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Uppercase letters with diacritics in grid mode lead to blank line.
by gbsolisb＠gmail.com 27 Nov '25

27 Nov '25

Hello everyone, A spurious empty line appears whenever I use an uppercase letter with a diacritical mark in grid typesetting. Here's a minimal example: ``` \setuplayout[grid=yes] \starttext \dorecurse{30}{word } È \stoptext ``` In which one can see an empty line between the second and third lines of text. Is this expected? Thank you.

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Adjusting kerning/spread in lmt_followtext
by Mojca Miklavec Groenhuis 27 Nov '25

27 Nov '25

Hi, When typesetting large text on small curves with lmt_followtext, the letters start overlapping. There is a parameter "spread=true", but that spreads the text to the full curve, while I would only like to slightly increase the kerning between individual characters. Example: \setupbodyfont [antykwa,25pt] \starttext \startMPpage draw lmt_followtext [ text = "{\bf this is somewhat squeezed}", path = fullcircle scaled 5cm rotated 90, trace = false, spread = false, reverse = false, ]; \stopMPpage \stoptext In theory luatex/metapost could probably calculate the amount of kerning adjustment needed to avoid overlap of the letters based on height of the letters and angle difference, but it would already be sufficient if I could add a fixed amount of additional kerning between the individual letters. Second question: is it possible to somehow combine lmt_outline and lmt_followtext? That is: how do I typeset outline letters on a curve? Thank you, Mojca PS: I'm slightly confused about the documentation. Some elements are strings, others are numeric, yet the default value seems to be boolean. Based on other examples it looks like autoscaleup should be string rather than numeric, and it would be really helpful to have a list of valid values ("yes", "max", ...). Though for some reason neither of them seemed to have any effect for me. spread string true trace numeric false reverse numeric false autoscaleup numeric no autoscaledown string no

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Understanding Chapter and appendix numbering
by Alfredo Catalina 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

I downloaded the latest ConTeXt LMTX version (2025.11.24) and I can't get this minimal example to work: \starttext \startchapter[title={Sounds and graphics}] \startsection[title={Sounds}] \stopsection \startsection[title={Graphics}] \stopsection \stopchapter \startappendices \startchapter[title={Sun and moon}] \startsection[title={Sun}] \stopsection \startsection[title={Moon}] \stopsection \stopchapter \stopappendices \stoptext Both chapters and appendices ended up being numbered with letters, instead of using numbers for chapters and letters for appendices. A Sounds and graphics A.1 Sounds A.2 Graphics A Sun and moon A.1 Sun A.2 Moon

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suppressing space after a \start...\stop
by mf 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

Hello list, in the following MWE, I want the word "bar" to be attached to the word "foo" in a frame, suppressing the space after \stop (this is the intent of \ignorespaces): ------------------------------------------------ \starttext \definestartstop[test][before={\inframed[width=3cm]\bgroup},after=\egroup\ignorespaces] \noindent\start[test]foo\stop\ bar\par \stoptext ------------------------------------------------ Something like this: +---------+ | foo |bar +---------+ instead of: +---------+ | foo | bar +---------+ This is a simplified version of a problem that I have with XML, but luckily I could reproduce it with the example above. Massi

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removing \part number from \chapter numbers in toc and bookmark
by Sylvain Hubert 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

Dear list, how can one remove the \part number from \chapter numbers? For example: ```tex \defineresetset[noreset][][0] \setuphead[chapter][sectionresetset=noreset] \setupinteraction[state=start,focus=standard] \setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark] \placebookmarks[part,chapter][] \starttext \setupcombinedlist[content][list={chapter,part}] \completecontent \part{part-I} \chapter{chapter-a} \chapter{chapter-b} \part{part-II} \chapter{chapter-c} \chapter{chapter-d} \stoptext ``` The resulting bookmark and toc is numbered as: 1 part-I 1.1 chapter-a 1.2 chapter-b 2 part-II 2.3 chapter-c 2.4 chapter-d How to make it like: ((part-I)) first: chapter-a second: hapter-b ((part-II)) third: chapter-c fourth: chapter-d Thanks in advance!

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Bug: 2nd \setupbodyfont ignored
by Sylvain Hubert 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

Dear devs, When I \switchtobodyfont twice, only the first one is effective. Could anyone have a look at the problem? Thanks in advance! ____________________ MWE 1&2 each shows a chinese char in a differnt font. MWE 3 fails to show the char twice in both fonts. MWE 1: correct rendering of fonta (fzheib01): ``` \definefontfamily[fonta][rm][fzheib01] \definefontfamily[fontb][rm][fzfangsongz02] \starttext\switchtobodyfont[fonta] 街 \stoptext ``` MWE 2: correct rendering of fontb (fzfangsongz02): ``` \definefontfamily[fonta][rm][fzheib01] \definefontfamily[fontb][rm][fzfangsongz02] \starttext\switchtobodyfont[fontb] 街 \stoptext ``` MWE 3: wrong, both chars are in fonta (fzheib01): ``` \definefontfamily[fonta][rm][fzheib01] \definefontfamily[fontb][rm][fzfangsongz02] \starttext \switchtobodyfont[fonta] 街 \switchtobodyfont[fontb] 街 \stoptext ``` The two fonts can be found below. Other fonts might share the same problem. - fzheib01: https://www.scfai.edu.cn/system/_content/download.jsp?urltype=news.Download… - fzfangsongz02: https://www.scfai.edu.cn/system/_content/download.jsp?urltype=news.Download…

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Cron <context@cgl> /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror
by root＠ntg.nl 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

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Columnsets
by Matthias Weber 23 Nov '25

23 Nov '25

Dear All, I am trying to use the new columnsets. I have a simple setup where I occasionally have a formula or figure that I would like to span two columns. How do I achieve that? Thanks, Matthias \definecolumnset[example][n=3,page=left] \starttext \startcolumnset[example] \input knuth % this needs two columns: \startformula \tau=\frac{1}{3} \left(1+\sqrt[3]{19-3 \sqrt{33}}+\sqrt[3]{19+3 \sqrt{33}}\right) \ . \stopformula \input knuth \input knuth \input knuth \stopcolumnset \stoptext

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understanding \externalfigure’s factor
by Henning Hraban Ramm 23 Nov '25

23 Nov '25

I’m trying to describe the "factor" parameter. According to the reference (i.e. interface), factor can become: fit broad max auto default In the source (grph-trf.mk*), there’s also "min". - "broad" fails with a "missing )", see below. - I don’t see a difference between "max" and "fit" (both just use the max height and ignore the max width). - "min" fills the defined max space ignoring the ration and thus distorting the image. - "auto" keeps the ratio and scales the image down into the max space. - There’s no option that uses the defined space and crops the image into it; maybe "broad" is meant to do that? """ \setupexternalfigures[ location=default, frame=on, maxwidth=5cm, maxheight=5cm, ] \starttext \startcombination[2*4] {\externalfigure[hacker][factor=max]} {max} {\externalfigure[mill] [factor=max]} {max} {\externalfigure[hacker][factor=fit]} {fit} {\externalfigure[mill] [factor=fit]} {fit} {\externalfigure[hacker][factor=min]} {min} {\externalfigure[mill] [factor=min]} {min} {\externalfigure[hacker][factor=auto]} {auto} {\externalfigure[mill] [factor=auto]} {auto} %{\externalfigure[hacker][factor=broad]} {broad} %{\externalfigure[mill] [factor=broad]} {broad} \stopcombination \stoptext """ ! Missing ) inserted for expression tex error > tex error on line 1 in file de/_tests/figurefactor.tex: <to be read again> b <macro> \m_grph_scale_factor_set b odyfont <macro> \692>broad #1#-#-#-#2->\global #1{#2-(\externalfigureparameter \c!bodyfont \c!bodyfont )*4} <macro> \m_grph_scale_factor_set \grph_scale_apply_size \ifdim \d_grph_scale_x_size >\d_grph_scale_y_size \grph_scale_calculate_norm \d_grph_scale_used_x_size \p_factor \p_maxwidth \hsize \d_grph_scale_h_size \grph_scale_calculate_scales \d_grph_scale_used_x_size \d_grph_scale_x_siz <macro> \p_maxheight \ifinset \p_factor \m_grph_scale_factor_set \grph_scale_by_factor_a \orelse \ifinset \p_hfactor \m_grph_scale_factor_set \grph_scale_by_factor_b \orelse \ifinset \p_wfactor \m_grph_scale_factor_set \grph_scale_by_factor_c \else \grph_scale_by_factor_ <macro> \m_grph_scale_stamp_b ... \let \m_grph_scale_used_x_scale \!!plusone \let \m_grph_scale_used_y_scale \!!plusone \c_grph_scale_scaling_done \conditionalfalse \grph_scale_check_parameters \ifconditional \c_grph_scale_scaling_done \else \grph_scale_by_factor \fi \ifcondit ... ... <line 3.25> {\externalfigure[hacker][factor=broad]} {broad} 1 >> 2 3 \setupexternalfigures[ 4 location=default, 5 frame=on, 6 maxwidth=5cm, 7 maxheight=5cm, 8 ] 9 10 \starttext 11 I was expecting to see an operator or ')' but didn't.

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bodyfontenvironment, relative font sizes
by Henning Hraban Ramm 22 Nov '25

22 Nov '25

Looking at \showbodyfontenvironment, when is x/xx vs. script/scriptscript and small/big used? Does ConTeXt follow the(?) TeX defaults in that regard? Hraban

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