December 2025 - ntg-context

no hyphenation exceptions with non-ASCII chars?
by Pablo Rodriguez 11 Dec '25

11 Dec '25

Dear list, I have the following sample: \setuphyphenation[method=traditional] \registerhyphenationexception[en] [schweig-häu-ser, schweig-hau-ßer, schweig-hau-ser] \starttext \startTEXpage[offset=1em] \hyphenatedword{Schweighäuser}\\ \hyphenatedword{Schweighaußer}\\ \hyphenatedword{Schweighauser}\\ \stopTEXpage \stoptext I only get the last word hyphenated as the exception (no non-ASCII characters). Using current latest (2025.12.05 17:46), both LMTX and LuaTeX don’t hyphenate with exceptions when the word contains a non-ASCII character. Could you be so kind to confirm the issue? Many thanks for your help, Pablo

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regular online meet-up
by Henning Hraban Ramm 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

You’re invited to the last regular online meet-up of 2025, this upcoming Wednesday, December 10th, 19:30 CET (UTC+1, UTF-8) (Beware! We moved the time again!) 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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Update of the FLAC metadata script
by Ivan Pešić 09 Dec '25

09 Dec '25

Hello, I have tried recently to use the mtx-flac script on a part of my collection and found out that it's not working as expected. I tried to improve it just a bit, only to make it more robust. So here it is for everyone who may find it useful. I hope that Hans don't mind. There is also a hidden argument (--verbose) that spits out complete STREAMINFO and VORBIS COMMENT metadata blocks of every file. You can see some demo in the attached files. Best regards, Ivan > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl > webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) > archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context > wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________

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\blank wiki example not giving me same output... anyone else?
by Jim 08 Dec '25

08 Dec '25

Hi all, In another thread I pointed out the big illustrative example on the \blank wiki page is not working for me in the same way as shown in the wiki, and Hans suggested more information and a second confirmation would be useful. Attached is the output I get when I copy and paste the example into a file and run it. If you look at the third column (<something> + medium) of the attached PDF you will notice that in seven cases (e.g., "{\bf medium} + medium") there is a blank line before the "Antelope, ...", whereas on the wiki there are no such blank lines. Would some generous soul try running the example from the wiki and let me (and, I suppose, this list) know whether they see the extra blank lines as well? Thanks. Jim

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Vertical rules between pagecolumns
by Florent Michel 08 Dec '25

08 Dec '25

Hi again, I tried running the code in the accepted answer from this StackExchange question: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/641779/adding-column-rules-in-conte… (see below); but the vertical rules do not seem to appear with LMTX 2025.12.05 17:46. (I think the code gave the expected output until at least two months ago, although I am not 100% sure of that.) Would anyone know how to update it to work with the latest version of LMTX? _______________________________________ \setupbodyfont[dejavu,9pt] \setuphead[subject][ style=bold, before={\blank[line]}, after={\blank[none]}, ] \setuplayout[ backspace=13mm, width=middle, topspace=13mm, height=middle, header=0mm, footer=0mm, grid=yes, ] \startuseMPgraphic{verticalrule} save a, b, c, p, q, r ; path b ; b := positioncolumnbox(CurrentColumn) ; draw image ( path p ; p := rightboundary b shifted (\frameddimension{distance}/2,0) ; numeric c ; c := positioncolumn(positionregion("allendshere")) ; if (positionpage("allendshere") = RealPageNumber): if (CurrentColumn < c) : draw p withcolor black withpen pencircle scaled 1 ; elseif (CurrentColumn > c) : % nothing else : if CurrentColumn < NOfColumns : pair a ; a := positionxy ("allendshere") ; path q ; q := (0,ypart a) -- (PaperWidth,ypart a) ; path r ; r := p cutbeforefirst q ; draw r withcolor black withpen pencircle scaled 1 ; fi ; fi ; else : if CurrentColumn < NOfColumns : draw p withcolor black withpen pencircle scaled 1 ; fi ; fi ; ) shifted -llcorner b ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[verticalrule][\useMPgraphic{verticalrule}] \setupalign[verytolerant,stretch] \starttext \startpagecolumns[n=3,background=verticalrule] \dorecurse{10}{% \subject[title={Foo \recurselevel}] \samplefile{lorem} } \hpos{allendshere}{} \stoppagecolumns \stoptext _______________________________________________________ Cheers, Florent

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\starttyping and surrounding whitespace
by Jim 08 Dec '25

08 Dec '25

Hi, In my continuing quest to adjust white space to my liking, I ran up against an issue with \starttyping that I can't solve. Here is the example: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \starttext This is a line above \type{\starttyping}: \starttyping 1. this is typing (and has space above and below) \stoptyping This is a line below. \hairline This is a line above \type{\starttyping[before=,after=,]} \starttyping[before=,after=,] 2. this is typing (and has NO space above or below, just as I want) \stoptyping This is a line below. \hairline \setupwhitespace [big] \midaligned{\type{*** \setupwhitespace[big]} now in effect ***} \hairline This is a line above \type{\starttyping}: \starttyping 3. this is typing (and has space above and below just like '1.') \stoptyping This is a line below. \hairline This is a line above \type{\starttyping[before=,after=,]} \starttyping[before=,after=,] 4. this is typing (and has space above and below, even with [before=,after=,]) \stoptyping This is a line below. \hairline This is a line above \type{\starttyping[before={\blank[disable]},after={\blank[disable]},]} \starttyping[before={\blank[disable]},after={\blank[disable]},] 5. this is typing (and has space below, even with [before={\blank[disable]},after={\blank[disable]},]) \stoptyping This is a line below. \hairline This is a line above \type{\starttyping[before={\blank[order:99,0pt]}},\\ \null\type{ after={\blank[order:111,disable]}]} \starttyping[before={\blank[order:99,0pt]},after={\blank[order:111,disable]},] 6. this is typing (space above cancelled, space below still there, even with after={\blank[order:111,disable] (or order:1,...) \stoptyping This is a line below. \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Attached is the PDF I get when I run ConTeXt on the example above. Q1: I had hoped that before=, and after=, would work as well when I have \setupwhitespace [big] as when the whitespace is (I assume) [none], but that didn't work. Can someone explain the Zen of why I am still getting space in this case? (I first speculated that \startyping does something like putting out the larger of two vertical space amounts (the \parskip and its default before= and after= amounts), but that doesn't seem to be a full explanation.) Q2: I tried various and sundry incantations to remove the space above and below the typing. As seen, I did manage to remove the "above" space, but the "below" space has resisted my pathetic attempts (some shown above, others not included here) to remove it. Can someone explain to me how I can remove the "below" space? (Or point me to a part of some documentation that explains it?) Thanks very much for any enlightenment anyone can provide. Jim

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antykwapoltawskiego-light font
by alan.caruanambom＠gmail.com 07 Dec '25

07 Dec '25

I'm trying to use the antykwapoltawskiego-light font (not antykwapoltawskiego), but it's not working. What am I doing wrong? \setupbodyfont[antykwapoltawskiego-light]

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Issue with Metapost overlay (?) in LMTX 2025.12.05 17:42
by Florent Michel 06 Dec '25

06 Dec '25

Hi, Thank you Hans for the new upload! I just tried updating and encountered an unexpected behaviour with overlaying a MetaPost graphic. The example below shows the issue: ______________________________________________ \startuseMPgraphic{CodeOverlay} z1 = (0, 0) ; z2 = (OverlayWidth, 0) ; z3 = (OverlayWidth, OverlayHeight) ; z4 = (0, OverlayHeight) ; path p ; p = (z1--z2--z3--z4--cycle) cornered .5cm ; draw p; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[CodeOverlay][\useMPgraphic{CodeOverlay}] \definetyping [Code] [strip=yes, before={\startframedtext[width=\makeupwidth, offset=0.5em, frame=none, background=CodeOverlay, ]}, after={\stopframedtext}] \starttext \startCode test test2 \stopCode \stoptext _________________________________________________ With the previous version (2025.11.24 17:55), the output looks correct; but with the new version the frame does not seem to appear. (Interestingly, it does appear if I delete `cornered .5cm`.) Was there a change in how `cornered` works? Cheers, Florent

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\midaligned question
by Jim 06 Dec '25

06 Dec '25

Hi list dwellers, If I have %-------------------------------------------------- \starttext Hi everyone et al et al et al et al et al et al et al et al et al et al \midaligned{that means you} \stoptext %-------------------------------------------------- the centered text is directly below the first line. But if I use \setupwhitespace [big] like this %-------------------------------------------------- \setupwhitespace [big] \starttext Hi everyone et al et al et al et al et al et al et al et al et al et al \midaligned{that means you} \stoptext %-------------------------------------------------- there is vertical space between the centered text and the previous line; presumably (*cough*) \midaligned is honouring my whitespace setting. Q: In a document with \setupwhitespace[big], how do I ask \midaligned to *not* give me that vertical space? (The wiki doesn't list any options for \midaligned.) Thanks. Jim

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install modules in a Docker container
by Henning Hraban Ramm 05 Dec '25

05 Dec '25

I’ve not much experience with Docker and tried the context:lmtx container from Island of TeX. It downloads quickly and works well. But I need some additional modules. Installation with mtxrun seems to work, but ConTeXt can’t find the module afterwards. I’d guess that’s a Docker problem? Here’s the Dockerfile: FROM registry.gitlab.com/islandoftex/images/context:lmtx ENV TZ=Europe/Berlin USER root RUN apt update RUN apt-get install fonts-liberation fontconfig RUN fc-cache -f RUN cd /context/tex && mtxrun --script install-modules --install statistical-charts,tikz RUN mtxrun --generate RUN mtxrun --script fonts --reload --force USER jenkins Hraban

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