January 2025 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

VIM typing vs. Context environments
by Ryszard Kubiak 07 Jan '25

07 Jan '25

Hi, I don't know whether the audience of this mailing list can help me with a problem concerning the VIM module or I should personally ask Aditya for help. The problem is that when I define an environment based on VIM's mechanisms and use this environment surrounded with ConTeXt's narrowing commands then these commands are ignored. You can see this effect in the PDF obtained by contexting the script given below. Best Regards Ryszard \setupbodyfont[12pt] \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] \parindent=0pt\parskip=2ex \usemodule[vim] \definevimtyping[PY][syntax=python, before={\bgroup\switchtobodyfont[9pt]}, after={\egroup}] \starttext Text before a narrowed block. \startnarrower[left] Text starting a narrowed block. \startPY #: The bonds file is absolutely vital for Fontplant to work. That's why we #: define a function to verify its existence on disk. \stopPY Text finishing a narrowed block. \stopnarrower Text after a narrowed block. \stoptext

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Mechanical digital calculation...
by Willi Egger 06 Jan '25

06 Jan '25

Dear all, those of you who joined the last year’s ConTeXt meeting might remember the talk about the development of mechanical calculators… Last night I encountered a very illustrative film on YouTube showing in detail the functioning of the Arithometer. Enjoy! Willli https://youtu.be/E0pJST5mL3A?si=XS8SG0v1mnNuxK

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Bug in recent math parsing (?)
by Jim 06 Jan '25

06 Jan '25

Hi, I was perusing an update to https://wiki.contextgarden.net/index.php?title=Framed&diff=next&oldid=35583 and noticed that the grey math was not properly aligned on the wiki page. But then I tried it on my system, and, worse yet, I found out that \setuppapersize[A5] \setupcolors[state=start] \def\graymath{\mframed[frame=off, background=color, backgroundcolor=gray, backgroundoffset=3pt]} \starttext \startformula {x^3\over3} - 2 \stopformula \stoptext creates a fraction that I would expect from {x^3\over3 - 2} Is this just my (newly updated) context, or has the year 2025 started off with a \over problem? Thanks. Jim

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Wiki update
by Taco Hoekwater 06 Jan '25

06 Jan '25

Hi, Some of you may have noticed that Garulfoo is very busy working on improving the ConTeXt wiki. One of the areas that could be improved: the bitmap images that are generated from <context> tags in the wiki pages. To optimize the effect of the improved image generation, I deleted all the old tex-generated images and cleared the page cache, but clearing the mediawiki page cache does behave a bit erratic at times. Sometimes pages will refuse to auto-regenerate without manual intervention and need a bit of help. If/when you run into a page with "broken image" links, see if ”edit & save” the page without making changes fixes it. Doing so should trigger the regeneration thanks to the code that executes during the “save” step. If the page is still broken after that, please send us a warning at wiki(a)contextgarden.net Best wishes, Taco

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Searching on the WIKI fails
by Ryszard Kubiak 06 Jan '25

06 Jan '25

Hello Everybody, I experience problems when traversing the WIKI documentation. An Internal error occurs: [e22f63e5b874c2c5f6e2384e] /index.php?search=setupcombinedlist&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go Error from line 121 of /var/www/ contextgarden.net/wiki/htdocs/extensions/ConTeXtXML/includes/ConTeXtXMLCont…: Class "MediaWiki\Extension\ConTeXtXML\ParserOutput" not found Ryszard

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[ layout templates ]
by vm 06 Jan '25

06 Jan '25

I missed the first part of the presentation on the new features in lmtx that seem to provide support for layout templates. Is it possible to define page layouts containing shapes where text can flow into? And can you connect chains of shapes / templates? e.g. define a section to start with a particular template to be continued with a different template for following pages? Where can I find documentation? .Floris

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Clip an image with a svg
by juh+ntg-context＠mailbox.org 03 Jan '25

03 Jan '25

Dear all, I found this example in the garden. \startMPclip{circleclip} clip currentpicture to fullcircle shifted (.5,.5) xscaled \width yscaled \height ; \stopMPclip \clip[nx=1,ny=1,mp=circleclip]{\externalfigure[hacker.png]} Aside from the fact that I failed to understand the shifted argument by playing around with values, I wonder if it is possible to use a SVG as clip for an image. The SVG is something like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>  <svg width="20.887mm" height="17.613mm" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 20.887 17.613" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <g transform="translate(152.66 -101.94)"> <path d="m-150.94 114.93c-0.5424-1.3121-0.58209-2.9382 0.18256-5.2163 2.3566-7.0175 11.139-8.7098 15.878-3.0594 7.6978 8.7032-11.506 16.052-16.06 8.2756" fill="none" stroke="#dd4901" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-width="2"/> </g> </svg> I guess that there might be a way to translate this to Metafun or Metapost, if I can't use SVG directly. In my real life use case I want to have a bleeding image at the top or the bottom of the page which can be clipped by the form while size and position of the form relative to the image and relative to the page shall be set by parameters either in \clip or in the definition of the MPclip. TIA juh

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How to control specific cells in setupTABLE?
by Joel 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

I used this code to create a "logic grid puzzle". See this picture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_puzzle#/media/File:Logic_grid.png) for how it should appear. I'm having trouble getting the grid to show up right, I made a thicker grid (1pt) to the right of cols 1, 6, 11, and 16, but when rendering the other thinner rules, it creates strange problems, with some cell having thick rules on the bottom too. Additionally, I can't figure how to make the stair-step effect by turning off the borders of some cells. I can't find any instructions in the manual fro how to specify specific cells or a range of cells that won't be getting borders. Any suggestions how to make it look like the table in the picture? --Joel \starttext \startsetups[logicGrid] \setupTABLE[topframe=off, bottomframe=off, leftframe=off, rightframe=off] \setupTABLE[r][1][height=1in] \setupTABLE[c][1][leftframe=off,rightframe=off,width=1in,align={middle,right}] \setupTABLE[c][each][align={middle,center},height=0.25in,width=0.25in] \setupTABLE[c][2:16][align={middle,center}] \setupTABLE[r][each][align={middle,center}] \setupTABLE[c][1,6,11,16][rightframe=on, rulethickness=1pt] \setupTABLE[c][2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,12,13,14,15][rightframe=on, rulethickness=.5pt] \setupTABLE[r][1,6,11,16][bottomframe=on, rulethickness=1pt] \setupTABLE[r][2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,12,13,14,15][bottomframe=on, rulethickness=.5pt] \stopsetups \setvalue{topLabel1}{Red} \setvalue{topLabel2}{Yellow} \setvalue{topLabel3}{Green} \setvalue{topLabel4}{Blue} \setvalue{topLabel5}{12} \setvalue{topLabel6}{15} \setvalue{topLabel7}{18} \setvalue{topLabel8}{21} \setvalue{topLabel9}{Marmite} \setvalue{topLabel10}{Honey} \setvalue{topLabel11}{Jam} \setvalue{topLabel12}{Marmalade} \setvalue{topLabel13}{Extra1} \setvalue{topLabel14}{Extra2} \setvalue{topLabel15}{Extra3} \setvalue{sideLabel1}{Peter} \setvalue{sideLabel2}{Jane} \setvalue{sideLabel3}{Simon} \setvalue{sideLabel4}{Alice} \setvalue{sideLabel5}{Marmite} \setvalue{sideLabel6}{Honey} \setvalue{sideLabel7}{Marmalade} \setvalue{sideLabel8}{Jam} \setvalue{sideLabel9}{Label9} \setvalue{sideLabel10}{Label10} \setvalue{sideLabel11}{Label11} \setvalue{sideLabel12}{Label12} \setvalue{sideLabel13}{Label13} \setvalue{sideLabel14}{Label14} \setvalue{sideLabel15}{Label15} \bTABLE[setups=logicGrid] % Top labels \bTR \bTD \eTD \bTD \rotate[rotation=-90]{\getvalue{topLabel1}} \eTD \bTD \rotate[rotation=-90]{\getvalue{topLabel2}} \eTD \bTD \rotate[rotation=-90]{\getvalue{topLabel3}} \eTD \bTD \rotate[rotation=-90]{\getvalue{topLabel4}} \eTD \bTD \rotate[rotation=-90]{\getvalue{topLabel5}} \eTD \bTD \rotate[rotation=-90]{\getvalue{topLabel6}} \eTD \bTD \rotate[rotation=-90]{\getvalue{topLabel7}} \eTD \bTD \rotate[rotation=-90]{\getvalue{topLabel8}} \eTD \bTD \rotate[rotation=-90]{\getvalue{topLabel9}} \eTD \bTD \rotate[rotation=-90]{\getvalue{topLabel10}} \eTD \bTD \rotate[rotation=-90]{\getvalue{topLabel11}} \eTD \bTD \rotate[rotation=-90]{\getvalue{topLabel12}} \eTD \bTD \rotate[rotation=-90]{\getvalue{topLabel13}} \eTD \bTD \rotate[rotation=-90]{\getvalue{topLabel14}} \eTD \bTD \rotate[rotation=-90]{\getvalue{topLabel15}} \eTD \eTR % Side labels and grid rows \bTR \bTD[left] \getvalue{sideLabel1} \eTD \dorecurse{15}{\bTD \emptylines[1] \eTD} \eTR \bTR \bTD[left] \getvalue{sideLabel2} \eTD \dorecurse{15}{\bTD \emptylines[1] \eTD} \eTR \bTR \bTD[left] \getvalue{sideLabel3} \eTD \dorecurse{15}{\bTD \emptylines[1] \eTD} \eTR \bTR \bTD[left] \getvalue{sideLabel4} \eTD \dorecurse{15}{\bTD \emptylines[1] \eTD} \eTR \bTR \bTD[left] \getvalue{sideLabel5} \eTD \dorecurse{15}{\bTD \emptylines[1] \eTD} \eTR \bTR \bTD[left] \getvalue{sideLabel6} \eTD \dorecurse{15}{\bTD \emptylines[1] \eTD} \eTR \bTR \bTD[left] \getvalue{sideLabel7} \eTD \dorecurse{15}{\bTD \emptylines[1] \eTD} \eTR \bTR \bTD[left] \getvalue{sideLabel8} \eTD \dorecurse{15}{\bTD \emptylines[1] \eTD} \eTR \bTR \bTD[left] \getvalue{sideLabel9} \eTD \dorecurse{15}{\bTD \emptylines[1] \eTD} \eTR \bTR \bTD[left] \getvalue{sideLabel10} \eTD \dorecurse{15}{\bTD \emptylines[1] \eTD} \eTR \bTR \bTD[left] \getvalue{sideLabel11} \eTD \dorecurse{15}{\bTD \emptylines[1] \eTD} \eTR \bTR \bTD[left] \getvalue{sideLabel12} \eTD \dorecurse{15}{\bTD \emptylines[1] \eTD} \eTR \bTR \bTD[left] \getvalue{sideLabel13} \eTD \dorecurse{15}{\bTD \emptylines[1] \eTD} \eTR \bTR \bTD[left] \getvalue{sideLabel14} \eTD \dorecurse{15}{\bTD \emptylines[1] \eTD} \eTR \bTR \bTD[left] \getvalue{sideLabel15} \eTD \dorecurse{15}{\bTD \emptylines[1] \eTD} \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext

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New Module to write exam
by autumnus 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

hi,list Thank you to all of you who have answered my questions in the past. I've recently basically finished my first macro package at ConTeXt, which can write exam papers. If anyone is interested in this feature, feel free to experience it. There may still be some problems with it, please let me know if you can. (I'm working on writing its description and use cases.) You can download it from the address below. 1. https://modules.contextgarden.net/cgi-bin/module.cgi/action=view/id=157 2. https://github.com/Soanguy/t-basicexam autumnus

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whitespace inside synonym
by damien＠thiriet.web4me.fr 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

Hello, I am using the synonym mechanizm to design a glossary for my pupils. I am stuck with this: how can I insert a whitespace inside a synonym definition? What I achieved yet is: \definesynonyms [vocabulaire] [vocabulaire] [\LaDef] \starttext \vocabulaire{Unionpersonnelle}{Deux États sont en union personnelle lorsqu’ils ont le même souverain} \Unionpersonnelle\ \placelistofvocabulaire \stoptext I would like to typeset Union personnelle, without inserting a UTF-8 non breakable space. I tried {{Union personnelle}}, but don't know how may I escape the space in the macro. The answer may lay in lowlevel-macro, but I couldn't find it. Happy new year everyone! Damien Thiriet

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