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placement of graphics across coluums.
by john Culleton 30 May '14

30 May '14

In Scribus, (which has many shortcomings compared to Context for book length documents,) there is one trick that is pretty easy. In a double column document one can place a graphic in another layer that is part in one column and part in another, but not spanning either column completely. Then the texts in each column can be made to flow around the graphic. I have looked in "It's in the details" and the "Columns" document but I cannot find this specific example. I thought I saw one years ago. Is such a trick possible in Context without heroic special coding? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Centering tabulate env. using \setuptabulate
by Devendra Ghate 28 May '14

28 May '14

I expect follow MWE to produce a centered table. But it does not. Am I making any obvious mistake. --------------- \definetabulate[centeredTable][|r|l|] \setuptabulate [centeredTable] [align={middle}] \starttext \startcenteredTable \HL \NC I want this table \NC aligned in the center.\NR \HL \stopcenteredTable \stoptext ---------------- This also *doesn't* work. --------------- \setuptabulate [align={middle}] \starttext \starttabulate[|r|l|] \HL \NC I want this table \NC aligned in the center.\NR \HL \stoptabulate \stoptext ---------------- -- Devendra Ghate

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wrong page break
by Pablo Rodriguez 28 May '14

28 May '14

Hans, I have found the another wrong page break in this sample: \showframe\showgrid \setupbodyfont[pagella,15pt] \starttext \chapter{Chapter title} \section{Section title} \dorecurse{140}{Sentence. } \subsection{Subsection title} This is another line. \stoptext It works fine when replacing \subsection with \section. And it also fails when replacing \subsection with \subsubsection. I guess it might be a bug. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Ctx goes into infinite loop?
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 28 May '14

28 May '14

Hello, I have problem running the latest Ctx beta. Suppose having: -- C:\Lukas\Jobs\D3-Sk\SO_237-20.RDS\Drawings\t2.mkiv \startluacode local home = (os.getenv("HOME.ORG") or os.getenv("HOME") or "?"):gsub("\\", "/") context.setvalue("HOME", home) \stopluacode \input \HOME/Common/_Defs_.ctx \starttext Test \stoptext -- and an empty -- C:\Lukas\Common\_Defs_.ctx -- When running: C:\Lukas\Jobs\D3-Sk\SO_237-20.RDS\Drawings>context.exe t2.mkiv Ctx stops telling anything (infinite loop?): " C:\Lukas\Jobs\D3-Sk\SO_237-20.RDS\Drawings>context.exe t2.mkiv mtx-context | run 1: luatex --fmt="c:/Ctx-Beta/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/luatex/cont-en" --jobname="t2" --lua="c:/Ctx-Beta/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/luatex/cont-en.lui" --no-parse-first-line --c:currentrun=1 --c:fulljobname="./t2.mkiv" --c:input="./t2.mkiv" --c:kindofrun=1 --c:maxnofruns=8 "cont-yes.mkiv" This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.79.1 (TeX Live 2014/W32TeX) (rev 5004) \write18 enabled. open source > 1 > 1 > c:/Ctx-Beta/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-yes.mkiv ConTeXt ver: 2014.05.21 22:04 MKIV beta fmt: 2014.5.22 int: english/english system > 'cont-new.mkiv' loaded open source > 2 > 2 > c:/Ctx-Beta/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv close source > 2 > 2 > c:/Ctx-Beta/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv system > files > jobname 't2', input './t2.mkiv', result 't2' fonts > latin modern fonts are not preloaded languages > language 'en' is active open source > 2 > 3 > C:/Lukas/Jobs/D3-Sk/SO_237-20.RDS/Drawings/t2.mkiv tex error > error on line 7 in file C:/Lukas/Jobs/D3-Sk/SO_237-20.RDS/Drawings/t2.mkiv: ! I can't find file `C:/Documents'.\HOME ^C C:\Lukas\Jobs\D3-Sk\SO_237-20.RDS\Drawings> \HOME \-C:/Documents and Settings/LPR l.7 \input \HOME /Common/_Defs_.ctx 1 \startluacode 2 local home = (os.getenv("HOME.ORG") or os.getenv("HOME") or "?"):gsub("\\", "/") 3 4 context.setvalue("HOME", home) 5 \stopluacode 6 7 >> \input \HOME/Common/_Defs_.ctx 8 9 \starttext 10 Test 11 \stoptext 12 " What's wrong? 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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Strange behavior with Metapost
by Fabrice Couvreur 28 May '14

28 May '14

Hello, Why curve drawn is not that expected ? Fabrice \starttext \startMPcode input hvdm; l:=2.8mm; r:=0.6; alfa:=45; beta:=0; gamma:=0; defineDefaultArrow (l, r, alfa, beta, gamma); numeric xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax; xmin :=-2; xmax := 4; ymax :=5 ;ymin:=-1; u := 1cm; pickup pencircle scaled 1pt ; drawarrow ((xmin,0) -- (xmax,0)) scaled u; drawarrow ((0,ymin) -- (0,ymax)) scaled u; draw tightfunction ("x", "2*(x-1)*(x-1)+2", xmin, xmax, (xmax-xmin)/10) scaled u; setbounds currentpicture to boundingbox (((xmin,ymin) -- (xmax,ymax)) scaled u); \stopMPcode \stoptext

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Sectionnumbering
by Werner Hintze 27 May '14

27 May '14

I would like to give my own numbers to several chapters. I made this: \setuphead[chapter] [ownnumber=yes] \starttext \part{Erster Teil} \chapter{3}{Anfang} \chapter{6}{Weiter} \stoptext But the result is not the dired one. I want to have: 3 Anfang 6 Weiter But I get 1.3 Anfang 1.6 Weiter How can I suppress the part number? I searched for two hours or more in the Manual und on the web page and couldn’t find a hint...

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\type gives different results in footnotes
by Pablo Rodriguez 27 May '14

27 May '14

Dear list, I have the following sample: \starttext \type{{\em\de Textsatzsystem}} \footnote{\type{{\em\de Textsatzsystem}}.} \stoptext Only in the footnote \em has an extra unrequired space. I don’t have no idea about how TeX works here. As I wrote in a previous message, this is far beyond my understanding. Is there no way to have the same results in footnote? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Command for printing back of book index.
by john Culleton 27 May '14

27 May '14

In the current General Manual section 12.7 "Registers" the command for actually printing the back of book index is omitted. What is it? Is it the same for both MKII and MKIV? Does one run the command texutil separate from the context command (analogous to running the makeindex command in other versions of TeX)? I can create an index separate from context using a front end to makeindex that I wrote years ago but I prefer an embedded index. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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LuaTeX/ConTeXt connect to SQL Server
by Matt Baker 26 May '14

26 May '14

FROM MY POSTING AT: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/180018/luatex-context-connect-to-sql… I am looking to connect ConTeXt to a SQL Server database. I have looked through the manuals, and even read pragma-ade's SQL PDF (which, for me, seems a bit abstract). I am not extremely familiar with Lua but have read up on the language (I am more familiar with JS). For LaTex I used nlatexdb which did the trick, but LaTex isn't able to do what ConTeXt can. - The connection needs to use Windows Authentication. - The document is set up as a letter with an environment that it pulls from. - It would be preferable to have the connection and queries be seperate from the letter itself, and be able to place variables into the letter that can be populated through the queries (much like nlatexdb) if possible. - example: Dear ??first ??last, Thank you for your interest in ??product... etc. I am rather new to ConText and just starting to get the hang of it, long time latex user, the transition starts off rather confusing, but once it makes sense it opens up a whole toolbox of available tools which is great. Just need this one last tool. Any help would be much appreciated. EDIT:: Honestly I haven't gotten to any point that I felt I could attempt trying the connection. Looking at the SQL PDF from pragma-ade it should look something like: local presets = { server = "XXX\XXX", Database = "Customer", Integrated Security = "True", } presets.id = "XXX" local template = [[ SELECT 'Control_Content' FROM 'Customer.dbo.Report_Client_Data' WHERE 'Control_Name' LIKE 'Long_Name' AND 'Client_Id' = 154; ]] local data, keys = utilities.sql.execute { presets = presets, template = template, variables = {}, } I can't seem to find where or how the connection is being made, except perhaps where utilities.sql.execute is called, but I can't find any information anywhere about such a call in lua or context...

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unwanted extra space in type definition
by Pablo Rodriguez 26 May '14

26 May '14

Dear list, I have the following sample: \definetype[TeXcode][option=TEX] \def\arg#1{\TeXcode{{#1}}} \starttext \arg{\em\de Textsatzsystem} \TeXcode{{\em\de Textsatzsystem}} \stoptext I don’t know what is wrong defined in \arg that inserts an extra space after \em? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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bug in latest beta?
by Pablo Rodriguez 26 May '14

26 May '14

Dear list, I’m afraid there is a bug (I think it was) introduced in beta from 2014.05.21 22:04: \showframe \setuppapersize[A6] \starttext \dorecurse{23}{This is only a random sentence. } \section{Section} \input zapf \stoptext Page break is wrong if \section is enabled (or I am missing something extremely basic). I guess it might be worth fixing it also for ConTeXt in TeX Live 2014. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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upright lowercase Greek letters in math formulas
by Mojca Miklavec 26 May '14

26 May '14

Hi, How could I get upright lowercase Greek letters in math formulas (provided that such a symbol exists, of course)? Here's a minimal example: \setupbodyfont[times] \starttext $15{\rm\frac{μm}{μs}}$ 15 μs \stoptext Thank you, Mojca

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Split in specific row in natural tables?
by Xan 26 May '14

26 May '14

Hi, Is there a possibility of split a natural table in specific row? I want to split in row third or something like that. Thanks, Xan.

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Re: [NTG-context] Experience with DITA XML or XSL/FO
by Mica Semrick 26 May '14

26 May '14

Hi Jan, Thanks for the pointer towards dbcontext. I had previoiusly used dblatex for some tech docs a while back, but never realized there was a ConTeXt version. Best, Mica

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Testing TeX Live 2014: last call
by Mojca Miklavec 26 May '14

26 May '14

Hi everyone, I would like to invite you to try to install TL 2014 pretest to make sure that ConTeXt (and jit in particular) works as expected. https://www.tug.org/texlive/pretest.html You are invited to play with your installation and different settings and to test some of your documents. Theoretically we are already past the freeze date, but if any major problems show up, there might be still time for a fix. The version of ConTeXt that will end up in TL is 2014.05.21 22:04. Mojca

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Problem with \framed align and orientation on landscape pages
by Rik Kabel 25 May '14

25 May '14

For the /\framed/ command, any value for the key /align /other than a null value pushes the frame beyond the bottom margin on a landscape page for many values of /orientation/. The following MWE demonstrates this: \setuppapersize [A4,landscape] \starttext \framed[orientation=90,align=no]{\externalfigure[dummy]} \stoptext It also seems that the default value of /align/// is not /no/ as the wiki suggests, since there is a very different result when no align key is provided and when it is provided as above with /no/, if by a default value one means that, when a given key is not explicitly provided, processing will occur as if it had been provided with that particular value. -- Rik Kabel

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Re: [NTG-context] Experience with DITA XML or XSL/FO
by Mica Semrick 25 May '14

25 May '14

Hi Jan, >What is your real use case? A typical XML based workflow involves XSL-FO -> >PDF route using FO processor (Antenna House, XEP, FOP etc). I'm looking to use DITA to publish a literary journal. The journal will contain contributions from multiple authors. I also want to publish works by single authors. I won't make enough (or any) money to justify the very expensive license for Antenna House or XEP, thus they are not really an option. I find FOP to be really sub par. My basic work flow would have to be DITA XML > DITA OpenToolkit (build process) > ??? > ConTeXt > PDF, where ??? could be some Toolkit XML output, XHTML, HTML5, FO. >Anyway, there are several ways. If you are not locked to DITA yet, I would >strongly recommend switching to DocBook instead :-) The DocBook vocabulary does not fit my needs. TEI is much closer to what I want, but I'm already familiar with DITA. >This XSLT way is most natural for XML processing, but I understand that >writing XSLT transformation is discouraging for many people. Yes, I'm generally OK with working with XSLT. DITA has a build system, called the DITA OpenToolkit that is build with Ant, a bit of java, and XSLT. You can see the toolkit here: http://dita-ot.github.io/ The Toolkit already supports PDF output via FOP, but as I said, FOP leaves quite a bit to be desired. Best, Mica

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startbackground with footnotes cause problems
by Xan 25 May '14

25 May '14

Hi, I observe that if startbackground stopbackground has footnotes inside, then page breaks are placed before and after footnotes with blank pages... Anyone does know anything about that? Thanks

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\starttextbackground and \startbackground equivalent options
by Xan 25 May '14

25 May '14

Hi folks, Just a question: I have this textbackground environment: \definestartstop [teoria] [ before={\startbackground[background=color, backgroundcolor=mteoria, frame=on, width=broad, after={\bigskip}, before={\blank[big]\testpage[2]}, backgroundcorner=round, backgroundradius=5ex, backgroundoffset=5pt, framecorner=round, radius=5ex, frameoffset=5pt]}, after=\stopbackground ] and I want an equivalent one with starttextbackground. I try this: \definetextbackground[provateoria] [background=color, backgroundcolor=mteoria, location=paragraph, frame=on, width=broad, after={\bigskip}, before={\blank[big]\testpage[2]}, backgroundcorner=round, backgroundradius=5ex, backgroundoffset=5pt, framecorner=round, radius=5ex, frameoffset=5pt ] \definestartstop [teoria] [ before={\starttextbackground[provateoria]}, after=\stoptextbackground ] But I get: * The corners are not rounded * Can I achieve to "unbackground" footnotes inside \startteoria \stopteoria? Thanks in advance, Xan

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I'm too studpid for Context...
by Werner Hintze 24 May '14

24 May '14

I believe, it is possible to use in Conext the otf-fonts I have in my computer. I generated the database, the quert shows me, that the font is there, but I can not get it in my file. And when I read the chapter in the Manual or whatever I can find, I read a lot about Typescripts and unterstand absolutely nothing. I find how to make a typescript for palatino, which makes no difference, but I don’t unterstand why I shall make a typescript and how. Is there a text which tells step by step what I have to so and why? Now the situation is: I have a lot of Fonts and can use just four. That was much easier with LaTeX...

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Re: [NTG-context] Simple command with variable number of arguments
by Jeong Dal 24 May '14

24 May '14

Dear Hans, Here is the file in my desktop. The reason I didn’t define “sgn” in the function “uppertri” is that it is inherited from the call of “determinant’. However, I put “sgn=1” so that the function “uppertri” works independently. I checked the function “uppertri” and found that it worked fine. Here is a sample file. \environment MatrixLuacode \starttext \getbuffer[luaMatrix] \startformula\startalign \startluacode local mat = {{0, 2, 4, -4, 1},{0, 0, 2, 3 , 4}, {2, 2, -6, 2, 4 }, {2,0 , -6, 9, 7},{2, 2, -6, 2, 4 },{2, 2, -6, 2, 4 }} -- local mat = {{1,2,3},{3,4,5},{3,4,5},{3,4,5},{3,4,5}} context.NC("\\text{Given Matrix}\\quad\\Rightarrow\\quad") context.NC() matrixOP.write(mat) context.NR() context.NC() context("\\text{Upper Triangular}\\quad\\Rightarrow\\quad") mat = matrixOP.upperTri(mat) context.NC() matrixOP.write(mat) context.NR() \stopluacode \stopalign\stopformula \stoptext Sometimes, I got “-0” as an entry of matrix after calculation but I couldn’t resolve it(I asked about it to this list before). Thank you. Best regards, Dalyoung

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Re: [NTG-context] Simple command with variable number of arguments
by Jeong Dal 24 May '14

24 May '14

Dear Hans, Thank you for checking and enhancing. I also got an error at “uppertri” as you point out. The version that I have sent is one in my notebook which may be different from that in the desktop at school. When I made a class material, it worked fine. I have to check it and send it to you again. I appreciate you for making it more usable for ConTeXt users. I also found that there is a matrix module for lua programming. It is nice for the calculation of matrix, but I have a difficulty to typeset the result. That’s why I try to write a code even though I am not good in Lua programming. If it is easy to take over the result into TeX, using the lua module is much efficient and correct, I think. Anyway, I hope that it helps to typeset matrices. Best regards, Dalyoung > Hi, > > Can you check the attached? The uppertri is wrong but it was already wrong (e.g. sign is used but never assigned). I inlined some code so ... I think there were some more errors (obscured by the fact that that piece of code is not reached). > > We can turn this into m-matrix or so, maybe we need to add some more. > > 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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > <xtest.tex>

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[***SPAM***] texi2pdf
by hwitloc＠gmail.com 24 May '14

24 May '14

I have installed the standalone and it works well on my Xubuntu system. I tried to run texi2pdf, which not a part of the standalone system, but fails due to: "...don't have any working TeX binary installed.." If the standalone has one I will add its path to my PATH and the texi2pdf should work. I'm trying to avoid installing a full TeXLive distribution on this old limited memory machine. Any advice would help. Thenks

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LuaTeX/ConTeXt connect to SQL Server
by Matt Baker 23 May '14

23 May '14

FROM MY POSTING AT: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/180018/luatex-context-connect-to-sql… I am looking to connect ConTeXt to a SQL Server database. I have looked through the manuals, and even read pragma-ade's SQL PDF (which, for me, seems a bit abstract). I am not extremely familiar with Lua but have read up on the language (I am more familiar with JS). For LaTex I used nlatexdb which did the trick, but LaTex isn't able to do what ConTeXt can. - The connection needs to use Windows Authentication. - The document is set up as a letter with an environment that it pulls from. - It would be preferable to have the connection and queries be seperate from the letter itself, and be able to place variables into the letter that can be populated through the queries (much like nlatexdb) if possible. - example: Dear ??first ??last, Thank you for your interest in ??product... etc. I am rather new to ConText and just starting to get the hang of it, long time latex user, the transition starts off rather confusing, but once it makes sense it opens up a whole toolbox of available tools which is great. Just need this one last tool. Any help would be much appreciated. EDIT:: Honestly I haven't gotten to any point that I felt I could attempt trying the connection. Looking at the SQL PDF from pragma-ade it should look something like: local presets = { server = "XXX\XXX", Database = "Customer", Integrated Security = "True", } presets.id = "XXX" local template = [[ SELECT 'Control_Content' FROM 'Customer.dbo.Report_Client_Data' WHERE 'Control_Name' LIKE 'Long_Name' AND 'Client_Id' = 154; ]] local data, keys = utilities.sql.execute { presets = presets, template = template, variables = {}, } I can't seem to find where or how the connection is being made, except perhaps where utilities.sql.execute is called, but I can't find any information anywhere about such a call in lua or context...

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Re: [NTG-context] Experience with DITA XML or XSL/FO
by Hans Hagen 23 May '14

23 May '14

On 5/23/2014 7:39 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: > On 2014-05-22 Mica Semrick wrote: >> >> I've been contemplating making a ConTeXt output or parser for DITA XML >> and was wondering if anyone has worked with DITA and ConTeXt before? If >> you have and could offer any advice and/code, that would be most >> helpful! > > What is your real use case? A typical XML based workflow involves XSL-FO -> > PDF route using FO processor (Antenna House, XEP, FOP etc). Which makes all our workflows here non typical -) I never use an FO processor. The xml handler in mkiv is quite efficient and fast. > Anyway, there are several ways. If you are not locked to DITA yet, I would > strongly recommend switching to DocBook instead :-) You get similar single > source solution with the semantically rich vocabulary that allows you to > produce all typical outputs. Moreover, there is a special project dedicated > to DocBook to ConTeXt conversion 'dbcontext' > http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/releases/download.html although I had to > tweak it for my recent project to ensure compatibility with current ConTeXt > version (MkIV). > This XSLT way is most natural for XML processing, but I understand that > writing XSLT transformation is discouraging for many people. it depends ... context mkiv can load an xml tree and you can use path expressions similar to what xslt does but saving the intermediate step 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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