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(forw) Fraktur fonts
by Rudolf Bahr 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

----- Forwarded message from Rudolf Bahr <quasi(a)quasi.de> ----- From: Rudolf Bahr <quasi(a)quasi.de> Reply-To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl Subject: Fraktur fonts Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:28:12 +0200 Message-ID: <20130612092603.GA1090@mini> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Hello list members, an only-a-few-days-fan of Context writes to you for the first time. I'm pleased to have found a program closer to TeX and younger than LaTeX. In the last years I used LaTeX for a bigger family project with good success, but experienced some difficulties in arranging minipages containing changing text and pictures especially in series letters. So I'm trying to do that using Context. Of course I cannot change hundreds of files from LaTeX to Context, but newer tasks I'd like to do in Context. There is a first question I have concerning Fraktur fonts which I'd like to use typesetting a poem: I found a 2-mail-discussion in your 2002-archiv concerning those fonts. But I have to admit that I don't understand what is written there. So, I tried simply \definefont[Gedichtfont][Fraktur] \Gedichtfont{... poem ...} both with "context" and "texexec", but I don't achieve the desired result. "texexec" displays a font somehow similar to Fraktur, but not a very nice one and much to broad; and it seems to have no different "s" (one inner-word and one word-end or syllable-end "s") as needed in Fraktur. And, my "texexec" doesn't know anything about umlauts and sharp s. Whereas my "context" (translating the same program), dosn't know Fraktur, but knows umlauts. So I'm always using both of them, enjoying the partial success of both, though I read somewhere, it should be better using "texexec". Well, a very nice Fraktur font is Yannis Haralambous' "yfrak" in his "yfont" series, the nicest one I've found until now. Could you please help me to formulate the correct commands to use a "nice" Fraktur font, be it "yfrak" or another one? But please remember, Context is still rather confusing to me. So, it should be simple enough. Best regards, Ruhmwolf ----- End forwarded message -----

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two simple questions on presentations
by Pablo Rodríguez 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

Dear list, sorry for asking the following questions, but I wasn't able to find the answers on the reference manual, the wiki or the command list. I wanted to make some cards (and I'm interested also in this features for presentations) that have the following features: -Everything in the cards is centered both horizontally and vertically. \setupalign[lohi] doesn't work outside frames or similar and \setupalign[middle] centers only horizontally. -Page background colors that can be changed from a given point to the rest of the document or the next page background color change. \setupbackgrounds[page][background=color, backgroundcolor=blue] sets the background color for all pages. How could I get both features? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Halt ConTeXt on Certain Warnings/Errors
by Malte Stien 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

Hi all, Is there are way I can have ConTeXt halt on particular warnings or errors? In particular, I like it to spit the dummy when it finds an unknown reference. Otherwise, I end up with the unknown references in the document that I sometimes don't find until much later. At the moment I grep for "reference" when I run context, as in context *.tex | grep reference ...but I thought there might be some more elegant way to do this. Thank you, Malte. -- “The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.” ― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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NTG-context] How to hack the lua files
by Lance Larsen 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

Hans, Thankyou for your suggestion of using the \usereferences tag to reference formulas in another document. This is a good solution. However the example below doesn't give usable results because the references to the external formula output by test2.tex does not include the chapter number: test1.tex: ------------- \starttext \chapter{Chapter 1} \placeformula[one] \startformula x = y \stopformula \placeformula[two] \startformula y = z \stopformula \chapter{Chapter 2} \placeformula[three] \startformula z = x \stopformula \stoptext test2.tex: -------------- \usereferences[test1.tex] \starttext \in{formula}[test1.tex::one] \in{formula}[test1.tex::two] \in{formula}[test1.tex::three] \stoptext In the output of test1.tex, the formulas are labeled (1.1), (1.2), and (2.1). In the output of test2.tex the references are labeled 'formula 1', 'formula 2', and 'formula 1' (i.e. the section number is not included). Using the \usereferences tag works if I label formulas 'bytext' rather than by 'bysection' and turn off chapter prefixes in test1.tex using the following at the start of the document: \setupformulae[way=bytext,prefixsegments=None] I would really prefer to maintain numbering by section, but to do this, I need test2.tex to show external references in the same way as test1.tex (by including the section number in front of the equation number). Is there a way to do this at present? If not, labeling formulas 'bytext' will work for now even if it isn't ideal. -Lance Larsen On 6/7/2013 4:01 PM, Lance Larsen wrote: > luigi, > > When I started exploring how to map equation references (eq:name) to > equation numbers (4.2), I noticed that the 'tuc' file included the equation > reference (eq:name), but I was not able to identify anywhere where it > indicates the actual equation label specified in the document. Below is an > example of the tuc output. 'eq:DVOL_RVI_17' is equation (4.28) in the > document: > > { > ["metadata"]=142, > ["numberdata"]=237, > ["prefixdata"]=11, > ["references"]={ > ["block"]="bodypart", > ["internal"]=122, > ["realpage"]=47, > ["reference"]="eq:DVOL_RVI_17", > ["section"]=79, > }, > } > > There is nowhere in the tuc file that contains 4 and 28 near each other. I > checked this for other equations as well and concluded that the tuc file > does not contain the actual equation numbers that are used. because there are indirect references to for instance 'numberdata' where this info sits > If I am missing something or you have any other suggestions that might help > me to extract this info, I would sure appreciate the help. see previous mail btw, if you just want to use references in another tex doc, this will do the trick: \usereferences[somedoc] \starttext \in{formula}[somedoc::a] \in{formula}[somedoc::b] \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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orphans and widows in poems
by Pablo Rodríguez 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

Dear list, I have a document that contains a long poem and although it contains the following code: \setuplayout[setups=*lessstrict] \startsetups[*lessstrict] \setup[reset] \widowpenalty=10000 \clubpenalty=10000 \brokenpenalty=10000 \stopsetups I'm afraid that I get widow lines in the lines environment. Is there no way to avoid orphans and widows in the lines environment? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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embedding ConTeXt code in an xtable
by Sander Maijers 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

I am now using xtable to have an XMLish document to store a table. How I can embed ConTeXt code like $\Delta{}N_{\text{test}}$ in the external XML file file with the table? In other words, having mathematical notiation in the table header? I tried various things such as: \expanded{\xmlflush{#1}}

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Output from Context standalone (actual version) has wrong utf-8 encoding
by Christian Prim 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

Hi list rendering a very easy formula with greek text in it produces a pdf-document that has not a valid utf-8 string. I use evince for displaying pdfs under ubuntu linux. The document appears correctly on the screen but stops printing after a greek letter in a formula. The error-report says: Internal Error: cairo context error: input string not valid UTF-8 The same document compiled in live.contextgarden.net doesn't produce a mistake and can be printed with evince. I can still print the document correctly using 'lpr name.pdf', so it's not a big problem for me. But I don't know if that could be a problem for someone else. Test-Document: \starttext $3\omega$ \stoptext Tell me, what I can do to help. Thanks Christian

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Hebrew vowel placement in ConTeXt.
by Michael Ash 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

I am new to ConTeXt and very impressed. Much thanks to Hans Hagen and Idris Samawi Hamid for an excellent introduction. I am using the Hebrew Ezra SIL Hebrew Unicode Fonts. My question concerns the placement of the Hebrew vowel points ("niqqud"). For most letters, the vowel points are placed too far to the left, as opposed to centered directly under the letter. A short example follows. For some of the letters, e.g., "Hebrew Letter Alef With Qamats" (kind of a t-shaped vowel underneath the alef), the vowel is correctly centered. For others it appears incorrectly to the left. (This may be connected with whether the letter+vowel is packaged as a single character or whether it is being composed on the fly.) I have used the same font in several predecessor programs (the makor package for lamed and the cjhebrew package for LaTeX) and the vowels points are placed correctly. Please let me know if you have any suggestions regarding adjusting the placement of the vowel points. (ConTeXt version info is at the end of the message.) Thank you, Michael \definefontfeature[hebrew][arabic][script=hebr] \definefont[hebrew][name:ezrasil] \starttext Zephania 3:8 includes all of the letters in the Hebrew alphabet, the equivalent of \quotation{The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs} in English. \startalignment[left] \textdir TRT \hebrew לָכֵן חַכּוּ־לִי נְאֻם־יְהוָה לְיוֹם קוּמִי לְעַד כִּי מִשְׁפָּטִי לֶאֱסֹף גּוֹיִם לְקָבְצִי מַמְלָכוֹת לִשְׁפֹּךְ עֲלֵיהֶם זַעְמִי כֹּל חֲרוֹן אַפִּי כִּי בְּאֵשׁ קִנְאָתִי תֵּאָכֵל כָּל־הָאָרֶץ׃ \stoptext Here is the ConTeXt version and operating system: $ uname -a Linux mash-laptop 3.8.0-23-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 29 20:24:54 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux $ context --version mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 0.60 mtx-context | mtx-context | main context file: /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/context.mkiv mtx-context | current version: 2013.06.04 23:52

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Not limited to greek letter
by Christian Prim 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

Hi again The next document produces the same mistake as described in my last mail: \starttext $3v$ \stoptext Bye Christian

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[***SPAM***] Celsius or Me
by d.henman 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

I am using the latest TeXLive update version of MKIV (used tlmgr to update). In a compile time message Context says that it doesn't like: " ! Argument of \celsius has an extra }. system > tex > error on line 15 in file degree-problem.tex: Argument of ... " -------------------------------- example macro document \starttext Temperature is in \celsius which seem cooler than degrees K, but really are not. \startfact \fact specific heat for water ... \celsius is much greater than air \\ x \\ y \\ \stopfact \startlegend \leg Temperature \\ 5 \celsius \\ xyz \\ \stoplegend \startformula \frac{j}{ m^2 \cdot s \cdot \celsius } \stopformula A formula by itself: \frac{j}{m^2\cdot s\cdot \celsius} continuing text. \blank A formula inlined: $ \frac{j}{m^2\cdot s\cdot \celsius} $ continuting text. \stoptext -------------------------------- end of example code The bad things that happer: Word mangling in the first threeconstructs: ------------------------------------------ which --> w◦Chich is --> i◦Cs ??? ◦Cxyz ? should the ◦C be separated from the xyz in a fact block? \celsius is getting cut out of the formula and put in after a newline in the last constructs. This may be an affect of the above problem, but I don't know. -------------------------------- please take a look at this. I just found out about a unit package, but this should work. Thank.

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