April 2024 - ntg-context

Re: ConteXt commands in an rtl environment
by Wolfgang Schuster 29 Apr '24

29 Apr '24

Alan Bowen schrieb am 29.04.2024 um 19:37: > I used TeXShop and PopChar Pro to get the letter ר so that it is l2r. > > Not a great solution but it works when one is working in r2l text. > (Thank heaven for Unicode.) > > I will have a look at Visual Studio Code. I tested a few text editors with better RTL support and all of them show the text in the same way as TeXShop. Support for RTL in Visual Studio Code seems to be limited because the editor doesn't use the Unicode Bidi Algorithm [1]. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bidirectional_text#Editors Wolfgang

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unprotecting when defining in Lua
by Pablo Rodriguez 29 Apr '24

29 Apr '24

Dear list, I have the following sample: \starttext \startluacode function document.test(str) context(str) end interfaces.definecommand { name = "testing", protected = false, macro = document.test, } \stopluacode \meaningfull\testing \def\test#1{#1} \meaningfull\test \stoptext Which is the right way to use "interfaces.definecommand" to get a simple command as in standard TeX? I mean, no a non \permanent or non \protected command. Many thanks for your help, Pablo

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ConteXt commands in an rtl environment
by Alan Bowen 29 Apr '24

29 Apr '24

I am having trouble entering ConteXt commands in an rtl language, in this case Hebrew. How does one make the last(left hand) letter of the Hebrew word אשר a superscript? My experiments with \high{...} have not been successful so far in part, I think, because I have not got the brackets right. Any tips or pointers will be gratefully received. Alan

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Why Difference Between \placefloat and \definefloat
by urban.m＠ca.rr.com 29 Apr '24

29 Apr '24

I swear I used to understand this stuff. I plead old age. Why do I get two different results from the float placements here: definefloat[mysidebar][mysidebars] setupfloat[mysidebar][leftmargindistance=-.25in,rightmargindistance=-.25in,outer,none] defineframedtext [sidebartext] [width=.4textwidth,bodyfont=small,corner=round,background=color,backgroundcolor=lightgray,align=flushleft] starttext This is a bit of text placefloat[sidebar][leftmargindistance=-.25in,rightmargindistance=-.25in,outer,none]{}{ startsidebartext This is a short sidebar stopsidebartext } And something to follow. A bit of text placemysidebar{}{ startsidebartext This is a short sidebar stopsidebartext } And something to follow. stoptext

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Re: statistical charts module re-published
by Henning Hraban Ramm 29 Apr '24

29 Apr '24

Hi Tomáš, thank you, I updated the information at https://codeberg.org/fiee/context-statistical-charts and also published the new version to https://modules.contextgarden.net (i.e. installation with "mtxrun --script install-modules --install statistical-charts" will now install the current version). Best, Hraban Am 28.04.24 um 13:58 schrieb Tomáš Hála: > Hi Hraban and all, > > the server akela at our university is not absolutely down but avialable from > the university intranet (or via VPN) only, unfortunately. > > When you wrote the second email (the first one I accidentally missed in the flood of other messages, sorry about that) > I was just in the middle of cleaning data and migrating them to other sites. > > At the same time, Tamara and I fixed some small things and we publish a new > version of this module containing our work from the last year. > > The official site for statistical-charts module > is now www.thala.cz/statcharts, > available also via www.konvoj.cz/statcharts, > and mirrored at user.mendelu.cz/thala/statcharts. > > Best, > > Tomáš > > On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 08:54:46PM +0000, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: >> Hi, >> since the Akela server at Mendel University is down since a while, I got >> no response from Tomáš, and it would be a pity to lose this module, I >> re-published the statistical charts module at >> https://codeberg.org/fiee/context-statistical-charts >> I’ll also put it on modules.contextgarden.net >> >> This is version 0.31, tagged by me as 2020-09-11 (date of the presentation). >> I’m sure there’s a newer version somewhere, at least at Ramkumar’s, and >> I’d like to update the repo to that. >> Also the sources for the documentation are missing. >> >> Authors, please help me save your work! >> >> Hraban

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Re: QR Code
by Benjamin Buchmuller 29 Apr '24

29 Apr '24

Catching up on an earlier thread by Ursula and Hraban, I'm also experienceing problems with \usemodule[zint] while \usemodule[t-zint] works fine. Running on macOS (ConTeXt ver: 2024.04.01 08:59 LMTX fmt: 2024.4.28). The issue seems somewhat unrelated to ConTeXt on first glance (??) if this is helpful. My code stopped working after I updated the OS (to Sonoma) and my homebrew cellar (to zint 2.13.0) while keeping a ConTeXt version from 2022 which compiled the barcodes perfectly fine before these updates. This being said, the newer ConTeXt version doesn't resolve the issue. Observations: 1) Zint (and Inkscape) is in my PATH and correctly sym-linked as specified in the wiki (~/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/lib/luametatex/zint/libzint.so <http://libzint.so/>). However, the library was (still) not fount after mtxrun --generate [This seems an odd, but unrelated problem] 2) So, I hardcoded libfile in libs-impzint.lmt to local libfile = "/usr/local/Cellar/zint/2.13.0/lib/libzint.dylib" 3) Running the wiki example: \usemodule[m-zint] \starttext \barcode[alternative=isbnx, text=9783865419026, width=4cm] \barcode[alternative=qrcode, text={https://wiki.contextgarden.net}, width=3cm] \barcode[alternative=maxicode, text={test}, width=3cm] \stoptext * With \usemodule[m-zint], I correctly get: zint --barcode=qrcode --output="zint-qrcode-495165e08dbc5ce650aaaf13caa2229f.eps" --input="zint-qrcode-495165e08dbc5ce650aaaf13caa2229f.tmp" zint --barcode=maxicode --output="zint-maxicode-098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6.eps" --input="zint-maxicode-098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6.tmp" [Barcodes show up as expected] * With \usemodule[zint], no success: optional > using library '/usr/local/Cellar/zint/2.13.0/lib/libzint.dylib' zint > something went wrong: invalid result vector zint > something went wrong: invalid result zint > something went wrong: invalid result vector Maybe this is helpful to pinpoint the issue? Best Ben

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Re: Why Difference Between \placefloat and \definefloat
by urban.m＠ca.rr.com 28 Apr '24

28 Apr '24

I don't think that 'sidebar' has much to do with it. The part that is not working as expected is the 'mysidebar', which is not getting the 'outer' location, nor the 'none' captioning that I get with placefloat. setupfloat[mysidebar][leftmargindistance=-.25in,rightmargindistance=-.25in,outer,none] defineframedtext [sidebartext] [width=.4textwidth,bodyfont=small,corner=round,background=color,backgroundcolor=lightgray,align=flushleft] starttext This is a bit of text placefloat[newsidebar][leftmargindistance=-.25in,rightmargindistance=-.25in,outer,none]{}{ startsidebartext This is a short sidebar stopsidebartext } And something to follow. A bit of text placemysidebar{}{ startsidebartext This is a short sidebar stopsidebartext } And something to follow. stoptext

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Define a new command that inherits from multiple other command options
by ai2472206007＠yeah.net 28 Apr '24

28 Apr '24

hi! I'm new to ConTeXt. I want to define a command with sidenote function. This [setupsidenote] command inherits the options of [setupmargindata], [setupcounter] and [setupframed]. just like [setupenumeration] inherits the option of [setupcounter]. I've defined the following sidenote command by searching, and I know how to define a new option for it. But what I don't know is how to get it to inherit the options of other commands and perform these features correctly. Any clue is warmly welcome. ``` % macros=mkvi \unprotect \installnamespace {sidenote} \installcommandhandler \????sidenote {sidenote} \????sidenote \setupsidenote[ align=, conversion=n, way=bytext, style=, ] \definecounter [SidenoteMarkNumber] [prefix=no] \definemargindata [SidenoteContent] [outer] [margin=margin,width=\outermarginwidth] \setupmargindata [SidenoteContent] [stack=yes,style=\it] \def\sidenotemark{\rawcountervalue[SidenoteMarkNumber]} \def\convertsidenotemark#1{\high{\convertnumber{#1}{\sidenotemark}}} \def\sidenote{\dosingleempty\dosidenote} \def\dosidenote[#1]#2{% \getparameters[SMsidenote] [align=\sidenoteparameter{align}, conversion=\sidenoteparameter{conversion}, way=\sidenoteparameter{way}, #1]% \setupcounter [SidenoteMarkNumber] [#1] \incrementcounter[SidenoteMarkNumber] \convertsidenotemark{\SMsidenoteconversion}% mark in text \SidenoteContent[#1]{\setscript[hanzi]\setup[\SMsidenotealign]% \convertsidenotemark{\SMsidenoteconversion}% mark with note #2 }} \protect \starttext 天地玄黄，宇宙洪荒。日月盈昃，辰宿列张。寒来暑往，秋收冬\sidenote[align=flushleft] {天地玄黄，宇宙洪荒。} \stoptext ```

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How to make superscript text match footnote mark formatting?
by Joel 27 Apr '24

27 Apr '24

\starttext test\high{1}test\footnote{some text} \stoptext How can I create a superscript number that has exactly the same formatting as a footnote, but which won't create a footnote. I tried \high{}, which I believe should be the way to superscript text, but if you compile this, you can see the first "1" and second "1" have entirely different formatting. How do I make the first one have the same exact formtating as the real footnote? --Joel

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wrong spacing after command with optional arguments
by Pablo Rodriguez 26 Apr '24

26 Apr '24

Dear list, I have the following sample: \starttext \def\MyCommand{\doquadruplegroupempty\doMyCommand} \def\doMyCommand#1#2#3#4{% \iffourthargument #4% \orelse\ifthirdargument #3% \else #2% \fi} \MyCommand{}{second}{third}{fourth},\\ \MyCommand{}{second}{third}{fourth} e,\\ \MyCommand{}{second}{third},\\ \MyCommand{}{second}{third} e,\\ \MyCommand{}{second},\\ \MyCommand{}{second} e,\\ \stoptext I don‘t know why only the command gets the space after right only when the four arguments are provided. What is wrong in my definition above? Many thanks for your help, Pablo

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