ntg-context April 2023

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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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no recent message listed in the web interface
by Pablo Rodriguez 01 May '23

01 May '23

Dear list, I‘m afraid that https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2023/108157.html is the most recent message displayed for 2023 in the web interface (https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2023/date.html#108157). Although the list has been distributing messages to subscribers and I received them, I guess that the server software update might have something to do with this. Just for the record, I contacted Taco privately two weeks ago. No reply, but I understand that obviously he is busy with other things. Before sending him another message on the issue, I would like to ask whether anyone could confirm that recent messages (from this week) aren’nt being listed at https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2023/date.html. Many thanks for your help, Pablo

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cannot generate format file with current latest
by Pablo Rodriguez 01 May '23

01 May '23

Dear list, I have just updated to current latest (2023.04.27 17:04). I always delete cache with "mtxrun --generate" after an update. When I try to create the format file with "context --make --all", I get the following error message: lua error > lua error on line 645 in file context.mkxl: token call, execute: ...ext/base/mkxl/cldf-pos.lmt:18: attempt to index a nil value (global 'posit') stack traceback: ...ext/base/mkxl/cldf-pos.lmt:18: in local 'code' ...ext/base/mkiv/util-lua.lua:96: in field 'loadedluacode' ...ext/base/mkiv/luat-env.lua:108: in field 'luafilechunk' ...ext/base/mkxl/luat-cod.lmt:82: in function 'lua.registercode' [ctxlua]:1: in main chunk <empty file> A number should have been here; I inserted '0'. (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number, look up 'weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.) Could anyone confirm the issue? Many thanks for your help, Pablo

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how access to \namedstructurevariable [next / previous]
by Garulfo 29 Apr '23

29 Apr '23

Hi all, I would like to use the title and the number of a section twice : - first with a specific layout (with makeup) - second, as usual, as part of the page flow. like in : http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/cont-enp.pdf#page=23 looking at the source code (http://context.aanhet.net/svn/manuals/context/layo-00.tex), I understood that it was achieved with : \setuphead [\v!chapter] [\c!command=\PlaatsHoofdstuk, \c!page=\v!yes, \c!before=, \c!inbetween=\PlaatsHoofdstukIndex, %\c!incrementnumber=cont-\currentlanguage, \c!header=\v!nomarking, \c!textstyle=\bfd, \c!numberstyle=\bfe] and \def\PlaatsHoofdstukIndex % todo: lucida {%\startnotmode[*\v!frontpart] \page[\v!right] \setupbackgrounds[\v!paper][\c!background=\v!color] \startmakeup[\v!standard] \raggedleft \doifsomething{\currentheadnumber} {\hfill\expanded{\processMPheadnumber{\currentheadnumber}}} \vfill \hfill\expanded{\processMPheadtext{\currentheadtext}} \stopmakeup \setupbackgrounds[\v!paper][\c!background=] }%\stopnotmode} But currently, I can not reproduce it : - \currentheadtex return empty - \namedstructurevariable{section}{title} only report the update title once the title is actually typesetted Is there a way to access \namedstructurevariable with [next] or [previous] like options ? Here is a test trying to reproduce cont-enp.pdf example =================================================== \def\CheckA{{\mono\currentheadtext}} \def\CheckB{{\mono\namedstructurevariable{section}{title}}\page} \setuphead [section] [before={before : \CheckA - \CheckB}, inbetween={inbetween: \CheckA - \CheckB}, after={after: \CheckA - \CheckB}, beforesection={beforesection: \CheckA - \CheckB}, insidesection={insidesection: \CheckA - \CheckB}, aftersection={aftersection: \CheckA - \CheckB}, color=darkred, style=\tfc, ] \starttext \startsection[title=Section A] Text of section A. \stopsection \startsection[title=Section B] Text of section B. \stopsection \stoptext =================================================== Thanks for your help Garulfo

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Problem with exponent
by Fabrice Couvreur 28 Apr '23

28 Apr '23

Hi, I want to write x'² . Only, I get x²'. Thanks Fabrice \starttext \m{{x'}²+{y'}²} \stoptext

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LuaMetaTeX doesn't find files when symlinked
by Max Chernoff 28 Apr '23

28 Apr '23

Hi Hans, With the LuaMetaTeX-based ConTeXt wrapper, it's not generally possible to run ConTeXt from a symlinked binary in another directory. This shows up if someone makes symlinks in "/usr/bin" so that they can avoid adding anything to their $PATH. If you make run a symlink to the LuaMetaTeX-based ConTeXt wrapper, it looks for texmfcnf.lua relative to the symlink location, not the symlink target. With the old LuaTeX/kpse-based wrapper, the script would look for texmfcnf.lua relative to the symlink target. I know that my description above is terrible, so here's a demo: $ bin=$(mtxrun --expand-var TEXMFOS | head -1)/* $ cd $(mktemp -d) $ ln -s $bin/luatex $bin/luametatex $bin/context $bin/context.lua $bin/mtxrun $bin/mtxrun.lua . $ ./context --nofile $ ./context --luatex --nofile Running the above commands used to work with the old LuaTeX/kpse-based wrapper, but it doesn't work any more. I was able to ""fix"" this by adding the lines if os.selfpath then environment.ownbin = lfs.symlinktarget(os.selfpath .. io.fileseparator .. os.selfname) environment.ownpath = environment.ownbin:match("^.*" .. io.fileseparator) else environment.ownpath = kpse.new("luatex"):var_value("SELFAUTOLOC") environment.ownbin = environment.ownpath .. io.fileseparator .. (arg[-2] or arg[-1] or arg[0] or "luatex"):match("[^" .. io.fileseparator .. "]*$") end to mtxrun.lua, right below the line package.loaded["data-ini"] = package.loaded["data-ini"] or true but this is obviously not a very good fix. There are some threads with more details at: https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2023-March/049028.html https://gitlab.com/islandoftex/images/texlive/-/issues/30 Those links only discuss TL, but I get the same issue if I make a symlink to the standalone ConTeXt files. Thanks, -- Max

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