.levelaccess.net/public/standards/view_best_practice.php?violati…>, here <https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/PDF11.html>, and here <http://verapdf.org>. 3. "Tab Order" fails, I believe because ConTeXt does not specify that the tab order should follow the Document Structure, so Acrobat reads it as unspecified. See here <https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/PDF3.html>. Is there something I could be doing to correct these issues in my ConTeXt documents? Or is this a change that would have to be made within ConTeXt itself? I know that Adobe is not the definitive arbiter of what an “accessible” PDF looks like, but for many organizations, passing the Acrobat accessibility checker is a prerequisite, so it seems worthwhile to me to make ConTeXt capable of it. Many thanks! Connor Jackson

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Using ConTeXt Lua libraries
by Jairo A. del Rio 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

Hi everyone! I want to know the proper way to load ConTeXt Lua modules/libraries *en masse*. such as those listed in cld-mkiv, without actual typesetting in order to write some scripts. I thought about creating a .cld file with no output, but I suspect there's a better way. Thanks in advance. Regards, Jairo

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