January 2022 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Regular online meet-up (tomorrow!)
by Henning Hraban Ramm 10 Jan '22

10 Jan '22

You’re invited to join Tuesday, January 11th, 15:00 CET at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Hans offered to give a Q&A session again – please announce subjects you’d like to discuss ASAP, so that he can prepare. I guess we can talk more about the requirements of critical editions, and I’d like to know how to translate indirect \doSomething definitions into LMTX style. [Howto] * No special software installation required; most modern browsers should work (WebRTC required). * Open the above URL, accept the privacy statement, * enter your name, * click "join" (or "start" if you’re the first), * click "with microphone", allow your browser to access it, check the audio. * Your microphone is muted if you join. Activate microphone and/or camera with the buttons at the bottom. * Minimize the default presentation with the "screen" button, bottom right. * If you’d like to share your screen or upload a file, you can make yourself the presenter: Click on your user name, change the setting, then you’ll see the "screen sharing" button beside the camera button; also there’s now "manage presentations" behind the "plus" button. Beware there is only one presenter, so don’t kill someone else’s presentation. [Technical hints] * Sound is usually better if you use a headset (less noise for everyone). * Connection problems are mostly due to low bandwidth or high latency on your side, e.g. with mobile connections. * Screen sharing needs a lot of bandwidth. * If audio/video doesn’t work for you, try a different browser, and you can still use the text chat. * You can also join with a regular telephone (audio only, of course), call +49-6151-86275-22 (German landline); then you must enter a PIN that changes every time – if you need it, ask me for it via email. Mute/unmute your microphone with "0". [Netiquette] * Please use a name that we recognize from here. Some feel uncomfortable with anonymous lurkers. * Mute your microphone while you’re not talking. * It’s nice to show your face at least when you join. * If there are connection problems, stop camera sharing. * The room is set to “everyone’s a moderator“, I trust you... Next time will be February 8th. See you, Hraban

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Get Current Section Number
by Michael Urban 09 Jan '22

09 Jan '22

I want to put a book title above the Chapter title for the first chapter of a book. I suppose that this can be accomplished with a 'before=' clause that checks to see if it is the first chapter... but how do I look at the chapter number in order to set up the conditional? Mike

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How to create cell data that spans four rows in a table?
by Joel 09 Jan '22

09 Jan '22

I created a table that has some cells span multiple rows. This works good with cells that span an odd-number of rows, but when I try to span 4 rows, the text isn't quite vertically centered. How can I get the cell with the text "Archaeon Eon" to be a little lower, so it is centered within its box? --Joel Minimum working example: \starttext \starttable[|c|c|] \NC {\bf Eons} \NC {\bf Eras} \NC \AR \HL \NC Hadeon Eon \VL \NC \AR \HL \NC \VL Eoarchean Era \NC \AR \DC \DL[1] \DR \NC \smash{Archaeon Eon} \VL Paleoarchean Era \NC \AR \DC \DL[1] \DR \NC \VL Mesoarchean Era \NC \AR \DC \DL[1] \DR \NC \VL Neoarchean Era \NC \AR \HL\NC \VL Paleoproterozoic Era \NC \AR \DC \DL[1] \DR \NC Proterozoic Eon \VL Mesoproterozoic Era \NC \AR \DC \DL[1] \DR \NC \VL Neoproterozoic Era \NC \AR \HL \HL\NC \VL Paleozoic Era \NC \AR \DC \DL[1] \DR \NC Phanerozoic Eon \VL Mesozoic Era \NC \AR \DC \DL[1] \DR \NC \VL Cenozoic Era \NC \AR \HL \stoptable \stoptext

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\its disappeared
by Henning Hraban Ramm 08 Jan '22

08 Jan '22

I don’t know since when the questionnaire item command \its doesn’t exist any more: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/its \starttext \startitemize[5,packed][items=7,width=5em,distance=1em] \ran{\ss\tfx 1 \hss 7} \its \CONTEXT\ or \LaTeX? \its Tofu or sausage? \its Freedom or security? \stopitemize \stoptext It’s also absent in the interface files, i.e. autosyntax doesn’t work in the wiki. Is there a better alternative? Hraban

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descriptions with long titles
by Henning Hraban Ramm 08 Jan '22

08 Jan '22

Hi again, I tried to use a description for a list of organizations with partly long titles. * title and description should both use linebreaking (works) * title should have a fixed width (doesn’t work) * description should run beside a multi-line title, without a gap (doesn’t work) Is this possible, and how? ----- \mainlanguage[de] \setuppapersize[A5] \definedescription[Desc][ headstyle=bold, style=normal, align={flushleft,nothyphenated}, headalign={flushleft,nothyphenated}, alternative=hanging, width=.33\textwidth] \starttext \subject{Friedensnobelpreisträger} \Desc{\fr Quartet du dialogue national} (2015) für seinen entscheidenden Beitrag zum Aufbau einer pluralistischen Demokratie in Tunesien infolge der Jasminrevolution des Jahres 2011. \Desc{\es Juan Manuel Santos} (2016) für seine entschlossenen Anstrengungen, den mehr als 50 Jahre andauernden Bürgerkrieg in Kolumbien zu beenden. \Desc{Internationale Kampagne zur Abschaffung von Atomwaffen} (2017) für ihre Arbeit, Aufmerksamkeit auf die katastrophalen humanitären Konsequenzen von Atomwaffen zu lenken und für ihre bahnbrechenden Bemühungen, ein vertragliches Verbot solcher Waffen zu erreichen. \stoptext ----- Hraban

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TEST criticus apparatus
by Jean-Pierre Delange 08 Jan '22

08 Jan '22

I’ve tested the attached file on MacOS (High Sierra) . See the result in PDF : the numbering of notes appears as « ? ». The same file works fineunder Linux.

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Fallback fails for Linux Libertine O to Junicode over private area, debugging?
by J. P. Ascher 08 Jan '22

08 Jan '22

Hi, all, I'm a long time lurker (on gmane), first time poster. First, thank you all, very much, for your excellent work and superb community. ConTeXt has become a critical part of my academic writing and integral to my research. I'm not exaggerating when I say it changed how I thought about texts and became a major source for my dissertation work. Thank you! I'm trying to get a typescript for setting a text in Libertine with Junicode fallbacks for characters in MUFI, in the private use area. For some reason Libertine roman will not fallback no matter what I do. However Libertine italic will. I can also work around it by using Junicode as a base and forcing fallback to Libertine. My question is: why? What's wrong with Libertine roman? Or my approach? My hypothesis is that there's something about `LinLibertine_R.otf` that's not quite right. I looked in FontForge, but couldn't spot anything. Does anyone have a suggestion as to another place to look? Or something I'm overlooking? Minimal example (attached too, if it comes through): ``` \definefontfeature[default][default][script=latn] % Libertine with a Junicode fallback, lib-fb-jun \definefontfallback[junicodefallback][name:Junicode][privateusearea][check=yes,force=no] \starttypescript [serif] [lib-fb-jun] \definefontsynonym [Libertine-Roman] [file:linlibertiner] \definefontsynonym [Libertine-Slanted] [file:linlibertineri] % works fine \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [lib-fb-jun] [name] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [Libertine-Roman] [features=default,fallbacks=junicodefallback] \definefontsynonym [SerifSlanted] [Libertine-Slanted] [features=default,fallbacks=junicodefallback] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [lib-fb-jun] \definetypeface [lib-fb-jun] [rm] [serif] [lib-fb-jun] [default] \stoptypescript % Junicode with Libertine as a fallback, preferring Libertine, jun-pr-lib % this hack does what I want the above to do \definefontfallback[preferlibertine][name:linlibertineo][0-FFFFF][check=yes,force=yes] \starttypescript[serif] [jun-pr-lib] \definefontsynonym [JunicodeRoman] [name:Junicode] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[serif] [jun-pr-lib] [name] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [JunicodeRoman] [fallbacks=preferlibertine] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [jun-pr-lib] \definetypeface [jun-pr-lib] [rm] [serif] [jun-pr-lib] [default] \stoptypescript % some tracking stuff \enabletrackers[fonts.missing=replace] \enabledirectives[logs.errors] % text, we use lib-fb-jun first, then jun-pr-lib \starttext \setupbodyfont[lib-fb-jun] {\em emph. lib-fb-jun: \Uchar61125 \char64259 \utfchar{"eec5} (three glyphs)} lib-fb-jun: \Uchar61125 \char64259 \utfchar{"eec5} (three glyphs) % <- fallback fails here \switchtobodyfont[jun-pr-lib] jun-pr-lib: \Uchar61125 \char64259 \utfchar{"eec5} (three glyphs) % <- works \stoptext ``` Any ideas? Most warmly, -jp -- J. P. Ascher Preceding: https://doi.org/10.18130/jqpe-zc65 Current: http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/content/2020-2021-0

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critical fun
by Hans Hagen 08 Jan '22

08 Jan '22

Hi, Maybe this is of interest to critical users: \setupsynchronize [paralleltext] [color=darkblue] % \setupsynchronize [paralleltext] [style=\tx,color=darkred] % \setupsynchronize [paralleltext] [style=\txx,color=darkgreen] \starttext \dorecurse{10}{% \paralleltext {[een allereerste zinnetje]} {[een tweede zinnetje]}% \space \paralleltext {[een derde zin]} {[een vierde zinnetje]} \space } \removeunwantedspaces \par test line \page \paralleltext {[\ignorespaces\samplefile{tufte}\removeunwantedspaces]} {[\samplefile{ward}\removeunwantedspaces]}% \par test line \page \paralleltext {[\ignorespaces\samplefile{tufte}\removeunwantedspaces]} {[\ignorespaces\samplefile{tufte}\removeunwantedspaces]}% \par test line \page \paralleltext {[\ignorespaces\samplefile{ward}\removeunwantedspaces]}% {[\ignorespaces\samplefile{tufte}\removeunwantedspaces]} \par test line \page \stoptext Kind of experimental and semi-automatic (triggered by question from collegue). I want to add some larger text sync points (just mark locations in two running texts) stuff but i have no examples. 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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paragraph notes when located in text
by Pablo Rodriguez 06 Jan '22

06 Jan '22

Dear list, I have the following sample: \setuppapersize[A6] \showframe\showgrid \setupnote[footnote][paragraph=yes] %~ \setupnote[footnote][location=text, paragraph=yes] \setupnotation[footnote][alternative=serried, width=broad] \starttext \startbuffer \startlinenumbering[step=3] \dorecurse{25} {a\footnote{b} } \stoplinenumbering \stopbuffer \getbuffer \placenotes[footnote] \stoptext I get no paragraph notes with \setupnote[footnote][location=text, paragraph=yes]. What am I missing here? Many thanks for your help, Pablo

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zint doesn’t work in "lines"
by Henning Hraban Ramm 06 Jan '22

06 Jan '22

Hi, while the zint module generally works well, I run into "TeX capacity exceeded" as soon as I try a barcode within \startlines ... \stoplines: \usemodule[zint] \starttext \startlines My homepage: \barcode[alternative=qr code,text={www.fiee.net},width=2.5cm] \stoplines \stoptext What’s wrong? Hraban

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