September 2021 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Ibid. and idem support for bibliographies (and variable scope more generally)
by Joey McCollum 21 Sep '21

21 Sep '21

Hi, I've found a way to implement ibid. and idem support in the SBL specification under development at https://github.com/jjmccollum/context-sbl (this e-mail essentially repeats my comments in https://github.com/jjmccollum/context-sbl/issues/5) but I'm not sure if my solution is a recommended way to solve the problem, and I'm curious about why the more straightforward approach doesn't work. I've added useibid and useidem options for the \definebtx command (making them language-dependent by adding them to mult-def.lua, which seems to be how the other options have been implemented). Ideally, I'd like to follow the pattern of the chicago:list:sameauthor setup and use a macro similar to \btxdoifsameaspreviouselse. But since \btxdoifsameaspreviouselse relies on the indexed structure of the bibliographic list to determine what the "previous" entry is, it won't work for my purposes; I need to retrieve the tag of the last entry passed to the \cite command. I ended up making this work by initializing a global variable via ``` \setxvariables[btx:sbl][previousinlinetag=\empty] ``` in the publ-imp-sbl.mkvi file, resetting it at the end of each citation via ``` \setxvariables[btx:sbl][previousinlinetag=\currentbtxtag] ``` and checking it in the appropriate places via ``` getvariable{btx:sbl}{previousinlinetag} ``` I initially tried to do this with a simple macro \btx_sbl_previousinlinetag defined in publ-imp-sbl.mkvi (in the same scope as the rest of the specification), but attempting to reset it in the cite setups with \let or \def didn't work. Why doesn't this work? Is the setup for a cite alternative executed in its own scope in a way that would prevent me from updating a variable defined in the scope of the rendering specification? And is there a way to do this that is preferable to using global variables? Thanks! Joey

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Placing pagenumer with coordinates (layers)
by Huseyin Özoguz 21 Sep '21

21 Sep '21

Hello dear context-enthusiasts, I want to place the pagenumber on a double-sided project with coordinates. I tried the layer-mechanism: \setuppagenumbering[location=] \definelayer [pagenumber] [width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight, location={left,top}, x=120mm,y=220mm, doublesided=yes] \startsetups layer \setlayer[pagenumber][even]{\pagenumber} \stopsetups \setupbackgrounds[page][setups=layer,background={pagenumber}] \starttext ~\page~\page~\page \stoptext And it works, but only for the left (even) page. On the right page I want to place the pagenumber on different coordinates. I tried to copy the layer and then change [even] to [odd] with different coordinates, but that did not work (no pagenumber printed). What do you suggest? Thank you. Huseyin

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changes of color
by Thierry Horsin 21 Sep '21

21 Sep '21

Hi everybody After some part of a tex file where there is some startMPcode section the color of the text (e.g. blue) changes to black up until the next page in the pdf. Is there something I am missing ? Thank you. Thierry

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Full success
by Alain Delmotte 21 Sep '21

21 Sep '21

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[lmtx offline?]
by Floris van Manen 20 Sep '21

20 Sep '21

I try to update my lmtx installation, but it seems that there is no contact with the server somehow... Any hints? $ ./install.sh mtx-install | provide valid server and instance The following settings were used: server : lmtx.contextgarden.net,lmtx.pragma-ade.com,lmtx.pragma-ade.nl instance : install-lmtx extras : ownpath : /home/vm/context platform : linux-64

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Smallcaps not working with a font that claims to have it - how can I confirm?
by Bruce Horrocks 20 Sep '21

20 Sep '21

I'm trying to use smallcaps with a font called SquarishSansCT. According to mtxrun it has smcp as a feature... $ mtxrun --script font --list --info --pattern=squar [...] mtx-fonts | gsub features: mtx-fonts | mtx-fonts | feature script languages mtx-fonts | mtx-fonts | c2sc grek dflt mtx-fonts | latn dflt mtx-fonts | smcp grek dflt mtx-fonts | latn dflt mtx-fonts | ...but I can't seem to get that feature to work in this MWE which works for TexGyreSchola. \definefontfeature [smallcaps] [always] [smcp=yes] \definefontsynonym [Squar] [name:SquarishSansCT-Regular] [features=smallcaps] \definefontsynonym [Schola] [name:texgyreschola-regular] [features=smallcaps] \definefont [chapterTitle] [Squar at 18pt] \definefont [anotherTitle] [Schola at 18pt] \starttext {\chapterTitle A Chapter Title} \par {\anotherTitle A Chapter Title} \stoptext Have I missed something or is it the font? — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK

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no lua configuration files found
by Henning Hraban Ramm 19 Sep '21

19 Sep '21

I hope it’s again only me being stupid, but when I try to update my LMTX installation or make a new one, the install script always fails with the above warning. ~/lmtx_2021-09-19 $ . install.sh mtxrun | forcing cache reload resolvers | resolving | looking for regular 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path '/Users/hraban/texmf/web2c' from specification 'home:texmf/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for regular 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path '/Users/hraban/texmf-local/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf-local/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for regular 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path '/Users/hraban/texmf-context/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf-context/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for regular 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path '/Users/hraban/texmf-dist/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf-dist/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for regular 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path '/Users/hraban/texmf/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for fallback 'contextcnf.lua' on given path '/Users/hraban/texmf/web2c' from specification 'home:texmf/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for fallback 'contextcnf.lua' on given path '/Users/hraban/texmf-local/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf-local/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for fallback 'contextcnf.lua' on given path '/Users/hraban/texmf-context/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf-context/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for fallback 'contextcnf.lua' on given path '/Users/hraban/texmf-dist/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf-dist/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for fallback 'contextcnf.lua' on given path '/Users/hraban/texmf/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf/web2c' resolvers | resolving | resolvers | resolving | warning: no lua configuration files found resolvers | resolving | no texmf paths are defined (using TEXMF) resolvers | resolving | mtxrun | the resolver databases are not present or outdated mtx-install | provide valid server and instance cp: /Users/hraban/lmtx_2021-09-19/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/mtxrun: No such file or directory cp: /Users/hraban/lmtx_2021-09-19/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtxrun.lua: No such file or directory cp: /Users/hraban/lmtx_2021-09-19/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtx-install.lua: No such file or directory If you want to run ConTeXt everywhere, you need to adapt the path, like: export PATH=/Users/hraban/lmtx_2021-09-19/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin:$PATH If you run from an editor you can specify the full path to mtxrun: /Users/hraban/lmtx_2021-09-19/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/mtxrun --autogenerate --script context --autopdf ... The following settings were used: server : lmtx.contextgarden.net,lmtx.pragma-ade.com,lmtx.pragma-ade.nl instance : install-lmtx extras : ownpath : /Users/hraban/lmtx_2021-09-19 platform : osx-64 It looks like the root path is wrongly assumed, since I run the script from ~/lmtx_2021-09-19, not just ~ TEXROOT is set to /Users/hraban/lmtx/tex (my previous installation), but get the same messages if I run the script there. Same behavior with osx-64 and linux-64. Hraban

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tabulate with lp columns
by Henning Hraban Ramm 19 Sep '21

19 Sep '21

There are some problems in the following MWEs. First example looks the same with MkIV and LMTX, second uses \NS that is only in LMTX. The first column is justified even if it’s defined as left aligned; this happens also with a simple "l" column. With "p" the width is ignored. With \NS the alignment is also wrong in the same way. \starttext \starttabulate[|lp(.2\textwidth)|lp(.2\textwidth)|lp(.2\textwidth)|lp(.2\textwidth)|] Default \NC Linux \NC MacOS \NC Windows \NC\NR \HL Text Proc \NC LibreOffice \NC Apple Pages \NC MS Office (Word) \NC\NR PDF Viewer\NC Evince \NC Preview \NC Edge \NC\NR \stoptabulate \starttabulate[|lp(.2\textwidth)|lp(.2\textwidth)|lp(.2\textwidth)|lp(.2\textwidth)|] Default \NC Linux \NC MacOS \NC Windows \NC\NR \HL Text processor \NS[3][l] LibreOffice or else \NC\NR Drawing \NS[2][lp(.4\textwidth)] Inkscape \NC Corel Draw \NC\NR Simple Editor \NC Nano \NC TextEdit \NC Notepad \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stoptext Additional question: How would I define those columns to use the whole \textwidth ? Hraban

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Acrobat doesn’t display some imported metadata
by Pablo Rodriguez 19 Sep '21

19 Sep '21

Dear list, I have the following sample to import metadata (title, author, subject, keywords and dates). \starttext \startluacode function document.transfer_metadata(name) local main_doc = lpdf.epdf.load(name) lpdf.addtocatalog("Lang", lpdf.unicode(main_doc.Catalog.Lang), main_doc.Catalog.Lang) lpdf.addtoinfo("Title", lpdf.unicode(main_doc.Info.Title), lpdf.string(main_doc.Info.Title)) lpdf.addtoinfo("Subject", lpdf.unicode(main_doc.Info.Subject), lpdf.string(main_doc.Info.Subject)) lpdf.addtoinfo("Keywords", lpdf.unicode(main_doc.Info.Keywords), lpdf.string(main_doc.Info.Keywords)) lpdf.addtoinfo("Author", lpdf.unicode(main_doc.Info.Author), lpdf.string(main_doc.Info.Author)) lpdf.addtoinfo("CreationDate", lpdf.string(main_doc.Info.CreationDate)) lpdf.addtoinfo("ModDate", lpdf.string(main_doc.Info.ModDate), main_doc.Info.ModDate) lpdf.epdf.unload(name) end \stopluacode \unexpanded\def\TransferMetadata#1% {\ctxlua{document.transfer_metadata("#1")}} \startTEXpage[offset=1em, align=center] \ssbf metadatos\\importados \TransferMetadata{metadata.pdf} \stopTEXpage \stoptext Importing from https://pdf.ousia.tk/metadata.pdf gives https://pdf.ousia.tk/imported-metadata.pdf. Imported metadata from title, creation and modification dates are not displayed right in Acrobat. Other PDF viewers display these metadata fine. How can I get that Acrobat displays the metadata from the imported document? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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improve bad habits deduplicate redundant defined values
by juh 18 Sep '21

18 Sep '21

Dear all, these are quite general questions but here they come. I defined modular styles for an organisation so that we can use different layouts with the same look and feel but still have many options to change things in a special document. I have styles for colors, fonts which are used everywhere but also styles for heads that are only used in legal context and other heads-styles used in other contexts. This works brilliant. I can even overwrite styles for one document only. I'd like to name this a cascading approach. While doing this I learned a lot and changed the way the style files are organised from time to time. Currently I start with colors and fonts. Then comes the page dimension definitions, makeups, headers and footers, headlines, the toc styles, lists and tables. Does anyone has a similar approach with a strong opinion how to organise the cascade? While working on this I often found that I defined something twice, because I forgot to delete a setup-command in a newly structured file. Is there a way to test this? Can I grep for a warning in the log files to find these duplicates? Mit freundlichen Grüßen Jan Ulrich Hasecke -- Autoren-Homepage: ......... http://literatur.hasecke.com Satiren & Essays: ......... http://www.sudelbuch.de Privater Blog: ............ http://www.hasecke.eu Netzliteratur-Projekt: .... http://www.generationenprojekt.de

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