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\externalfigure produces blank page
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

Hello, let's have a simple code: ---- \starttext \startTEXpage \externalfigure[Tv32.pdf]%[scale=500] \stopTEXpage \stoptext ---- It yields a blank (or empty) page (its size A1 is OK); and the size of the resulting .pdf is very close to that of the inserted image. The inserted Tv32.pdf is displayed correctly in Adobe reader, so why it is not processed by Ctx? I'm adding link to Tv32.pdf as it has cca 235 kB: http://leteckaposta.cz/616854330 I guess it used to work in the past... Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka | mailto:LPr@pontex.cz Pontex s. r. o. | mailto:pontex@pontex.cz | http://www.pontex.cz Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 241 096 751 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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anglestriped shifts path
by John Kitzmiller 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

I expect anglestriped to work more like fill, but it shifts the path. Is it intended behavior? \startMPpage[offset=2mm] path p; p = unitsquare scaled 4cm ; filldraw p withcolor blue; draw p; draw p anglestriped(0,0,0) withcolor blue; \stopMPpage Thanks, John

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(bug?) interactive link areas and \scale
by Pablo Rodriguez 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

Dear list, [Sorry for sending many bug reports at once, but I’m not at home. I have my laptop and I’m working with it. Internet access is extremely limited here. I work offline and prepare all messages to be sent later when I can get some internet connection.] I have the following sample: \setupinteraction[state=start] \enabledirectives[references.border] \def\mypersonalurl#1{\bgroup% \tt\goto{\hyphenatedurl{#1}}[url(#1)]\egroup}% \unexpanded\def\href#1#2{\goto{#2} [url(#1)]} \starttext \mypersonalurl{wiki.contextgarden.net} \scale[width=.5\textwidth] {\mypersonalurl{wiki.contextgarden.net}} \stoptext The link area in latest beta is wrong when \scale is used (second link). Link area is fine with latest stable and beta from 2015.11.19 19:13. I don’t have all betas, but it appears in beta from 2015.12.20 00:29. Could anyone confirm the bug? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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issue with break point
by Pablo Rodriguez 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

Dear list, I have the following code: \definebreakpoint[compound][—] \setbreakpoints[compound] \starttext \hsize\zeropoint Adobe—named {\em Adobe}—named \stoptext The second line doesn’t get the em-dash as a breakpoint. It seems to be related to the grouping. I’m afraid it may be a bug. Could anyone confirm this? Many thanks, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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which is the best/right element for elements in cover and title pages?
by Pablo Rodriguez 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Dear list, I have a template to generate book cover and title page for different documents. A sample of the output may be found at https://github.com/ousia/from-pandoc-to-context/blob/master/doc/from-pandoc… (first two printed pages). Right now, their layout is hardcoded, such as for the title page (minimal version): \starttitlepagemakeup \vfill {\itd\BookTitle}\par}\blank[big] {\resetbreakpoints\itb\setupinterlinespace \BookSubtitle']}\par}\blank[3*big] {\sc \TheAuthor}{\\}} \vfill \PublishingDate \vfill \Publisher \stoptitlepagemakeup I want to be abole to customize this. But I don’t know which is the right element for those items. I mean, a head would be meaningless here for book title, subtitle, author, publisher and release date. They appear only once in the document. Which is the right element for those items? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Reprocessing part of input
by Meer, Hans van der 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

How to do the following eludes me. Inside macro -processing read into a buffer the following part of the input \startmyinput ...\stopmyinput Analogous to input containing \startbuffer[mystoragebuffer] \startmyinput ... \stopmyinput \stopbuffer but now not executed at once, but stored in and executable from a buffer with \getbuffer[mystoragebuffer]. But of course there might be a better way to execute the same code more than once within one run of TeX. Hans van der Meer

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Sanitize " in XML/XHTML documents
by Andreas Schneider 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Hi, I hope I don't just overlook some plain obvious solution, but a longer search in the Wiki and the mailing list (and the context source) didn't come up with anything too useful .... Anyway: is there any mechanism that I can use to "fix" quotations while typesetting XML documents? Pandoc produces "some text". In TeX I would usually use \quotation{some text} to have proper, language dependent quotes. I tried to intercept " using \xmltexentity{quot}{...} but apparently the internal replacement takes precedence here. Otherwise I would have tried to build some small state machine which remembers if it is currently inside a quotation of not. My next try would be to somehow intercept the XML stream (or flush) using lua and replace " ... " inline. However that all seems quite hacky. So, does ConTeXt currently offer anything I can piggyback to get quotations set properly? :-) Best regards, Andreas

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papersize A1?
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Hello, the following code doesn't produce 594 x 841 mm (A1) page; the resulting size is 594 x 758 mm. Also, there is no "Hello" text. ---- \setuppapersize[A1] \starttext Hello \stoptext ---- What's wrong? Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka | mailto:LPr@pontex.cz Pontex s. r. o. | mailto:pontex@pontex.cz | http://www.pontex.cz Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 241 096 751 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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Hyphenation list ignored
by Francisco Gracia 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

It has taken me some time to conjecture that *mwe* would probably mean *minimal working example* and somewhat more to try to concoct something that could pass for it, but here it is, in the attached file *mis-hyph.tex*. I hope not to have incurred in any gross mistake. Attached are also three other files (*exhibit-n.pdf*) which show the results of its compilation under three different circumstances. These circumstances are described at the end of each typeset text. Mishyphenated words are underlined. Inept as it is, this example has proved to me that I was mistaken in my initial supposition that the problem was related to the importing mechanism of a separate file containing the exceptions' list. The difficulty seems now to lie deeper into the hyphenation machinery itself. I would be glad if it could be of any help to solve it. Kind regards Francisco

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ConTeXt vs Beamer
by Saša Janiška 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Hello, I have just checked that my first post to this list was more than 10yrs ago (end of 2002). Then I was working on some full-sized books and ended up with LyX/LaTex. Later, had few attempts to switch to ConTeXt, but as a result I reduced even my LyX/LaTeX usage and was using light markups like rst/AsciiDoc for my writing needs without higher-quality typesetting. Yesterday I had to help my wife to put together some medicine-related presentation for the meeting at her working place and used LyX/LaTeX with Beamer class. Considering that there might be need to do such thing more often in the future as well as possibility that I might have to produce lot of presentations for my public lectures/workshops based on philosophy (iow. no need of math), I am again in the position to consider ConTeXt, but this time mostly for presentations. I'm (well) aware of ConTeXt's advantage in the sense of being complete package without clashing of different packages which usually happens in LaTeX world, I wonder if someone can give some piece of advice to learn and/or switch ConTeXt for preparing presentations instead of learning lot of LaTeX packages? How does ConTeXt compare for the purpose vs LaTeX/Beamer? I'm on Linux (running Debian Sid) and use Vim as my primary editor so wonder if ConTeXt users recommend to e.g. prepare drafts of their documents like rst/AsciiDoc/markdown and then convert them into ConTeXt with tool(s) like Pandoc? Sincerely, Gour -- Therefore, without being attached to the fruits of activities, one should act as a matter of duty, for by working without attachment one attains the Supreme.

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