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Issue with initial (new beta)
by josephcanedo＠gmail.com 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

Dear all, First of all, thanks for new beta. It fixes the initial feature (in previous beta there were not typeset at all). But while testing (a bit somewhat extreme example to push the limits) I came up with some initial letter hanging in the footer (page 3). Not sure the issue is linked with mixedcolumns but could not reproduce in plain vanilla environment. Also I noticed that if the paragraph is too short the initial overwrites the next paragraph(s) (to reproduce simply comment out the mixedcolumns). MWE: \starttext \startmixedcolumns[balance=yes] \dorecurse{10}{ \setupinitial[location=text, n=4] \placeinitial \input{ward} \setupinitial[location=text, n=6] \placeinitial \input{knuth} } \stopmixedcolumns \stoptext Admitedly this example has lots of lettrines. I added some \testcolumn to fix that, but now some columns are not balanced (page 3) \starttext \startmixedcolumns[balance=yes] \dorecurse{10}{ \setupinitial[location=text, n=4] \testcolumn[4] \placeinitial \input{ward} \setupinitial[location=text, n=6] \testcolumn[6] \placeinitial \input{knuth} } \stopmixedcolumns \stoptext I was wondering if there were any settings to try more “aggressive” balancing (in the example here it might be difficult). or an alternative way to let the initial not hang into the footer that might be more “balanced” friendly. Many thanks for any hint, Best regards Joseph

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

Hi, There is a new beta coming but it goes in sync with a new release of luatex (0.85). As there have been some fundamental changes the macros and engine need to be updated in sync so when something goes wrong with an update, be patient and wait till binaries are in sync with macros for your platform. By the end of this week the garden should be ok. The 0.85 release will be followed by a 0.90 early next year and 0.95 for texlive 2016. Then at the 10th context meeting we can release 1.00. After that the functionality of luatex is mostly stable but we can (and will) play with a follow up (so 2.* version will be betas again upto a 3.* release). We've not run out of ideas yet. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Incorrect placement of visualizer vbox in latest beta
by Jan Tosovsky 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

Dear All, when the following source is processed in the last Beta (0.85 - 2015.11.19 19:13), that visualizer vbox is shifted upwards. \showgrid \starttext \input{tufte} \stoptext Nothing crucial :-) Jan

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vertical space with \reference
by Michael Green 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

Context puts extra vertical between “Line one" and “Line two” in this example. Should it do that? \starttext Line one. \reference[refs]{}% Line two. \stoptext I ask because pandoc inserts \reference[refs]{}% at the beginning of its bibliography section; that produces extra vertical space. I do not think this command should produce any space at all, but perhaps I am mistaken. Thank you!

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can't find file `./1.tex'.
by Context NTG 19 Nov '15

19 Nov '15

I installed in windows 7 x64 standatalone context from http://standalone.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-mswin.zip I installed it with first-setup.bat --version=current --modules=all I added d:\context\tex\texmf-win64\bin in the PATH I made a simple \starttext .. \stoptext file and run it in a command prompt with: context myfile.tex Below is the output. Would somebody know what could cause this problem Thanks John ConTeXt ver: 2015.05.18 12:26 MKIV current fmt: 2015.11.14 int: english/english system > 'cont-new.mkiv' loaded open source > 2 > 2 > D:/0_System/software_portable/context/context0/tex/tex mf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv close source > 2 > 2 > D:/0_System/software_portable/context/context0/tex/tex mf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv system > files > jobname '1', input './1', result '1' fonts > latin modern fonts are not preloaded languages > language 'en' is active tex error > error on line 8 in file D:/0_System/software_portable/context/ context0/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-yes.mkiv: ! I can't find file ` ./1.tex'. l.8 } \clf_processjob ...uafunction \16>>clf_processjob l.97 \getvalue{clf_processjob} % from cont-run.lua 1 %D \module 2 %D [ file=cont-yes, 3 %D version=2012.06.01, 4 %D title=\CONTEXT\ Miscellaneous Macros, 5 %D subtitle=Startup Stub, 6 %D author=Hans Hagen, 7 %D date=\currentdate, 8 >> %D copyright={PRAGMA ADE \& \CONTEXT\ Development Team}] 9 %C 10 %C This module is part of the \CONTEXT\ macro||package and is 11 %C therefore copyrighted by \PRAGMA. See mreadme.pdf for 12 %C details. 13 14 % At some point I will reconsider the \starttext .. \stoptext 15 % wraping as we can assume proper styling. It's a left-over from 16 % mkii that we need to get rid of. 17 18 % now moved to cont-run.lua Please type another input file name:

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just some questions
by Carlos 19 Nov '15

19 Nov '15

Hello list. I just have a pairof questions. Could someone point me to the fonts' script used by mtxrun? back in, let's see.. 2011, Mojca replied to Vladimir Lomov, with: > If TEXMFSYSVAR is writable, the cache goes to TEXMFSYSVAR. If it is > not, the cache goes to TEXMFVAR. The idea behind this is that > installer updates the cache when new packages are added, while users > can still generate their own cache. And yes, I even removed the cache file, since it generates itself, correct? I just can't figure out why this problem occurs with the files packed for ubuntu texlive, and I'm almost sure of not having duplicate files, unless I probably missed them, of course! I think I tried all the options available. I know mtxrun script is implemented there as well (in ubuntu texlive). I tried with separate installations first, and finally settled with texlive full, but it made no difference. I know it works in x64 for example, but for some reason, it refuses to follow the exemplary behavior in an i386. (Most of the modules fail or wouldn't find types). And why would ubuntu maintainers have anything to do with it? It's probably my own misconfiguration. But what could be the cause? Thank you in advance, for your time. :) Bye bye Carlos

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"Trial typesetting" in ConTeXt / lua ?
by josephcanedo＠gmail.com 19 Nov '15

19 Nov '15

Dear all, Is it possible in ConTeXt within lua code to do “trial typesetting” (not sure that’s best name for what I would like to achieve) ? By this I mean store some input (with text and macros) in some buffer and do what ConTeXt does normally (parsing, create nodes …) but instead of shipping the nodes to line breaking algorithm and to the page output, only retrieve the nodes and after discard them. This is to get an estimate of the total text width within a paragraph (to calculate some shape on the paragraph). I browsed the lua code from http://source.contextgarden.net/ but I do not dare to use too low level lua functionality. Many thanks for any hint (even a pointer to lua function). Best regards Joseph Canedo

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Best way to prevent wrong column/page break with par starting with \starthanging
by josephcanedo＠gmail.com 19 Nov '15

19 Nov '15

Dear all, I am using \starthanging to implement dropcaps (with small pdf files). I use this Inside mixedcolumns (2 columns). I’d like to know if there is a better way than \testcolumn[N], N being the number of lines of the dropcap, to prevent the location of dropcap being cut between end of column/page and beginning of next. Tried \keeplinestogether{N} instead but it does not work in all cases. That question was mainly to see if there were any possibility to avoid some blank lines at end of some columns (ie not balanced in given page). Thanks a lot Best regards Joseph

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[OT] What is TACO?
by luigi scarso 19 Nov '15

19 Nov '15

https://github.com/Microsoft/TACO "...TACO makes it crazy-easy to setup your dev environment so you can begin coding immediately." Sorry, I was not able to resist. -- luigi

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Overlong chapter titles in headings
by Mari Voipio 17 Nov '15

17 Nov '15

Hello all! I have a document where chapter heading is also printed in the header. Usually this works very nicely, but now I have a document with really long chapter headings (not my choice...) that don't fit in the space available in the header area. Is there a way of printing the whole text in the chapter heading, but a shorter version in the header area? Mari

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