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Re: [NTG-context] float combinations
by Robert Blackstone 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

On 14 Apr 2013, at 07:05 , Marco Patzer <homerow(a)lavabit.com> wrote: > On 2013?04?13 Robert Blackstone wrote: (in reply to Alan BRASLAU) > >> (I tried your liitle code snippet but ConText would not have it.) > > He's missing a closing bracket on the \externalfigure[mill] line. > Here's a complete example: > > \setupexternalfigures [location=default] > > \defineitemgroup [subfigure] [lefttext=, stopper=] > \setupitemgroup [subfigure] [a, text] > > \starttext > > \startbuffer > Dutch scenery > \startsubfigure > \startitem A cow \stopitem > \startitem A mill \stopitem > \stopsubfigure > \stopbuffer > > \startplacefigure [title=\getbuffer, list=Dutch scenery, reference=fig:scenery] > \startcombination > \startcontent \externalfigure[cow][width=.5\textwidth] \stopcontent > \startcaption a) \stopcaption > \startcontent \externalfigure[mill][width=.45\textwidth] \stopcontent > \startcaption b) \stopcaption > \stopcombination > \stopplacefigure > > A cow is shown in \in{figure}{a}[fig:scenery] and a mill in > \in{figure}{b}[fig:scenery]. > > \stoptext > > Marco= Thank you, Marco, and Alan, for your suggestions. As I wrote, wherever possible I use combinations for related examples, and they only give problems when the examples are too large to fit on the same page. The solution with itemize does not help here. With small enough figures the results seems not too different from that with Combinations. With large figures stacked vertically the lower one still gets cut off (and with it also the caption when it is placed underneath the figure). If somehow a pagebreak could be inserted between the two items, then this solution would probably work. But I have no idea how to achieve this. Inserting \page between " \startitem A cow\stopitem" and "\startitem A mill \stopitem" changes nothing. Best regards Robert

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Re: [NTG-context] float combinations
by Robert Blackstone 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

On 14 Apr 2013, at 07:05, Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > > On 4/13/2013 12:33 PM, Robert Blackstone wrote: >> Dear all, >> A few days ago (10 April 2013, Vol.106, Issue 25) I posted a question >> about giving related but not necessarily adjacent floats the same >> number, as for example Fig. 2a and Fig. 2b. >> In the meantime I found a, not very elegant, solution that only partly >> satisfies me. > > I cooked up something experimental ... after several variants i ended up > with a solution that is only available in the keyword variant: > > \useMPlibrary[dum] > > \starttext > > First line. > > \startplacefigure[location=here,reference=first,title=first] > \externalfigure[dummy][height=2cm] > \stopplacefigure > > Second line. > > \startplacefigure[location=here,reference=second,title=second,group=alpha,groupsuffix=.a] > \externalfigure[dummy][height=2cm] > \stopplacefigure > > Third line. > > \startplacefigure[location=here,reference=third,title=third] > \externalfigure[dummy][height=2cm] > \stopplacefigure > > Fourth line. > > \startplacefigure[location=here,reference=fourth,title=fourth,group=alpha,groupsuffix=.b] > \externalfigure[dummy][height=2cm] > \stopplacefigure > > Fifth line. > > \startplacefigure[location=here,reference=fifth,title=fifth,group=alpha,groupsuffix=.c] > \externalfigure[dummy][height=2cm] > \stopplacefigure > > Last line: \in[first] / \in[second] / \in[third] / \in[fourth] / \in[fifth]. > > \page > > \placelist[figure] > > \stoptext > > (beware: it's groupsuffix, and not suffix as that will add another one > not tracked in the lists) > > Hans Thank you very much, Hans. This is really perfect for my purpose. Best regards, Robert

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Is the lastest beta broken?
by Tim Li 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

Today, I updated my ConTeXt standalone but after that, if I ran `context' it would give these message: d:\>context contextmtxrun | forcing cache reload resolvers | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path 'C:/Users/peng/texmf/web2c' from specification 'home:texmf/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on weird path 'D:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/bin/' from specification 'selfautoloc:' resolvers | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on weird path 'D:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/bin/share/texmf-local/web2c' from specification 'selfautoloc:/share/texmf-local/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on weird path 'D:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/bin/share/texmf-dist/web2c' from specification 'selfautoloc:/share/texmf-dist/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on weird path 'D:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/bin/texmf-local/web2c' from specification 'selfautoloc:/texmf-local/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on weird path 'D:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/bin/texmf-dist/web2c' from specification 'selfautoloc:/texmf-dist/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on weird path 'D:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/' from specification 'selfautodir:' resolvers | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on weird path 'D:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/share/texmf-local/web2c' from specification 'selfautodir:/share/texmf-local/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on weird path 'D:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/share/texmf-dist/web2c' from specification 'selfautodir:/share/texmf-dist/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on weird path 'D:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/texmf-local/web2c' from specification 'selfautodir:/texmf-local/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on weird path 'D:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/texmf-dist/web2c' from specification 'selfautodir:/texmf-dist/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path 'D:/context/tex/../texmf-local/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/../texmf-local/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on weird path 'D:/context/tex/' from specification 'selfautoparent:' resolvers | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path 'D:/context/tex/share/texmf-local/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/share/texmf-local/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path 'D:/context/tex/share/texmf-dist/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/share/texmf-dist/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path 'D:/context/tex/texmf-local/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf-local/web2c' resolvers | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path 'D:/context/tex/texmf-dist/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf-dist/web2c' resolvers | resolving | resolvers | resolving | warning: no lua configuration files found resolvers | resolving | no texmf paths are defined (using TEXMF) resolvers | resolving | mtxrun | the resolver databases are not present or outdated resolvers | resolving | using suffix based filetype 'lua' resolvers | resolving | remembering file 'mtx-context.lua' resolvers | resolving | using suffix based filetype 'lua' resolvers | resolving | remembering file 'mtx-contexts.lua' resolvers | resolving | remembered file 'mtx-context.lua' resolvers | resolving | using suffix based filetype 'lua' resolvers | resolving | remembering file 'mtx-t-context.lua' resolvers | resolving | using suffix based filetype 'lua' resolvers | resolving | remembering file 'mtx-t-contexts.lua' resolvers | resolving | remembered file 'mtx-t-context.lua' resolvers | resolving | using suffix based filetype 'lua' resolvers | resolving | remembering file 'context.lua' mtxrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua' d:\> Is this suggesting that the new beta is broken? If not, how can I solve this problem? I like ConTeXt very much!

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Re: [NTG-context] float combinations
by Robert Blackstone 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

On 13 Apr 2013, at 13:30 , Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau(a)cea.fr> wrote: > > This is probably not exactly what you want, however, one can use list= > in \startplacefigure\stopplacefigure to differentiate between the > figure caption and its listing in the list of figures. > > > > \startplacefigure [title={Dutch scenery. > \startitemize [n] > \startitem A cow. \stopitem > \startitem A mill. \stopitem > \stopitemize}, > list=Figure title, > reference=fig:scenery] > > \startcombination [2] > {\externalfigure [cow] [width=.5\textwidth]} {a} > {\externalfigure [mill] [width=.45\textwidth} {b} > \stopcombination > \stopplacefigure > > A cow is shown in \in{figure} [fig:scenery]a. Hi Alan, Thank you for your reaction and your suggestions. Indeed, it is not exactly what I envisaged. I would be happiest if there were a way to add a and b as a suffix to the number, like Figure 2a. With combinations it is easy to have a general Caption and specific captions for the components of the combination. But for the List of Figures I see no other possibility than, for instance "2 Dutch scenery. a. Cow, b. Mill". In fact I have no problems when I can make use of a combination, but, as I wrote, sometimes combinations are impossible for lack of space on the page. What you describe as a challenge for Hans could be perfect, I think, provided an itemization can be interrupted and continued on next page. (I tried your liitle code snippet but ConText would not have it.) Splitting a float combination might turn out to be simpler. Only I have no clue as to how to achieve that. Thanks again. Best regards, Robert

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[***SPAM***] \setscript blocking \hskip functionality
by hwitloc＠gmail.com 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

I found that using \setscript{nihongo} breaks the functioning of \hskip. Here is a minimal example. MKIV required. Text source is UTF-8 encoded text. In the first case without \setscript the Japanese \hskip properly functions, but just after the \setscript macro it fails (without err or mention). However, it is interesting to note that \hfill does work in both cases with standard alphabet text. %-------------------------------- \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[ipaexm] % using a font having Japanese characters \starttext \underbars{Without setscript:} Alphabet\hskip 2cm text 漢字\hskip 2cm 文書 \setscript[nihongo] \underbars{With setscript:} Alphabet\hskip 2cm text 漢字\hskip 2cm 文書 \stoptext %-------------------------------- end

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Re: [NTG-context] Too many word-breaks in consecutive lines
by "H. Özoguz" 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

> 100 % automated typesetting > with 100 % perfect results is impossible Hans, I dont think so. Manual typesetting is not "100 % perfect", too. Why automated typesetting shouldn't be able to obtain the same results, like men – some day. Of course that needs much more than just typesetting-rules, e.g. some times one has to rephrase some sentences to get a good result, but this will be possible for programms in future, too. For typesetting alorithms it holds the same, like for chess programms in the past, now fulfilled: They will get to the men-level, and even (far) beyond that. Huseyin

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Different fonts for titles
by "H. Özoguz" 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

Hi there, how can I use a different font for titles using simplefont? (chapter, section, subsection, ....) At now, I use (e.g.) \definedfont[name:fontname at 12pt], but for many fonts, that results in bad kerning (empty space between characters), but for some fonts, that works. So, is there a better way to change easily the font (using Simplefont maybe), and how to set the title-fonts (no typescript, if possible :)) Thanks! Huseyin

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Too many word-breaks in consecutive lines
by "H. Özoguz" 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

Hi (sorry for many questions today :)), with German you often have the problem, that words are long (most often much longer than english words). So ConTeXt have to break them. But there is a typographical rule: "Do not break words at the end of lines in more than three consecutive lines." So four (or more) breaks each ofter another (line), is forbidden and considered as ugly! By default, ConTeXt does this in many cases, specially with DIN A5 and long words. And I have to manually fix this in every case, that is normal and ok. Is there a way to highlight these attempts of more than three consecutive breaks in one paragraph? Would be easier to find, and to not-oversee. Future suggestion: Perfectly ConTeXt would try to avoid those breaks, but I suspect that would end in ungly kerning and unnormal gaps between words, correct? Huseyin

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Test
by Keith J. Schultz 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

Hi All, Sorry for the noise. For some reason I am have been recieving mail from this list. regards Keith.

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Re: [NTG-context] Gridding-Problems with Adobe Garamond
by "H. Özoguz" 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

> You can increase the linespacing with a relative > > \setupinterlinespace[line=3.2ex] % default: line=2.8ex > > or a absolute > > \setupinterlinespace[line=14pt] Ok, thanks, that works. Should ConTeXt not choose automatically the correct value? But thanks for now! Huseyin

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Re: [NTG-context] Gridding-Problems with Adobe Garamond
by "H. Özoguz" 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

> Does this also happen when you use the typescript for your garamond? > > Can you also add \showgrid to your document to visualize the grid lines. Yes, it does: ++++++++++++++++ \starttypescript [serif] [nimbus] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [file:AGaramondPro-Regular.otf] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [file:AGaramondPro-Bold.otf] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [file:AGaramondPro-Italic.otf] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [file:AGaramondPro-BoldItalic.otf] \stoptypescript \definetypeface [nimbus] [rm] [serif] [nimbus] [default] [features=default] \setupbodyfont[nimbus,rm,12pt] \setuplayout [grid=yes] \showgrid \starttext erscheint, aber stetig und beständig ist, hat vor Gott mehr Wert als das, das du zwar auch fortlaufend, doch ohne innere Überzeugung erfüllst.\blank erscheint, aber stetig und beständig ist, hat vor Gott mehr Wert als das, das du zwar auch fortlaufend, doch ohne innere Uberzeugung erfüllst. \stoptext +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ You can see in the example, that I could find the reason for this: It is the height of the letter "Ü". See attachment, is this fixable? Huseyin

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Gridding-Problems with Adobe Garamond
by "H. Özoguz" 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

Hi there, thanks to helpful answers from here (as always:) Adobe Garamond Pro does work now. But today a new problem arises, I hope I made this example minimal enough: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \setuplayout [grid=yes] \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[AGaramondPro] \starttext erscheint, aber stetig und beständig ist, hat vor Gott mehr Wert als das, das du zwar auch fortlaufend, doch ohne innere Überzeugung erfüllst. \stoptext ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ It seems that gridding does not work properly here, as you see, we have an empty line after "zwar auch", why, and how to fix this? (If you do not have this font, look at the attachment.) And if the reason is not clear (as gridding conflicts some times with other rules without obvious reason), is there a workaround? Thanks! Huseyin

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Font size with Simplefonts
by "H. Özoguz" 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

Hello, using Simplefonts, is it the correct way just to write: \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[AGaramondPro] [protrusion=quality, expansion=quality] \setupalign[hz, hanging] \setupbodyfont[AGaramondPro,11.5pt] for setting the fontsize (it works). Or is there a more coherent way to set the font size with Simplefonts? Thanks. Huseyin

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No indentation after \blank
by "H. Özoguz" 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

Hi there, I want the output of the following code: +++++++ \setupindenting[yes, small,first] \starttext \noindent Para 1. Para 2.\blank \noindent Para 3. \stoptext ++++++++ but without the explicit "noindent". More precisely I want the following: There should be an indentation in the beginning of every paragraph – but not, if there is a empty line before (even if it not achieved by "blank", but maybe because of some general rules). This rule should include, that the first paragraph should not be indented, even if it has no empty line before. Thanks. Huseyin

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Re: [NTG-context] new manual
by Vyatcheslav Y. 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Thank you for this new manual! | Should try it on my Nook reader ) Vyatcheslav

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endnotes not placed
by Meer H. van der 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

The contextgarden tells me under Command/placefootnotes Place unplaced footnotes. Has no visible effect if location=page, but can be used to place footnotes (or endnotes) made when location=text was in effect. However nothing happens for an \endnote, but it works for a \footnote. See minimal example. Minimal example: \setupfootnotes[location=text] \starttext abc\endnote{an endnote} \placefootnotes \stoptext Hans van der Meer ConTeXt ver: 2013.03.20 10:34 MKIV fmt: 2013.3.20 int: english/english

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[***SPAM***] Background color with dotted frame formula
by hwitloc＠gmail.com 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

I am trying to make a rounded corner dotted frame with a formula on a gray background. I can't seem to get both the background and the dotted frame working well at the same time. Here is the same mkiv macros showing three specimens. #1 is stand rounded gray background. This works #2 The grey background seems to not go up to the dotted frame of the frame is too high? #3 The dotted frame does not show up at all. Here is the mkiv file: Thanks

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literal tilde glyph in ordinary text.
by john Culleton 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

In a non-math situation where I just wish to print a literal tilde to indicate the user's directory in Linux what do I use? such as: ~/.config -- John Culleton Wexford Press

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Hi, An extra chapter in: http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/about.pdf explaining abit the updated math fractions (and math styles mechanism). 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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new manual
by Hans Hagen 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Hi, I uploaded a work-in-progress manual: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/fonts-mkiv.pdf 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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[mtx-package] merger output ambiguous
by Philipp Gesang 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Hi Hans, merging produces invalid output when concatenating a numbers into a string. Example: return 42 .. "foo" which is merged into: return 42.."foo" ^ where the dot after the number leads to a “malformed number” error. (Iirc there was a thread on lua-l about this not long ago.) Regards Philipp

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flushfootnotes
by Meer H. van der 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

The contextgarden mentions a command flushfootnotes, however \starttext \flushfootnotes \stoptext results in an error: ! Undefined control sequence. log system > tex > error on line 2 in file sectioning.tex: Undefined control sequence ... l.2 \flushfootnotes ConTeXt ver: 2013.03.20 10:34 MKIV fmt: 2013.3.20 int: english/english Hans van der Meer

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SVG with \externalfigure and http:// handler
by Marco Patzer 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Hi, Including local SVG graphics works, so does including remote PNGs. Remote SVGs are not displayed, however. Example: \starttext \externalfigure[http://www.gnu.org/graphics/gnu2.svg] \stoptext Is this not supported or am I missing a required option? Marco

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Number of pages by Lua of a figure to be inserted?
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Hello, I need to identify number of pages by Lua of an image which is to be inserted. The image can be of all various types supported by Ctx - e.g. .png, .pdf. I've been using the following code so far (based on a mailing thread in the past): ---- function nOfPages(fn) local fig = figures.push{name = fn} local info = figures.identify() figures.check() local n = fig.used.pages figures.pop() return n end ---- But the code above break Ctx in the case that the image doesn't exist. I'd need to modify the solution somehow so to return 'nil' or 'false' (or a error message) in the case the file was not found. How to do it? TIA. Best regards, Lukas (NB: Still "ConTeXt ver: 2012.11.26 13:31 MKIV fmt: 2012.11.27 int: english/english".) -- 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: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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Re: [NTG-context] Hanging and Protrusion with Typescript
by "H. Özoguz" 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

> Can you add “mode=node” to \definefontfeature in the typescript based solution. Ok, now the kerning is exactly the same, what does mode=node do? Huseyin

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