June 2024 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

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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ConTeXt source from XML
by Christoph Edenhauser 08 Jun '24

08 Jun '24

Dear list, I am currently trying to get into Context and XML. I would like to do the typographical fine-tuning in Context and not in the XML document. My question is: Is it possible to have ConTeXt output a (preliminary) ConTeXt file instead of typesetting a PDF file, for further editing? Christoph

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missing space with French quotation
by Peter Münster 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

Hi, When using \start/stopquotation in French documents, there is a missing space: \mainlanguage[fr] \setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation] \starttext bla \quotation{OK} bla\\ bla «OK» bla \startquotation Not Ok: a space is missing \stopquotation \stoptext Is this a bug or a feature? How could I get a space before "»" please? TIA for any help, -- Peter

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