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aligning Malayalam horizontally across column
by Ajith R 02 Jan '22

02 Jan '22

Hi, I am trying to prepare a moderate sized document in Malayalam using Context. Overall I have been successful. However, there are a few rough edges for which I need help. This is the second problem I face. I have some 300 group of short sentences placed in five columns using \startcolumns[n=5] \input aCharTable.tex \stopcolumns The aCharTex generated by a shell script contains the 300 plus commands with the structure \tfa{ \bold{variable} \par (12 - 0.13) } \blank The problems are that - a) the group, with the two short paras get separated into different columns and sometimes pages. How can I prevent that? In other words, how do I tell Context that this should be treated as cohesive unit? b) The horizontal space doesn't align across columns. This probably is because the different conjuncts in each of these lines have different heights. How can I ask Context to treat each of these cohesive units as having the same height? Thanks, ajith

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Asking context to switch to a different font for a single character in many places
by Ajith R 02 Jan '22

02 Jan '22

Hi, I am trying to prepare a moderate sized document in Malayalam using Context. Overall I have been successful. However, there are a few rough edges for which I need help. This is the fifth problem I face. Is it possible to instruct Context to use a font in general, except for a single character? I want to show the space character with open box,␣ U+2423. However, the font doesn't have that character. The open box character shows up in many places within an otherwise Malayalam text. So, switching font is not possible. For the time being, I am using a substitution. However, I would like to know if it is possible. Thanks, ajith

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Getting ONE, TWO... for chapters
by jbf 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Am typesetting a book that has 'STUDY ONE', 'STUDY TWO' etc. in place of CHAPTER ONE, etc. I have no difficulty getting 'STUDY' with \setuplabeltext[chapter=STUDY~], and I can achieve 'STUDY One' with the key conversion=Words in \setuphead[chapter]. My question: how do I get ONE instead of One. I tried conversion=WORDS (or WORD), but that is not recognised and the output then becomes STUDY 1, which I don't want. I also tried playing with \definestructureconversionset[myconversion][ ,A,] then adding the numberconversionset=myconversion to \setuphead. There must be a simple way to achieve the desire result, and to be honest I'm wondering why WORD does not work? Any thoughts? Julian

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tweaked font options in \definedfontfeature?
by Pablo Rodriguez 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Hans, I wonder whether it would be possible to add the options for tweaked fonts (or at least, xscale and yscale) to \definefontfeature. I think this might ease the use of scaled fonts (at least, in some documents). Many thanks for your awesome work and best wishes for 2022 to you and to all users, Pablo

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measure layer/ ruler
by Youssef Cherem 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Dear list users, How can one go about implementing a ruler around the page/text area (such as a background) like the one provided by the latex package fgruler? https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fgruler or koma script's \layercontentsmeasure?

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\thanks inside author in section
by Youssef Cherem 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

I've tried to implement a journal-like footnote with the authors' affiliation for each section/chapter, by adapting things from the wiki ( https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Table_of_Contents#Author_in_ToC and https://wiki.contextgarden.net/LaTeX_Thanks) However, one thing that bugs me is that any note name I choose other than "thanks" does not work, and I have no clue why. Am I missing something, or is there a more elegant way to implement this? As an aside, I'd rather have the footnotes below the "thanks" notes. Is there any option that does this? \setuplist[section][ textcommand=\SectionTocEntry, after=\blank, ] \define[1]\SectionTocEntry{% \doifnot{\rawstructurelistuservariable{author}}{} {\start \it \structurelistuservariable{author}\stop\space-- \crlf}% #1% title \doifnot{\rawstructurelistuservariable{subtitle}}{} {\crlf\structurelistuservariable{subtitle}}} \setuphead[section][ after=\setup{section}, align=center, number=no, style=\bold ] \startsetups section \blank \midaligned{\it \structureuservariable{author}} \blank \stopsetups %\foonote{\structureuservariable{affiliation}} %only "thanks" seems to work. \definenote[thanks]%[numberconversion=set 2] \setupnote[thanks][rule=off] \setupnotation[thanks][numberconversion=set 2] % or set 1 %\setupnote[footnote][location=bottom] % does not work %% all notes, footnotes etc. \setupnotation[ alternative={left,bottom}, hang=fit, % if commented, hanging is larger indenting={yes,small},indentnext=yes, % please, indent everything, should be default ] \setupinteraction[state=start,color=black,contrastcolor=black] \setuphead[subject][align=flushleft,style=\bfb] \starttext \subject{Grande lista de autores} \placecontent[alternative=c] \startsection[title={Whatever}][author={A. Uthor},subtitle={I’d like to say}] This is a section. \stopsection \startsection[title={Segunda seção}][author={Fulano de Tal},subtitle={Uma segunda seção de teste}] This is a section. \stopsection \startsection[title={Terceira seção}][author={Alberto de Paiva\thanks{asdf}},subtitle={Uma terceira seção de teste}] This is a section. \stopsection \startsection[title={Três autores}][author={Sicrano de Tal\thanks{Universidade de Tangerinas} e Alberto Steinenberg\thanks{Universidade de Nilfgaard}}, subtitle={Uma seção de teste com dois autores e comentário}] This is a section.\footnote{Só de teste.} \stopsection \stoptext

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enforcing formation of conjuncts inside \starttyping \stoptyping
by Ajith R 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Hi, I am trying to prepare a moderate sized document in Malayalam using Context. Overall I have been successful. However, there are a few rough edges for which I need help. This is the sixth problem I face. If I use Malayalam inside the command pair \starttyping \stoptyping, conjuncts are not formed as outside the command pair. Is it possible to enforce [features=malayalam-two] even inside \starttyping \stoptyping command pair? Thanks, ajith

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[MetaFun] Trying to understand outlinetext, 'stretch' effect and \kerncharacters
by kauśika 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Dear list, I have the following graphic \startuseMPgraphic{TitleGraphic} draw outlinetext.b (\MPstring{TitleText}) (withcolor "titlefg") (withcolor "titleoutline"); \stopuseMPgraphic which I tried to use as follows to produce a stylized 'title' head: \setupMPtext{TitleText}{% \starteffect[stretch]\bfc\namedstructurevariable{title}{title}\stopeffect} \useMPgraphic{TitleGraphic} [colors "titlefg" and "titleoutline" are set using \definecolor] But, the 'stretch' effect caused by \starteffect[stretch]…\stopeffect does not work with 'outlinetext' method in the MPgraphic. I have verified that the desired effect is produced using 'textext' method instead. But in that case I have to cheat (i.e draw twice; once with blownup) to get the text outline. Now, if I write instead \setupMPtext{TitleText}{% \kerncharacters[0.15]\bfc\namedstructurevariable{title}{title}} \useMPgraphic{TitleGraphic} then the desired effect is produced. As such, my purpose is served well by using \kerncharacters. Nonetheless, I request your kind help in understanding why this is happening and/or if I am doing something wrong. Thanks, kauśika

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Malayalam character overlapping with footnote number
by Ajith R 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Hi, I am trying to prepare a moderate sized document in Malayalam using Context. Overall I have been successful. However, there are a few rough edges for which I need help. This is the fourth problem I face. One character, ഼ U+0D3C, when used in \footnote[഼ ]{the foot note}, overlaps with the footnote number. How can I ask Context to provide extra space between the character and the footnote number? Thanks, ajith

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Malayalam conjuncts
by Ajith R 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Hi, I am trying to prepare a moderate sized document in Malayalam using Context. Overall I have been successful. However, there are a few rough edges for which I need help. This is the first problem I face. When I use the font RIT-Rachana from https://rachana.org.in/, my preferred font, one set of conjuncts are not formed correctly, while the rest are formed properly. The conjuncts that are not formed correctly are those where the second component is ര U+0D30, followed by a symbol that is shown on the right side of the conjunct viz ാ U+0D3E, ി U+0D3F, ീ U+0D40, ു U+0D41, ൂ U+0D42. If no symbols follow, or symbols follow on the left or on both sides, the conjunct is well formed.In the minimum working example given 5 is well formed, while the first conjunct in 6 is well formed and second ill formed conjunct. The conjuncts are well formed when used in Libre Office with the same font. Also, other fonts, for example, those from smc.org don't have this problem. Unfortunately, they don't support all symbols. One of the developers of the font thinks that this is probably a bug in Context. Hence, the reason for posting here. \definefontfamily [malayalam] [rm] [RIT-Rachana] [features=malayalam-two] \setupbodyfont [malayalam] \starttext 1. ശ്രീ 2. അശ്രു 3. ശുശ്രൂഷ 4. പ്രാസം 5. പ്രേയസി 6. പ്രോഗ്രാം \stoptext I am working on Debian 11. The font version is the latest 1.3. The command context --version gives mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 1.04 mtx-context | mtx-context | main context file: /home/ajith/Downloads/context-linux-64/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/context.mkiv mtx-context | current version: 2021.12.25 00:58 mtx-context | main context file: /home/ajith/Downloads/context-linux-64/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/context.mkxl mtx-context | current version: 2021.12.25 00:58 Thanks, ajith

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