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Multiline descriptions do not line up
by Rik Kabel 09 Jul '17

09 Jul '17

What is needed to align descriptions when the description text is wrapped? Items seven and thirteen below are particularly bad, and in a real document the error is significantly greater. \definedescription [Desc] [headstyle=\tf,alternative=hanging] \definelayer [vLine] \setlayer [vLine] [x=3.385cm]{\blackrule[color=red,width=0.2pt,height=\textheight]} \setupbackgrounds [text] [background=vLine] \starttext \startDesc{one} Description of item one. Description of item one.% Description of item one. \stopDesc \startDesc{two} Description of item two. Description of item two.% Description of item two. \stopDesc \startDesc{three} Description of item three. Description of item three.% Description of item three. \stopDesc \startDesc{four} Description of item four. Description of item four.% Description of item four. \stopDesc \startDesc{five} Description of item five. Description of item five.% Description of item five. \stopDesc \startDesc{six} Description of item six. Description of item six.% Description of item six. \stopDesc \startDesc{seven} Description of item seven. Description of item seven. Description of item seven. \stopDesc \startDesc{eight} Description of item eight. Description of item eight. Description of item eight. \stopDesc \startDesc{nine} Description of item nine. Description of item nine. Description of item nine. \stopDesc \startDesc{ten} Description of item ten. Description of item ten. Description of item ten. \stopDesc \startDesc{eleven} Description of item eleven. Description of item eleven. Description of item eleven. \stopDesc \startDesc{twelve} Description of item twelve. Description of item twelve. Description of item twelve. Description of item twelve. Description of item twelve. Description of item twelve. Description of item twelve. Description of item twelve. Description of item twelve. \stopDesc \startDesc{thirteen} Description of item thirteen. Description of item thirteen. Description of item thirteen. Description of item thirteen. Description of item thirteen. Description of item thirteen. Description of item thirteen. Description of item thirteen. Description of item thirteen. \stopDesc \stoptext -- Rik

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\definefallbackfamily check and force keywords
by Alan Bowen 06 Jul '17

06 Jul '17

A very simpleminded question, if I may. What do the keywords, check and force do in \definefallbackfamily? Am I right to think that check=yes, force=no will use the fallback font only when characters are missing from the mainfont and check=no, force=yes will use the fallback font whenever it contains a character found in the source file? Alan

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Problem with columns and footnotes
by Henri Menke 05 Jul '17

05 Jul '17

Dear list, motivated by a question on TeX.SX I wanted to typeset multicolumn text with multicolumn footnotes. However, on the first page the distance between the columns and the footnote area is way too large. Occurs in TL2017 and latest beta. Also, is there something to influence the alignment inside the footnotes more aggressively. There are a couple of bad boxes. Is it possible to turn of balancing for the footnote columns? Cheers, Henri --- \setupnote [footnote] [n=4, rule=no, frame=on, frameoffset=1ex] \setupnotation [footnote] [alternative=hanging, align={raggedright,verytolerant}] \setupcolumns [rule=on] \starttext \startcolumns[n=2] \input Knuth\footnote{FreeBSD tire ses origines de l'UNIX de Berkeley.} \input ward\footnote{This does not seem to be implemented yet.} \input hawking\footnote{Left, right (raggedleft, raggedright).} \input Knuth\footnote{Distance between columns bad hyphenation.} \input ward\footnote{Draw a line between the columns. Default is off.} \input Knuth\footnote{FreeBSD tire ses origines de l'UNIX de Berkeley.} \input ward\footnote{Draw a line between the columns. Default is off.} \input hawking\footnote{Left, right (raggedleft, raggedright).} \input Knuth\footnote{Distance between columns bad hyphenation.} \input ward\footnote{Draw a line between the columns. Default is off.} \input ward\footnote{Draw a line between the columns. Default is off.} \stopcolumns \stoptext

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ConTeXt meeting 2017 (reminder)
by Taco Hoekwater 05 Jul '17

05 Jul '17

== Announcement == The ConTeXt Group and Pragma ADE are looking forward to welcoming you at the 11th International ConTeXt Meeting that will take place on September 11–17, 2017 in Maibach, Germany. == Meeting logo == The traditional drawing from Duane Bibby is finished! You can see a scaled- down version of the final result on the meeting website: http://meeting.contextgarden.net/ == Excursion == An excursion day in Mainz is planned for Friday the 15th, including a guided tour and workshop at the Gutenberg Museum. == Registration discounts == Besides general sponsorship, DANTE e.V. also offer an extra discount for any Dante members that will attend our meeting. And that is on top of the discount we offer to our ConTeXt Group members, so we managed to keep the conference fees quite low. The deadline for early-bird discount is July 11, only six days from now! == Registration == The meeting will host ConTeXt and LuaTeX developers and users and gives you the opportunity to present your results, experiences and ideas on future development. The presentations will be accompanied by tutorials on different ConTeXt and LuaTeX techniques. Registration is now open. Direct link to the registration form: http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2017/register.shtml This year’s meeting is sponsored by DANTE e.V., the German TeX User Group. == Call for submissions == We always set a theme for the meeting, and the theme for this meeting is: ConTeXt Gardening If you want to do an on-topic talk submission, there are plenty angles to take at the theme: Seeding, weeding, fertilising, growing, harvesting, just to name a few. But anything at all related to ConTeXt that you would like to share is an acceptable subject for a presentation, tutorial, discussion, Q&A session, demonstration, workshop, recital, sketch, or sermon. The programme committee is Hans Hagen and Taco Hoekwater, feel free to email them with hints and ideas. == website == For the meeting: http://meeting.contextgarden.net For the Context Group: http://group.contextgarden.net

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Adjusting column width dynamically to get rid of orphans and widows
by Thomas Widmann 03 Jul '17

03 Jul '17

Hello, I recently started experimenting with using ConTeXt (mkiv) for dictionary typesetting. It's a much more attractive option than plain TeX or LaTeX because of the support for typesetting on a grid. However, grid typesetting can easily result in a large number of orphans and widows, which really doesn't look good in a dictionary. In an ideal world, I'd want to alter the column width slightly to prevent them (because most dictionaries aren't justified, this wouldn't be very noticeable). Would it be possible to use LuaTeX to achieve this? I.e., could one write some code that gets triggered by orphans and widows and then alters the current column width slightly until the problem disappears? Has somebody already done this? Or have the relevant TeX internals not been Luafied yet? I'd also be interested in other ways to solve this issue – for instance changing the looseness dynamically instead of the column width. Thanks a lot, Thomas -- Thomas Widmann Director Complexli Limited +44 789 444 3009

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Why is the page off?
by Henri Menke 03 Jul '17

03 Jul '17

Dear list, Why is the page shifted? Reproducible in TL2017 and latest beta. See also attached. MWE is below. Cheers, Henri --- \showframe \starttext Foo \stoptext

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mathalignment and grid
by Henri Menke 03 Jul '17

03 Jul '17

Dear Hans, In a previous email I complained that with mathalignment large formulas crash into the paragraph below when using grid typesetting. This has been fixed in the latest beta but now the space above and below is asymmetric. For this particular case I could fix it by setting the gird snapping mode to "top" rather than "math", but this does not apply universally. Any chance there is an easy fix? Cheers, Henri --- \setuplayout[grid=both] \showgrid \startmode[fix] \unprotect \def\math_alignment_snap_start {\ifgridsnapping \snaptogrid[top]\vbox\bgroup \fi} \protect \stopmode \starttext \input knuth \startformula \startmathalignment \NC i\hbar\frac{\diff}{\diff t}\psi \NC= \left( - \frac{\hbar^2}{2 m} \nabla^2 + V(r) \right) \psi \NR \NC F(x) \NC= \int f(x) \diff x \NR \stopmathalignment \stopformula \input ward \stoptext

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Overarc etc. symbols
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 02 Jul '17

02 Jul '17

Hello ConTeXist. Can someone advise me how to lay an arc over three letters AVB. It's about the LaTeX equivalent of \overarc or \widearc macro. Is there any table of similar ConTeXt symbols? Thanks Jaroslav Hajtmar

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floatcombination boundingbox
by Mikael P. Sundqvist 30 Jun '17

30 Jun '17

Hi, I wonder what is going on in the example given below (resulting pdf attached)? The placement of the figures in floatcombination (this does not happen if I place them one by one in a figure) are shifted horizontally, and seems to depend on the boundingbox. Am I doing something wrong? This happens with current version: 2017.06.27 18:05 but also with a version that is some weeks old. /Mikael \setupcombinations[ distance=1cm, ] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{figa} draw (1cm,1cm) -- origin -- (1cm,-1cm); draw boundingbox currentpicture; \stopuseMPgraphic \startplacefigure[location={nonumber}] \startfloatcombination[nx=2,ny=1] \startplacefigure \useMPgraphic{figa} \stopplacefigure \startplacefigure \useMPgraphic{figa} \stopplacefigure \stopfloatcombination \stopplacefigure \startuseMPgraphic{figb} draw (1cm,1cm) -- origin -- (1cm,-1cm); setbounds currentpicture to ((0,-1cm)--(1cm,-1cm)--(1cm,1cm)--(0,1cm)--cycle) enlarged 0.2cm; draw boundingbox currentpicture; \stopuseMPgraphic \startplacefigure[location={nonumber}] \startfloatcombination[nx=2,ny=1] \startplacefigure \useMPgraphic{figb} \stopplacefigure \startplacefigure \useMPgraphic{figb} \stopplacefigure \stopfloatcombination \stopplacefigure \startuseMPgraphic{figc} draw (1cm,1cm) -- origin -- (1cm,-1cm); setbounds currentpicture to ((0,-1cm)--(1cm,-1cm)--(1cm,1cm)--(0,1cm)--cycle) enlarged 0.5cm; draw boundingbox currentpicture; \stopuseMPgraphic \startplacefigure[location={nonumber}] \startfloatcombination[nx=2,ny=1] \startplacefigure \useMPgraphic{figc} \stopplacefigure \startplacefigure \useMPgraphic{figc} \stopplacefigure \stopfloatcombination \stopplacefigure \stoptext

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Problem with lucida fonts (again)
by Eric Détrez 29 Jun '17

29 Jun '17

Hello I already had this problem with lucida fonts. When I type text the letter are shifted : "b" becomes "a", "c" becomes "b", ... I solved it with using the stable version. I updated my system and I downloaded again context-minimal. The problem came back with both versions (last or stable). ConTeXt ver: 2017.05.15 21:48 MKIV beta fmt: 2017.6.27 int: english/english ConTeXt ver: 2017.06.27 18:05 MKIV beta fmt: 2017.6.27 int: english/english If I use the tex-live version all is fine ConTeXt ver: 2016.05.17 19:20 MKIV current fmt: 2017.6.27 int: english/english It seems current version does provide a beta. I'm afraid I'll can use Lucida soon -- Eric Détrez Informatique Lycée Faidherbe, Lille http://eric-detrez.fr

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