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Difficulties with learning about ConTeXt
by N. Raghavendra 24 Oct '17

24 Oct '17

I am a mathematician, and have been using LaTeX on a daily basis since 1992, when I was a graduate student. I have recently started using ConTeXt, and am very happy with the facilities it provides, and with its self-contained system which does not require one to load external packages with subtle interactions. One problem that I am facing is that the documentation of ConTeXt is often not enough for me to figure out what to do when a problem arises. I understand that documentation is perhaps not a priority for the project. As Hans Hagen wrote in `? Context', "... writing can get a lower priority in a time when quick and dirty answers can be found on the internet, mailing list or wiki. ... For what it's worth: whenever I have to solve a problem with a program (or language implementation) I run into cases where I have to look long to ﬁnd (non conﬂicting) information. It just comes with the problems one wants to solve and TeX (ConTeXt) is not diﬀerent." However, there is not a great deal of information on the Internet about solving ConTeXt problems. Whenever I ran into a LaTeX problem in the last several years, I used to find a solution, or a substantial step towards one, that was already documented on the TeX-LaTeX Stack Exchange. Unfortunately, it does not contain a similar amount of information about ConTeXt. In any case, I have started posting ConTeXt questions there, see https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/397463/146025 and https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/397607/146025 As for the mailing list, I posted three requests for help here in the last one week. When I bumped my first message after more than a day without any response, Tomas Hala kindly came to my rescue. The other two messages, posted four and two days ago, have not elicited any response yet. This contrasts with Aditya Mahajan's experience, which he describes in his interview at http://tex-talk.net/2012/08/textalk-an-interview-with-aditya/: "Most questions on the context mailing lists are answered within minutes ... look in the main manual and the wiki to see how to achieve the particular effects that you wanted, and if you cannot figure it out, ask on the context mailing list." I understand that we are all busy, and it is not easy to find time to answer novice queries on the list. Lastly, I found the Wiki useful sometimes for quick and dirty solutions to problems, and sometimes as a source of documentation. Yet there have been several cases where I could not find what I wanted in it. For example, I could not find the answers to my last two queries on this list and to my two questions on SE, in the manual, on the archives of this list, or on the Wiki. These problems mean that I have to spend much more time experimenting and searching before I find a reasonable way to get the things I want with ConTeXt. Given the beauty of the results that ConTeXt returns, I don't mind that. However, I wonder if there are others who have similar problems learning about ConTeXt, and if they have some words of advice for me. I am also interested in ways to help people with similar difficulties. Regards, Raghu. -- N. Raghavendra <raghu(a)hri.res.in>, http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute, http://www.hri.res.in/

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Default setups
by N. Raghavendra 24 Oct '17

24 Oct '17

Is there a command which prints to the log file the default values of the keys in the setups that are used in a document? For example, when I define a new document division with \definehead [mysection] [section] [style=...] it helps to know the default value of the `style' key for `section' headings. Thanks and regards, Raghu. -- N. Raghavendra <raghu(a)hri.res.in>, http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute, http://www.hri.res.in/

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Tabulate and \VL
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. 24 Oct '17

24 Oct '17

Hello, maybe a very basic question - - but in the sample bellow the VL of the first row is drawn only to height of the first line of the 2line paragraph; how to make the VL "full-height"? ---- \starttext \starttabulate[|l|p|] \NC Hello \VL This is a dummy but very loooooooong text which goes into several (one, two, three?) lines \NC\NR \NC Something \VL else \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stoptext ---- Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka | mailto:LPr@pontex.cz Pontex s. r. o. | mailto:pontex@pontex.cz | http://www.pontex.cz | IDDS:nrpt3sn Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Mob.: +420 702 033 396

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Page printed upside down
by Fabrice Couvreur 24 Oct '17

24 Oct '17

Hello, I have printed this document and the page on the back is printed upside down in fact you have to turn the page to read it. How to correct this ? Thank you Fabrice \setuppapersize[A4,landscape] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=,location=] \definemixedcolumns [MyColumns] [ n=2, separator=rule, rulecolor=, balance=yes, ] \setupalign[verytolerant,stretch,hanging] \starttext \startMyColumns \dorecurse{6}{\input knuth} \stopMyColumns \stoptext

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External graphics directory
by N. Raghavendra 23 Oct '17

23 Oct '17

Is it possible to specify an external graphics directory either as an environment variable, or as a command line option to `context', instead of writing `\setupexternalfigures [directory=../../foo]'? I tried the environment variable setting TEXINPUTS=../../foo:: as in http://www.tex.ac.uk/FAQ-graphicspath.html, and the command line option --path=../../foo for `context', but neither works in my Linux environment. I would like to avoid cluttering ConTeXt files with system paths. Thanks and regards, Raghu. -- N. Raghavendra <raghu(a)hri.res.in>, http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute, http://www.hri.res.in/

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\hyphenation problem
by Rik Kabel 23 Oct '17

23 Oct '17

Or am I doing something wrong? With the following, Schwarzenegger is not hyphenated according to the instruction. I get: \mainlanguage[en] \hyphenation{Schwarz-en-egger} \startexceptions[en] epi-graphs Mount-weazels Mount-weazel \stopexceptions \starttext \hyphenatedword{Schwarzenegger} \\ \hyphenatedword{Mountweazel} \\ \hyphenatedword{Mountweazels} \\ \hyphenatedword{epigraph} \\ \hyphenatedword{epigraphs} \stoptext -- Rik

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Re: [NTG-context] Quotation with method=font produces error
by Christoph Reller 23 Oct '17

23 Oct '17

On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 11:53:56 +0200 Floris van Manen <vm(a)klankschap.nl > wrote: > > > On 19 Oct 2017, at 11:33, Christoph Reller <christoph.reller(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > \setupquotation[method=font] > > what is the intension of the method=font ? > > Hi Floris, Thank you for asking. Consider the following MWE: \setupbodyfont[cambria] %\setupquotation[method=font] \starttext \quotation{A}\crlf “A” \stoptext In the output rendering of the above (see attachment), the first line lacks kerning between the double quotes and the letter A. This can be enabled by saying \setupquotation[method=font]. At least that is what I know about this option. Am I wrong? Is there a different option for enabling this? Regards, Christoph PS: Sorry for the wrong subject line of my previous email. It is corrected now.

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Re: [NTG-context] Caption location in floatcombination
by Christoph Reller 23 Oct '17

23 Oct '17

On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 6:03 PM Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > On 9/13/2017 8:30 AM, Christoph Reller wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It seems to me that the location given to \setupcaptions is not honored > > correctly in floatcombinations anymore. Consider the following MWE: > > > > \setupcaptions[location=top, number=no] > > \starttext > > \placetable[][]{One}{ > > \bTABLE \bTR \bTD First \eTD \eTR \eTABLE} > > \placefloat[][]{}{ > > \startfloatcombination > > \placetable[][]{Two}{ > > \bTABLE \bTR \bTD Second \eTD \eTR \eTABLE} > > \stopfloatcombination} > > \stoptext > > > > In earlier versions of ConTeXt, both captions "One" and "Two" of both > > tables are rendered above the respective table. In the currently latest > > version, the caption "Two" is rendered below the table. Is this a bug or > > do I have to setup caption location separately for floatcombinations? > > > > Any feedback is welcome.\setupcaptions[location=top,number=no] > > \starttext > > \placetable{TABLE}{\bTABLE \bTR \bTD First \eTD \eTR \eTABLE} > > \placefloat{FLOAT}{% > \startfloatcombination > \placetable{Two}{\bTABLE \bTR \bTD Second \eTD \eTR \eTABLE} > \placetable{Two}{\bTABLE \bTR \bTD Second \eTD \eTR \eTABLE} > \stopfloatcombination > } > \stoptext Thank you for your input, Hans! I see that the captions "TABLE" and "FLOAT" are placed on top while the captions "Two" and "Two" are placed on the bottom. Is there a way to setup the locations of the captions of floats within a floatcombination? In this particular example, the goal is, that the captions "Two" and "Two" are placed on top of the respective tables. Cheers, Christoph

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Missing Chapter Numbers
by Thangalin 22 Oct '17

22 Oct '17

\setuphead[chapter][number=yes,] \setuphead[section][number=no,] \setuphead[subsection][placehead=hidden,] \definehead[scenesubsection][subsection] \starttext \dorecurse{5}{ \chapter{Chapter Name} \section{Section Name} \startscenesubsection \input tufte \stopscenesubsection } \stoptext The chapter headings should be enumerated 1 through 5, but some chapter numbers are either hidden or enumerated incorrectly. Using "placehead=no" causes the spacing to change when framing an entire section. Related: https://github.com/contextgarden/context-mirror/blob/b14f992ef5f4e868c9959b… Any ideas on how to work around this issue? Thank you!

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three issues with \setuptyping
by Pablo Rodriguez 21 Oct '17

21 Oct '17

Hans, [I have reported this before the meeting, but it was wiser to wait after the meeting was over.] I have the following sample: %~ \usemodule[scite] \starttext \startTEXpage[offset=2em] \startTEX This is text. % a comment, not \comment \stopTEX \startXML <p>This is text.</p> \stopXML \startLUA if code=="code" then --this is a comment --[[ this is a multiline comment --]] not part of the comment ---[[ this isn’t a multiline comment ---]] \stopLUA \stopTEXpage \stoptext I’m experiencing three issues: 1. Both TeX and Lua comments only mark (in bold and darkyellow) the comment character, but not the comment content. 2. Multiline Lua comments remove the first line break after the comment begins. Brackets are also affected from first issue. 3. XML comment characters are marked as standard tags. Using the scite module removes the three issues (XML comment chars are in a different color, both from comment content and from any other element). But the scite module doesn’t allow the options \setuptyping has. Would it be possible that whole comments may be formatted in the same color and font (TeX, Lua and XML)? Could you fix the issue with removed line break in multiline comments? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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