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Question about parsing XML and attributes (normally var.at.attrib) with a name with ':' in it
by Gerben Wierda 14 Feb '21

14 Feb '21

If I have an XML element like this: <A x=“one” attribute:B=“two"/> and it has been read in a lua variable foo, I can get at attribute x with foo.at.x But how do I get at attribute:B? Gerben Wierda (LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerbenwierda>) R&A Enterprise Architecture <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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scope
by Hans Hagen 14 Feb '21

14 Feb '21

Hi, When you allocate a new register (with e.g. \newdimen) that is always a global definition (kind of a tex tradition). As a (likely to stay) experiment I added \newlocaldimen \foo \setnewlocaldimen \foo 123pt and comparable helpers. Some more can be found in lowlevel-scope.pdf in the distribution. The idea is that users who write their own macros that need 'variables' can define them locally without the danger for clashing with system ones (or each others macros). Actually, global assignments only affects that variable, so one can do \bgroup \newlocaldimen\foo \bgroup \global\foo=456pt \egroup ... use \foo \egroup Best use names like \mydimena etc in order nnot to clash with system ones (that can be protected against overload). In spite of redefinitions each time a macro using it gets expanded, performance is quite okay. It falls in the category "interesting hacks but maybe not needed because never asked for", but on the other hand, sometimes availability creates retrospective demand. (I also did \newlocalread and added some extra random access hackery to \read, so who knows what users will abuse that feature for.) 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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parsing multi-valued parameters
by Werner Hennrich 13 Feb '21

13 Feb '21

Hello everyone, please can you give me pointers on how to easiest parse multi-valued \dummyparameter{...} like in \something[...,weather={sunshine, rain, hail},...] so that I can test for e.g. rain, sunshine, wind, hail, mist, fog, storm etc, each if it is present or not? ...so I can keep my number of parameters down and my parameter list as simple as possible. I have no idea what to search for in the docs or (better) in the test cases / samples. Would be great if you could just let me know where to look or what to sarch for Thank you very much! Werner

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Loop?
by Angel M Alganza 13 Feb '21

13 Feb '21

Hello: I am trying to print a list of names always followed by the same info (generated by a new command). At the moment, I have all the names followed by the command like so: Person Number One \mycommand Person Number Two \mycommand Person Number Three \mycommand Person Number Four \mycommand Person Number Five \mycommand . . . I'd rather have the list of people stored somewhere (a list? an array?) and loop through it and then inserting \mynewcommand at compilation time. That way, when I need to replace the list of people with a new one, I'd just do that instead of building the above structure again and again. Is it possible to do that with just ConTeXt or would I need to resort to Lua. I guess it should be possible both ways, but I haven't figure out how to do it. Any pointer, please? Thank you so much in advance. Cheers, Ángel

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Font issue with page header with latest LMTX beta 2021-02-12 18:48
by Joseph 13 Feb '21

13 Feb '21

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[pagenumbers in pdf]
by Floris van Manen 13 Feb '21

13 Feb '21

When I generate a serie of TEXpages, those pages end up with the same page number in the pdf. 1, 1, 1 \starttext \def\blz{\begingroup \startTEXpage 1 2 3 \stopTEXpage \endgroup} \blz \blz \blz \stoptext If I insert a \strut at the start, I get pagenumbering 1, 2, 3, 1 \starttext \def\blz{\begingroup \startTEXpage 1 2 3 \stopTEXpage \endgroup} \strut \blz \blz \blz \stoptext As in most software, there is a probable reason for that :-) But how to get the pages numbered 1, 2, 3 without an empty page at the start? .F

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style option not working for headings
by Pablo Rodriguez 13 Feb '21

13 Feb '21

Dear Hans, I’m afraid that style doesn’t work for headings in current latest (2021.02.12 18:49): \setuphead[chapter][style=\it] \setuphead[section][style=\it] \starttext \chapter{Chapter} \section{Section} \input zapf \stoptext Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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yesterday’s version of luametatex needed
by Alan Bowen 12 Feb '21

12 Feb '21

I need to reinstall luametatex version 2.08.13. Is there a page somewhere describing how to do this? Alan

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new upload
by Hans Hagen 12 Feb '21

12 Feb '21

Hi, I uploaded a new version. I'v enow tagged all public macros (not that anyone will notice) as a step in the overload protection effort. If you want to get an idea about what we're talking of you can process s-system-macros.mkxl This file is mostly for Wolfgang and me when we update to lmtx, but it's used to identify 'todo's. We're talking tex as well as metapost here. In the process some orphan (mkii) stuff has been removed and a few small fixes applied (in code that probably no one ever encounters anyway). In lmtx I also updated the stixtwo fonts (new names again) and added libertinus (for Tomas Hala to test). Up to the next step, 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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Re: [NTG-context] Table of Content
by Pablo Rodriguez 12 Feb '21

12 Feb '21

On 2/12/21 4:40 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 2/12/2021 3:43 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: >> [...] >> "\page\null\page" does the trick in your case. > > \page[left,empty,right] etc Hans, I never thought this were possible: \starttext \page[left,empty,right, left,empty,right, left,empty,right] \stoptext Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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