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pull quotes
by jbf 27 Apr '22

27 Apr '22

Hi list, Back in March, Garulfo asked a question about pull quotes and offered two links by way of example. One of the styles in those links interested me in particular, namely https://www.societal.fr/sites/societal/files/old_site/societal-46-6-boiteux… I know how to make a pull quote in general terms, but Garulfo's question was quite specific - was there a preferred way to set an intercolumn pull quote, and presumably he also meant of the kind found in the link above. I did not see any response to his question so perhaps he received one off-list. I too would be interested to know how one might achieve precisely the kind in the example, which features a 'bracketed' pull quote. Has anyone attempted that? Julian

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How do I define a smallcaps font?
by Joel 25 Apr '22

25 Apr '22

I have a font that already comes with a smallcaps variant. How do I define it? I've tried the following, which I think should work from the documentation I've seen, but doesn't: \starttypescript[serif] [garamond] \definefontsynonym[Serif] [file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Regular.otf] \definefontsynonym[SerifBold] [file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Bold.otf] \definefontsynonym[SerifItalic] [file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Italic.otf] \definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalic] [file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-BoldItalic.otf] \definefontsynonym[SerifCaps] [file:/home/joel/.fonts/13/EBGaramond12-AllSC.otf] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[sans] [garamond] \definefontsynonym[Sans] [file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Regular.otf] \definefontsynonym[SansBold] [file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Bold.otf] \definefontsynonym[SansItalic] [file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Italic.otf] \definefontsynonym[SansBoldItalic] [file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-BoldItalic.otf] \definefontsynonym[SansCaps] [file:/home/joel/.fonts/13/EBGaramond12-AllSC.otf] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[garamond] \definetypeface[garamond] [rm][serif][garamond][default] \definetypeface[garamond] [ss][sans][garamond][default] \definetypeface[garamond] [mm][math][modern][default] \stoptypescript \starttext This is regular text. {\smallcaps This should be in smallcaps.} {\WORD This should be regular text, but capitalized, not really smallcaps.} \stoptext --Joel

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issue with framed texts
by Pablo Rodriguez 25 Apr '22

25 Apr '22

Dear list, I have the following sample: \defineframedtext[backcover] \setupframedtext[backcover] [frame=off, offset=overlay, width=\textwidth] \starttext \startframedtext[backcover] \input zapf \stopframedtext \stoptext Using current LMTX (2022.04.20 19:18), I’m afraid no format from \setupframedtext is applied to the backcover framed text. Can anyone confirm the issue or explain what I’m doing wrong? Just in case it may be relevant, I’m on Linux 64bit. Many thanks for your help, Pablo

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cropoffset reduces paper size
by Henning Hraban Ramm 25 Apr '22

25 Apr '22

Hi, at least in the current and previous LMTX beta, the paper size gets reduced if I use cropoffset as well as \setupinteractionscreen. (It is known that the PDF box settings only work with the latter.) In the MWE below, paper size gets reduced by cropoffset: \setuppapersize[A4] \setuplayout[ cropoffset=10mm, ] \setupinteractionscreen[ width=max,height=max, ] \starttext \showframe \samplefile{knuth} \stoptext If I set: \setuppapersize[A4][A4,oversized] \setuplayout[ marking=on, location=middle, cropoffset=7.5mm, ] Then the resulting paper size is A4, because the "oversized" factor is nulled by the crop offset. While I can work around this "feature", the behaviour is different from earlier versions. Can’t check with MkIV, since that doesn’t work any more, as reported by Pablo et al. Hraban

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Why can I no longer place \input inside table after update?
by Joel 23 Apr '22

23 Apr '22

After I ran an update on ConTeXt, my code gets an error: \starttext \starttabulate[|p(.3\textwidth)|p(.7\textwidth)|] \HL \NC {\bf Term} \NC {\bf Definition} \NC\NR \HL \input test2.tex \HL \stoptabulate \stoptext File test2.tex contains "\NC {\bf Term} \NC {\bf Definition} \NC\NR". I also tried defining a macro earlier in the document... \define[2]\tablewordis{% \NC \NC \NC\NR \NC #1 \NC #2 \NC\NR } ...then placing that in test2.tex, e.g.: \tablewordis{my word}{my definition} I get the error: " The file ended when scanning an argument." Before the update, this code worked fine. How can I \input a file while inside a table environment, as above? Thanks, --Joel

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Font too small with a macro
by Fabrice Couvreur 23 Apr '22

23 Apr '22

Hello, If I compile with context the expected result is correct but with lmtx the font under the square root is smaller. Thank you Fabrice \protected\def\exp{\text{\normal exp}} \starttext \startformula \sqrt{\exp(x)}=\exp\left(\frac{x}{2}\right). \stopformula \stoptext

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new upload
by Hans Hagen 23 Apr '22

23 Apr '22

Hi, I uploaded a new lmtx. Some more adaptive magic ... I'm not sure how usefull it is but users always find ways to apply such things. I attached a test file. 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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New Tool: tree-sitter-context_en Parser
by Paul Mazaitis 22 Apr '22

22 Apr '22

Hi, everyone! I've been working on an updated tree-sitter parser for the ConTeXt file format. The parser has pretty good support for parsing a ConTeXt .tex file and producing a syntax tree for that file (and, optionally, highlighting). The parser also has support for using appropriate parsers for areas of the document that embed other languages or formats. For example: a tree-sitter parser for Lua code already exists, and this parser can call out to that parser to handle any properly demarcated Lua code (\startluacode ... \stopluacode) present in a ConTeXt document. A full list of supported inclusions (with or without available parsers), along with additional notes, are in the Garden: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/pm39_tree_sitter_parser ...and the repo for the tree-sitter-context_en parser itself is here: https://github.com/pmazaitis/tree-sitter-context_en Tree-sitter parsers support lots of language bindings with which to build tools; I've put together a very badly engineered format-aware spellchecker as a demo (may have trouble with Windows EOL encoding): https://github.com/pmazaitis/contextpyspell-demo Please, please do not use this demo in production. :) A massive caveat regarding OS support: So far this has been all developed and tested under MacOS, and seems to work pretty well in that environment. I've also tested running the parser on Linux (Ubuntu), and that was also fairly straight forward. In either case, Rust and a C compiler are required for directly using the parser (and you'll also need node/npm to rebuild the grammar itself, if you want to make any changes). I have a Windows 10 machine, and the development environment on it is a complete puzzle to me. I am learning, but: running this parser under Windows isn't something I've been able to get working. If you have Windows development experience, I'd be happy for any advice on how to support this software on that platform. A second, massive caveat for Windows support: this parser should be agnostic about how line endings are encoded, and I've done minimal testing, but it should have a lot more. Looking forward: - This parser is...lightly tested. (More testing of more domains would be helpful!) - This tooling should be useful for small utilities: a linter, a formatter, a better spellchecker? - This tooling should be useful for LSP support? Onward! -Paul

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Centering figures that extend into the margin
by yann＠yannherklotz.com 20 Apr '22

20 Apr '22

Hi, I've been playing around with 'marginnote' layout similar to tufte's books. The main thing that I can't figure out is how to centre figures that extend into the margin. These should take over the whole page, but the content of the figure should be centred, which is normally the case in normal figures. Below is my try of defining a marginnote that does this, by calculating the textarea size and setting the width to that. However, I can't seem to then figure out how to center the externalfigure inside of the figure. Thanks in advance! Yann \useMPlibrary[dum] \setuplayout[ edgedistance=1cm, backspace=2cm, rightmargin=4.5cm, leftmargin=0cm, topspace=1cm, header=1cm, footer=1cm, headerdistance=0.5cm, width=fit, height=fit, ] \newdimen\LeftMarginSize \LeftMarginSize=\dimexpr \backspace + \rightmarginwidth + \rightmargindistance \relax \newdimen\TextAreaSize \TextAreaSize=\dimexpr \textwidth + \rightmarginwidth + \rightmargindistance \relax \definefloat[marginfigure][marginfigures][figure] \setupfloat[marginfigure][location=inner,default=top,width=\TextAreaSize] \setupcaptions[marginfigure][ leftmargin=\dimexpr \LeftMarginSize / 2 \relax, location=bottom, width=\textwidth, ] \setuplabeltext[marginfigure=Figure~] \showframe \starttext \startplacemarginfigure \externalfigure[][width=13cm] \stopplacemarginfigure \stoptext -- Yann Herklotz https://yannherklotz.com

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Need some hints to fix my standalon installation
by Christoph Hintermüller 20 Apr '22

20 Apr '22

Hi Have updated my standalone installation from one of the 2020 releases to the latest one running ./first-setup.sh --context=latest --modules=all Now i see the strange behavior that fraction in second equation is not typeset instead typesetting math aborts after typesetting the upper part of the fraction. A short example showing this is attached (pdf, tex, and log) Therefore i have the following questions - would it help to sacrifice the updated standalone installation and do a fresh install - What else i would have to check and probably fix to make the math working as expected - any thing else to change -- -- Christoph Hintermüller Dipl.-Ing. Dr. MBA. MSc JKU Institute of Biomedical Mechatronics Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz, Austria, Cell: +43 650 8827347 Tel. +43 732 2468 4813 Email: christoph.hintermueller(a)jku.at

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