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Creating cloze texts
by Florian Leupold 04 Sep '16

04 Sep '16

Dear list, I would like to create cloze texts for my students with ConTeXt. Ideally, I would have a command \cloze[<width>]{<solution>} with the following functionality: 1) \cloze{<solution>} would insert an underlined gap in the text with a width of (say) 1.3 times the width of solution and puts the solution on top of it with centered alignment. I will then color the text read if the mode is ‘teacher’ and in white if not. 2) \cloze[<width>]{<solution>} would do the same, but with a fixed width of the underline. The solution should then be flush left, maybe with a horizontal space of \quad. 3) The underline should allow for line breaks and hyphenation, but not such that only empty space is broken into the next line of left in the previous (see MNWE). In this way, the student’s and teacher’s versions of the script will look exactly the same, except for the visible solution in the teacher’s version. The macro \underbar does a good job in terms of line breaks and hyphenation. But it is "too smart" in the sense that it does not underline horizontal spaces. The MNWE below showcases problems with my naive attempts to achieve underlining: - CLOZE 1 does not have any extra space. - CLOZE 2 does not underline the horizontal spaces. - CLOZE 3 does not show the underline, supposedly because the first text elements in it are white. - CLOZE 4 shows that introducing fake characters is not a good idea anyways because the cloze is broken without any “real” solution in the first line. - CLOZE 5 shows the same for trailing space. MNWE: \starttext \input ward \underbar{\color[red]{CLOZE 1}} \input ward \underbar{\quad\color[red]{CLOZE 2}\quad} \input ward \underbar{\color[white]{x}\quad\color[red]{CLOZE 3}\quad\color[white]{x}} \input ward \underbar{\color[green]{x}\quad\color[red]{CLOZE 4}\quad\color[white]{x}} \input ward space \underbar{\color[red]{CLOZE 5}\qquad\color[white]{x}} space \input ward \stoptext I would greatly appreciate help with this problem. Thanks so much in advance! Florian

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\vfill shifts content off grid
by Henri Menke 04 Sep '16

04 Sep '16

Dear list, when I use a body font size other than the standard, issuing \vfill will move the content off the grid. MWE is below. How do I fix this? Cheers, Henri --- \setupbodyfont[9pt] \setuplayout[grid=yes] \showgrid \starttext Hello \vfill World \stoptext

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Bug in \placeformula
by Henri Menke 02 Sep '16

02 Sep '16

Dear list, this formula is not numbered even though it should be. Please fix. \starttext \placeformula \startformula \startmathcases \NC 0 \NC $\mu > 2t$ \NR \NC \pi/2 \NC $\mu = 2t$ \NR \NC \pi \NC $\mu < 2t$ \NR \stopmathcases \stopformula \stoptext Cheers, Henri

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[NTG-Context] Problem with \usemodule[graph] and El Capitan (mac OS)
by Louis-solal Giboin 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

Dear all, I have updated my OS to El Capitan, and all my scripts including MPgraph functions such as gdata do not work anymore (script without such functions are working without any trouble). Would someone know how to get rid of this issue? I thank you very much. a short code sample: x:=u*1cm; a1:=6; a2:=5; hauteury:=a1*y; echelleMEP:=1/10*hauteury/a2; gdata("explexpl.d",s, y1:= scantokens(s1); y2:= scantokens(s2); draw (7.5*x, y1*echelleMEP)--(8.5*x, y2*echelleMEP) withcolor 0.6 white; ); Cheers! Louis-Solal

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Figure-text alignment and wrapping text more tightly
by Florian Leupold 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

Dear list, I am interested in placing a figure on the right-hand side of the page and wrap text around it, see MWE below. This works mostly nicely. But I have got three questions: 1) Is it possible to top-align the figure with the first line of the paragraph to its left? 2) Is there a way to reduce the vertical gap between the first and second figures? 3) The keyword “low” for \placefigure seems to have an effect. But I don’t know why and could not find a reference to that in contextref.pdf. Is this the correct way to wrap text “more tightly” below the figure (compare second and third figures). Thanks a lot for your input. Best regards, Florian MWE: \setupexternalfigures[order={pdf,png,jpg}, location={local,global,default}] \starttext \useexternalfigure[figure][mill] \placefigure[right, none]{}{\externalfigure[figure]} \input ward \placefigure[right, none]{}{\externalfigure[figure]} \input ward \input ward \input ward \placefigure[right, low, none]{}{\externalfigure[figure]} \input ward \input ward \input ward \stoptext

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Problem finding 'cow'
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Hello, it seems my ConTeXt doesn't find its own 'cow.pdf'. The file is located in c:\Ctx-Beta\tex\texmf-context\tex\context\sample\common\cow.pdf when the whole ConTeXt is located in c:\Ctx-Beta\tex\ My resulting .pdf shows no image; and also there is no info in the .log where ConTeXt tried to find the image. How to tell ConTeXt where to look for "installed-in" images? 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 Tel: +420 241 096 751 (+420 720 951 172) Fax: +420 244 461 038

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Caption placement in margin
by Henri Menke 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Dear list, I was trying to place float captions in the margin, which according to setup-en.pdf should work with location=outermargin, but it doesn't. The MWE below reproduces this on TL 2016 and on http://live.contextgarden.net/. Please fix. Cheers, Henri --- \setupfloatcaption [figure] [location=outermargin] \starttext \placefigure [top] {The famous dutch cow!} {\externalfigure[cow]} \stoptext

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ConTeXt on linux-armhf
by Jose Luis Arellano 30 Aug '16

30 Aug '16

Hi guys, i need some help. I have installed the linux-armhf version of ConTeXt on my android phone via android deploy, the installation was smooth but when i try to create any document, it compile fine, but the resulting document seems to be corrupted. You can see the result in the attached file. Thanks in advance. MWE %%%%%% \starttext \input davis \stoptext %%%%%% ppa

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Strange behavior with \definelabel[][] in context standalone
by Fabrice Couvreur 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

Hello, I noticed a problem with standalone context and not with texlive 2016 2 Question 3 Question instead of 1 Question 2 Question Thanks fabrice ############################################################ \defineframed [FRAME] [frame=off, offset=0pt, location=low, width=\struttotal, background=color, backgroundcolor=darkred, foregroundcolor=white, forgroundstyle=bold] \defineprocessor[ACPROCESSOR][command=\FRAME] \defineconversionset[ACCONVERSION][][ACPROCESSOR->n] \startsetups[table:initialize] \setupTABLE[start] [align={middle,lohi},width=0.12\textwidth,type=\tfx,offset=1ex] \setupTABLE[column][first] [align={middle,right},width=0.52\textwidth] \setupTABLE[1][1][frame=off] \stopsetups \definelabel[TableRow][text=,numbercommand=\FRAME] \starttext \startmidaligned \bTABLE[setups=table:initialize] \bTR \bTD \eTD \bTD a \eTD \bTD b \eTD \bTD c \eTD \bTD d \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD \TableRow\ question \eTD \bTD \eTD \bTD \eTD \bTD \eTD \bTD \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD \TableRow\ question \eTD \bTD \eTD \bTD \eTD \bTD \eTD \bTD \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stopmidaligned \stoptext

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OT: The joy of Unicode @ xkcd
by Mojca Miklavec 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

Amazing one: http://xkcd.com/1726/ Don't forget that this topic will be also be covered at the ConTeXt meeting (Monday at 2 pm) along with another "XKCD made a reality", so make sure to join us at the ConTeXt meeting next month if you are curious: http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2016/pr2016.pdf http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2016/register.shtml Mojca Spoiler: - http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1726 - http://unicode.org/L2/L2016/16072-jurassic-emoji.pdf

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