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Typing environment on non-ASCII
by Hans Åberg 22 May '16

22 May '16

The typing environment does not seem to work on non-ASCII characters: below, ∀, ≔ and ∈ drop out. Perhaps not available in monospace, substituting nothing. \setupbodyfont[xits,10pt] \starttyping ∀(i, k) ∈ I×K: C(i, k) ≔ ∑_(j∈J) A(i, j)·B(j, k) \stoptyping

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new features
by Hans Hagen 22 May '16

22 May '16

Hi, (mostly for Thomas) In the next beta: When you include files in another file (using xmlinclude) we now register what gets included. There are two new commands: \xmlinclusion{#1} : the current inclusion \xmlinclusions{#1} : a list of inclusions the first one backtracks till it find a name and the second one will locate the root if needed. This option can be handy for tracing (i.e. seeing where input comes from). Another addition is that \definemode[something][keep] define an undefined mode; the keep makes sure that the already set value is kept (another option is 'yes'). Using defined modes (that is, set with: \enabledmode, \disablemode or \definemode) can be tested about twice as fast as undefined modes which can make a small difference when modes are tested lots of times. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Nolimits not working with Unicode characters
by Hans Åberg 22 May '16

22 May '16

In the example below, the nolimits directive [1] is not working in display style on a Unicode integral sign ∫ U+222B, though it works with \int, and in inline style. Example below compiled with ‘context’ of TeX Live 2015. - I have found no differences between using STIX and XITS fonts. 1. http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupmathematics ---- \setupbodyfont[xits,10pt] %\setupbodyfont[stix,10pt] \setupmathematics[integral=nolimits] Nolimits $\int_0^∞ f ω$, and $∫_0^∞ f ω$ \startformula \int_0^∞ f ω,\quad ∫_0^∞ f ω \stopformula ----

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bibliography tool
by Gour 22 May '16

22 May '16

I was browsing docs in the contextgarden but not sure what is available for handling bibliography in ConTeXt today? Afaict, RefTeX is for LaTeX only, I recall there was(is). (My dev environment is Debian Linux/Emacs/AUCTeX.) Sincerely, Gour -- Whatever action a great man performs, common men follow. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.

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Thick border of one side of TR/TD
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. 22 May '16

22 May '16

Hello, what is the easiest way to border table row along ONE side? In my example - first row bottom and last row top? All being typeset as TABLE (i.e. \bTABLE ... \bTR ... \bTD ...). I played a bit with rulethickness for TD and/or TR but in all attempts the WHOLE border thickness is affected. I guess that the bordering style of the table attached is often needed; I would be nice to have something like \bTR[bottomrulethickness=thick] or something... How to achieve this? Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka | mailto:LPr@pontex.cz Pontex s. r. o. | mailto:pontex@pontex.cz | http://www.pontex.cz Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 241 096 751 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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flushleft and startplacefigure
by Meer, Hans van der 22 May '16

22 May '16

\startplacefigure inherits a lot of location settings but among these flushleft and flushright are missing. Thus the \setupfloat in the example cannot be omitted. Wouldn't it be a logical step to make possible also: \startplacefigure[location=flushleft] dito for flushright? \starttext % example to extend figure into the left margin (Hans Hagen, 2014-07-25) \setupfloat[figure][location=flushleft] \startplacefigure \framed[width=1.1\textwidth]{location=flushleft} \stopplacefigure \stoptext Hans van der Meer

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Problem with \blackboard{} command
by cryo shock 21 May '16

21 May '16

Hi together, I've experienced a problem with \blackboard{} command. Please paste the following code and compile it (I have newest CTX beta version (updating daily)): ------------------------------------------------------------ \starttext Variation 1: $\forall n \in \blackboard{Z} \neq 0$: should be $0$ Variation 2: $\forall n \in \integers \neq 0$: is $0$ \stoptext ------------------------------------------------------------ When the first variation is used, CTX seems to convert every folowing letter into blackboard characters within the rest of the math environment no matter where \blackboard brackets are placed. Only when the second variation with \integers is used, CTX propely converts every following letter. But imagine you need blackboard G for some reason for example. Then the same bug will appear. I hope this can be fixed easily. Greetings, Seba

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Group list is down.
by Henman 21 May '16

21 May '16

It seems that my messages are not appropriately getting onto the list? Have you been to busy to forward them to the list? Question now is "how to stop "repeat" in enumerations that give item numbers such as 1 1.1 1.1.1 .... but at a certain depth I just want a simple alpha, such a a. b. c . Hot to do?

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writebetweenlist bug?
by massifr＠fastwebnet.it 20 May '16

20 May '16

Hello list, I'm experimenting with the table of contents and I found a strange behaviour of writebetweenlist. Try this: \setuphead[chapter][number=no] \starttext \placecontent \chapter{chapter 1} \chapter{chapter 2} \writebetweenlist[chapter]{\blank Why am I not between chapter 2 and chapter 3?} \chapter{chapter 3} \chapter{chapter 4} \stoptext I exptected the text of \writebetweenlist to fall between chapters 2 and 3, but it falls between chapters 1 and 2. Is that right or is it a bug? Best greetings, Massi

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Re: [NTG-context] command reference not searchable
by Akira Kakuto 20 May '16

20 May '16

> mtxrun --launch context-todo.pdf Thanks a lot. mtxrun --launch i-context.pdf worked fine. Best, Akira

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transparent colors
by Meer, Hans van der 20 May '16

20 May '16

With \definecolor[colorname][r=,g=,b=] one defines a color of name "colorname" for use in ConTeXt and in Metapost. A transparentcolor comes with \definecolor[transparentcolorname][r=,g=,b=,a=,t=] Problem: how to define a transparent color with \definetransparentcolor[#1][#2][#3]{...}. To be called for example as \definetransparentcolor[transparentcolorname][colorname][0.5] for color "colorname" with transparency 0.5. I tried to do this by intercepting from \definecolor the vales "r=,g=,b=" in a macro \colornamergb to be called as \csname..\endcsname for the varying colorname and feeding that to a definecolor-variant. However, the parsing of r=,g=,b= then goes wrong (\futurelet balking). Question: is there a direct way to derive a transparent colorvariant from a parent one without transparency? The usefulness of this comes from the fact that for things like \definecolor[lighthoneydew][r=.894117,g=.95,b=.894117] the numbers need not be feed more than once. Hans van der Meer

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command reference not searchable
by Meer, Hans van der 20 May '16

20 May '16

The command reference in file i-context.pdf is highly useful, but that document is not searchable, neither with Preview nor Adobe Reader. Files luatex.pdf, xml-mkiv.pdf for example are searchable. It would be nice if the command reference can be searched too, because for now looking up a command needs a lot of page skipping. Can this be done? I would very much appreciate it. Hans van der Meer

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command reference not searchable
by Akira Kakuto 20 May '16

20 May '16

It will be convenient for TeX Live users if i-context.pdf is copied like $TEXMF/doc/context/documents/general/commands/i-context.pdf Then one can read it by texdoc i-context.pdf Best, Akira

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Re: [NTG-context] Are nested sections possible?
by docent.einstein＠centrum.cz 19 May '16

19 May '16

Zdravim Lukasi, Nejsem si jisty, zda se nemylim, ale pokud jsi z Brna, pak bych Te rad pozdravil. Radek Pysny ______________________________________________________________ > Od: Procházka Lukáš Ing. <LPr(a)pontex.cz> > Komu: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > Datum: 14.03.2016 09:05 > Předmět: Re: [NTG-context] Are nested sections possible? > Hello, one more thing: It would be nice to allow mixing: - \section like commands (or \startsection ... \stopsection) - AND \startsectionlevel ... \stopsectionlevel. The main problem is that one may NEED to mix: - (ancient) source files which use \section (deprecated) style - with more versatile \start-\stopsectionlevel style in newer source files. See the test attached - only the case 3 works universally with the \start-\stopstructurelevel; any mixing of sectioning styles doesn't yield a desired result. Best regards, Lukas On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 01:53:18 +0100, Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau(a)cea.fr> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 09:36:01 +0100 > Pablo Rodriguez <oinos(a)gmx.es> wrote: > >> Sorry, Mica, but which is the gain in nesting sections (whether >> possible or not) over using subsections and subsubsections? >> >> I can hardly imagine the sense in the point you’re making. (Sorry, it >> must be my fault.) > > Think about including source in another source, for example. > > Say one has an article that becomes a book, or gets included in a book, > or the book gets parts. In the course of writing, one might decide to > add an additional level of structure and not want to change all of the > \start...\stop structure definitions. > > In fact, using fixed section, subsection, subsubsection is a bit > antiquated, isn't it? > > Alan > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context(a)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://tex.aanhet.net <http://tex.aanhet.net> > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ <http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/> > wiki : http://contextgarden.net <http://contextgarden.net> > ___________________________________________________________________________________ -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka | mailto:LPr@pontex.cz Pontex s. r. o. | mailto:pontex@pontex.cz | http://www.pontex.cz <http://www.pontex.cz> Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 241 096 751 Fax: +420 244 461 038 ---------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context(a)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://tex.aanhet.net <http://tex.aanhet.net> archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ <http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/> wiki : http://contextgarden.net <http://contextgarden.net> ___________________________________________________________________________________

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uppercase, small caps, numerals and German capital sharp s
by Thomas Fehige 19 May '16

19 May '16

Hello, I'm new to ConTeXt and this list. After a long time of using LaTeX and xeLaTeX I was finally lured into trying ConTexT by its ability of grid typesetting. Today's problem is a bit complex. In a book project I have several points where stuff is capitalized or turned into caps+smallcaps or pure smallcaps. My guess is that that should work either with \WORD{Stuff}, \Cap{Stuff} and \cap{Stuff} or with \uppercase, \sc, and {\sc\lowercase{Stuff}}. (Not quite, it seems) I'll use a commercial font called Calluna, but have added Linux Biolinum O to the example for those who don't want to download Calluna (the "Regular" can be "bought" for free, e.g. at https://www.fontspring.com/fonts/exljbris/calluna) Both Calluna and Biolinum contain the glyph "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S" at "1E9E. Calluna also has a small caps version at "F727", while Biolinum has it at "E092. I'd like to use these glyphs in the capitalizations mentioned, but that only works erratically (cf. example). Secondly, Calluna comes with oldstyle numerals switched on, which is nice for normal text, but should change to proportional lining numbers in uppercase and to small-cap proportional lining numbers in an all-small-cap text. I'm not sure what I'd want in a caps+smallcaps context, but certainly not oldstyle numerals with their descenders. Any hints and ideas? Thanks for reading! -- Thomas PS: I asked the same question on stackexchange, there's also an image of the result of my example: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/302823/context-uppercase-%C3%9F-cust… %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \mainlanguage[de] \language[de] \uccode`ß="1E9E % This gives the capital ß to \uppercase \definefontfeature[fcalluna][default][] % I tried all the font features built into Calluna, to no avail. \definefontfamily [myfamily] [serif][Calluna][features=fcalluna] \definefontfamily [myfamily] [sans] [Linux Biolinum O][features=fcalluna] \definefontfamily [myfamily] [mono] [TeX Gyre Cursor] \setupbodyfont [myfamily] \startTEXpage[offset=10pt] \starttabulate[|l|l|l|] \NC \it Command \NC \it Calluna \NC \it Linux Biolinum \NC\NR \NC\type{\WORD{Gruß134}}: \NC\WORD{Gruß134} \NC {\ss\WORD{Gruß134}} \NC\NR \NC\type{\uppercase{Gruß134}}: \NC\uppercase{Gruß134} \NC{\ss\uppercase{Gruß134}} \NC\NR \NC\type{\sc{Gruß134}}: \NC{\sc Gruß134} \NC{\ss{\sc Gruß134}} \NC\NR \NC\type{\Cap{Gruß134}:} \NC\Cap{Gruß134} \NC{\ss \Cap{Gruß134}} \NC\NR \NC\type{\cap{Gruß134}:} \NC\cap{Gruß134} \NC{\ss \cap{Gruß134}} \NC\NR \NC\type{{\sc\lowercase{Gruß134}}:} \NC{\sc\lowercase{Gruß134}} \NC{\ss\sc\lowercase{Gruß134}} \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stopTEXpage %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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MacOsX Mavericks and Luatex
by Pierre Bovet 19 May '16

19 May '16

Hi all! It seems that Luatex (0.76 2013/04/05) don't works with Mavericks? Thank's in advanced for your help and testimonies Best wishes -- Pierre Bovet Documentaliste technique | Chargé de sécurité CFST Tel : +41 (0) 26 401 61 56 Courriel : pierre67(a)me.com

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Alignment/line break in a TABLE cell
by Mari Voipio 19 May '16

19 May '16

Hi, I have a little problem with a table. It works fine otherwise, but in the first column the box and the number should be on the same line. This goes right with 3a, but all the other ones place the box on the first line and the number on the second. Widening column 1 doesn't help. How do I force the number to stay on the same line with the box? \starttext \bTABLE \setupTABLE[r][odd][background=color,backgroundcolor=gray] \setupTABLE[r][each][bottomframe=off,topframe=off,rightframe=off] \setupTABLE[c][1][leftframe=off,width=2cm] \bTR \bTD \externalfigure[box3mm] 1 \eTD \bTD Pharma refractometer PR-43-PC \eTD \eTR % \bTR \bTD \externalfigure[box3mm] 2 \eTD \bTD \eTD \eTR % \bTR \bTD \externalfigure[box3mm] 3\crlf \externalfigure[box3mm] 3a \eTD \bTD \eTD \eTR % \bTR \bTD \externalfigure[box3mm] 4 \eTD \bTD \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext Mari PS. I don't think it is relevant here, but my ConTeXt is relatively new, 2016.04.17.

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ConTeXt commands
by Meer, Hans van der 18 May '16

18 May '16

What is the latest edition of "ConTeXt commands"? The one I have here is dated July 1,2015. It is missing some commands however: \setupnotes to name an example. I find it a very handy document, but alas it is not standard in the contextbeta distribution as for example the LuaTeX manual in latest editiion is. Otherwise, where is it to be found? It seems absent from the Contextgarden homepage. Hans van der Meer

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don knuth
by Hans Hagen 18 May '16

18 May '16

https://vimeo.com/161783929/dba6a42ad3 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Overlays as background in textbackground
by Marco Patzer 18 May '16

18 May '16

Hi, overlays are not displayed when used as a background for textbackground. Is this a bug or are overlays not supported? \defineoverlay [myoverlay] [\ssd Foo] \definetextbackground [mybackgroundColour] [background=color, backgroundcolor=gray] \definetextbackground [mybackgroundOverlay] [background=myoverlay] \starttext %% overlay works \framed [background=myoverlay, align=normal] {\input knuth\par} %% background=color works \startmybackgroundColour \input knuth \stopmybackgroundColour %% overlay is missing \startmybackgroundOverlay \input knuth \stopmybackgroundOverlay \stoptext Marco

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Graphics not being aligned correctly in natural tables
by cryo shock 17 May '16

17 May '16

Hello fellow ConTeXt lovers, I am having trouble with placing graphics in between \bTD and \eTD. I am using the \externalfigure to do so which works great. The problem is that they aren't being aligned at all when i use \setupTABLE[align={middle,lohi}] whereas text is being aligned perfectly in the middle of each cell. I found out that one can use \dontleavehmode\externalfigure to force alignment, which als works. But when I use \dontleave... the graphic isn't being placed perfectly in the middle but slightly a little bit more to the top of the cell. It's not a real problem for me but since everything looks great in the document, the slightly to the top moved graphics bother me somehow. Does anybody know a workaround maybe? Greets, Sebastian

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How to export to PDF-A?
by Matija Šuklje 17 May '16

17 May '16

Dear ConTeXt community, There is a document I wrote in ConTeXt that I’m required to submit in PDF-A. I’ve already done my RTFM homework: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDF/A including links in it, but can’t figure out how to apply it in practice. So far I’ve identified two possible issues: • I haven’t set it right in the source https://gitlab.com/fla-llm-thesis/fla-llm-thesis/ https://gitlab.com/context-modules/pful • The ICC profiles aren’t in the right place – I can’t figure out where they should be on a Linux system. Help much appreciated! cheers, Matija -- gsm: tel:+386.41.849.552 www: http://matija.suklje.name xmpp: matija.suklje(a)gabbler.org sip: matija_suklje(a)ippi.fr

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definebodyfontenvironment
by Meer, Hans van der 16 May '16

16 May '16

I like to execute this statement \definebodyfontenvironment[somevalue] in order to avoid lots of error messages as such: fonts > bodyfont '8.0pt' is defined (can better be done global Is this definebodyfontenvironment macro fully executed each time it is called or does ConTeXt remember and execute it once only? Hans van der Meer

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problem with \setupdelimitedtext
by Alan Bowen 16 May '16

16 May '16

In the following, the indentation using \startblockquote is twice what it should be: \setupdelimitedtext [blockquote] [before={\blank[small,fixed] \setupnarrower[left=1.5pc,right=0pc] \startnarrower[left,right] \noindentation}, after={\par\stopnarrower \blank[small,fixed] \noindentation}] \starttext \input ward \setupnarrower[left=1.5pc,right=0pc] \startnarrower[left,right] \input ward \stopnarrower \startblockquote \input ward \stopblockquote \stoptext What have I missed? Alan

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halign broken
by Meer, H. van der 16 May '16

16 May '16

There seems something very much amiss with \halign in later ConTeXt versions. This typesets fine in PlainTeX and is an example taken from a textbook. \tabskip=1em\halign{% \hfil\it#\hfil&\hfil#\hfil&#&\hfil#\crA&B&C&D\cr} Also in contextversion 2012.05.30 (from a TeXlive distribution). But it fails at least in ConTeXt ver: 2013.03.20 10:34 MKIV and in ConTeXt ver: 2013.04.16 12:08 MKIV beta with the following error ! Only one # is allowed per tab. system > tex > error on line 5 in file fixedwidth.tex: Only one # is allowed per tab ... 1 \starttext 2 contextversion=\contextversion\par 3 \tabskip=1em 4 \halign{% 5 >> \hfil\it#\hfil&\hfil#\hfil&#&\hfil#\cr 6 A&B&C&D\cr} 7 \stoptext l.5 \hfil\it#\hfil&\hfil# \hfil&#&\hfil#\cr Why? How primitive it may be, I would like to use \halign now and then. Hans van der Meer

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Re: [NTG-context] Latin setupmathematics
by Hans Åberg 16 May '16

16 May '16

> On 16 May 2016, at 01:00, Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > > On 5/15/2016 11:55 PM, Hans Åberg wrote: >> >>> On 15 May 2016, at 23:18, Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: >>> >>>>> but eventually typesetting will become a niche and end up in the arts but i will probably not live long enough to see that happen >>>> >>>> From the point of computer language design, TeX is not very good. One of the pitfalls of macro programming is that it gives the impression of lambda calculus efficiency without having it so one ends up spending a lot of time figuring out trivialities, which is why eventually was added, I gather. >>> >>> it's not that bad .. the tex language has a certain charm that one needs to get accustomed to (as does metapost) ... and, combined with lua it's even more fun >> >> Ideally, there should have been only one language with lambda capacity, and better syntax, though it is a problem figuring out what it might be. > > just look at how many programming languages are there and will be there (no surprise with billions of people and taste) > > you see the same with markup languages: people want simple, then need more and so simple becomes more and when not well thought about beforehand simple then becomes ugly and it all starts anew Indeed computer tend to have natural life cycles, after they have matured, further development becomes difficult. > interesting tex was flexible enough to survive many decades Other survivors are C, C++, Scheme. With TeX, change may start as with Lua, only some better syntax for text input. I experimented a bit with giving Guile a C++ API, and then then there is a problem with that that C++ is statically typed whereas Guile is dynamic. For example, Guile does not distinguish statically between different types of numbers: integers, rationals, etc, so the proper way from the point of C++ is to only have open number type. But static typing is important in optimization. And giving implement traditional function syntax on top of Guile does not work well, because (f, x_1, …, x_k) does not correspond semantically exactly to f(x_1, …, x_n). And there is a problem with the Scheme strict evaluation. So such issues lead towards to the design of a new language, rather than relying on an already existing.

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balancing columns
by Pablo Rodriguez 16 May '16

16 May '16

Hi Hans, I have the following sample: \mainlanguage[la] \definefontfamily [mainface] [serif] [TeX Gyre Pagella] \setupbodyfont[mainface, 7.8pt] \setupnotes[compress=yes] \setupnotations[alternative=serried] \definelinenote[aNote] \definelinenote[bNote][n=2] \definelinenote[cNote][n=3] \definelinenote[dNote][paragraph=yes] \def\ANote#1#2{#1\aNote{#1] #2}} \def\BNote#1#2{#1\bNote{#1] #2}} \def\CNote#1#2{#1\cNote{#1] #2}} \def\DNote#1#2{#1\dNote{#1] #2}} \starttext \dorecurse{50}{\startcolumns[n=2, balance=yes] \color[red]{% Aequivoca dicuntur quorum nomen solum commune est, secundum nomen vero substantiae ratio diversa, ut animal homo et quod pingitur. Horum enim solum nomen commune est, secundum nomen vero substantiae ratio diversa; si enim quis assignet quid est utrique eorum quo sint animalia, propriam assignabit utriusque rationem.} \column \startlinenumbering[continue] Aequivoca dicuntur quorum \CNote{nomen}{première note} solum commune est, secundum nomen vero \ANote{substantiae}{seconde note} \ANote{ratio}{seconde note} diversa, ut animal \DNote{homo}{troisième note} et quod pingitur. Horum enim solum nomen commune est, secundum nomen vero substantiae ratio diversa; si enim quis assignet quid est utrique eorum quo sint animalia, propriam assignabit utriusque rationem. \stoplinenumbering \stopcolumns} \stoptext I must be missing something, since columns aren’t balanced on pages 1, 4, 5, 7 and 8. The text for both columns is the same paragraph. Isn’t it a bug? BTW, is there any way to force that the text before or after a \column command remains always on the same column? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Problem with urls
by Robert Blackstone 15 May '16

15 May '16

Dear all, Can any of you explain, or, better, suggest a remedy for, the following problem: I want active urls in footnotes. With the same setups and correct urls, some of them become active and some others not. See the following ME: +++++++++++++++++ \setupinteraction[state=start,focus=standard,style=,color=blue,contrastcolor=] \starttext AA \footnote{\goto{http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90634431.r=Francois+Couperin.langEN}[url(http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90634431.r=Francois+Couperin.langEN)]} BB\footnote{\goto{http://imslp.org/wiki/Tuoni_ecclesiastici_con_li_loro_ver… CC \footnote{\goto{http://www.saraband.com.au/figured_bass.htm}[url(http://www.saraband.com.au/figured_bass.htm)]} \stoptext ++++++++++++++++++ When I process this with mkiv, the urls in AA and CC are active, while in BB it is not. Why? Thanks in advance for any help. Best regards, Robert Blackstone

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what does rscale=auto achieve?
by Pablo Rodriguez 15 May '16

15 May '16

Dear list, I have the following sample: \definefallbackfamily [mainface] [rm] [DejaVu Serif] [preset=range:cyrillic, rscale=auto] \definefallbackfamily [mainface] [rm] [GFS Didot] [preset=range:greek, rscale=auto] \definefontfamily [mainface] [rm] [TeX Gyre Termes] \setupbodyfont[mainface] \starttext \startTEXpage[offset=1em] аaα \stopTEXpage \stoptext I thought that "rscale=auto" would scale the typeface so that its x-height would match the x-height from the main typeface. Since I don’t see any scaling, could anyone explain me what I’m missing? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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What are your ten (10) favorite typography books of the last 50 years? (*not* OT)
by luigi scarso 15 May '16

15 May '16

Read and propagate https://microsoft.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_blblv4EYNaboPnn -- luigi

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Re: [NTG-context] Problem with urls
by Robert Blackstone 14 May '16

14 May '16

On 14 May 2016, at 20:01, Pablo Rodriguez <oinos(a)gmx.es>l wrote: > > On 05/14/2016 11:25 AM, Robert Blackstone wrote: >> >> When I process this with mkiv, the urls in AA and CC are active, >> while in BB it is not. Why? > > Hi Robert, > > the comma is the problematic character in url: > > \setupinteraction[state=start] > \starttext > \goto{http://a,b.c}[url(http://a,b.c)] > \stoptext > > I’m afraid this might be a bug. I had not noticed the comma and, yes, you are right, when I remove the comma I get an active url which opens a page on the desired site but without contents. When I add the comma in the address I get the desired page. I could add this instruction to the footnote but that seems to me to be a bit odd. And Peter Münster <pmlists(a)free.fr> wrote > > Workaround: url(http://a\letterpercent2Cb.c) > > -- > Peter Incomprehensible for me, this workaround, but it does work ! Thank you both, Best regards, Robert

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Issue with margin notes with stack=yes (or =continue)
by josephcanedo＠gmail.com 13 May '16

13 May '16

Dear all, Using ConTeXt ver: 2016.05.01 09:52 MKIV beta, I see that marginal notes (using \inouter for example) are put 1 or more lines below expected when using stack= option. A simple MWE follows. \setupmargindata[outer][stack=yes] % or =continue \starttext Foo \inouter{note}*bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo \inouter{note}*bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo bar Foo \inouter{note}*bar Foo bar Foo bar \stoptext I’ve checked with ConTeXt Live that the problem does not happen on the current version of ConTeXt (marginal notes are on same line as the location in text). Many thanks for advising, Best regards Joseph Canedo

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RTL-related bug in \startcolumns
by Mohammad Hossein Bateni 13 May '16

13 May '16

Hello, In RTL text, I use direction=left to mirror the columns. I just noticed that surprisingly section numbering will not be correct. See the MWE below, where I get "2 First" at the top of the right column and then "1 Second" in the middle of the left column. The correct numbering should be "1 First" and "2 Second." \starttext \startcolumns[n=2,direction=left] \section{First} \input knuth \section{Second} \input ward \stopcolumns \stoptext Produced using context version 2016.04.27 10:18. Thanks! —MHB

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xml expression error
by dr. Hans van der Meer 12 May '16

12 May '16

Why is there anexpression error here? I would expect that the expression number(-10000101) evaluates to a negative number taking part in the comparsion. It looks as if the minus sign is not seen as an unary minus, while -10000101 should have be evaluated by Lua's tonumber(-10000101). relevant code snippet is: \xmlfilter{#1}{lpath[number(@date) <= number(-10000101)]/command(...) xml > lpath > error in expression: number(@date) <= number(-10000101) => expr.number((ll.at and ll.at['date'])) <= expr.number(expr.child(ll,'-')10000101) Changing number(-10000101) to -10000101 does not make a difference. The @date attribute has no problem with a negative value. Hans van der Meer

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starting a chapter on odd page
by Andrea Valle 11 May '16

11 May '16

Dear all, in the book I’m finishing I’m using a structure like this \starttext \input c_preface.tex \input c_chapter1.tex [etc] \stoptext where each .tex file contains \startchapter[various options] \section{First section} etc \stopchapter The publisher is asking me to start each chapter on a odd page. Can I do it by setting some options? Thanks! -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 --> 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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grid and heading distance
by Csikos Bela 11 May '16

11 May '16

Hello context users: I would like to use grid layout in my document. It works well but the distance between headings (section, subsection etc) and the following normal text becomes too big. How can I decrease this distance to normal, similar to non-grid layout? Here is an example: \usemodule[ipsum] \defineipsum[he][file=lipsum.txt,alternative=lines,n=1] \defineipsum[pa][file=lipsum.txt,alternative=paragraph,n=3] \defineipsum[pb][file=lipsum.txt,alternative=paragraph,n=4] \setuplayout[grid=yes] \setupinterlinespace[4.2ex] \starttext \chapter{\ipsum[he]} \ipsum[pa] \section{\ipsum[he]} \ipsum[pb] \subsection{\ipsum[he]} \ipsum[pb] \section{\ipsum[he]} \ipsum[pb] \section{\ipsum[he]} \ipsum[pb] \section{\ipsum[he]} \ipsum[pb] \stoptext I attach lipsum.txt file. If I compile the document without grid layout the distance between heading and text is correct, but with grid layout it is too much, it could be one or two "line-heights" less. I use ConTeXt ver: 2016.05.10 23:43 MKIV beta fmt: 2016.5.11 int: english/english. Thanks in advance, bcsikos

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[OT] Using ConTeXt to generate Minecraft maps (& asking for votes to get to NASA)
by Mojca Miklavec 11 May '16

11 May '16

Hi, TL;DR: please vote for eXoCraft at https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/vote (We only need a few hundred votes to get to the final five: one vote per person per day until the end of the week; the team with most votes gets an invitation to NASA.) ------------------------- Background: It all started with a wonderful BachoTeX conference and users frustrated by inaccurate maps and unable to find their huts after the bonfire was over at 3 am. http://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/ So some people took the GPS, mapped the area and entered the data into OpenStreetMaps. Some years back I challenged Hans to let ConTeXt draw a nice map using lua & xml & metapost combined. Here's the result: http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2014/programme.shtml http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2014/talks/2014-09-12-mojca-maps/OpenStree… Meanwhile we also came up with http://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/bachotex-promo/bachotex-site-color.png This year we took the existing map-generating sources to the next level. Since Hans' nephew is a great lover of MineCraft, we helped him build the foundations for creating a geographically accurate BachoTeX map in Minecraft while enjoying the wonderful conference. Using ConTeXt of course! (Preview is available here: https://github.com/mojca/bachotex-maps/tree/master/minecraft/google-maps/ba…, but you need to clone the project first to view in offline and please note that the map project is not finished yet.) Now, this last step has only been possible due to some wonderful team-mates and an event that happened one week before BachoTeX. This was the team effort: https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/solar-system/open-world-gene… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmM1DqG4dTE The project actually got us to the top-25 in the world and the winner (based solely on the number of votes) gets a trip to NASA. I'm not claiming that what we could learn and do in one day and a half is super special, but we would be grateful for any votes ... Thank you, Mojca

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alternate to font feature file for glyph substitution ?
by jfbu 10 May '16

10 May '16

Hi, how should I go at the Plain TeX level about implementing the following glyph substitution which I formerly expressed in a font feature file: languagesystem DFLT dflt; languagesystem latn dflt; feature oneb { sub one by one.ss01; } oneb; The font is Vollkorn, a Plain LuaTeX file which worked in TL2015 would be \input luaotfload.sty \font\x="Vollkorn:script=latn;language=DFLT;+tlig;featurefile=vollkornlua.fff;+oneb;" \x 123 \bye % Local Variables: % TeX-engine: luatex % End: The glyph for digit 1 is modified and picked in stylistic set 1. I don't want to globally switch to that stylistic set, I am only interested into digit 1. My use case is more with LuaLaTeX+fontspec, but if I am explained a Plain LuaTeX approach I can at least forward to Will Robertson who maintains fontspec and cross my fingers that it trickles down back to me at some point via update of fontspec, or luatex, or luaotfload, ... Please CC to me as although I asked for (temporary) list inscription I might not yet be registered. I am aware of https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2016/083952.html but can't work it out from there. Jean-François

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\right| spacing issue
by Weber, Matthias 09 May '16

09 May '16

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issue with # in url
by Pablo Rodriguez 09 May '16

09 May '16

Dear list, I have the following sample: \startbuffer[demo] <doc> Link not working: <a href="http://a.b/c#d">http://a.b/c#d</a> Link not working: <a href="http://a.b/c">http://a.b/c#d</a> Working link: <a href="http://a.b/c#d">http://a.b/c</a> </doc> \stopbuffer \starttext \startxmlsetups xml:initialize \xmlsetsetup{#1}{p|doc|a}{xml:*} \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{span[@label]}{xml:logo} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregistersetup{xml:initialize} \startxmlsetups xml:doc \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:p \xmlflush{#1}\par \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:a \mypersonalurl{\xmlflush{#1}} \stopxmlsetups \setupinteraction[state=start] \def\mypersonalurl#1{\bgroup\tt\goto{% \hyphenatedurl{#1}}[url(#1)]\egroup}% \unexpanded\def\href#1#2{\goto{#2} [url(#1)]} \xmlprocessbuffer{main}{demo}{} \stoptext Latest beta from 2016.05.08 17:30 doesn’t generate a clickable link with the first two paragraphs. It seems to be caused by the presence of # in the url. The latest beta I have that generates three clickable links is 2016.01.14 09:55 (using LuaTeX-0.87.0). >From beta 2016.02.01 13:26 (and LuaTeX-0.88.0) the first two links aren’t interactive. And this beta included a wrong rendering from # as "\Ux {23}". The wrong # conversion was corrected in beta from 2016.02.15 10:26 (and LuaTeX-0.89.0), but links weren’t made interactive. I hope the description helps. Could anyone confirm the issue? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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headline and no indent
by Andrea Valle 09 May '16

09 May '16

Dear all, I’m finishing a book in ConTeXt. The publisher is pretty happy with the results. But he asks me: When opting for paragraph indents, paragraphs following directly after a headline should no show the indent. I guess that the first line of chapter/section/subsection should have no indent. Hmm, how to get this? For chapter/section/subsection I have e.g. \setuphead[chapter] [style=\ss\tfc, before={\blank[1cm]\startframedtext[width=local, foregroundcolor=black, background=color, backgroundcolor=bgGrey1, framecolor=bgGrey2,offset=0.25cm, rulethickness=0.05cm, frame=off, topframe=on, bottomframe=on]\crlf},after={\stopframedtext\blank[4cm]}] Is there an available option to be set? Many thanks -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 --> 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) -------------------------------------------------- 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 --> 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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[OT] Full-width justification (xkcd)
by Mojca Miklavec 09 May '16

09 May '16

http://xkcd.com/1676/ Mojca PS: I guess that ConTeXt still lacks support for fillers and \startalign[snakes] ... \stopalign

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Handling Optical Sizes for Minion Pro in Context (LuaTeX)
by Antoine Cailliau 09 May '16

09 May '16

Hi, I'm continuing my quest for supporting Minion Pro font in my document. I defined the different sizes, as shown on contextgarden. But apparently, it does not (fully) work. The problems are : - When using \tfxx, \tfx, ... Regular font is always used, there is no switch to appropriate font. - When using \switchtobodyfont, switches are correct up to 12pt. After that, it fallback on xits-mathbold Any help is welcome :-) The compiled file : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwo7pPA5_WkDdlNLbHdkMjg2dkU/view?usp=shari… The source: \definefontalternative[me] ... \starttypescript [serif] [optical] [size] % design size 8 pt, size range (6 pt, 8.4 pt] \definebodyfont [4pt,5pt,6pt,7pt,8pt] [rm] [tf=SerifCaption sa 1, it=SerifCaptionItalic sa 1, me=SerifCaptionMedium sa 1, mi=SerifCaptionMediumItalic sa 1, se=SerifCaptionSemiBold sa 1, si=SerifCaptionSemiBoldItalic sa 1, bf=SerifCaptionBold sa 1, bi=SerifCaptionBoldItalic sa 1] % design size 11 pt, size range (8.4 pt, 13 pt] \definebodyfont [9pt,10pt,11pt,12pt] [rm] [tf=SerifRegular sa 1, it=SerifRegularItalic sa 1, me=SerifRegularMedium sa 1, mi=SerifRegularMediumItalic sa 1, se=SerifRegularSemiBold sa 1, si=SerifRegularSemiBoldItalic sa 1, bf=SerifRegularBold sa 1, bi=SerifRegularBoldItalic sa 1] % design size 19 pt, size range (13 pt, 19.9 pt] \definebodyfont [14.4pt,17.3pt] [rm] [tf=SerifSubhead sa 1, it=SerifSubheadItalic sa 1, me=SerifSubheadMedium sa 1, mi=SerifSubheadMediumItalic sa 1, se=SerifSubheadSemiBold sa 1, si=SerifSubheadSemiBoldItalic sa 1, bf=SerifSubheadBold sa 1, bi=SerifSubheadBoldItalic sa 1] % design size 72 pt, size range (19.9 pt, 72 pt] \definebodyfont [20.7pt] [rm] [tf=SerifDisplay sa 1, it=SerifDisplayItalic sa 1, me=SerifDisplayMedium sa 1, mi=SerifDisplayMediumItalic sa 1, se=SerifDisplaySemiBold sa 1, si=SerifDisplaySemiBoldItalic sa 1, bf=SerifDisplayBold sa 1, bi=SerifDisplayBoldItalic sa 1] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [minionpro] \definefontsynonym [SerifRegular] [file:MinionPro-Regular.otf] [features=default] ... \stoptypescript \definetypeface [source] [rm] [serif] [minionpro] [optical] \definetypeface [source] [mm] [math] [xits] [default] \setupbodyfont[source, 11pt] \starttext ... \page {\tfxx \purefontname\font: \input ward \blank} {\tfx \purefontname\font: \input ward \blank} {\tf \purefontname\font: \input ward \blank} {\tfa \purefontname\font: \input ward \blank} {\tfb \purefontname\font: \input ward \blank} {\tfc \purefontname\font: \input ward \blank} {\tfd \purefontname\font: \input ward \blank} \page \dostepwiserecurse {6} {22} {1} {\switchtobodyfont[#1pt] \purefontname\font: \input ward \blank} \stoptext

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Enumerations
by Henman 08 May '16

08 May '16

I am using the 'repeat' directive to cause itemizations to display upper level numbers as well as lower ones, but, sometimes I want to put it on hold and just display a simple alpha enumeration For example at the third level. I can't see how to turn off the repeat. 1 1.1 1.2 a. For example here I just want the alphabetical enumerators. / b. 1.3 2. /

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Define font based on language
by Michal Ondrejáš 08 May '16

08 May '16

Hello I need some help regarding font definitions. The situation is like this: \definefont [issuefont] [SansRegular at 14pt] .... {\issuefont \labeltext{issue} \crlf \documentvariable{issue}} I need to get chinese text into the issue variable, but for that I need to change the font. I need something like this: \def\chooseissufont{% \translate [zh={Sim Sun}, en={SansRegular}]} \definefont [issuefont] [\chooseissuefont at 14pt] Using "zh" is ok, I managed to somehow make ConTeXt accept the "zh" language code. It's not perfect but it's for another topic. I get the text in this way, but the sizing doesn't work. The text is too small in all languages. Any dieas Thank you, Michal

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Vertical align in side by side paragraphs
by Tom Harrop 08 May '16

08 May '16

Hello, How can I make both/all columns in a paragraphs environment align flush bottom, e.g. for addressing a letter? I saw a line in the manual about using top=\vfill but I couldn’t get this to work. Should I be using TABLE here? Thanks (again), Tom \starttext \defineparagraphs[Par] [n=2, before={\blank}, after={\blank}] \setupparagraphs[Par][1] [align=flushleft] \setupparagraphs[Par][2] [align=flushright] \startPar \vfill % I hoped this would push bob’s address down Bob’s name \crlf Company \crlf Bob’s street \crlf Bob’s town \crlf Bob’s country \Par My street \crlf My town \crlf My country \blank My phone number \blank Today's date \stopPar Dear Bob, Blah blah blah \stoptext

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beta
by Hans Hagen 08 May '16

08 May '16

Hi, I uploaded a beta. This one has an (partially) alternative loader for type one files so that we can apply features as with open type fonts (node mode). I didn't test it extensively but I dont' expect many problems either. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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custom cite in \externalfigure
by eidenbenz 06 May '16

06 May '16

Could somebody explain me why this (the part that is commented) doesn't work? I get the following error: tex error > tex error on line 0 in file : ! Emergency stop <*> cont-yes.mkiv <empty file> *** (job aborted, no legal \end found) Thanks Michael ------------------------------------------- \startbuffer[duane] @image {tug2014, title = "TUG 2014", url = "http://tug.org/tug2014/", url_image = "http://tug.org/art/tug2014-color.jpg", url_thumb = "http://tug.org/tug2014/t2014-thumb.jpg", description = "Official drawing of the TUG 2014 conference", author = "Duane Bibby", year = 2014, } \stopbuffer \definebtxdataset [duane] \usebtxdataset [duane] [duane.buffer] \usebtxdefinitions [duane] \definebtxrendering [duane] [dataset=duane, method=local, ] \setupbtxlist [duane] [number=no] \startsetups btx:duane:list:image \btxfield{title} \stopsetups \startsetups btx:duane:cite:external {\externalfigure[\btxfield{url_image}][width=10cm]} \stopsetups \startsetups btx:duane:cite:filename {\btxfield{url_image}} \stopsetups \starttext \cite[filename][duane::tug2014]\par \cite[external][duane::tug2014]\par % Why does this not work? %\externalfigure[\cite[filename][duane::tug2014]][width=10cm]\par \placebtxrendering[duane] \stoptext

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searching in subdirectories with project structure
by Javier M Mora 06 May '16

06 May '16

Hi, (this is my first email to the list) I've created a project for my Thesis. The file tree is: /prod_thesis/ /prod_thesis.tex /envi_thesis.tex /comp_chap1/ /comp_chap1.tex /envi_chap1.tex /images/ /image1.jpg /image2.jpg (...) /tables/ /table1.tex /table2.tex (...) /comp_chap2/ /comp_chap2.tex /envi_chap2.tex /images/ /image1b.jpg /image2b.jpg (...) /tables/ /table1b.tex /table2b.tex (...) (...) envi_chap1.tex has: \startenvironment envi_chap1 \product prod_thesis \usepath[images] \usepath[tables] \stopenvironment comp_chap1.tex has: \startcomponent comp_chap1.tex \product prod_thesis \environment envi_chap1 blah blah blah \placefigure[here][fig:img1]{img1}{ \externalfigure[image1.jpg] } blah blah blah \input tables/table1 blah blah blah \stopcomponent prod_thesis.tex has: \startproduct prod_thesis \environment envi_thesis blah blah blah \component comp_chap1 \component comp_chap2 (...) \stopproduct and finally, envi_thesis.tex has: \startenvironment envi_thesis \usepath[{comp_chap1,comp_chap2}] blah (about styles) blah \stopenvironment If I cd into comp_chap1 dir and exec: texexec -xtx comp_chap1.tex the chapter1 is generated without any problem. All images and tables are inserted ok. But if I cd into prod_thesis and exec: texexec -xtx prod_thesis.tex all images are replace by "dummy images", and tables are not found (raising an error in compilation of document). In prod_thesis compilation (is it correct to say "compilation of document"?), context is looking for file /prod_thesis/tables/table1.tex but isn't not looking in /prod_thesis/comp_chap1/tables/table1.tex. I've created a copy of tables in /prod_thesis/ and document compiled good. But i don't like to pollute prod_thesis directory. Questions: What is the canonical way to keep subdirectories of dependencies in a component? (to be reused later in product compilation) I thought \usepath was to indicate where look for input files. I have to use "\input tables/table1" to find table 1. \usepath didn't work in envi_chap1.tex. Cheers.

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Duplex printing problem!
by Geert Verhaag 05 May '16

05 May '16

Hi, I try something like this: *\definepapersize[BOOK][width=270mm,height=195mm]** **\setuppapersize[BOOK][A4,landscape]* while my *\setuplayout* command contains: *location={doublesided,left}* among other settings. I would expect that the BOOK-page on the front and back side would move to the correct corner, but that doesn't seem to happen. Both on the front and back are shifted to the left!? I'would expect them to alter position between left and right! What am I doing wrong? Regards, Gerard Verhaag By the way running context --version yields the following info: mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 0.60 mtx-context | mtx-context | main context file: /home/verhaag/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.mkiv mtx-context | current version: 2013.08.11 20:23

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Luatex 0.90.0 announcement
by luigi scarso 05 May '16

05 May '16

============================================================== LuaTeX Release 0.90.0 was released 2016032512 ============================================================== This is the version that will go on TeX Live 2016 - mostly small bug fixes - a few setters/getters added to the pdf namespace (were in the tex one before) - a few patches to the lua interface macros - a bit more control over protrusion edges - no fundamental changes As usual, the archives can be downloaded from supelec: https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/luatex/ You could also check out the sources via anonymous svn: svn co --username anonsvn --password anonsvn https://foundry.supelec.fr/svn/luatex/tags/beta-0.90.0 Bugs and feature requests can be added to the issue tracker at http://tracker.luatex.org Have fun, Hans, Luigi, Taco

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listalternative and filler throws error
by Marco Patzer 04 May '16

04 May '16

Hi, the following used to work with 2014.02.14 17:07 but a current 2016.05.01 09:52 throws the error: Use of \syst_helpers_set_local_hsize_yes doesn't match its definition \definefiller [myfiller] \setupcombinedlist [content] [alternative=c] \setuplistalternative [c] [filler={\filler[myfiller]}] \starttext \completecontent \chapter{Foo} \stoptext Has the interface changed in the mean time or is it a bug? Marco

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Handling Semi-Bold for Minion Pro in Context (LuaTeX)
by Antoine Cailliau 04 May '16

04 May '16

Hello, I'm trying to use the font Minion Pro for my document. I'm using the simplefont module but I cannot use the semibold font. I guess I'm missing some line in the configuration to bind sb to the semibold variant. Here is a short example of my setup: \definefontalternative[sb] \definefontalternative[sbi] \definefontfeature[default][default] [mode=node, script=latn, kern=yes, palt=yes, tlig=yes, trep=yes, init=yes, size=yes] \definefontfeature[frac][default][frac=yes] \definefontfeature[sups][default][sups=yes] \definefontfeature[onum][default][onum=yes] \definefontfeature[lnum][default][lnum=yes] \definefontfamily [myfamily] [serif] [MinionPro] \definefontfamily [myfamily] [sans] [MyriadPro] \setupbodyfont [myfamily] \define[1]\sup{\feature[+][f:superscript]#1} \defineparagraphs[TwoColumns][n=2, align={hz, hanging}] \setupparagraphs[TwoColumns][1][width=100pt, style=italic, align=left] \starttext \startbuffer[Plato] How you, O Athenians, have been affected by my accusers, I cannot tell; but I know that they almost made me forget who I was--so persuasively did they speak; and yet they have hardly uttered a word of truth. \stopbuffer \startTwoColumns Roman\TwoColumns \getbuffer[Plato] \stopTwoColumns \startTwoColumns Italic\TwoColumns {\it\getbuffer[Plato]} \stopTwoColumns \startTwoColumns Semi bold\TwoColumns {\sb\getbuffer[Plato]} \stopTwoColumns \startTwoColumns Bold\TwoColumns {\bf\getbuffer[Plato]} \stopTwoColumns \startTwoColumns Semi bold italic\TwoColumns {\sbi\getbuffer[Plato]} \stopTwoColumns \startTwoColumns Bold italic\TwoColumns {\bi\getbuffer[Plato]} \stopTwoColumns \stoptext Any help is deeply welcome, Antoine

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font features in math
by Ulrike Fischer 04 May '16

04 May '16

When I compile this in context all number are oldstyle numbers: \starttext \font\test= {name:TeX-Gyre-Termes:+onum} \test 0123456789 $\fam0 \textfont0=\test 0123456789$ \stoptext When I run a similar plaintex (or latex) example in texlive 2016 with a new luaotfload then the text numbers are (as wanted) old style, but the numbers in math mode are lining numbers (the font is correct): \input luaotfload.sty \font\test= {name:TeX-Gyre-Termes:+onum} \test 0123456789 $\fam0 \textfont0=\test 0123456789$ \bye So somehow in math the +onum is lost in plain and latex but not in context. What is context doing differently to avoid this? (It can't be the fontloader. I forced luaotfload to use the context files from the minimals.) -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/

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[lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br: [ANN] ltokenp, a token processor for Lua]
by Philipp Gesang 03 May '16

03 May '16

Hi Hans, all, this was just announced on lua-l. Might be relevant to Context since the advertised functionality intersects with mtx-package / util-mrg.lua: Potential uses include: - Compressing Lua programs by removing comments and whitespace (strip.lua) - Removing assertions (assert.lua) - Adding new syntax sugar (self.lua) - Experimenting with new syntax without hacking the Lua source (reserved.lua) I especially like the idea of having some kind of a preprocessor. The original announcement can be found at Gmane in case the attachment is eaten by the list: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/121329 Have fun, Philipp ----- Forwarded message from Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf(a)tecgraf.puc-rio.br> ----- Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 02:17:22 -0300 From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf(a)tecgraf.puc-rio.br> To: lua-l(a)lists.lua.org Subject: [ANN] ltokenp, a token processor for Lua User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) ----- End forwarded message ----- ltokenp is now available at http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/5.3/ltokenp.tar.gz It should work for Lua 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3. The README is attached. Enjoy. All feedback welcome. --lhf ltokenp is a token processor for Lua: it allows you to process the stream of tokens coming from the Lua lexer. Potential uses include: - Compressing Lua programs by removing comments and whitespace (strip.lua) - Removing assertions (assert.lua) - Adding new syntax sugar (self.lua) - Experimenting with new syntax without hacking the Lua source (reserved.lua) ltokenp accepts Lua scripts to run and files to process. The scripts and files are executed and processed as seen. Each script appears as a separate argument after '-s', one '-s' per script. Scripts typically output the contents of the files with some modifications. Unfortunately, all comments and whitespace are eaten by the lexer and never reach the token stream. A typical usage is ltokenp -s script.lua [file.lua ...] but you can also do ltokenp -s s1.lua f1.lua -s s2.lua f2.lua A global function named FILTER will be called once for each token seen in the files. So, scripts typically define FILTER. If no scripts are given, ltokenp just dumps the token stream with this: function FILTER(line,token,text,value) print(line,token,text,value) end As can been above, the FILTER function receives 4 arguments from the lexer: - the line number where the token appears - the token as a number - the token as text - the value of names, numbers, and strings; for other tokens, the value is the same as the text. To try ltokenp, just edit Makefile to reflect your installation of Lua and then run make. This will build ltokenp and run a simple test. Note that ltokenp needs inside information from the Lua private headers and so it needs to be built using a Lua build directory, not just the usual installation directories. This code is hereby placed in the public domain. Please send comments, suggestions, and bug reports to lhf(a)tecgraf.puc-rio.br .

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Garamond Premier Pro font goodies file
by massifr＠fastwebnet.it 03 May '16

03 May '16

Hello list, I'm using the Adobe Garamond Premier Pro font. It has 4 optical sizes: Caption, Normal, Subhead, Display. I tried to modify ebgaramond.lfg to adapt it to Garamond Premier Pro. You find it as an attachment. I don't know how to use that goodies file to see the different optical sizes in a document. I've tried this: \loadfontgoodies[GaramondPremierPro] \definefontfamily [default] [rm] [tf=name:GaramondPremierPro-Regular, it=name:GaramondPremierPro-Italic] \setupbodyfont[default,12pt] \dostepwiserecurse {6} {22} {1} { \definebodyfontenvironment[default][#1pt][text=#1pt,em=italic] } \starttext \dostepwiserecurse {6} {22} {1} { \switchtobodyfont[#1pt] \purefontname\font: \input tufte \blank } \stoptext but it does not work. Any help? Thanks in advance, Massi To Hans: if you find it useful for Context, you can add and/or modify it to the distribution. You can also change the author to yourself.

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Autogenerating a module's documentation
by Mohammad Hossein Bateni 01 May '16

01 May '16

Hello list, Has anyone managed to generate documentation for lua files recently? According to wiki/Module <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modules>, something like the following should work: context --ctx=x-ldx core-con.lua But it only produces core-con.lua.prep and not the PDF file. In fact, it seems to work on the prep file and compile a core-con.lua.prep.prep which escapes even the XML tags of the prep file. Probably some switch changed and the ctx file was not updated, so it just doesn't know how to deal with the prep file properly? On the other hand, the command to get PDF documentation out of TeX files does work and produces (albeit with some errors at times) the final documentation. context --ctx=s-mod core-con.mkiv Thanks! —MHB

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RTL \definedescriptions
by Mohammad Hossein Bateni 01 May '16

01 May '16

Hello Hans and Wolfgang, I tried different options in \definedescription and compared LTR and RTL behavior. There are certain inconsistencies/bugs in the RTL setting. Attached you can see a TeX file and the resulting PDF, trying different options. The first two pages consider different parameters in the LTR setting and then the same come in the RTL environment. In the following I use alt instead of alternative. Here are the issues I noticed: 1) Why isn't the head text consistently mirrored in the RTL environment? It happens only in alt=serried. 2) Option hang=2 produces a strange result for RTL. The hanging part appears on the opposite side of the head text, which somehow pushes the head text outside the text area. 3) Option alt=top for RTL still puts the head text on the left-hand side. 4) I expect the LTR and RTL versions of the same settings to mirror one another, but they do not. Although LTR/alt=left and RTL/alt=right look pretty similar (and so do LTR/alt=right and RTL/alt=left), but these pairs do not mirror one another. In particular, there is some space to the right of the head text in LTR/alt=right, while there is none to the left of LTR/alt=left. The same thing shows in the margin alternatives where the distance between the head text and the body is different in RTL and LTR. —MHB

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typesetbuffer in \insertpages
by Pablo Rodriguez 01 May '16

01 May '16

Dear list, I have the following sample, \setuppapersize[A5][A4, landscape] \setuparranging[2UP] \setuplayout [backspace=0pt, topspace=0pt, width=middle, height=middle, location=middle, header=0pt, footer=0pt] \startbuffer[hola] \mainlanguage[es] \starttext \dorecurse{32}{\input cervantes-es\par} \stoptext \stopbuffer \starttext \typesetbuffer[hola] %~ \insertpages[{\typesetbuffer[hola]}][width=Opt] \stoptext Is there any way to make the commented \insertpages command work? Or is there any way to force the PDF file name in \typesetbuffer? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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after with fixed position
by Pablo Rodriguez 01 May '16

01 May '16

Dear list, I have the following sample: \showgrid \setuphead[chapter][after={\blank[10*big]}] \starttext \chapter{Knuth} \input knuth \chapter{Zapf} \input zapf \chapter{Knuth\\\&\\Zapf} \input zapf\par\input zapf \stoptext How could I have the text after the chapter heading with a fixed distance, no matter how many lines the title itself has? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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ConTeXt Meeting 2016 Announcement
by Taco Hoekwater 01 May '16

01 May '16

Hello everybody! == Announcement == Pragma ADE and the ConTeXt Group are looking forward to welcoming you at the 10th International ConTeXt Meeting that will take place on September 25–October 1, 2016 in Kalenberg, The Netherlands. We are celebrating! Thirty years of Pragma ADE, twenty years of public ConTeXt availability, ten years of organised ConTeXt Meetings, and last but certainly not least, the birth of LuaTeX one point zero! The meeting will host ConTeXt and LuaTeX developers and users and give you the opportunity to present your results, experiences and ideas on future development. The presentations will be accompanied by tutorials on different ConTeXt and LuaTeX techniques. Registration is now open. Direct link to the registration form: http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2016/register.shtml Thanks to a large birthday gift from Pragma ADE, we have managed very competitive attendance fees. And there are additional discounts for dedicated ConTeXt Group members. The conference website has the exact details. == Call for submissions == We always set a theme for the meeting, and the theme for this meeting is: Piece of Cake Mostly, we needed to have an excuse to buy a very big birthday cake :) If you want to do an on-topic talk submission, it would be nice to get some talks demonstrating specific typesetting problems that are indeed a piece of cake to handle with ConTeXt. But anything at all related to ConTeXt that you would like to share is an acceptable subject for a presentation, tutorial, discussion, Q&A session, demonstration, workshop, recital, sketch, or sermon. We also take requests so if there is a particular topic that you would like to hear about, please let us know and we will try hard to add a matching talk or workshop to the schedule. The programme committee is Hans Hagen and Taco Hoekwater, feel free to email them with hints and ideas. Alternatively, you can use the comment field of the registration form. == website == For the meeting: http://meeting.contextgarden.net For the Context Group: http://group.contextgarden.net Hoping to meet many of you in Kalenberg, Hans Hagen (Pragma ADE) Taco Hoekwater (ConTeXt Group)

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Strange bug in the latest version of ConTeXt
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 01 May '16

01 May '16

Hello ConTeXist. I have just installed the latest version of ConTeXt standalone. When I compiled an my old source code, I received an error: ! You can't use `\Ustopmath' in restricted horizontal mode! You can't use `\Ustopmath' in restricted horizontal mode! You can't use `\Ustartmath' in restricted horizontal mode! Inline math should end with \Ustopmath This strange error is caused something in my extensive library for handling CSV files. I'm not sure why, because in library I am not use with any mathematical mode. I am sorry, but at this moment I am not able to reveal the mistake to be able make a minimal example. Some of the older versions (not necessarily penultimate) worked without problems. Is there someone who help me start look from which point look for a mistake in my code library? Thanks for the information. Jaroslav Hajtmar

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Luatex 0.95.0 error with bidi and Hebrew
by Akira Kakuto 01 May '16

01 May '16

> Code: > ... > > My installation, or is this a bug? Confirmed. By testing i, your example is compiled: if i then -- line 1205 in font-otj.lua local leftkern = i.leftkern if leftkern and leftkern ~= 0 then setfield(prev,"replace",newkern(leftkern)) -- maybe also leftkern end end Best, Akira

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Problems with ttc-fonts
by Ulrike Fischer 01 May '16

01 May '16

I was playing with the addfeature handler mentioned here https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2016/083952.html and run into a problem with ttc-fonts: \starttext \directlua{ fonts.handlers.otf.addfeature { name = "oneb", { type = "substitution", data = { ["1"] = "period", }, }, "feature test", } } \font\test= name:LatinModernRoman:+oneb \test 1234567890 \font\test= name:cambria:+oneb \test 1234567890 \stoptext This gives: .234567890 p234567890 So with latin modern it works fine, while with cambria the first letter of the substituation is used. The used fonts are: filename=lmroman10-bold.otf filetype=otf format=otf foundname=D:/context-minimals/context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman10-bold.otf usedmethod=database filename=c:/windows/fonts/cambria.ttc format=ttc foundname=c:/windows/fonts/cambria.ttc usedmethod=direct (I have no idea why the bold version of lm is used, but I don't care now) Looking at the tma I see one difference between both fonts: glyphs in cambria have no "name". A typical entry looks like this [46]={ ["boundingbox"]={ 109, 0, 311, 232 }, ["index"]=484, ["unicode"]=46, ["width"]=420, }, while with latin modern it looks like this: [46]={ ["boundingbox"]={ 81, 0, 237, 156 }, ["index"]=88, ["name"]="period", ["unicode"]=46, ["width"]=319, }, Is is normal that glyph of ttc-fonts have no name data? If yes how should one do substituations in such fonts? -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/

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Luatex 0.95.0 error with bidi and Hebrew
by Rik Kabel 30 Apr '16

30 Apr '16

Version information: ConTeXt ver: 2016.04.30 18:59 MKIV beta fmt: 2016.4.30 int: english/english luajittex, 0.95.0 and luatex, 0.95.0 running on Windows 10 x64 Error message: error: ...eXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/font-otj.lua:1205: attempt to index local 'i' (a nil value) tex error > tex error on line 7 in file C://Users/rik/Desktop/comp_body.tex: ? Code: \setupdirections [bidi=global] \definefont [hebrew] [default] [lang=heb,ccmp=yes,script=hebr] \definefont [Hebrew] [sileotsr*hebrew sa .9] \starttext \startparagraph Hebrew : {\Hebrew רִ} \stopparagraph \stoptext When the first line is removed, or the value of bidi changed to on, no error is thrown. A single-font version of the code, for fonts that have Hebrew glyphs, fails with some fonts (libertine shown below), but works with others, for example, dejavu sans. Code: \setupdirections [bidi=global] \setupbodyfont[libertine] \starttext \startparagraph Hebrew : רִ \stopparagraph \stoptext My installation, or is this a bug? -- Rik Kabel

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typesetting content of attribute
by Meer, Hans van der 30 Apr '16

30 Apr '16

The aim is to typeset a TeX-command given in an attribute on an xml node. Example ... \xmlatt{#1}{style} ... where the node has <node style="\bf"/> The problem is that this produces the macrotext \bf and does not execute the \bf. I guess that the catcoderegime is not that of TeX here. With what (magical) incantation to do this? Nb. I know that here I could have coded 'bf" and called with \csname..\endcsname, but this is but a simple example and would not work for '\it\bf', etc. Hans van der Meer

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Re: [NTG-context] Problem with Quran KFGQPC Uthman Taha Naskh font
by Mohammad Hossein Bateni 30 Apr '16

30 Apr '16

The attachments in the email below were too big for the list (>100KB). I uploaded them here <http://mhbateni.com/context/bug-01/>. On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:20 PM, Mohammad Hossein Bateni <bateni(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am not sure whether I'm missing certain features in the font definition > or whether there is actually some bug in how CONTEXT or LuaTeX for that > matter handles this font. It might as well be that there is something > wrong with the font <http://fonts.qurancomplex.gov.sa/?page_id=608>, > though I doubt that. > > Attached is my simple test program and the PDF output, which is annotated > to show the problems. You can compare with the reference PNG file I > generated via rendering in Chrome. I hope you can see the annotations > where I have pointed out the incorrect typesetting, otherwise you can > compare the two outputs to notice the difference: for the most part, some > diacritics that are not placed in the right location (both vertically and > horizontally). > > I am using Mac OS X with CONTEXT current version: 2016.04.13 16:46. > > Thanks, > MHB >

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evaluation of != and ~=
by Meer, Hans van der 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

This one took the better part of an afternoon from me, but I finally found the (unexpected) culprit. In the xml documentation on page 31 it is said: The given expression between [] is converted to a LUA expression so you can use the use operators: == ~= <= >= < > not and or () In addition, = equals == and != is the same as ~=. This is not true as the following demonstrates. The use of != is as expected but the ~= leads to an error and this should not be: xml> lpath > error in expression: number(@atta) ~= 1 => expr.number((ll.at<http://ll.at> and ll.at<http://ll.at>['atta'])) ~== 1 Hans van der Meer % failure of test on inequality. \startxmlsetups demo:comparefail \xmlsetsetup{#1}{root|node}{demo:comparefail:*} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregisterdocumentsetup{demo}{demo:comparefail} \startxmlsetups demo:comparefail:root compare \type{!=}\crlf \xmlfilter{#1}{/[number(@atta) != 1]/command(demo:comparefail:node)} compare \type{~=}\crlf \xmlfilter{#1}{/[number(@atta) ~= 1]/command(demo:comparefail:node)} \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups demo:comparefail:node node: attribute atta = \xmlatt{#1}{atta}\crlf \stopxmlsetups \startbuffer[comparefail] <root> <node atta="2"/> <node atta="1"/> </root> \stopbuffer \starttext \xmlprocessbuffer{demo}{comparefail}{} Note the absence of output in the second \tex{xmlfilter}. \stoptext

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Fonts inside eqno{}
by Freddy Omar López Quintero 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

Hello all! I'm interested in change the natural numbering of one equation with \eqno{} but it does not follow the main font selected. A minimal example: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[Linux Biolinum O] \setmathfont[Linux Biolinum O] \starttext I have the following expression \placeformula \startformula y = Z \beta_1 + Y \beta_2 + u \stopformula that changes to % \placeformula \startformula y = Z \beta_1 + Y \beta_2 + W_1\tau + u \eqno{ (1')} \stopformula \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% I would like the (1') keep the same kind of font than (1). Any hint will be appreciated. Thanks! -- «...my role is to be on the bottom of things.» Donald Knuth

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’Undefined control sequence’ with basic example
by Saša Janiška 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

Hello, I had to prepare some text for my mother by extracting some portions from her book (done in LyX/LaTeX) and now wanted to use it as example to see the quality of job done by LuaTeX… However, converting LyX —> LaTeX —> Pandoc –> ConTeXt failed and I tried with the simple example (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/startsection) % mode=mkiv \setuppapersize[A5] \starttext \startsection[ reference=sec:One, title={Section One}, ] For a subsection, see \in{subsection}[sec:Two:Sec]. \stopsection \startsection[ reference=sec:Two, title={Section Two}, ] [a_variable={some value}] a_variable=\quote{\structureuservariable{a_variable}}. \startsubsection[ reference=sec:Two:Sec, title={Here’s a subsection}, ] In this subsection there’s some text\ldots \stopsubsection \stopsection \stoptext but running it under Debian (Sid) gives: [gour@atmarama ~/prj/knjiga]$ luatex t.tex This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.80.0 (TeX Live 2015/Debian) (rev 5238) restricted \write18 enabled. (./t.tex ! Undefined control sequence. l.2 \setuppapersize [A5] ? l Type <return> to proceed, S to scroll future error messages, R to run without stopping, Q to run quietly, I to insert something, E to edit your file, 1 or ... or 9 to ignore the next 1 to 9 tokens of input, H for help, X to quit. ? x No pages of output. Transcript written on t.log. [gour@atmarama ~/prj/knjiga]$ less t.tex [gour@atmarama ~/prj/knjiga]$ luatex t.tex This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.80.0 (TeX Live 2015/Debian) (rev 5238) restricted \write18 enabled. (./t.tex ! Undefined control sequence. l.2 \setuppapersize [A5] ? What is wrong? Sincerely, Gour -- A person who has given up all desires for sense gratification, who lives free from desires, who has given up all sense of proprietorship and is devoid of false ego — he alone can attain real peace.

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[OT] Richard Stallmann Receiving the 2015 ACM Software System Award
by luigi scarso 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

http://awards.acm.org/press_releases/technical-awards-2015.pdf -- luigi

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right to left direction for itemize columns
by Bou Salim 28 Apr '16

28 Apr '16

I have posted a question in tex stack exchangeCustomize right to left list in context <http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/294627/customize-right-to-left-list-…> My aim is to obtain right to left items arranged in multi-column, if I use \startitemize [s,columns,three] [margin=1em] the result is three column where first column start from left side of page, but I want it to start from right side of page. I can use \startcolumns[direction=left]\startitemize \item First \item Second \item Third \stopitemize \stopcolumns but I think it look better if there is a key direction=left for the \startitemize environment such as used in columns environment.

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Server is up again
by Mojca Miklavec 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

Dear ConTeXters, I'm sorry that it took so long, but the server should be up again (with everything but gitlab restored to the previous state). Both hard drives in the machine died simultaneously on the 3rd of April without any previous signs of malfunctioning. The administrator got a new machine with new hard drives up and running a few days ago. If you experience any problems with the distribution, meeting page or alike from this point on, let me know. Mojca On 3 April 2016 at 21:42, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hi, > > For reasons unknown to me the contextgarden.net server is currently > down. The wiki (and some other components hosted at Taco's server) are > still working. > > I have to wait until the network admin looks into the problem. > > I'm really sorry for the inconvenience, > Mojca

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Updating ConTeXt standalone problem on Mac OS X
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

Hello ConTeXist I have a problem with updating ConTeXt on my Mac OS X (El Captain). When you run the update script to me an error message appears, which surprises me, since I logged on as the system administrator. Can anyone advise me on what could be the problem. I note that I am a beginner on OS X. Here is problematic report: Jaroslav-MacBook-Air:context hajtmar$ sh first-setup.sh receiving file list ... done rsync: failed to set times on "/Users/hajtmar/context/bin": Operation not permitted (1) bin/ rsync: mkstemp "/Users/hajtmar/context/bin/.luatex.y7B2Zy" failed: Permission denied (13) etc.... Thanx Jaroslav Hajtmar

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useMPgraphic scaling
by Meer, Hans van der 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

With images one can scale them on placement, for example \externalfigure[][scale=250,height=..] etc. Is such a scaling or separate height,width setting also possible with the placement of useMPgraphic? Or needs all scaling of thesebe done within the metapost/metafun code? Hans van der Meer

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some difficulties with btxlist
by Thomas A. Schmitz 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

Hi all (in particular Hans and Alan...), I'm finishing a book project where I'm using the new bibliographic system. Everything is working as it should, but I have two problems with line breaks: 1. Page numbers in ranges are separated by an n-dash (as in: 234–567). It looks as though ConTeXt doesn't break lines at this n-dash. I'm sure there must be an easy way to tell TeX that this is a legitimate breakpoint (short of inserting some \penalty manually after every n-dash), but I can't figure it out myself. 2. For the bibliographic list, there remain some bad line breaks that cannot be avoided; for these cases, I have added \setuptolerance[verytolerant,stretch] and expected to see no lines extending into the margin (at the cost of some ugliness). But there are still some overfull lines. Does the list have its own tolerance setting somewhere? Thanks, and best Thomas

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font size inside a \typesetbuffer
by Pablo Rodriguez 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

Dear list, I have the following sample: \startbuffer[buffer:inside] \definefontfamily[mainface][rm][TeX Gyre Pagella] \setupbodyfont[mainface, 17pt] \starttext \input zapf \stoptext \stopbuffer \starttext \typesetbuffer[buffer:inside] \stoptext The issue I’m experiencing is that no mainface is selected if the font size is specified in \setupbodyfont. Am I missing something or have I hit a bug? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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typebuffer different from typefile
by dr. Hans van der Meer 24 Apr '16

24 Apr '16

Why is there a difference in syntax between typing buffers and typing files? For files enclosure in {} for buffers in [], for files optional parameters, for buffers not. Is it possible to make the syntax of these two the same, because their usage parallels each other? Example code: \startbuffer[test] content of buffer \stopbuffer \starttext \typebuffer[test] \typefile[style=\ttx]{test.txt} \stoptext Hans van der Meer

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updating ConTeXt standalone
by Alan Bowen 23 Apr '16

23 Apr '16

Are there still problems with servers at the Garden? Running first-setup.sh seems stuck on current version 2016.04.17 11:56, though there have been two updates since then. Alan

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Overlapping terms in description lists
by Tom Harrop 23 Apr '16

23 Apr '16

Hello again, The document I'm typsetting uses description lists. To keep the list entries close together I'm using before=\nowhitespace and after=\nowhitespace in \definedescription. This is fine so long as the term is short, but when the term wraps to two lines it can overlap with the term below. Here's an example: > \setuppapersize[A5] > \setupalign[flushleft, nothyphenated] > > \definedescription[description] > [before=\nowhitespace, after=\nowhitespace] > > \starttext > > \startdescription{Short term:} > Items with short terms are fine. > \stopdescription > > \startdescription{This is a really long term:} > Long term + short definition > \stopdescription > > \startdescription{This is a really long term:} > ... the long term of the item above the mashes into the term below. > \stopdescription > > \stoptext And here is an attempt at a plain text representation of what I'm trying to achieve: > Short term: Items with short terms are fine. > This is a really > long term: Long term + short definition > This is a really > long term: ... the long term of the item above the mashes > into the > term below. Is this possible using \definedescription? I tried some combinations of \vfill and \framed but I couldn't get it to work. Sorry to repeatedly post newbie questions. Any tips would be appreciated! Thanks, Tom

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xml input
by Meer, Hans van der 23 Apr '16

23 Apr '16

I would like to process several input sources as one xml tree. Like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <takenotes> <include buffer="notes-example"/> <include file="notes-example.xml"/> </takenotes> with the sources having the structure <notes> <note>...</note> ... </notes> and the code for <takenotes> containing: read from all sources given on <include>-notes afterwards process all content at once Thus the content of the various source should be read into one tree to be processed, but I cannot get this done. How to amalgam this separate sources into one? Hans van der Meer

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Fwd: [dante-ev] Kooperation mit der PDF Association
by Henning Hraban Ramm 21 Apr '16

21 Apr '16

Hello ConTeXt group activists! DANTE just became a partner organization of PDF association, see message below. Wouldn’t it make sense for our group (and NTG and TUG etc.) to do the same? Best regards, Hraban > Liebe Mitglieder, > > wie auf der Mitgliederversammlung in Wuppertal angekündigt besteht ab > sofort ein Kooperation zwischen DANTE e.V. und der PDF association > (http://www.pdfa.org/pdf-assocation/?lang=de) > > Neben dem grundsätzlichen Vorteil, auch institutionell näher dran am > PDF-Standard zu sein, bedeutet die Kooperation für Mitglieder von DANTE > e.V. konkret, dass sie z.B. die PDF Days, die in diesem Jahr vom 13. bis > 15.6. in Berlin stattfinden werden > (http://www.pdfa.org/event/die-pdf-days-europe-2016-am-14-und-15-juni-in-ber…) > zum günstigen Mitgliederpreis von 249 Euro besuchen können > (Standardpreis 450 Euro). > > Weitere Vergünstigungen finden Sie unter > http://www.pdfa.org/pdf-association/member-benefits/ > > Bei Fragen zur konkreten Abwicklung helfe ich gerne weiter. > > Viele Grüße > Martin Sievers > > -- > > Vorsitzender der Deutschsprachigen Anwendervereinigung TeX e.V. (DANTE) > > DANTE ist ein eingetragener, als gemeinnützig anerkannter Verein > Registergericht: AG Mannheim VR 331659 > > Anschrift: > Postfach 10 18 40 > 69008 Heidelberg > > Telefon: +49 6221 29766 > Fax: +49 6221 167906

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issue with bookmark for sections
by Pablo Rodriguez 21 Apr '16

21 Apr '16

Dear list, I have the following sample: \setuppapersize[A5] \setupinteraction[state=start, focus=standard] \startsetups[placelist:section] \start \setupinterlinespace [line=2.8ex] \placelist [section] [alternative=d, pagenumber=no, style=\itxx] \par \stop \stopsetups \setuplist [chapter] [after=\directsetup{placelist:section}] \starttext \completecontent \dorecurse{5}{\chapter{Chapter \Romannumerals{\recurselevel}} \dorecurse{10}{\section{Section}\input zapf\par\input knuth} } \stoptext The setups are required to allow a different interline space in the list of section items from the content lists. But the issue I’m experiencing is that the bookmarks from the first sections in each chapter have their destinations in the chapter and not in its section titles. Am I missing something or this is a bug in ConTeXt? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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language setting scope
by massifr＠fastwebnet.it 21 Apr '16

21 Apr '16

Hello list, I'm typesetting XHTML italian text with Context (version 4/4/16). I've put a \language[it] just after \starttext, but I get words with a wrong hyphenation. As a patch, I just put \language[it] at the beginning of the xmlsetup that processes the tag, and now words are hyphenated right, following the italian rules. It looks like \language[it] get reset at some point. Have you an explanation? Thank you in advance, Massi

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Problem with Cambria (in Windows)
by Mari Voipio 21 Apr '16

21 Apr '16

Hi, after I updated my ConTeXt from a pretty old version (+1 year), my font system went bad. This used to work: \usemodule simplefonts % Do I need this? \starttypescript[Manuals] \definetypeface[Manuals] [rm] [serif] [cambria] [default] [rscale=0.95] \definetypeface[Manuals] [ss] [sans] [calibri] [default] [rscale=0.9] \definetypeface[Manuals] [tt] [mono] [courier] [default] [rscale=0.85] \stoptypescript \usetypescript[Manuals] \setupbodyfont[Manuals,10pt] \starttext \input tufte \stoptext However, now Cambria turns up as italic, not regular. As far as I know, my laptop hasn't changed during this period (still running Windows 7), so I suspect the problem arrived with my recent ConTeXt update (last updated this morning). Is there an easy solution or a workaround for this problem? Thank you, Mari

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convert old dvi files
by Meer, Hans van der 20 Apr '16

20 Apr '16

I need to convert some old dvi files into pdf. One of the routes seems dvi --(dvips) ->- ps --> pdf But dvips (taken from the ConTeXt-beta distribution) complains "Couldn't find header file: tex.pro" Where can I find it? It doesn't seem present in the above mentioned distribution. Or is there a ConTeXt mtxrun-call or such, that can do it directly? Hans van der Meer

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parallel texts, setuptabulate and widows-orphans control
by massifr＠fastwebnet.it 19 Apr '16

19 Apr '16

Hello list, I've found that \start ... \stoptabulate can be used to format parallel texts, with paragraphs that are synchronized and split well on different pages. I also found that they don't play well with widow-orphan penalties. Try this: \setuptabulate[split=yes] \starttext \setpenalties\widowpenalties{1}{10000} \setpenalties\clubpenalties{1}{10000} \starttabulate[|p|p|] \NC \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth} \NC \dorecurse{2}{\input knuth} \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stoptext The penalties' settings make some lines overlap. Comment out those two lines and everything works well. Not a great problem, since I don't think you need widow-orphan control in parallel texts. It took me some time to understand what was making lines overlap. So I leave it here for future reference, if someone else stumbles on the same problem.

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Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 142, Issue 52
by Brian Ballsun-Stanton 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

I'm dealing with a 500 page book (if you give me your github username, I'll happily add you to the repo) and many of these problems emerge only at scale. (when I render individual chapters, there are no issues, but when rendering the whole book, the tables just have all sorts of formatting issues.) Here's a working example % engine=luajittex \startenvironment env_trap \enableregime[utf-8] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupreferencing[autofile=yes] \setupinteraction[state=start, color=blue, contrastcolor=blue, style={\tf}] \usemodule[simplefonts] \usemodule[database] % Enable hyperlinks \setuppapersize [A4][A4] \definepapersize[standing][A4][A4] \definepapersize[lying][A4,landscape][A4] \setuplayout [width=middle, backspace=.75in, cutspace=.75in, height=middle, topspace=.5in, bottomspace=.5in] \setupbodyfont[11pt] \setupwhitespace[none] \setupcaption[table][location=top] \setupcaptions[style={\tfx}, width=.9\textwidth,align=middle] \unprotect \appendtoks \setupbackgrounds[\v!page][\c!background=\makeupparameter\c!background] \to \t_page_makeup_every_setup \protect \defineseparatedlist[CSV] [separator={,}, quotechar={"}, left=\bTD,right=\eTD, first=\bTR,last=\eTR, before=\bTABLE,after=\eTABLE] \setupTABLE[c][each][align=flushleft,style={\tfx},width=fit] \setupTABLE[r][1][background=color,backgroundcolor=gray,style={\tf}] \setupTABLE[align=middle] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \stopenvironment \starttext \placetable[here][tab01]{Kazanlak site numbers, aggregate area and average area through through time}{ \setupTABLE[c][each][align=middle,style={\tfx},alignmentcharacter={.},aligncharacter=yes] \chardef\characteralignmentmode=2 \startCSV Period,NL,Chl,EBA,LBA,EIA,LIA,RM,LA,BYZ,MA,OTT Aggregate Area (ha),1.5,2.9,5.0,6.7,21.5,43.3,54.9,31.2,24.4,30.7,94.9 Site Count,3,6,10,7,23,38,23,19,15,21,15 Avg Area (ha),0.5,0.5,0.5,1.0,0.9,1.1,2.4,1.6,1.6,1.5,6.3 \stopCSV } \stoptext And I wasn't able to cause it to fail via a trivial 'making it a component' and calling it from a project. > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 22:11:28 +0200 > From: Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> > To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Table index is nil > Message-ID: <57153F70.6050505(a)wxs.nl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > On 4/18/2016 3:59 AM, Brian Ballsun-Stanton wrote: > > I'm getting (suddenly) an error: > > ...ext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/font-hsh.lua:124: table > > index is nil > > > > > > And I have a bunch of tables: > > > > > > \placetable[here][tab01]{Kazanlak site numbers, aggregate area and > > average area > > through through time}{ > > > \setupTABLE[c][each][align=middle,style={\tfx},alignmentcharacter={.},aligncharacter=yes] > > \chardef\characteralignmentmode=2 > > \startCSV > > Period,NL,Chl,EBA,LBA,EIA,LIA,RM,LA,BYZ,MA,OTT > > Aggregate Area (ha),1.5,2.9,5.0,6.7,21.5,43.3,54.9,31.2,24.4,30.7,94.9 > > Site Count,3,6,10,7,23,38,23,19,15,21,15 > > Avg Area (ha),0.5,0.5,0.5,1.0,0.9,1.1,2.4,1.6,1.6,1.5,6.3 > > \stopCSV > > } > > > > The odd thing is that no other chapters of the book (all of which use > > the same environment, and many use the same table) > > > > When I comment out the series of tables, the errors go away. > > I've just rerun first-setup.sh just out of paranoia. mtx-context | > > current version: 2016.04.17 11:56 > > i really need a small *working* example for this > > >

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Table index is nil
by Brian Ballsun-Stanton 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

I'm getting (suddenly) an error: ...ext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/font-hsh.lua:124: table index is nil And I have a bunch of tables: \placetable[here][tab01]{Kazanlak site numbers, aggregate area and average area through through time}{ \setupTABLE[c][each][align=middle,style={\tfx},alignmentcharacter={.},aligncharacter=yes] \chardef\characteralignmentmode=2 \startCSV Period,NL,Chl,EBA,LBA,EIA,LIA,RM,LA,BYZ,MA,OTT Aggregate Area (ha),1.5,2.9,5.0,6.7,21.5,43.3,54.9,31.2,24.4,30.7,94.9 Site Count,3,6,10,7,23,38,23,19,15,21,15 Avg Area (ha),0.5,0.5,0.5,1.0,0.9,1.1,2.4,1.6,1.6,1.5,6.3 \stopCSV } The odd thing is that no other chapters of the book (all of which use the same environment, and many use the same table) When I comment out the series of tables, the errors go away. I've just rerun first-setup.sh just out of paranoia. mtx-context | current version: 2016.04.17 11:56

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Vertical line in natural table
by MANUEL GONZALEZ SUAREZ 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Hello friends. I send an attachment where a natural table appears with the PDF output. I can not get the second vertical line scroll the table up and down, like the first vertical line. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thank you

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copy/paste text broken with certain ligatures
by Brian R. Landy 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Hi, sometime between version 2015.08.05 and 2016.04.10 the handling of certain ligatures changed (sorry, I don't have intermediate versions to test with). The issue is the ligatures no longer copy/paste as the original two characters, which also breaks text searched of the pdf. Instead they copy as a single glyph. I'm seeing the problem with "ti" and "fj", while others like "ffi", "fi", and "ff" are fine in both versions. I see this using Calibri (other fonts I tried don't support those two ligatures): \starttypescript[cleartype] \definetypeface[\typescriptone][ss][sans][calibri][default] \stoptypescript \usetypescript[cleartype] \setupbodyfont[cleartype,sans,10pt] \starttext ffi\par fi\par ff\par fi\par ti\par fj\par \stoptext Thank you. Best regards, Brian

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Layer placement problem
by Mari Voipio 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Hi, after I updated my ConTeXt a few weeks ago, my cover page suddenly started looking funny. As far as I understand it, the page consists of stuff piled on a layer and then the layer is placed on a page. Except that now the top edge of the layer seems to be placed at the midpoint of the page or something like that. The text that should be in the middle of the page now ends up on the bottom edge of the page. How can I align the top of the layer to the top of the page so that everything on the page shows up again? Thank you, Mari

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Uppercase sharp s
by Wolfgang Schuster 17 Apr '16

17 Apr '16

Hi Hans, can you add option which uses the uppercase the uppercase ß with \WORD instead of the current SS replacement. This replacement should only be optional and not the default. %% begin example \setupbodyfont[libertine] \starttext Straße \WORD{Straße} STRAẞE \stoptext %% end example Wolfgang

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Strange behavior with Utopia fonts in math mode
by Fabrice Couvreur 17 Apr '16

17 Apr '16

Hello, I compiled this file with a strange exit for mathematical formula. What's missing in my file ? Thank you. Fabrice \loadtypescriptfile[mathdesign] \usetypescriptfile[utopia] \definetypeface[mainface][rm] [serif][palatino][default][encoding=texnansi] \definetypeface[mainface][ss][sans] [helvetica] [default][encoding=texnansi] [rscale=auto] \definetypeface[mainface][mm] [math] [utopia] [default] [rscale=auto] \setupbodyfont[mainface,12pt] \starttext \input knuth \startformula f(x) = \sum_{i=1}^n a_i x^i \stopformula \stoptext

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Fourier install fonts
by Fabrice Couvreur 17 Apr '16

17 Apr '16

Hi, With Latex, just do it : \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\usepackage{fourier} I'm confused about how to do it with Context. Thanks for your help. Fabrice

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font error with latest beta
by Thomas A. Schmitz 16 Apr '16

16 Apr '16

Hi Hans, I run into my favorite error with the latest beta ("this can't happen"). The document uses a SabonNext font, but I get similar results with other fonts. The error message is: tex error > tex error on line 855 in file /home/tas/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/cont-yes.mkiv: ! This can't happen (fuzzy token cleanup in node) \page_shipouts_normal ...box \shipoutscratchbox }} \else \page_shipouts_ignor... \page_boxes_shipout ... {\box \shipoutscratchbox } \fi \setnextrealpageno \th... \page_otr_construct_and_shipout ...cted_page #1#2} \page_otr_flush_pending_co... \page_sides_output_routine_nop ...de_float_output \global \d_page_sides_vsiz... \page_sides_output_routine ..._output_routine_nop \fi \page_otr_triggered_output_routine ...and_routine \fi ... l.97 \getvalue{clf_processjob} % from cont-run.lua mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 1% An older context version (2016.02.08 15:35) processes the same file without problems, so I suspect it may be the newer luatex binary. I can't produce a minimal example right now, the error is a bit unpredictable. All best Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] Questions about Scite lexers
by Christoph Reller 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

Nicola <nvitacolonna(a)gmail.com> wrote on Wed., 13. Apr. 2016 19:36: > > I have found an old document of mine, which uses a > (slightly customized) pret-c.lua, located inside the project's folder. > It compiles, but I don't get syntax highlighting. Is it because pret-c > is not searched in the project's directory? > Alternatively you can set the TEXMF_LOCAL environment variable to some directory where your "private" texmf-tree resides. Note that after this you have to run context --generate in order for context to find the modules in your texmf-tree. Also note that the compilation logfile written by context tells you what modules have been found in which locations. I hope this helps, Christoph >

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Assigning a variable to the list argument in \setupsection
by Michael Guravage 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

Greetings, I would like to use a variable for the value of the list argument in, e.g., the \startsection command. If you compile my little example you will see that the first 'literal' assignment works, while the second 'variable' assignment does not. What am I missing here? Cheers, Michael \starttext \placecontent \setvariables[TOC][list=Second Section] \startsection [title={First}, list={First Section}] This is the first section. \stopsection \startsection [title={Second}, list={\getvariable{TOC}{list}}] This is the \getvariable{TOC}{list} \stopsection \stoptext

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contextjit missing from win32
by Pablo Rodriguez 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

Hans, I downloaded the latest beta from the ConTeXt Suite yesterday for win32 and win64. I’m afraid that contextjit isn’t available for win32. I guess it might be a bug. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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uppercase, small caps, numerals and German capital sharp s
by Thomas Fehige 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

Hello, I'm new to ConTeXt and this list. After a long time of using LaTeX and xeLaTeX I was finally lured into trying ConTexT by its ability of grid typesetting. Today's problem is a bit complex. In a book project I have several points where stuff is capitalized or turned into caps+smallcaps or pure smallcaps. My guess is that that should work either with \WORD{Stuff}, \Cap{Stuff} and \cap{Stuff} or with \uppercase, \sc, and {\sc\lowercase{Stuff}}. (Not quite, it seems) I'll use a commercial font called Calluna, but have added Linux Biolinum O to the example for those who don't want to download Calluna (the "Regular" can be "bought" for free, e.g. at https://www.fontspring.com/fonts/exljbris/calluna) Both Calluna and Biolinum contain the glyph "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S" at "1E9E. I'm not sure if they contain a small or medium caps version. I'd like to use that glyph in the capitalizations mentioned, but it only works erratically (cf. example). Also, Calluna comes with oldstyle numerals switched on, which is nice for normal text, but should change to lining numbers in all-caps and to small-cap lining numbers in all-small-cap text. I'm not sure what I'll want in a caps+smallcaps context, but certainly not oldstyle numbers with their descenders. Any ideas? Thanks for reading! -- Thomas PS: I asked the same question on stackexchange, there's also an image of the result of my example: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/302823/context-uppercase-%C3%9F-cust… %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \mainlanguage[de] \language[de] \uccode`ß="1E9E % This gives the capital ß to \uppercase \definefontfeature[fcalluna][default][] % I tried all the font features built % into Calluna, to no avail. \definefontfamily [myfamily] [serif][Calluna][features=fcalluna] \definefontfamily [myfamily] [sans] [Linux Biolinum O][features=fcalluna] \definefontfamily [myfamily] [mono] [TeX Gyre Cursor] \setupbodyfont [myfamily] \startTEXpage[offset=10pt] \starttabulate[|l|l|l|] \NC \it Command \NC \it Calluna \NC \it Linux Biolinum \NC\NR \NC\type{\WORD{Gruß134}}: \NC\WORD{Gruß134} \NC {\ss\WORD{Gruß134}} \NC\NR \NC\type{\uppercase{Gruß134}}: \NC\uppercase{Gruß134} \NC{\ss\uppercase{Gruß134}} \NC\NR \NC\type{\sc{Gruß134}}: \NC{\sc Gruß134} \NC{\ss{\sc Gruß134}} \NC\NR \NC\type{\Cap{Gruß134}:} \NC\Cap{Gruß134} \NC{\ss \Cap{Gruß134}} \NC\NR \NC\type{\cap{Gruß134}:} \NC\cap{Gruß134} \NC{\ss \cap{Gruß134}} \NC\NR \NC\type{{\sc\lowercase{Gruß134}}:} \NC{\sc\lowercase{Gruß134}} \NC{\ss\sc\lowercase{Gruß134}} \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stopTEXpage %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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