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Server is up again
by Mojca Miklavec 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

Dear ConTeXters, I'm sorry that it took so long, but the server should be up again (with everything but gitlab restored to the previous state). Both hard drives in the machine died simultaneously on the 3rd of April without any previous signs of malfunctioning. The administrator got a new machine with new hard drives up and running a few days ago. If you experience any problems with the distribution, meeting page or alike from this point on, let me know. Mojca On 3 April 2016 at 21:42, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hi, > > For reasons unknown to me the contextgarden.net server is currently > down. The wiki (and some other components hosted at Taco's server) are > still working. > > I have to wait until the network admin looks into the problem. > > I'm really sorry for the inconvenience, > Mojca

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Updating ConTeXt standalone problem on Mac OS X
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

Hello ConTeXist I have a problem with updating ConTeXt on my Mac OS X (El Captain). When you run the update script to me an error message appears, which surprises me, since I logged on as the system administrator. Can anyone advise me on what could be the problem. I note that I am a beginner on OS X. Here is problematic report: Jaroslav-MacBook-Air:context hajtmar$ sh first-setup.sh receiving file list ... done rsync: failed to set times on "/Users/hajtmar/context/bin": Operation not permitted (1) bin/ rsync: mkstemp "/Users/hajtmar/context/bin/.luatex.y7B2Zy" failed: Permission denied (13) etc.... Thanx Jaroslav Hajtmar

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useMPgraphic scaling
by Meer, Hans van der 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

With images one can scale them on placement, for example \externalfigure[][scale=250,height=..] etc. Is such a scaling or separate height,width setting also possible with the placement of useMPgraphic? Or needs all scaling of thesebe done within the metapost/metafun code? Hans van der Meer

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some difficulties with btxlist
by Thomas A. Schmitz 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

Hi all (in particular Hans and Alan...), I'm finishing a book project where I'm using the new bibliographic system. Everything is working as it should, but I have two problems with line breaks: 1. Page numbers in ranges are separated by an n-dash (as in: 234–567). It looks as though ConTeXt doesn't break lines at this n-dash. I'm sure there must be an easy way to tell TeX that this is a legitimate breakpoint (short of inserting some \penalty manually after every n-dash), but I can't figure it out myself. 2. For the bibliographic list, there remain some bad line breaks that cannot be avoided; for these cases, I have added \setuptolerance[verytolerant,stretch] and expected to see no lines extending into the margin (at the cost of some ugliness). But there are still some overfull lines. Does the list have its own tolerance setting somewhere? Thanks, and best Thomas

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font size inside a \typesetbuffer
by Pablo Rodriguez 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

Dear list, I have the following sample: \startbuffer[buffer:inside] \definefontfamily[mainface][rm][TeX Gyre Pagella] \setupbodyfont[mainface, 17pt] \starttext \input zapf \stoptext \stopbuffer \starttext \typesetbuffer[buffer:inside] \stoptext The issue I’m experiencing is that no mainface is selected if the font size is specified in \setupbodyfont. Am I missing something or have I hit a bug? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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typebuffer different from typefile
by dr. Hans van der Meer 24 Apr '16

24 Apr '16

Why is there a difference in syntax between typing buffers and typing files? For files enclosure in {} for buffers in [], for files optional parameters, for buffers not. Is it possible to make the syntax of these two the same, because their usage parallels each other? Example code: \startbuffer[test] content of buffer \stopbuffer \starttext \typebuffer[test] \typefile[style=\ttx]{test.txt} \stoptext Hans van der Meer

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updating ConTeXt standalone
by Alan Bowen 23 Apr '16

23 Apr '16

Are there still problems with servers at the Garden? Running first-setup.sh seems stuck on current version 2016.04.17 11:56, though there have been two updates since then. Alan

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Overlapping terms in description lists
by Tom Harrop 23 Apr '16

23 Apr '16

Hello again, The document I'm typsetting uses description lists. To keep the list entries close together I'm using before=\nowhitespace and after=\nowhitespace in \definedescription. This is fine so long as the term is short, but when the term wraps to two lines it can overlap with the term below. Here's an example: > \setuppapersize[A5] > \setupalign[flushleft, nothyphenated] > > \definedescription[description] > [before=\nowhitespace, after=\nowhitespace] > > \starttext > > \startdescription{Short term:} > Items with short terms are fine. > \stopdescription > > \startdescription{This is a really long term:} > Long term + short definition > \stopdescription > > \startdescription{This is a really long term:} > ... the long term of the item above the mashes into the term below. > \stopdescription > > \stoptext And here is an attempt at a plain text representation of what I'm trying to achieve: > Short term: Items with short terms are fine. > This is a really > long term: Long term + short definition > This is a really > long term: ... the long term of the item above the mashes > into the > term below. Is this possible using \definedescription? I tried some combinations of \vfill and \framed but I couldn't get it to work. Sorry to repeatedly post newbie questions. Any tips would be appreciated! Thanks, Tom

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xml input
by Meer, Hans van der 23 Apr '16

23 Apr '16

I would like to process several input sources as one xml tree. Like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <takenotes> <include buffer="notes-example"/> <include file="notes-example.xml"/> </takenotes> with the sources having the structure <notes> <note>...</note> ... </notes> and the code for <takenotes> containing: read from all sources given on <include>-notes afterwards process all content at once Thus the content of the various source should be read into one tree to be processed, but I cannot get this done. How to amalgam this separate sources into one? Hans van der Meer

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Fwd: [dante-ev] Kooperation mit der PDF Association
by Henning Hraban Ramm 22 Apr '16

22 Apr '16

Hello ConTeXt group activists! DANTE just became a partner organization of PDF association, see message below. Wouldn’t it make sense for our group (and NTG and TUG etc.) to do the same? Best regards, Hraban > Liebe Mitglieder, > > wie auf der Mitgliederversammlung in Wuppertal angekündigt besteht ab > sofort ein Kooperation zwischen DANTE e.V. und der PDF association > (http://www.pdfa.org/pdf-assocation/?lang=de) > > Neben dem grundsätzlichen Vorteil, auch institutionell näher dran am > PDF-Standard zu sein, bedeutet die Kooperation für Mitglieder von DANTE > e.V. konkret, dass sie z.B. die PDF Days, die in diesem Jahr vom 13. bis > 15.6. in Berlin stattfinden werden > (http://www.pdfa.org/event/die-pdf-days-europe-2016-am-14-und-15-juni-in-ber…) > zum günstigen Mitgliederpreis von 249 Euro besuchen können > (Standardpreis 450 Euro). > > Weitere Vergünstigungen finden Sie unter > http://www.pdfa.org/pdf-association/member-benefits/ > > Bei Fragen zur konkreten Abwicklung helfe ich gerne weiter. > > Viele Grüße > Martin Sievers > > -- > > Vorsitzender der Deutschsprachigen Anwendervereinigung TeX e.V. (DANTE) > > DANTE ist ein eingetragener, als gemeinnützig anerkannter Verein > Registergericht: AG Mannheim VR 331659 > > Anschrift: > Postfach 10 18 40 > 69008 Heidelberg > > Telefon: +49 6221 29766 > Fax: +49 6221 167906

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