July 2023 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

OSFONTDIR
by Thomas A. Schmitz 21 Jul '23

21 Jul '23

Hi everybody, just a short question: I was under the impression that ConTeXt would not look for system fonts unless we set OSFONTDIR explicitly; this appears to be the basis of the page Use_the_fonts_you_want on the wiki, and I prefer this behavior because it lets me control the fonts I want to use. Recently, however (when exactly? I don't know.) this seems to have changed, and ConTeXt now searches the system font directories by default. I found this out because one of my documents is set up to use the STIX2 fonts. In the most recent versions of macos, some files of these fonts are included as system fonts under /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental, but not all of them. It took me some head scratching to figure out why every run complained about missing glyphs until I saw that ConTeXt was using the wrong font. I had to set the variable OSFONTDIR to some value to prevent this from happening. So my question is: is looking for system fonts by default the new standard? Is it a good idea? Thank you and all best Thomas

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Problem with latest
by Thomas A. Schmitz 20 Jul '23

20 Jul '23

Hi everybody, The latest (2023.07.18 22:07) has a consistent problem with all files on my computer; every run has this: fatal lua error: registered function call [1715]: ...s/lmtx/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/l-lua.lmt:84: attempt to call a nil value (upvalue 'popen’) Does anyone else see this as well? All best Thomas

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Suppress label in captions without suppressing number
by denis.maier＠unibe.ch 20 Jul '23

20 Jul '23

Hi, is there an option to suppress the label in captions without suppressing the number as well? I know, I can use \setuplabeltext[de][figure=,], but this will delete the label text globally... Is there a better way via \setupcaption? Best, Denis

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startup error
by Roland Thiers 20 Jul '23

20 Jul '23

Hello everyone, I am coming back to Context after a while. I have updated ConTeXt LMTX, everything seemed to go well. I have the following problem: If I run: context Hello-world.tex I get the message "startup error : no format file given, quitting" I am clueless! Thanks in advance for your help, Roland (downloaded context-linux-64.zip)

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Custom highlight ConTeXt syntax in AUCTEX
by Jan-Erik Hägglöf 19 Jul '23

19 Jul '23

Dear All! I've been using emacs AUCTEX for quite a while and found it very convenient to work with. One issue is the lack of syntax highlighting. I've tried some elisp code and added the following hook when I'm in ConTeXt-mode: (add-hook 'ConTeXt-mode-hook (lambda () (font-lock-add-keywords nil '(("\\(\\\\starttext\\)\\>" 1 font-lock-warning-face t) ("\\(\\\\stoptext\\)\\>" 1 font-lock-warning-face t))))) and it seems to highlight the start-stop text keyword. So my question is: Is there a way to accomplish a similar way of highlighting all other keywords that belongs to the ConTeXt typesetting syntax? Maybe a REGEXP (I'm not good at writing those) can do this in some way without manually write every start-stop sequence that exists. Have anyone, using AUCTEX, already did some customizing already who wants to share it with me. Many thanks in advance /Jan-Erik

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\placeinitial problem
by Alan Bowen 19 Jul '23

19 Jul '23

Hi— \placeinitial seems to fail when there is a footnote in the paragraph. At least \startparagraph \placeinitial \input ward \footnote{A footnote.} \stopparagraph only works when the footnote is commented out. I am running lmtx [ConTeXt ver: 2023.06.22 LMTX fmt: 2023.6.26] Alan

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enhancing MetaPost presentation progress graphics
by Henning Hraban Ramm 19 Jul '23

19 Jul '23

Hi, I’d like a presentation progress indicator that looks like a boat on waves – and if it works, it can also become a bike on hills or a mars rover on dunes. But my math skills are lacking. Below’s a mostly working draft. * I find the waves not yet very convincing. Would it make sense to use a randomized sinus? (How?) * The boat should sit on the middle wave and be rotated by the current slope. I know I need the “time” of the upper curve and get the 1st derivation, but how? """ \setuppapersize[SW] \startuseMPgraphic{Waves} numeric height,stops,yoffset; stops := 10; height := OverlayHeight/10; path wave; draw (0,0)--(OverlayWidth,0)--(OverlayWidth,OverlayHeight) withcolor white withpen pencircle scaled 0.01; for j=1 upto 3: definecolor [name="Sea", y=(j/20), c=2*(j/10), m=(j/20)]; yoffset := height/(j*2); wave := (0,0)--(0,yoffset)... for i=1 upto stops: (OverlayWidth*i/(stops+1), (yoffset) randomized (height/2)) ... endfor (OverlayWidth,yoffset)--(OverlayWidth,0)--cycle; fill wave withcolor "Sea"; endfor; pair pos; pos := (OverlayWidth * RealPageNumber/NOfPages, height/2 randomized 2); path ship; ship := (0,10)---(70,10)...(60,0)---(10,0)...cycle; fill ship xysized (10,5) shifted pos rotatedaround (pos, 15) withcolor red; \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[Waves][\useMPgraphic{Waves}] \setupbackgrounds[state=repeat] \setupbackgrounds[page][background={Waves}] \starttext \dorecurse{10}{\recurselevel\page} \stoptext """ Hraban

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Slow sreach with new mailing list interfache
by Michael Loescher 19 Jul '23

19 Jul '23

Hello, searching the mailing list is very slow recently (since the new interface hast been established). For example searching for "font" takes 20 seconds for the results to show up. Is it only me experiencing this phenomenon or ist it a general problem?

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unsubscribe
by Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo 19 Jul '23

19 Jul '23

thanks Mailing

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new upload
by Hans Hagen 19 Jul '23

19 Jul '23

Hi, In todays upload there is a follow up on a new feature that is already present in the previous upload (but that was not yet advertised): context --parallel test1.tex test2.tex test3.tex context --parallel --pattern=test*.tex context --parallellist myfile.cmd (filters context processing lines) context --parallel test1.tex test2.tex test3.tex --terminal The --parellel feature will run in parallel, By default upto 8 jobs but you can specify less or more depending on your hardware but on my machine this is reasonable. See workflows-parrallel at the end for more info. That one also mentions the new --forceinput flag which makes that when these context foo-1.tex --mode=m-1 --forceinput=whatever.tex context foo-3.tex --mode=m-3 --forceinput=whatever.tex are run in parallel there is no clash in tuc/pdf. Of course not all scenarios might work out well. Commandline arguments given are passed on to the different jobs but it's good enough for the purpose I have in mind. fwiw: a single pass teststuite run (some 1950 files) goes down from 1350 to 700 seconds but another run with 1200 complex xml documents goes 4 times faster. In the end this is way cheaper than updating a 5 year old dev machine (a new one would run about twice as fast which would bring about the same gain). Hans ps. Because tex is a memory intense application it doesn't scale with the number of cores unless one has the latest greatest fast memory as well as generous cpu caches. There's only so much one can do in the code base about it. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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