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Framedtext : text out of frame
by Fabrice Couvreur 26 Sep '21

26 Sep '21

Hi, How to fix the small problem in the code below where the text goes out of the frame ? Thanks Fabrice \usecolors[x11] \starttext \startframedtext[frame=off,width=\textwidth, align={broad,right},indenting={yes},background=color,backgroundcolor=navajowhite1] \startitemize[columns,three,n] \startitem Une quantité constante est une quantité déterminée, qui conserve toujours la même valeur. \stopitem\par \startitem Une quantité variable est une quantité indéterminée, ou, si l'on veut, une quantité universelle, qui comprend toutes les valeurs déterminées. \stopitem\par \startitem Une quantité variable devient déterminée, lorsqu'on lui attribue une valeur déterminée quelconque. \stopitem\par \startitem Une fonction de quantité variable est une expression analytique composée, de quelque manière que ce soit, de cette même quantité & de nombres, ou de quantités constantes. Par exemple, \m{a+3z} ; \m{az-4zz} ; \m{az+b\sqrt{aa-zz}} , cz ; \m{etc}. sont des fonctions de \m{z}. \stopitem\par \startitem Une fonction de variable est donc aussi une quantité variable. \stopitem\par \stopitemize \stopframedtext \stoptext1

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new upload: --secure and 'dk' unit
by Hans Hagen 26 Sep '21

26 Sep '21

Hi, I uploaded a new version. The lmtx installer should now accept --secure (but one has to update the installation script) in which case curl is used when available on the system. There are no other chnages apart from the outrcome of an 'extension evening session' we had last week: /*tex We support the Knuthian Potrzebie cf.\ \url {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrzebie} as |dk| unit. It was added 2021-09-22 exactly when we crossed the season during a evening session at the 15th \CONTEXT\ meeting in Bassenge (Boirs) Belgium. It took a few iterations to find the best numerator and denominator, but Taco Hoekwater, Harald Koenig and Mikael Sundqvist figured it out in this interactive session. The error messages have been adapted accordingly and the scanner in the |tex| library also handle it. One |dk| is 6.43985pt. There is no need to make \METAPOST\ aware of this unit because there it is just a numeric multiplier in a macro package. From Wikipedia: In issue 33, Mad published a partial table of the \quotation {Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures}, developed by 19-year-old Donald E. Knuth, later a famed computer scientist. According to Knuth, the basis of this new revolutionary system is the potrzebie, which equals the thickness of Mad issue 26, or 2.2633484517438173216473 mm [...]. */ This is a follow up of a suggestion by Hraban (on the meeting attendents list): a new unit. We have 'sp' for an unscaled unit (kind of the internal one, also used at the lua end), 'ex', 'em', 'px' as relative units (the handy ones), 'mu' for math (sort of relative and adaptive too), which leaves 'cm', 'mm' (popular and valid SI), 'pt' (natural to typesetting), 'bp' (related to postscript and pdf, the unit that competing-to-tex programs use), 'dd' and 'cc' (for Tomas Hala), 'in' (for stubborn non SI users) and now also 'dk' (for Don Knuth fans). So, Hraban (who organizes next year meeting) can now do: \setupbodyfont[dejavu,1dk] \starttext 1dk = \the\dimexpr1dk = \the\dimexpr2.2633484mm {\definedfont[Mono*none @ 6pt]test} {\definedfont[Mono*none @ 1dk]test} \stoptext And in case one wonders: this few line addition doesn't harm performance. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Ibid. and idem support for bibliographies (and variable scope more generally)
by Joey McCollum 21 Sep '21

21 Sep '21

Hi, I've found a way to implement ibid. and idem support in the SBL specification under development at https://github.com/jjmccollum/context-sbl (this e-mail essentially repeats my comments in https://github.com/jjmccollum/context-sbl/issues/5) but I'm not sure if my solution is a recommended way to solve the problem, and I'm curious about why the more straightforward approach doesn't work. I've added useibid and useidem options for the \definebtx command (making them language-dependent by adding them to mult-def.lua, which seems to be how the other options have been implemented). Ideally, I'd like to follow the pattern of the chicago:list:sameauthor setup and use a macro similar to \btxdoifsameaspreviouselse. But since \btxdoifsameaspreviouselse relies on the indexed structure of the bibliographic list to determine what the "previous" entry is, it won't work for my purposes; I need to retrieve the tag of the last entry passed to the \cite command. I ended up making this work by initializing a global variable via ``` \setxvariables[btx:sbl][previousinlinetag=\empty] ``` in the publ-imp-sbl.mkvi file, resetting it at the end of each citation via ``` \setxvariables[btx:sbl][previousinlinetag=\currentbtxtag] ``` and checking it in the appropriate places via ``` getvariable{btx:sbl}{previousinlinetag} ``` I initially tried to do this with a simple macro \btx_sbl_previousinlinetag defined in publ-imp-sbl.mkvi (in the same scope as the rest of the specification), but attempting to reset it in the cite setups with \let or \def didn't work. Why doesn't this work? Is the setup for a cite alternative executed in its own scope in a way that would prevent me from updating a variable defined in the scope of the rendering specification? And is there a way to do this that is preferable to using global variables? Thanks! Joey

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Placing pagenumer with coordinates (layers)
by Huseyin Özoguz 21 Sep '21

21 Sep '21

Hello dear context-enthusiasts, I want to place the pagenumber on a double-sided project with coordinates. I tried the layer-mechanism: \setuppagenumbering[location=] \definelayer [pagenumber] [width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight, location={left,top}, x=120mm,y=220mm, doublesided=yes] \startsetups layer \setlayer[pagenumber][even]{\pagenumber} \stopsetups \setupbackgrounds[page][setups=layer,background={pagenumber}] \starttext ~\page~\page~\page \stoptext And it works, but only for the left (even) page. On the right page I want to place the pagenumber on different coordinates. I tried to copy the layer and then change [even] to [odd] with different coordinates, but that did not work (no pagenumber printed). What do you suggest? Thank you. Huseyin

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changes of color
by Thierry Horsin 21 Sep '21

21 Sep '21

Hi everybody After some part of a tex file where there is some startMPcode section the color of the text (e.g. blue) changes to black up until the next page in the pdf. Is there something I am missing ? Thank you. Thierry

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Full success
by Alain Delmotte 21 Sep '21

21 Sep '21

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[lmtx offline?]
by Floris van Manen 20 Sep '21

20 Sep '21

I try to update my lmtx installation, but it seems that there is no contact with the server somehow... Any hints? $ ./install.sh mtx-install | provide valid server and instance The following settings were used: server : lmtx.contextgarden.net,lmtx.pragma-ade.com,lmtx.pragma-ade.nl instance : install-lmtx extras : ownpath : /home/vm/context platform : linux-64

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Smallcaps not working with a font that claims to have it - how can I confirm?
by Bruce Horrocks 20 Sep '21

20 Sep '21

I'm trying to use smallcaps with a font called SquarishSansCT. According to mtxrun it has smcp as a feature... $ mtxrun --script font --list --info --pattern=squar [...] mtx-fonts | gsub features: mtx-fonts | mtx-fonts | feature script languages mtx-fonts | mtx-fonts | c2sc grek dflt mtx-fonts | latn dflt mtx-fonts | smcp grek dflt mtx-fonts | latn dflt mtx-fonts | ...but I can't seem to get that feature to work in this MWE which works for TexGyreSchola. \definefontfeature [smallcaps] [always] [smcp=yes] \definefontsynonym [Squar] [name:SquarishSansCT-Regular] [features=smallcaps] \definefontsynonym [Schola] [name:texgyreschola-regular] [features=smallcaps] \definefont [chapterTitle] [Squar at 18pt] \definefont [anotherTitle] [Schola at 18pt] \starttext {\chapterTitle A Chapter Title} \par {\anotherTitle A Chapter Title} \stoptext Have I missed something or is it the font? — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK

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no lua configuration files found
by Henning Hraban Ramm 19 Sep '21

19 Sep '21

I hope it’s again only me being stupid, but when I try to update my LMTX installation or make a new one, the install script always fails with the above warning. ~/lmtx_2021-09-19 $ . install.sh mtxrun | forcing cache reload resolvers | resolving | looking for regular 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path '/Users/hraban/texmf/web2c' from specification 'home:texmf/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for regular 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path '/Users/hraban/texmf-local/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf-local/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for regular 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path '/Users/hraban/texmf-context/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf-context/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for regular 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path '/Users/hraban/texmf-dist/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf-dist/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for regular 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path '/Users/hraban/texmf/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for fallback 'contextcnf.lua' on given path '/Users/hraban/texmf/web2c' from specification 'home:texmf/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for fallback 'contextcnf.lua' on given path '/Users/hraban/texmf-local/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf-local/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for fallback 'contextcnf.lua' on given path '/Users/hraban/texmf-context/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf-context/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for fallback 'contextcnf.lua' on given path '/Users/hraban/texmf-dist/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf-dist/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for fallback 'contextcnf.lua' on given path '/Users/hraban/texmf/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf/web2c' resolvers | resolving | resolvers | resolving | warning: no lua configuration files found resolvers | resolving | no texmf paths are defined (using TEXMF) resolvers | resolving | mtxrun | the resolver databases are not present or outdated mtx-install | provide valid server and instance cp: /Users/hraban/lmtx_2021-09-19/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/mtxrun: No such file or directory cp: /Users/hraban/lmtx_2021-09-19/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtxrun.lua: No such file or directory cp: /Users/hraban/lmtx_2021-09-19/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_2021-09-19/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin:$PATH If you run from an editor you can specify the full path to mtxrun: /Users/hraban/lmtx_2021-09-19/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_2021-09-19 platform : osx-64 It looks like the root path is wrongly assumed, since I run the script from ~/lmtx_2021-09-19, not just ~ TEXROOT is set to /Users/hraban/lmtx/tex (my previous installation), but get the same messages if I run the script there. Same behavior with osx-64 and linux-64. Hraban

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tabulate with lp columns
by Henning Hraban Ramm 19 Sep '21

19 Sep '21

There are some problems in the following MWEs. First example looks the same with MkIV and LMTX, second uses \NS that is only in LMTX. The first column is justified even if it’s defined as left aligned; this happens also with a simple "l" column. With "p" the width is ignored. With \NS the alignment is also wrong in the same way. \starttext \starttabulate[|lp(.2\textwidth)|lp(.2\textwidth)|lp(.2\textwidth)|lp(.2\textwidth)|] Default \NC Linux \NC MacOS \NC Windows \NC\NR \HL Text Proc \NC LibreOffice \NC Apple Pages \NC MS Office (Word) \NC\NR PDF Viewer\NC Evince \NC Preview \NC Edge \NC\NR \stoptabulate \starttabulate[|lp(.2\textwidth)|lp(.2\textwidth)|lp(.2\textwidth)|lp(.2\textwidth)|] Default \NC Linux \NC MacOS \NC Windows \NC\NR \HL Text processor \NS[3][l] LibreOffice or else \NC\NR Drawing \NS[2][lp(.4\textwidth)] Inkscape \NC Corel Draw \NC\NR Simple Editor \NC Nano \NC TextEdit \NC Notepad \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stoptext Additional question: How would I define those columns to use the whole \textwidth ? Hraban

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