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What do \start and \stop mean?
by Lars Huttar 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

I found \start and \stop referenced in the context reference manual (e.g. section 5.5). While \startXYZ - \stopXYZ pairs are discussed earlier, I can't find any place that \start and \stop (with no suffix) are described. They seem to be used like \bgroup and \egroup. Is that right? They are defined in core-sys.mkiv, but I can't figure out from there what they actually do. I'll contribute documentation for them if someone can tell me what they mean. Thanks, Lars

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Find all words set into the margin
by "H. Özoguz" 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

I use \definefontfeature[default][default][expansion=quality,protrusion=quality] \setupalign[hz,hanging] \usetypescript[times] \setupbodyfont[times,11pt] \setuptolerance[verystrict] Is there a command or a macro to find all occurences in a file (or projekt), where some word is printed into the margin? (Maybe because of bad hyphenation or something else.) - Would be perfect for manual check-up and corrections! Thanks. Huseyin

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ConTeXt Meetings come and go
by Taco Hoekwater 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Hi all, We just finished the ConTeXt meeting in Brejlov. Once again, it was a great pleasure to meet in person. A big "thank you!" to Jano Kula is in order for organizing yet another flawless meeting! ---- Now looking forward; at the annual members meeting of the ConTeXt Group in Brejlov, the location for the next meeting (the eight one already) was decided, we will go back to the same place we were at in 2011. 't Sjetootje in Bassenge-Boirs, Belgium. Good food, nice beers, a quirky location and a very friendly host should make for a perfect return visit in 2014! Registration is not open yet as I have to figure out the correct pricing levels first and that will take a few months, but the date is firmly set already: Monday evening September 8 -- Saturday morning September 13, 2014 More news will be posted once it becomes available. Best wishes, Taco http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2014 http://group.contextgarden.net/

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fake feature “extend” behaving weirdly
by Philipp Gesang 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Hi Hans, this got posted on the DANTE list today. \definefontfeature [quite_wide] [extend=1.5] \definefont [mainfont] [file:Iwona-Regular.otf] \definefont [widefont] [file:Iwona-Regular.otf*quite_wide] \starttext \mainfont {\widefont foo} %% comment this line and “bar” is fine bar {\widefont baz} \stoptext The example defines two fonts with the same base font. If the scaled variant is used before the regular one then the latter will appear scaled as well and the spacing (bboxes?) gets messed up. I suspect a relation to this old issue: http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=829 but if I substitute “slant” for “extend” the behavior is different. Best, Philipp

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PDF Transparency and ConTeXt
by Thangalin 29 Sep '13

29 Sep '13

Hi, I have written up a question on TeX.SE: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/135543/pdf-colour-space-and-context Aditya mentioned that the problem with transparencies is that it is likely a known bug with Adobe Acrobat Reader: "I remember similar questions being asked in the past, and the conclusion was that it was a known bug in Adobe Reader." Has anyone else come across this issue and found a way to resolve it in ConTeXt? I ran into what I think is a similar issue with LaTeX and was able to resolve it using the following command in the preamble: \pdfpageattr{/Group << /S /Transparency /I true /CS /DeviceRGB>>} I have not yet tried to reproduce the problem in either LuaLaTeX or LaTeX. Kindest regards.

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mtx-context - extraordinarily quiet mode
by Thangalin 29 Sep '13

29 Sep '13

Hi, I ran the following: context --noconsole --batchmode --nonstopmode filename.tex This wrote information to the console: This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.76.0-2013040516 (rev 4627) \write18 enabled. Underfull \hbox (badness 2401) in paragraph at lines 464--464 ... lots more output ... system | total runtime: 1.962 How do you prevent ConTeXt from writing anything whatsoever to the console? Kind regards.

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Bugfix in strc-doc
by Aditya Mahajan 29 Sep '13

29 Sep '13

\somenameheadnumber{whatever}{last} gives an error if the head 'whatever' hasn't been used. This can be avoided using - if data then + if data and data.references then in line 772 of strc-doc.lua. Aditya

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Module documentation broken
by Marco Patzer 28 Sep '13

28 Sep '13

Hi, the module documentation is broken when it contains certain macros, e.g. \METAPOST. mtxrun --script modules --process auto:meta-pag.mkiv yields pages > flushing realpage 1, userpage 1 pages > flushing realpage 2, userpage 1 error: .../context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/node-fnt.lua:129: attempt to index field '?' (a boolean value) system > tex > error on line 20 in file ../meta-pag-mkiv.ted: ? ... Marco

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ConTeXt Manual Errata
by Thangalin 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

Hi, During a recent plane ride, I started to read the ConTeXt manual to get a better understanding: http://www.ctex.org/documents/context/cont-enp.pdf If anyone has plans to revise it, I have attached a file with corrections, specific comments, and general comments. I did not have the ConTeXt manual source code on hand, so I could not directly modify it. Take the comments with a grain of salt: I have little ConTeXt experience. I hope it proves useful. Kindest regards.

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bug with font
by Prashanth 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

Hello, I update my ConTeXt setup about every couple of weeks. I use Ubuntu font in some of my documents. My setup from 2013-09-11 was selecting the specified fonts correctly. However my setup from 2013-09-25 (today) selects "Ubuntu Light" when I specify just "Ubuntu". When I specifically ask it to use "Ubuntu Regular", it forces this weight everywhere (including places where I specify \em). I have attached a minimal example and sample PDF and log files from both versions. Best regards, Prashanth

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