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Sources of Tutorial.text.pdf
by Tommaso Gordini 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

Hi everyone, looking here and there on the Internet, I found a very interesting document by Aditya Mahajan and Willi Egger: *Beginners Tutorial. ConTeXt *( Tutorial-text.pdf), written in 2008 for the 2nd International ConTeXt User Meeting in Bohinj, Slovenia. This is a very interesting booklet, for me, congratulations to the authors! Are there also the sources of it, somewhere? I'd like to get some ideas for the ConTeXt guide in Italian that I'm planning. In particular, I appreciated the way in which the commands are presented: «do you need to do this? well, the commands that are useful to you are this and that». I really appreciated that. :-) Thank you in advance Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] Installation on a PC
by Nigel King 28 Nov '18

28 Nov '18

Dear Clyde, Thank you very much for pointing us to this page. Before we send you any errors we will have another go and let you know whether we are successful. — Nigel nigel(a)nigelking.me.uk On 28 Nov 2018, at 11:59, Clyde Johnston <context(a)couthies.com> wrote: These instructions should get the basic ConTeXt installed: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone#Installation <https://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone#Installation> It is the other things that usually cause the problems though. Clyde -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Installation on a PC Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 13:44:44 +0200 From: Clyde Johnston <context(a)couthies.com> <mailto:context@couthies.com> To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl <mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl> I am planning to update the installation instructions on the ConTeXt Garden Wiki. The short answer is: no, not yet. Are you planning a single-user or system-wide installation? Do you plan to use SciTE or some other editor? Are you using CygWin? Send me the errors and some more details on you installation. I might be able to help. On 28/11/2018 13:01, Nigel King wrote: > Dear Group, > I am a Mac user and have had many happy years using ConTeXt. I now need to install ConTeXt on a PC (Windows) and this has been troublesome. Is anybody able to point me to a foolproof method? > > (I started this mail with all of our errors but reasoned that somebody might know the answer to the more simple question.) > > Thanks in advance. > — > Nigel > nigel(a)nigelking.me.uk <mailto:nigel@nigelking.me.uk> > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl <mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl> / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context <http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context> > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl <http://www.pragma-ade.nl/> / http://context.aanhet.net <http://context.aanhet.net/> > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ <https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/> > wiki : http://contextgarden.net <http://contextgarden.net/> > ___________________________________________________________________________________

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(bug?) weird line break in firstlines-001.tex
by Pablo Rodriguez 28 Nov '18

28 Nov '18

Dear list, the following code comes from firstlines-001.tex: \setupbodyfont [pagella] \setupfirstline [fancy] [n=3] \starttext \setupindenting[medium,yes] \setfirstline[fancy] \input ward \par \stoptext I’m afraid that the second and third lines have a weird line break. No hyphens involved, but “not“ and “packs” are broken as “n ot” and “p acks”. I think this may be a bug. Could anyone confirm this? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Installation on a PC
by Nigel King 28 Nov '18

28 Nov '18

Dear Group, I am a Mac user and have had many happy years using ConTeXt. I now need to install ConTeXt on a PC (Windows) and this has been troublesome. Is anybody able to point me to a foolproof method? (I started this mail with all of our errors but reasoned that somebody might know the answer to the more simple question.) Thanks in advance. — Nigel nigel(a)nigelking.me.uk

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Grammar to parse TeX input?
by Joseph Canedo 28 Nov '18

28 Nov '18

Dear list, I use a buffer to make some text processing. That text contains TeX macros etc… and I’d like to know if there is some feature in lua to parse the text to extract bits which macros, normal text etc… ? Thanks Best regards Joseph Example of pseudo MWE follows. \startluacode function zzz_function(text) - How to process ‘text’ to get bits which are macros, groups etc… ? Eventually expanded ? end \stopluacode \definebuffer[ZZZBuffer] \def\StartZZZ{\grabbufferdata[ZZZBuffer][StartZZZ][StopZZZ]} \def\StopZZZ{\ctxlua{zzz_function(buffers.getcontent('ZZZBuffer'))}} \StartZZZ \input knuth \StopZZZ

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\everystarttext in components
by Marco Patzer 28 Nov '18

28 Nov '18

Hi! I've got an issue with my documents after updating context (to 2018.11.18 14:07). I believe it has something to do with \everystarttext. But I'm still digging. Question: Is it intended behaviour that \everystarttext doesn't work in components? MWE: \startcomponent * \appendtoks Foobar \to\everystarttext \startdocument\null\stopdocument \stopcomponent If the first and last line is commented out, it prints “Foobar”, when compiled as a component it doesn't. Marco

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can \REGISTER[key]{term} modify typesetting (adding space)?
by mf 27 Nov '18

27 Nov '18

In my setup, i have an index of names: \defineregister[Nome][...] The indexing of names can be toggled with a mode: --mode=AddNames The setup is something like this: \startmode[AddNames] \Name[key]{term}\xmlflush{#1} \stopmode \startnotmode[AddNames] \xmlflush{#1} \stopnotmode I noticed that \Name[key]{term} adds some space, leading to a different typesetting of the paragraph in rare cases (especially in a paragraph full of names). Can \Name[key]{term} add some space, or should i look for a different bug in my setup? Sorry, no MWE; i tried, but i could not reproduce the problem in a minimal example. Massimiliano

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checking sources with \input
by Pablo Rodriguez 27 Nov '18

27 Nov '18

Hans, at work, we use ConTeXt to automagically generate PDF documents merging data from CSV files. The files are generated from ca. 30 ConTeXt sources and about another 30 Windows batch files. The system works fine with LuaTeX 1.07, but it doesn’t work either with LuaTeX 1.08 or 1.09. There is no explicit error message, compilation only stops. Besides asking for "--verbose", I know that we have the following command: mtxrunjit --autogenerate --script check file.tex But it doesn’t load source files with \input. Would it be possible that the script loads source files the same way ConTeXt does it? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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optical bounds with hanging diacritics
by Pablo Rodriguez 27 Nov '18

27 Nov '18

Hans, I added lfbd values for GFS Didot (attached) to get hanging diacritics in Greek. The attached PDF document is the optput from the following code: \showframe \setuplayout[topspace=1cm, height=middle, footer=0cm, header=0cm] \definefontfeature[default][default] [protrusion=quality, opbd=yes, script=grek] \definefontfamily[mainface][rm][GFS Didot] \setupbodyfont[mainface, 325pt] \setupalign[hanging] \starttext Α\\Ἀ\\Α\\Ἁ\\Α\\Ἂ\\Α\\Ἃ\\Α\\Ἄ\\Α\\Ἅ\\Α\\Ἆ\\Α\\Ἇ Ἐ\\Ε\\Ἑ\\Ε\\Ἒ\\Ε\\Ἓ\\Ε\\Ἔ\\Ε\\Ἕ\\Ε Ἠ\\Η\\Ἡ\\Η\\Ἢ\\Η\\Ἣ\\Η\\Ἤ\\Η\\Ἥ\\Η\\Ἦ\\Η\\Ἧ\\Η Ἰ\\Ι\\Ἱ\\Ι\\Ἲ\\Ι\\Ἳ\\Ι\\Ἴ\\Ι\\Ἵ\\Ι\\Ἶ\\Ι\\Ἷ\\Ι Ὀ\\Ο\\Ὁ\\Ο\\Ὂ\\Ο\\Ὃ\\Ο\\Ὄ\\Ο\\Ὅ\\Ο Ρ\\Ῥ Ὑ\\Υ\\Ὓ\\Υ\\Ὕ\\Υ\\Ὗ\\Υ Ὠ\\Ω\\Ὡ\\Ω\\Ὢ\\Ω\\Ὣ\\Ω\\Ὤ\\Ω\\Ὥ\\Ω\\Ὦ\\Ω\\Ὧ\\Ω \stoptext BTW, to get pure lfbd values, I had to replace line 361 from font-imp-quality lua with: local p = d/1000 Raw lfbd and rtbd values from the font could be set with protrusion=opentype (or a similar option). I hope it is clear now why raw values from the font are needed. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Problems with setups module
by Tommaso Gordini 26 Nov '18

26 Nov '18

Hi everyone. The following code gives different results by commenting and decommending the indicated lines. Could it be a problem with the setups module? Thanks in advance Tommy \usemodule [setups] \starttext %\startbuffer %\framed [width=3cm,height=1cm] {testo} %\stopbuffer % %\typebuffer %\getbuffer \cmdfullsetup [setuppapersize] \stoptext

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