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New logo proposal
by Paul Schalck 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

Hello again, as many critics go towards "I don't see any coherence" or "to me it's just a random bunch of colored letters" or "it's hard to read the word CONTEXT", some afterthoughts in that regard (difficulty, randomness). Personally, I like visual material that catches my attention, but does not give all away at first glance. For example a good poster or book cover. It invites me to spend time on it. And I don't have the feeling that the designer thinks I'm stupid. ConTeXt is quite sophisticated, its logo can also be a little bit more complicated than your average sportswear brand. Any color choice is arbitrary to some extend. The colors I've used cover the entire hue range and are at equal distance apart (common in multicolored designs). This denotes to me not only the flexibility, and the fun of using it, but also the comprehensiveness of ConTeXt. Not only can you use ConTeXt in very different situations, you can use it in every situation (that requires typesetting). My 2c! Greetings, Paul

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New logo proposal
by Paul Schalck 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

Hello, thank you all again for your reactions. A lot of interesting comments here on logo design in general and a ConTeXt logo in particular. I'm honored that the new design has found its way into the Wiki, thanks Taco! @Lukas: I like the idea. Would be worth a try. @Floris vM: I'm glad that my nemesis on the matter felt himself challenged to make his own proposal. While I think it's too minimalistic (only insiders know what 'CTX' stands for), I like your idea of the subscript 'T'. Your concept with the crosses reminded me of the visual identity of Amsterdam. I do not see, however, how it reflects better "typesetting beautiful readable typography". And it lacks some colors ,-) Greetings! Paul

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New logo proposal
by Paul Schalck 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

Hello, thanks for your feedback. Again, I don't want to impose or dismiss anything. I wanted to share this because I believed somebody else in the ConTeXt community could be interested. @Taco: Actually, I stumbled upon the nice ConTeXt group logo recently and was wondering who made it. To answer your questions: I tried to avoid any logic or rainbow-type color sequence to create something more unique. The first square had to be in blue and the middle area in a warm color. (I played around a lot with the color combinations.) Regarding the outside circle: I tried different variations, with and without a surrounding circle or round background, with and without rounded squares, and was most pleased with this solution. It's true, "clean and simple" can easily lead to "too informal". @Clyde J: Valid point. I use the logotype with the subscript 'E' whenever I can in inline text. @Floris vM: Font, spacing, overall appealingness. No Helvetica/Nimbus Sans, which has less meaning to me for ConTeXt than a DIN-ish/technical one. Colors are fun. If you don't see it this way, it's perfectly fine. @Alan B: I've uploaded MetaPost files of the main version. Yes, the horizontal version is not very exciting nor very TeX-aware. I made this one primarily because I wanted something small for a little GUI script. Now I think it's just superfluous. Greetings! Paul

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Re: [NTG-context] New logo proposal
by Hans Hagen 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

On 1/29/2019 2:01 PM, Floris van Manen wrote: >> i can imagine these numbers being language dependent .. not all languages have the X >> >> https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble >> >> so you use english .. dutch is not bad either with 20 > > i agree, we need a native \scrabblescore function to add the total letter score at the end of each document typeset by context ;-) This is the scrabble coun tof the luatex manual: mkiv lua stats > scrabble count: 513167 characters with a grand total of 790781 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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\setbreakpoints[compound] inserts spurious hyphen
by Henri Menke 28 Jan '19

28 Jan '19

Dear list, When \setbreakpoints is set to the method compound, it inserts a spurious hyphen on the next line, see MWE below. This was falsely reported as an issue with the btx system on TeX.SX. https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/472041 Cheers, Henri --- \setupbodyfont[palatino,14pt] \setbreakpoints[compound] \starttext Antique astronomy was gradually replaced by the logic of counting.(Eastwood) \stoptext

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Server upgrade planned for Feb. 1
by Taco Hoekwater 28 Jan '19

28 Jan '19

Hi all, We plan to upgrade the software installation on the zapf.ntg.nl server on Friday Feb 1, 2019. As a consequence, various tex-related sites including www.ntg.nl, wiki.contextgarden.net and www.luatex.org, as well as the mailman lists @ntg.nl, will be down for some as-of-yet undetermined amount of time. We’ll try to be fast, but one never knows with these things... Best wishes, Taco

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Bidi-related register problem
by Rik Kabel 27 Jan '19

27 Jan '19

Recent betas have introduced a bidi-related problem with register processing. In the following example, compilation generates a recoverable error when register processing has to trim an entry to fit maxwidth. The error is: luatex warning > node filter: error: ...eXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/typo-dub.lua:496: attempt to index local 'stacktop' (a nil value) Removing the maxwidth constraint, or setting it to a much wider value, allows error-free compilation. Without \setupdirections[bidi=on,method=two] there is no problem, but without it RTL texts are not handled properly. This is a recent change; bidi=global worked a few months ago. (I have not tried with LTR text in a default-RTL document). % macros=mkvi \defineregister[Mindex] \setupregister [Mindex] [n=2, maxwidth=4cm, balance=no] \starttexdefinition unexpanded MIndex \dosinglegroupempty\doMIndex \stoptexdefinition \starttexdefinition unexpanded doMIndex #MARKER \def\Marker{#MARKER}% \dosinglegroupempty\doMIndexFull \stoptexdefinition \starttexdefinition doMIndexFull #ITEM \doifelse{#ITEM}{} {\expanded{\Mindex{\Marker}}} {\expanded{\Mindex{\Marker+#ITEM}}} \stoptexdefinition \setupdirections [bidi=on,method=two] \setupbodyfont [libertinus,11pt] \starttext \startparagraph \MIndex{One}{Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey} \input jojomayer \stopparagraph \startparagraph סלאם שלום \stopparagraph \placeregister[Mindex] \stoptext -- Rik Kabel

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Intrusion in footnotes
by Hans van der Meer 27 Jan '19

27 Jan '19

De following intrusion of a twocolumn placement of endnotes in the footnote area is to be avoided, of course. The code is: text with footnotes. \placefootnotes \placefloats \startcolumns \placenotes[endnote] \stopcolumns Can this be avoided? How? dr. Hans van der Meer

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How to pass a parameter with \definedescription[]
by Fabrice Couvreur 27 Jan '19

27 Jan '19

Hi, Hans and Wolfgang helped me to design this framed text. How to pass in text parameter as we can for the length? The text is set to "Note" and I would like it to be "Vocabulary" for the second framed text. Thank you Fabrice \definecolor[MyColorA][s=0.8784] \definecolor[MyColorB][m=0.27,y=1] \defineframed [FrameTitle] [frame=off, foregroundstyle=\bfx\ss, foregroundcolor=white, background=color, backgroundcolor=MyColorB, location=depth] \defineframedtext [FramedText] [offset=0.5em, style=\ss, toffset=.25\lineheight, background=color, backgroundcolor=MyColorA, foregroundstyle={\switchtobodyfont[12pt]}, align={right, broad}, frame=off, corner=round, radius=1em, width=10cm] \definedescription [Info] [before=, after=, text=Note, title=no, width=fit, distance=1em, headcommand=\FrameTitle, alternative=serried] \starttext \startFramedText[width=\textwidth] \startInfo Cette suite d'appels sera notée Anissa--Boris--Gween et on dira qu'elle a pour longueur 2. \stopInfo \stopFramedText \startFramedText[width=\textwidth] \startInfo La matrice \m{M} est appelée {\bf matrice d'adjacence} du graphe. \stopInfo \stopFramedText \stoptext

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Color a column (xtable, lua)
by Fabrice Couvreur 27 Jan '19

27 Jan '19

Hi, How to color the first column as I did for the first line ? Thank you Fabrice \definecolor[fondpaille][c=0,m=0,y=0.2,k=0] \starttext \startluacode local letters_1 = { "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "H", "I", "J" } local letters_2 = { "A", "0", "1", "1", "0", "", "", "", "", "" } context.startxtable({"align={middle,lohi}, width=1.25cm,offset=0.8ex"}) context.startxrow() context.startxcell({"background=color,backgroundcolor=white,frame=off"}) context("") context.stopxcell() for _, letter in ipairs(letters_1) do context.startxcell({"background=color,backgroundcolor=fondpaille"}) context(letter) context.stopxcell() end context.stopxrow() context.startxrow() for _, letter in ipairs(letters_2) do context.startxcell() context(letter) context.stopxcell() end context.stopxrow() for i=2,10 do context.startxrow() context.startxcell() context(converters.convert("A",i)) context.stopxcell() context.stopxrow() end context.stopxtable() \stopluacode \stoptext

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