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PDF/A no longer compliant?
by Rik Kabel 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

The example file in the wiki (at https://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDF/A) no longer verifies as compliant PDF/A. VeraPDF rejects it, and https://www.pdf-online.com/osa/validate.aspx complains: x107.pdf Compliance pdfa-1b Result Document does not conform to PDF/A. Details Validating file "x107.pdf" for conformance level pdfa-1b Invalid content of XMP packet header attribute 'begin': '??'. The property 'pdfx:ConTeXt.Support' is not defined in schema 'PDF/X ID Schema'. The property 'pdfx:TeX.Support' is not defined in schema 'PDF/X ID Schema'. The property 'pdfx:LuaTeX.Version' is not defined in schema 'PDF/X ID Schema'. The property 'pdfx:LuaTeX.Functionality' is not defined in schema 'PDF/X ID Schema'. The property 'pdfx:LuaTeX.LuaVersion' is not defined in schema 'PDF/X ID Schema'. The property 'pdfx:LuaTeX.Platform' is not defined in schema 'PDF/X ID Schema'. The document does not conform to the requested standard. The document's meta data is either missing or inconsistent or corrupt. The document does not conform to the PDF/A-1b standard. Done.

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Language dependency in environment-project file
by Marco Patzer 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

Hi, I do have a project structure with environment, project and component files. The language of the individual documents is defined in the components using \setupdocument [language=sv] The environment needs to adjust language-dependent settings. However, when the environment file is read, the language is not specified, yet. In the past I've used \appendtoks … \to\everystarttext and I belive it has worked that way. In any case, right now it doesn't. I have attached a not-so-minimal example project. How to set this up correctly? If possible I'd like to keep the language in the document settings as shown above. A nudge in the right direction appreciated. Marco

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Sources of Tutorial.text.pdf
by Tommaso Gordini 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

Hi everyone, looking here and there on the Internet, I found a very interesting document by Aditya Mahajan and Willi Egger: *Beginners Tutorial. ConTeXt *( Tutorial-text.pdf), written in 2008 for the 2nd International ConTeXt User Meeting in Bohinj, Slovenia. This is a very interesting booklet, for me, congratulations to the authors! Are there also the sources of it, somewhere? I'd like to get some ideas for the ConTeXt guide in Italian that I'm planning. In particular, I appreciated the way in which the commands are presented: «do you need to do this? well, the commands that are useful to you are this and that». I really appreciated that. :-) Thank you in advance Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] Installation on a PC
by Nigel King 28 Nov '18

28 Nov '18

Dear Clyde, Thank you very much for pointing us to this page. Before we send you any errors we will have another go and let you know whether we are successful. — Nigel nigel(a)nigelking.me.uk On 28 Nov 2018, at 11:59, Clyde Johnston <context(a)couthies.com> wrote: These instructions should get the basic ConTeXt installed: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone#Installation <https://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone#Installation> It is the other things that usually cause the problems though. Clyde -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Installation on a PC Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 13:44:44 +0200 From: Clyde Johnston <context(a)couthies.com> <mailto:context@couthies.com> To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl <mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl> I am planning to update the installation instructions on the ConTeXt Garden Wiki. The short answer is: no, not yet. Are you planning a single-user or system-wide installation? Do you plan to use SciTE or some other editor? Are you using CygWin? Send me the errors and some more details on you installation. I might be able to help. On 28/11/2018 13:01, Nigel King wrote: > Dear Group, > I am a Mac user and have had many happy years using ConTeXt. I now need to install ConTeXt on a PC (Windows) and this has been troublesome. Is anybody able to point me to a foolproof method? > > (I started this mail with all of our errors but reasoned that somebody might know the answer to the more simple question.) > > Thanks in advance. > — > Nigel > nigel(a)nigelking.me.uk <mailto:nigel@nigelking.me.uk> > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl <mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl> / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context <http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context> > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl <http://www.pragma-ade.nl/> / http://context.aanhet.net <http://context.aanhet.net/> > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ <https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/> > wiki : http://contextgarden.net <http://contextgarden.net/> > ___________________________________________________________________________________

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(bug?) weird line break in firstlines-001.tex
by Pablo Rodriguez 28 Nov '18

28 Nov '18

Dear list, the following code comes from firstlines-001.tex: \setupbodyfont [pagella] \setupfirstline [fancy] [n=3] \starttext \setupindenting[medium,yes] \setfirstline[fancy] \input ward \par \stoptext I’m afraid that the second and third lines have a weird line break. No hyphens involved, but “not“ and “packs” are broken as “n ot” and “p acks”. I think this may be a bug. Could anyone confirm this? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Installation on a PC
by Nigel King 28 Nov '18

28 Nov '18

Dear Group, I am a Mac user and have had many happy years using ConTeXt. I now need to install ConTeXt on a PC (Windows) and this has been troublesome. Is anybody able to point me to a foolproof method? (I started this mail with all of our errors but reasoned that somebody might know the answer to the more simple question.) Thanks in advance. — Nigel nigel(a)nigelking.me.uk

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Grammar to parse TeX input?
by Joseph Canedo 28 Nov '18

28 Nov '18

Dear list, I use a buffer to make some text processing. That text contains TeX macros etc… and I’d like to know if there is some feature in lua to parse the text to extract bits which macros, normal text etc… ? Thanks Best regards Joseph Example of pseudo MWE follows. \startluacode function zzz_function(text) - How to process ‘text’ to get bits which are macros, groups etc… ? Eventually expanded ? end \stopluacode \definebuffer[ZZZBuffer] \def\StartZZZ{\grabbufferdata[ZZZBuffer][StartZZZ][StopZZZ]} \def\StopZZZ{\ctxlua{zzz_function(buffers.getcontent('ZZZBuffer'))}} \StartZZZ \input knuth \StopZZZ

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\everystarttext in components
by Marco Patzer 28 Nov '18

28 Nov '18

Hi! I've got an issue with my documents after updating context (to 2018.11.18 14:07). I believe it has something to do with \everystarttext. But I'm still digging. Question: Is it intended behaviour that \everystarttext doesn't work in components? MWE: \startcomponent * \appendtoks Foobar \to\everystarttext \startdocument\null\stopdocument \stopcomponent If the first and last line is commented out, it prints “Foobar”, when compiled as a component it doesn't. Marco

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can \REGISTER[key]{term} modify typesetting (adding space)?
by mf 27 Nov '18

27 Nov '18

In my setup, i have an index of names: \defineregister[Nome][...] The indexing of names can be toggled with a mode: --mode=AddNames The setup is something like this: \startmode[AddNames] \Name[key]{term}\xmlflush{#1} \stopmode \startnotmode[AddNames] \xmlflush{#1} \stopnotmode I noticed that \Name[key]{term} adds some space, leading to a different typesetting of the paragraph in rare cases (especially in a paragraph full of names). Can \Name[key]{term} add some space, or should i look for a different bug in my setup? Sorry, no MWE; i tried, but i could not reproduce the problem in a minimal example. Massimiliano

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checking sources with \input
by Pablo Rodriguez 27 Nov '18

27 Nov '18

Hans, at work, we use ConTeXt to automagically generate PDF documents merging data from CSV files. The files are generated from ca. 30 ConTeXt sources and about another 30 Windows batch files. The system works fine with LuaTeX 1.07, but it doesn’t work either with LuaTeX 1.08 or 1.09. There is no explicit error message, compilation only stops. Besides asking for "--verbose", I know that we have the following command: mtxrunjit --autogenerate --script check file.tex But it doesn’t load source files with \input. Would it be possible that the script loads source files the same way ConTeXt does it? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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optical bounds with hanging diacritics
by Pablo Rodriguez 27 Nov '18

27 Nov '18

Hans, I added lfbd values for GFS Didot (attached) to get hanging diacritics in Greek. The attached PDF document is the optput from the following code: \showframe \setuplayout[topspace=1cm, height=middle, footer=0cm, header=0cm] \definefontfeature[default][default] [protrusion=quality, opbd=yes, script=grek] \definefontfamily[mainface][rm][GFS Didot] \setupbodyfont[mainface, 325pt] \setupalign[hanging] \starttext Α\\Ἀ\\Α\\Ἁ\\Α\\Ἂ\\Α\\Ἃ\\Α\\Ἄ\\Α\\Ἅ\\Α\\Ἆ\\Α\\Ἇ Ἐ\\Ε\\Ἑ\\Ε\\Ἒ\\Ε\\Ἓ\\Ε\\Ἔ\\Ε\\Ἕ\\Ε Ἠ\\Η\\Ἡ\\Η\\Ἢ\\Η\\Ἣ\\Η\\Ἤ\\Η\\Ἥ\\Η\\Ἦ\\Η\\Ἧ\\Η Ἰ\\Ι\\Ἱ\\Ι\\Ἲ\\Ι\\Ἳ\\Ι\\Ἴ\\Ι\\Ἵ\\Ι\\Ἶ\\Ι\\Ἷ\\Ι Ὀ\\Ο\\Ὁ\\Ο\\Ὂ\\Ο\\Ὃ\\Ο\\Ὄ\\Ο\\Ὅ\\Ο Ρ\\Ῥ Ὑ\\Υ\\Ὓ\\Υ\\Ὕ\\Υ\\Ὗ\\Υ Ὠ\\Ω\\Ὡ\\Ω\\Ὢ\\Ω\\Ὣ\\Ω\\Ὤ\\Ω\\Ὥ\\Ω\\Ὦ\\Ω\\Ὧ\\Ω \stoptext BTW, to get pure lfbd values, I had to replace line 361 from font-imp-quality lua with: local p = d/1000 Raw lfbd and rtbd values from the font could be set with protrusion=opentype (or a similar option). I hope it is clear now why raw values from the font are needed. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Problems with setups module
by Tommaso Gordini 26 Nov '18

26 Nov '18

Hi everyone. The following code gives different results by commenting and decommending the indicated lines. Could it be a problem with the setups module? Thanks in advance Tommy \usemodule [setups] \starttext %\startbuffer %\framed [width=3cm,height=1cm] {testo} %\stopbuffer % %\typebuffer %\getbuffer \cmdfullsetup [setuppapersize] \stoptext

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Subformula numbering
by adrien Licari 26 Nov '18

26 Nov '18

Hi everyone, I can't get cases subformula to work properly. My MWE, inspired from the wiki and the My Way "Using \startalign and friends" by Aditya Mahajan, is : \starttext\placeformula\startformula \startcases \NC x = a \NR[+] \NC y = b \NR[+] \stopcases\stopformula\stoptext This only prints (2) on the right of the whole cases system. If I use \placesubformula, the behavior remains exactly the same. It also yields the same output with live ConTeXt. The ConTeXt version I am using is 2018.01.19 13:42 Has there been a change in the behavior since the documents were written ? I asked on stackexchange, and since the document is 12 years old and the wiki consistent with it, they suggested me to ask the mailing list. Thanks in advance, -- Adrien Licari-Guillaume Professeur de Physique-Chimie MPSI et d'informatique IPT MP & PSI Lycée Jean Dautet (La Rochelle)

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TEST
by Willi Egger 25 Nov '18

25 Nov '18

Hello, sorry for this mail, this is a test for my new provider. Happy TeXing! Willi

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Which commands to use to show setups?
by Tommaso Gordini 25 Nov '18

25 Nov '18

Hello, list. In my ConTeXt guide, I need to show the syntax of ConTeXt commands. Below I paste a MWE showing the different possible commands, but I do not know if there are others. I see, however, that the result is different depending on the command used. Do you have any advice to give to me? Which of the commands in the code should I use in a guide? Or better: do they have to be used according to needs? Are there other commands of this kind? Thank you in advance Tommy \usemodule[x-setups-basics] \loadsetups[context-en] \starttext \showsetup[centerline] \showsetup[starttyping:instance] \showsetup[starttyping:instance:typing] \cmdfullsetup{section:instance} \cmdfullsetup{section:instance:chapter} \cmdfullsetup{section:instance:ownnumber:chapter} \cmdfullsetup{section:instance} \cmdfullsetup{section:instance:chapter} \cmdfullsetup{section:instance:ownnumber:chapter} \showrootvalues[head] \showinstancevalues[head][chapter] \stoptext

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latest beta (october 18th): likely bug in \mirror
by mf 24 Nov '18

24 Nov '18

Hello list, the effect of \mirror in latest beta looks extended to the following content in the page. It seems a bug in the \mirror macro or another bug that is reflected in \mirror (forgive the pun). Massimiliano

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xtable First row missing in document
by Christopher Bock 24 Nov '18

24 Nov '18

Hi all, I think I found another bug in xtable (or placetable). The last table in the MWE is not showing the first row (the header row). Thanks, Chris

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custom environment for geographical pictures; new head or special float?
by Damien Thiriet 24 Nov '18

24 Nov '18

Hello, When creating my geography presentations, I often need to show so-called « croquis », that are outlines of maps or landscapes. A typical slide with croquis looks like this: ------------------- title ------------------- outline (a MP graphic) ------------------- key to symbols (natural table) ------------------- All this is enclosed into a makeup to reduce margins. I am now automating this and wonder what should be the best way to do it. * creating a head style at subsection level was my first thought, but on the semantical point of view, it is not the best one, since other slides are not considered as subsubsections. If I stick to this, should I use subsubsection as a default which it's derived from. * creating a float would be better, since this is a float. Would there be a way to insert automatically key to symbols under the metapost graphic? Thanks, Damien Thiriet

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Completecontent has problems with chapter in table
by Huseyin Özoguz 24 Nov '18

24 Nov '18

Hello together, I have this min-example: \starttext \completecontent[criterium=all] \chapter{craigs} {\bTABLE \bTR\bTD \chapter{whatever} \eTD \eTR \eTABLE} \chapter{gooff} \completecontent[criterium=previous] \stoptext As you see, the \completecontent[criterium=previous] works fine, it lists all chapters. But the \completecontent[criterium=all] does not, only lists the first chapter. How to fix this? Thank you! Huseyin -- Huseyin Özoguz E-Mail: h.oezoguz(a)mmnetz.de

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PDF/A output fails validation
by Rik Kabel 23 Nov '18

23 Nov '18

With the latest beta, PDF/A fails validation in a new way. Using the example document in the wiki <https://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDF/A>, PDF/A-1a validation fails the online validator <https://www.pdf-online.com/osa/validate.aspx> [2] with: The key MarkInfo is required but missing. The key StructTreeRoot is required but missing. The key CIDSet is required but missing. The document does not conform to the requested standard. The document contains fonts without embedded font programs or encoding information (CMAPs). The document doesn't provide appropriate logical structure information. The document does not conform to the PDF/A-1a standard. while with PDF/A-1b requested, the MarkInfo and StructTreeRoot issues are not reported. (A-2a and A-3a fail in the same was as A-1a.) [1] https://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDF/A [2] https://www.pdf-online.com/osa/validate.aspx -- Rik

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Re: [NTG-context] Completecontent has problems with chapter, in table
by Huseyin Özoguz 23 Nov '18

23 Nov '18

How can I adjust the vertical position of the actual title relative to the image? I have this: \define[2]\uber{% \setuphead[chapter][before={},alternative=middle, numbercommand={\externalfigure[historische_spuren/wappen/#1.jpg][height=2cm]}] \chapter{#2} } But the title is now below the image, not same vertical position. Huseyin > Hello, > > something like this? > > ---- > \setupexternalfigures[location=default] > > \define[1]\MyNumCmd{% > \externalfigure[hacker][height=2cm] > } > > \setuphead[chapter][numbercommand=\MyNumCmd] > > \starttext > \chapter{Ch} > > \input knuth > \stoptext -- Huseyin Özoguz E-Mail: h.oezoguz(a)mmnetz.de

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Overflowing text if placetable is set to split
by Huseyin Özoguz 23 Nov '18

23 Nov '18

> Hi all, > > > > I encountered weird behavior if \placetable[here, split] is set. The text > after the table sometimes doesn't cause a pagebreak and flows into the > footer and overlaps the footertext instead. > > See attached MWE. > > Is there a way to avoid this behavior? Manually entering a page break is no > option. > > > > Thanks, > > Chris > Hi Christ, can you give your complete code-example with this issue, then we might solve it or suggest a workaround. I had similar issues several times and can avoid them. Thank you, Huseyin -- Huseyin Özoguz E-Mail: h.oezoguz(a)mmnetz.de

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Re: [NTG-context] How to adjust the sistance between a letter and subscript
by Jeong Dal 22 Nov '18

22 Nov '18

Dear Huseyin, Thank you. It works well. And, I didn’t see any side effect either. Thanks again. Best regards, Dalyoung

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font-ocl.lua:76: attempt to call a nil value (field 'register')
by Ulrike Fischer 22 Nov '18

22 Nov '18

I tried to register a demo colorpalette: \starttext \directlua{fonts.handlers.otf.registerpalette("demo", { { g=1 }, %accents { b=1 }, %06dd { r=0.5, g=0.5, b=0.5 }, %unused? { g = 0.5, b=0, r=1 }, } )} blub \stoptext and got the error font-ocl.lua:76: attempt to call a nil value (field 'register') (I wanted to test the coloring of https://github.com/alif-type/amiri/blob/master/AmiriQuranColored.ttf, Khaled wrote that "is that [the code] uses the last palette color for layers using paletteIndex 0xFFFF (special value that means use text color)." and that local default = colorvalues[#colorvalues] font-ocl.lua is faulty) -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/

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Re: [NTG-context] A ConTeXt Guide in Italian
by Wolfgang Schuster 22 Nov '18

22 Nov '18

Tommaso Gordini schrieb am 22.11.18 um 06:57: > Thank you, Wolfgang. > > I tried to change your solution slightly (the code is pasted below). > > Is there any way to have the text of the output justified on the right > and on the left? I looked through the command options you used, but I > think I did not find anything. You can change the alignment of the text in the table with the align-key, e.g. \startxrow [align=normal]. > One last question: could you have space before and after the frames? > Something like that > > before = ... > after = ... To get a blank line before and after the table you have to add \blank to the setups block e.g. \startsetups [userdata:purecode] \blank \startembeddedxtable ... \stopembeddedxtable \blank \stopsetups Wolfgang

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debug.getinfo
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. 22 Nov '18

22 Nov '18

Hello, the function 'debug.getinfo' was removed? The following code: ---- \startluacode print(debug.getinfo) \stopluacode \starttext A \cldcontext{tostring(debug.getinfo)} \stoptext ---- gives/prints 'nil'. IIRC, the function was non-nil some weeks ago... Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka | mailto:LPr@pontex.cz Pontex s. r. o. | mailto:pontex@pontex.cz | http://www.pontex.cz | IDDS: nrpt3sn | IČO: 40763439 Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Mob.: +420 702 033 396

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How to adjust the sistance between a letter and subscript
by Huseyin Özoguz 22 Nov '18

22 Nov '18

Hi Jeong, you can always adjust the space between characters like this: \startformula T_X \quad {\cal T}{\hskip-1mm}_X \quad T_Y \quad {\cal T}{\hskip-1mm}_Y \stopformula I am not sure about side effects, but seems to work fine at least in this example. Huseyin -- Huseyin Özoguz E-Mail: h.oezoguz(a)mmnetz.de

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How to adjust the sistance between a letter and subscript
by Jeong Dal 22 Nov '18

22 Nov '18

Hi, In the following example, the distance between a letter ${\cal T}$ and its subscript is too big. It is not an error, but it looks a little bit strange. How to reduce it for a good looking? Thank you. Best regards, Dalyoung ***** \starttext Compare the distance between a letter and its subscript of the following example. \startformula T_X \quad {\cal T}_X \quad T_Y \quad {\cal T}_Y \stopformula \stoptext *****

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A ConTeXt Guide in Italian
by Tommaso Gordini 21 Nov '18

21 Nov '18

Hello everyone! This is my first message here. I'm trying to write a ConTeXt guide in Italian. The LaTeX *tcolorbox* package defines an environment dedicated to LaTeX examples: above (or on the left) the source is written, and below (or on the right) the typeset result. Is there something similar for ConTeXt? Does it make sense, in your opinion, to showing examples of source code with the related outputs in this way? Thanks in advance for any advice on this aspect of the guide and for any suggestions. Tommy

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Colormanagement
by Jan U. Hasecke 21 Nov '18

21 Nov '18

Hi all, I defined some colors with \definecolor like this: \definecolor [myblue] [r=0.000, g=0.314, b=0.580, c=0.98, m=0.67, y=0.03, k=0.12] \startnotmode[print] \setupcolors[cmyk=no,rgb=yes] \stopnotmode \startmode[print] \setupcolors[cmyk=yes,rgb=no] \setupbackend[ format=PDF/X-3:2003, intent={ISO Coated v2 300\letterpercent\space (ECI)}, ] \stopmode When I use "context" or "context --mode=print" everything works as expected. But! I have SVG icons I want to use in the document. They contain the above defined rgb colors. When I use --mode=print I get different colors for the SVG icons. So context converts the SVG files to PDFs but does not change the colors accordingly to CMYK. What are my options? Do I miss something? 1. Let the designer produce icons in pdf with the given cmyk colors. 2. Don't use cmyk colors at all. In fact on my home printer the printed rgb colors look brighter than the cmyk colors. This might change in the print shop when they print with the right color profile, but it makes me nervous. juh

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issues with optical bounds
by Pablo Rodriguez 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

Hi Hans, many thanks for having released the new beta. I experience opposite results with opbd. The first sample is: \definefontfeature[default][default][protrusion=quality, opbd=yes] \definefontfamily[mainface][rm][Linux Libertine O] \setupbodyfont[mainface, 300pt] \setuppagenumbering[location=] \setupalign[hanging] \showframe \starttext W \stoptext Although the value for that lfbd is only -29, the W is moved too much from its original position. The second sample is (font attached at https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2018/092527.html) \showframe \definefontfeature[default][default][protrusion=quality, opbd=yes] \definefontfamily[mainface][rm][TestOPBD] \setupbodyfont[mainface, 60pt] \setupalign[hanging] \starttext Ἠ\\ Ἠ\hfill Ἠ\\ Ἦ\hfill ὩὩ\\ ἯἯ\hfill ὩὩ \stoptext Here the changes are tiny. The right values are used in the image at https://github.com/wspr/fontspec/issues/282#issuecomment-287155442. Could you check it? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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align=end not working
by Aditya Mahajan 18 Nov '18

18 Nov '18

Hi, According to an old thread (https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2016/085877.html) the option `align=end` should align the last line to be flush right. However, that is not working. The example from that thread: \starttext \showframe \showboxes \setupalign[end] \dostepwiserecurse{5}{8}{1}{ \hsize #1cm What does happen with a short paragraph?\par } \stoptext gives the attached pdf. Thanks, Aditya

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Footnotes and endnotes
by Axel Kielhorn 18 Nov '18

18 Nov '18

Hello, I have some problems with footnotes and endnotes. I have two kinds of footnotes: Those by the original author and those by the translator. I want to show the translator notes in a different way. Right now I have the footnote in green, but the footnote marker in the text does change neither font nor color? Shouldn’t the marker be green and bold? Setting numberconversion works, but the other options seem to be without effect. I want to include longer note as endnotes. I can change the marker shown with the notes to (1) but he marker in the text does not change. Thus you can’t distinguish between a footnote and an endnote. I tried a footnote within a footnote, that didn’t work, should it? (I don’t actually need this, I was just curious.) When I define commentnote based on endnote I get the same numbering. How can I either - use different counters for both kind of notes or - print both notes with the same placenotes command, in the right order? Greetings Axel \starttext \definenote[authornote][footnote] \setupnotation[authornote] [style=bold] \definenote[translaternote][rule=off] \setupnotation[translaternote] [headstyle=bold, numberconversion=a, headcolor=green, style=bolditalic, color=green] % No color for the footnotemark? \definenote[translaterpnote][rule=off] \setupnotation[translaterpnote] [way=bypage, numberconversion=set 2,headstyle=bold] \definenote[commentnote][endnote] \setupnotation[commentnote] [color=red,left={(},right={)}] % How to style the footnotemark in the text? \setupnotation[endnote] [left={(},right={)}] \startsection[ reference=fußnoten, title={Fußnoten} ] \index{Fußnoten} \input ward\footnote{Eine normale Fußnote. Mit etwas Text, damit die Seite voll wird. \input ward} \input ward\translaternote{Eine Fußnote des Übersetzters} \commentnote{Mehr Informationen gibt es in den Endnoten am Ende des Kapitels.} \input ward\translaterpnote{Alternativ kann man die Übersetzernoten auch seitenweise nummerieren. Zur Unterscheidung von normalen Fußnoten hier mit Zeichen statt Zahlen.} \input ward\footnote{Was ist mit Fußnoten in Fußnoten?\footnote{Das geht natürlich auch.}} % Why not? \input ward\endnote{Eine normale Endnote, ohne spezielle Formatierung. Man kann sie nicht von einer Fußnote unterscheiden.} \input ward\translaterpnote{Die zweite Fußnote auf der Seite.} \startsubsection[title={Endnoten}] \placenotes[endnote] \placenotes[commentnote] \stopsubsection \stopsection \stoptext

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Overflowing text if placetable is set to split
by mailinglist.context＠christopher-bock.de 17 Nov '18

17 Nov '18

Hi all, I encountered weird behavior if \placetable[here, split] is set. The text after the table sometimes doesn't cause a pagebreak and flows into the footer and overlaps the footertext instead. See attached MWE. Is there a way to avoid this behavior? Manually entering a page break is no option. Thanks, Chris

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TextMate ConTeXt bundle
by Manuel Blanco 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

Hi all, After some years with LaTeX and let's say three or four times trying to start with ConTeXt, I decided to try again. Difficult, there are many manuals and a lot of contradicting ideas (at least for those of us that do not know) in them, but still, I want to try to see if once and for all I can manage to dominate it. I have installed MacTeX 2018. I use TextMate, and the ConTeXt bundle is not working in Mac OS High Sierra. After installing it, when I tried to compile it said something along the lines "your PATH is ... you should have 'context' in your path", so I searched in my computer and changed TextMate PATH to: $PATH:/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/scripts/context/stubs/unix And this last part is where I think the context binary seems to be /usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/scripts/context/stubs/unix But now when I run it it says env: texlua: No such file or directory What could be happening? What do I do? Also, the bundle was last updated in 2010, may be there are new things? Where could we learn what things to add? https://github.com/pgundlach/context.tmbundle Any updated documentation that takes you from beginner to intermediate would be apreciated too. Thanks, Manuel

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Server upgrade planned for Nov 26.
by Taco Hoekwater 14 Nov '18

14 Nov '18

Hi all, We plan to update the software installation on the zapf.ntg.nl server on Monday Nov 26. As a consequence, various tex-related sites including www.ntg.nl, wiki.contextgarden.net and www.luatex.org, as well as the mailman lists @ntg.nl, will be down for some as-of-yet undetermined amount of time. We’ll try to be fast, but one never knows with these things... Best wishes, Taco

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align=broad not working in typing
by Pablo Rodriguez 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

Dear list, I have the following sample: \showframe \setuppapersize[A6] \setuptyping[TEX][align={right, broad}] \starttext \startTEX \showframe \setuppapersize[A5] \setuptyping[TEX][align={right,broad}] \starttext \startTEX \stopTEX \stoptext \stopTEX \stoptext The broad value for align doesn’t seem to work in typing. Could anyone confirm this or tell me what I may be missing? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Tabulate & repeating header
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

Hello, the following code: ---- \starttext \bgroup \setuptabulate[split=yes,header=repeat] \starttabulatehead \FL \NC {\bf format char} \NC {\bf meaning} \NC \AR \LL \stoptabulatehead \starttabulate[|r|l|] \NC c \NC centered \NC \AR \NC l \NC left aligned \NC \AR \NC r \NC right aligned \NC \AR \stoptabulate \egroup \stoptext ---- has been copied from wiki - https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tabulate#Headers and it should generate (repeating) header, but no header appears. Has anything changed? Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka | mailto:LPr@pontex.cz Pontex s. r. o. | mailto:pontex@pontex.cz | http://www.pontex.cz | IDDS: nrpt3sn | IČO: 40763439 Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Mob.: +420 702 033 396

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Two questions on bibliography
by Joshua Moerman 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

Dear mailing list, My questions are related to one by Rik a few weeks back (but he did not get an answer yet). I am using the APA style (context version 2018.10.03 16:02). Q1: Shouldn't the order of multiple citations (using a single \cite command) be the same as the order in the publications list? In the example below, the orders are different. Q2: Is there a way to capitalise the first letter of a last name in \cite[...]? For example, this may be necessary when starting a new sentence. But it is also generally preferred in Dutch when the last name starts with 'van' (or something similar). \startbuffer[biblio] @article{PAPER1, author = {First Author}, title = {A paper}, year = {2016} } @article{PAPER2, author = {First Writer}, title = {Another paper}, year = {2017} } @article{PAPER3, author = {Jan van Amsterdam}, title = {Yet another paper}, year = {2018} } \stopbuffer \usebtxdataset[biblio.buffer] \usebtxdefinitions[apa] \starttext % Order is 3, 1, 2 We refer to \cite[authoryears][PAPER1, PAPER2, PAPER3]. \cite[authoryears][PAPER3] provides background. \blank % Order is 1, 3, 2 (unlike before) \placelistofpublications \stoptext \showbtxdatasetcompleteness Thanks in advance, All the best, Joshua Moerman

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Unifraktur Maguntia features
by Willi Egger 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

Hi all, is there somebody among the ConTeXt users, who has experience with the font UnifrakturMaguntja (http://unifraktur.sourceforge.net/maguntia.html#)? I tried all kind of approaches to get the font switching between lnum, tnum pnum and onum. — I come to the conclusion that I am unable to subtract and add features. I appreciate any help. Please refer to the appended tex file. Kind regards willi

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xtable in itemize
by Florian Rudt 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

Dear list, I don’t find how to align xtables in lists. My mwe: \starttext \startitemize \item \input knuth \blank \startxtable[option=stretch] \startxrow \startxcell text \stopxcell \startxcell more text \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtable \item \input knuth \stopitemize \stoptext The table has the correct width, but isn’t indented. Thanks in advance Florian

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Problem installing a new font
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

Hello, probably one of the basic questions and skills in ConTeXt, but the first case for me: how to install a (downloaded third-party) font into ConTeXt: I downloaded font source files from https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/aurical/ and I unpacked the .zip content, so I have now (see FileList.txt for full info): ---- d:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts\Aurical\fonts\afm d:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts\Aurical\fonts\FileList.txt d:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts\Aurical\fonts\map d:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts\Aurical\fonts\tfm d:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts\Aurical\fonts\type1 d:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts\Aurical\fonts\afm\public d:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts\Aurical\fonts\afm\public\aurical d:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts\Aurical\fonts\afm\public\aurical\AmiciLogo.afm d:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts\Aurical\fonts\afm\public\aurical\AmiciLogoBold.afm d:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts\Aurical\fonts\afm\public\aurical\AmiciLogoBoldRslant.afm ... d:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts\Aurical\fonts\type1\public\aurical\LukasSvatbaSlant.pfb ---- Trying to install the font the easiest way, I also copied files into my ConTeXt dir, so I have also (see FileList2.txt): ---- d:\Ctx-Beta\tex\texmf\fonts\afm\public\aurical\AmiciLogo.afm d:\Ctx-Beta\tex\texmf\fonts\afm\public\aurical\AmiciLogoBold.afm d:\Ctx-Beta\tex\texmf\fonts\afm\public\aurical\AmiciLogoBoldRslant.afm d:\Ctx-Beta\tex\texmf\fonts\afm\public\aurical\AmiciLogoBoldSlant.afm ... d:\Ctx-Beta\tex\texmf\fonts\type1\public\aurical\AmiciLogo.pfb d:\Ctx-Beta\tex\texmf\fonts\type1\public\aurical\AmiciLogoBold.pfb d:\Ctx-Beta\tex\texmf\fonts\type1\public\aurical\AmiciLogoBoldRslant.pfb d:\Ctx-Beta\tex\texmf\fonts\type1\public\aurical\AmiciLogoBoldSlant.pfb ... ---- I tried to follow instructions in 'mfonts.pdf' mentioned at https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts, but early I failed with (unknown) "texfont" command cited here frequently. I also experimented somehow with "mtxrun --make --generate" and "mtxrun script --font --reload --force" and with a simple show-font file which starts with: ---- \definefont[FONT][AmiciLogo.afm] ... ---- but the result is not written by AmiciLogo font. So - how to make ConTeXt aware of a third-party font and how to use the font in the document? Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka | mailto:LPr@pontex.cz Pontex s. r. o. | mailto:pontex@pontex.cz | http://www.pontex.cz | IDDS:nrpt3sn Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Mob.: +420 702 033 396

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\framed regression
by Henning Hraban Ramm 11 Nov '18

11 Nov '18

Ahoi, there were a few strange changes in ConTeXt rendering since about since mid-August, probably all related to box handling. I recognized \framed inserts some additional space when I re-typeset some sheets of labels that suddenly didn’t fit the labels any more. Today my editor in chief asked me where the pagination of our magazine went to – I guess its footer box became too small, couldn’t investigate yet. He didn’t see that the type on the back is askew, probably also from the additional space around a \framed Such sudden changes are really frustrating and might cost me a lot of money (the magazine is already printed and distributed). I’ll try to come up with a MWE. Greetlings, Hraban --- https://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.dreiviertelhaus.de GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD

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Problem installing a new font
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. 11 Nov '18

11 Nov '18

Hello, -- all attachments packed into one .zip -- probably one of the basic questions and skills in ConTeXt, but the first case for me: how to install a (downloaded third-party) font into ConTeXt: I downloaded font source files from https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/aurical/ and I unpacked the .zip content, so I have now (see FileList.txt for full info): ---- d:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts\Aurical\fonts\afm d:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts\Aurical\fonts\FileList.txt d:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts\Aurical\fonts\map d:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts\Aurical\fonts\tfm d:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts\Aurical\fonts\type1 d:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts\Aurical\fonts\afm\public d:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts\Aurical\fonts\afm\public\aurical d:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts\Aurical\fonts\afm\public\aurical\AmiciLogo.afm d:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts\Aurical\fonts\afm\public\aurical\AmiciLogoBold.afm d:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts\Aurical\fonts\afm\public\aurical\AmiciLogoBoldRslant.afm ... d:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts\Aurical\fonts\type1\public\aurical\LukasSvatbaSlant.pfb ---- Trying to install the font the easiest way, I also copied files into my ConTeXt dir, so I have also (see FileList2.txt): ---- d:\Ctx-Beta\tex\texmf\fonts\afm\public\aurical\AmiciLogo.afm d:\Ctx-Beta\tex\texmf\fonts\afm\public\aurical\AmiciLogoBold.afm d:\Ctx-Beta\tex\texmf\fonts\afm\public\aurical\AmiciLogoBoldRslant.afm d:\Ctx-Beta\tex\texmf\fonts\afm\public\aurical\AmiciLogoBoldSlant.afm ... d:\Ctx-Beta\tex\texmf\fonts\type1\public\aurical\AmiciLogo.pfb d:\Ctx-Beta\tex\texmf\fonts\type1\public\aurical\AmiciLogoBold.pfb d:\Ctx-Beta\tex\texmf\fonts\type1\public\aurical\AmiciLogoBoldRslant.pfb d:\Ctx-Beta\tex\texmf\fonts\type1\public\aurical\AmiciLogoBoldSlant.pfb ... ---- I tried to follow instructions in 'mfonts.pdf' mentioned at https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts, but early I failed with (unknown) "texfont" command cited here frequently. I also experimented somehow with "mtxrun --make --generate" and "mtxrun script --font --reload --force" and with a simple show-font file which starts with: ---- \definefont[FONT][AmiciLogo.afm] ... ---- but the result is not written by AmiciLogo font. So - how to make ConTeXt aware of a third-party font and how to use the font in the document? Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka | mailto:LPr@pontex.cz Pontex s. r. o. | mailto:pontex@pontex.cz | http://www.pontex.cz | IDDS:nrpt3sn Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Mob.: +420 702 033 396

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Table, xtable and lua
by Fabrice Couvreur 11 Nov '18

11 Nov '18

Hi, I can not complete the first line of the table with the letters of the alphabet. Thank you. Fabrice \starttext \startlinecorrection[blank] \startmidaligned \startluacode context.startxtable({"align=middle, width=1.25cm"}) context.startxrow() context.startxcell({"width=0.5cm"}) context("") context.stopxcell() letter = {'A','B','C','D','E','F','G','H','I','J'} for letter = 1,10 do context.startxcell() context(print(letter)) context.stopxcell() end context.stopxrow() context.startxrow({"background=color","backgroundcolor=gray"}) context.startxcell({"width=0.5cm","background=color","backgroundcolor=white"}) context("1") context.stopxcell() context.startxcell({"width=2cm"}) context("Année") context.stopxcell() for y = 1998,2006 do context.startxcell() context(y) context.stopxcell() end context.stopxrow() context.startxrow() context.startxcell({"width=0.5cm"}) context("2") context.stopxcell() context.startxcell({"width=2cm","background=color","backgroundcolor=gray"}) context("Prix (kg)") context.stopxcell() local p = 1 for y = 1,9 do context.startxcell() context("%0.3f",p) context.stopxcell() p = p*1.031 end context.stopxrow() context.stopxtable() \stopluacode \stopmidaligned \stoplinecorrection \stoptext

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index problem with \setupcolumnset
by Peter Rolf 10 Nov '18

10 Nov '18

Hi, I run into this error after updating my ConTeXt version. Small (but not minimal) example attached. mtx-context | current version: 2018.10.18 00:07 Peter

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checking text boundaries
by Andrea Valle 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

Dear all, I’m typesetting a book, and I have many figures on white background. I’m scaling figures using something like this \placefigure[][volumina]{G. Ligeti, {\em Volumina}.}{ \externalfigure[img/chap02/11][width=\textwidth]} is there a way to plot text boundaries so to check by eye if they’re contained inside it? Thanks Best -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - StudiUm Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.fonurgia.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanderaalle/sets/ --> http://vimeo.com/vanderaalle --> http://andreavalle.bandcamp.com --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- "This is a very complicated case, Maude. You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous." (Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski)

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German introduction to context
by Axel Kielhorn 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Hello, I’m looking for an introduction in german. What I need is: - Structure chapter/section … - Emphasis bold/italic - lists itemize - floats - TABLE - index - references - math (with units) - chemistry (only basic stuff) Several years ago I started to prepare a talk for a DANTE meeting, trying to show how to generate epub from context. Since I got a new job in early 2015 I didn’t have time to finish the talk or go to the meeting. I’ll use the enclosed text as a starting point, unless someone already has a usable manual. Note: Dominik Wagenführ was an editor of the now defunct „Freies Magazin“ and he supplied a LaTeX document of examples that needed to be converted into ePub. Thus the enclosed document is mainly concerned about epub. Greetings Axel PS: Comments are welcome.

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chapter number
by Andrea Valle 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Dear all, I have a simple issue I can’t solve. I have chapters in a book, and I have placed a foreword before. I’d like not to have the number in the foreword, and to start the numbering with the first chapter. I followed this https://www.contextgarden.net/Titles#Unnumbered_titles_in_table_of_contents <https://www.contextgarden.net/Titles#Unnumbered_titles_in_table_of_contents> and I have been able to remove numbering from the first chapter, also from TOC. Fine. I am not able to reset chapter numbering, my first chapter starts still with 2. How can this be done? I'm using for first chapter \startchapter [title=Overview of Notation Semiotics] [] Thanks Best -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - StudiUm Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.fonurgia.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanderaalle/sets/ --> http://vimeo.com/vanderaalle --> http://andreavalle.bandcamp.com --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- "This is a very complicated case, Maude. You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous." (Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski)

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Re: [NTG-context] Font Awesome (again)
by Wolfgang Schuster 05 Nov '18

05 Nov '18

Hi Mari, you have to update your installation because fontawesome 5 uses a new machanism to load the symbols from the font files. The first version of the mechanism from August did only work when you enabled the symbol set for the whole document and extended support was added in September. Wolfgang Mari Voipio schrieb am 01.11.18 um 13:51: > Hi Wolfgang et al, > > I did some more research into this. > > If I put \symbol after \showsymbolset, the font gets loaded and the > symbols show up as expected. If I put \symbol before \showsymbolset, > the font seems to get loaded, but instead of the symbol I get its name > printed. If I remove the \showsymbolset commands altogether, the > correct font doesn't get loaded at all (as far as I understand from > the log) and understandably I get no symbols then. I didn't touch the > stuff above \starttext, just moved the \symbol commands around. > As far as I can tell, the font is properly installed and ConTeXt finds > it (otherwise \showsymbolset wouldn't work, I think). But I've got a > nagging feeling I'm missing something somewhere else. Unfortunately > I'm on thin ice here, fonts really aren't my forte. > > Mari > On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 1:45 PM Wolfgang Schuster > <wolfgang.schuster.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Mari Voipio schrieb am 01.11.18 um 12:04: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm trying to get Font Awesome 5 to work for me, but it only almost does. >>> >>> Wolfgang's code works and I get a nice list of symbols for all three >>> variations, so ConTeXt obviously finds the font. But when I try to use >>> a single symbol, ConTeXt prints the symbol name instead of the symbol. >>> There must be something I'm overlooking, but I don't know what. Wiki >>> wasn't very helpful, although we do have an entry on symbols (Font >>> Awesome, on the other hand, isn't mentioned anywhere on the wiki). >>> >>> I tried with \symbol[fontawesome-regular][credit-card] (at the end of >>> my file) and a few variants thereof, but couldn't get the symbol. What >>> am I doing wrong? What have I missed? >> Since you didn’t provide a example it’s difficult to tell what’s wrong >> for you >> but the following example works for me. >> >> Don’t forget to put the files for fontawesome 5 in a folder where >> ConTeXt can find them. >> >> >> \usesymbols[fontawesome] >> >> \starttext >> >> \symbol[fontawesome-regular][credit-card] >> >> \symbol[fontawesome-solid][credit-card] >> >> \stoptext >> >> >> Wolfgang

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improving kannada script
by Ulrike Fischer 04 Nov '18

04 Nov '18

According to the xelatex output in the following example both variants are not correct. What would be needed would be the first two glyphs from variant 1 (knd2 script) and the third from variant 2 (knda script). Pictures comparing the output can be found at https://github.com/u-fischer/luaotfload/issues/20 (Disclaimer: I have no idea if xelatex/harfbuzz is correct here, but https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/457427/2388 says so). \definefontfeature [kannada-testA] [indic-common] [script=knd2, % basic shaping pref=yes, blwf=yes, half=yes, pstf=yes, cjct=yes ] \definefontfeature [kannada-testB] %identical to default kannada-one [indic-common] [script=knda, % basic shaping pref=yes, blwf=yes, half=yes, pstf=yes, cjct=yes ] \definefont [kannadatestA][file:notosanskannada-regular.ttf*kannada-testA] \definefont [kannadatestB][file:notosanskannada-regular.ttf*kannada-testB] \starttext \section{Skript knd2} \kannadatestA ಕಿ ಕ್ರ ರ್ಕ \section{Skript knda (default)} \kannadatestB ಕಿ ಕ್ರ ರ್ಕ \stoptext -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/

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Projects and URLs
by Axel Kielhorn 03 Nov '18

03 Nov '18

Hello! Where is the best way to define URLs in a project? I currently define them when I need them, but wouldn’t it be better to keep them in a project file and have only one location to edit when they change? Greetings Axel

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Font Awesome (again)
by Aditya Mahajan 01 Nov '18

01 Nov '18

Hi, There is a FontAwesome.otf file that is distributed with ConTeXt minimals. Does anyone know what version (4 or 5) of the font it is? I am asking because the names of the symbols used in the font do not match those on the font-awesome website. For example, using \showsymbolset[fontawesome] I get that the symbol for "utensils" (https://fontawesome.com/icons/utensils?style=solid) is actually mapped to "food" in ConTeXt. Since the names of the symbols are now taken from the font, my guess is that the distribution has an old version of the font (also because it is a single font rather than three). Would it make sense to update the fonts in the distribution? If not, then simply remove the old version of the fonts? Also, don't we need to update the symb-imp-fontawesome.mkiv file to work with the new symbols. Font awesome has split the fonts into three (https://fontawesome.com/how-to-use/on-the-desktop/setup/getting-started) Solid, Regular, and Brands. (There are also pro version of the fonts). The simplest way to use them will be to have three symbolsets (fontawesome, fontawesome-solid, and fontawesome-brands), where the names are taken from the fonts. In the meanwhile, Hraban has painstakenly written out the mappings by hand, but the automatic mapping might be simpler (and more future proof). https://github.com/fiee/ConTeXt/blob/master/symbols/symb-awesome5.mkiv Thanks, Aditya

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Issue with ligatures before dashes
by Rik Kabel 30 Oct '18

30 Oct '18

This was reported on the LuaLatex list yesterday, and I extended the example to include ConTeXt compounds. From my test folder: %% No ligatures before dashes! Reported as: “ligatures before %% dashes not working with LuaLaTeX 1.07.0” on comp.tex.luatex, %% 2018-10-29 by Toni Dietze. This is also a problem with ConTeXt, %% and is a problem with compounds as well. The problem is worse %% with 1.09.0: With 1.07.0 (6686) it fails with the bare hyphen %% but had no problem with en-dash, em-dash, and the compounds %% shown below. With luatex 1.09.0 (6930) it fails with bare %% hyphen and all shown compounds except |=|. \starttext \setupTABLE[c][1,3][align=left] \setupTABLE[c][2,4][loffset=1em,roffset=1em] \setupTABLE[r][each][offset=0pt] \bTABLE[frame=off] \bTABLEhead \bTR[align=center,bottomframe=on] \bTH[nc=2] Non-compound\eTH \bTH[nc=2] Compound\eTH \eTR \eTABLEhead \bTABLEbody \bTR \bTD - \eTD \bTD off-course\eTD \bTD \|-\| \eTD \bTD off|-|course\eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD – \eTD \bTD off–course\eTD \bTD \|–\| \eTD \bTD off|–|course\eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD — \eTD \bTD off—course\eTD \bTD \|—\| \eTD \bTD off|—|course\eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD \eTD \bTD \eTD \bTD \|_\| \eTD \bTD off|_|course\eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD \eTD \bTD \eTD \bTD \|=\| \eTD \bTD off|=|course\eTD \eTR \eTABLEbody \eTABLE \stoptext In one 300-page book, this hits a few times (off-course, oft-repeated,...). Not the worst problem, but clearly a regression. -- Rik

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wrong hyphenation in ancient Greek?
by Pablo Rodriguez 30 Oct '18

30 Oct '18

Dear list, I have the following sample: \mainlanguage[agr] \setupbodyfont[dejavu] \starttext \startTEXpage[offset=2em] \hyphenatedword{πρᾶγμα πράγματος} \stopTEXpage \stoptext that ouputs: πρᾶ-γμα πρά-γμα-τος As far as I know, two consonants in ancient Greek aren’t hyphenated, when they may begin a word. Γν may be the beginning of word in Greek (such as γνῶσις), but even LSJ has no word that begins with γμ. Am I missing something or should this be improved in the hyphenation patterns? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Table "modules"
by Joseph Wright 30 Oct '18

30 Oct '18

Hello all, Looking at management of global Lua tables (for the obvious cases ...), I notice that all of the core Mk IV files use the construct if not modules then modules = { } end modules["<file-name"] = { -- meta-data here From a ConTeXt point-of-view, is it acceptable for third-parties to use this construct, or is it 'ConTeXt maintainers only'? I'm wondering for code used generically: it would be good to use the same approach, but I don't want to tread on any reserved namespaces. Joseph

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columnset regression
by Henning Hraban Ramm 29 Oct '18

29 Oct '18

Typesetting my songbooklets, I stumbled upon another regression: If a columnset starts below something else (text, image, frame), the second and further columns start at the top of the type area instead of below the upper object. \definecolumnset[drei][n=3] \usemodule[visual] \starttext \framed[width=\textwidth,height=.3\textheight]{\ConTeXt} %\input knuth \startcolumnset[drei] \fakewords{30}{50} \column \fakewords{30}{50} \column \fakewords{30}{50} \stopcolumnset \stoptext Greetlings, Hraban --- https://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.dreiviertelhaus.de GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD

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Re: [NTG-context] [dev-context] Luatex 1.09.0 announcement (Mojca Miklavec)
by Damien Thiriet 29 Oct '18

29 Oct '18

Hi, LuaJIT did not work on OpenBSD 6.3 texlive* packages. I can live without it anyway. Does this mean that a ConTeXt live install will be available on OpenBSD 6.4? As usual I would be highly interested, even more since I discovered that using official packages (TL-2017 btw), you have to load everything to get context, since texlive-texmf-full is a texlive-texmf-context dependency. Greetings, Damien Thiriet

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optical bounds in ConTeXt
by Pablo Rodriguez 28 Oct '18

28 Oct '18

Dear list, I have the following sample: \definefontfeature[default][default][protrusion=quality, opbd=yes] \definefontfamily[mainface][rm][Linux Libertine O] \setupbodyfont[mainface, 300pt] \setuppagenumbering[location=] \setupalign[hanging] \showframe \starttext W \stoptext Optical bounds used to work with the previous ConTeXt versions, but I cannot get them working with the new font reader (the explanation comes from Hans). Am I missing something or is it something to be implemented yet? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Typesetting abbreviations
by Clyde Johnston 28 Oct '18

28 Oct '18

What is the correct way to typeset an abbreviation in ConTeXt? The space after the full stop seems too big and if I use \thinspace, I cannot use ties. No command - space is too big \starttext Mr. John Doe \stoptext With tie - space is too big \starttext Mr.~John Doe \stoptext With \thinspace - looks right except at an end of line \starttext Mr.\thinspace John Doe \stoptext Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks, Clyde

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Possible seeindex enhancement
by Rik Kabel 27 Oct '18

27 Oct '18

List, I am looking for a way to modify the text used for \seeindex (in English, "see") to have two types of seeindex result in the same index register. I would like to produce, for example, pseudepigraphy, 103,/see also obliteration/ and at the same time be able to produce the standard Marut, Ret,/see Traven, B./ For the first of these in print documents (no interaction required) I can use \seeindex{pseudepigraphy}{also obliteration}, but that does not produce an interactive link. Can anyone suggest how to accomplish this? -- Rik //

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Thanks to SQbQxeKd3JHD8
by juh 27 Oct '18

27 Oct '18

Hi all, I don't know if the author of simple_ConTeXt is reading here. I just want to say thanks for simple_ConTeXt. This is a great tool for Sublime 3. juh -- Soziale Plastik. Die Kunst der Allmende Essay zum 30. Todestag von Joseph Beuys http://www.amazon.de/dp/1523458763/ Taschenbuch, 130 Seiten, EUR 9,90

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hyphenation
by Hans van der Meer 26 Oct '18

26 Oct '18

Using roman numbers in figures I encountered a case where XIII.9 was hyphenated into XI-II.9. A bit unclear, in my opinion. Easily repairable with something like \def\myfigure[#1]{{\nohyphens\in{figure}[#1]}} Just an observation, not really a problem but maybe something waiting to be fixed. dr. Hans van der Meer

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Bibliography sort and name-hyphenation issues
by Rik Kabel 24 Oct '18

24 Oct '18

List, Given this example: \enabletrackers [publications.authorhash] \startbuffer [bib] @book{dalambert1743, title = {Traite de Dynamique}, author = {Jean Le Rond d’Alembert}, publisher = {David l’aîné}, address = {Paris}, language = {french}, year = {1743}, } @book{darwin1871, author = {Charles Darwin}, title = {The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex}, year = {1871}, publisher = {John Murray}, address = {London}, } @book{dee1564, author = {John Dee}, title = {Monas Hieroglyphica}, year = {1564}, publisher = {Gulielmus Sylvius}, address = {Antwerp} language = {latin}, } @book{defoe1704, author = {Daniel Defoe}, title = {An Essay on the Regulation of the Press}, year = {1704}, publisher = {sine nomine}, address = {London}, } @book{montaigne1908, title = {The Essayes of {Michael} {Lord} of {Montaigne}}, subtitle = {Done into {English} by {John} {Florio}}, volumes = {3}, volume = {1}, author = {Montaigne, Michel de}, introduction= {Thomas Seccombe}, translator = {John Florio}, origlanguage= {latin}, publisher = {Grant Richards}, address = {London}, year = {1908}, origyear = {1603}, } @book{digbyetal1712, author = {John Digby and others}, title = {{Epicurus’s} Morals}, publisher = {Sam. Briscoe}, year = {1712}, address = {London}, } @book{querard1850, author = {Joseph-Marie Quérard}, title = {Les supercheries littéraires dévoilées, galerie des auteurs apocryphes, supposés, déguisés, plagiaires, et des éditeurs infidèles, littérature française}, year = {1850}, publisher = {Imprimerie Maulde et Renou}, address = {Paris}, language = {french}, } \stopbuffer \usebtxdefinitions [apa] \usebtxdataset [bib.buffer] \starttext \placebtxrendering [method=dataset] \stoptext I expect to see a bibliography (reference list in APA terms) in the order: d'Alembert Darwin Dee Defoe de Montaigne Digby Quérard But the actual result is quite different (see attached), with de Montaigne following Digby, no hyphen between the initials in the Quérard entry, and an odd handling of d’Alembert. (The authorhash does have the hyphen for the Quérard entry.) So, the question is, what can be done to get the desired (APA defined) order (alphabetize letter-by-letter, ignoring spaces, capitalization, hyphens, apostrophes, periods, and accent marks)? Beyond that, what can be done to get Montaigne sorted with M entries (displayed as “Montaigne, M. de” or “de Montaigne, M.”)? -- Rik

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--|--- not transformed to endash|emdash
by Tomas Hala 24 Oct '18

24 Oct '18

Hi all, usually, if one writes -- or ---, will receive real en-dash or em-dash, respectively. I just tried font called JohnBaskerville (commercial; from Štorm type foundry, CZ) but I got only '--' and '---', ie. sequences were not transformed to the proper characters. Dashes are present in then font, commands \endash and \emdash produce them correctly. What could be wrong? Best wishes, Tomáš

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Problem updating 32b version
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. 24 Oct '18

24 Oct '18

Hello, I encountered problem updating ConTeXt. I'm still using 32b built due to some deps on 3rd party libs (32b, too). Running 'first-setup.bat' doesn't create 'tex\texmf-mswin\' directory as usually. I also modified the first-setup.bat to avoid 64b platform testing - see the first-setup.txt attached (.bat renamed to .txt due to mail filters). The 'tex' dir has now: texmf\ texmf-cache\ texmf-context\ texmf-fonts\ texmf-local\ texmf-modules\ texmf-project\ texmf-win64\ setuptex setuptex.bat setuptex.csh but it used to be: texmf\ texmf-cache\ texmf-context\ texmf-fonts\ texmf-local\ texmf-modules\ texmf-mswin\ <<<< WAS HERE texmf-project\ texmf-win64\ setuptex setuptex.bat setuptex.csh The log (first-setup.bat > Upd.log) may be downloaded here (~700 kB): http://leteckaposta.cz/260806806 Could anyone test obtaining 32b version of ConTeXt? TIA. Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka | mailto:LPr@pontex.cz Pontex s. r. o. | mailto:pontex@pontex.cz | http://www.pontex.cz | IDDS: nrpt3sn | IČO: 40763439 Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Mob.: +420 702 033 396

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Reset bibliography numbering
by Martin Hasoň 24 Oct '18

24 Oct '18

Hi all, I want to use a custom bibliography for every section in document. It is possible to starting the numbering from 1 for each section? \setupbtxrendering[default][ repeat=yes, continue=yes, method=local, numbering=yes, criterium=section, ] \usebtxdataset[default][bib.buffer] \starttext \startsection[title=Section 1] \cite[a] \placelistofpublications \stopsection \startsection[title=Section 2] \cite[b] \cite[a] \cite[c] \placelistofpublications \stopsection \stoptext Actual output: Section 1 [1] 1 bib a Section 2 [2] [1] [3] 2 bib b 1 bib a 3 bib c Expected output: Section 1 [1] 1 bib a Section 2 [1] [2] [3] 1 bib b 2 bib a 3 bib c Many thanks for your help Martin

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Hardcoded file extensions in typescript
by Henri Menke 24 Oct '18

24 Oct '18

Dear devs, Motivated by https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/456435 I found that the type-imp-source.mkiv typescript hardcodes the .ttf extension for the font files. However, TeX Live distributes those files with the .otf extensions, hence they are not found. Please fix! Cheers, Henri

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\setuphead for a section block
by Pablo Rodriguez 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

Dear list, imagine that I need a different setup for chapter in the bodymatter than in the frontmatter and appendices. The way to do it seems to be: \setuphead[chapter][style=\bf] \startsectionblockenvironment[bodypart] \setuphead[chapter][style=\em] \stopsectionblockenvironment \starttext \startfrontmatter \chapter{Introduction} \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \chapter{Chapter} \stopbodymatter \stoptext But wasn’t there a command similar to the following one for such purposes? \setuphead[bodypart:chapter][style=\em] I remember that there was something similar to that command to setup headings in a section block. Am I creating my memories or did a similar option exist? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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issue loading fonts
by Pablo Rodriguez 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

Dear list, I have the following sample: \definefontfamily [mainface] [rm] [Pagella] [tf={file:texgyrepagella-regular.otf}, bf={file:texgyrepagella-regular-500.otf}, it={file:texgyrepagella-regular-2000.otf}] \setupbodyfont[mainface] \starttext normal\\ \bf bold\\ \it italics \stoptext Sorry, but I don’t get the fonts for \bf and \it loaded. What am I doing wrong? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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ConTeXt source from XML
by Pablo Rodriguez 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

Dear list, when dealing with XML, sometimes I find errors that I don’t know where they might come from. Is it possible to get the full ConTeXt source from a XML document instead of typesetting it? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Strange behavior with the command \inframed{}
by Fabrice Couvreur 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

Hi, When I use the \inframed{} command twice, they are not on the same baseline. Thank you. Fabrice \starttext \inframed{\m{I\times X=A^{-1}\times B}} ; \inframed{\m{A^{-1}\times A \times X=A^{-1}\times B}} \stoptext

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devanagari is missing an accent in newest beta
by Ulrike Fischer 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

Disclaimer: I know nothing about devanagari, I can only describe changes visually ... I installed yesterday the newest context, and one of my examples of devanagari is now missing an "accent". I'm rather confident that the output was different before the update as I made screenshots when testing this with luaotfload. The affected font siddhanta can be found here http://svayambhava.blogspot.com/p/siddhanta-devanagariunicode-open-type.html Screenshots and code that show the difference and the missing accent in the xelatex and context output are in this comment https://github.com/u-fischer/luaotfload/issues/9#issuecomment-431288932 the older (perfect) output is in a comment above https://github.com/u-fischer/luaotfload/issues/9#issuecomment-426978522 -- Ulrike Fischer https://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/

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what defines the font size?
by Pablo Rodriguez 22 Oct '18

22 Oct '18

Dear list, sorry for this basic question, but what defines the size in a font? I mean, we can take TeX Gyre Bonum and TeX Gyre Adventor at twelve points. x-height is different, M-width is slightly different. I thought it was the same A-height, but it isn’t. If two fonts have the same size, I think there may be a dimension which has the same length in both. Which one is this? Sorry for the basic question and many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Questions to font family Pagella
by Tomas Hala 22 Oct '18

22 Oct '18

Hi all, I am doing some first tests with fonts (related with our font testing intentions) and I found out that since 2015 there are two sets of files for pagella with the same metadata by otfinfo -i. Eg.: 152192 /usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/newpx/TeXGyrePagellaX-Regular.otf 144472 /usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre/texgyrepagella-regular.otf The only one difference is in the license note: "Copyright 2013--2015 Michael Sharpe for added superior figures, letters and symbols." at files from newx directory. 1. Why the distribution (TL 2018) contains two versions of the same font family? 2. How can I recognise which one was used for the document after \setupbodyfont[pagella]? 3. On my disk I have got also one older version (1.011) of pagella (I do not where I took it from) which contains more(!) characters than the current one (2.004) where eg. the subset of cyrillic characters is missing... Why the newer version contains less? Best wishes, Tomáš %%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%% Older: %%%%%%%%%%%%%% Family: TeXGyrePagella Subfamily: Regular Full name: TeXGyrePagella-Regular PostScript name: TeXGyrePagella-Regular Preferred family: TeX Gyre Pagella Version: Version 1.011;PS 1.011;hotconv 1.0.49;makeotf.lib2.0.14853 Unique ID: 1.011;URW ;TeXGyrePagella-Regular Trademark: Please refer to the Copyright section for the font trademark attribution notices. Copyright: Copyright (URW)++, copyright 1999 by (URW)++ Design & Development; Cyrillic glyphs added by Valek Filippov, copyright 2001-2002; Vietnamese characters were added by Han The Thanh; copyright 2006, 2007 for TeX Gyre extensions by B. Jackowski and J.M. Nowacki (on behalf of TeX users groups). This work is released under the GUST Font License -- see http://tug.org/fonts/licenses/GUST-FONT-LICENSE.txt for details. Vendor ID: URW %%%%%%%%%%%%%% /usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/newpx/TeXGyrePagellaX-Regular.otf: %%%%%%%%%%%%%% Family: TeXGyrePagellaX Subfamily: Regular Full name: TeXGyrePagellaX-Regular PostScript name: TeXGyrePagellaX-Regular Preferred family: TeX Gyre PagellaX Version: Version 2.004;PS 2.004;hotconv 1.0.49;makeotf.lib2.0.14853 Unique ID: 2.004;UKWN;TeXGyrePagella-Regular Trademark: Please refer to the Copyright section for the font trademark attribution notices. Copyright: Copyright 2006, 2009 for TeX Gyre extensions by B. Jackowski and J.M. Nowacki (on behalf of TeX users groups). This work is released under the GUST Font License -- see http://tug.org/fonts/licenses/GUST-FONT-LICENSE.txt for details. Copyright 2013--2015 Michael Sharpe for added superior figures, letters and symbols. Vendor ID: UKWN %%%%%%%%%%%%%% /usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre/texgyrepagella-regular.otf: %%%%%%%%%%%%%% Family: TeXGyrePagella Subfamily: Regular Full name: TeXGyrePagella-Regular PostScript name: TeXGyrePagella-Regular Preferred family: TeX Gyre Pagella Version: Version 2.004;PS 2.004;hotconv 1.0.49;makeotf.lib2.0.14853 Unique ID: 2.004;UKWN;TeXGyrePagella-Regular Trademark: Please refer to the Copyright section for the font trademark attribution notices. Copyright: Copyright 2006, 2009 for TeX Gyre extensions by B. Jackowski and J.M. Nowacki (on behalf of TeX users groups). This work is released under the GUST Font License -- see http://tug.org/fonts/licenses/GUST-FONT-LICENSE.txt for details. Vendor ID: UKWN %%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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mtxrun --script fonts --reload: Question to behaviour
by Tomas Hala 22 Oct '18

22 Oct '18

Hi all, doing some test with fonts I discovered that mtxrun--script fonts --reload crashed (line 479, TL 2018) on existing directory if this directory has incorrect permissions (in tested case I set 000 for making the directory and its subtree completely invisible). Is this the expected behaviour? Best wishes, Tomáš

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Use \framedtext to write an algorithm (again)
by Fabrice Couvreur 18 Oct '18

18 Oct '18

Hi Wolfgang, You offered me the following code to write algorithms. It seems that this does not function very well because the withdrawal of the text no longer exists. Thank you Fabrice \defineframedtext [algorithmframe] [width=fit, background=color, backgroundcolor=lightgray, framecolor=darkred, corner=round] \definelines [algorithm] [space=on, before=\startalgorithmframe, after=\stopalgorithmframe] \starttext \startalgorithm Variables \math{I} et \math{J} entiers T tableau d'entiers Début Pour \math{I} allant de \math{1} à \math{3} Pour \math{J} allant de \math{1} à \math{3} Si \math{J>I} Alors \math{T[I, J]=J-I} Sinon \math{T[I, J]=0} Fin Si Fin Pour Fin \stopalgorithm \stoptext

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Splitting long floats
by Henri Menke 17 Oct '18

17 Oct '18

Dear list, motivated by https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/455484 I was trying to split a long float across several pages. It also works but instead of the caption I see “there is nothing to split” at the end of the listing. The source file documentation of \splitfloat suggests that this is intended for tabular material. Is is possible to split other material as well? Cheers, Henri --- \definefloat[listing] \starttext \startplacelisting[title={math.h},location=split] \typefile{/usr/include/math.h} \stopplacelisting \stoptext

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Odd/even page test
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. 17 Oct '18

17 Oct '18

Hello, I need to check whether even or odd page is to be printed. I'm starting with the following simple code: ---- \def\T{\ifodd\pagenumber ODD\else EVEN\fi} \starttext \dorecurse{2}{\T\page} \startTEXpage[width=50mm,height=150mm]\stopTEXpage \dorecurse{2}{\T\page} \stoptext ---- Why "user defined page" #3 is skipped in page numbering, so headers shown are: 1 - 2 - (nothing) - 3 - 4 and "ODD"/"EVEN" and text is "ODD" - "EVEN" - (nothing) - "ODD" - "EVEN" instead of: 1 - 2 - (nothing) - 4 - 5 and "ODD"/"EVEN" and text be "ODD" - "EVEN" - (nothing) - "EVEN" - "ODD"? TIA. Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka | mailto:LPr@pontex.cz Pontex s. r. o. | mailto:pontex@pontex.cz | http://www.pontex.cz | IDDS: nrpt3sn | IČO: 40763439 Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Mob.: +420 702 033 396

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ConTeXt mathematics macros
by Shuxian Wang 16 Oct '18

16 Oct '18

Hello list, As a new user of ConTeXt, I have some trouble on trying out various mathematics modules. I tried to use the nath module by directly including `\usemodule[nath]` in my source file. It seems that the module is not loaded. I read through the wiki page and found that nath is not included in the TeX Live distribution, but I failed to find a way to install it. Also, when I hunted through the wiki articles, it stated that the newmat module is included by default, but I never find it in my TeX Live 2018. Am I missing something or is the wiki outdated? By the way, I am looking for a "battery included" math module, which provides predefined macros like the absolute value symbol, derivative, and partial derivative. Any recommendation or advice on this? Thanks! Shuxian Wang

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insert natural table at the top left of some png
by Damien Thiriet 16 Oct '18

16 Oct '18

Hello, I am still working on maps and facing some new issue. The program I used to design one map is not convenient for writing key to symbols, and what I have is a map.png file with big spare space on its upper left corner. So I have either to write on the png with ImageMagick or GIMP, or have a nicer output with ConTeXt. I wrote this legend file. \definecolor[canaux][h=81b3e0] \startreusableMPgraphic{voies} path p; p:= (0,0) -- (20,0) ; drawarrow p withcolor black ; \stopreusableMPgraphic \startreusableMPgraphic{canaux} path p; p:= (0,0) -- (20,0) ; drawarrow p withcolor \MPcolor{canaux} withpen pencircle scaled 2pt; \stopreusableMPgraphic \startbuffer \bTABLE[frame=off] \setupTABLE[column][1,3][align={middle,lohi}] \bTR \bTH 1) \eTH \bTH Le milieu \eTH \bTH 2) \eTH \bTH Les activités \eTH \eTR \bTR \bTD \externalfigure[illustrations/zone_urbaine][height=12bp] \eTD \bTD zones urbaines \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD \leavevmode \reuseMPgraphic{voies} \eTD \bTD infrastructures~: voies ferrées \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD \leavevmode \reuseMPgraphic{canaux} \eTD \bTD infrastructures~: canaux \eTD \eTR eTR \eTABLE \stopbuffer The idea was to make some \hbox{ \externalfigure[map][width=0.9 \textwidth] \vbox{\hfill -0.9 \textwidth \getbuffer } } to put the boxed legend at this upper left corner. Of course I couldn't succeed, since I do not understand so much boxes. ConTeXt complains with a missing number. How could I achieve such boxing ? Thanks, Damien Thiriet

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weird spacing after command type
by Pablo Rodriguez 14 Oct '18

14 Oct '18

Dear list, I have the following sample: \define[1]\slide{\startmakeup[standard]#1\stopmakeup} \definetype[texcode][style=\ttd, option=TEX] \starttext \slide{\texcode{\ifodd\pageno impar\else par\fi}} \startmakeup[standard] \texcode{\ifodd\pageno impar\else par\fi} \stopmakeup \stoptext I wonder why \slide introduces a space after each command. Am I missing something or have I hit a bug? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Re: [NTG-context] Construct a matrix with Metafun
by Wolfgang Schuster 14 Oct '18

14 Oct '18

It works for me when I add a space after each \MPcode{…} block. \math{\MATRIX{\MPcode{...} ;\MPcode{...} }} Wolfgang Fabrice Couvreur schrieb am 14.10.18 um 12:18: > Hi Wolfgang, > Thank you for your solution.The space came from copy-paste because if > I do this, it does not work : > > \definemathmatrix [pmatrix][matrix:parentheses][simplecommand=MATRIX] > > \starttext > > \math{\MATRIX{\MPcode{draw (0,0) -- (1cm,0);} ;\MPcode{draw (0,0) -- > (1cm,0);}}} > > \stoptext > > Fabrice > > Le dim. 14 oct. 2018 à 11:08, Wolfgang Schuster > <wolfgang.schuster.lists(a)gmail.com > <mailto:wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>> a écrit : > > > > Fabrice Couvreur schrieb am 14.10.18 um 10:46: >> Hi, >> I tried to use Metafun and \definemathmatrix [pmatrix] [matrix: >> parentheses] [simplecommand = MATRIX] to create two matrices, but >> that does not work. > > 1. You have a space in [matrix: parentheses] > > 2. When you have only simple graphics like in your example you can > use framed. > > \starttext > > \startformula > A\, > \startmathmatrix[left=\left(,right=\right)] > \NC \framed[width=1em,height=1em,frame=off,bottomframe=on]{} \NC > \framed[width=1em,height=1em,frame=off,bottomframe=on,leftframe=on]{} > \NR > \NC \framed[width=1em,height=1em,frame=off,rightframe=on]{} \NC > \framed[width=1em,height=1em]{} \NR > \stopmathmatrix > \stopformula > > \stoptext > > Wolfgang >

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Construct a matrix with Metafun
by Fabrice Couvreur 14 Oct '18

14 Oct '18

Hi, I tried to use Metafun and \definemathmatrix [pmatrix] [matrix: parentheses] [simplecommand = MATRIX] to create two matrices, but that does not work. Thank you. Fabrice [image: matrice.jpg]

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Construct a matrice with Metafun and \MATRIX{}
by Fabrice Couvreur 14 Oct '18

14 Oct '18

Hi, I tried to use Metafun and \definemathmatrix [pmatrix] [matrix: parentheses] [simplecommand = MATRIX] to create two matrices, but that does not work. Thank you. http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2018/41/7/1539507927-matrice.jpg

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xtables: horizontal splitting
by Tomas Hala 13 Oct '18

13 Oct '18

Hi all, at https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tables_Overview is mentioned that the xtables can be splitted even horizontally (which will just suit me very well). The command \setupxtable[myxtable][split=yes] will do it only vertically. I would like to ask what is the correct option for the horizonal splitting; neither xtables manual, nor i-context.pdf say anything. Best wishes, Tomáš

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context and sqlite
by Jörg Hofmann 13 Oct '18

13 Oct '18

I've been trying to connect ConTeXt to sqlite for almost a week but I have repeatedly failed. Neither the "internal" variant according to the documentation, nor the attempt on luasql have worked. Above all, the Google request showed me that not alone with this problem - how reassuring. ;-) At the moment, concentrate I am accessing via swiglib and think my problem lies here (from my log file): sql> start loading method 'sqlite' swiglib> unknown: 'swiglib.sqlite.core' swiglib> unknown: 'swiglib.helpers.core' Obviously, the appropriate modules are not found, but where Can I get them and where do they belong? And maybe also someone a working code example for me. I'm working with Texlive 2017 on XUBUNTU 16.04. Best regards Jörg Hofmann

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Unexpected space after hyphen in xml/html export
by Rik Kabel 11 Oct '18

11 Oct '18

List, Occasionally an unexpected and unwanted space is inserted following the hyphen of a compound word in html/xml exports. In a document with about 500 such compounds, this occurs 30 times. The following input: \setupbackend [export=yes,xhtml=yes] \starttext Theocracy, the priest power; monarchy, the one|-|man power; and oligarchy, the few|-|men power|—|are three forms of vicarious government over the people, perhaps for them, not by them. Democracy is direct self|-|government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people. Our institutions are democratic: theocratic, monarchic, oligarchic vicariousness is all gone. We have no Divine vicar who is responsible to God for our politics and religion; only a human attorney, answerable to the people for his official work. The axis of rotation has changed: the equator of the old civilization passes through the poles of the new. This makes some change in the geography of both Church and State. \stopsection \stoptext Produces, in relevant part, the following xml (wrapped for convenience): Theocracy, the priest power; monarchy, the one-man power; and oligarchy, the few- men power—are three forms of vicarious government over the people, perhaps for them, not by them. Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people. Our institutions are democratic: theocratic, monarchic, oligarchic vicariousness is all gone. We have no Divine vicar who is responsible to God for our politics and religion; only a human attorney, answerable to the people for his official work. The axis of rotation has changed: the equator of the old civilization passes through the poles of the new. This makes some change in the geography of both Church and State.</document> Note the space after "few-" in the second line of the output text. (The paragraph is a quotation from Theodore Parker's sermon "The Effect of Slavery on the American People," delivered on July 4, 1858. It is thought by many to be the inspiration for part of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.) -- Rik

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Implicit plots/level curves possible?
by Mikael P. Sundqvist 11 Oct '18

11 Oct '18

Dear list, Is it possiblet to make implicit plots (i.e. ploting the curves described by equations) in MetaFun? I cannot find anything about them in the MetaFun manual. For example, in Mathematica I can write something like ContourPlot[2 x^5 + x y + y^5 == 0, {x, 0, 2}, {y, -2, 1/2}] to get the attached figure. The closest I have found which is something MetaPost-like, is the levelcurve command in mfpic (see for example this answer https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/405527/52406) If this is not currently possible in MetaFun, what is the simplest way to proceed (I want the same style of the plots as the other ones in my doc)? Is it to 1) somehow run mfpic from within ConTeXt? 2) export points from Mathematica and plot them in ConTeXt (how could that be done?). In the latter case, say I have the points (0,0), (0.4,1), and (0.8,2) exported to a file. What format should it be in to be easily imported and plot in MetaFun? 3) some other way? /Mikael

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ConTeXt git mirror
by mf 11 Oct '18

11 Oct '18

Hello list, the ConTeXt git mirror at https://github.com/contextgarden/context-mirror is out of sync. Does anybody know why? Thanks in advance, best wishes, Massimiliano

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Text around a table (xtables)
by Fabrice Couvreur 10 Oct '18

10 Oct '18

Hello, Why is the text wrapping around the board or far too far ? Thank you. Fabrice \definefloat [recipe] [figure] \setupfloat [recipe] [default={right,none}] \starttext \placerecipe{}{% \startxtable[align={middle,lohi},width=1.7 cm] \startxrow[background=color,backgroundcolor=gray] \startxcell[width=3.5cm,frame=off,align={middle,right}, background=color,backgroundcolor=white] Consommation pour la production de 1 UM \hfill\startMPcode drawarrow (0,0)--(0,0.35cm)--(0.35cm,0.35cm)withpen pencircle scaled 1bp; \stopMPcode \stopxcell \startxcell Ind. \stopxcell \startxcell Agri. \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell[background=color,backgroundcolor=gray] Ind. \stopxcell \startxcell 0,5 \stopxcell \startxcell 0,2 \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell[background=color,backgroundcolor=gray] Agri. \stopxcell \startxcell 0,2 \stopxcell \startxcell 0,6 \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell[nx=3,frame=off,align={right}] Lecture du tableau : pour la production d'un bien équivalent à 1 UM, l'industrie consomme l'équivalent de 0,5 UM de sa propre production et l'équivalent de 0,2 UM de la production de l'agriculture. \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtable } \dorecurse{10}{\input knuth} \stoptext

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embedded sounds
by Pablo Rodriguez 10 Oct '18

10 Oct '18

Hi Hans, this is a lighter version from sound-001.tex from your test samples: \definerenderingwindow [example] [width=0pt,height=0pt,frame=off] \setupinteraction[state=start] \useexternalrendering [mysound] [audio/x-mp3] % audio/x-mp3 [sound.mp3] %~ [embed] \definereference [StartSoundTrack] [StartRendering{mysound}] \definereference [StopSoundTrack] [StopRendering{mysound}] \definelayer[resources][width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=resources] \setupbodyfont[100pt] \starttext\bf\ss \setlayer[resources]{\placerenderingwindow[example][mysound]} \startTEXpage \button{start}[StartSoundTrack] \button{stop}[StopSoundTrack] \stopTEXpage \stoptext As reported before (https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2018/092327.html) sound is played fine when not embedded. But it won’t play embedded files. Without embedded sound, the relevant /Filespec reads: 7 0 obj << /F (sound.mp3) /Type /Filespec >> endobj With an embedded sound, /Filespec and /EmbeddedFile read: 7 0 obj << /Subtype /audio#2Fx-mp3 /Type /EmbeddedFile /Length 49006 >> stream endstream endobj 8 0 obj << /EF << /F 7 0 R >> /F (sound.mp3) /Type /Filespec /UF (\376\377\000s\000o\000u\000n\000d\000.\000m\000p\0003) >> endobj 10 0 obj << /EF 8 0 R /F (sound.mp3) /Type /Filespec >> endobj I don’t know why there are two /Filespec objects, since they are duplicated. In any case, the value for the /EF entry has to be a dictionary that points to the /EmbeddedFile (such as in object 8). I’m afraid that the code that generates the second /Filespec object (object 10 in the code above) is wrong. I attach a modified file fixing the issue from the PDF document generated by ConTeXt. I hope this help to fix the issue. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Addressing glyphs in Lua
by Marco Patzer 10 Oct '18

10 Oct '18

Hi! I have two questions regarding addressing glyphs in Lua: 1) How to address glyphs in slots as e.g. U+F0029? 2) How to address glyphs by name? Use: \startluacode fonts.handlers.otf.addfeature { name = "foo", type = "substitution", data = { [0xF0029] = 0xF0030 }, -- ← doesn't work } \stopluacode Marco

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\noheaderandfooterlines to suppress header frame, too
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. 10 Oct '18

10 Oct '18

Hello, this may have been posted here some time before, but - would it be possible to extend \noheaderandfooterlines command to temporarily suppress bottom frame, too? Suppose having the following code: ---- \setupheadertexts[left][right] \setupbackgrounds[header][bottomframe=on] \starttext \input knuth \page \noheaderandfooterlines \input knuth \stoptext ---- - On the page #2, header is not shown, which is OK, but header (bottom-)frame is still drawn, which is unwanted... Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka | mailto:LPr@pontex.cz Pontex s. r. o. | mailto:pontex@pontex.cz | http://www.pontex.cz | IDDS: nrpt3sn | IČO: 40763439 Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Mob.: +420 702 033 396

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Re: [NTG-context] Using context.setupexternalfigures
by Gilles Waeber 10 Oct '18

10 Oct '18

09 October 2018 10:53 Hans Hagen wrote: > On 10/8/2018 11:36 PM, [moi@gilleswaeber.ch](mailto:moi@gilleswaeber.ch) wrote: > > How should I call context.setupexternalfigures? > \directlua{ > context.setupexternalfigures { > % directory = { 'images', > (string.gsub(os.getenv('IMG_PATH'),'\\', '/')) } > % directory = { 'images', > resolvers.cleanpath(os.getenv('IMG_PATH')) } > directory = { 'images', resolvers.expandpath('IMG_PATH') } > } > } > > (or pass the path on the command line, say --imagepath=... and get it > with document.arguments.imagepath) It seems the problem was that directory must not be an array. This one worked for me: context.setupexternalfigures { directory = 'images,' .. resolvers.expandpath('IMG_PATH') } Thanks, Gilles

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line break after \item, but not \stopitem
by Damien Thiriet 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

Hi list, I am designing a presentation for my pupils (some loooong exercices to learn LibreOfficeDraw by doing). To be sure that they don't misview any question, I decided to force a pagebreak after each first level item. A question on TSE gave me the proper key to \setupitemize, but I am facing an issue I didn't expect. Given this MWE \setuppapersize[S6] \setupitemize[1][inbetween={\page}] \starttext \startitemize[n] \startitem \input knuth \stopitem \startitem \input ward \startitemize[a] \startitem first point \stopitem \startitem second point \stopitem \stopitem \stopitemize \stoptext I expected a page break after each 1 level \stopitem, that is after knuth's text and "second point". However the text is breaking before first point, that is at the beginning of level 2 startitemize, which is AFAIK semantically part of a level 1 item. Do you have any idea to force page break *after* "second point" and not *before* "first point" ? Thanks, Damien Thiriet

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OT: mupdf 1.14
by luigi scarso 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

https://mupdf.com The basic viewer mupdf-gl has now a minimal UI interface and an add annotation mode ('a' ) . The mutool show command line tool is useful to inspect pdf . -- luigi

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Homebrew packaging for macOS
by Andrew Dunning 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

Dear list, Has anyone ever looked into packaging ConTeXt for Homebrew on macOS (see <https://brew.sh>)? Providing it as an installation option would make it far easier to obtain the latest version. In looking into it myself, I immediately came across the problem of not being exactly sure where to find a versioned download link. See their guidelines at <https://docs.brew.sh/Acceptable-Formulae>. All best, Andrew Dunning

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moving the first line of a page to the previous page
by mf 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

Hello list, sometimes ConTeXt moves the (would-be) last line of a page to the next page, even when there's room for it at the bottom of a page, before the footnotes. Sometimes i understand why it does so: when the line contains a footnote that would increase the footnotes' height, for example; or when you have widows or orphans. But sometimes it happens in an inexplicable way: in some pages there's room at the bottom and it keeps the last line, in some other pages there's more room (than in the previous case), but it moves the last line to the next page anyway. Even looking at hyphenations, i can't find an explanation fot that behaviour. So i'm looking for a way to prevent ConTeXt from moving the last line to the next page. A solution i found is to insert a \vadjust{\kern -0.5pt} in the second-last line of the page. It works -- see the attachments -- but it modifies the interline, so it's feasible only for corrections under 1pt. Another way would be locally shrinking the space before footnotes, but i don't know how and when to do it. Some words about the attachments: - there are some footnotes and line height setups to resemble the real configuration i'm working with - keep-line-in-page-0.tex is the reference case - keep-line-in-page-1.tex is the solution with \vadjust{\kern -0.5pt} Best wishes, Massimiliano

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Formulas in TABLE with character alignment
by Axel Kielhorn 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

Hello, I decided to use TABLE because I may need some more complex layouts later and want to use just one way to define a table. One of the great things about TABLE is the possibility to align columns. The table below works fine when I comment the first \bTR line. With the first line the result is strange. I need some way to protect the words in the header, putting them in an \mbox didn’t help. \starttext { \setupTABLE[row][each][frame=off] \setupTABLE[c][1][width=0.1\textwidth] \setupTABLE[c][2][width=0.1\textwidth,alignmentcharacter={,},aligncharacter=yes,align=middle] \setupTABLE[c][3][width=0.1\textwidth,alignmentcharacter={,},aligncharacter=yes,align=middle] \setupTABLE[c][4][width=0.1\textwidth,alignmentcharacter={,},aligncharacter=yes,align=middle] \bTABLE \bTABLEbody \bTR \bTD \eTD \bTD \chemical{NH_3} \eTD \bTD R407C \eTD \bTD R134a \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD \math{t_s} \eTD \bTD \math{p_s} \eTD \bTD \math{p_s} \eTD \bTD \math{p_s} \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD \unit{Celsius} \eTD \bTD \unit{bar} \eTD \bTD \unit{bar} \eTD \bTD \unit{bar} \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD \unit{+35} \eTD \bTD 13,50 \eTD \bTD 14,47 \eTD \bTD 8,865 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD \unit{-40} \eTD \bTD 0,717 \eTD \bTD 0,956 \eTD \bTD 0,516 \eTD \eTR \eTABLEbody \eTABLE } \stoptext Greetings Axel

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