July 2025 - ntg-context - Mailing Lists

missing metadata in LMTX
by Pablo Rodriguez 18 Nov '25

18 Nov '25

Dear list, this issue has been bugging me for some time: \startbuffer[demo] <doc> <meta> <author>author</author> <title>title</title> </meta> <text> text </text> </doc> \stopbuffer \starttext \startxmlsetups xml:initialize \xmlsetsetup{#1}{code|meta|text}{xml:*} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregistersetup{xml:initialize} \startxmlsetups xml:doc \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:meta \setupinteraction [author={\xmltext{#1}{/author}}, title={\xmltext{#1}{/title}}] \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:text \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \setupinteraction[state=start] \xmlprocessbuffer{main}{demo}{} \stoptext With LuaTeX, I get PDF metadata. With LuaMetaTeX, I cannot get them. For both, I’m using current latest (from 2024.02.27 09:21). Could anyone confirm the issue or explain me what I am missing? Many thanks for your help, Pablo

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Negative font slant broken with compact fonts
by Max Chernoff 06 Oct '25

06 Oct '25

Hi, Using the latest ConTeXt (2025.02.19), negative slants are broken with compact fonts. Example document: \definefontfeature[default][default][Slant=-1] \startTEXpage Hello, world! \stopTEXpage When compiled with "context", I get the error message tex error > tex error on line 1 in file ./context-negative-slant.tex: Scale factor (-1000) should be in the range 0..100000 [...] I'm going to use 0 instead of that illegal code value. but when compiled with "context --nocompactfonts", I get the correct result. Thanks, -- Max

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Margin text?
by Ursula Hermann 19 Aug '25

19 Aug '25

Dear List What I would like to know is, if the graphic with: Teil II is a margin text, or is ths in the body text too? i am not sure. 320 Is the page number. Many thanks Uschi

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testing language tagging?
by Pablo Rodriguez 01 Aug '25

01 Aug '25

Hi Hans, I did some basic testing with language tagging and but I’m afraid even `agr` still gives `agr` (not `grc`). Is language tagging still to be finished? BTW, is there any way to know which commands have language tagging (a `language` key enabled? Just for the record, my testing sample was: \setuptagging[state=start] \setupstructure[state=start] \setupbackend [format=pdf/ua-2] \starttext \startparagraph \doloopoverlist{agr, ua, deo, farsi, cn, kr, gr, es-la, mo} {\setuphighlight[whatever][language=\recursestring] \highlight[whatever] {testing language: \currentlanguage}} \stopparagraph \doloopoverlist{agr, ua, deo, farsi, cn, kr, gr, es-la, mo} {\startblockquote[\recursestring] \dorecurse{3}{\startparagraph testing language: \currentlanguage \stopparagraph} \stopblockquote} \stoptext Many thanks for your help, Pablo

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Re: endnote
by Thomas Meyer 31 Jul '25

31 Jul '25

Am 31.07.25 um 11:50 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: > > nation, Wolfgang, and please excuse my late reply. > > I played around with your examples a little and found that > > \definenote [one] > \definenote [two] > \definenote [two] [one] > \setupnotation[one][color=green] > \setupnotation[two][color=red] > > > Use color without u. > > Wolfgang Oh shit, yes of course! Tomás

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numbering subitems
by Henning Hraban Ramm 31 Jul '25

31 Jul '25

Hi, I’d like to have the number of the parent element in the number of a subitem, like 2.1, 2.2 etc. I guess I must set "numbersegments", but I don’t know to which values – I found it only documented for sections. """ \setupitemize[packed,joinedup,n] \setupitemize[2][numbersegments=item:item] \starttext \startitemize \startitem bla\stopitem \startitem blo\par \startitemize \startitem foo\stopitem \startitem bar\stopitem \startitem baz\stopitem \stopitemize \stopitem \startitem bla\stopitem \startitem bla\stopitem \stopitemize \stoptext """ Hraban

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empty page after columnset
by Henning Hraban Ramm 30 Jul '25

30 Jul '25

I’m still working at the current context journal. A few articles use 2 columns in a columnset, and sometimes there’s an empty page after it that I can’t get rid of – except by a different order of articles so that those in columns end on a right page. My impression is that columnsets always "fill up" to a right page. Is this intentional? If yes, can I change it? If it’s not intentional I’ll make an MWE. Hraban

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Pre-loading libraries by making custom format
by andrei＠borisov.dev 29 Jul '25

29 Jul '25

Hi! We’ve been working on adding LuaMetaTeX and ConTeXt standalone support for the Markdown package (https://github.com/Witiko/markdown/pull/557) and encountered an interesting issue. The package loads quite a huge library — `expl3-code.tex` from `l3kernel` package which eats a lot of time during compilation. What would be a good way to mitigate this? Is there a way to pre-load the library before compilation? Perhaps by making a custom ConTeXt format and making it with `context --make`? Unfortunately, I haven’t found a documentation on how to make your own custom formats, hence this question. Thank you in advance! P.S. What is the process of adding thrid-party modules in the default list of ConTeXt distribution (https://modules.contextgarden.net/)? I think Markdown package might proof very useful for a lot of folks and worth considering to be added in the list. What do you think?

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403 Forbidden
by Thomas Meyer 28 Jul '25

28 Jul '25

Did I miss something? When I try to access contextgarden.net, I get the following message: Forbidden You do not have permission to access this resource. The server cannot read the htaccess file and denies access for security reasons. Greetings Thomas

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Cron <context@cgl> /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror
by root＠ntg.nl 28 Jul '25

28 Jul '25

/bin/sh: 1: /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror: Input/output error

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