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Write a long chapter title in two lines
by Jeong Dal 19 Aug '22

19 Aug '22

Dear all, A few days ago, I sent an email as follows. But it is linked to another subject because I choose reply of another subject. So, I send the same mail again. Thank you for reading. Best regards, Dalyoung ********** I’d like to write a long chapter title in two lines if it is longer than the textwidth. It is OK when I use just bigger fonts. But it writes the long title in one line if I use outlined font for title as in MWE. Is there a way to write it in two lines using the outlined font? Thanks, Best regards, Dalyoung \startuseMPgraphic{outlineT} draw outlinetext.b (\MPvar{tt}) (withcolor .75white) (withcolor .725blue withpen pencircle scaled .75pt);%\MPvar{thick}); \stopuseMPgraphic \definefont[BigFontOne][NotoSansCJKkr-Bold sa 4] \define[1]\outlineTitle{\useMPgraphic{outlineT}{tt="#1"}} \setuphead[chapter] [textcommand=\outlineTitle, style=\BigFontOne, numbercommand=\outlineTitle, % align = middle, number=yes] \setupexternalfigures[location={default,local,global}] %\definefont[fancy][Zapfino at 24pt] \starttext \startchapter[title={Very Long Long Long Title}] \startcombination[3*1] {\externalfigure[cow] [combination]}{cow} {\externalfigure[mill] [combination]}{mill} {\externalfigure[hacker][combination]}{hacker} \stopcombination \stopchapter \stoptext

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Using MathTime Pro 2 fonts in ConTeXt
by Sebastian Leonardo Molina Diaz 18 Aug '22

18 Aug '22

Years ago it was asked if someone could provide a typescript for the MathTime Pro2 fonts. However, the conversation ended nowhere, so I want to ask how should I format a typescript to use such fonts. Below is the link of the related conversation: https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2010/051611.html Thanks in advance. -- *Aviso legal:* El contenido de este mensaje y los archivos adjuntos son confidenciales y de uso exclusivo de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Se encuentran dirigidos sólo para el uso del destinatario al cual van enviados. La reproducción, lectura y/o copia se encuentran prohibidas a cualquier persona diferente a este y puede ser ilegal. Si usted lo ha recibido por error, infórmenos y elimínelo de su correo. Los Datos Personales serán tratados conforme a la Ley 1581 de 2012 y a nuestra Política de Datos Personales que podrá consultar en la página web www.unal.edu.co <http://www.unal.edu.co/>.* *Las opiniones, informaciones, conclusiones y cualquier otro tipo de dato contenido en este correo electrónico, no relacionados con la actividad de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, se entenderá como personales y de ninguna manera son avaladas por la Universidad.

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Re: [NTG-context] How can I make a Gentoo Linux package for ConTeXt LMTX?
by Max Chernoff 18 Aug '22

18 Aug '22

> Hi Amano(?), Hans > > Can you make it easier to make an OS package for ConTeXt LMTX by > > releasing versioned (source) archives, including BUILD/INSTALL > > instructions in the versioned archives, and so on? I wish I could just > > extract a versioned binary archive into certain locations or use GNU > > autotools or use meson build system which is far better than GNU > > autotools. > > there is a github repository for the tex stuff For reference, the GitHub repository is at: https://github.com/contextgarden/context-mirror/ It's semi-official mirror, but the authoritative source is the zips hosted by Pragma. > and have no experience > with all that versioning / release / os packaging stuff (couldn't test > it anyway and continuously adapt to teh subtle differences in > distributions and os's) ... we just post zips (already for decades) but > anyone is free to come up with such instructions (e.g. aditya did some > for arch) > > anyway, lmtx is still kind of experimental and at some point > installation will move to the garden (not much is needed, just a web > server) and the packaging scripts are / will be in the distribution .. > there are no dependencies (and we keep it that way: self contained bins) > > sorry, i just can't spent time on all the possible variant ways of > installation .. that is up to volunteers I think all that Amano is asking for is for older versions of the zips/binaries to be kept available. Right now, the only files available for download that I'm aware of are the latest versions. This is problematic from a reproducibility standpoint, since if you have multiple people, say, writing a large textbook, it would make sense that they wouldn't want to upgrade their systems constantly in case something breaks. These people can easily just avoid upgrades, but if someone new joins the team, they can only download the newest version. However, that won't necessarily match the older version that everyone else has, which can lead to problems. Having older versions available would also help in the case of major short-term regressions, since users would be able to (manually) downgrade to an older version if necessary. An easy solution to this would be the following: instead of overwriting the whole "/install-lmtx/" tree on every update, you would install all the new files to something like "/install-lmtx-2022-08-07/", then have "/install-lmtx/" be a symlink to the latest "/install-lmtx-YYYY-MM-DD/". I don't think that this would be very hard to implement from a technical perspective, and the only downside that I can think of would be extra disk space used. This is a fairly common implementation among other software. One other solution would be to have "dl.contextgarden.net" mirror a zip/binary combo once every few months or so. These would often be out of date, but they would provide a stable archive that would be useful in cases like this. This is just a suggestion though; it's not something that I personally need, although I see how it could be potentially valuable for others. Thanks, -- Max

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Special numbering
by Fabrice Couvreur 17 Aug '22

17 Aug '22

Hello, how to get this Définition 1.1. Proposition 1.2. Définition 1.3. Proposition 1.4. Thanks Fabrice \setupenumerations [before={\blank}, after={\blank}, alternative=serried, distance=0.5em, title=yes, titleleft=, titleright=, titlestyle=normal, prefix=yes, prefixsegments=chapter, way=bychapter, headcommand=\groupedcommand{}{.}, numbercommand=\groupedcommand{}{}, titlecommand=\groupedcommand{(}{)}, width=broad] \defineenumeration [definition] [text=Définition, number=yes, style=italic] \defineenumeration [proposition] [text=Proposition, number=yes, style=italic] \starttext \startchapter [title={First chapter}] \dorecurse{2}{ \startdefinition \stopdefinition \startproposition \stopproposition} \stopchapter \stoptext

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Suggestions for project structures, environment inheritance, local overrides
by denis.maier＠unibe.ch 17 Aug '22

17 Aug '22

Hi everyone One of my current main projects where I use ConTeXt is typesetting journal articles from xml sources. As the journal appears only online, we've decided to publish each article individually. I have a working setup, but I occasionally ponder whether I could make things more smootly. Currently, my folder structure looks roughly like this : 2022 -- _assets -- article1 ---- source ---- md ---- xml ---- pdf ---- html -- article2 etc. Usually, I receive Word files that get transformed via pandoc to markdown, polished, and from there to XML. HTML is produced via XSLT, PDF via ConTeXt. Transformations are performed with the help of a makefile. The _assets folder contains a bunch of helper files, scripts, and two environment files used by ConTeXt : jats.tex -> contains the setup for JATS XML layout.tex -> contains layout settings Now, this mostly works, but I sometimes struggle with things like overrides/additions for specific articles. Say, I have the global definitions, but I need to make small changes for one specific article? Or, I need to add something to one specific article, but I don't want to add this to the <environment> files. I guess my question is something like this : - How could a painless solution for such a scenario look like? - Should you just load multiple environment files and override earlier settings? (How would that work with xml setups?) Best, Denis

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Bug (?) with \placefigure[right]
by Bruce Horrocks 16 Aug '22

16 Aug '22

Things start to go awry after about 5 or 6 iterations, 12 shows it up clearly with three or so nearly blank (except for the subject) pages produced. \setuppapersize [A5] [A5] \starttext \dorecurse{12}{ \subject{Some heading} \placefigure[right] {} {\externalfigure[cow.pdf] [width=3cm]} \input lorem } \stoptext I actually want \placefigure[right,none] in my real doc but that also goes awry. LMTX current version: 2022.08.05 11:44 My actual requirement is to have a set of short biographies, including a small 'passport' photo, for each contributor to a book. So any suggestions on how to wrap text around the photo that avoids this issue would be welcome. — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK

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\nolimits no effect in LMTX
by Stefan Haller 16 Aug '22

16 Aug '22

Hello, The \nolimits macro has no effect in LMTX, but works fine in the context mkiv version of my texlive installation. Small example: \starttext \startformula \sum\nolimits_{i=1}^{n} a_i \stopformula \stoptext In LMTX the sub- and superscripts are incorrectly placed below and above the sum operator. Can someone have a look what's going wrong? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Stefan Haller

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Re: [NTG-context] How can I make a Gentoo Linux package for ConTeXt LMTX?
by Max Chernoff 16 Aug '22

16 Aug '22

Okay, I'm seeing a few separate issues here. 1. Gentoo expects to compile everything from source. This isn't an option here since LuaMetaTeX doesn't have any source available (yet). So for the time being, you'll need to use the provided binaries. These support pretty much every architecture, so this shouldn't really be a problem. 2. You want to install ConTeXt LMTX system-wide. This is doable with the standard Linux installer script. Just make sure to run the script as root and install the files in /opt/context. This is what I've done on my system, and it works quite well. $ ls -l $(type -p context) lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Jul 28 00:33 /opt/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/context -> luametatex* 3. You want to install ConTeXt without any network access. The easiest way to do this would be to install on a system with internet, then just copy over the files. If you want to use the "original" installer files, it shouldn't be impossible, but probably not too easy either. (All steps below are untested) The platform-independent stuff is all in one big zip, located at: http://lmtx.pragma-ade.nl/install-lmtx/texmf-context.zip Unzip this file as "<context root>/tex/texmf-context/". Then you also need to download all of the binaries. You will need to download all of the paths listed in this file: http://lmtx.pragma-ade.nl/install-lmtx/tex/texmf-linux-64.tma All of those files need to be placed in "<context root>/tex/texmf-linux- 64/bin". Then to finish installing you'll need to run "mtxrun --generate" and "context --make". There are probably a bunch of other steps that I'm missing, but this should get you close. Again, probably easier to just use the regular installer. 4. ConTeXt is really picky about texmfcnf stuff. This is an issue that I've had too: https://github.com/latex3/l3build/issues/232 Pretty much any modification of anything texmfcnf-related with ConTeXt will completely prevent it from running. There's a thread discussing the problem (but with no real solutions) here: https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2020-September/046099.html And a Wiki page here: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Custom_Configuration I agree that this texmfcnf stuff makes it really difficult to install or use ConTeXt with any kind of custom paths. Does anyone know how to properly configure a texmfcnf with custom paths? Hopefully this is of some help. -- Max

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Cron <context@zapf> /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror
by root＠ntg.nl 15 Aug '22

15 Aug '22

rsync: 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(125) [Receiver=3.1.2]

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Re: [NTG-context] Accessing inserts from Lua in LuaMetaTeX
by Max Chernoff 15 Aug '22

15 Aug '22

Hi Hans, > > First, how do I get an insert's class/type from the "insert" nodes on > > the page? With LuaTeX, the insert's class/type is the same as the > > subtype of the "ins" nodes, but the subtype of the "insert" nodes is > > always zero in LuaMetaTeX, so I'm not sure how to get the class/type. After playing around, I found that this is stored in "<insert node>.index". I'm able to write to this value just fine, but whenever I read it I get an error. This minimal example: \starttext \setbox999=\vbox{\hrule width 10pt height 10pt} \startluacode local insert = node.new("insert") local rule = tex.box[999].list insert.list = rule insert.index = 4 node.write(insert) \stopluacode \stoptext works perfectly, but this example: \startluacode local insert = node.new "insert" insert.index = 4 print(insert.index) \stopluacode gives this error message: In \insertmode 2 you can't use zero as index. I suspect that this is a bug, but I may just be doing something wrong. > Indeed, we don't use these boxes and registers because we run in > \insertmode=2. This gives us more state info (i kept the old method > around for now). Inserts always felt a little hacky in TeX, so I think that the new methods are a huge improvement. > > Second, how do I get the head of the insert box from Lua? With LuaTeX, > > from TeX you would use "\box<class>" and from Lua you can use > > "tex.box[<class>]". With LuaMetaTeX, you use "\insertbox<class>" from > > TeX, but I'm not sure how to get at the insert box from Lua. > > tex.getinsertdistance > tex.getinsertmultiplier > tex.getinsertlimit > tex.getinsertheight > tex.getinsertdepth > tex.getinsertwidth > tex.getinsertcontent > tex.setinsertdistance > tex.setinsertmultiplier > tex.setinsertlimit > tex.setinsertcontent Perfect! "tex.getinsertcontent" does exactly what I need. Really minor, but I would expect that tex.insertcontent[4] = <some node> <some node> = tex.insertcontent[4] would be exist and be equivalent to <some node> = tex.getinsertcontent(4) tex.setinsertcontent(4, <some node>) > The insert (etc) handler is more clever and flexible. So, for instance > we can bubble up inserts. I think you do a preroll so in that case you > can set the migrations related parameter to not bubble up. > > \starttext > > \holdingmigrations\numexpr1+2+4\relax > > \setbox0\hbox{test \footnote{test} test} > > \setbox2\vbox{\unhcopy0} > > \holdingmigrations0 > > \setbox4\vbox{\unhcopy0} > > \unhbox0 > > \unvbox2 > > \unvbox4 > > \stoptext > > But I have no clue how all that will work out with (lua) code that > manipulates these things. In list nodes you can consult the pre and post > fields to what got migrated. I don't think that that will work in this case. I'm doing most of the work in "pre_output_filter", which is after all of the insert nodes have been removed from the page and put into their respective boxes. And I can't postpone setting any inserts until then because TeX needs to know their height for when it breaks the page. I don't really like how I have to move the footnotes, but I can't find any better way of doing things. If you're curious, most of the insert code is in these two functions: https://github.com/gucci-on-fleek/lua-widow-control/blob/2bca90/source/lua-… https://github.com/gucci-on-fleek/lua-widow-control/blob/2bca90/source/lua-… Thanks, -- Max

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