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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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x mark symbol and general symbol guide
by Gerion Entrup 15 Jun '24

15 Jun '24

Hi, I recently tried to typeset a table with checkmarks and x marks. \checkmark exists but is there a predefined x mark symbol (\xmark does not work)? In general: For LaTeX there exists the very helpful comprehensive LaTeX symbol list [1]. Is there a similar documentation for ConTeXt somewhere? Best, Gerion [1] https://www.ctan.org/pkg/comprehensive

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last page number for a list
by Alan Bowen 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

How can I get the last page number of a chapter for a list (ToC)? Outside of a list, I use \lastpagenumber. But that does not work in a list such as the ToC. Any tips or pointers will be gladly received. Alan

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How to get an image to fill the maximum available space?
by Joel 30 Mar '24

30 Mar '24

I have code like this: \placefigure[here, force]{my caption}{% \externalfigure[#1][frame=on, maxheight=1.2\textwidth, maxwidth=\textwidth]% }% I need some images to appear in a book. I need them to keep their proper ratios, but scale up to the maximize the available space. The image can't be more than \textwidth wide, and can't ever be more than 1.2\textwidth high. The problem I am getting with this code, and it does seem to be limiting the images to be not bigger than those two dimensions above, is some of the images, for reasons I can't understand, are appearing really tiny and aren't scaling up to fill as much space as is possible. I can't explain why this is happening--the images themselves are very very high resolution. Is there any way to modify the code to make sure the image stretches up to be the biggest it can, without exceeding the sizes I've listed? --Joel

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Underbar
by Willi Egger 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Hello everybody, I have a text, where a couple of lines are typeset with \underbar. — To me this underbar is a fraction to near the text. So I wanted to use \setupbar[…] to change the offset. Unfortunately nothing happens whatever I try. MWE: \setupbar[offset=-.5,dy=-.5] \starttext Hello! \blank \underbar{Good buye!} \stoptext I am using the latest version of ConTeXt from March 11. Do I miss something? Kind regards Willi

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Re: ConTeXt on RPI400
by hf＠hongfeng.ch 27 Mar '24

27 Mar '24

Hello Pablo, Tried, the problem still remains. I did not encouinter this problem on x64 PC. I will try to find another RPI4B computer to try. Thank you. Hong 2024年3月27日 02:58, "Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context" <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> 写到: > On 3/26/24 18:43, Andres Conrado Montoya wrote: > >> Can you try the following: Delete the `texmf-cache` folder >> >> inside /home/hf/WORKSPACE/TOOLS/ConTeXt/tex/, and then run `mtxrun >> >> --generate && context --make`? > > In principle, the two following commands should be enough: > > mtxrun --script cache --erase && mtxrun --generate > > The format file generation will be run automatically by the next > > compilation. > > Just in case it may help, > > Pablo > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl > > webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) > > archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context > > wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________

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Visually balanced columns
by Alexey Kryukov 27 Mar '24

27 Mar '24

Hi list, I'd like to know if its is possible to get visually balanced mixedcolumns in lmtx. For example, if I have \blank's between paragraphs, I would like them to be stretched or expanded by a such way that the bottommost lines have the same vertical position -- no matter, how many lines there are in each column and how exactly they are aligned. If I understand correctly, that's how the multicols environment in LaTeX works, and that's how old-multicolumns worked -- but this module seems to be no longer supported in lmtx. I tried to disable gridfitting for startcolumns, but it produces a completely distorted output. -- Regards, Alexey Kryukov <anagnost at yandex dot ru> Moscow State University Faculty of History

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New example with both sides margin
by Ursula Hermann 27 Mar '24

27 Mar '24

Dear Pablo, Here is my example: \setuppapersize[A4] \setupbodyfont[termes, 12.50pt] \setuplayout[backspace=2.9cm, width=fit] \ininnermargin{\blackrule[color=black, height=0.10ex, width=1cm]\\{3.2.2}} \dontleavehmode \blackrule[color=black, height=0.10ex, width=13.50cm] \showframe \starttext Me\par \blackrule[color=black, height=0.10ex, width=13.50cm]\dontleavehmode \inoutermargin{\blackrule[color=black, height=0.10ex, width=1cm]\\{3.2.2}} \par Me Many thanks for your help. Uschi Hermann

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Headertext
by Thomas Meyer 27 Mar '24

27 Mar '24

Hi folks, I know, with \setuphead[chapter][header=high] I can suppress the header text on the first page. But what can I do if I still want to have part of the header text on the first page? Is there something I can do with \definetext and if so, how? Thanks for any help Greetings Thomas

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