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m-ipsum broken
by Jairo A. del Rio 24 Jan '21

24 Jan '21

Hi, list Compiling m-ipsum yields an error in latest LMTX (2021.01.22 09:41) Jairo

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\doassign variable - updates not picked up
by Werner Hennrich 23 Jan '21

23 Jan '21

Hello everyone, I'm using ConTeXt (ver: 2020.09.20 23:02 LMTX) and have to have conditional page headers based on specific content criteria. To achive this I'd like to get some global variables in TeX, change their values several times throughout the document and have my macro for the header read them and act accordingly (like skip the header at all, change a color, etc). As a basis for this I established the following pattern in an iolated test case: \def\setHeaderVar[#1]{ \doassign[header][myvar=#1] \message{setHEADER: '#1'} } \def\getHeaderVar{\headermyvar} \setupheadertexts[\setups{page:header}] \startsetups page:header HEADER: myvar=\getHeaderVar \stopsetups \starttext \setHeaderVar[initval] page: 1 \page \setHeaderVar[aaaaa] page: 2 \page \setHeaderVar[bbbbb] page: 3 \page \setHeaderVar[cccc] page: 4 \page \setHeaderVar[] page: 5 \stoptext This works as expected and the header-macro prints the updated value. But when I put the same pattern in my big environment-file, I can see the variable being updated with different values (console), but the header always puts out just the variable's initial value - so the variable is read but it's updates aren't picked up by the header macro. Peeking into console, log & tuc didn't raise any idea yet as to what is going wrong... Any idea what is happening and how I can fix this? Any hints on how I can track this down? Thanks a lot, Werner Hennrich, Vienna AT

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web server
by Hans Hagen 23 Jan '21

23 Jan '21

Hi, I'm moving the webserver to another ip address so there can be some temnporary hickups (dns and such) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Specify a directory for the generated pdf
by kaddour kardio 22 Jan '21

22 Jan '21

Hi list, if there a context option to specify the directory in which I want to save the produced pdf ? I tried the option `--result= ` but it just change the name of the file. Thank you .

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[startstop]
by Floris van Manen 22 Jan '21

22 Jan '21

I'd like to create a start/stop command with a parameter \startzzz[a] one two three \stopzzz \startzzz[b] one two three \stopzzz How do i define/pass the tag parameter in the definition? This does not work (obviously) \definestartstop[zzz][ before={\hrule\bf tag\blank}, after={\blank[10mm]} ] I cannot find it in the documentation .F

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Writing generated pdf into a directory
by kaddour kardio 22 Jan '21

22 Jan '21

Hi list, if there a context option to specify the directory in which I want to save the produced pdf ? I tried the option `--result= ` but it just change the name of the file. Thank you .

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new lmtx / fonts
by Hans Hagen 22 Jan '21

22 Jan '21

Hi, I uploaded a new lmtx. I'm still playing a bit with metafonts so there are two new files context --global meta-imp-demo.mkxl context --global meta-imp-clock.mkxl Both show a bit. The question is, do we need / want more like this? What kind of interfaces are best? It's mostly about used defined symbols that are proper characters and efficiently used. Hans PS. The clock one has a hidden cut'n'paste feature that only works on acrobat which of course then makes it a kind of useless feature (plenty of them by now) because when, e.g. a mupdf bases viewer doesn't support this after all these years it's could as well be kept out of the standard. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Missing images in Wiki?
by Andres Conrado Montoya 22 Jan '21

22 Jan '21

It seems a lot of image examples from the wiki are gone now. Most articles lost many images. Is this on purpose? -- Andrés Conrado Montoya

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\clip isn’t clipping any more
by Henning Hraban Ramm 20 Jan '21

20 Jan '21

In the following example, the image is calculated after the clipped width, but the full image is shown: \setupexternalfigures[location=default] \showframe \starttext \strut \hfill\clip[width=20mm]{\externalfigure[cow][height=30mm]} \stoptext This happens in current LMTX (2020-01-18), it was still ok in LMTX as of 2020-01-11. It also works in MkIV. Hraban

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lmtx
by Hans Hagen 19 Jan '21

19 Jan '21

Hi, There's a new lmtx upload with a few fixes in publication lists (TS made some tests). For those who like fonts, there is an update of the punk font (the mkiv variants dates from 2008 which is ancient on a software timeline). You can run meta-imp-punk.mkxl to get an idea. There's also a typescript: type-imp-punk.mkxl one can create different versions and play with random variants and such. The question is: do we need more metapost font magic and infrastructure? For "pdf features that browsers implement fuzzy or not at all" lovers there is test \startalternate[text={A}] \dorecurse{10}{A } \startalternate[text={B}] \dorecurse{10}{B } \stopalternate \dorecurse{10}{A } \stopalternate test \par test \startalternate[text={e=mc^2}]!$e=mc^2$\stopalternate\par test \alternate{e=mc^2}{copy:}\nbsp$e=mc^2$\par which cheats on cut and paste (if you know where to click). (It actually will replace something more low level which is probably not used anyway.) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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