November 2025 - ntg-context

trying pgfplots in CLD
by Henning Hraban Ramm 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

Hi, did anyone succeed in using pgfplots within a CLD document? While context.starttikzpicture() … context.stoptikzpicture() seems to work, everything inbetween is just output but not executed. So I guess, context.starttikzpicture() context.startaxis{title="bla", xlabel="mm", ylabel="min"} context.addplot(…) context.stopaxis() context.stoptikzpicture() … is not the right way? Hraban

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index "entry not flushed" and {0}{0}{0} in bookmarks
by Henning Hraban Ramm 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

Since one of the latest updates, I get a lot of “entry not flushed” entries in my indexes, and some PDF bookmarks start with “{0}{0}” (at least 2, up to 5). Besides rare unflushed entries I didn’t have that problem without changing anything in the headers or indexes. I don’t know where to start debugging. Hraban

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regular online meet-up
by Henning Hraban Ramm 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, November 12th, 19:00 CET (UTC+1, UTF-8) (Beware! We’re back to winter time! Same absolute time, but nominally 1 hour earlier.) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Looking forward to seeing you, Hraban (Same blurb as always:) [Howto] * No special software installation required; most modern browsers should work (WebRTC required). * Open the URL above, accept the privacy statement, * enter your name, * click "join" (or "start" if you’re the first), * click "with microphone", allow your browser to access it, check the audio. * Your microphone is muted if you join. Activate microphone and/or camera with the buttons at the bottom. * Minimize the default presentation with the "screen" button, bottom right. * If you’d like to share your screen or upload a file, you can make yourself the presenter: Click on your user name, change the setting, then you’ll see the "screen sharing" button beside the camera button; also there’s now "manage presentations" behind the "plus" button. Beware there is only one presenter at a time, so don’t kill someone else’s presentation. [Technical hints] * Sound is usually better if you use a headset (less noise for everyone). * Connection problems are mostly due to low bandwidth or high latency on your side, esp. with mobile connections. * Sometimes leaving and re-entering helps. * If audio/video doesn’t work for you, you can still use the text chat. * Screen sharing needs a lot of bandwidth. * BigBlueButton documentation applies: https://bigbluebutton.org/tutorials/ [Netiquette] * Please use a name that we recognize from here. Some feel uncomfortable with anonymous lurkers. * Mute your microphone while you’re not talking. * It’s nice to show your face at least when you join. * If there are connection problems, stop camera sharing. * The room is set to “everyone’s a moderator“, I trust you...

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space calculation regression with \PDFhighlight
by Henning Hraban Ramm 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

This used to work correctly, don’t know until when since I didn’t use it often, but now the calculation of the highlight is wrong, " T" is included. If the text is longer, the hihglight also swallows more text. \setupinteraction[state=start] \enabledirectives[backend.pdf.fixhighlight] \definecolor[pdfhighlight:Lektorat][r=.8,g=1,b=1] \setupbodyfont[palatino,rm,18pt] \starttext Hier steht \PDFhighlight[Lektorat][Kürzen!]{zu viel} Text. \stoptext Hraban

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can I set "result" after start?
by Henning Hraban Ramm 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

I’m processing data from external files, e.g. data.json Only after reading it I know how the result file should be named. That’s still in the preamble, no output yet. Can I set ConTeXt’s --result at that stage? Otherwise I’d need to process the file first, before calling ConTeXt; I’d like to avoid that. Hraban

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Cron <context@cgl> /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror
by root＠ntg.nl 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

receiving incremental file list ./ ctan.lsr document-2.htm download-1.htm download-2.htm logo-ade.png logo-cts.png logo-pod.png rss.xml show-fil.pdf context/latest/ context/latest/cont-lmt.zip context/latest/cont-mpd.zip context/latest/cont-ppc.zip context/latest/cont-sci.zip context/latest/cont-tmf.zip context/latest/cont-tst.7z context/latest/cont-tst.tar.xz context/latest/cont-tst.zip general/manuals/ general/manuals/moretocome.pdf sent 191,404 bytes received 44,474,273 bytes 1,624,206.44 bytes/sec total size is 665,837,061 speedup is 14.91 Running archiver: New dir: /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2025-11-13.00 306293601 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2025-11-13.00/latest 126741221 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2025-11-13.00/current 433034822 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2025-11-13.00 433034822 total

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update
by Hans Hagen 12 Nov '25

12 Nov '25

Hi, Hraban noticed that links were runnign wide (side effect of optimization that I now rolled back). So there's a new upload. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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loading modules in Lua
by Henning Hraban Ramm 11 Nov '25

11 Nov '25

Another first time for me: I’m processing some data with text snippets that might use Markdown formatting. I thought I could simply: \usemodule[markdown] \startluacode moduledata.markdown.typesetstring("Hello *world!*") \stopluacode … and that even works. But in my real project, I try to call moduledata.markdown.typesetstring in a function that is defined in a lua file that I load via require(), and that fails, because moduledata.markdown is nil. So I guess I have a scoping or load order problem. How should I load a module from lua code or ensure that it is loaded? Hraban

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Cron <context@cgl> /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror
by root＠ntg.nl 11 Nov '25

11 Nov '25

receiving incremental file list ./ ctan.lsr document-2.htm download-1.htm download-2.htm logo-ade.png logo-cts.png logo-pod.png rss.xml show-fil.pdf context/latest/ context/latest/cont-lmt.zip context/latest/cont-mpd.zip context/latest/cont-ppc.zip context/latest/cont-sci.zip context/latest/cont-tmf.zip context/latest/cont-tst.7z context/latest/cont-tst.tar.xz context/latest/cont-tst.zip general/manuals/ general/manuals/luametatex.pdf general/manuals/ppchtex-mkiv.pdf general/manuals/signals-macos.pdf sent 204,822 bytes received 51,841,498 bytes 5,478,560.00 bytes/sec total size is 664,731,074 speedup is 12.77 Running archiver: New dir: /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2025-11-11.00 305545802 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2025-11-11.00/latest 126741221 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2025-11-11.00/current 432287023 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2025-11-11.00 432287023 total

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fake slanted broken
by Henning Hraban Ramm 09 Nov '25

09 Nov '25

Hi, please have a look at this: \setupbodyfontenvironment[default][em=italic] \setupbodyfont[gentium,rm,12pt] \starttext \samplefile{knuth} \emph{\samplefile{knuth}} \samplefile{knuth} {\sl\samplefile{knuth}} \samplefile{knuth} \stoptext The gentium fontscript is using the fake slanted feature, and that looks seriously broken: While the font is displayed ultra compressed, it apparently gets calculated correctly. Hraban

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