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help with facing page image
by jbf 12 Mar '22

12 Mar '22

I wonder if someone can help me untangle the current little mess I seem to be creating! Author wants an image on facing page to each of 10 chapters in the bodypart of the document. Assume that everything else is working properly for this document (double-sided etc.), but other than before chapter 1, I can't seem to get my facing page image to appear where it should! A question along these lines (but not quite the same) was asked back in 2019, so I started with what seemed to me to be the simplest response to this question. Here is what I have to get the image before Chapter 1 in bodymatter: \startbodymatter \definelayer[mylayer] % name of the layer [x=0mm, y=0mm, % from upper left corner of paper width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight] % let the layer cover the full paper \setlayer[mylayer] [hoffset=2.5cm, voffset=3cm] {\externalfigure[Chapter1.jpg][width=.9\textwidth]} \doifoddpageelse {} {\pushbackground[page] \setupbackgrounds[page]%[background=color,backgroundcolor=red] [background=mylayer] \page[empty] \popbackground} \startchapter[title={Prelude}] etc..... This correctly places the Chapter1.jpg on the facing page to Chapter 1. My problem comes with Chapter 2, since Chapter 1 finishes on an even page, and this means I would need a blank odd page to follow that so that Chapter2.jpg (a different image to the first) can be on the verso of that and the Chapter itself would then start on the odd page facing that. I think the \doiffoddpageelse command above is only meant to work when a chapter ends on an odd, not an even page, but I do not know what alternative command to give. Repeating the above set of commands prior to \startchapter for chapter 2 places the image, naturally enough, behind the last page of text for Chapter 1, which is unacceptable, so I thought I could simply add a blank page or two after the chapter and it would all fall into place. I tried various ways of doing that (e.g. \page[+2], or using makeup pages), and while I can add pages that way, I can't get the image to appear. No doubt the solution is simple enough. It might also lie in the \setuphead[chapter] arrangement too. I've tried page=yes there, but to no avail. I also tried \ startsetups[chapter:before] with the pushbackground etc command and added that in with before=\directsetup{chapter:before} as suggested in the wiki, but couldn't get that to work either. By that stage I was so tangled up in the problem I may not have been able to think straight :-). Somehow, though, I think most of the elements are there. Any help would be appreciated. Julian

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interlinespacing in margin notes – solved
by Henning Hraban Ramm 10 Mar '22

10 Mar '22

Hi all, esp. Hans and Massimiliano, yesterday in the online meeting we discussed (again) my margin notes problems. A quite minimal setup is shown below. My remaining problem was that the footnotes always used the interlinespacing (baseskip) of the main text. Finally I found the reason in my typescript file: \definefontfeature[default][dimensions=strut] (I guess I tried to solve the irregular line spacing with that setting.) Thank you for your patience! Now I need to adjust the linespacing and page breaking in all other parts of my current book... Hraban """ \usemodule[ipsum] \showframe \setuplayout[ width=100mm, rightmargin=50mm, rightmargindistance=6mm, ] \setupbodyfontenvironment[11pt][ em=italicface, text=11pt, small=8pt, interlinespace=14pt, ] \definebodyfontenvironment[8pt][interlinespace=8pt] \setupbodyfont[rm,11pt] \define\PlaceFootnote{% \inouter[ width=50mm, stack=yes, ]{% \placelocalnotes[footnote][before=,after=] }} \setupnote[footnote][ location=text, indenting=no, bodyfont={ss,8pt},% footnote text style next=\PlaceFootnote, align=flushleft, ] % footnote marker in text \setupnotation[footnote][ way=bytext, indenting=no, distance=0.25em, ] % footnote text \starttext \dorecurse{10}{ \ipsum[alternative=lines,n=random,language=la]\footnote{\ipsum[alternative=lines,n=random,language=la]} \ipsum[alternative=lines,n=random,language=la]\par } \stoptext """

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"Flushbottom" / \setupalign[line] in LMTX
by denis.maier＠unibe.ch 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Hi everyone, a quick follow-up to todays monthly meeting: A couple of months ago I ran into issues getting "flushbottom" typesetting right. See: Today, some of these issues seem to have been fixed. But I still have the impression that vertical glue is still not working completely reliable. Below are a couple of examples. While the second example seems to work ok with \setupalign[height] the last line differs if we have different font size, cf. e.g. page 3 and 4. Best, Denis % From the Wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Flush_bottom %%%%%% \setupalign[line] \def\Par{bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla} \def\Fig{\placefigure{A figure.}{\framed{\vbox to 5cm{bla}}}} \def\Tab{\placetable{A table.}{\framed{\vbox to 5cm{bla}}}} \starttext \section{Section}\Par\Par\Par\Fig\Par\Par\par\Par\par\Tab \Par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\Par\Par\Par \section{Section}\Par\Par\Par\Fig\Par\Par\par\Par\par\Tab \Par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\Par\Par\Par \section{Section}\Par\Par\Par\Fig\Par\Par\par\Par\par\Tab \Par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\par\Par\Par\Par\Par\Par \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Another Example %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \setuppapersize[A5][A5] \showframe \setupalign[line] % \setupalign[height] \setupdelimitedtext[blockquote] [ before={\setupindenting[yes]\tfx\setupinterlinespace}, spacebefore=medium, indentnext=no, leftmargin=no, rightmargin=no, ] \starttext \subject{asdf} \dorecurse{5}{ \input knuth \startblockquote \input ward \stopblockquote \input knuth \input ward \subject{asdf} \input knuth \startblockquote \input ward \stopblockquote \input knuth } \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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Few quick questions
by Christoph Hintermüller 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Hi I'm still stuck with also providing my lecture notes as epub in addtion to its PDF version. The last year, when I tried figure what is wrong, Hans indicated a tool, a program, which allows to verify that that all start* stop* tag pairs are symmetric and placed in correct order. I just cant remember how it is called. Can anybody help here? Second are there any limits in how large files exproted to XML, XHTML etc can be. Does the exporter automatically try to split huge documents into multiple exported documents when some size is exceeded or was or is such a feature allways experiemental up to mkIV and what could break proper slitting which contexts, commands should not be active to avoid breakage. My current setup is neither a fresh install of latest standalone nor texlive installation. This task is still pending. I just have done some partial update mixing 2020 Texlife with 2021 standlalone by calling update.sh. So the aborting of the export in the middle of a hundred pages long document with plenty of floats and the heavy use of Aditya's t-vim package might additionally be worsened by some inconsistencies of my currently not clean installation. But to rule out or properly tackle down I think I believe knowing about possible Limitations of exporter in mkIV if any to be saving a lot of time The abort in xml export also occurs when i inline all files exempt t- vim code snippets, png or svg files replacing meta post images into one huge document removing any \input commands. Therefore i want to check first on the inlined document if there would by any asymetric start* stop* before persuing further.

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Few quick questions
by Christoph Hintermüller 08 Mar '22

08 Mar '22

Hi I'm still stuck with also providing my lecture notes as epub in addtion to its PDF version. The last year, when I tried figure what is wrong, Hans indicated a tool, a program, which allows to verify that that all start* stop* tag pairs are symmetric and placed in correct order. I just cant remember how it is called. Can anybody help here? Second are there any limits in how large files exproted to XML, XHTML etc can be. Does the exporter automatically try to split huge documents into multiple exported documents when some size is exceeded or was or is such a feature allways experiemental up to mkIV and what could break proper slitting which contexts, commands should not be active to avoid breakage. My current setup is neither a fresh install of latest standalone nor texlive installation. This task is still pending. I just have done some partial update mixing 2020 Texlife with 2021 standlalone by calling update.sh. So the aborting of the export in the middle of a hundred pages long document with plenty of floats and the heavy use of Aditya's t-vim package might additionally be worsened by some inconsistencies of my currently not clean installation. But to rule out or properly tackle down I think I believe knowing about possible Limitations of exporter in mkIV if any to be saving a lot of time The abort in xml export also occurs when i inline all files exempt t- vim code snippets, png or svg files replacing meta post images into one huge document removing any \input commands. Therefore i want to check first on the inlined document if there would by any asymetric start* stop* before persuing further. -- -- Christoph Hintermüller Dipl.-Ing. Dr. MBA. MSc JKU Institute of Biomedical Mechatronics Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz, Austria, Cell: +43 650 8827347 Tel. +43 732 2468 4813 Email: christoph.hintermueller(a)jku.at

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After Compiling the Test, which usualy works perfect
by Ursula Hermann 08 Mar '22

08 Mar '22

Dear List, I have Windows 10, and WinEdt 10.3., actual verison. I wanted to do the test, but only I got this, after compiling: Command Line: C:\texlive\2021\bin\win32\context.exe --synctex=-1 "context-test.tex" Startup Folder: C:\Users\Hermann\Downloads\cont-tmf\tex\context\test\mkiv mtxrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua' _____________________________________________________________________ ConTeXt Compilation Report (Pages: 0) Errors: 0 Warnings: 0 Bad Boxes: 0 What is wrong here? Uschi Hermann

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What’s wrong with installation?
by Henning Hraban Ramm 08 Mar '22

08 Mar '22

Hi, I just tried to install a new instance of LMTX without success. """ $ unzip -l *.zip Archive: context-osx-64.zip Length Date Time Name --------- ---------- ----- ---- 0 03-05-2019 22:50 bin/ 19082 01-21-2022 20:13 bin/mtx-install.lua 693184 01-21-2022 20:13 bin/mtxrun.lua 3910 01-21-2022 20:13 install.sh 2725900 01-21-2022 20:13 bin/mtxrun 24047 01-21-2022 20:13 installation.pdf --------- ------- 3466123 6 files $ sh install.sh mtx-install | provide valid server and instance cp: /Users/hraban/lmtx_2022-03-07/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/mtxrun: No such file or directory cp: /Users/hraban/lmtx_2022-03-07/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtxrun.lua: No such file or directory cp: /Users/hraban/lmtx_2022-03-07/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtx-install.lua: No such file or directory If you want to run ConTeXt everywhere, you need to adapt the path, like: export PATH=/Users/hraban/lmtx_2022-03-07/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin:$PATH If you run from an editor you can specify the full path to mtxrun: /Users/hraban/lmtx_2022-03-07/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/mtxrun --autogenerate --script context --autopdf ... The following settings were used: server : lmtx.contextgarden.net,lmtx.pragma-ade.com,lmtx.pragma-ade.nl instance : install-lmtx extras : ownpath : /Users/hraban/lmtx_2022-03-07 platform : osx-64 $ ./bin/mtxrun --script ./bin/mtx-install.lua --update --server=lmtx.contextgarden.net --instance=install-lmtx --platform=osx-64 --extras=all mtx-install | provide valid server and instance """ Same result if I omit --server and --instance, since they default to the same. In mtx-install.lua, line 489 "local server = false" overwrites the previously set server variable. If I comment this line, I get: """ $ ./bin/mtxrun --script ./bin/mtx-install.lua --update --platform=osx-64 --extras=all mtx-install | server : lmtx.contextgarden.net,lmtx.pragma-ade.com,lmtx.pragma-ade.nl,dmz.pragma-ade.nl mtx-install | instance : install-lmtx mtx-install | platform : osx-64 mtx-install | system : unix mtx-install | invalid database 'http://lmtx.contextgarden.net,lmtx.pragma-ade.com,lmtx.pragma-ade.nl,dmz.pr…' mtx-install | invalid database 'http://lmtx.contextgarden.net,lmtx.pragma-ade.com,lmtx.pragma-ade.nl,dmz.pr…' mtx-install | invalid database 'http://lmtx.contextgarden.net,lmtx.pragma-ade.com,lmtx.pragma-ade.nl,dmz.pr…' mtx-install | current : %S mtx-install | target : %S mtx-install | removing : mtxrun mtx-install | removing : context mtx-install | copied : mtxrun mtx-install | copied : context mtx-install | running: /Users/hraban/lmtx_2022-03-07/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/mtxrun --generate sh: /Users/hraban/lmtx_2022-03-07/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/mtxrun: No such file or directory mtx-install | running: /Users/hraban/lmtx_2022-03-07/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/context --make en sh: /Users/hraban/lmtx_2022-03-07/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/context: No such file or directory mtx-install | mtx-install | mtx-install | ConTeXt LMTX with LuaMetaTeX is still experimental and when you get a crash this mtx-install | can be due to a mismatch between Lua bytecode and the engine. In that case you can mtx-install | try the following: mtx-install | mtx-install | - wipe the texmf-cache directory mtx-install | - run: mtxrun --generate mtx-install | - run: context --make mtx-install | mtx-install | When that doesn't solve the problem, ask on the mailing list (ntg-context(a)ntg.nl) mtx-install | mtx-install | update, done """ The "invalid database" lines don’t look good. If I give an explicit --server=lmtx.contextgarden.net, I still get the same error: """ mtx-install | invalid database 'http://lmtx.contextgarden.net/install-lmtx//tex/texmf.tma' mtx-install | invalid database 'http://lmtx.contextgarden.net/install-lmtx//tex/texmf-context.tma' mtx-install | invalid database 'http://lmtx.contextgarden.net/install-lmtx//tex/texmf-osx-64.tma' """ What’s wrong? Hraban

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APS bib: literals and small error in "pages" field
by Jack Hill 07 Mar '22

07 Mar '22

Hi, Two things here: 1. There is an extra . on the end of lines 732 and 734 of publ-imp-aps.mkvi which causes references to be rendered like "p.. 417" and "pp.. 417--418". 2. Suppose I have a literal such as @literal{company, text = {Company Name (n.d.) {\it Webpage name}. Retrieved 22 February, 2022, from https://www.example.com} } how can I cite this without the (company) appearing in the bibliography list? For reference I'm using \usebtxdefinitions[aps] Jack

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Makeup on same page as main content
by mastermind_ x 06 Mar '22

06 Mar '22

Hi all, I would like to create a makeup environment that will contain author, university logo and date and other information that doesn’t occupy its own page that I can define in an environment file and reuse. The logo and date should occupy the margins at the top at the left and right respectively. Then there will be course information on the left and a framed assignment box on the right (as it will have special fonts). Much like the title of a latex article class. It should look something like this: [logo] [date] --------------------------------------------- [course]: [Code] [assignment] [name] [ ] [class] [ 1 ] ---------------------------------------------- body Any pointers on how I can achieve this? Jethro

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LMTX | (.\) at end of line causes fatal error
by Richard Mahoney 05 Mar '22

05 Mar '22

Something I've noticed for a little while now, although it may be long standing, I'm not sure. If one ends some of the lines in the input files with a full stop (.) and a back slash (\) then LMTX will fail to compile with a fatal error. The only way to recover is to go through each of the files and ensure that no line ends with (.\). Is this a bug? Best, Richard -- T +6433121699 M +64210640216 rmahoney(a)indica-et-buddhica.org https://indica-et-buddhica.org/ Indica et Buddhica Littledene Bay Road Oxford NZ NZBN: 9429041761809

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