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ConTeXt Garden : Use the fonts you want
by Jean-Pierre Delange 25 Sep '23

25 Sep '23

I have just refreshed the ConTeXt Garden page with some additional information on the search for new fonts installed in the /context/tex/texmf-fonts/ directory. https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Use_the_fonts_you_want JP -- Jean-Pierre Delange Ancients&Moderns Professeur Agrégé de Philosophie (HC)

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Re: Install fonts on MS Windows
by Andres Conrado Montoya 24 Sep '23

24 Sep '23

I did a test with Windows 10. Installed a fresh copy from the garden, Got the GFS Didot font from Google Fonts, and installed it system-wide (C:\Windows\fonts). After that, I ran mtxrun --script fonts --reload Then tried the pattern suggested but did not work. However, then I tried a pattern without asterisks: mtxrun --script fonts --list --pattern=didot --all This returned the font: C:\griego>mtxrun --script fonts --list --pattern=didot --all identifier familyname fontname filename subfont instances gfsdidot gfsdidot gfsdidotregular c:/windows/fonts/GFSDidot-Regular.ttf gfsdidotnormal gfsdidot gfsdidotregular c:/windows/fonts/GFSDidot-Regular.ttf gfsdidotregular gfsdidot gfsdidotregular c:/windows/fonts/GFSDidot-Regular.ttf theanodidot theanodidot theanodidotregular c:/windows/fonts/TheanoDidot-Regular.ttf theanodidotnormal theanodidot theanodidotregular c:/windows/fonts/TheanoDidot-Regular.ttf theanodidotregular theanodidot theanodidotregular c:/windows/fonts/TheanoDidot-Regular.ttf trying to render Pablo's example didn't work at first, but after i called the fonts with the name returned by mtxrun: \mainlanguage[agr] \definefontfamily[mainface][rm][gfsdidot] \definefontfamily[mainface][ss][theanodidot] \setupbodyfont[mainface] \starttext GFS Didot: \doloopoverlist{\tf, \it, \bf, \bi} {\recursestring\input aristotle-grc\par} \ss Theano Didot: \input aristotle-grc \stoptext Everything compiles correctly, and the font is used. Since it's only a single font file with no variants, you don´t get italics, bold etc. But the font is being used. -- Andrés Conrado Montoya Andi Kú andresconrado(a)gmail.com http://sesentaycuatro.com http://messier87.com http://chiquitico.org ---------------------------------------- Los fines no justifican los medios, porque la medida verdadera de nuestro carácter está dada por los medios que estamos dispuestos a utilizar, no por los fines que proclamamos. ---------------------------------------- “You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’” — Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell

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Toggling the symbol for the zero-width joiner and related Unicode control characters
by Hamid,Idris 23 Sep '23

23 Sep '23

Dear gang, Within a font, relevant Unicode control characters such as the zero-width joiner usually have symbolic representation, but in printing the symbols are usually suppressed, while the effect of each character is maintained. In some text editors, such as Windows Notepad (Uniscribe), there is the option "Show Unicode control characters" which toggles the symbols and keeps the effects. I seem to recall that ConTeXt has/had a similar mechanism for toggling the symbols for Unicode control characters but cannot find it. Does anyone know or recall where the symbol-toggling mechanism is? If not, what would be the simplest way to implement it? Here is a MWE (note that the three control chars might be invisible in your email client): ============== \startTEXpage[offset=1em] \definedfont[almfixed at 14pt] ZWJ: ‌ ZWNJ: ‍ NBSP: \stopTEXpage ============== In Notepad, all three control characters can be turned on or off at once. In Scintilla, only the NBSP appears and there is no option to toggle. In ConTeXt, ZWJ and ZWJ appear as symbols, but NBSP does not. Thank you in advance for your guidance. Best wishes Idris -- Idris Samawi Hamid, Professor Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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\underbar in head
by jbf 21 Sep '23

21 Sep '23

Am attempting to get an underlined head style (chapter) with: \setuphead[chapter][textcommand=\underbar] But I get no underline. Am I doing something wrong? I can, of course, achieve the result at each chapter level with \startchapter[title={\underbar{text}}] but would prefer to achieve this with \setuphead Julian

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stackrel in context?
by Xavier B. 21 Sep '23

21 Sep '23

Hi, I want to write: $0,00\stackrel{\smallfrown}{4}$ like latex [https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39225/differences-between-stackrel-…] but context LMTX does not recognize stackrel What can I do? Thanks in advance, Xavier PS: Please CCme

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page floats don’t work in columnsets
by Henning Hraban Ramm 21 Sep '23

21 Sep '23

I had no luck with page floats in columnsets; according to the manual they should work. Hraban \setuppapersize[A5,landscape] \useMPlibrary[dum] \definecolumnset[Two][n=2] \starttext \startcolumnset[Two] \dorecurse{5}{1\recurselevel\samplefile{lorem}\par} \startplacefigure[location=page,title={my caption}]% \externalfigure[dummy][width=2\textwidth,height=.95\textheight]% \stopplacefigure \dorecurse{5}{2\recurselevel\samplefile{lorem}\par} \stopcolumnset \stoptext

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problems with comments
by Henning Hraban Ramm 21 Sep '23

21 Sep '23

Hi, I wanted to use PDF comments to leave questions to the author/editor in the correction PDF. Unfortunately, the comment is always empty, regardless if \comment{} or \startcomment. Also, the comment always inserts space into the text, I’d like to avoid that; the option "space=no" doesn’t help. The "author" setting is shown, but as soon as I click on the comment, it changes to my user name. (Might depend on the viewer, but I get the same behavior from Adobe and Apple.) "title" and "subtitle" settings are handled differently by viewers, that doesn’t matter. "location=inmargin": the symbol is at the edge of the text, but not in the margin. Hraban \setupinteraction[ state=start, ] \setupcomment[ author=Don, location=inmargin, ] \starttext \samplefile{knuth} \comment[author=Me]{Here’s a comment.} \samplefile{knuth} \stoptext

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units related to paper size
by Pablo Rodriguez 21 Sep '23

21 Sep '23

Dear Hans, I wonder whether it would be possible to have both units for page width and page height (I guess, pw and ph would be fine). This would be similar to tw and th. Many thanks for your help, Pablo

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OT: Indic typography
by Henning Hraban Ramm 19 Sep '23

19 Sep '23

If you’re using Devanagari (or Malayalam), this article/interview might be interesting: https://mailchi.mp/matratype/typographic-eye-10-karthik-malli-interview Hraban

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Libertinus error with today's version
by Rik Kabel 19 Sep '23

19 Sep '23

(Running 2023.09.18 17:40 on Windows 11 x64) With \setupbodyfont[libertinus,11pt] \starttext Hello \stoptext I get no text output in the pdf and the following error reports: fonts > otf loading > loading 'G:/ConTeXt_LMTX/tex/texmf/fonts/data/public/libertinus/LibertinusSerif-Regular.otf', hash 'libertinusserif-regular' otf reader > fatal error in file 'G:/ConTeXt_LMTX/tex/texmf/fonts/data/public/libertinus/LibertinusSerif-Regular.otf': ...MTX/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/font-dsp.lmt:2160: attempt to perform arithmetic on a nil value (global 'markset') stack traceback: ...MTX/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/font-otr.lua:2344: in metamethod 'add' ...MTX/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/font-dsp.lmt:2160: in upvalue 'readlookups' ...MTX/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/font-dsp.lmt:2570: in upvalue 'readscripts' ...MTX/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/font-dsp.lmt:2662: in local 'reader' ...MTX/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/font-otr.lua:2089: in upvalue 'readtable' ...MTX/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/font-otr.lua:2217: in upvalue 'readdata' ...MTX/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/font-otr.lua:2257: in function <...MTX/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/font-otr.lua:2240> [C]: in function 'xpcall' ...MTX/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/font-otr.lua:2346: in upvalue 'loadfont' ...MTX/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/font-otr.lua:2401: in field 'loadfont' ...MTX/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/font-otl.lmt:160: in field 'load' ...MTX/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/font-otl.lmt:625: in upvalue 'otftotfm' ...MTX/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/font-otl.lmt:653: in function <...MTX/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/font-otl.lmt:652> (...tail calls...) ...MTX/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/font-def.lmt:374: in function <...MTX/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/font-def.lmt:350> (...tail calls...) ...MTX/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/font-def.lmt:465: in field 'read' ...MTX/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/font-ctx.lmt:1375: in function <...MTX/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/font-ctx.lmt:1232> (...tail calls...) fonts > otf loading > loading failed due to read error -- Rik

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