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A Spanish introduction to ConTeXt Mark IV
by Joaquín Ataz López 16 Oct '20

16 Oct '20

Sorry. By mistake I sent the message as a reply to another one, when in fact I was trying to start a new thread with it. I'm sending it again (I think I'll do it right now): --------------------------------------------- Good morning to everyone. Although I guess it will not be of interest to most of the list members, I wanted to communicate that I have written an introduction to ConTeXt Mark IV in Spanish, which can be downloaded at https://webs.um.es/jal/docs/introCTX.pdf. Its title is "An Introduction (not too short) to ConTeXt Mark IV". ConTeXt is a wonderful document composition system, but there is not much literature to help you get into it, hence my initiative. The problem is that I've only been using ConTeXt for a short time and still have many doubts, so it's possible that the introduction may contain errors. As it has been written in Spanish I don't think many of you will be able to read it, but I would appreciate, of course, any suggestions for improvement. The document is, on the other hand, free and anyone who wants to include it in any ConTeXt distribution can, of course, do so. Also, if anyone wants the source files, I have no problem providing them. I have not based my introduction on LMTX because I think that for beginners a more stable system, like LuaTeX, is preferable. Finally, I apologize for my bad English level. I read it reasonably well, but expressing myself in it is much harder for me. -- Joaquín Ataz López Derecho Civil Universidad de Murcia

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expansion / hz
by Hans Hagen 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Hi, Because I'll probably forget to mention if, here is some new features (upcoming lmtx only): \definefontfeature[default][default,quality] \setupbodyfont[pagella] \starttext {whatever we want to achieve} \input tufte \setupalign[tolerant,stretch,hz] {whatever we want to achieve} \input tufte {\noexpansion whatever we want to achieve} \input tufte \stoptext That is: one can mark text to *not* use font expansion in an otherwise expansion (hz) context. I have no clue how useful it is. So, the first paragraph has no expansion., the second one has while the third one has except for the first 5 words. And yes, there's also similar trickery for protrusion, \noprotrusion, but i didn't test it. This is in addition the the already mentioned \nokerning and \noligaturing features that also obey grouping. All this in the perspective of (luameta)tex giving detailed control over matters. 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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text surrounding graphic in columns
by Jan U. Hasecke 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Hi, how can I get a graphic that floats left or right from the text in columns or columnsets? \starttext \startcolumns[2] \placefigure[left, high, none]{} {\externalfigure[dummy][width=3em]} \input ward \input ward \stopcolumns \blank \placefigure[left, high, none]{} {\externalfigure[dummy][width=3em]} Without columns it works. \input ward \input ward \stoptext TIA juh

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Some interaction questions
by Denis Maier 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Hi, I have a few more question regarding interaction/PDF bookmarks and PDF links: - How can you ignore Commands in bookmarks? Like when instead of "The concept of {\em bookmarks}", I'd prefer to just have "The concept of bookmarks". I know I can just use something like \startchapter[title=The concept of {\em bookmarks}, bookmark=The concept of bookmarks] But is there an setting for that? - When clicking on a link, the focus switches to the target page. Is it possible to go to the line of the target? (Would be nice for switching between notes and text. Otherwise linking between notes and note markers would be quite pointless.) Best, Denis

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Re: [NTG-context] A Spanish introduction to ConTeXt Mark IV
by Niels Meijer 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Hi Hraban, I have an (old) Goethe-Zertifikat B1, which is not great (but better than my Spanish!). if you’re comfortable sharing your manuscript with me, I can definitely try to go through it and give you some feedback if you’d like! I am not sure how useful this would be for you, but I would appreciate it a lot. I feel I should’ve told this list about my struggles earlier on! Kind regards, Niels

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Re: [NTG-context] A Spanish introduction to ConTeXt Mark IV
by Niels Meijer 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Hello Joaquín, I have been looking to get into ConTeXt for a few months now, LaTeX drove me completely insane when writing my Master’s thesis. I have been looking for an up-to-date introduction to ConTeXt as a whole, as I am still unable to get basic things working in ConTeXt after reading the ‘Excursion’. (I really tried to the best of my ability!) I just wanted to voice my support this book, as I feel that such a newbie-friendly resource would fill a gaping hole in the current ConTeXt ecosystem. I am considering having a stab at learning Spanish in order to (attempt to) read your book. Thanks for sharing, Niels E. J. Meijer

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Export, page break markers
by Denis Maier 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

Hi, as I'm almost done with my PDFs for the first volume of our journal, I'm thinking about also publishing HTMLs. We have XSLTs almost ready for this, but I was thinking if I could use ConTeXt also for this. A very nice feature would be being able to add marking of page breaks in the resulting XML/HTML. The wiki says it's not possible, but I'm not so sure this page still reflects the current state of affairs. Is that possible by now? Other export related things that have changed in the last three years? Best, Denis

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Consequences of \zwnj for hyphenation
by Denis Maier 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

Hi, has \zwnj (or the equivalent unicode character) bad consequences for hyphenation? Like, when you'd preprocess your files and add \zwnj in appropriate places, will that break hyphenation for these words? Best, Denis

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index issues
by Henning Hraban Ramm 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

(1) If I get the same index entry two or more times on a page, sometimes with processor formatting, sometimes not, how can I control which version takes precedence? Actual use case: index entries from footnotes should be italics, while those from the main text stay upright. Now, if there is an entry from the main text, the entry from the footnote doesn’t matter. Is it possible to control that? I wouldn’t like to sort out the cases manually and remove the entries from the footnotes – there are 981 footnotes in this book, and there are 15 pages of index entries. I’m using a macro (I suppose you’ll remember; I left out the Lua table lookup for unified entries): \defineprocessor[kursiv][style=italicface] \define[1]\nIndex{\doifmodeelse{*footnote}{% \expanded{\index[kursiv->]{#1}}}% }{% \expanded{\index{#1}}}% }} (2) Can I avoid linebreaking of page ranges in \placeindex? E.g. in Knuth, Don 23, 35- 37, 40 I’d like to keep 35–37 together (break before 35). Hraban

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How do you deal with inappropriate ligatures?
by Denis Maier 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

Hi, with LuaLaTeX I used to use the selnolig package to disable inappropriate ligatures. With ConTeXt I have just inputted the list prepared by Hraban (based on a wordlist originating from selnolig), but then ran into a curious bug (?) with disappearing characters (see my posts from a couple of days ago). I'm now converting this list to the \blockligatures mechanism (instead of using \replaceword), which also has better kerning support due to Hans. When done, I'll of course share this on the Wiki if there's any need for this. Now I'm wondering how others deal with inappropriate ligatures. Do you just ignore them? Do you block them on an ad-hoc basis, like whenever they occur? Do you use scripts to pre-process your files before typesetting? Do you just disable ligatures globally? I tend to think there must be an automatic way to deal with the most awkward cases. The problem is that there just so many. What do you think? Best, Denis

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