April 2023 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

serial letters
by Henning Hraban Ramm 11 Nov '24

11 Nov '24

How would you approach serial letters, e.g. to all members of a club? (Actually I need to send out donation receipts.) I’d like to use the letter module, since my usual letter design is using it. I can export the addresses to CSV, JSON, Lua tables or whatever or transfer them to a SQLite db. Would it make more sense to read them in Lua and combine this data with a buffer, or to write a single tex file for every letter? I know how to do the latter, but I’d like to learn a more ConTeXt-ish way. Would it make sense to use the bibliographies module? Greetlings, Hraban --- https://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.dreiviertelhaus.de GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD

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t-downsample.lua
by Peter Münster 17 Oct '24

17 Oct '24

Hi, Please find attached a new version of the module, with some ideas from Marco. Later, I'll upload it to modules.contextgarden.net. Here a usage example: \usemodule[downsample] \setupexternalfigures[ location=default, % find hacker.jpg and mill.png cache=/tmp, % where to put the low resolution images resolution=50, % resolution in DPI conversion=downsample.pdf] % use this module \starttext \externalfigure[hacker][width=0.4\textwidth] \setupexternalfigures[resolution=20] \externalfigure[mill][width=4in, height=3in] \setupexternalfigures[resolution=200] \externalfigure[mill][width=4in, height=3in] \stoptext Hans, it would be nice, to apply this patch, to trigger new conversion, when figure dimensions change: --- grph-inc.lua~ 2019-02-14 17:04:12.000000000 +0100 +++ grph-inc.lua 2019-02-17 08:45:38.129971581 +0100 @@ -864,6 +864,14 @@ newbase = prefix .. newbase end local hash = "" + local width = figures.current().request.width + local height = figures.current().request.height + if width then + hash = hash .. "[w:" .. width .. "]" + end + if height then + hash = hash .. "[h:" .. height .. "]" + end if resolution then hash = hash .. "[r:" .. resolution .. "]" end TIA, -- Peter

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\type ignores space between command and bracket
by Wolfgang Schuster 02 Feb '24

02 Feb '24

Hi, in the following code example the result from \type lacks the space between \cmd and the following left bracket. \starttext \starttyping \cmd [...] \stoptyping \type{\cmd [...]} \stoptext Wolfgang

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Status of Asymptote
by Alexandre Christe 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

Dear all, I'd like to know what is the status of Asymptote in Context. To my knowledge, metapost/metafun only support 2D (except with the additional libraries from Roegel, which would have to be cleaned up a bit). Otherwise, what shall be used for 3D drawings in Context? TikZ? Something else? Thanks in advance. Alex

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Re: [NTG-context] checkbox in fields show the word yes
by Andres Conrado Montoya 05 Oct '23

05 Oct '23

Firefox doesn't show the "yes", nor Acrobat X, but SumatraPDF does. I modified your definition as: \definefield[test][check][cbox][][] And now the "yes" doesn't appear. However, I don't know how this affects the functionality of the form. -- Andrés Conrado Montoya Andi Kú andresconrado(a)gmail.com http://sesentaycuatro.com http://messier87.com http://chiquitico.org ---------------------------------------- Los fines no justifican los medios, porque la medida verdadera de nuestro carácter está dada por los medios que estamos dispuestos a utilizar, no por los fines que proclamamos. ---------------------------------------- “You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’” — Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell

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Nested itemize
by Alexandre Christe 22 Aug '23

22 Aug '23

Dear all, I'm struggling to setup a nested itemize with no blank line and several columns. What I mean is something like 1. a) bla c) bla b) bla d) bla The following MWE is my starting point \starttext \startitemize[n] \item \blank[-line] \startitemize[a,horizontal,two] [margin=2cm] \item First \item Second \item Third \item Fourth \stopitemize \item \blank[-line] \startitemize[a,horizontal,columns,two] \item First \item Second \item Third \item Fourth \stopitemize \stopitemize \stoptext Thanks in advance

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Luatex 1.12.0 announcement.
by luigi scarso 27 May '23

27 May '23

============================================================== LuaTeX 1.12.0 2020-03-15 ============================================================== This is the release for TeX live 2020. --shell-restricted now forbids loading of dso (dll/so object) Scaled virtual font Aadditional primitives \eTeXglue[stretch|shrink]order for querying order the etex way. Extra features runtoks tex.getmodenames() (as these can differ per engine/version) Permit nested runtoks in more complex situations of nesting (HH) More accurate and correct test for tex.[set|get]math Minor clean-up and bugs fixed -- luigi

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Module authors: please update your metadata
by Henning Hraban Ramm 16 May '23

16 May '23

Hi, I just updated the module writing guidelines, since I couldn’t find a description of the necessary structure of a module release file: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modules#Module_writing_guidelines I also added an explanation how the publishing via https://modules.contextgarden.net works. If you ever published a module, please check if its metadata is still correct, e.g. if the module works for MkIV / LMTX and how it should be published – some modules aren’t installable via rsync as outlined in https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modules#ConTeXt_LMTX (For me, the “simplified version” works.) These modules get installed that way: f-urwgaramond f-urwgothic t-account t-algorithmic t-animation t-annotation t-bnf t-chromato t-cmscbf t-cmttbf t-construction-plan t-cyrillicnumbers t-degrade t-fancybreak t-filter t-fixme t-french t-fullpage t-games (not in dl) t-gantt t-gnuplot t-handlecsv (newer than in dl) t-layout t-letter t-lettrine t-lilypond (not in dl, obsolete) t-mathsets t-rst t-ruby t-simplefonts t-simpleslides t-tikz t-title t-transliterator t-typearea t-typescripts t-vim t-visualcounter Some of these are probably outdated, I didn’t check. If you know something is obsolete, please let us know or remove it yourself, if you still know your account data. Several more modules are available via https://modules.contextgarden.net/dl/ (mentioned as "dl" above). I added a comment where the directory structure isn’t quite right: PocketDiary-V2.zip (module folder on top) Collection-of-calendars-based-on-PocketDiary-module.zip (module folder on top) Date-driven-lists.zip (module folder on top) Environment-for-collating-marks.zip (module folder on top) aquamints (no structure) bibmod-doc (looks right) gfsdidot (looks right) grph-downsample.lua (looks right, except .lua in folder name) enigma.zip (looks right, except .zip in folder name) handlecsv (not unzipped, no VERSION file, but newer version in dl) high (looks right) karnaugh (looks right) lua-widow-control (looks right) lucida-cint.zip (looks right, except .zip in folder name) metaducks (metaducks folder on top) presvoz (looks right) pret-c.lua (looks right, except .lua in folder name) stormfontsupport (looks right) sudoku (sudoku folder on top) t-gm (looks right) t-greek (looks right) t-gs (looks right) t-inifile (looks right) t-layout (looks right) t-letterspace.mkiv (looks right, except .mkiv in folder name) t-rsteps (looks right) t-simplebib (looks right) t-taspresent (looks right) u-texshow (looks right) (“looks right” only means that the structure looks like TDS, many are old and probably obsolete, but a few are quite new, like the first four by Willi) All the best & happy TeXing, Hraban

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tikz + lmtx
by Aditya Mahajan 04 May '23

04 May '23

Hi all, For a few months now, all features of tikz have not been working with LMTX. After help from Hans and a bit of trial and error, I think that figured out what was going wrong with the catcodes in m-tikz: Since the texcatcodes are different from what tikz expects, the catcodes have to be set inside \starttikzpicture (in addition to before the loading of tikz files, which was already being done). I am attaching the working m-tikz.mkxl file. I have tested this on my course notes, which make extensive use of simple tikz block diagrams and pgfplots graphs. Perhaps others who were having issues with tikz could test if this fixes everything and, if so, we can add this to the distribution. Aditya

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Linebreaking in Japanese in ConTeXt
by Gerben Wierda 01 May '23

01 May '23

I am currently testing with a Japanese translation of something I originally created in English using the ConTeXt engine (LMTX). I run into the fact that Japanese has no use for whitespace, so most of the time TeX has no idea where to break. Is there something I can tell ConTeXt to solve this for me or do I have to alk with the translator to put whitespace in the correct places (kind of breaks the automatic linebreaking of TeX, though)? Gerben Wierda (LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerbenwierda>, Mastodon <https://newsie.social/@gctwnl>) 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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