March 2022 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

tilde character
by Henning Hraban Ramm 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Hi, I’ve a stupid question: How do I get the default tilde character from a font? ~ is a fixed space \texttilde gives a tilde accent \utfchar{0x007E} yields a space (probably the same as ~) Hraban

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intercolumn pull quotes typesetting
by Garulfo 13 Mar '22

13 Mar '22

Hi all, what would be the prefered way to typeset pull quotes (with \startcolumns or even \startcolumnset if needed) between 2 columns. Examples: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/45709/how-do-you-create-pull-quotes https://www.societal.fr/sites/societal/files/old_site/societal-46-6-boiteux… Thanks for your ideas and solutions. Garulfo

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intercolumn pull quotes typesetting
by Garulfo 13 Mar '22

13 Mar '22

Hi all, what would be the prefered way to typeset pull quotes (with \startcolumns or even \startcolumnset if needed) between 2 columns. Examples: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/45709/how-do-you-create-pull-quotes https://www.societal.fr/sites/societal/files/old_site/societal-46-6-boiteux… Thanks for your ideas and solutions. Garulfo

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Errors compiling the MetaFun manual
by Marco Patzer 13 Mar '22

13 Mar '22

Hi! I tried to compile the MetaFun manual from /doc/context/sources/general/manuals/metafun and ran into a few issues. I don't know if that's expected or if it's supposed to work on a current LMTX. Attached are the first two issues. It takes a while to boil it down to MWEs. Let me know if I should report the other errors, too. I'm not using the failing bits myself, so I don't need fix for that. Motivation is to help find issues with the current release. Marco

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\asciimode and MetaPost in LMTX result in “Isolated expression”
by Marco Patzer 13 Mar '22

13 Mar '22

Hi! LMTX seems to have an issue with \asciimode and MetaPost: \asciimode \starttext \startMPcode fill unitsquare scaled 2cm; \stopMPcode \stoptext Results in: metafun > log > error: Isolated expression metafun > log > metapost > trace > <error> 􏼥.dash.patterns metapost > trace > <to be read again> vardef metafun > log > metafun > log > I couldn't find an '=' or ':=' after the expression that is shown above this error message, so I guess I'll just ignore it and carry on. metafun > log > metapost > trace > <line 107> vardef dashpattern(text t) = Marco ConTeXt ver: 2022.01.21 20:13 LMTX fmt: 2022.1.21

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Bibliography (follow up)
by Willi Egger 12 Mar '22

12 Mar '22

Hello, I am following up on my previous mail from 22-02-2022… In the meantime I was able to find out, what the problem with the crippled publication in the list was. — After adapting the *.bbl file it now works. — However there is most probably a bug in the setup of the list-layout. What you can see in the attached pdf, the issue-number is collated to the title, no comma no space. I would be really happy, if someone could confirm this problem. Attachments: MWE including the publist-test.tex, publist-test.bbl and the publist-test.pdf

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help with facing page image
by jbf 11 Mar '22

11 Mar '22

I wonder if someone can help me untangle the current little mess I seem to be creating! Author wants an image on facing page to each of 10 chapters in the bodypart of the document. Assume that everything else is working properly for this document (double-sided etc.), but other than before chapter 1, I can't seem to get my facing page image to appear where it should! A question along these lines (but not quite the same) was asked back in 2019, so I started with what seemed to me to be the simplest response to this question. Here is what I have to get the image before Chapter 1 in bodymatter: \startbodymatter \definelayer[mylayer] % name of the layer [x=0mm, y=0mm, % from upper left corner of paper width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight] % let the layer cover the full paper \setlayer[mylayer] [hoffset=2.5cm, voffset=3cm] {\externalfigure[Chapter1.jpg][width=.9\textwidth]} \doifoddpageelse {} {\pushbackground[page] \setupbackgrounds[page]%[background=color,backgroundcolor=red] [background=mylayer] \page[empty] \popbackground} \startchapter[title={Prelude}] etc..... This correctly places the Chapter1.jpg on the facing page to Chapter 1. My problem comes with Chapter 2, since Chapter 1 finishes on an even page, and this means I would need a blank odd page to follow that so that Chapter2.jpg (a different image to the first) can be on the verso of that and the Chapter itself would then start on the odd page facing that. I think the \doiffoddpageelse command above is only meant to work when a chapter ends on an odd, not an even page, but I do not know what alternative command to give. Repeating the above set of commands prior to \startchapter for chapter 2 places the image, naturally enough, behind the last page of text for Chapter 1, which is unacceptable, so I thought I could simply add a blank page or two after the chapter and it would all fall into place. I tried various ways of doing that (e.g. \page[+2], or using makeup pages), and while I can add pages that way, I can't get the image to appear. No doubt the solution is simple enough. It might also lie in the \setuphead[chapter] arrangement too. I've tried page=yes there, but to no avail. I also tried \ startsetups[chapter:before] with the pushbackground etc command and added that in with before=\directsetup{chapter:before} as suggested in the wiki, but couldn't get that to work either. By that stage I was so tangled up in the problem I may not have been able to think straight :-). Somehow, though, I think most of the elements are there. Any help would be appreciated. Julian

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interlinespacing in margin notes – solved
by Henning Hraban Ramm 10 Mar '22

10 Mar '22

Hi all, esp. Hans and Massimiliano, yesterday in the online meeting we discussed (again) my margin notes problems. A quite minimal setup is shown below. My remaining problem was that the footnotes always used the interlinespacing (baseskip) of the main text. Finally I found the reason in my typescript file: \definefontfeature[default][dimensions=strut] (I guess I tried to solve the irregular line spacing with that setting.) Thank you for your patience! Now I need to adjust the linespacing and page breaking in all other parts of my current book... Hraban """ \usemodule[ipsum] \showframe \setuplayout[ width=100mm, rightmargin=50mm, rightmargindistance=6mm, ] \setupbodyfontenvironment[11pt][ em=italicface, text=11pt, small=8pt, interlinespace=14pt, ] \definebodyfontenvironment[8pt][interlinespace=8pt] \setupbodyfont[rm,11pt] \define\PlaceFootnote{% \inouter[ width=50mm, stack=yes, ]{% \placelocalnotes[footnote][before=,after=] }} \setupnote[footnote][ location=text, indenting=no, bodyfont={ss,8pt},% footnote text style next=\PlaceFootnote, align=flushleft, ] % footnote marker in text \setupnotation[footnote][ way=bytext, indenting=no, distance=0.25em, ] % footnote text \starttext \dorecurse{10}{ \ipsum[alternative=lines,n=random,language=la]\footnote{\ipsum[alternative=lines,n=random,language=la]} \ipsum[alternative=lines,n=random,language=la]\par } \stoptext """

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"Flushbottom" / \setupalign[line] in LMTX
by denis.maier＠unibe.ch 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Hi everyone, a quick follow-up to todays monthly meeting: A couple of months ago I ran into issues getting "flushbottom" typesetting right. See: Today, some of these issues seem to have been fixed. But I still have the impression that vertical glue is still not working completely reliable. Below are a couple of examples. While the second example seems to work ok with \setupalign[height] the last line differs if we have different font size, cf. e.g. page 3 and 4. Best, Denis % From the Wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Flush_bottom %%%%%% \setupalign[line] \def\Par{bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla} \def\Fig{\placefigure{A figure.}{\framed{\vbox to 5cm{bla}}}} \def\Tab{\placetable{A table.}{\framed{\vbox to 5cm{bla}}}} \starttext \section{Section}\Par\Par\Par\Fig\Par\Par\par\Par\par\Tab \Par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\Par\Par\Par \section{Section}\Par\Par\Par\Fig\Par\Par\par\Par\par\Tab \Par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\Par\Par\Par \section{Section}\Par\Par\Par\Fig\Par\Par\par\Par\par\Tab \Par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\Par\Par\Par \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Another Example %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \setuppapersize[A5][A5] \showframe \setupalign[line] % \setupalign[height] \setupdelimitedtext[blockquote] [ before={\setupindenting[yes]\tfx\setupinterlinespace}, spacebefore=medium, indentnext=no, leftmargin=no, rightmargin=no, ] \starttext \subject{asdf} \dorecurse{5}{ \input knuth \startblockquote \input ward \stopblockquote \input knuth \input ward \subject{asdf} \input knuth \startblockquote \input ward \stopblockquote \input knuth } \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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Few quick questions
by Christoph Hintermüller 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Hi I'm still stuck with also providing my lecture notes as epub in addtion to its PDF version. The last year, when I tried figure what is wrong, Hans indicated a tool, a program, which allows to verify that that all start* stop* tag pairs are symmetric and placed in correct order. I just cant remember how it is called. Can anybody help here? Second are there any limits in how large files exproted to XML, XHTML etc can be. Does the exporter automatically try to split huge documents into multiple exported documents when some size is exceeded or was or is such a feature allways experiemental up to mkIV and what could break proper slitting which contexts, commands should not be active to avoid breakage. My current setup is neither a fresh install of latest standalone nor texlive installation. This task is still pending. I just have done some partial update mixing 2020 Texlife with 2021 standlalone by calling update.sh. So the aborting of the export in the middle of a hundred pages long document with plenty of floats and the heavy use of Aditya's t-vim package might additionally be worsened by some inconsistencies of my currently not clean installation. But to rule out or properly tackle down I think I believe knowing about possible Limitations of exporter in mkIV if any to be saving a lot of time The abort in xml export also occurs when i inline all files exempt t- vim code snippets, png or svg files replacing meta post images into one huge document removing any \input commands. Therefore i want to check first on the inlined document if there would by any asymetric start* stop* before persuing further.

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