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mtxrun.lua:10080: bad argument #9 to 'format'
by Garulfo 15 Feb '24

15 Feb '24

Hi, return is OK with: mtxrun --script font --list --spec --filter="fontname=ibm*" but removing the m from the pattern mtxrun --script font --list --spec --filter="fontname=ib*" I get : lua error : function call: ...0-app_context-linux-64/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/mtxrun.lua:10080: bad argument #9 to 'format' (number expected, got string) mtxrun --version mtxrun | ConTeXt TDS Runner Tool 1.32 mtxrun | source path

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An announcement of my new book.
by SirColeman 14 Feb '24

14 Feb '24

Greetings all. I have a passion for typesetting. I found that currently the best typesetting systems are those that are based on TeX. Of them, there are LaTeX, and ConTeXt. LaTeX is very well documented and popular; ConTeXt, on the other hand, is apparently very powerful and capable, but is not as well documented. There are things that are spectacularly well documented, others that only show hints, and leave it up to the user to figure things out on their own, and others still that won't even compile on a more recent version of ConTeXt (apparently the proper way to access a counter's value in ConTeXt is to use \getnumber or \convertednumber, and not \getcounter. That's just an example). I thus thought, as an exercise in typesetting, in writing, and also to help the ConTeXt documentation, to write a new book, a large book, that teaches the details of how ConTeXt on a lower level works, allowing one to understand how to utilize low level typesetting features for anything more sophisticated than a simple book or article. By lower level, I mean how things like heads, items, references, alignment, tables, etc., work. Also, I would like a book that teaches things like how to program it using lua, how to understand and utilize the underlying engine itself (the low level LuaMetaTeX), how to even use DocBook with ConTeXt, etc. (I do realize that there already are manuals for lua in ConTeXt and on LuaMetaTeX, etc., and manuals on various different parts of ConTeXt, and I'll certainly be learning from them whenever their particular topic comes, but I reserve the opportunity to rewrite parts of these manuals for this book, as is necessary for the book's purpose, perhaps referencing these manuals for further details.) In particular, I want to go a step beyond the book "A not so short introduction to ConTeXt Mark IV", and teach the particularly advanced features, where there is sparse information. Particularly, it's meant to serve as one complete reference, instead of having to hunt for different manuals, which explain things differently, and with the consequence that it's hard to find a particular piece of information because its scattered around so many different places. This book should serve as the one and only final documentation that you would need. It would contain everything in a highly cohesive format, in one place, and make particular pieces of information particularly easy to find. I realize that this is a very ambitious undertaking, but I find that a unified source of information is better than information with varying levels of quality scattered across more places than one can hold in his head. I just have one question: What is all the necessary material to understand and utilize the low level TeX programming language itself? That is, what do I need to read to learn to be able to read the ConTeXt source code itself (which is written in TeX---and lua, but I can help myself in that regard)? Is the "Low Level TeX" set of manuals all that I'll need, or will I need other sources of information too? And also, is it worth learning Plain TeX, and reading The TeXbook, or is not necessary? And, I'm grateful to have an alternative to LaTeX. It's certainly promising, but I would like to help make it appealing, by making it easy to learn and master it, and provide a single source of information. I'm grateful for having ConTeXt. P.S. If I have bugs to file, should I file them on this mailing list, or on the dev-context(a)ntg.nl mailing list? And, to all beginner ConTeXt users: What would you like to see covered in this book? Thanks. -- Sent with Tuta; enjoy secure & ad-free emails: https://tuta.com

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regular online meet-up
by Henning Hraban Ramm 14 Feb '24

14 Feb '24

You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, February 13th, 19:00 CET (UTC+1) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Do you have a subject that you’d like to talk about? (I hope I’ll manage to show a poster draft…) Looking forward to seeing you, Hraban (Same blurb as always:) [Howto] * No special software installation required; most modern browsers should work (WebRTC required). * Open the URL above, accept the privacy statement, * enter your name, * click "join" (or "start" if you’re the first), * click "with microphone", allow your browser to access it, check the audio. * Your microphone is muted if you join. Activate microphone and/or camera with the buttons at the bottom. * Minimize the default presentation with the "screen" button, bottom right. * If you’d like to share your screen or upload a file, you can make yourself the presenter: Click on your user name, change the setting, then you’ll see the "screen sharing" button beside the camera button; also there’s now "manage presentations" behind the "plus" button. Beware there is only one presenter at a time, so don’t kill someone else’s presentation. [Technical hints] * Sound is usually better if you use a headset (less noise for everyone). * Connection problems are mostly due to low bandwidth or high latency on your side, e.g. with mobile connections. * Sometimes leaving and re-entering helps. * If audio/video doesn’t work for you, you can still use the text chat. * Screen sharing needs a lot of bandwidth. * BigBlueButton documentation applies: https://bigbluebutton.org/teachers/tutorials/ [Netiquette] * Please use a name that we recognize from here. Some feel uncomfortable with anonymous lurkers. * Mute your microphone while you’re not talking. * It’s nice to show your face at least when you join. * If there are connection problems, stop camera sharing. * The room is set to “everyone’s a moderator“, I trust you...

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Re: Sorry for once more asking, i am at Work
by Ursula Hermann 14 Feb '24

14 Feb '24

Dear Hans, This was before you wrote, that you did an new upload, but i saw it in the installation. Because there were more files. Uschi Von: Ursula Hermann Gesendet: Mittwoch, 14. Februar 2024 13:42 An: 'mailing list for ConTeXt users' <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Betreff: Sorry for once more asking, i am at Work So after a new update on my Computer at Work, I did once more download the installation. After compiling with context-mswin I got this file Command Line: context.exe --synctex=-1 "context-test.tex" Startup Folder: C:\Users\Hermann\Downloads\context-mswin\tex\texmf-context\tex\context\test\mkiv startup error : no format file given, quitting ____________________________________________________________________ ConTeXt Compilation Report (Pages: 0) Errors: 0 Warnings: 0 Bad Boxes: 0 Did I something wrong? Uschi

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Cron <context@cgl> /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror
by root＠ntg.nl 14 Feb '24

14 Feb '24

receiving incremental file list ./ ctan.lsr document-2.htm download-1.htm download-2.htm install.htm logo-ade.png logo-cts.png logo-pod.png rss.xml show-fil.pdf context/latest/ context/latest/cont-lmt.zip context/latest/cont-mpd.zip context/latest/cont-ppc.zip context/latest/cont-sci.zip context/latest/cont-tmf.zip context/latest/cont-tst.7z context/latest/cont-tst.tar.xz context/latest/cont-tst.zip sent 179,803 bytes received 38,322,803 bytes 2,852,044.89 bytes/sec total size is 579,344,863 speedup is 15.05 Running archiver: New dir: /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-02-14.14 246445225 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-02-14.14/latest 126745317 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-02-14.14/current 373194638 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-02-14.14 373194638 total

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Sorry for once more asking, i am at Work
by Ursula Hermann 14 Feb '24

14 Feb '24

So after a new update on my Computer at Work, I did once more download the installation. After compiling with context-mswin I got this file Command Line: context.exe --synctex=-1 "context-test.tex" Startup Folder: C:\Users\Hermann\Downloads\context-mswin\tex\texmf-context\tex\context\test\mkiv startup error : no format file given, quitting ____________________________________________________________________ ConTeXt Compilation Report (Pages: 0) Errors: 0 Warnings: 0 Bad Boxes: 0 Did I something wrong? Uschi

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Cron <context@cgl> /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror
by root＠ntg.nl 14 Feb '24

14 Feb '24

receiving incremental file list context/latest/ context/latest/cont-lmt.zip context/latest/cont-tst.7z context/latest/cont-tst.tar.xz context/latest/cont-tst.zip sent 88,333 bytes received 17,955,327 bytes 2,405,821.33 bytes/sec total size is 579,345,820 speedup is 32.11 Running archiver: New dir: /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-02-14.13 246445197 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-02-14.13/latest 126745317 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-02-14.13/current 373194610 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-02-14.13 373194610 total

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Cron <context@cgl> /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror
by root＠ntg.nl 14 Feb '24

14 Feb '24

receiving incremental file list ./ ctan.lsr document-2.htm download-1.htm download-2.htm logo-ade.png logo-cts.png logo-pod.png overview.htm rss.xml show-fil.pdf show-man-1.htm show-man-10.htm show-man-11.htm show-man-12.htm show-man-13.htm show-man-14.htm show-man-15.htm show-man-16.htm show-man-17.htm show-man-18.htm show-man-19.htm show-man-2.htm show-man-20.htm show-man-21.htm show-man-22.htm show-man-23.htm show-man-24.htm show-man-25.htm show-man-26.htm show-man-27.htm show-man-28.htm show-man-29.htm show-man-3.htm show-man-30.htm show-man-31.htm show-man-32.htm show-man-33.htm show-man-34.htm show-man-35.htm show-man-36.htm show-man-37.htm show-man-38.htm show-man-39.htm show-man-4.htm show-man-40.htm show-man-41.htm show-man-42.htm show-man-43.htm show-man-44.htm show-man-45.htm show-man-46.htm show-man-47.htm show-man-48.htm show-man-49.htm show-man-5.htm show-man-50.htm show-man-51.htm show-man-52.htm show-man-53.htm show-man-54.htm show-man-55.htm show-man-56.htm show-man-57.htm show-man-58.htm show-man-59.htm show-man-6.htm show-man-60.htm show-man-61.htm show-man-62.htm show-man-7.htm show-man-78.htm show-man-79.htm show-man-8.htm show-man-80.htm show-man-83.htm show-man-9.htm wget.txt context/latest/ context/latest/cont-lmt.zip context/latest/cont-mpd.zip context/latest/cont-ppc.zip context/latest/cont-sci.zip context/latest/cont-tmf.zip context/latest/cont-tst.7z context/latest/cont-tst.tar.xz context/latest/cont-tst.zip general/manuals/ general/manuals/pdfmerge.pdf sent 185,674 bytes received 43,250,089 bytes 2,995,569.86 bytes/sec total size is 579,345,776 speedup is 13.34 Running archiver: New dir: /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-02-14.11 246445153 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-02-14.11/latest 126745317 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-02-14.11/current 373194566 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-02-14.11 373194566 total

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Seeindex with zie instead of see?
by Gerard Verhaag 14 Feb '24

14 Feb '24

Hi ConTeXt users, Wondering whether there is a possibility to modify the word 'see' into the Dutch word 'zie' in the use of the \seeindex command? Regards, Gerard

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Two bugs with descriptions in ConTeXt.
by SirColeman 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

The first bug is that descriptions interfere with the counters, resulting in the peculiar behavior demonstrated in the resulting PDF. Unless I'm mistaken, I think it happens because the head of the description is evaluated twice, thus incrementing the counter twice---at least, that's the only explanation for how the number is incremented by 2 each time. Further, this issue seems to persist whether we're using macros or writing \incrementcounter directly. The solution is to either make sure that the head of descriptions is evaluated only once, or document that text placed as the head of descriptions is meant to be evaluated twice, if there's a good reason for doing so. Of course, this silly example of incrementing counters can be subdued by placing the \incrementcounter directly in the after option when customizing descriptions. But it demonstrates the issue. I've tried to make the examples given be as varied as possible, demonstrating the different ways in which descriptions interact with the counter. The second bug is that descriptions, or at least that's my intuitive expectation, shouldn't interfere with the bullets of items. I expect that the bullet stays where it is, and the description is placed next to it. But what happens is that the bullet is shifted to the right, making it overlap with the description's head, which isn't pretty. ConTeXt version 2024.1.24

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