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what are the interaction between \showframe and \realpageno in \startuseMPgraphic ?
by garulfo＠azules.eu 24 Apr '24

24 Apr '24

I can not figure out why this progress bar only works when \showframe is activated. When you comment on \showframe, it's as if \realpageno is at zero. (current version: 2024.04.01 08:59) \showframe \startuseMPgraphic{MonGraphisme_MP} numeric n ; n := \number\realpageno ; numeric m ; m := \number\lastpageno ; numeric h ; h := \overlayheight ; numeric w ; w := \overlaywidth ; numeric e ; e := 3mm; numeric r ; r := (((n-1)/(m-1))*w); fill fullsquare xscaled w yscaled e shifted (w/2, h/2) withcolor darkblue ; fill fullsquare xscaled r yscaled e shifted (r/2, h/2) withcolor darkred; \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay [MonGraphisme_OL] [\useMPgraphic{MonGraphisme_MP}] \setupbackgrounds [footer] [rightmargin] [background={MonGraphisme_OL}] \starttext \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte\page} \stoptext Any clue is warmly welcome

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documentation: parameters of \setuplist
by Henning Hraban Ramm 24 Apr '24

24 Apr '24

I tried to complete https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setuplist, but I don’t understand all parameters. Can anyone explain these please: * state (start stop): what does this en-/disable? collecting entries? * label (yes no none Name): language dependent labels? as a prefix or what? * location (none, here): disable placement? when makes this sense? * aligntitle (yes no): align which part to what? * symbol (one two three none default): where is this used? Expect more questions… Hraban

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Why don't footnotes appear in floats or figures?
by Joel 24 Apr '24

24 Apr '24

I'm three days out from sending my work to an editor, and found some serious problem: many footnotes just aren't rendering. I have a history text that uses ConTeXt-SBL for the citations, as such, it has lots of footnotes. Sometimes the footnotes are just in the main text, but sometimes also in figure captions, inside floats, inside tables that are inside floats, inside tabulations inside floats, etc. What I find alarming is it is frequently not rendering all of the footnote messages at the bottom of the page. The actual footnote number within the body is rendered, but no number is listed in at the bottom of the page. So I might see a list of footnotes, for instance, on page 1, I only get footnotes 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6, but 4 was mysteriously skipped. ---------------1 message2 message3 message5 message6 message After a lot of trial-and-error and checking logs and checking my BibTeX files for errors, running everything through BibTex Tidy, etc., and failures to make a minimum working example, I found a single pattern: If the footnote marker appears on the SAME page as the footnote text, it has no problem rendering the footnote. But, if ConTeXt decides to move a float a page or two later on--as it frequently seems to do---such that the footnote marker and footnote text at bottom of page should be on DIFFERENT pages, the footnote message at the bottom of the page won't render. I've seen some 2+ year old mailing list posts suggesting ConTeXt might have issues with footnotes; they appear to be similar to my issue--is that still a problem? Is there a fix or workaround? Old fixes I could finding in the mailing list don't seem to work with current versions of ConTeXt anymore. --Joel

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Why are ConTeXt-SBL endnotes empty?
by Joel 22 Apr '24

22 Apr '24

A few years back, I tried using endnotes with ConTeXt-SBL, and it failed to compile. I'm forced to try again (due to some other issue with footnotes), and instead of compiling to error, it compiles, but the footnote's message ends up being empty. Why is it appearing empty? Is there a fix? Here is a minimum working example: \usemodule[publ-imp-sbl] \startbuffer [bib] @Article{na2006, title={Volcanoes \word{of} New Mexico}, year={2006}, journal={New Mexico Earth Matters}, publisher={New Mexico Bureau \word{of} Geology \word{and} Mineral Resources}, volume={6}, number={1}, location={Socorro, New Mexico} } @Book{clark1989, author = {Clark, William}, title = {Railroads \word{and} railroad towns \word{in} New Mexico}, publisher = {New Mexico Magazine}, year = {1989}, address = {Albuquerque, New Mexico}, isbn = {9780937206126} } \stopbuffer \usebtxdataset[bib.buffer] \setupbtx[dataset=default] \usebtxdefinitions[sbl] \setupbtx[sbl] \setupnote[footnote][location=none] \starttext \input knuth \cite[clark1989] \placenotes[footnote] \startchapter[title=Bibliography] \placelistofpublications \stopchapter \stoptext --Joel

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minwidth not working ?
by denis.maier＠unibe.ch 22 Apr '24

22 Apr '24

Hi, Shouldn't minwidth set a default minimal width for external figures? But this here does not work ========================================================== \setupexternalfigures [ maxwidth=\textwidth, minwidth=\textwidth, location={local,global,default}, ] \starttext \externalfigure[cow.pdf] \externalfigure[cow.pdf][width=\textwidth] \stoptext ========================================================== Am I missing something here? Best, Denis

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floats re-ordering and numbering
by denis.maier＠unibe.ch 22 Apr '24

22 Apr '24

Hi, I've found that occasionally the order of floats change, but the numbering still reflects the order in the input file. Is that the intended behaviour? Is there a way to number to floats according to their order in the (visual) output? Best, Denis %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \setupexternalfigures [location={local,global,default}] \setupfloats[compress=no] \setupfloat[figure][default=top] \starttext \input knuth \placefigure{Cow 1}{\externalfigure[cow][ width=.5\textwidth, ]} \placefigure{Cow 2}{\externalfigure[cow][ width=.8\textwidth, ]} \placefigure{Cow 3}{\externalfigure[cow][ width=.7\textwidth, ]} \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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kpfonts
by Xavier B. 21 Apr '24

21 Apr '24

Hi, Just a courious: is there kpfonts available for context? I love kpfonts. Thanks in advance, Xavier

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[off topic] non-English programming languages: Arab and Cuneiform
by Henning Hraban Ramm 20 Apr '24

20 Apr '24

Came across this, I guess some of you might find it interesting: https://nas.sr/%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8/ https://github.com/MrLogarithm/emeszida

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How to isolate serious errors from warnings?
by Joel 20 Apr '24

20 Apr '24

I'm about to have a lengthy (2,000+ page) document published. Normally if it compiles and looks okay, I regard that as meaning no errors appeared, but I've noticed that sometimes ConTeXt will still compile, even if something isn't displayed on screen as it should: (1) I tried placing a table inside a startitemize environment, as instead of it not compiling, it left a message in the document warning that wasn't supported. (2) In another case, I had an image that ConTeXt couldn't find, as I mispelled the filenmame, and it fully compiled and made a PDF, without me noticing. (3) Or maybe in some case, a font couldn't be found for a specific character, so a single character in the file isn't displaying. Those are just some examples; I intended for something to be printed on the PDF, but it isn't showing there. Since a document of this size will have a lot of messages, is there a way to adjust the settings, from "show everything" to "show some" to "show only serious errors"? Or maybe to use > to send the errors to another file for careful study? (using Linux if that matters) --Joel

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Re: Weird (?) float placement for specific widths of image
by denismaier＠mailbox.org 19 Apr '24

19 Apr '24

Hi again, just a quick follow up on this one. Can anyone reproduce this? Would be good to know how this can be fixed. I have this in a real document, and as I'm typesetting a XML source I cannot just adjust slightly adjust the dimensions to get rid of that. Best, Denis Von: denismaier(a)mailbox.org <denismaier(a)mailbox.org> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. April 2024 13:37 An: 'ntg-context(a)ntg.nl' <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Betreff: Weird (?) float placement for specific widths of image Hi, another graphics/floats question: consider the following example %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \setupexternalfigures [location={local,global,default}] \starttext \placefigure{A Cow}{\externalfigure[cow][ height=.5\textheight, ]} \placefigure{A Cow}{\externalfigure[cow][ height=.3\textheight, %height=.4\textheight, ]} \placefigure{A Cow}{\externalfigure[cow][ width=3cm, %width=2cm, ]} \placefigure{A Cow}{\externalfigure[cow][width=2cm]} \placefigure{A Cow}{\externalfigure[cow][width=2cm]} \stoptext%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% On the first page, the images appear stacked above each other while on the second page they appear next to each other. It took me some time to reproduce this behaviour, and I can't claim to understand what is happening. But it seems to be related to the specific widths of the images. When I change them to other values the behaviour disappears. Is this a bug? Anything I can do about this? Best Denis

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