June 2024 - ntg-context - Mailing Lists

get measures as dimension in Lua
by Henning Hraban Ramm 13 Jun '24

13 Jun '24

Hi, when I define a measure on the TeX side, I used to get at the value in Lua with tex.getdim, like: \definemeasure[Bleed][3mm] tex.getdimen("Bleed") But now I get "incorrect dimen name". I need it as a dimension, since I do calculations with other dimensions like "topspace". How should I do this correctly? (I just assume this used to work – the code is old any maybe stuck in an intermediate state where I switched from \newdim to \definemeasure…) Hraban

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comment on the wiki
by Pablo Rodriguez 13 Jun '24

13 Jun '24

Dear wiki maintainers (Taco at others), I have found in the user creation log: 05:40, 7 June 2024 User account FelicaEnyeart34 was created 22:59, 26 May 2024 User account NonaAlber414387 was created 04:33, 26 May 2024 User account Tony83264596 was created 15:17, 24 May 2024 User account WallyGarth was created I‘m afraid these four users may be only spamming accounts. I don’t know whether it is worth discussing this issue, but I have two questions: Is there any way in which regular wiki contributions may help in removing the accounts or at least all the pages generated with these accounts? Is there any way to fix the display of user contributions (such as mine, https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Special:Contributions/Ousia)? I have just discovered that the problem is to search for contributions in all namespaces (set by default), which triggers the error message: Namespaces with negative values are not supported. If main namespace is selected, everything works fine. I wonder whether it would be possible to set the main namespace as default to search for user contributions. Many thanks for your help, Pablo

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Cite-proc Lua - Following up
by hdanielhixson＠gmail.com 12 Jun '24

12 Jun '24

Hello all, I hope you are well. This is my first time posting. So if I do so erroneously, I apologize. There is a LaTeX package called citation-style-language, backed by some software called citeproc-lua. The github page for the software is here: https://github.com/zepinglee/citeproc-lua It is an excellent piece of software. There was previous discussion about potentially integrating the software into Context. The following link should show a discussion that took place about the topic. https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=ntg-context@ntg.nl&q=subject:%22Re%5C… I'm just wondering if there is more news about its potential integration with Context. Thank you, devs, for your hard work on making the software.

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Scale content to height of the font, measure font height
by Gerion Entrup 11 Jun '24

11 Jun '24

Hi, I'd like to scale something (actually a symbol drawn in TikZ) to the exact high of the char 'M'. I found the scale environment for it but struggle to measure the correct font height. I found the "definemeasure/measure/measured" commands but they define a dimension and are not for doing measurements on rendered text. Is there a simple way to get the height a char as a dimension? MWE: ``` \starttext % Is it possible to replace 1cm with a common expression? This is the letter M. \scale[height=1cm]{a} should have the exact same size as M. This should also be true {\tfc with a bigger M. \scale[height=1cm]{a}}. \stoptext ``` Best Gerion

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nearly on topic: BoVeX, AI alignment
by Henning Hraban Ramm 10 Jun '24

10 Jun '24

Funny idea of replacing hyphenation with LLM-generated alternative wording, also explains a bit how TeX works: http://tom7.org/bovex/ (a SIGBOVIK submission) ;) hr

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suggestion: two templates for the wiki
by Pablo Rodriguez 10 Jun '24

10 Jun '24

Dear Taco and Hraban, trying to improve the XML page from the wiki, I think it would be extremely useful to have two templates for inline code: {{xml|…}}: inline XML highlighted as <xmlcode> for blocks. {{tex|…}}: inline TeX code highlighted as <texcode> for blocks. As for the second, {{cmd|…}} includes a link (not always required) and doesn‘t higlight more than the command itself. Let me know whether I can contribute in any way to this. Many thanks for your help, Pablo

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[ remove all metadata in pdf ]
by vm 10 Jun '24

10 Jun '24

Is there a parameter for context lmtx to strip all metadata from the generated pdf? Or is that a better task for exiftool afterwards? .F

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dimen 100.0pt not 100.0pt?
by Hans van der Meer 10 Jun '24

10 Jun '24

The I do not understand. I am testing if a dimension set can be checked against the expected value. It looks like 100.0pt is not really 100.0pt. Why? And how can I do this test properly with true as result? \scratchdimen=100pt\relax \iftok{\the\scratchdimen}{100.0pt}true\else false\fi printing \the\scratchdimen results in 100.0pt while \meaning\scratchdimen results in: constant dimension 100.0pt yours sincerely dr. Hans van der Meer

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Bibliography: separating different kinds of literature OR Sectioning bibliography by type
by Ben Moon 09 Jun '24

09 Jun '24

Hey there, I would like to place a list of bibliography according to types (article, book, in proceedings) in my document. Similar like here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/112874/sectioning-bibliography-by-t… Sectioning bibliography by type (with multiple types per section) tex.stackexchange.com and here: https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg77056.html The example provided by Hans doesn’t seem to properly work any more, and I cannot make the suggestion work of using two different datasets work as suggested in the same thread. So this is where I’m stuck: \definebtxdataset[main] \usebtxdataset[main][maindata.buffer] \definebtxdataset[images] \usebtxdataset[images][imagedata.buffer] \usebtxdefinitions[mycustom, aps] \setupbtx[dataset=main] \definebtxrendering[bibrendering][mycustom, aps][dataset=main] \definebtxrendering[bibimgrendering][mycustom, aps][dataset=images] \placelistofpublications[bibrendering] \placelistofpublications[bibimgrendering] It would be much appreciated if someone could provide a working example? Thank you very much Ben

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Scale notation base on current font
by seyal.zavira＠gmail.com 08 Jun '24

08 Jun '24

Hi all, There's a problem when I want to define the note so that it's displayed according to the size and font of the text: this MWE change the notation size: \definenote[Mynote][location=text,before={},] \setupnote[Mynote] [location=left, textcommand=\tfb \raise 0.2ex\hbox, ] \starttext hello \Mynote{refrence} \placenotes[Mynote] \stoptext but i cannot set it for \tfxx. also it's relative to my main body font, and my current font and color doesn't apply to text. for example if my current text has color red with another font the note doesn't change according to it, and will display identical everywhere. And when I try to define it like this MWE: \definenote[Mynote][location=text,before={},] \setupnote[Mynote] [location=left, textcommand= \scale [height=0.7ex] \raise 0.2ex\hbox, ] \starttext hello \Mynote{refrence} \placenotes[Mynote] \stoptext it doesn't work. how i should define such notes?

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