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How to span an image across two pages with a caption?
by Joel 22 Mar '25

22 Mar '25

I am trying to do this, basically my document has some floats, with captions, that appear within the text, but occasionally, I want some special images to be rendered across the full page (left and right). The text of the chapter should appear on the pages before this and after it, but not on the page with these images. And the page number/headings shouldn't appear. Ideally the caption just is displayed bottom left, on the left-side / verso page. Is there a simple way to achieve that? I found and modified this code on-line, which it works well, but it isn't flexible, in that my document might have 20 more such images, and this way that its defined means a lot of redundant code used: %%% Full-Page Graphics \unprotect \useexternalfigure [railroad] [P1976-48-33b] [ width=2\paperwidth, height=\paperheight, ] \newcount\railcount \def\pickhalfrail_cmd{% \setupclipping [nx=2,ny=1]% \ifnum\railcount>0 \ifodd\pagenumber %% clip right half \clip[x=2,y=1] \else %% clip left half \clip[x=1,y=1] \fi{\externalfigure[railroad]}% \global \advance \railcount \minusone \fi% } \defineoverlay [pickhalfrail] [\pickhalfrail_cmd] \setupbackgrounds [paper] [background=pickhalfrail] \def\railbackgrounds{% \pagebreak \null \pagebreak \global\railcount=2 \page[imagetopagebreak] \null \page[imagetopagebreak] \null \page[imagetopagebreak] \null } %% Adjust page style to hide text when images appear \definepagebreak[imagetopagebreak][yes,header,footer]

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Can context automatically italicize foreign words?
by Joel 21 Mar '25

21 Mar '25

Its common convention to italicize words that are of a different language. I've tried marking these words, but then when they also appear in the glossary and index, they are not appearing in the correct placement--somehow the italicized words appear under the "s" category, no matter what letter they start with. Is there any way in ConTeXt to just give it a list of words, and it will italicize them wherever they are found in the text, no matter they are in the body, some index, etc.? --Joel

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Negative font slant broken with compact fonts
by Max Chernoff 20 Mar '25

20 Mar '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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Disappearing mathqed
by Matthias Weber 20 Mar '25

20 Mar '25

Dear All, The \mathqed symbol disappears when there is a blank line before \stopProof. It also disappears when there is a float directly before \stopProof. (Maybe this is intentional to encourage ending proofs with words?) Thanks, Matthias \defineenumeration [Proof] [alternative=serried, width=fit, distance=\emwidth, text=Proof, number=no, headstyle=italic, headcommand=\groupedcommand{}{.}, title=yes, titlestyle=normal, closesymbol=\mathqed] \starttext \startProof Yes. \stopProof \startProof No. \stopProof \startProof \startplacefigure {\bTABLE \bTR \bTD no \eTD\eTR \eTABLE} \stopplacefigure \stopProof \stoptext

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how to only switch fontclass ?
by autumnus 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

I've been writing bilingual documentation lately. When I switched the font class, I found that it was back to the default size. How should I just switch the font class without changing the font size or other attributes. %%%%%% \starttext \section{A\textbar A} \section{A\textbar{\switchtobodyfont[pagella]A}}% fontsize changed to default fontsize {\tfa A}\textbar{\tfa \switchtobodyfont[pagella]A}\textbar{A}% not work {\tfa A}\textbar{\switchtobodyfont[pagella]\tfa A}\textbar{A} % work but not handy \stoptext %%%%%% more about this issue, I don't know if context contains a command to switch fonts with the language. %%%%%% not work \starttext \appendtoks \usebodyfontparameter\languageparameter \languageparameter{bodyfont} \to \everylanguage \setuplanguage[cn][bodyfont={pagella,12pt}] A \the\font \textbar \cn A \the\font \stoptext %%%%%% thank for your help, autumnus

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vertical columnsets for parallel text streams
by Pablo Rodriguez 16 Mar '25

16 Mar '25

Dear list, now it is possible to sync multiple text streams with subcolumnsets. I may have four text streams and have two on each page. Such as in even and odd: 1 | 2 3 | 4 I wonder whether it would be possible to have partial subcolumnsets on a single page, such as in: 1 | 2 ——|—— 3 | 4 I mean, besides having the "n" option in "\definecolumnsets", I wonder whether it would be possible to have an "ny" option too. Is there any way to achieve this? Many thanks for your help, Pablo

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\placefigure conundrum
by Jim 16 Mar '25

16 Mar '25

When I run context on the following input %%%%%%%%%% start here %%%%%%%%% \setupexternalfigures[location={local,default}] \starttext \placefigure[left,none,2*hang,] {} {\externalfigure[cow][frame=on,width=1.in]} Bovine creature, black and white, four hooves, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah (blah) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. \stoptext %%%%%%%%%% end here %%%%%%%%% I see there are 5 lines which "must" be indented to avoid the cow. However, a 6th line is also indented, even though the baseline of the 5th line is "well below" the bottom of the cow (and thus the feet of the cow would not be trampling the text of that 6th line). I played around with the many and various options to \placefigure for a while, but didn't find any way to tell it that I'd like the 6th line to not be indented. I did discover that, in this particular case, if I use "halfline" (which seems to move the cow up around 4 points (I don't understand what "line" 4 pts is half of, but that is another question)), I now get only 4 indented lines, but the cow is now too close to the unindented line below it. In other words, this gave me too few indented lines. (I've gone from too much space to too little space; is this some sort of Goldilocks problem? :-) I see that in this case \starthanging indents the number of lines that I would expect (and that I would like). But (at least reading the wiki) I don't see how to tell \starthanging to put N=2 full lines above the cow. More generally, is there some way to tell \placefigure not to be so generous with the amount of lines it indents with "left" or "right" options? Enough indented lines but not too many? Thanks. Jim

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Compilation error
by Fabrice Couvreur 15 Mar '25

15 Mar '25

Hi, I just updated lmtx, and a file that compiled without errors is now returning errors. I don't know why. Thanks Fabrice *tex error > tex error on line 132 in file ./chapter-5.tex: Missing \right\nomathchar inserted* <to be read again> \Ustopmathmode <macro> \im #1->\relax \ifmmode \mathconstruct {\textstyle \indisplaymath \conditionalfalse #1}\else \Ustartmathmode \textstyle \indisplaymath \conditionalfalse \expand \everyinsidemathematics \relax #1\Ustopmathmode \fi <line 3.132> Alors \im{\text{E\times F}=\big\{\coord{a}{1}\,;\coord{a}{2}\,;\coord{b}{1}\,;\coord{b}{2}\,;\coord{c}{1}\,;\coord{c}{2}\big\}} , 122 123 En d'autres termes, nous avons 124 \startformula 125 A\times B=\bigg\{\left(a, b\right)/ a\in A, b\in B\bigg\}. 126 \stopformula 127 \stopDefinition 128 \startexemples 129 \starttest 130 Soient \m{\text{E}=\big\{a\,;b\,;c\big\}} et \m{\text{F}=\big\{1\,;2\big\}}. 131 132 >> Alors \im{\text{E\times F}=\big\{\coord{a}{1}\,;\coord{a}{2}\,;\coord{b}{1}\,;\coord{b}{2}\,;\coord{c}{1}\,;\coord{c}{2}\big\}}, 133 134 et \im{\text{F\times E}=\big\{\coord{1}{a}\,;\coord{2}{a}\,;\coord{1}{b}\,;\coord{2}{b}\,;\coord{1}{c}\,;\coord{2}{c}\big\}}. 135 \stoptest 136 \starttest 137 Soient \m{A=\N} et \m{B=\big\{0\,;1\big\}}. Nous avons 138 \startformula 139 \N\times \big\{0\,;1\big\}=\big\{\left(n, b\right)\,\text{tels que}\,n\in \N, b\in \big\{0\,;1\big\} \big\}=\big\{(n, 0)/n\in \N\big\}\cup \big\{(n, 1)/n\in \N\big\}, 140 \stopformula 141 ce qui donne 142 \startformula I've inserted something that you may have forgotten. (See the <inserted text> above.) With luck, this will get me unwedged. mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 1 TeX Output exited abnormally with code 1 at Sat Mar 15 11:57:16

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\startcolumnset ... \stopcolumnset problem report.
by Jeong Dal 15 Mar '25

15 Mar '25

Dear list, I have used \startclolumnset … \stopcolumnset with \vfill very well for the preparation of the exam paper. However, after updating to the new version, it didn’t work as before. In the example below, the first \column breaks the column and the items are vertically aligned balanced including “\problem 1”(4 lines vertically balanced) even though there is no “\vfill” at all. But the second \column and the third \column don't work. “Problem 2”, “Problem 3” and “Problem 4” are appeared in the second column. \startcolumns … \stopcolumns are working well with \column and \vskip. I used \startcolumnset because I want some boxed background overlay. I am using ConTeXt in Mac OS X and the version of my ConTeXt is "ConTeXt ver: 2025.02.28 18:16 LMTX fmt: 2025.3.13 int: English/English” Thank you for reading. Best regards, Dalyoung Here is a simple test example. \definecolumnset[Exams][separator=rule,n=2] \showframe \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] \starttext \startcolumnset[Exams]%[n=2,separator=rule]% %\startcolumns[separator=rule,n=2] \startitemize \item problem 1 \startitemize[n] \item First problem \item second problem \item third problem \stopitemize \column%[yes] \item problem 2 \startitemize[n] \item First problem \item second problem \item third problem \stopitemize \column%[page] \item problem 3 \startitemize[n] \item First problem \vskip3cm \item second problem \vskip3cm \item third problem \vskip3cm \stopitemize \column \item problem 4 \startitemize[n] \item First problem \item second problem \item third problem \stopitemize \stopitemize %\stopcolumns \stopcolumnset \stoptext

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Clipping headers
by Mohammad Hossein Bateni 14 Mar '25

14 Mar '25

Hello, How can I clip long markings in the header? See this MNWE, where the two copies of section title collide on page 3. --------------- \starttext \setupbodyfont[20pt] \setupheadertexts[section][section] \section{One} \section{Two} \page \section{Three} \page \section{Long Title for Section Four} \page \section{Five} \stoptext ------------ How can I clip the title to a fixed length (5cm?) and perhaps add "..." at the end for longer titles? Is it possible to provide an alternative shorter section title within \section? Thanks, Mohammad

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