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Article on: How to install a font in ConTeXt?
by Rudolf Bahr 17 Feb '19

17 Feb '19

Yesterday I got dante's revue and read Taco Hoekwater's article translated into German by Henning Hraban Ramm: "dante, Die TEXnische Komödie, 1/2019: 'Wie installiere ich eine Schrift für ConTeXt?'" Many thanks to both, its really good and thoroughly written! Rudolf

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Lines in \showbodyfontenvironment
by Tomas Hala 17 Feb '19

17 Feb '19

Hi all, I played with \definebodyfontenvironment and found the command \showbodyfontenvironment. Experimentally I changed parameters at \definebodyfontenvironment and I am not able to understand the logic of the table generated by the \showbodyfontenvironment. What is the meaning of lines in the table? Or is this published somewhere? Best wishes, Tomáš

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How to configure context command in Emacs
by Jan U. Hasecke 16 Feb '19

16 Feb '19

Hello, I hope there are some Emacs users out there. ;-) I can use emacs with context-mode when I start the program like this: . ~/context/tex/setuptex ; emacs & I could not find a way to set this in my emacs init file. Neither of the ways described here worked for me: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ExecPath I set this in .bashrc: if [-f ~/context/tex/setuptex ]; then . ~/context/tex/setuptex fi to always have context available in a shell and in emacs if I start it from bash. Starting Emacs via the start menu of Gnome results in an Emacs that does not know ConTeXt. I found some hints how to source .bashrc in emacs but this only affects the emacs shell not the command calling from within AucTeX. Has anyone found a solution for this? juh

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mix two-column and single-column footnotes
by Mohammad Hossein Bateni 16 Feb '19

16 Feb '19

Hi, Is it possible to mix two-column and single-column footnotes? Here's my use case. I have two types of footnotes: 1) short one- or two-word terms 2) long descriptions and notes On some pages there are a lot of "short" footnotes which take up a lot of space at the bottom of the page. I'd like to typeset them in 2 or 3 columns. But then the "long" footnotes had better stay in one column. See below for desired input and output. Thanks, ~MHB Sample input: \definenote[shortfootnote][...,n=3] \definenote[longfootnote][...,n=1] \definenotation[shortfootnote][...] \definenotation[longfootnote][...] \starttext \shortfootnote{short}\shortfootnote{short}\shortfootnote{short} \longfootnote{This is a long footnote which spans the entire width of the page.} \shortfootnote{short}\shortfootnote{short} \longfootnote{Another "long" footnote.} \longfootnote{Note that footnotes 5, 6 used only two out of three available columns.} \stoptext Desired output: __________ 1 short 2 short 3 short 4 This is a long footnote which spans the entire width of the page. 5 short 6 short 7 Another "long" footnote. 8 Note that footnotes 5, 6 used only two out of three available columns.

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\symbol (ConTeXt vs. LateX)
by Tomas Hala 16 Feb '19

16 Feb '19

Hi all, how can I print the corresponding character if I know its ordinal value? (In LaTeX, there is a command \symbol{number} but in ConTeXt this command has different meaning.) Thanks in advance, Best wishes, Tomáš Hála

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baseline of outlined font
by Jeong Dal 16 Feb '19

16 Feb '19

Dear all, Recently, I used outlined font described in MetaFun for titles. But the baselines of the number and the title of chapter are different. What is wrong in the following code? Thank you for reading. Best regards, Dalyoung %%%%%%%% \definefont[BigFontOne][NotoSansCJKkr-Bold sa 4] \definecolor[BigColorOne][r=.86,g=.850,b=.54] \startuseMPgraphic{outlineT} draw outlinetext.b (\MPvar{tt}) (withcolor .75white) (withcolor .725blue withpen pencircle scaled .75pt);%\MPvar{thick}); \stopuseMPgraphic \define[1]\titleOutline{\useMPgraphic{outlineT}{tt="#1"}} \setuphead[chapter,title] [deeptextcommand=\titleOutline, color=BigColorOne, style=\BigFontOne, numbercommand=\titleOutline, number=yes] \setupbodyfont[rm, 11pt] \starttext \chapter{First} \samplefile{knuth} \startchapter[title={Chapter Title}] \samplefile{knuth} \stopchapter \stoptext

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Missing number, treated as zero
by Gour 15 Feb '19

15 Feb '19

Hello, another attempt with ConTeXt and I'm getting this: $  context t.tex mtx-context | run 1: luatex --fmt="/home/gour/.texlive/texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/0399a8df3aef8d154781d0a9c2b8e28d/formats/luatex/cont-en" --jobname="t" --lua="/home/gour/.texlive/texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/0399a8df3aef8d154781d0a9c2b8e28d/formats/luatex/cont-en.lui" --no-parse-first-line --c:currentrun=1 --c:fulljobname="./t.tex" --c:input="./t.tex" --c:kindofrun=1 --c:maxnofruns=9 "cont-yes.mkiv" This is LuaTeX, Version 1.07.0 (TeX Live 2018/Arch Linux) system commands enabled. open source > level 1, order 1, name '/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/mkiv/cont-yes.mkiv' system > system > ConTeXt ver: 2018.04.04 00:51 MKIV beta fmt: 2019.2.14 int: english/english system > system > 'cont-new.mkiv' loaded open source > level 2, order 2, name '/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/mkiv/cont-new.mkiv' close source > level 2, order 2, name '/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/mkiv/cont-new.mkiv' system > files > jobname 't', input './t', result 't' fonts > latin modern fonts are not preloaded languages > language 'en' is active open source > level 2, order 3, name '/home/gour/tmp/t.tex' fonts > preloading latin modern fonts (second stage) fonts > 'fallback modern-designsize rm 12pt' is loaded structure > sectioning > section @ level 3 : 0.0.1 -> Testing ConTeXt tex error > tex error on line 4 in file /home/gour/tmp/t.tex: ! Missing number, treated as zero <to be read again> \23>>currentnamedsection \popmacro ...m_syst_helpers_push_macro \endcsname \global \advance \lastname... l.4 \stopsection 1 \starttext 2 \section[title={Testing ConTeXt}] 3 This is my document using Croatian chars: šŠ đĐ čČ ćĆ žŽ. 4 >> \stopsection 5 \stoptext 6 7 8 9 ? The file is: $ cat t.tex \starttext \section[title={Testing ConTeXt}] This is my document using Croatian chars: šŠ đĐ čČ ćĆ žŽ. \stopsection \stoptext I'm using Manjaro Linux (stable branch): $ context --version mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 1.02 mtx-context | mtx-context | main context file: /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/mkiv/context.mkiv mtx-context | current version: 2018.04.04 00:51 Any clue what's wrong? Sincerely, Gour -- A self-realized man has no purpose to fulfill in the discharge of his prescribed duties, nor has he any reason not to perform such work. Nor has he any need to depend on any other living being.

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Bug in math: version
by Otared Kavian 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

Hi Hans, With the latest beta there seems a bug has been intoduced with « \| » which should give a vertical double bar and not a simple bar. This is a minimal example: \starttext With 2019.02.10 17:43, the command \type{\|x\|} gives an incorrect result: $\|x\| = 1$ $|x| = 1$ \stoptext Best regards: OK

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Minion Pro confuses italic correction
by Henri Menke 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

Dear list, The Minion Pro font, as distributed with Adobe Reader, confuses the ConTeXt italic correction. The MWE below will fail with luatex warning > node filter: error: ...ext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/typo-itc.lua:130: attempt to compare nil with number It's probably the font that is faulty but I guess ConTeXt shouldn't crash in that case. Cheers, Henri --- \mainlanguage[de] \definefontfeature[default][default][itlc=yes] \setupitaliccorrection[global, always] \setupbodyfontenvironment[default][em=italic] \setupbodyfont[minion,11pt] \starttext {\em riften}, \stoptext

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Macro in a macro with optional argument
by Pierre-Francois Bonnefoi 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

Hello, I try to define automatically some macros to include cliparts in my TikZ drawings and I've defined the following macro : \def\clipart#1#2{% \expandafter\def\csname tk#1\endcsname{\dosingleempty\expandafter\csname dotk#1\endcsname}% \expandafter\def\csname dotk#1\endcsname[##1]{\iffirstargument\image{cisco/#1}{##1}\else\image{cisco/#1}{#2}\fi} } \clipart{pc}{.8} % defines the macro \tkpc to include the picture "cisco/pc" The issue arises when I use the newly defined \tkpc : the argument is not optional and I have to put \kpc[.5] for example. To add insult to injury, the value passed in argument is ignored also : \iffirtargument return always false... Do you have any idea ? Best regards, Pierre-François. -- Bonnefoi Pierre-Francois | E-mail : bonnefoi(a)unilim.fr http://p-fb.net/ Universite de Limoges, Laboratoire XLIM | Tel : 06 28 18 03 38 123 av Albert Thomas | Mrs. Peel, we're needed... 87060 Limoges CEDEX - FRANCE | The Avengers.

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