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upload
by Hans Hagen 11 Aug '23

11 Aug '23

Hi, I uploaded a new lmtx. There are some new features that wil be revealed in the future (likely after the meeting) but here is one: \starttext \defineoverlay [test] [\color [blue] {TEST \inframed [foregroundcolor=red] {xxx} TEST}] \framed [background=test, foregroundstyle=\switchtobodyfont[small]] {test} \stoptext From now on many commands accept (properly) nested [] inside commands that use [] as fences (like the setup commands) where it makes sense. It is up to the user to decide to use {} (as before) or not but it is less error prone. It is now also possible to nest setups as in \starttext \startsetups one \startsetups [three] HERE \stopsetups \stopsetups \startsetups two \startsetups [three] THERE \stopsetups \stopsetups \setups[one] \setups[three] \setups[two] \setups[three] \stoptext As part of the ongoing improvements on math rendering we added some classic lm/cm kerns (between upperacse and periods / commas) in the goodie files. Some lowlevel manuals have been extended, explaining experimental 'named cross macro nesting parameter referencing' and 'constrained cq. retained assignments', but that is only relevant for those interested in overcoming some limitations in the traditional engines. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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How to override parts of a typescript
by Vincent Hennebert 11 Aug '23

11 Aug '23

Say I want to use the Adobe Source font family in my document. They are installed on my system, but the file names are different to what’s in the typescript file provided with the ConTeXt distribution. If I do this: \starttypescript [serif] [source] [name] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [file:SourceSerif4-Regular] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [file:SourceSerif4-It] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [file:SourceSerif4-Bold] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [file:SourceSerif4-BoldIt] [features=default] \stoptypescript \setupbodyfont[source] \starttext I want this text to be typeset in Adobe Source Serif. \stoptext Then I get what I want. The question is: can I move the \start/stoptypescript code into its own typescript file that would somehow refer to the official one and override only what’s needed? Or is the only solution to just copy the whole file and tweak what I need? I found some thread in the mailing list archive relating to this but it’s more than 15 years old. Maybe things have changed since then. Thanks, Vincent

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xml: matches always child of other element
by denis.maier＠unibe.ch 10 Aug '23

10 Aug '23

Hi, I must be missing something obvious, but in this example the pattern for <term> always matches the first element, not the one under the current <index-entry>. Interestingly, using xml:index-entry-2 instead of the normal version matches correctly... Any hints what is going off the rails here? Best, Denis \startxmlsetups xml:test \xmlsetsetup{#1}{*}{-} \xmlsetsetup{#1}{index}{xml:*} \xmlsetsetup{#1}{index-entry}{xml:index-entry} %\xmlsetsetup{#1}{index-entry}{xml:index-entry-2} \xmlsetsetup{#1}{term}{xml:index-entry-term} \xmlsetsetup{#1}{nav-pointer-group}{xml:*} \xmlsetsetup{#1}{nav-pointer}{xml:nav-pointer} \xmlsetsetup{#1}{nav-pointer/ext-link}{xml:nav-pointer-link} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregisterdocumentsetup{test}{xml:test} % Index \startxmlsetups xml:book-back \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:index \startsectionlevel[title={\xmlfilter{#1}{/index-title-group/title/command(xml:index-title)}},] \xmlflush{#1} \stopsectionlevel \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:index-title \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \definedescription[indexentry] [alternative=top, headstyle=normal, headcommand=\hskip-1cm, margin=1cm, inbetween=, ] \startxmlsetups xml:index-entry \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:index-entry-2 \xmlfilter{#1}{/term/command(xml:index-entry-term)}% \xmlverbatim{#1} \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:index-entry-term \indexentry{\xmlflush{#1}} \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:nav-pointer-group \xmlconcat{#1}{/nav-pointer}{, } \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:nav-pointer \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:nav-pointer-link \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \startbuffer[test] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <index> <index-title-group> <title>Index</title> </index-title-group> <index-entry> <term>First</term> <nav-pointer-group> <nav-pointer> <ext-link>1</ext-link> </nav-pointer> <nav-pointer> <ext-link>2</ext-link> </nav-pointer> <nav-pointer> <ext-link>3</ext-link> </nav-pointer> </nav-pointer-group> </index-entry> <index-entry> <term>Second</term> <nav-pointer-group> <nav-pointer> <ext-link>1</ext-link> </nav-pointer> </nav-pointer-group> </index-entry> <index-entry> <term>Third</term> <nav-pointer-group> <nav-pointer> <ext-link>1</ext-link> </nav-pointer> </nav-pointer-group> </index-entry> </index> \stopbuffer \starttext \xmlprocessbuffer{test}{test}{} \stoptext

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Cron <context@cgl> /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror
by root＠ntg.nl 10 Aug '23

10 Aug '23

receiving incremental file list ./ ctan.lsr document-2.htm download-1.htm download-2.htm logo-ade.png logo-cts.png logo-pod.png rss.xml show-fil.pdf context/latest/ context/latest/cont-lmt.zip context/latest/cont-mpd.zip context/latest/cont-ppc.zip context/latest/cont-sci.zip context/latest/cont-tmf.zip context/latest/cont-tst.7z context/latest/cont-tst.tar.xz context/latest/cont-tst.zip sent 175,487 bytes received 38,024,206 bytes 3,321,712.43 bytes/sec total size is 562,337,758 speedup is 14.72 Running archiver: New dir: /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2023-08-10.17 233660520 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2023-08-10.17/latest 126745317 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2023-08-10.17/current 360409933 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2023-08-10.17 360409933 total

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Map XML attributes to variables, dynamically
by Thangalin 10 Aug '23

10 Aug '23

Hello! A Markdown document resembles the following: ::: {.concurrent title="Berth 5" location="San Diego"} Text Goes Here ::: ::: {.concurrent title="Road" location="Beale AFB"} Different Text Goes Here ::: The XHTML generated from that document resembles: <div class="concurrent" data-title="Berth 5" data-location="San Diego"> Text Goes Here </div> <div class="concurrent" data-title="Road" data-location="Beale AFB"> Different Text Goes Here </div> Environments for the DIV element gets translated using: \startxmlsetups xml:div \start[\xmlatt{#1}{class}]\xmlflush{#1}\stop \stopxmlsetups This creates "\startconcurrent" and "\stopconcurrent", which are later defined using "\definestartstop[concurrent]". I'd like to dynamically define all the data- attributes to make key/value pairs accessible from the document. For example, I have this: \definestartstop[concurrent][ before={% \blank[big]% \setMPtext{1}{Berth 5}% \startTextConcurrentFrame}, after={\stopTextConcurrentFrame\blank[big]}, ] I'd like to replace \setMPText calls with a reference to a dynamically created variable reference. For example: \setMPtext{1}{\usermap[concurrent.title]} \setMPtext{2}{\usermap[concurrent.location]} I can verify the attribute values exist by exporting them to the document: \startxmlsetups xml:div title:\xmlatt{#1}{data-title} location:\xmlatt{#1}{data-location} \start[\xmlatt{#1}{class}]\xmlflush{#1}\stop \stopxmlsetups How would you change the xml:div setup to create a map of its attributes as key/value pairs? Thank you!

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Cron <context@cgl> /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror
by root＠ntg.nl 09 Aug '23

09 Aug '23

receiving incremental file list ./ ctan.lsr document-2.htm download-1.htm download-2.htm logo-ade.png logo-cts.png logo-pod.png rss.xml show-fil.pdf context/latest/ context/latest/cont-lmt.zip context/latest/cont-mpd.zip context/latest/cont-ppc.zip context/latest/cont-sci.zip context/latest/cont-tmf.zip context/latest/cont-tst.7z context/latest/cont-tst.tar.xz context/latest/cont-tst.zip general/manuals/ general/manuals/lowlevel-grouping.pdf general/manuals/lowlevel-macros.pdf sent 176,523 bytes received 40,431,915 bytes 3,248,675.04 bytes/sec total size is 562,360,213 speedup is 13.85 Running archiver: New dir: /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2023-08-09.18 233679568 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2023-08-09.18/latest 126745317 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2023-08-09.18/current 360428981 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2023-08-09.18 360428981 total

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Tracker for hyphens at the end of lines
by Keith McKay 09 Aug '23

09 Aug '23

Hi colleagues, Is there a tracker for highlighting hyphens at the end of lines similar the way underfull and overfull boxes can be displayed with a coloured bar at the end of the offending line? I have looked at the wiki page "Reviewing hyphenation" and it has a solution for mkii from 2009 which, I would think, won't be suitable for present day ConTeXt. I have tried searching for hyphens using Skim and Adobe Acrobate viewers but although they find hyphenation in line they don't recognise hyphens at the edge of lines. Any help would be appreciated. Keith McKay

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Re: Triaging tikz error: Cannot parse this coordinate
by Hans Hagen 09 Aug '23

09 Aug '23

On 8/9/2023 1:00 PM, Xavier B. wrote: > Yes. The problem is syntactic: with > \startscope[shift={(\p)}] > > it works. that's one way to look at it, kind of like (10,20) shifted (((((10,100))))) which looks somewhat weird (does {((((\p))))} actually work?) one can wonder why the coordinate is not expanded without encapsulating () which should not that hard to do Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Triaging tikz error: Cannot parse this coordinate
by Xavier B. 09 Aug '23

09 Aug '23

After some time, I could write a minimal example with tikz with strange error: Cannot parse this coordinate. Can someone help me to find the bug? I attach the file and the log. Help very appreciate I run $ context --version mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 1.04 mtx-context | mtx-context | main context file: /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/mkiv/context.mkiv mtx-context | current version: 2023.03.10 12:15 mtx-context | main context file: /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/mkxl/context.mkxl mtx-context | current version: 2023.03.10 12:15 via texlive (arch) Thanks, Xavier

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regular online meet-up
by Henning Hraban Ramm 09 Aug '23

09 Aug '23

You’re invited to join on Wednesday, August 9th, 15:00 CEST (UTC+2) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://v34h.de/ctxmtg) ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! There will be no online meeting in September, since we’ll meet in Sibřina in person. And let’s discuss there (or here) if we should move the date. CU soon! (Same blurb as every time:) [Howto] * No special software installation required; most modern browsers should work (WebRTC required). * Open the above URL, accept the privacy statement, * enter your name, * click "join" (or "start" if you’re the first), * click "with microphone", allow your browser to access it, check the audio. * Your microphone is muted if you join. Activate microphone and/or camera with the buttons at the bottom. * Minimize the default presentation with the "screen" button, bottom right. * If you’d like to share your screen or upload a file, you can make yourself the presenter: Click on your user name, change the setting, then you’ll see the "screen sharing" button beside the camera button; also there’s now "manage presentations" behind the "plus" button. Beware there is only one presenter at a time, so don’t kill someone else’s presentation. [Technical hints] * Sound is usually better if you use a headset (less noise for everyone). * Connection problems are mostly due to low bandwidth or high latency on your side, e.g. with mobile connections. * If audio/video doesn’t work for you, you can still use the text chat. * Screen sharing needs a lot of bandwidth. * BigBlueButton documentation applies: https://bigbluebutton.org/teachers/tutorials/ [Netiquette] * Please use a name that we recognize from here. Some feel uncomfortable with anonymous lurkers. * Mute your microphone while you’re not talking. * It’s nice to show your face at least when you join. * If there are connection problems, stop camera sharing. * The room is set to “everyone’s a moderator“, I trust you... See you, Hraban

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Cron <context@cgl> /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror
by root＠ntg.nl 08 Aug '23

08 Aug '23

rsync: [Receiver] failed to connect to rsync.pragma-ade.nl (213.125.29.165): Connection refused (111) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(139) [Receiver=3.2.7]

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ideas for ConTeXt stickers?
by Henning Hraban Ramm 08 Aug '23

08 Aug '23

Hi, while it’s too late for this year’s conferences, I’d like to have some nice ConTeXt, MetaPost or general TeX stickers for next year’s. Do you have ideas? Find attached an example by Moss. Hraban

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Parallel columns using start/stop setups
by Thangalin 08 Aug '23

08 Aug '23

Two concurrent situations can happen, which I'd like to typeset as two parallel columns while keeping the overall page layout (i.e., headers, footers, margins, and such). current version: 2023.07.18 22:07 I'd like to find a way to set up start/stop environments, if possible, to come up with a general-purpose solution (i.e., the prose itself is not changed). Here are a few examples. In the first, a "concurrent" environment is created with two "timelines": % SOT \definestartstop[concurrent][ before={\startcolumns[n=2, align={verytolerant,stretch}, separator=rule]}, after=\stopcolumns, ] \definestartstop[timelinea][ after=\column, ] \definestartstop[timelineb][] \starttext \startconcurrent \starttimelinea \dorecurse{5}{\input ward} \stoptimelinea \starttimelineb \dorecurse{5}{\input knuth} \stoptimelineb \stopconcurrent \stoptext % EOT The ward and knuth texts end up in the same column because one is shorter than the other. Here's another attempt: % SOT \defineparagraphs[concurrent][n=2] \definestartstop[timelinea][ before=\concurrent, after=\concurrent, ] \definestartstop[timelineb][ before=\concurrent, ] \starttext \startconcurrent \starttimelinea \dorecurse{5}{\input ward} \stoptimelinea \starttimelineb \dorecurse{5}{\input knuth} \stoptimelineb \stopconcurrent \stoptext % EOT This loses much of the input text. Can this be accomplished using LMTX and what would be the best approach? Would this setupparagraphs, definecolumnset, synchronizestreams, or possibly incomplete/experimental functionality? Thank you!

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Cron <context@cgl> /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror
by root＠ntg.nl 08 Aug '23

08 Aug '23

rsync: [Receiver] failed to connect to rsync.pragma-ade.nl (213.125.29.165): Connection timed out (110) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(139) [Receiver=3.2.7]

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How to make words searchable without diacritics
by Marcus Vinicius Mesquita 08 Aug '23

08 Aug '23

Dear List, I have a lot of latin words in a document with the length of the vowels indicated by diacritics, for example: fīlĭa. Is it possible somehow to make these words searchable without the diacritics? That is, if I make a search for filia in the final pdf file, fīlĭa would also be found? Regards Marcus Vinicius -- Todas as coisas fatigam o corpo, salvo a música, que não fatiga nem o corpo nem seus membros, por ser descanso da alma, primavera do coração, distração do aflito, entretenimento do solitário, e viático do viajante. Kunnâsh al-Hâ'ik (Cancioneiro de al-Hâ'ik)

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OT: primes outside of TeX
by Henning Hraban Ramm 07 Aug '23

07 Aug '23

typographical advise about using primes (foot/inch marks): https://practicaltypography.com/foot-and-inch-marks.html

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Typing with text wrapping
by Alex Leray 07 Aug '23

07 Aug '23

Hi all, I'm having another issue with my project. I'm trying to typeset fragments of HTML, including tabs and (repeating) spaces. I'd like to have my snippet with some words in bold. So I used `typing` together with the `escape` option. But now, I'd like my snippets to wrap when the lines are too long. The snippets can un over several pages so that recipe[^1] doesn't work for me. [^1]: https://www.contextgarden.net/Verbatim_with_line_breaks> Is there a way to do that? Here is my code: ``` \definepapersize[page][width=105mm,height=148.5mm] \setuppapersize[page, portrait][page, portrait] \definehead[poem][section] \setuphead[poem][] \definetyping[CUSTOM] \setuptyping[CUSTOM][escape={[[,]]}] \starttext \showgrid \startpoem[title={My title}][] \startCUSTOM[]  \stopCUSTOM \stoppoem \stoptext ``` Thanks!

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Can ConTeXt write its pdf to a different directory?
by peter.hopcroft＠icloud.com 07 Aug '23

07 Aug '23

My .tex file is in a directory within my working directory. I would like ConTeXt to write its output in the same directory as my .tex file. But it writes to the working directory. This was asked 10 years ago: `tex.stackexchange.com/questions/67928/how-to-set-output-directory-in-context-command` The answer given then was to use: `context filename --result=output-directory/filename` But this doesn't work now. When I compile my .tex file, I get a message: `results are to be on the running path, not on 'output-directory', ignoring --result` I've looked in the wiki: `https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context` Thank you, Peter

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Using
by Alex Leray 05 Aug '23

05 Aug '23

Hello, I'm trying to figure out why this is not working (whereas \startlines\stoplines works): ``` \definehead[poem][section] \setuphead[poem][beforesection={\starttyping}, aftersection={\stoptyping}] \starttext \startpoem[title={Glijden}][] Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur. \stoppoem \stoptext ``` I get the following traceback: ``` tex error > tex error on line 6 in file /home/ali/work/being_human/test.tex: ! Undefined control sequence \strc_sectioning_initialize_increment ->\edef \currentheadincrement {\headparameter \c!incrementnumber }\ifcsname \??headincrement \currentheadincrement \endcsname \lastnamedcs \else \settrue \c_strc_sectioning_increment \settrue \c_strc_sectionin... \strc_sectioning_handle ... \currentheadsection }\strc_sectioning_initialize_autolevel \strc_sectioning_initialize_increment \strc_sectioning_initialize_placement \strc_sectioning_initialize_number \the \everybeforesectionheadhandle \let \getheadn... \strc_sectioning_start_named_section ...parameter \c!beforesection \the \everybeforehead \strc_sectioning_handle {#1}{#2}{#3} \headparameter \c!insidesection l.6 \startpoem[title={Glijden}][] 1 \definehead[poem][section] 2 \setuphead[poem][beforesection={\starttyping}, aftersection={\stoptyping}] 3 4 \starttext 5 6 >> \startpoem[title={Glijden}][] 7 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur. 8 \stoppoem 9 10 \stoptext 11 mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 256 ``` Any idea? thanks a lot! Alex

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Par Builder Tests
by Keith McKay 05 Aug '23

05 Aug '23

Hi all, At the end of June, Hans uploaded a new lmtx version which included improvements to par building which he and Mikael had been working on in math mode. Hans suggested in the online chat that these improvements may be useful in typesetting novels. I was keen to try these since I have typset novels in the past. I have ran some tests on two novels which I downloaded from the Gutenberg Project site as epubs and extracted them to get the original xhtml files which I then typeset in context. I made very little in the way of changes to the files so that my setup for xml was very simple. Here are my setups for the layout of the novels showing some trackers that were used as well: \definepapersize[pagee][width=5.06in,height=7.81in] \setuppapersize[pagee] % XML setups here \startsetups[grid][mypenalties] \setdefaultpenalties \setpenalties\widowpenalties{1}{150} \setpenalties\clubpenalties {1}{150} \stopsetups \setuplayout[ width=10cm, topspace=0.5in, backspace=2.0cm, header=7.5mm, footer=0.25in, location={middle,middle}, vs=2, grid=yes, setups=mypenalties ] %\enabletrackers[makeup] %\enabletrackers[builders.hpack.quality] \enabletrackers[builders.hpack.overflow] %\enabletrackers[layout.vz] %\enabletrackers[paragraphs.passes] \enabletrackers[paragraphs.passes=summary] %\enabletrackers[paragraphs.passes=details] \setupalign[granular] %\setupalign[nothyphenated,hz,verytolerant] %\setupalign[vertical,height] %\setupalignpass[decent] %\setupalignpass[quality] %\setupalignpass[test1] \setupalignpass[test2] %\setupalignpass[test3] %\setupalignpass[test4] %\setupalignpass[test5] %\setupalignpass[optional1] %\setupalignpass[test2b] \starttext \setuppagenumbering[location={footer,middle},alternative=doublesided,state=start] \setcounter[userpage][1] %\showmakeup[vbox] %\showlayout \dostepwiserecurse{0}{30}{1}{ \xmlprocessfile{mysetups}{/path to xhtml files/4439720318703948998_84-h-\recurselevel.htm.xhtml}{} } \stoptext Below are the result showing the number of overfull boxes for these novels using the setups in the file spac-imp-tests.mkxl . See the manual Low Level - Lines Test Novel1 Novel2 Test1 70 35 Test2 30 8 Test3 62 23 Test4 89 40 Test5 28 9 Optional1 55 19 Quality 74 32 Decent 39 11 From these initial tests one can see that Test2 gave the lowest number of overfull boxes. So I edited test two, ran it, and the results are below. Test Novel1 Novel2 Test2b 11 0 My setup for test 2b is as follows: \startsetups align:pass:test2b \pretolerance 100 \tolerance 200 \parpasses 3 classes \indecentparpassclasses threshold 0.025pt tolerance 800 extrahyphenpenalty 50 next threshold 0.025pt tolerance 900 adjustspacing 3 adjustspacingstep 1 adjustspacingshrink 10 adjustspacingstretch 15 next threshold 0.025pt tolerance 1000 adjustspacing 3 adjustspacingstep 1 adjustspacingshrink 20 adjustspacingstretch 40 emergencystretch .25\bodyfontsize \relax % \linebreakpasses\plusone \stopsetups The only difference between test 2 and 2b are that I increased the tolerance in each of the three passes. In novel 2 this was successful in eliminating the overfull boxes but not in Novel 1 although I noticed that majority of overfull boxes were above 1pt with the largest about 12pt in Novel 1. I am at the stage now where I need some kind of strategy to reduce/eliminate overfull boxes, other than changing the tolerance, and I'm hoping for some advice from the community. Suggestions for further reading particularly on the commands in \setupalignpass and their usage would be appreciated and on the best way to tackle overfull boxes. Best Wishes Keith McKay

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Ukrainian hyphenation?
by Gerben Wierda 05 Aug '23

05 Aug '23

This file: \setupinteraction [state=start, color=blue, style=bold] \definefallbackfamily [archimate] [ss] [Helvetica] [preset=range:cyrillic, tf=style:light, it=style:lightoblique, bf=style:regular, bi=style:oblique, force=yes, rscale=1.0] \definefontfamily [archimate] [ss] [Helvetica] \setupbodyfont[archimate] \starttext \setuplanguage[en][patterns={ru}]\mainlanguage[ru] {\framed[frame=on,align=flushleft,width=7cm]{Техніка здатна до фізичної поведінки (на відміну від інформаційної поведінки). Наприклад `Металургійний комбінат'.}}\\ \setuplanguage[ua][patterns={ua}]\mainlanguage[ua] {\framed[frame=on,align=flushleft,width=7cm]{Техніка здатна до фізичної поведінки (на відміну від інформаційної поведінки). Наприклад `Металургійний комбінат'.}}\\ \stoptext Hyphenates russian but not ukrainian. Why? Gerben Wierda (LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerbenwierda>, Mastodon <https://newsie.social/@gctwnl>) R&A IT Strategy <https://ea.rna.nl/> (main site) Book: Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture <https://ea.rna.nl/the-book/> Book: Mastering ArchiMate <https://ea.rna.nl/the-book-edition-iii/>

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\defineactivecharacter in LMTX + composing characters
by Hamid,Idris 02 Aug '23

02 Aug '23

Dear gang, It appears that \defineactivecharacter does not work in lmtx: \starttext \defineactivecharacter Ḥ {\d{H}} \defineactivecharacter ḥ {\d{h}} \defineactivecharacter Ṣ {\d{S}} \defineactivecharacter ṣ {\d{s}} \stoptext This should not produce any typeset output but in lmtx it does. Background: The following characters are essential for Arabic transliteration (assuming your email client has the chars): Ṯṯ Ḥḥ Ḫḫ Ḏḏ Šš Ṣṣ Ḍḍ Ṭṭ Ẓẓ Ġġ Āā Īī Ūū ʿ ʾ But most really good fonts don't have them, so we have to compose them. Now there are other methods, e.g, 1) \definecharacter Hbottomdot {\buildtextbottomdot H} but cannot use it without something like \defineactivecharacter (there's no way we're going back to the bad old days of control sequences for accented chars). That is, we need to be able to say something like \definecharacter Ḥ {\buildtextbottomdot H} But this doesn't work. The other method 2) \definefontfeature[default][default][compose=yes] doesn't appear to work either (at least not with, e.g., Minion Pro Opticals). And even when it used to (somewhat) work (often ugly default results) it did not support utf 02BE and 02BF (ʿ ʾ). So we still need something like \defineactivecharacter ʿ {\high{c}} \defineactivecharacter ʾ {\kern.07 em \high{\rotate[rotation=180,location=high]{c}}} or better \definecharacter ʿ {\high{c}} \definecharacter ʾ {\kern.07 em \high{\rotate[rotation=180,location=high]{c}}} The upshot is that we need a general, configurable solution for this kind of situation. And please don't say, "Use a different font!" -) Thank you in advance for any guidance and assistance in this matter. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: floatcombinations seem to not work correctly after lmtx update
by Gerion Entrup 01 Aug '23

01 Aug '23

Am Montag, 19. Juni 2023, 13:53:02 CEST schrieb Gerion Entrup via ntg-context: > In this minimal example everything works. However, in my real document > the subfigures have enormous space between them so just two pictures are > visible (see the attached png). I finally found the cause. I had these lines in my header: ``` \setupcaptions[minwidth=0.95\textwidth, way=bychapter, prefixsegments=chapter] ``` In the new context, this seem to apply to all captions, while in the old context, it seems to apply only to those captions that are not specified otherwise. Best Gerion

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OT: funny units
by Henning Hraban Ramm 01 Aug '23

01 Aug '23

WRT to funny units consider this thread (in German): https://ruhrpott.social/@Matze/110812742577889798 Matze wrote: I read the 'as big as a song thrush' as a size and I find that we should set 'song thrush' as a standard unit for 20-22 cm. Text problem: Calculate how many square song thrush amount to a Saarland. (Saarland is the smallest federal country of Germany that is not only a city and often quoted for size comparison.) Magdalena calculated that with a given song thrush size of 20cm, one square song thrush is 400 cm² and a Saarland is about 64,250,000,000 square song thrush. ;) HR

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presentation styles
by Henning Hraban Ramm 31 Jul '23

31 Jul '23

Hi, here are three presentation styles for your amusement: https://codeberg.org/fiee/context-for-president I combined the code of my TUG, FrOSCon and CCCamp talks into kind-of a module. It’s still preliminary, comments are welcome. Thanks for all the help! Hraban

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