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Mathematical MetaFun Mania
by Gavin 21 Dec '22

21 Dec '22

Hello MetaFun Math Lovers, I am using MetaFun to attach diagrams to formulas. Both the physics and the typesetting are going great! I attached a sample below, to give a taste of what I am trying to do. This page of actual calculations has examples of almost everything I need. It’s a lot, but it is all working. Right now the interface is terrible, but effective. Thanks to Hans and Mikael for many helpful hints! I am still using \hpos and \setMPpositiongraphic, because I haven't figured out how to pass information from \mathboxanchored and \connectboxanchors to my MetaPost code. Here is the code for the connectors: \startMPpositiongraphic{mypos:contract} path pa, pb, pab ; numeric na, nb ; string ta, tb, hand, product ; ta := mpvars("from") ; tb := mpvars("to") ; stemshiftfrom := (EmWidth/8)*mpvarn("startstem") ; stemshiftto := (EmWidth/8)*mpvarn("stopstem") ; hand := mpvars("hand") ; product := mpvars("product") ; delta := mpvard("distance") ; na := positionpage(ta) ; % page number of a nb := positionpage(tb) ; % page number of b pa := positionbox(ta) ; % box of a pb := positionbox(tb) ; % box of b if hand = "right" : z1 = 0.5[llcorner pa,lrcorner pa] shifted (stemshiftfrom, -ExHeight/4) ; z2 = 0.5[llcorner pb,lrcorner pb] shifted (stemshiftto, -ExHeight/4) ; y3 = min(y1,y2) - ExHeight/2 -delta; else : z1 = 0.5[ulcorner pa,urcorner pa] shifted (stemshiftfrom, ExHeight/4) ; z2 = 0.5[ulcorner pb,urcorner pb] shifted (stemshiftto, ExHeight/4) ; y3 = max(y1,y2) + ExHeight/2 +delta; fi ; if na = nb : % Check that positions are on the same page pickup pencircle scaled 0.6pt ; if product = "sym" : draw z1 -- (x1,y3+ExHeight/2) ; draw z2 -- (x2,y3+ExHeight/2) ; pickup pencircle scaled 1.2pt ; draw (x1-EmWidth/8,y3) -- (x2+EmWidth/8,y3) ; else : pab := z1 -- (x1,y3) -- (x2,y3) -- z2{down} ; draw pab ; fi ; positioninregion ; fi ; \stopMPpositiongraphic A connector command might look something like this: \setMPpositiongraphic{X-1}{mypos:contract}{to=X-2,product=sym,startstem=-2,stopstem=2,distance=0.5ex} All of the key=value pairs in the last argument of \setMPpositiongraphic pop right up in my MetaPost code with mpvar(“key”). I haven’t been able to follow this with \mathboxanchored and \connectboxanchors. My two questions are: 1) Can I use \setMPpositiongraphic with \mathboxanchored? That would allow me to go straight to my MetaPost code without the \connectboxanchors interface 2) Can I tell \connectboxanchors to use my MetaPost code and pass key=value pairs like I do with \setMPpositiongraphic? Thanks for any hints! Gavin

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Writing Tabular with \Vert
by Ursula Hermann 21 Dec '22

21 Dec '22

Dear List, In this tabular I wanted to set \Vert. But when I compile it, \starttable \bTD \Vert r1c1\Vert \bTD \bf r1c2 \eTD \bTD \bf r1c3 \eTD \bTD \bf r1c4 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD r2c1 \eTD \bTD r2c2 \eTD \bTD[nr=2] r2c3 \eTD \bTD r2c4 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD r3c1 \eTD \bTD r3c2 \eTD \bTD r3c4 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD r4c1 \eTD \bTD r4c2 \eTD \bTD[nr=3] r4c3 \eTD \bTD[nr=3] r4c4 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD r5c1 \eTD \bTD r5c2 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD r6c1 \eTD \bTD r6c2 \eTD \eTR \stoptable I get this : Command Line: C:\texlive\2022\bin\win32\context.exe --synctex=1 "Tabular.tex" Startup Folder: C:\texlive\My Documents\My Documents resolvers | formats | executing runner 'run luatex format': C:/texlive/2022/bin/win32/luatex --jobname="Tabular" --fmt=C:/texlive/2022/texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/a86c089b384a3076dc514ba966a1fac9/formats/luatex/cont-en.fmt --lua=C:/texlive/2022/texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/a86c089b384a3076dc514ba966a1fac9/formats/luatex/cont-en.lui cont-yes.mkiv --c:currentrun=1 --c:fulljobname="./Tabular.tex" --c:input="./Tabular.tex" --c:kindofrun=1 --c:maxnofruns=9 --c:synctex="1" --c:texmfbinpath="C:/texlive/2022/bin/win32" This is LuaTeX, Version 1.15.0 (TeX Live 2022) system commands enabled. open source > level 1, order 1, name 'C:/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/mkiv/cont-yes.mkiv' system > system > ConTeXt ver: 2021.03.05 19:11 MKIV fmt: 2022.10.11 int: english/english system > system > 'cont-new.mkiv' loaded open source > level 2, order 2, name 'C:/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/mkiv/cont-new.mkiv' system > beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.mkiv close source > level 2, order 2, name 'C:/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/mkiv/cont-new.mkiv' system > files > jobname 'Tabular', input './Tabular', result 'Tabular' fonts > latin modern fonts are not preloaded languages > language 'en' is active system > synctex functionality is enabled, expect 5-10 pct runtime overhead! open source > level 2, order 3, name 'C:/texlive/My Documents/My Documents/Tabular.tex' fonts > beware: no fonts are loaded yet, using 'lm mono' in box tex error > tex error on line 2 in file C:/texlive/My Documents/My Documents/Tabular.tex: ! Use of \csname\endcsname doesn't match its definition \tabl_table_restart_indeed #1->\gdef \tabl_table_restart {#1}\tabl_table_restart \tabl_table_insert_head \ifsplittables \ifconditional \c_tabl_table_repeat_tail \tablenoalign {\goodbreak }\tabl_table_insert_tail \tablenoalign {\goodbreak }\fi \fi <to be read again> \bTD l.2 \bTD \Vert r1c1\Vert 1 \starttable 2 >> \bTD \Vert r1c1\Vert 3 \bTD \bf r1c2 \eTD 4 \bTD \bf r1c3 \eTD 5 \bTD \bf r1c4 \eTD 6 \eTR 7 \bTR 8 \bTD r2c1 \eTD 9 \bTD r2c2 \eTD 10 \bTD[nr=2] r2c3 \eTD 11 \bTD r2c4 \eTD 12 \eTR mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 1 How can I write it in the right way? Uschi _____________________________________________________________________ ConTeXt Compilation Report (Pages: 0) Errors: 1 Warnings: 0 Bad Boxes: 0

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save the date: TUG 2023 14–16th of July in Bonn, Germany!
by Henning Hraban Ramm 21 Dec '22

21 Dec '22

Not much more to say, it’s still only announced somewhat inofficially... Hoping to meet you there, Hraban

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endofyeargreeting
by peter.hopcroft＠icloud.com 21 Dec '22

21 Dec '22

ivebeenwritingabitofcontextoverthelastmonthorso,andit'sbecomeahabit.ithinkConTeXtisgreat.manythankstothepeoplewhodevelopitandwhohelpmeoveronstackexchange,andtoallyouuserswhouseconTeXtandtherebyencouragethedeveloperstodevelopmore.%bestwishestoyouallfornextyear\relax

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OT: Adobe releases the original PostScript interpreter software as open source
by Bruce Horrocks 19 Dec '22

19 Dec '22

A bit off topic but some might be interested... Adobe have released the PostScript interpreter source code as open source. Press release here <https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/12/01/2566212/28639/en/Comp…> and a blog post with the background to PostScript here <https://computerhistory.org/blog/postscript-a-digital-printing-press/> Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK

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Command line arguments on context project
by Jethro Djan 19 Dec '22

19 Dec '22

Dear list, I am using the project structure to typeset my thesis. This is how the directory looks like: chapters/chapter1.tex chapters/chapter2.tex … output/ env_thesis.tex prd_main.tex ref.bib I didn’t use the project. 1. How do I specify output directory? I have already seen the following thread: https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg101654.html <https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg101654.html> It doesn’t seem to work on a project. So for example when I run mtxrun —path=output --script context ../prd_main, I get this error: tex error on line 5 in file /usr/local/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/doc/latex/buctthesis/chapter1.tex: ! Undefined control sequence 2. How do I get CoTeXt to recognise the ref.bib file when I run the components not the product? For context, I don’t want the references printed at the end of each chapter but I would like the in-text citation to work (if that is possible). If not, is it possible compile the whole product but only output a certain page range? Jethro

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bottlenecks
by Hans Hagen 18 Dec '22

18 Dec '22

Hi, I'm (occasionally) trying to 'minimize' bottlenecks in the context / luametatex code. This is kind of hard because both are rather efficient already. On regular runs performance is probably okay but there are cases when one has a large complex document (e.g. with many tables) or has many runs (e.g. thousands of documents in one go). In that case even minor speedups can accumulate and become measurable (esp on vms and runs over a network). It can safe time and also energy (which can matter todays KWh pricing). So the challenge is how to determine bottlenecks. Are there users on this list that have document runs of more than 10 seconds (as reference: the luametatex manual takes < 9 seconds for 350 pages and loads plenty fonts and has many tables) or have many (small) runs and are annoyed by the runtime? And if so, what does one guess are the bottlenecks? Hans ps. Much runtime is spent in Lua and there is not that much we can do about making that faster. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Structure: multi-volume products
by Alan Braslau 18 Dec '22

18 Dec '22

Hello, I have a book project that is being cut into two volumes (because it is too long and will be sold as a boxed set). Each volume is presently a separate *product* in the project structure. I presently set the counters in the second volume using: \setupheadnumber [part] [2] \setupheadnumber [chapter] [5] (I have multiple [5] parts in the project, and the first volume ends with part 2 and chapter 5.) 1) Is this the right way to be handling this? 2) Any suggestions on how I can put a Table of Contents for the first volume in the second volume? Thanks! Alan

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\typefile not including file and returning success
by Marco Patzer 17 Dec '22

17 Dec '22

Hi! In the following example the file “bar” is not included: # create file “bar” echo Bar > bar # t.tex \starttext Foo \typefile{bar} \stoptext Then run context --errors='*' t.tex The text “bar” is not included in the PDF, only Foo is. The log file shows: verbatims > file 'bar' does not exist However, the file “bar” clearly does exist. Furthermore, context exits with no error in the log file and a successful exit value: context --errors='*' t.tex > /dev/null; echo $? 0 Is this working as intended? Marco

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Definestartstop, Narrower, and Blockquotej
by Michael Urban 17 Dec '22

17 Dec '22

I get a decidedly odd (or, at least, unexpected by me) result from this, based on the example on the contextgarden page for definestartstop: \starttext \defineblank[ExtractDistance][3pt] \definestartstop[Extract][ style=slanted, before={\blank[ExtractDistance] \setupnarrower[left=2in,right=1in] \startnarrower[left,right] \noindent}, after={\stopnarrower \blank[ExtractDistance] \indenting[next]}] %Now the following commands are available: \startExtract and \stopExtract \starttext The extract from Knuth \startExtract \input knuth \stopExtract \stoptext But now, blockquote is altered: \startblockquote \input lorem \stopblockquote But not narrower itself: \startnarrower \input lorem \stopnarrower \stoptext

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