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question concerning \setupalign \setuptolerance
by Christian Prim 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

Dear list is there a way to \setupalign and \setuptolerance globaly? In tabulate- or frameenvironement for example they are reseted. MWE: \definefontfeature[default][default][expansion=quality,protrusion=quality] \usetypescript[palatino] \setupbodyfont[palatino,11pt] \setupbodyfontenvironment[default][em=italic] \setupalign[hz,hanging] \setuptolerance[horizontal,stretch] \starttext \subject{Normal Text} align working, tolerance working. \input knuth \subject{Table} Table resets align/tolerance: \starttabulate \NC aling/tolerance not working \NC \input knuth \NC\NR \NC align/tolerance working \NC \setupalign[hz,hanging] \setuptolerance[horizontal,stretch] \input knuth \NC\NR \stoptabulate \subject{Frame} Framedtext resets align/tolerance: \startframedtext[width=0.6\textwidth] aling/tolerance not working \input tufte \stopframedtext \startframedtext[width=0.6\textwidth] \setupalign[hz,hanging] \setuptolerance[horizontal,stretch] aling/tolerance working \input tufte \stopframedtext \stoptext Thanks! Christian

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scite
by Hans Hagen 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

Hi, For those using scite in the distribution: Ctrl + triggers a bottom menu with alphabets organized by language cq. math alphabets (no time to do the symbols now). If your language is missing, feel free to submit the data (has to be utf-8). Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Bug with mathmatrix row-spacing in \startalign
by Andreas Halkjær 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

Hello, I hope I'm doing this right. I discovered a bug where the spacing between rows becomes too large in a mathmatrix when used in between \startalign and \stopalign. I posted on StackExchange and was told to report it here: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/130636/context-wrong-mathmatrix-spac…<http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/130636/context-wrong-mathmatrix-spac…> I've included the MWE, from the above link, below. Thanks for the quick response, Andreas From \setupmathmatrix[left={\left[\,}, right={\,\right]}] \starttext \startformula \startmathmatrix \NC 1 \NR \NC 2 \NR \NC 3 \NR \stopmathmatrix \stopformula \startformula \startalign \NC \startmathmatrix \NC 1 \NR \NC 2 \NR \NC 3 \NR \stopmathmatrix \NR \stopalign \stopformula \stoptext

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Arabic and Latin hemistiches
by Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

Dear gang, Re: Arabic poetry thread: Hans has just implemented high-level support for hemistiches and caesuras (using here the technical names for the style of poetry structure used in Arabic and other classical literature). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemistich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesura With the latest beta, run the attached file. The module m-hemistich.mkiv also has a demo inside. For Arabic, note the tatweel across columns (only manual for now). The separator option with \hemistiches is probably more useful for Latin and Greek classical literature etc where the separator occurs on every line; the \hemistichescaesura option is probably more useful for Arabic where there are only occasional connectors across columns. Could one of you kindly add a page with this info to the wiki? Much thanks and enjoy! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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zero-width joiners etc
by Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

Dear gang, Does anyone here remember how to toggle Unicode control characters like the zero-width joiners, non-joiners etc? For example, some fonts map the control character to a symbol but we usually don't want that symbol showing up in normal text output. I know there is (used to be?) a switch in MkIV for toggling this but can't find it. (BTW: I miss the searchable mail archives on the ConTeXt Garden...) Thanks and Best Wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Continuous preview
by "H. Özoguz" 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

> I use the perl program `atchange`[1] for continous preview. For simple > documents, you can just run > > atchange filename.tex "context --batch filename" Thanks Aditja. Because I have no experience with Pearl: What to do with this text-file of your link? Should I just copy it as text-file in the same folder, where the contex files are stored in, or do I have to install any pearl-interpreter first? Some instructions to get this working here would be nice :) Huseyin

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[***SPAM***] Continuous preview
by "H. Özoguz" 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

For LaTex there exists a tool, named "latexmk", which allows a "preview continuous mode", that is to update the compiled pdf automatically. It is really very helpful! Because it is open-source: It is possible to addapt this tool for context, too? Maybe one of the programmers have time for this ... :)

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Fwd: Re: beta / initials
by Hans Hagen 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [NTG-context] beta / initials Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 23:16:33 +0200 From: Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> To: Otared Kavian <otared(a)gmail.com> On 8/26/2013 4:22 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: > Hi Hans, > > I apologize for being so late to answer your message and test the new code about dropped capitals and fancy first lines (have been travelling sometime without access to the Internet). > > It seems that your changes have broken \placeinitial now: the following results in an error: > > \starttext > \placeinitial \input ward.tex \par > \input ward.tex > \stoptext Hopefully fixed ... in the process i decided to experiment with a better auto sizing .. there is now SomeFont ht somedimen : scale to ascender height SomeFont cp somedimen : scale to X height example: \setupbodyfont[dejavu] \starttext \start \showstruts {\type{at}: TEST \strut\definedfont[Normal at 10pt] TEST} {\type{ht}: TEST \strut\definedfont[Normal ht \the\strutht] TEST} {\type{cp}: TEST \strut\definedfont[Normal cp \the\strutht] TEST} \placeinitial \strut \input ward.tex \start \setupinitial[style=\bfd,voffset=.25\lineheight,n=1] \placeinitial \strut \input ward.tex \par \stop \start \setupinitial[font=Bold at 60pt] \placeinitial \strut \input ward.tex \par \stop \start \setupinitial[font=Bold at 60pt,voffset=2\lineheight] \placeinitial \strut \input ward.tex \par \stop \start \setupinitial[font=Bold cp \measure{initial:n},n=4,hoffset=.5em] \placeinitial \strut \input ward.tex \par \stop \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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textext sync problem?
by Meer, H. van der 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

I am using textext to draw text from inside a metapost program. The drawoptions macro is used by metapost to set drawing options such as color. As I understand, the textext call is handled by the tex-side of the metapost-context system, initiated of course from the metapost side. My impression is that this occurs asynchronously, judging by the problem I encountered. On the metapost side I have: drawoptions(withcolor blue); pic := textext(labeltext); drawoptions(); % the pic is output later [cid:3EBB8ADD-F7B8-4DE1-8990-9EB0E0F45EF6@fritz.box] Deleting the reset implied by the second drawoptions does honor the coloring: drawoptions(withcolor blue); pic := textext(labeltext); [cid:8813D244-4326-4F4A-8520-3C704619954C@fritz.box] I am inclined to conclude that the calling environment containing the drawoptions setting is not captured the moment the textext call is placed, but somewhat later. Because so it can be explained why the latter has the blue color but the former does not (drawoptions has already been reset before it is taken into account). The following code variation seems to corroborate this conclusion: drawoptions(withcolor blue); pic := textext(labeltext); drawoptions(withcolor darkgreen); [cid:415E4344-B8AA-492B-B320-D57D405462EB@fritz.box] If the conclusion is correct, I have a serious problem, because it then becomes impossible to predictably change the drawoptions used by textext. The result then might be dependent on timing conditions in the system. In my opinion, calling textext should capture all relevant data at the precise moment of the call in metapost. I might be wrong, of course, but otherwise I am in need of a repair. Hans van der Meer

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Documentation for EPUB conversion
by Thangalin 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hi, I ran the following simple document through ConTeXt: \setupbackend[export=yes,xhtml=yes] \enableregime[utf-8] \mainlanguage[en] \language[en] \setupexport[ title={A nice book}, author={John Doe}, firstpage={cover.jpg}, ] \starttext \startitemize \item First \item Second \item Third \stopitemize \stoptext I then ran mtxrun: mtxrun --script epub --make t.specification This produced a document with the cover page correctly; however, the items were listed on a single line in the EPUB, instead of on lines by themselves. I have a couple of questions: - *Styling.* Is custom styling required to format bullet or numbered lists in the resulting EPUB XHTML document? - *Knowledge.* Would anyone be willing to share their experiences (and tips) for transforming ConTeXt documents to EPUB? - *Examples.* Where can I find examples of simple and complex ConTeXt documents being converted to EPUB documents having a similar layout? Many thanks and kind regards.

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