December 2025 - ntg-context

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by root＠ntg.nl 05 Dec '25

05 Dec '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/cld-mkiv.pdf general/manuals/luametatex.pdf sent 206,472 bytes received 54,716,327 bytes 5,230,742.76 bytes/sec total size is 667,376,051 speedup is 12.15 Running archiver: New dir: /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2025-12-05.18 307623358 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2025-12-05.18/latest 126741221 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2025-12-05.18/current 434364579 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2025-12-05.18 434364579 total

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Report on successful compilation of ConTeXt and TexLive failure
by Shiv Shankar Dayal 05 Dec '25

05 Dec '25

I was unable to use texlive-context(2025) on GNU/Guix but compilation from source was successful from wiki instructions. This email is for those who would like to try ConTeXt on GNU/Guix. -- Respect, Shiv Shankar Dayal

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number format in metapost
by alan.caruanambom＠gmail.com 03 Dec '25

03 Dec '25

Hello list, how can I modify my code to add the percentage symbol (%) to the number? \startTEXpage \startMPcode draw lmt_chart_circle [ samples = { { 80, 20 } }, percentage = true, trace = false, labelcolor = "white", % labelformat = "@0.1f" ] ; \stopMPcode \stopTEXpage

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EPC QR code (solved)
by Henning Hraban Ramm 03 Dec '25

03 Dec '25

It’s this time of the year when everyone asks for donations. Here’s how you make an EPC QR code for SEPA transfers with ConTeXt LMTX: \startluacode local sum = 50.0 local subject = "Donation" local qrtext=string.format([[BCD 002 1 SCT RABONL2U ConTeXt Group NL04RABO0163223726 EUR%.02f CHAR %s ]], sum, subject) figures.qrcode(qrtext,"blue",tex.sp("5cm")) \stopluacode Feel free to make use of the code! ;) According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPC_QR_code it works with banks in Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, and The Netherlands. Hraban

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Bibtext: provide number of authors not shown in "otherstext" after "etallimit" reached (et int.)
by Ben Moon 02 Dec '25

02 Dec '25

Hey everyone, I’m looking for a way to make the bibliography rendering more specific after “etallimit” is reached. Instead of just putting e.g. “et al.” or “…”, depending on the style, I would like to provide the number of authors not printed. Something like this: Correa, J., et int. (authors 19), Graafsma, H. (2024). TEMPUS, a Timepix4-based system for the event-based detection of X-rays. J. Synchrotron Radiat., 31(5), 1209–1216. doi:10.1107/S1600577524005319 Instead of this: Correa, J., … Graafsma, H. (2024). TEMPUS, a Timepix4-based system for the event-based detection of X-rays. J. Synchrotron Radiat., 31(5), 1209–1216. doi:10.1107/S1600577524005319 Thank you very much Ben

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a bug in typoduc.lmt?
by Udi Fogiel 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

Hello, consider the following: -------------------------------------------- \setuppapersize[A4] \mainlanguage[arabic] \setupdirections[bidi=global, method=unicode] \setupbodyfontenvironment[default][em=italic] \definefontfamily [myfont][serif][Amiri] [features=arabic] \definefontfamily [myfont][mono] [Latin Modern Mono] \setupbodyfont [myfont] \setuppagenumbering[state=none] \starttext بى 19 az 29 تى 19 29 39 ثى 49-59 سى 69/79 شى 19.29 صى 39,49\stoptext -------------------------------------------- I'm not sure if I get the expected out put. is it a problem with my setup, my expectation, or a bug in typo-duc.lmt? I attached the out put I get (result.pdf), and what I expect to get (expected.pdf). thanks, Udi

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XML/TEI parsing issue in LMTX: lxp.lom not found (small test case)
by Jean-Pierre Delange 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

Hello everyone, I am currently trying to build a minimal example showing how to process TEI-XML inside ConTeXt (see here for explanations : https://wiki.contextgarden.net/TEI_xml) To do this I created two small test files: 1. cicero-sample-tei.xml (a very small TEI fragment), which is : % cicero-sample-tei.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>  <TEI> <text> <body> <div type="edition" xml:lang="la"> <head>Exemple d'édition critique (Cicero)</head> <p> <persName ref="#cicero">Marcus Tullius Cicero</persName> in <placeName ref="#roma">Roma</placeName> <app> <lem wit="#A">virtutem magnam</lem> <rdg wit="#B">virtutem magni</rdg> </app> laudavit. </p> <note xml:lang="fr"> L'apparat signale une variation sur l'adjectif qualifiant <code>virtus</code>. </note> </div> <div type="translation" xml:lang="fr"> <head>Traduction française (exemple)</head> <p> Marcus Tullius Cicéron, à Rome, loua la vertu. </p> </div> </body> </text> </TEI> 2.**cicero-tei-demo.tex (a ConTeXt file using Lua to parse the XML), which is : % cicero-tei-demo.tex \setuppapersize[A5] \setupbodyfont[latin-modern] \starttext \startluacode local lom = require("lxp.lom") -- Fonctions utilitaires local function readfile(name) local f = assert(io.open(name,"r")) local c = f:read("*all") f:close() return c end local function find_child(node, tag) for _, child in ipairs(node) do if type(child) == "table" and child.tag == tag then return child end end return nil end local function find_children(node, tag) local t = {} for _, child in ipairs(node) do if type(child) == "table" and child.tag == tag then t[#t+1] = child end end return t end local function find_div_by_type(body, dtype) for _, child in ipairs(body) do if type(child) == "table" and child.tag == "div" and child.attr and child.attr.type == dtype then return child end end return nil end local function text_content(node) local parts = {} for _, item in ipairs(node) do if type(item) == "string" then parts[#parts+1] = item elseif type(item) == "table" and item[1] and type(item[1]) == "string" then parts[#parts+1] = item[1] end end return table.concat(parts, " ") end -- Index simples (collections de noms) local persons, places = {} local function add_unique(tbl, s) if not s or s == "" then return end tbl._seen = tbl._seen or {} if not tbl._seen[s] then tbl._seen[s] = true tbl[#tbl+1] = s end end -- Lecture du fichier TEI local xml_data = readfile("cicero-sample-tei.xml") local parsed = assert(lom.parse(xml_data)) local TEI = parsed[1] local text = find_child(TEI, "text") local body = find_child(text, "body") local edition_div = find_div_by_type(body, "edition") local head_edition = find_child(edition_div, "head") local p_edition = find_child(edition_div, "p") local extra_note = find_child(edition_div, "note") local trans_div = find_div_by_type(body, "translation") local head_trans = trans_div and find_child(trans_div, "head") local p_trans = trans_div and find_child(trans_div, "p") -- Traitement éditorial du paragraphe latin local function process_edition_paragraph(pnode) for _, item in ipairs(pnode) do if type(item) == "string" then context(item) elseif type(item) == "table" then if item.tag == "persName" then local n = text_content(item) add_unique(persons, n) context("\\sc{" .. n .. "} ") elseif item.tag == "placeName" then local n = text_content(item) add_unique(places, n) context("\\em{" .. n .. "} ") elseif item.tag == "app" then local lem = find_child(item, "lem") local rdgs = find_children(item, "rdg") context(text_content(lem)) if #rdgs > 0 then local note_parts = {} for _, r in ipairs(rdgs) do local wit = r.attr and r.attr.wit or "" local txt = text_content(r) if wit ~= "" then note_parts[#note_parts+1] = wit .. ": " .. txt else note_parts[#note_parts+1] = txt end end context.footnote(table.concat(note_parts, "; ")) end elseif item.tag == "note" then context.footnote(text_content(item)) else context(text_content(item)) end end end end -- Composition du document context.chapter(head_edition[1]) process_edition_paragraph(p_edition) context.par() if extra_note then context.footnote(extra_note[1]) end if head_trans and p_trans then context.blank() context.subject(head_trans[1]) context(p_trans[1]) context.par() end -- Mini-index context.blank() context.section("Personnes mentionnées") for _, p in ipairs(persons) do context.par() context(p) end context.blank() context.section("Lieux mentionnés") for _, l in ipairs(places) do context.par() context(l) end \stopluacode \stoptext The goal is simply to read the XML file, extract a few nodes, and print them in ConTeXt — nothing advanced, just a proof of concept to understand the workflow. However, when compiling the TeX file with LMTX, ConTeXt aborts immediately with the following error: |lua error: module'lxp.lom'notfound: no field package.preload['lxp.lom'] no file '.../lua/lxp/lom.lua'... | So the problem appears before any XML processing takes place: LMTX cannot load |lxp.lom|. I understand that LMTX uses a sandboxed Lua environment, so maybe |lxp| is not part of the allowed modules anymore. My question is therefore quite simple: Is there a recommended way (or example) to parse XML/TEI within LMTX today, given that |lxp.lom| is unavailable? Should one use the built-in ConTeXt XML tools instead (|lxml|, |xml.filter|, etc.)? Any advice or pointer to an up-to-date example would be very helpful. Thank you very much, JP

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SIL Gentium v7
by Henning Hraban Ramm 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

Did you see? As of June 2025, there’s a new version of the Gentium font family. The designers have enhanced kerning and hinting, oldstyle numbers and Greek, and you can use it as a variable font with a weight axis. https://software.sil.org/gentium/v7changes/ Hraban

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