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problem embedding TABLE macros within wrapper macros "to reduce repetitive complexity")
by Rudd, Kevin 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

I have a number of slides using \...framedtext blocks to break the slides into panes within a TABLE environment (TMI: not in MWE; merely my justification for writing the wrapper macros). When the TABLE macros are invoked explicitly it all works fine and produces a suitable single-cell table with "quux blech baz bar foo" framed; when embedded in macros (whether defined by \def, \unexpanded\def, \define) then it fails with the error "The file ended when scanning an argument. => fatal error: return code: 256. A previous question on the topic seemed to indicate that TABLE was suitable, so I figure that something subtle is wrong as I've invoked the embedded TABLE macros. Any suggestions? Many thanks, ---K MWE: this code fails if the \...PaneSlide block is uncommented, succeeds if commented out. \define\startPaneSlide{\bTABLE} \define\startPaneRow{bTR\bTD} \define\stopPaneRow{\eTD\eTR} \define\stopPaneSlide{\eTABLE} \starttext \bTABLE \bTR\bTD quux blech baz bar foo \eTD\eTR \eTABLE \startPaneSlide \startPaneRow foo bar baz blech quux \stopPaneRow \stopPaneSlide \stoptext Kevin W. Rudd, Ph.D. CAPT, USN (Ret) Computer Architecture & Computer Engineering Advanced Computing Systems (ACS) Research Program Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) 443-654-7878 kevin(a)lps.umd.edu<mailto:kevin@lps.umd.edu> Visiting Research Professor United States Naval Academy rudd(a)usna.edu<mailto:rudd@usna.edu>

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https
by Taco Hoekwater 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

Hi, The certificate for *.contextgarden.net expired this morning. I installed a new certificate just now, but it is possible that I missed one of the uses of the old certificate. If you find that you get an error about ‘Connection is not private’ still, even after a hard reload, please send me message as I likely forgot to update some file. Best wishes, Taco

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Fwd: Re: styling individual parts of ToC entry
by jbf 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

After making silly mistakes, for which I apologize, I finally got the ToC to work for frontmatter and chapters, creating new \defineheads as required, and including the earlier \ChapterListCommand, with the results correctly showing. To add some named sections with authors, I did the following, using an idea Hraban had floated: \setupsectionblock [bodypart] [number=no] \define[1]\SectionTocEntry{% #1\crlf% title \structurelistuservariable{author}% } \setuplist[section][ textcommand=\SectionTocEntry, ] I need to adjust the \setuplist[section] so these section entries move across under the Chapter titles (not be left-aligned as they are now under Chapter number. The earlier \ChapterListCommand has titles and authors moved across 3cm. I have tried: \setuplist[section][width=3cm, textcommand=\SectionTocEntry, ] The width=3cm is not doing anything, so I've got that wrong. How do I move sections across by a specific amount in the TOC? Julian On 9/9/20 5:10 pm, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > jbf schrieb am 09.09.2020 um 08:04: >> Have to confess I am still not getting far with the final problem in >> a book that is now fully laid out: frontmatter through to appendices >> is all correct and working, but the Table of Contents not the way I >> need it (as explained earlier and listed in a previous email). >> >> My latest effort focuses on just one item, the Foreword, since if I >> get that right, I can apply the same logic to sections. Chapters are >> already working correctly, thanks to Wolfgang's ChapterListCommand >> and I am assuming I need that for the several frontmatter 'chapters'. >> >> I was earlier using \title for foreword, preface and notes to >> contributors, but have abandoned that as complicating things, and am >> now using \chapter, since it does not produce a numbered item - >> however, it is producing the label 'Chapter' which I don't want for >> these item. You can see below how I tried to avoid that, but it >> failed. My MWE addition to what Wolfgang provided is: >> >> \definehead [foreword] [chapter] >> >> \setuphead [foreword] >> >> \setuplist [foreword] >> [label=foreword, >> alternative=command, >> command=\ChapterListCommand]% definition not included here. It was >> given in an earlier response from Wolfgang. >> >> .... And in the frontmatter itself: >> >> \startchapter[foreword][title={\ss Foreword}][author={A. Uthor}] >> >> .......... > > You can set the forword string as labeltext and ignore the title (but > use a empty argument when set userdata like the author). > > \definehead > [forword] [chapter] > > \setuplabeltext > [en] > [forword=Forword, > chapter=Chapter ] > > \setuphead > [forword] > [frontpartlabel=forword, > conversion=empty] > > \setupsectionblock > [frontpart] > [number=yes] > > \setuplist > [forword] > [label=forword, > width=2cm] > > \setuplist > [chapter] > [label=chapter, > width=2cm] > > \starttext > > \startfrontmatter > > \placelist [chapter,forword] > > \startforword [] [author={A. u. thor}] \stopforword > > \stopfrontmatter > > \startbodymatter > > \startchapter [title=Chapter 1] [author={A. u. thor}] \stopchapter > > \stopbodymatter > > \stoptext > > Wolfgang

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About font combination in ConTeXt MKIV
by MANUEL GONZALEZ SUAREZ 09 Sep '20

09 Sep '20

Dear friends: Until now (TeXLive 2018), to write Spanish and ancient Greek in the same document, I used the "simplefonts" module, which is said in the wiki (ConTeXt Garden) that it is obsolete. What is the method to do this with TeXLive 2020? I try to combine one font for Spanish text (eg libertine) and another for ancient Greek (eg New Athena Unicode), but I don't know how to do it without the "simplefonts" module, and if I try to compile the document with the "simplefonts module", I have an error Thank you. Manuel González.

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TeXlive 2020 / Gentoo Linux: ConTeXt does not find itself (sort of)...]
by mylists＠posteo.de 09 Sep '20

09 Sep '20

Hi, this is my first post to this mailinglist. I am no native speaker... if something sound somehow ... I will try to give my best.... ;) I am using GENTOO Linux, which compiles everything on the target instead of pulling ready compiled, binary packages into the system. I did a fresh install of Texlive 2020 via the package-manager "emerge". On Gentoo this is handled via a "virtual package", which can be configured beforehand to include or exclude certain parts. I choose to get the HUGE package (incluing LaTeX, ConTeXt, plainTeX and others). After the installation I tried to typeset examples of a LaTeX- and a plain TeX document, which works out of the box. Then I tried a ConTeXt document and it fails: context somefile.tex gave me: mtxrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua' . While searching the internet I found, that one has to run mtxrun --generate in advance. Doing so mtxrun starts to index my whole harddisk starting with my $HOME, from which I started it. It reports A LOT of "confusing file"s.... I searched the installed TeXlive installation for context.lua and mtx-context.lua -- they were installed and not "totally" missing. So I tried/guessed to run mtxrun --generate /usr/share/texmf-dist /usr/share/texlive-site and the file under $HOME were no longer indexed. context somefile.tex gave me the above mentioned error still, though. It "feels" like context does not respect setting made via the configuration settings under /etc/texmf... So I "hacked" (really, it was a crude hack/idea...nothing more) TEXMF and inserted export TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf-dist:/usr/share/texlive-site into my shells RC-file, restarted the shell and now context somefile.tex "worked"...: Each time it seems to re-index parts of ???, reports a lot of "confusing file"s but creates a valid looking pdf. I think, the package setup provided by GENTOO has a problem I want to help to fix that...but I have no clue, what the real culprit is here... Setting TEXMF this way feels like a random and accidentally working hack and I already feel the next problem raising up at the horizon... Some additional problems: tlmgr does not work mtxrun partially does not find its own modules mtxrun --variables lists a LOT of unset environment variables ... It looks like some basic and fundamental "initial" environment variable is missing. But I need a knowledgeable guru before I am able to get nearer to the root of the culprit. Thank you very much in advance for any help offered! \cheers Meino

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Wrong page number when placefigure spans full page in columnset
by Charles Vejnar 09 Sep '20

09 Sep '20

Hi, When I place a figure within a columnset and that figure takes a full page then the page number in the header is incorrect. Page number is the same as the previous page but on the next page it's correct. Please see example below and attached showing page 2 twice with pages numbered 1, 2, 2, 4, 5. If I reduce the height of the figure (from 15 to 12cm for example), then some main text gets added on the page and page number (3) becomes correct. Is that a bug or am I doing something wrong? Thanks for your help. Charles \setuppapersize[letter][letter] \setuplayout[height=fit,grid=yes] \showframe \usemodule[newcolumnsets] \definecolumnset[colset][n=2] \starttext \startcolumnset[colset] \section{One section} \dorecurse{16}{\input ward \par} \placefigure[page]{Legend. \input ward }{\externalfigure[dummy][width=\makeupwidth,height=15cm]} \section{Two section} \dorecurse{2}{\input knuth \par} \section{Three section} \dorecurse{6}{\input knuth \par} \stopcolumnset \stoptext

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Input file name containing full stop "."
by Christoph Reller 09 Sep '20

09 Sep '20

Dear list, I am using ConTeXt LMTX Version 2020.09.05 21:18 with an input file named, e.g., "test.test.tex". When compiling, ConTeXt generates files "test.log", "test.tua", "test.pdf". ConTeXt MKIV used to produce files "test.test.log", "test.test.tua", "test.test.pdf". Is there a way for ConTeXt LMTX to process input files that contain full stops consistently? I am aware of the "--result=..." option, but what about the "...tua", "...log" and synctex files? This is a serious problem when running multiple compilations in parallel, e.g., on "test.a.tex" and "test.b.tex", because both processes use the same "test.tua" file. Cheers, Christoph

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styling individual parts of ToC entry
by jbf 09 Sep '20

09 Sep '20

Now that with Hraban's invaluable assistance I am able to include title, subtitle, author as and when necessary in the ToC and put them on the same line if I need to, I have two questions that I have not found a satisfactory solution to after playing around with various possibilities. I need: (1) the author's names lined up vertically throughout the ToC, and (2) the first part of the entry (e.g. Foreword) to be bold, but the author name to be regular text. An adjusted version of Hraban's setup can show what I have tried by way of example: %---------------- \define[1]\TitleTocEntry{% #1\hskip 1cm% title \structurelistuservariable{author}% } \setuplist[title][textstyle=bold, textcommand=\TitleTocEntry, ] %--------------- /Question 1:/ /How to get the two author names to line up vertically./ Given that I have both a Foreword and a Preface, I am using \title for these. And both have separate authors. The titles will be simply 'Foreword' and 'Preface', obviously. *Foreword Author name* *Preface Author name* I am using \hskip 1cm to separate the authors' names from either of those two words. But this does not give me the kind of exact positioning I need to get the two author names directly underneath each other in the list. I have tried various alternatives to \hskip, but none of them can give me the correct proportional distance. The distance is obviously being controlled by the fact that 'Foreword' is 8 characters and 'Preface' is 7. Is what I want only obtainable with a table setup? The issue might or might not be more complicated when I get to main chapters, where the author names need to line up with the Foreword and Preface author names as well. There will be, e.g. Chapter One Title Author name // /Question 2:/ /How to independently get Foreword and Preface to be bold, but the authors' names to be regular./ \setuplist offers me options like textstyle, pagestyle, numberstyle, but they apply to everything (both Foreword/Preface and Authors' name are bold). I thought perhaps I could control it from within the document, e.g. \starttitle[title={\ss\bf Foreword}][author={A. Uthor}] But that does the same - both Foreword and A. Uthor end up bold. And besides, I also want to style the ToC independently of the heads if I can. The wiki and various manuals do offer various tips on modifying the ToC, but I cannot find anything regarding the two questions above - not yet, anyway. If someone knows where, please point me to it. Julian

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Column not Balancing, Footnote is Missing
by Art Chimes 08 Sep '20

08 Sep '20

Greetings, list. My first post here. Please be gentle! The command \contextversion reports I am using 2020.09.03 20:03 on Windows 10. The MWE below produces a column and a half of text, not balanced (despite the \setupcolumns [...balance=yes...] command. Also, the footnote *number* appears on the PDF, but the *text* of the footnote doesn't. However, when I use the online compiler (live.contextgarden.net, reported version 2020.06.30 17:30, older than mine), the footnote text *does* appear, though the columns are still not balanced. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \usemodule[ipsum] \setupfootnotes[location=page,rule=on,bodyfont=8.5pt] \setupcolumns [n=2,balance=yes,blank=line] \starttext \chapter{Footnote Test — \contextversion} \startcolumns \ipsum Cursus metus aliquam eleifend mi in nulla posuere sollicitudin aliquam. Id aliquet risus feugiat in ante metus dictum at tempor.\footnote{Thor, A.U.: {\it Latin 101 for Dummies} (Rome, Dummies Pub., MCMLXXIX)} \ipsum[alternative=lines,n=20] \end columns \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Question (1) : Why don't the columns balance, and how can I fix it? Question (2) : Why does the footnote appear only with the online compiler? What am I doing wrong? Question (3) : For extra credit: How can I get the footnotes to stretch the entire width of the text block instead of the width of one column? I did try to parse the somewhat opaque (to me) information in the wiki and looked in the mailing list archives, but I didn't find the information I needed. Thank you for any help you can offer. Art in Arlington, Virginia, USA.

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Appendix question
by jbf 08 Sep '20

08 Sep '20

A (hopefully) simple question this time: Why would my appendices be labelled as Appendix One, Appendix Two etc., instead of Appendix A, Appendix B? I thought Appendices would normally be labelled alphabetically, not numerically. So I get APPENDIX as the label, I have: \setuplabeltext [en] [chapter={\bf Chapter }, appendix=APPENDIX ] But elsewhere I have: \setupheads[chapter][indentnext=no,conversion=Words,distance=.25em] So is that what is affecting my appendices, and if so how do I do it so that Chapters get words (One, Two, etc) and Appendices get letters (A,B, etc)? Julian

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