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Ancient Egyptian Representation
by Brian Ballsun-Stanton 10 Nov '17

10 Nov '17

Hi Folks, I'm trying to figure out ways of representing: Using computer-intelligable output. This (if you have a font supporting ancient egyptian installed): 𓄂 𓂝 𓈖 𓁷 𓂋 𓇋 𓅭 𓊵 𓃝 𓏏 𓊪 𓁹 𓈖 𓈎 𓅡 𓏏 𓇋 is an awful attempt at same using google docs tables inside tables, but should have the virtue of being interactable-with. The characters themselves are part of the ancient egpytian block and have font support (noto by google) The problem is in composition. There's: Above/below (that first "character" is composed of two), overlapping (that bull-thing with bits), mirrored, right-to-left and left-to-right, as well as vertical text. While these characters can be laid out in jsesh or equivalent, the output is of an *image* instead of something which can be well-represented (much-less copied and pasted). As one of the routes of exploration, since I do quite a lot of work in ConTeXt, I'm wondering what ... modes.... one would need to be in to even start thinking about placement here. (I'm avoiding simply placing graphics objects by hand as that defeats the purpose). I suppose my question is: is it worth trying to coerce ConTeXt into working with this, or do I need to investigate a different *sort* of tool entirely? (probably a purpose-built xml parser or something in that vein). Cheers, -Brian

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\overline problem again.
by Jeong Dal 09 Nov '17

09 Nov '17

Hi, Yesterday, I had a weird output of the following sample code. \overline changes the baseline when it is used in the column environment. It works fine if it is used without columns. I had similar problems long time ago and I thought it was fixed at that time. Please check the following sample. Best regards, Dalyoung %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \starttext \startitemize[n] \item Here is a line of math formulas: $\overline{A} = A$, $A' \subset A$, $A \cap A' = \emptyset$ and $A^c$ is open. \item list items one by one in a new line \startitemize[n, packed, broad][stopper=,left=(, right=)] \item {$A' \subset A$} \item {$A \cap A' = \emptyset$} \item {$A^c$ is open} \item {$\overline{A} = A$} \stopitemize \stopitemize As you see, there is no problem al all.\par But if we list the same formulas using columns, then there is a baseline problem. \startitemize[continue] \item list items in 4 columns \startitemize[n, packed,columns, four, broad][stopper=,left=(, right=)] \item {$A' \subset A$} \item {$\overline{A} = A$} \item {$A \cap A' = \emptyset$} \item {$A^c$ is open} \stopitemize \item list items in 2 columns \startitemize[n, packed,columns, two, broad][stopper=,left=(, right=)] \item {$\overline{\{a\}} = \{a\}$} \item {$\overline{\{b\}} = \{b,e\}$} \item {$\overline{\{c\}} = \{b,c,d\}$} \item {$\overline{\{d\}} = \{b,c,d,e\}$} \stopitemize \stopitemize \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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ASCII input - non ASCII output
by Sava Maksimović 09 Nov '17

09 Nov '17

Hi, Is there a way in context, that for some *text* ascii input (in source .tex file) define mapping in internal tex system ? For example, if i put two ascii characters "dj" in .tex file, can i get cyrillic character "ђ" in .pdf ? And so on, for input b, v, g, d, ... to get output б, в, г, д, ... Or more general, for every letter/string in unicode to define the way that it should be read. It's benefit for non ascii language users, because in that case they don't need to switch keyboard layout all the time between command, math input and text input. In Latex, package fontenc(precisely OT2 encoding) do that things. Minimal example: \starttext a, b, v, g, d, dj, e, zh, z \stoptext should produce a, б, в, г, д, ђ, е, ж, з Best regards, Sava Maksimovic (Сава Максимовић :) )

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register with section references (instead of pages)
by Pablo Rodriguez 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

Dear list, I have this sample: \starttext \chapter{One} \index{one} \section{Two} \index{two} \subsection{Three} \index{three} \placeregister[index] \stoptext Is there any way to get section numbers in the index references instead of page numbers? I have searched in strc-reg-mkiv and i-context.pdf, but I don’t know how to do it (if it is possible). Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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How to remove that "Oxford Comma" in a bibliography?
by Tobias Berndt 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

Dear List, since I am typesetting a German publication, I wanna get out the comma before and: R. Smith, F. Bauer, J. Faulkner, & J. Joyce (1966). Blabla ... and it should be: R. Smith, F. Bauer, J. Faulkner & J. Joyce (1966). Blabla ... My settings are more or less: \usebtxdataset[bla-publications.bib] \usebtxdefinitions[apa] +++ \startchapter[reference=chap:7,title={Literaturverzeichnis}] \placelistofpublications \stopchapter +++ @Article{kri15, author = {B. Kriesche and R. Hess and B. Reichert and V. Schmidt}, journal = {Spatial Statistics}, pages = {15\,--\,30}, title = {A probabilistic approach to the prediction of area weather events, applied to precipitation}, volume = {12}, year = {2015}} +++ Any idea? ALOHA, tobber Mit freundlichen Gr??en Tobias Berndt Technischer Redakteur [cid:baramundi_logo_7d238272-c360-403f-a4b5-16fee20dd77a.png]<http://www.baramundi.de/> baramundi software AG Beim Glaspalast 1 86153 Augsburg Fon: +49 (821) 5 67 08 - 577 Fax: +49 (821) 5 67 08 - 19 tobias.berndt(a)baramundi.de<mailto:tobias.berndt@baramundi.de> www.baramundi.de<http://www.baramundi.de> Besuchen Sie uns: LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/2797106> | Xing<https://www.xing.com/companies/baramundisoftwareag> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/baramundiWORLD> | YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/user/baramundisoftware/> Vorstand: Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Uwe Beikirch | Dr. Lars Lippert Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dr. Dirk Haft Sitz und Registergericht: Augsburg, HRB-Nr. 2064 | USt-IdNr. DE 210294111

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Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, ASCII input - non ASCII output, Vol 161, Issue 13
by Sava Maksimović 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

Thanks for answers, I'm afraid, I didn't completely understand all of you about transliterating commands name. I don't want to do this. I don't want to translate or transliterate command names. I just want to transliterate *text* part of input. I can't split *commands and math* input from *text* input, because there is inline math and commands are all around . It is serious amount of switching. (ALT+ SHIFT keys), and when i'm thinking about what i should type(about subject) i forget to switch, and that's happening all the time. Mojca, for 'ž' i again have to switch keyboard. Also, Mojca probably the best understand what i want and that Serbian language can be written equally in latin and cyrillic script. Some people privately write in one script and some other people in another. So there is a lot of scripts in Serbia written in latin script. But official is CYR. ОТ2 doesn't transliterate commands--- just text --- and i'm able to type 'zh' and 'ж' in the same file and he knows what i want, both input characters he treats the same. Even more Babel understand that too, and hyphenate words according the rules define in cyr. > >

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Arbitrary tag of displayed formula
by Mikael P. Sundqvist 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

Hi! Is there a way to tag a displayed formula with arbitrary text? As far as I can remember it was possible to use \eqno before, but that does not seem to be the case anymore. For my use case I do not need the possibility to cite the equation, if that helps. I asked the same question at stackexchange (see https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/400257/tag-equation-in-context-with…) but was redirected here. I'm thinking of a minimal non-working example like: \startTEXpage[offset=2bp] \startformula 1+1=2\eqno{A} \stopformula \stopTEXpage /MIkael PS I use this when constructing exams. Then it is good to be able to put the points to the right. And sometimes this is done in displayed formulas. For an example of what I mean, made with LaTeX, see http://www.ctr.maths.lu.se/media/exams/funkteori/exam_2017-03-13.pdf

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Thicker \cdot ?
by Weber, Matthias 07 Nov '17

07 Nov '17

Dear List, I am looking for a ConTeXt way to create a thicker \cdot (but not as thick as \bullet). Minimal non-example \starttext \startformula a \cdot[1mm] b \stopformula \stoptext does not accomplish anything useful…. Thanks - Matthias

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bug updating the ConTeXt Suite?
by Pablo Rodriguez 06 Nov '17

06 Nov '17

Dear list, after updating ConTeXt to latest beta, any invocation shows this error: ~/context/tex/texmf-linux/bin/mtxrun:633: attempt to index local 'searchers' (a nil value) This happens with "mtxrunjit --generate" or with "contextjit --version" (to name only two). Could anyone confirm this issue? (Backup your current beta first to avoid issues.) Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Re: [NTG-context] bug updating the ConTeXt Suite?
by luigi scarso 06 Nov '17

06 Nov '17

Il 6 nov 2017 22:13, "Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists(a)gmail.com> ha scritto: On 6 November 2017 at 20:07, Pablo Rodriguez <oinos(a)gmx.es> wrote: > On 11/06/2017 07:04 PM, Floris van Manen wrote: >> so is the error related to an incompatible luatex? > > Florian, > > I know that correlation isn’t causation, so I can only guess ;-). > > It might be that ConTeXt Standalone should have the binaries updated in > all platforms. I manually updated linux, but all other platforms are still outdated from trunk. The tagged version doesn't compile at all (maybe it requires C++11?). There were some architectural changes and I'm not able to access some build machines, including an old Mac VM (I can create a new one locally, just not today). Yes , poppler needs c++11 (and the new lua 5.3 gcc 7.2.0) -- luigi

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