June 2022 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Improving pandoc's ConTeXt output
by Albert Krewinkel 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

Hi all, I'm currently trying to improve the ConTeXt output generated by pandoc, the document convert. There are two questions that we haven't decided on, and I'd be grateful to receive some feedback from ConTeXt experts on these issues: 1. As far as I understand, the `\section` syntax currently produced by pandoc should be considered mkii legacy syntax. We're likely going to switch to the modern `\startsection`/`\stopsection` syntax instead. Are there any concerns about retiring the old syntax? (Side note: pandoc already produces the new syntax, but only when called with `--section-divs`.) 2. Similarly, I'd like to start wrapping paragraphs with `\startparagraph`/`\stopparagraph`. It is important for me to get properly tagged PDF, but this would also make the output more verbose. Is that something that you would find bothering, or do you see adding the extra environment by default as an acceptable practice? Of course, I'd also be happy to get other suggestions on how to improve pandoc's ConTeXt support. Thanks in advance, Albert -- Albert Krewinkel GPG: 8eed e3e2 e8c5 6f18 81fe e836 388d c0b2 1f63 1124

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Workshop at FrOSCon
by juh 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

Dear all, this year there will be a real life FrOSCon in Bonn Sankt Augustin at the Fachhochschule Rhein-Sieg again. https://www.froscon.org/cfp/cfpapers/ I am considering to submit a workshop to bootstrap people with ConTeXt, but I am not the best one to do this. So I would like to discuss if we as a community can do something. There are several possibilities: 1. Developer Room https://www.froscon.org/cfp/cfprojects/ This is a room where a project can organize their own schedule. They can programme, give talks or workshops. I've done some of these in the recent years together with the Zope/Plone Community, the Python Community or Hostsharing. It was always great fun. 2. Workshop A workshop is scheduled in the main programme of FrOSCon. Duration: 2h. I think that this is a good schedule to bootstrap people with LMTX and for the first hello world steps. 3. Booth I guess that Dante will have a booth as they had the years before. 4. A talk. I am pondering if I should submit a talk about our production at Hostsharing but typesetting does not fit nicely in the main topics of the conference. Deadline is 2022-06-12. For the Developer Room we need at least three people willing to attend the whole time at least for one day. If anyone would help me to organize a 2h-Bootstrap Workshop for ConTeXt I would be very happy. Due to my holidays I am only available today and I am unsure if I will have a stable internet connection from tomorrow on. Sorry for the late announcement. Ciao! juh -- 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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Two minor questions
by Stefan Nedeljkovic 07 Jun '22

07 Jun '22

Dear list, I have 2 small questions: 1. In \setuplayout if I try to set topspace=5\measured{base} + \dimexpr2bp I get an error. How should I add these 2bp? 2. I have an mp graphic defined in the file "graphic.mp" which has the exact same dimensions as my page. I'd like to set that graphic as a background. How do I do this?

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overfull gone?
by Steffen Wolfrum 07 Jun '22

07 Jun '22

Hi, in order to easily see overfull lines I used \overfullrule30\points : this gave a clear black box in the right margin. Is this command (\version[temporary]) gone?? Please have a look at the example below: no overfull indicator ... Steffen --- \setuppapersize[A6] \setupexternalfigures[location={default}] %\version[temporary] \overfullrule30\points% < BLACK BOX? \starttext \startcolumns[n=3] % Overfull lines will have slugs in colum margins. \input linden % Underfull hboxes get no warning x \stopcolumns \stoptext

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Contractions in ligature suppression word list
by Thangalin 07 Jun '22

07 Jun '22

Attached are tweaked endings for words like "wolf" to include contracted endings, but they are being ignored. This makes for a minor inconsistency: wolfing -- no ligature wolfish -- no ligature wolfin -- no ligature (incorrect spelling, though) wolfin' -- ligature Any ideas? I tried adding various -in suffixes without luck: suffixes = [[ in, in', in’, ing ]], See https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Ligatures#Word_suppression for an example usage. Thank you!

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interwordspace error after update
by Steffen Wolfrum 06 Jun '22

06 Jun '22

Hi, with my last ConTeXt ver 2022.01.21 20:31 LMTX (arm64) this work: \startsetups footnotesetup \interwordspace 2.75pt % \setuptolerance[NEUNspace] hat hier keine Wirkung! \interwordstretch 1.79999pt \interwordshrink 0.9pt \setupinterlinespace[line=11pt, height=.79,depth=.21] \lineskiplimit-\maxdimen \setupwhitespace[0pt] \stopsetups Now, with ver 2022.05.11 11:36 LMTX (arm64) the same document gives an error: tex error > tex error on line 4 in file ./01_Fara.tex: You can't use '\scaledinterwordspace' in internal vertical mode <macro> \22>:footnotesetup #1->\interwordspace 2.75pt\clubpenalty =10000\widowpenalty =10000\displaywidowpenalty =10000\brokenpenalty =0\setupinterlinespace [line=11pt, height=.79,depth=.21]\lineskiplimit -\maxdimen \setupwhitespace [0pt] <lua output> <macro> \m_syst_setups_asked \clf_autosetups {\m_syst_setups_asked } \relax <macro> \handlenoteinsert ...ngroup \edef \currentnote {#1}\strc_constructions_initialize {#1}\strc_notes_synchronize \the \everybeforenoteinsert \insert \currentnoteinsertionnumber \bgroup \the \everyinsidenoteinsert \relax \usesetupsparameter \noteparameter \useinterline ... <macro> \currentconstructionsynchronize ...es \global \settrue \postponednote \orelse \ifconditional \c_strc_notes_flushed \handlenoteitself \currentnote \currentnotenumber \orelse \ifconditional \c_strc_notes_delayed \else \handlenoteinsert \currentnote \currentnotenumber \fi \endgroup ... <macro> \currentconstructionsynchronize \csname \??constructionnotehandler \currentconstructionhandler \endcsname \strc_constructions_finalize \strc_notations_finalize <line 3.101> \stopfootnote } Is there any chance my setup might work again? Steffen

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pages with facing text
by Pablo Rodriguez 06 Jun '22

06 Jun '22

Dear list, mixing the info that Wolfgang posted on this list some time ago (https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2016/087629.html) I tried to create a sample for facing pages with different streams: \showframe\showgrid\showstruts \starttext \startoutputstream[one] \startcolor[darkred] \dorecurse{10}{\section{Knuth}\pushoutputstream \inouter{first}\input knuth\footnote{note}\par\pushoutputstream} \stopcolor \stopoutputstream \startoutputstream[two] \startcolor[darkgreen] \dorecurse{10}{\section{Zapf}\pushoutputstream \inouter{second}\input zapf\footnote{note}\par\pushoutputstream} \stopcolor \stopoutputstream \synchronizestreams[one,two] \setbox\scratchboxone\outputstreambox[one] \setbox\scratchboxtwo\outputstreambox[two] \input zapf\page \doloop {\ifvoid\scratchboxone \exitloop \else \setbox\scratchboxfour\vsplit\scratchboxone to \textheight \vbox to \vsize{\box\scratchboxfour\vss}% \setbox\scratchboxfive\vsplit\scratchboxtwo to \textheight \vbox to \vsize{\box\scratchboxfive\vss}% \fi} \stoptext I’m afraid that after my mixture, matching paragraphs don’t even start at the same page height. Would it be also possible to have notes, margin data and independent section numbering for each stream? Many thanks for your help, Pablo

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Regular online-meetup
by Henning Hraban Ramm 06 Jun '22

06 Jun '22

You’re invited to join this Wednesday, June 8th, 15:00 CEST (UTC+2) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Hans will probably give a Q&A session again – please announce subjects you’d like to discuss ASAP, so that he can prepare. (Same blurb as every 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. [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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Can I simplify this to some sort of logic so it scales better?
by Gerben Wierda 06 Jun '22

06 Jun '22

I have this: \definemode[EN,FR,RU,PT][keep] \doifmodeelse{EN} { \disablemode[FR] \disablemode[RU] \disablemode[PT] } { \doifmodeelse{FR} { \disablemode[EN] \disablemode[RU] \disablemode[PT] } { \doifmodeelse{RU} { \disablemode[EN] \disablemode[FR] \disablemode[PT] } { \doifmodeelse{PT} { \disablemode[EN] \disablemode[FR] \disablemode[RU] } { \enablemode[EN] } } } } But for every language added this becomes more and more complex. I was wondering what would be a good approach to simplify it. I want to make sure that one and only one of these modes is active and that if no mode is entered on the command line the mode is EN. Gerben Wierda (LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerbenwierda>) R&A IT Strategy <https://ea.rna.nl/> (main site) Book: Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture <https://ea.rna.nl/the-book/> Book: Mastering ArchiMate <https://ea.rna.nl/the-book-edition-iii/>

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Compiling context files in command line
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 04 Jun '22

04 Jun '22

Hello ConTeXist. After a long time, I turn to the conference for help. I use command line to batch process of many ConTeXt files. Is it possible at the end off compile proces to move the created PDF to another directory (subdirectory of current directory) using the command line commands? Somehow I can't do it or maybe I'm making a mistake somewhere. Renaming works but moving into subdirectory I can't do it for some reason. What could be the problem? Is it even possible do it? I work with OS X in bash. Simple example of my use: context —mode=mymode --result=subdir/mypdffilename.pdf processedfile.tex My nontrivial using (content of my bash file) context --purgeall --mode=THISSECTIONONLYHARD --arguments="o=_identifikacni_udaje,k=1,pk=1,ppk=1,t=,s=14" —result="pdfresult/svp_identifikacni_udaje.pdf" _identifikacni_udaje context --purgeall --mode=THISSECTIONONLYHARD --arguments="o=_charakteristika_skoly,k=2,pk=1,ppk=1,t=,s=15" --result="pdfresult/svp_charakteristika_skoly.pdf" _charakteristika_skoly context --purgeall --mode=THISSECTIONONLYHARD --arguments="o=_charakteristika_svp,k=3,pk=1,ppk=1,t=,s=19" --result="pdfresult/svp_charakteristika_svp.pdf" _charakteristika_svp context --purgeall --mode=THISSECTIONONLYHARD --arguments="o=_zacleneni_prurezovych_temat,k=3,pk=1,ppk=1,t=,s=30" --result="pdfresult/svp_zacleneni_prurezovych_temat.pdf" _zacleneni_prurezovych_temat context --purgeall --mode=THISSECTIONONLYHARD --arguments="o=_ucebni_plan,k=4,pk=1,ppk=1,t=,s=36" --result="pdfresult/svp_ucebni_plan.pdf" _ucebni_plan In fact, it is used to create separate PDF files from one large complex document, where individual chapters are cut out of the overall document in pdf form. This creates a large number of PDF files that I do not want to be placed in the current directory. Parameters are used to pass chapter numbers and page numbers to ConTeXt, to correct numbering in pdf files. Can you please advise? Thanx Jaroslav

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