January 2024 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

\framed{\externalfigure} vs \externalfigure[frame=on]
by Jim 27 Jan '24

27 Jan '24

The wiki page for \setupexternalfigure says "Show frame around image. Most(?) options of \setupframed are usable!" I tried to put a frame around a picture (using \externalfigure with frame=on) but I didn't get the frame to play nicely (see example below). I can get the frame where I want it if instead I do \framed[frame=on,...]{\externalfigure...} but this leaves me wondering whether (1) I am misinterpreting the wiki pages, (2) The wiki pages are misleading/wrong, or (3) There is a bug in some code. If anyone would care to enlighten me, I would appreciate it. In particular, the offset=... option of \externalfigure does not seem to be consistent with the offset=... option of \framed. Here is the example... one and all should be able to directly run it, but the text above and below each picture may make the issues clear without having to run the code. (The result I was looking for is the second figure in this example.) Thanks. Jim %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% cut here %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \setuppapersize[legal] \starttext fr[ef] with frameoffset=1cm: This preceding text ends up inside the frame. \framed[frame=on,frameoffset=1cm]{\externalfigure[cow][width=3cm,frame=on]} This following text ends up inside the frame. \vskip0.25 in\hrule\vskip0.25 in fr[ef] with offset=1cm: This preceding text is above the frame as desired. \framed[frame=on,offset=1cm]{\externalfigure[cow][width=3cm,frame=on]} This following text is below the frame, as desired. \vskip0.25 in\hrule\vskip0.25 in ef[fr] with frameoffset=1cm: This preceding text ends up inside the frame. \externalfigure[cow][width=3cm,frame=on,frameoffset=1cm] This following text ends up inside the frame. \vskip0.25 in\hrule\vskip0.25 in ef[fr] with offset=1cm: The frame is tight to the image, not 1cm away. \externalfigure[cow][width=3cm,frame=on,offset=1cm] This following text ends up just below the image. \vskip0.25 in\hrule\vskip0.25 in ef[fr] with frameoffset=1cm,offset=1cm: This preceding text ends up inside the frame. \externalfigure[cow][width=3cm,frame=on,frameoffset=1cm,offset=1cm] This following text ends up inside the frame. \stoptext

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Footnotes in footnotes
by Thomas Meyer 27 Jan '24

27 Jan '24

Hi folks, in https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Footnotes there is Oblomov's example for footnotes in footnotes: This\footnote{Or that\footnote{Or possibly even the other.}, if you prefer.} is a sentence with a footnote. I get only the footnote number of the inner footnote in the first footnote, not the whole second/inner footnote. What's going wrong? Greetings Thomas

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Suggestions and problems of the manuals
by Gerion Entrup 26 Jan '24

26 Jan '24

Hi, I discovered the manuals in the context distribution. My general way to built the manuals were these steps: ``` # execute one time git clone https://github.com/contextgarden/context.git cd context/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/ # for every manual cd $MANUALFOLDER context $MAIN_MANUAL_FILE.tex ``` Is there a way to speed this up, so to build all manuals with one command (some make file or shell script for example)? I saw some problems within the manuals: - In units/units-mkiv.tex the spacing seems not to work with current LMTX. See the attached screenshot (units-mkiv.png) for my rendering. In my understanding the spaces should differ. - I changed some typos(?) and other stuff in that file. The patch is attached (0001-units-mkiv-improve.patch). - math/math-mkiv.tex seems not to compile. The last lines of the log: system > system > ConTeXt ver: 2024.01.08 11:23 LMTX fmt: 2024.1.16 int: english/english system > system > 'cont-new.mkxl' loaded open source > level 1, order 1, name '/home/gerion/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/cont-new.mkxl' system > beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.mkiv close source > level 1, order 1, name '/home/gerion/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/cont-new.mkxl' system > jobfiles > using path: /home/gerion/src/context/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/math system > files > jobname './math-mkiv-t-b-ce3b35636ef01ee62897a2beb76049e0', input './math-mkiv-t-b-ce3b35636ef01ee62897a2beb76049e0.tmp', result './math-mkiv-t-b-ce3b35636ef01ee62897a2beb76049e0' fonts > latin modern fonts are not preloaded languages > language 'en' is active open source > level 1, order 2, name './math-mkiv-t-b-ce3b35636ef01ee62897a2beb76049e0.tmp' fonts > preloading latin modern fonts (second stage) fonts > 'fallback modern rm 12pt' is loaded visualize > enabled open source > level 2, order 3, name 'math-spacing-001.tex' close source > level 2, order 3, name 'math-spacing-001.tex' pages > flushing realpage 1, userpage 1, subpage 1 close source > level 1, order 3, name './math-mkiv-t-b-ce3b35636ef01ee62897a2beb76049e0.tmp' backend > xmp > using file '/home/gerion/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/lpdf-pdx.xml' mkiv lua stats > used config file: selfautoparent:/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua mkiv lua stats > used cache path: /home/gerion/context/tex/texmf-cache/luametatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e mkiv lua stats > resource resolver: loadtime 0.003 seconds, 0 scans with scantime 0.000 seconds, 0 shared scans, 15 found files, scanned paths: <none> mkiv lua stats > stored bytecode data: 515 modules (0.131 sec), 105 tables (0.007 sec), 620 chunks (0.139 sec) mkiv lua stats > traced context: maxstack: 1743, freed: 0, unreachable: 1743 mkiv lua stats > cleaned up reserved nodes: 103 nodes, 7 lists of 437 mkiv lua stats > node memory usage: 6649 attribute, 1 glue, 144 gluespec, 4868 glyph, 1220 hlist, 1 kern, 645 mathspec, 2 penalty, 616 rule, 2 temp, 7 whatsit mkiv lua stats > node list callback tasks: 16 unique task lists, 12 instances (re)created, 235 calls mkiv lua stats > driver time: 0.021 seconds mkiv lua stats > used backend: pdf mkiv lua stats > jobdata time: 0.000 seconds saving, 0.000 seconds loading mkiv lua stats > callbacks: file: 137, saved: 1212, direct: 2, function: 814, value: 429, message: 0, bytecode: 620, late 0, total: 3214 (3214 per page) mkiv lua stats > randomizer: resumed with value 0.82928645897044 mkiv lua stats > loaded patterns: en::1, load time: 0.000 mkiv lua stats > loaded fonts: 4 files: latinmodernmath-companion.otf, latinmodern-math.otf, lmmonoltcond10-regular.otf, lmroman10-regular.otf mkiv lua stats > font engine: otf 3.135, afm 1.513, tfm 1.000, 27 instances, 21 shared in backend, 4 common vectors, 17 common hashes, load time 0.299 seconds mkiv lua stats > visualization time: 0.005 seconds mkiv lua stats > math tweaking time: 0.145 seconds, 24 math goodie tables mkiv lua stats > page group warning: transparencies are used but no pagecolormodel is set mkiv lua stats > font embedding time: 0.003 seconds, 3 fonts mkiv lua stats > result saved in file: math-mkiv-t-b-ce3b35636ef01ee62897a2beb76049e0.pdf, compresslevel 1, objectcompresslevel 3, 14 streams, 0 uncompressed, 9 compressed, 5 not compressed, threshold 40 mkiv lua stats > positions: 4 collected, 0 deltas, 0 shared partials, 0 partial entries mkiv lua stats > used platform: linux-64, type: unix, binary subtree: texmf-linux-64 mkiv lua stats > used engine: luametatex version: 2.10.11, functionality level: 20231231, format id: 698, compiler: gcc mkiv lua stats > tex properties: 807097 hash slots used of 2097152, 50666 control sequences, approximate memory usage: 49 MB mkiv lua stats > lua properties: engine: lua 5.4, used memory: 84 MB, ctx: 80 MB, max: 80 MB, symbol mask: utf (τεχ) mkiv lua stats > runtime: 0.528 seconds, 1 processed pages, 1 shipped pages, 1.895 pages/second mtx-context | purged files: math-mkiv-t-b-ce3b35636ef01ee62897a2beb76049e0.log, math-mkiv-t-b-ce3b35636ef01ee62897a2beb76049e0.tmp, math-mkiv-t-b-ce3b35636ef01ee62897a2beb76049e0.tuc system | total runtime: 1.044 seconds of 1.071 seconds buffers > typeset > no changes in 'demo-4', processing skipped floatblocks > '3' limited floatblocks > 3 saved pages > flushing realpage 14, userpage 12, subpage 14 floatblocks > 1 moved floatblocks > 2 moved floatblocks > 3 moved pages > flushing realpage 15, userpage 13, subpage 15 pages > flushing realpage 16, userpage 14, subpage 16 pages > flushing realpage 17, userpage 15, subpage 17 pages > flushing realpage 18, userpage 16, subpage 18 pages > flushing realpage 19, userpage 17, subpage 19 structure > sectioning > section @ level 3 : 0.3.1 -> Scripts tex error > tex error on line 370 in file /home/gerion/src/context/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/math/math-spacing.tex: Math error: parameter 'subshiftdown' with id 49 in style 2 is not set <macro> \math_m_nop #1->\relax \ifmmode #1\else \normalstartimath \usemathstyleparameter \mathematicsparameter \c!mathstyle \expand \everyinsidemathematics \relax \begingroup #1\endgroup \normalstopimath \fi <line 6.370> {\switchtobodyfont [cambria]\math{F_j = \int\nolimits _a^b} } {Cambria} 360 font can be very detailed in where italic correction is to be applied and how 361 advanced stepwise kerns are used, but not many fonts have extensive information. 362 Here are some differences in rendering. In \OPENTYPE\ the super- and subscript of 363 an integral are moved right and left half of the italic correction. 364 365 \startlinecorrection 366 \startcombination[6*1] 367 {\switchtobodyfont [modern]\math{F_j = \int\nolimits _a^b}} {Latin Modern} 368 {\switchtobodyfont [pagella]\math{F_j = \int\nolimits _a^b}} {Pagella} 369 {\switchtobodyfont [dejavu]\math{F_j = \int\nolimits _a^b}} {Dejavu} 370 >> {\switchtobodyfont [cambria]\math{F_j = \int\nolimits _a^b}} {Cambria} 371 {\switchtobodyfont[lucidaot]\math{F_j = \int\nolimits _a^b}} {Lucida OT} 372 {\switchtobodyfont [xits]\math{F_j = \int\nolimits _a^b}} {Xits} 373 \stopcombination 374 \stoplinecorrection 375 376 \stopsection 377 378 \startsection[title=Bad fonts] 379 380 There might be fonts out there where the italic correction is supposed to be Sorry, but I can't typeset math unless various parameters have been set. This is normally done by loading special math fonts into the math family slots. Your font set is lacking at least the parameter mentioned earlier. mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 1 - I tried to find a prebuild version and found https://mirror.contextgarden.net/general/manuals/math-mkiv.pdf. However, this document seems to be from 2021 and has a kind of wobbly rendering in Okular/Poppler (I remember the same phenomena with early LMTX). See the screenshot attached (math-mkiv-online.png). Is there a newer version somewhere? Maybe it is meaningful to delete the old version. Best Gerion

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\starttable questions
by Jim 26 Jan '24

26 Jan '24

Hi, I was wondering if anyone here could help me with these three things: For a long time I have been using Wichura's TaBle macros (i.e., what one gets with \input table in plain TeX) and would like to use what appears to be ConTeXt's version of those (i.e., what one gets with \starttable ... \stoptable). However, https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/starttable says The environment \starttable ... \stoptable is and (sic) old and nearly obsolete way to handle tabular material Q1: are there plans to remove \starttable ... \endtable from ConTeXt any time "soon", or is that wiki comment gratuitously pessimistic? In a recent answer on this list, Mikael helped someone by pointing out the \HF[...] command. The \HF command is not listed in the \starttable wiki page. Q2: Is \HF[] documented anywhere? If so, can someone point me to that/those document(s)? Perhaps an answer to Q2 will answer this one too, but in case it doesn't... When using Wichura's \BeginTable ... \EndTable macros, I occasionally use the \\+nm feature to add n points above the current line and/or m points below the current line. Q3: Does ConTexT's \starttable ... \endtable have this feature? If so, how does one access this feature? Thanks. Jim

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Caching Metafun images and VIM Syntax highlighted code
by Shiv Shankar Dayal 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

I am writing two books. One is on Rust programming and another is on geometry, so I have syntax highlighted code and in second has lost of diagrams. Perhaps Aditya Mahajan can tell me how can I cache code snippets. Invoking VIM will have heavy penalty on highlighting the code otherwise. Other than that, how can I cache Metafun images so that they are not recomputed on every processing of file. -- Respect, Shiv Shankar Dayal

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Cron <context@cgl> /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror
by root＠ntg.nl 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

receiving incremental file list ./ ctan.lsr document-2.htm download-1.htm download-2.htm install.htm logo-ade.png logo-cts.png logo-pod.png rss.xml show-fil.pdf context/latest/ context/latest/cont-lmt.zip context/latest/cont-mpd.zip context/latest/cont-ppc.zip context/latest/cont-sci.zip context/latest/cont-tmf.zip context/latest/cont-tst.7z context/latest/cont-tst.tar.xz context/latest/cont-tst.zip sent 179,707 bytes received 39,700,877 bytes 3,190,446.72 bytes/sec total size is 578,779,599 speedup is 14.51 Running archiver: New dir: /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-01-24.23 245936349 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-01-24.23/latest 126745317 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-01-24.23/current 372685762 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-01-24.23 372685762 total

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upload
by Hans Hagen 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

Hi, I uploaded a new lmts: - important fix for empty page (pdf, recently introduced) - win32 installer fix - bsd installer fix 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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Using plain TeX commands in ConTeXt
by Shiv Shankar Dayal 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

Dear List, Can we use plain TeX commands which are available in LuaMetaTeX in an arbitrary manner or are there any restrictions? -- Respect, Shiv Shankar Dayal

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After Compiling the Context test, there was no PDF.
by Ursula Hermann 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

Dear List, After Compiling in the Folder: This is LuaMetaTeX, Version 2.10.11 initex (C:/Users/Hermann/Downloads/context-mswin/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/cont- en.mkxl(context.mkxl(syst-ini.mkxl ! Undefined control sequence. <line 3.238> \immutable\defcsname\tocharacter \tabasciicode \endcsname {\ } % \def\^^I{\ } tab ! Missing \endcsname inserted. <to be read again> I wanted also do a new installation of ConTeXt LMTX, but if I want to do it, the is a report, that the page cannot be found. Many thanks Uschi

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Re: OpenBSD install failed
by damien＠thiriet.web4me.fr 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

Dear Hans, > can you test with > > OpenBSD|openbsd) > case "$CPU" in > i*86) > PLATFORM="openbsd" ;; > amd64) > PLATFORM="openbsd$-amd64" ;; > *) > > instead? I tested it, with and without the typo at openbds$-amd64 Having fixed it to OpenBSD|openbsd) case "$CPU" in i*86) PLATFORM="openbsd" ;; amd64) PLATFORM="openbsd-amd64" ;; *) I could install the binaries and compile the basic test doc with \input tufte Thanks a lot! Dear Hraban, > > Did you try to compile your own binaries? > You need CMake and a C compiler. > > PWD = your installation directory > PLATFORM = openbsd7.4-amd64 (if that’s still right) > > cd $PWD/tex/texmf-context/source/luametatex > sh build.sh > cp build/native/luametatex "$PWD/tex/texmf-$PLATFORM/bin/" > > Have fun, > Hraban > > I did not try but took good note, making a port of context suite is in my very long TODO list. Not an official one, I am not able to run -current, but something that helps when I need to upgrade quickly OpenBSD and context. Best regards, Damien Thiriet

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