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ConTeXt mkiv and rsfs fonts
by Otared Kavian 22 May '14

22 May '14

Hi all, It seems that the rsfs fonts (Ralph Smith’s Formal Script fonts) do not work: the procedure explained at the page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/rsfs works fine with mkii, but not in mkiv. Is it possible to use the capabilities of simplefonts, which are now included in mkiv, to use this script font in place of the usual \cal when using LM fonts (or even Palatino)? Thanks in advance for any insight. Best regards: OK

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\setnumber
by Werner Hintze 22 May '14

22 May '14

I don’t unterstand \startfrontmatter, \starbodymatter etc. I thought, the frontmatter has roman numerals, the bodymatter normal and so on. This is not automatically so. Now founf how to make this, bus the problem is: I can’t reset the page number. I believed, it shoul work like this: \startfrontmatter \setupuserpagenumber[numberconversion=Romannumerals] % some stuff \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \setupuserpagenumber[numberconversion=numbers] \setnumber[page]{1} %some stuff \stopbodymatter This doesn’t work, may be because \setnumber is not a command in ConTeXt? Where is my error?

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MathML in ConTeXt conforming to MathML3?
by Meer, H. van der 21 May '14

21 May '14

Does the MathML in ConText conforms to the MathML3 specification? (see http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML3/chapter5.html) I find that with \usemodule[mathml] (1) <semantics><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">TeX-code</annotation></semantics> does not typesets, but (2) <semantics><annotation encoding="tex">TeX-code</annotation></semantics> does. As I understand from the specification, (1) should have been correct, but does not processes the TeX and the attribute "application/x-tex" seems not to be recognized. Does ConTeXt-MathML deviates in this respect from the current standard? Or do I miss some important fact? Hans van der Meer

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Metapost and Metafun
by Fabrice Couvreur 21 May '14

21 May '14

Hi, As PSTricks (which I prefer) is not yet well integrated, I decided to learn Metapost starting with a simple code. \starttext \startMPcode numeric xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax; xmin := -2.5; xmax := 2.5; ymax :=2.5 ;ymin:=-2.5; u := 2cm; vardef f(expr x) = -x*x+1 enddef; xinc := 0.001; path pts_f; pts_f := (xmin,f(xmin))*u for x=xmin+xinc step xinc until xmax+xinc: .. (x,f(x))*u endfor; path axe_x,axe_y; path screen; screen=(xmin,ymin)*u--(xmax,ymin)*u--(xmax,ymax)*u--(xmin,ymax)*u--cycle; axe_x = (xmin,0)*u -- (xmax,0)*u; axe_y = (0,ymin)*u -- (0,ymax)*u; drawarrow axe_x; drawarrow axe_y; draw pts_f withpen pencircle scaled 1; clip currentpicture to screen; \stopMPcode \stoptext Are there any routines with Metafun to improve this code? thank you, Fabrice

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Setting the style and conversion of the reference numbers for the \in command
by Maggyero 21 May '14

21 May '14

I would like to change the style and conversion of reference numbers for the \in{myprefix}{mysuffix}[mylabel] command. Is there a \setupreference[numberstyle=, numberconversion=] command to do that?

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stretching/expanding Greek characters
by Alan Bowen 21 May '14

21 May '14

I am trying to typeset some compendia found in a medieval Greek manuscript and would like to stretch or expand several characters in my font. So far, I have mostly found information about stretching the inter-word spacing (tracking). There is, however, discussion in a few places of what I want in Arabic but I am at a loss to see how I might adapt this to Greek. If this is even possible, I would be grateful for any suggestions or pointers. My Greek font, defined as a fallback, is IFAO Grec Unicode (regular only). Alan

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Blindtext
by Werner Hintze 21 May '14

21 May '14

And just another strange question: Is there any command like \blindtext (or \blinddocument) in LaTeX? I just try to figure out how Kontext works, and so it would ne fine to have some texte every time available. (I can put some text from everywhere, but the blindtext package is much more comfortable.) Thank you!

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Fwd: Oldstyle numbers
by Werner Hintze 21 May '14

21 May '14

I’m new to ConText and so my question may be a stupid one. But I hope somebody can help me: How can I activate »old style numbers« (Medievalziffern). I thought, it should work like this: \setupbodyfont[palatino, 10pt] \definefontfeature [default] [default] [onum=yes] But this doesn’t work. What do I have to do? Many thanks for your help!

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SimpleFonts
by hwitloc＠gmail.com 20 May '14

20 May '14

I just installed the "standalone" context and tried to typeset a document which uses "simplefonts" but the resolver indicates that simplefonts is not found. This isn't surprising, but I need to learn how to install simplefonts to use with the standalone. Use adding " --modules all" as an option to first-setup.sh do this? Any advice is appreciated.

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larger dot for \dot ?
by Sanjoy Mahajan 20 May '14

20 May '14

My students complain that the dot in, for example, $\dot M$ is too small and that they easily miss it. So I have been trying to make a bigger one, but haven't found a solution that plays nicely with the surrounding math. For example, \def\mydot{\overset{\externalfigure[dot.pdf]}} %bigger than usual one \def\Vdot{\mydot V} \starttext $\rho\Vdot\omega$ % loose spacing $\rho V\omega$ % tighter spacing \stoptext where dot.pdf is a circle of radius 0.8bp (attached). But the \Vdot gets wrapped in an hbox (inside \overset), so the surrounding space is too large. I also tried a metafun approach \startuniqueMPgraphic{math:mydot} fill unitcircle scaled 2 shifted (OverlayWidth/2-1,OverlayHeight+OverlayOffset); path q; q:= unitsquare xscaled OverlayWidth yscaled (OverlayHeight+OverlayOffset+1); setbounds currentpicture to q; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \definemathornament [mathmydot] [mp=math:mydot] \starttext $\rho\mathmydot{V}\omega$ $\rho V\omega$ $\rho\mathmydot{V}_0^2\omega$ $\rho\dot{V}_0^2\omega$ \stoptext The $\rho\mathmydot{V}\omega$ looks good. But the subscripted _0 is not tucked under the V, because the bounds of the character are now a rectangle that doesn't know about its shape. I think for a similar reason the superscripted 2 is quite high. Is there more math-friendly (and elegant) way to get a fatter dot? -Sanjoy

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