March 2022 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Regular online meet-up
by Henning Hraban Ramm 11 Apr '22

11 Apr '22

You’re invited to join next Tuesday, February 8th, 15:00 CET (UTC+1) 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. Regarding the date: Denis, who originally suggested Tuesday afternoon, can’t take part due to other obligations. I could also offer Wednesday or Thursday. We could also change the weekday every time, but that might be confusing. I would keep the European afternoon time, since that makes participation possible for people from America and Asia. What do you think? Vote here: https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/tB1MHH4jx6M5uwPg (Same blurb as last time:) [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. * If audio/video doesn’t work for you, you can still use the text chat. * Screen sharing needs a lot of bandwidth. * 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... See you, Hraban

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Full-page Figure?
by Michael Urban 31 Mar '22

31 Mar '22

I want to have a float (illustration for fiction, with caption) that takes up just one page, irrespective of the size of the image in the figure. This can be done with a \startmakeup, but makeup pages do not float, as near as I can tell; they interrupt the text (leaving a partly blank page); and of course they will not include headers and footers. And a float with [page] will start the figure on a new page as desired, but if the image is too small, other text will end up on the page, which is not the desired result. I want to vertically (and horizontally) center the figure on the page, with no other content but glue, in the main text block. Headers and footers should appear as normal. Is there a simple way to accomplish this? Mike

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Breaking url into multiple lines results in broken link in rendered PDF
by A A 31 Mar '22

31 Mar '22

I would like to be able to break up URLs into multiple lines in my bibliography source file and still get the link to work. Here's what I have so far: *\setupinteraction [state=start]\starttext\useURL [myUrl] [ "https://www.g <https://www.g> oogle.com <http://oogle.com>" ]\goto{link}[url(myUrl)]\stoptext* Unfortunately the link does not work. When I *don't* split the URL into multiple lines, the link works again. In reality my link is very long and forces uncomfortable line continuation in my `vim` editor. How can I break up long URLs in my source `.tex` file and still get the link to work in the resulting pdf? [1]: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/638541/line-continuation-in-bib-fil…

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Fwd: command line arguments to specify output directory
by A A 31 Mar '22

31 Mar '22

Thanks Wolfgang. I have two remarks: - That option is not documented and cannot be found when I type *context *into my command line and press enter. Do you know why this is? - I tried the following *context --runpath=test test/test.tex * but it still dumps all the output (.log, .pdf and .tuc) into my current directory. I would like for it to get dumped inside the *test *directory... On Wed, 30 Mar 2022 at 18:39, Wolfgang Schuster < wolfgang.schuster.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote: > A A via ntg-context schrieb am 30.03.2022 um 18:24: > > Dear All, > > > > I would like to ask whether there exists a command line option to the > > context executable which would allow me to specify the directory in > > which I would like my output to be dumped. > > > > I have noticed that if I call the executable outside the directory in > > which the .tex file resides, my supporting files (and resulting pdf) > > are dumped outside the directory in which the .tex file is located. > > context --runpath=... filename > > Wolfgang > >

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Typesetting unicode characters
by Thangalin 31 Mar '22

31 Mar '22

Hi list, An XML document includes the 👍 emoji, as shown in the following snippet: <html> <head><meta charset="utf8"/></head> <body> <div class="bubblerx"> <p>Thumbs up emoji: &#55357;&#56397;</p> </div> </body </html> The document is typeset using ConTeXt, but the thumbs up emoji isn't in the PDF. Neither Noto Emoji nor Open Sans Emoji fonts will render. Does anyone have a minimal example that shows how to typeset such escaped entities? When the emoji is added directly to a document, it works fine: \definefont [TextFontEmoji] [opensansemoji] \starttext \TextFontEmoji{Thumbs up emoji: 👍} \stoptext Is there something special that needs to be set for ConTeXt to interpret the escaped unicode values as an emoji? Thank you!

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How to group list of figures and list of tables by chapter?
by Werner Schmidt 31 Mar '22

31 Mar '22

Hi, How can I set up \placelistoffigures and \placelistoftables that figures and tables are grouped by chapter, i.e. separated by a blank line between chapters (see example below)? Thanks in advance for your help! Best Werner (Default:) Figures 1.1 Caption Chapter01-Section01-01 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.1 Caption Chapter02-Section01-01 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2 Caption Chapter02-Section01-02 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.1 Caption Chapter03-Section01-01 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2 Caption Chapter03-Section01-02 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.3 Caption Chapter03-Section02-03 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 (Wanted:) Figures 1.1 Caption Chapter01-Section01-01 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.1 Caption Chapter02-Section01-01 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2 Caption Chapter02-Section01-02 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.1 Caption Chapter03-Section01-01 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2 Caption Chapter03-Section01-02 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.3 Caption Chapter03-Section02-03 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

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command line arguments to specify output directory
by A A 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

Dear All, I would like to ask whether there exists a command line option to the context executable which would allow me to specify the directory in which I would like my output to be dumped. I have noticed that if I call the executable outside the directory in which the .tex file resides, my supporting files (and resulting pdf) are dumped outside the directory in which the .tex file is located. Any help would be most welcome. Thanks for your consideration. Regards, Amine

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Xml - Lua - context
by Thomas A. Schmitz 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

And here comes question 2, a very basic one: on A4 landscape pages, I want to place two images next to each other (like the spread pages of a book). What would be the preferred way of the really competent users to do this, again keeping in mind that I want to loop over page numbers in a pdf file and thus am coding in Lua. So far, I have tried or thought about: 1. Embedded xtable This is what I’m using now, an xtable of two columns for every A4 page. It works, but I wonder if it’s a good method. 2. combinations This appeared to be the most natural approach (because it’s what combinations are for), but I ran into expansion problems, added a few “function () end” in my code, but couldn’t make it compile. Combinations, combined with framed and externalfigure, are difficult to write in Lua - or am I too stupid to find the winning combination (sorry for the puns). 3. columns Again, this would seen like a natural approach, having every A4 page set up as two columns, but maybe that’s overkill? I’d be curious to know what you think! All best Thomas

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upload
by Hans Hagen 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

Hi, Last night I uploaded a new lmtx: - fix in new strut handling - zint support improved - some more math font tweaks (mikael will enlighten *) - math alignment spacing nornmalized (mikael will explain *) - new simplealignment environmet (mikael will document *) We're now playing a bit more with combining graphics and math (educational usage) Hans * when asked ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Trying to get a simple bibliography
by A A 29 Mar '22

29 Mar '22

Hi All, I'm trying to get a simple bibliography to work with ConTeXt. Here's what I have so far: *test.tex* \usebtxdataset[bibliography.bib] \starttext \startbodymatter See \cite[proofwiki] \stopbodymatter \startbackmatter \startsection[title=Bibliography] \stopsection \stopbackmatter \stoptext *bibliography.bib* @misc{ proofwiki, title={{Definition:Collation - ProofWiki}}, author={{ProofWiki}}, howpublished={ \href{https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Definition:Collation}{link} }, journal={{ProofWiki}}, year={2021} } When I compile test.tex it generates a pdf, but the citation is not included in the body matter. Also the actual reference is not present in Bibliography. What am I doing wrong? Regards, Amine

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