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ideas for ConTeXt stickers?
by Henning Hraban Ramm 08 Aug '23

08 Aug '23

Hi, while it’s too late for this year’s conferences, I’d like to have some nice ConTeXt, MetaPost or general TeX stickers for next year’s. Do you have ideas? Find attached an example by Moss. Hraban

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Parallel columns using start/stop setups
by Thangalin 08 Aug '23

08 Aug '23

Two concurrent situations can happen, which I'd like to typeset as two parallel columns while keeping the overall page layout (i.e., headers, footers, margins, and such). current version: 2023.07.18 22:07 I'd like to find a way to set up start/stop environments, if possible, to come up with a general-purpose solution (i.e., the prose itself is not changed). Here are a few examples. In the first, a "concurrent" environment is created with two "timelines": % SOT \definestartstop[concurrent][ before={\startcolumns[n=2, align={verytolerant,stretch}, separator=rule]}, after=\stopcolumns, ] \definestartstop[timelinea][ after=\column, ] \definestartstop[timelineb][] \starttext \startconcurrent \starttimelinea \dorecurse{5}{\input ward} \stoptimelinea \starttimelineb \dorecurse{5}{\input knuth} \stoptimelineb \stopconcurrent \stoptext % EOT The ward and knuth texts end up in the same column because one is shorter than the other. Here's another attempt: % SOT \defineparagraphs[concurrent][n=2] \definestartstop[timelinea][ before=\concurrent, after=\concurrent, ] \definestartstop[timelineb][ before=\concurrent, ] \starttext \startconcurrent \starttimelinea \dorecurse{5}{\input ward} \stoptimelinea \starttimelineb \dorecurse{5}{\input knuth} \stoptimelineb \stopconcurrent \stoptext % EOT This loses much of the input text. Can this be accomplished using LMTX and what would be the best approach? Would this setupparagraphs, definecolumnset, synchronizestreams, or possibly incomplete/experimental functionality? Thank you!

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Cron <context@cgl> /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror
by root＠ntg.nl 08 Aug '23

08 Aug '23

rsync: [Receiver] failed to connect to rsync.pragma-ade.nl (213.125.29.165): Connection timed out (110) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(139) [Receiver=3.2.7]

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How to make words searchable without diacritics
by Marcus Vinicius Mesquita 08 Aug '23

08 Aug '23

Dear List, I have a lot of latin words in a document with the length of the vowels indicated by diacritics, for example: fīlĭa. Is it possible somehow to make these words searchable without the diacritics? That is, if I make a search for filia in the final pdf file, fīlĭa would also be found? Regards Marcus Vinicius -- Todas as coisas fatigam o corpo, salvo a música, que não fatiga nem o corpo nem seus membros, por ser descanso da alma, primavera do coração, distração do aflito, entretenimento do solitário, e viático do viajante. Kunnâsh al-Hâ'ik (Cancioneiro de al-Hâ'ik)

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OT: primes outside of TeX
by Henning Hraban Ramm 07 Aug '23

07 Aug '23

typographical advise about using primes (foot/inch marks): https://practicaltypography.com/foot-and-inch-marks.html

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Typing with text wrapping
by Alex Leray 07 Aug '23

07 Aug '23

Hi all, I'm having another issue with my project. I'm trying to typeset fragments of HTML, including tabs and (repeating) spaces. I'd like to have my snippet with some words in bold. So I used `typing` together with the `escape` option. But now, I'd like my snippets to wrap when the lines are too long. The snippets can un over several pages so that recipe[^1] doesn't work for me. [^1]: https://www.contextgarden.net/Verbatim_with_line_breaks> Is there a way to do that? Here is my code: ``` \definepapersize[page][width=105mm,height=148.5mm] \setuppapersize[page, portrait][page, portrait] \definehead[poem][section] \setuphead[poem][] \definetyping[CUSTOM] \setuptyping[CUSTOM][escape={[[,]]}] \starttext \showgrid \startpoem[title={My title}][] \startCUSTOM[]  \stopCUSTOM \stoppoem \stoptext ``` Thanks!

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Can ConTeXt write its pdf to a different directory?
by peter.hopcroft＠icloud.com 07 Aug '23

07 Aug '23

My .tex file is in a directory within my working directory. I would like ConTeXt to write its output in the same directory as my .tex file. But it writes to the working directory. This was asked 10 years ago: `tex.stackexchange.com/questions/67928/how-to-set-output-directory-in-context-command` The answer given then was to use: `context filename --result=output-directory/filename` But this doesn't work now. When I compile my .tex file, I get a message: `results are to be on the running path, not on 'output-directory', ignoring --result` I've looked in the wiki: `https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context` Thank you, Peter

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Using
by Alex Leray 05 Aug '23

05 Aug '23

Hello, I'm trying to figure out why this is not working (whereas \startlines\stoplines works): ``` \definehead[poem][section] \setuphead[poem][beforesection={\starttyping}, aftersection={\stoptyping}] \starttext \startpoem[title={Glijden}][] Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur. \stoppoem \stoptext ``` I get the following traceback: ``` tex error > tex error on line 6 in file /home/ali/work/being_human/test.tex: ! Undefined control sequence \strc_sectioning_initialize_increment ->\edef \currentheadincrement {\headparameter \c!incrementnumber }\ifcsname \??headincrement \currentheadincrement \endcsname \lastnamedcs \else \settrue \c_strc_sectioning_increment \settrue \c_strc_sectionin... \strc_sectioning_handle ... \currentheadsection }\strc_sectioning_initialize_autolevel \strc_sectioning_initialize_increment \strc_sectioning_initialize_placement \strc_sectioning_initialize_number \the \everybeforesectionheadhandle \let \getheadn... \strc_sectioning_start_named_section ...parameter \c!beforesection \the \everybeforehead \strc_sectioning_handle {#1}{#2}{#3} \headparameter \c!insidesection l.6 \startpoem[title={Glijden}][] 1 \definehead[poem][section] 2 \setuphead[poem][beforesection={\starttyping}, aftersection={\stoptyping}] 3 4 \starttext 5 6 >> \startpoem[title={Glijden}][] 7 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur. 8 \stoppoem 9 10 \stoptext 11 mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 256 ``` Any idea? thanks a lot! Alex

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Par Builder Tests
by Keith McKay 05 Aug '23

05 Aug '23

Hi all, At the end of June, Hans uploaded a new lmtx version which included improvements to par building which he and Mikael had been working on in math mode. Hans suggested in the online chat that these improvements may be useful in typesetting novels. I was keen to try these since I have typset novels in the past. I have ran some tests on two novels which I downloaded from the Gutenberg Project site as epubs and extracted them to get the original xhtml files which I then typeset in context. I made very little in the way of changes to the files so that my setup for xml was very simple. Here are my setups for the layout of the novels showing some trackers that were used as well: \definepapersize[pagee][width=5.06in,height=7.81in] \setuppapersize[pagee] % XML setups here \startsetups[grid][mypenalties] \setdefaultpenalties \setpenalties\widowpenalties{1}{150} \setpenalties\clubpenalties {1}{150} \stopsetups \setuplayout[ width=10cm, topspace=0.5in, backspace=2.0cm, header=7.5mm, footer=0.25in, location={middle,middle}, vs=2, grid=yes, setups=mypenalties ] %\enabletrackers[makeup] %\enabletrackers[builders.hpack.quality] \enabletrackers[builders.hpack.overflow] %\enabletrackers[layout.vz] %\enabletrackers[paragraphs.passes] \enabletrackers[paragraphs.passes=summary] %\enabletrackers[paragraphs.passes=details] \setupalign[granular] %\setupalign[nothyphenated,hz,verytolerant] %\setupalign[vertical,height] %\setupalignpass[decent] %\setupalignpass[quality] %\setupalignpass[test1] \setupalignpass[test2] %\setupalignpass[test3] %\setupalignpass[test4] %\setupalignpass[test5] %\setupalignpass[optional1] %\setupalignpass[test2b] \starttext \setuppagenumbering[location={footer,middle},alternative=doublesided,state=start] \setcounter[userpage][1] %\showmakeup[vbox] %\showlayout \dostepwiserecurse{0}{30}{1}{ \xmlprocessfile{mysetups}{/path to xhtml files/4439720318703948998_84-h-\recurselevel.htm.xhtml}{} } \stoptext Below are the result showing the number of overfull boxes for these novels using the setups in the file spac-imp-tests.mkxl . See the manual Low Level - Lines Test Novel1 Novel2 Test1 70 35 Test2 30 8 Test3 62 23 Test4 89 40 Test5 28 9 Optional1 55 19 Quality 74 32 Decent 39 11 From these initial tests one can see that Test2 gave the lowest number of overfull boxes. So I edited test two, ran it, and the results are below. Test Novel1 Novel2 Test2b 11 0 My setup for test 2b is as follows: \startsetups align:pass:test2b \pretolerance 100 \tolerance 200 \parpasses 3 classes \indecentparpassclasses threshold 0.025pt tolerance 800 extrahyphenpenalty 50 next threshold 0.025pt tolerance 900 adjustspacing 3 adjustspacingstep 1 adjustspacingshrink 10 adjustspacingstretch 15 next threshold 0.025pt tolerance 1000 adjustspacing 3 adjustspacingstep 1 adjustspacingshrink 20 adjustspacingstretch 40 emergencystretch .25\bodyfontsize \relax % \linebreakpasses\plusone \stopsetups The only difference between test 2 and 2b are that I increased the tolerance in each of the three passes. In novel 2 this was successful in eliminating the overfull boxes but not in Novel 1 although I noticed that majority of overfull boxes were above 1pt with the largest about 12pt in Novel 1. I am at the stage now where I need some kind of strategy to reduce/eliminate overfull boxes, other than changing the tolerance, and I'm hoping for some advice from the community. Suggestions for further reading particularly on the commands in \setupalignpass and their usage would be appreciated and on the best way to tackle overfull boxes. Best Wishes Keith McKay

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Ukrainian hyphenation?
by Gerben Wierda 05 Aug '23

05 Aug '23

This file: \setupinteraction [state=start, color=blue, style=bold] \definefallbackfamily [archimate] [ss] [Helvetica] [preset=range:cyrillic, tf=style:light, it=style:lightoblique, bf=style:regular, bi=style:oblique, force=yes, rscale=1.0] \definefontfamily [archimate] [ss] [Helvetica] \setupbodyfont[archimate] \starttext \setuplanguage[en][patterns={ru}]\mainlanguage[ru] {\framed[frame=on,align=flushleft,width=7cm]{Техніка здатна до фізичної поведінки (на відміну від інформаційної поведінки). Наприклад `Металургійний комбінат'.}}\\ \setuplanguage[ua][patterns={ua}]\mainlanguage[ua] {\framed[frame=on,align=flushleft,width=7cm]{Техніка здатна до фізичної поведінки (на відміну від інформаційної поведінки). Наприклад `Металургійний комбінат'.}}\\ \stoptext Hyphenates russian but not ukrainian. Why? Gerben Wierda (LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerbenwierda>, Mastodon <https://newsie.social/@gctwnl>) R&A IT Strategy <https://ea.rna.nl/> (main site) Book: Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture <https://ea.rna.nl/the-book/> Book: Mastering ArchiMate <https://ea.rna.nl/the-book-edition-iii/>

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