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question about unwanted locations of pagebreaks
by Rob Heusdens 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

The very last thing to do when finalizing a multi-page document is checking where the page breaks occur, and make corrections accordingly, if the pagebreak occurs at a location you do not want. Of course, you can take all kind of measures on before hand to avoid 'bad' places, like avoiding pagebreaks directly after a new section and before any of the body text, etc. But the degrees of freedom for context to handle this and to avoid (typographically) 'bad' pagebreak locations are I suppose limited. Is there a way (already implemented) in Context in which one can add some degrees of freedom to avoid bad pagebreak locations. For instance with elements that can vertically stretch (between some minimum and maximum value) and can be placed optionally (and which could for instance include a fancy decoration, like fancybreak module provides)? (I guess this is also the way in which typesetters in the past dealt with this problem). Greetings, Rob

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Bug with complex contextual opentype feature
by Georg Duffner 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

Hello All, I’ve recently been experimenting with contextual features in EB Garamond and LuaTeX’s output is puzzling. As a showcase, I tried to implement the famous TeX logos with opentype. This is realized in a feature "xtex" with GSUB and GPOS lookup tables for substituting some glyphs and for positioning them horizontally and vertically: ##### OT feature code for TeX logos lookup xtex_sub1 { sub X e' T e X by e.xtex2; # e.xtex2 is a reversed copy of E sub X e' L a T e X by e.xtex2; sub L a' T e X by a.sc; sub T e' X by e.xtex1; # e.xtex1 is a copy of E sub L a.sc T e.xtex1 X [two two.lnum two.taboldstyle two.tablining] e' by e.xtex3; # e.xtex3 is a copy of epsilon } xtex_sub1; lookup xtex_pos1 { pos X e.xtex2' <-130 -180 -320 0> T; pos X e.xtex2' <-130 -180 -200 0> L; pos X [two two.lnum two.taboldstyle two.tablining] e.xtex3' <0 -180 0 0>; pos L a.sc' <-330 210 -490 0> T e.xtex1 X; pos T e.xtex1' <-180 -180 -280 0> X; }xtex_pos1; feature xtex { lookup xtex_sub1; lookup xtex_pos1; } xtex; ##### LuaTeX only processes the sequence "XeTeX" where it substitutes the first "e" by e.xtex1 instead of e.xtex2. Then it positions it with respect to "X" but not to "T". All the other parts of the lookups are ignored as well. The font file can be downloaded from http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/fonts/EBGaramond12-Regular.otf. The expected output can be seen at the bottom of this page: http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/design.html with Firefox and Chrome/Chromium and in the attached screenshot (from SortsmillEditor). Like the browsers, XeLaTeX’s output is correct. My LuaTeX and ConTeXt versions are: This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.79.1 (TeX Live 2014/dev) (rev 4972) ConTeXt ver: 2014.07.17 13:24 MKIV beta fmt: 2014.7.17 int: english/english %%%%% ConTeXt test \definefontfeature[xtex] [default][xtex=yes] \definefontsynonym[ebg] [file:EBGaramond12-Regular.otf] \def\sample{XeTeX LuaLaTeX XeLaTeX TeX LaTeX2e} \definefontfeature [experiment] [default] [xtex=yes] \usemodule[fnt-20] \usemodule[art-01] \setupbodyfont[dejavu] \starttext \startTEXpage \hbox{{\definedfont[ebg*default at 12pt]\sample} {\definedfont[ebg*default at 12pt]\sample}}\par \hbox{{\definedfont[ebg*xtex at 12pt]\sample} {\definedfont[ebg*default at 12pt]\feature[+][xtex]\sample}}\par \stopTEXpage \def\sample{XeTeX LuaLaTeX XeLaTeX TeX LaTeX2e} \setvariables [otftracker] [font=file:EBGaramond12-Regular.otf, size=24pt, features=experiment, title=Feature Check, sample=\sample] \stoptext %%%%% Best regards, Georg

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\head: broken?
by Rob Heusdens 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

Hello All, Still having problem with \head in \setupitemize. - When I set the headstyle in \setupitemize, the numbering disappears and the symbol appear (like when I used '1' instead of 'n'). (ex. 1: MNWE) - If I comment the headstyle out, numbers do appear. (ex. 2: MWE). Why is that? Greetings, Rob MWE: <<< \startitemize[n,packed,]%headstyle=bold] \head End notes at end of each part. In the original text and first \CONTEXT\ version this was done without the footnote mechanism. This is now being tranformed to the footnote mechanism, which provides clicable, interactive links to notes. \head Bibliography. The full list of referenced literature (Bibliography) is transformed into the Bib\TEX\ format used by \CONTEXT.\textnote{Notes often refer to Bibliography entries. Currently these references are set as endnote, but the Bib\TEX\ mechanism (cite reference) could be used instead. This would show the Bib\TEX{}-key linked to the Bibliography.} \head Index. All items (often used terms, names of persons) are indexed. \head Emphasis. Where used in the {\sc html} version, {\em emphasis} is set in the \CONTEXT\ version. In addition: titles (of books, etc.) are {\em emphasized}. \head List of contents per part & per chapter. At the beginning of each part a list of chapters and in the beginning of each chapter a list of sections using the standard list mechanism of \CONTEXT\ (clickable, interactive links as used in the master contents, instead of normal text). \stopitemize >>> MNWE: <<< \startitemize[n,packed,headstyle=bold] \head End notes at end of each part. In the original text and first \CONTEXT\ version this was done without the footnote mechanism. This is now being tranformed to the footnote mechanism, which provides clicable, interactive links to notes. \head Bibliography. The full list of referenced literature (Bibliography) is transformed into the Bib\TEX\ format used by \CONTEXT.\textnote{Notes often refer to Bibliography entries. Currently these references are set as endnote, but the Bib\TEX\ mechanism (cite reference) could be used instead. This would show the Bib\TEX{}-key linked to the Bibliography.} \head Index. All items (often used terms, names of persons) are indexed. \head Emphasis. Where used in the {\sc html} version, {\em emphasis} is set in the \CONTEXT\ version. In addition: titles (of books, etc.) are {\em emphasized}. \head List of contents per part & per chapter. At the beginning of each part a list of chapters and in the beginning of each chapter a list of sections using the standard list mechanism of \CONTEXT\ (clickable, interactive links as used in the master contents, instead of normal text). \stopitemize >>>

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macros names
by Herbert Voss 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

There are \fillinline \fillinrules but \setupfillinlines \setupfillinrules Is it intended?? Herbert

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interaction (mailto) query
by Alan Bowen 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

To open a new email message in the user’s email client, I have \useURL [xxx] [mailto:xxx@yyy.org] [] [{xxx}] \setupinteraction[state=start,color=blue] \starttext send email to \from[xxx] \stoptext This sets the address to which the message is to be sent. Is there a way to set the subject of this message as well? Alan

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Bibliography: criterium=all
by Flavien Lambert 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

Hi everyone, I really have difficulties with the bibliograpy system. Sorry about that. I would like to print the whole bibliography so I followed mkiv-publications.pdf and ended up with the file: \usebtxdataset[example][./mkiv-publications.bib] \definebtxrendering [example] [dataset=example, method=local, alternative=apa] \starttext \showbtxdatasetfields[example] \placebtxrendering [example] [criterium=all] \stoptext I get the list but not the bibliography itself. What is wrong with my file? Is there also a way to sort the entries by date? Best, F.

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Height fitting with row spanning in a table
by Maggyero 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

I have finally found a not perfect solution: setting manually the height of the bar cell shrinks the foo cell (setting height=fit for the foo cell does not work). \starttext \startTABLE \NC foo \NC[nr=2] \input knuth \NC \NR \NC[height=28ex] bar \NC \NR \stopTABLE \stoptext I have chosen 28ex for the height since linespace in ConTeXt equals to 2.8ex and I need the height of 10 lines in this example to fit the knuth paragraph (if I could find a way to get automatically the number of lines required to fit the knuth paragraph it would be better).

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Which Image quality should I use ?
by Pol Stra 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

Hello everyone, this is a question a little out of topic, but I think there are here people used to this concerns who can give me an answer. I have several images I want to put in my document: $-> mediainfo "mypicture.png" General Complete name : mypicture.png Format : PNG Format/Info : Portable Network Graphic File size : 5.19 MiB Image Format : PNG Format/Info : Portable Network Graphic Width : 1 600 pixels Height : 1 600 pixels Bit depth : 32 bits Compression mode : Lossless Stream size : 5.19 MiB (100%) Of course, this makes a huge pdf (I put the source in a zip file attached to the pdf so data are replicated). I wonder, what can I do to reduce the size of those files while keeping a printable quality document? I think I should do something like: `convert -density 300 input.png -resize AAAxBBB output.png` but I don't know if it’s the good way to do it or which resolution is appropriate. Best regards,

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Styling References
by Malte Stien 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

Hi, I need to style my references to SOME section/subsection/subsubsection differently. Here is an example: \starttext There are lots of animals such as \about[ducks] and \about[bears]. More about this can be found in Chapter~\about[introduction]. \chapter[introduction]{Introduction} \section[ducks]{Ducks} Some information about ducks... \section[bears]{Bears} Some information about baers... \stoptext I am happy for the reference to the Introduction chapter to be in regular type with quotes, but I would like to render the references to Ducks and Baers in italics without the quotes. Note, that I do not require for ConTeXt to pick one or the other style automatically based on the section (that would be pretty complicated, I suppose). I am happy to ‘hint’ it when I make the reference. So, for example, I am happy to replace the first like with There are lots of animals such as \animalabout[ducks] and \animalabout[bears]. ...but so far I have been unsuccessful in creating such a \animalabout command. I looked at \definereferenceformat which gets rid of the quotes, but I can’t make it go italics. I also looked at \setupreferencing, but that seems to affect ALL \abouts. Any clues? Thank you, Malte. -- “The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.” ― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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Bibliography issue (using \cite) and endnote typesetting
by Rob Heusdens 14 Jul '14

14 Jul '14

Hello all, I am working on a document (source=HTML) which has as an appendix a complete Bibliography (which I did with BibTex, and works fine), but it also has endnotes (after every \part) which (most often) reference the Bibliography. I did this now as simple endnotes and using the literal text of the notes, since sometimes they do not refer to anything in the Bibliography, therefore I would need to keep them as endnotes and not as cite reference. But for entries that do, my question is: - How to setup \cite so that it displays the fields I want (author, title, address) in the style I want (title=italics). - How to give extra information (like the page reference). And how are notes with "Ibid." (referring to a same cite as a previous footnote) dealt with, is there any mechanism that does that (probably not)? Related to this I have also the following problem with endnotes. I managed to get the notes in the text and where the endnotes are places converted to diplay: [1] (instead of a superscript without the brackets). But how can I configure it to have the same amount of identation for every endnote text. The indentation is now different for notes starting with [10], etc., and the footnote text lines are only indented the first line, following lines starting non-indented. The overall effect I want is that the endnote + endnote text look like being typeset as a tabulation. How can one do that? Many thanks. Rob.

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