[NTG-context] Re: regular online meet-up

2024-02-12 Thread Willi Egger
t; Wednesday, February 13th, 19:00 CET (UTC+1) > > at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke > (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) > > ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! > > Do you have a subject that you’d like to talk about? > (I hope I’ll manage t

[NTG-context] Re: regular online meet-up

2024-02-11 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, February 13th, 19:00 CET (UTC+1) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Do you have a subject that you’d like to talk about? (I hope I’ll manage to show

[NTG-context] regular online meet-up

2024-02-10 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, February 13th, 19:00 CET (UTC+1) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Do you have a subject that you’d like to talk about

[NTG-context] Re: How to print the book title and section title where \reference is located?

2024-02-09 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 7 Feb 2024, at 03:47, Joel via ntg-context wrote: > > I have an extensive multi-book project. Each book has a nickname, like TB for > "Textbook", "WB 1" for the "Workbook, Vol. 1": > > TB -- 01_textbook.tex > WB 1 -- 03_workbook.tex

[NTG-context] Re: \startcolumns and \startcolumnset

2024-02-09 Thread Jeong Dal via ntg-context
. It works under the command “\startcolumnset … \stopcolumnset”. But there are another problem under the ‘columnist’ command. I’ll read the manual of columnset carefully. Best regards, Dalyoung > 2024. 2. 9. 오후 1:37, Otared Kavian 작성: > > Dear Dalyoung, > >

[NTG-context] Re: \startcolumns and \startcolumnset

2024-02-08 Thread Otared Kavian
:22, Jeong Dal via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:Dear all,I have a little problem to use “columns” in the following example.If I use “\startcolumnset”, then I have the following problems: 1. The figures is aligned left even though I use \startplacefigure[]. 2. In the second column, the

[NTG-context] \startcolumns and \startcolumnset

2024-02-08 Thread Jeong Dal via ntg-context
Dear all,I have a little problem to use “columns” in the following example.If I use “\startcolumnset”, then I have the following problems: 1. The figures is aligned left even though I use \startplacefigure[]. 2. In the second column, the first item located at the end of the page.However, \vfill

[NTG-context] How to print the book title and section title where \reference is located?

2024-02-06 Thread Joel via ntg-context
I have an extensive multi-book project. Each book has a nickname, like TB for "Textbook", "WB 1" for the "Workbook, Vol. 1": TB -- 01_textbook.texWB 1 -- 03_workbook.texWB 2 -- 04_workbook.texWB 3 -- 05_workbook.tex WB 4 -- 06_workbook.tex TG -- 08_tea

[NTG-context] Re: hyphenation question

2024-02-02 Thread Hans van der Meer via ntg-context
ext > wrote: > > On 2/2/2024 1:03 PM, Hans van der Meer via ntg-context wrote: >> In the 18th century documents I am transcribing often words are abbreviated >> as for example /voorschreeve/ becoming /voors:/ In the transcription it is >> usual to write this as /voors[chre

[NTG-context] Re: hyphenation question

2024-02-02 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 2/2/2024 1:03 PM, Hans van der Meer via ntg-context wrote: In the 18th century documents I am transcribing often words are abbreviated as for example /voorschreeve/ becoming /voors:/ In the transcription it is usual to write this as /voors[chreeve]/ indicating to the reader how

[NTG-context] BUG: colour spilling in btxrendering

2024-02-01 Thread Alexandre Christe
{67533,  author={De Doncker, R.W.A.A. and Divan, D.M. and Kheraluwala, M.H.},  journal={IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications},  title={A three-phase soft-switched high-power-density DC/DC converter for high-power applications},  year={1991},  volume={27},  number={1},  pages={63-73},  keywords={DC

[NTG-context] Nested itemize lists: unexpected spacing

2024-02-01 Thread Jim
Consider the following: \starttext Text before. \startitemize[1,nowhite] \item item 1 \item item 2 \startitemize[5,nowhite] \item sub-item 1 \item sub-item 2 \stopitemize \item item 3 \stopitemize Text after. \stoptext Notwithstanding the "nowhite" options, there is a blank line

[NTG-context] Re: textbackground spacing offset

2024-01-31 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/31/2024 7:15 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 13:52:05 +0100 Marco Patzer wrote: I'm having problems getting the textbackground spacing offset to work. Example: \setupframedtext [offset=overlay, width=max, depthcorrection=off] \setuptextbackground [location

[NTG-context] Re: chronological TOC

2024-01-29 Thread jbf
And indeed this is the best solution I could find, though it obviously meant that something like '29 April 2017' was no good for sorting on... it has to be the US date format YY-MM-DD Julian On 30/1/24 06:15, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 27.01.2024 um 10:05: Am

[NTG-context] Re: Own command definition breaks with interaction: Use of \do_my_command doesn't match its definition

2024-01-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Gerion Entrup schrieb am 25.01.2024 um 09:18: Hi, I want to make a proper definition of a new command to be able to process it in Lua. I found something on StackOverflow [1] but that breaks in enumeration _and_ when interaction is enabled and I do not understand why? Can you give me some help

[NTG-context] Re: mtxrun.lua:10080: bad argument #9 to 'format'

2024-01-29 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/29/2024 12:08 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi, I changed line 10066 in mtxrun.lua to templates[i]="%-"..w.."s"..between from templates[i]=“% "..w..”i"..between and that fixed it. thanks, I also chan

[NTG-context] Re: Own command definition breaks with interaction: Use of \do_my_command doesn't match its definition

2024-01-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, You can try: > \unexpanded\def\do_my_command[#1]#2{% But there is probably a cleaner way to implement optional arguments with lua? Best wishes, Taco > On 25 Jan 2024, at 09:18, Gerion Entrup wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to make a proper definition of a new command to be

[NTG-context] Re: How to stop

2024-01-28 Thread Bruce Horrocks
configurations. > > \setupTABLE[r][1][align=raggedleft] > \setupTABLE[c][1][width=.1\textwidth] > \setupTABLE[c][2][width=.33\textwidth] > \setupTABLE[c][3][width=.37\textwidth] >

[NTG-context] Re: Section number in the margin and the section title followed by paragraph!

2024-01-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 27.01.2024 um 18:40: On 1/27/24 17:40, Ali Ali wrote: Thanks, those seems close to what I wanted but not exactly. The ASCII graphic (better in typewriter font) may explain what I desired, ``` text width

[NTG-context] Re: How to stop

2024-01-27 Thread Hraban Ramm
a document that uses ~40 different TABLE configurations, each with their own special requirements, such as these below, and in total, perhaps 2000 tables appear in a file, using one of the configurations. \setupTABLE[r][1][align=raggedleft]  \setupTABLE[c][1][width=.1\textwidth]  \setupTABLE[c

[NTG-context] How to stop

2024-01-27 Thread Joel via ntg-context
I have a document that uses ~40 different TABLE configurations, each with their own special requirements, such as these below, and in total, perhaps 2000 tables appear in a file, using one of the configurations.                        \setupTABLE[r][1][align=raggedleft

[NTG-context] Re: \framed{\externalfigure} vs \externalfigure[frame=on]

2024-01-27 Thread Jim
On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 19:12 (+0100), Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote: > On 1/27/24 17:44, Jim wrote: >> The wiki page for \setupexternalfigure says >> "Show frame around image. Most(?) options of \setupframed are usable!" Hi Pablo, > I’m afraid that this

[NTG-context] Re: \framed{\externalfigure} vs \externalfigure[frame=on]

2024-01-27 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
On 1/27/24 17:44, Jim wrote: > The wiki page for \setupexternalfigure says > "Show frame around image. Most(?) options of \setupframed are usable!" Hi Jim, I’m afraid that this is a too generous statement. https://www.pragma-ade.com/general/qrcs/setup-en.pdf#page=218

[NTG-context] Re: Section number in the margin and the section title followed by paragraph!

2024-01-27 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
On 1/27/24 17:40, Ali Ali wrote: > Thanks, those seems close to what I wanted but not exactly. > > The ASCII graphic (better in typewriter font) may explain what I desired, > ``` > text width > |<>| > > ##.

[NTG-context] \framed{\externalfigure} vs \externalfigure[frame=on]

2024-01-27 Thread Jim
ere I want it if instead I do \framed[frame=on,...]{\externalfigure...} but this leaves me wondering whether (1) I am misinterpreting the wiki pages, (2) The wiki pages are misleading/wrong, or (3) There is a bug in some code. If anyone would care to enlighten me, I would appreciate it. In

[NTG-context] Re: Section number in the margin and the section title followed by paragraph!

2024-01-27 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Ali Ali schrieb am 27.01.2024 um 06:03: I've able to achieve the results I wanted by trial/e using the code shown below. """ \def\subsecnumwrapper#1{\llap{#1\hskip8pt}} \setuphead[subsection][alternative=text,numbercommand=\subsecnumwrapper,distance=0pt] ""

[NTG-context] Section number in the margin and the section title followed by paragraph!

2024-01-26 Thread Ali Ali
I've able to achieve the results I wanted by trial/e using the code shown below. """ \def\subsecnumwrapper#1{\llap{#1\hskip8pt}} \setuphead[subsection][alternative=text,numbercommand=\subsecnumwrapper,distance=0pt] """ I just wanted to know if there alread

[NTG-context] Re: Suggestions and problems of the manuals

2024-01-26 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
y done by loading special math fonts into the math family slots. Your font set is lacking at least the parameter mentioned earlier. mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 1 - I tried to find a prebuild version and found https://mirror.contextgarden.net/general/manuals/math-mk

[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

2024-01-25 Thread Aditya Mahajan
> https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb29-1/tb91mahajan.pdf > > Aditya, > > thanks for those links. Would you mind if I added them to the "See also" > section of the \starttable wiki page (notwithstanding someone's claim at the > top of the page saying the

[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

2024-01-25 Thread Jim
it: > https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb28-3/tb90mahajan.pdf > https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb29-1/tb91mahajan.pdf Aditya, thanks for those links. Would you mind if I added them to the "See also" section of the \starttable wiki page (notwithstanding someone's claim at

[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

2024-01-25 Thread Aditya Mahajan
ne. > > Q3: Does ConTexT's \starttable ... \endtable have this feature? > If so, how does one access this feature? I haven't looked at starttable in well over a decade, but I did document some of it: https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb28-3/tb90mahajan.pdf https://www.tug.org

[NTG-context] Re: Suggestions and problems of the manuals

2024-01-25 Thread Gerion Entrup
typeset math unless various parameters have been > set. This is > normally done by loading special math fonts into the math family slots. > Your font > set is lacking at least the parameter mentioned earlier. > mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 1 >

[NTG-context] Own command definition breaks with interaction: Use of \do_my_command doesn't match its definition

2024-01-25 Thread Gerion Entrup
Hi, I want to make a proper definition of a new command to be able to process it in Lua. I found something on StackOverflow [1] but that breaks in enumeration _and_ when interaction is enabled and I do not understand why? Can you give me some help here? I want to make commands like \foo{bla

[NTG-context] Cron /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror

2024-01-24 Thread Cron Daemon
receiving incremental file list ./ ctan.lsr document-2.htm download-1.htm download-2.htm install.htm logo-ade.png logo-cts.png logo-pod.png rss.xml show-fil.pdf context/latest/ context/latest/cont-lmt.zip context/latest/cont-mpd.zip context/latest/cont-ppc.zip context/latest/cont

[NTG-context] Re: Using plain TeX commands in ConTeXt

2024-01-24 Thread Hamid,Idris
Hi Shiv, -- Original Message -- From "Shiv Shankar Dayal" mailto:shivshankar.da...@gmail.com>> To "mailing list for ConTeXt users" mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl>> Date 1/24/2024 9:44:09 AM Subject [NTG-context] Re: Using plain TeX commands in ConTeXt **

[NTG-context] Re: Caching Metafun images and VIM Syntax highlighted code

2024-01-24 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
Dear Hans, Aditya, Thanks for clarifying. In any case, I will process chapter-by-chapter, so runtime should be manageable. On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:32 PM Hans Hagen wrote: > On 1/24/2024 5:50 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Jan 2024, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: > > >

[NTG-context] Re: Caching Metafun images and VIM Syntax highlighted code

2024-01-24 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/24/2024 5:50 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2024, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: Perhaps Aditya Mahajan can tell me how can I cache code snippets. Invoking VIM will have heavy penalty on highlighting the code otherwise. Have you tried the vim module: https://github.com/adityam

[NTG-context] Re: Using plain TeX commands in ConTeXt

2024-01-24 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
on. Rephrasing the question, can > > LuaMetaTeX/ConTeXt compile > > plain TeX files. If yes, how can I do that? > > You mix up two different things here. > > 1. Plain TeX is a collection of TeX macros like ConTeXt or LaTeX. > > 2. LuaMetaTeX is a program like pdfTeX or Lu

[NTG-context] Re: Using plain TeX commands in ConTeXt

2024-01-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Shiv Shankar Dayal schrieb am 24.01.2024 um 16:37: For example: \kern, \parindent and so on. Rephrasing the question, can LuaMetaTeX/ConTeXt compile plain TeX files. If yes, how can I do that? You mix up two different things here. 1. Plain TeX is a collection of TeX macros like ConTeXt

[NTG-context] Re: Using plain TeX commands in ConTeXt

2024-01-24 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
For example: \kern, \parindent and so on. Rephrasing the question, can LuaMetaTeX/ConTeXt compile plain TeX files. If yes, how can I do that? On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 9:02 PM Hans Hagen wrote: > On 1/24/2024 2:55 PM, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: > > Dear List, > > > > Can we u

[NTG-context] Re: Using plain TeX commands in ConTeXt

2024-01-24 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/24/2024 2:55 PM, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: Dear List, Can we use plain TeX commands which are available in LuaMetaTeX in an arbitrary manner or are there any restrictions? what do you mean with arbitrary plain tex commands

[NTG-context] Re: After Compiling the Context test, there was no PDF.

2024-01-24 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/24/2024 9:55 AM, Ursula Hermann wrote: Dear List, I am sorry, but once again me: I downloaded the last upload from Hans yesterday, I downloaded context-win64, and tried the test today . you're using windows 32 so you need to use the 32 mswin installer http://lmtx.pragma-ade.nl/install

[NTG-context] Re: OpenBSD install failed

2024-01-24 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/24/2024 2:00 AM, Damien Thiriet via ntg-context wrote: Dear Hans, can you test with OpenBSD|openbsd) case "$CPU" in i*86) PLATFORM="openbsd" ;; amd64) PLAT

[NTG-context] Re: upload

2024-01-24 Thread Otared Kavian
. Best regards: Otared > On 23 Jan 2024, at 22:06, Thomas A. Schmitz > wrote: > > Hi Otared, > > I just tried, and my Macbook ran the update without any problem. Does it make > any difference if you chmod +x the script install.sh? > > All best > > Thomas >

[NTG-context] Re: After Compiling the Context test, there was no PDF.

2024-01-24 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
") rotated -45 ; > > \stopMPcode > > > > \framed{hello} > > > > \stopnotmode > > > > \stoptext > > > > After compiling in the folder: > > Is this because I am the user?

[NTG-context] Re: After Compiling the Context test, there was no PDF.

2024-01-24 Thread Ursula Hermann
e I am the user? Command Line: context.exe --synctex=-1 "context-test.tex" Startup Folder: C:\Users\Hermann\Downloads\context-win64\tex\texmf-context\tex\context\test\mkiv startup error : no format file given, quitting Uschi

[NTG-context] Re: upload

2024-01-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Otared, I just tried, and my Macbook ran the update without any problem. Does it make any difference if you chmod +x the script install.sh? All best Thomas On 1/23/24 21:59, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi Dr Hans Van der Meer, Thank you for your help. It seems that since January 18 something

[NTG-context] Re: upload

2024-01-23 Thread Otared Kavian
ot; --platform="$PLATFORM" --erase >> --extras="$LMTXEXTRAS" $@ >> >> >> Since I have a working (and backed up…) version 2024-01-18, there is no >> absolute necessity for me to update right now, but I wanted just to inform >> you about the issue I encou

[NTG-context] Re: upload

2024-01-23 Thread Otared Kavian
gt;> absolute necessity for me to update right now, but I wanted just to inform >> you about the issue I encountered. I wonder whether other MacOS users have >> had such a problem. >> >> Best regards: Otared >> >>> On 23 Jan 2024, at 10:09, Hans Hagen via ntg-

[NTG-context] Re: upload

2024-01-23 Thread Hans van der Meer via ntg-context
a working (and backed up…) version 2024-01-18, there is no > absolute necessity for me to update right now, but I wanted just to inform > you about the issue I encountered. I wonder whether other MacOS users have > had such a problem. > > Best regards: Otared > >> On 23 Jan 2

[NTG-context] Re: upload

2024-01-23 Thread Otared Kavian
, but I wanted just to inform you about the issue I encountered. I wonder whether other MacOS users have had such a problem. Best regards: Otared > On 23 Jan 2024, at 10:09, Hans Hagen via ntg-context > wrote: > > On 1/20/2024 10:32 AM, Ursula Hermann wrote: >> 32 bits Windows d

[NTG-context] Re: context version 20240118 ("Registerhaltigkeit")

2024-01-23 Thread Thomas Meyer
xht\relax}% \blank[\number\numexpr\noflines-1\relax*line]% \unvbox\nextbox    \fi}   \vbox} \let\stopPlaceAtBottom\egroup \def\startPlaceAtBottom   {\PlaceAtBottom\bgroup} \mainlanguage[de] \setupbodyfont[libertinus, 12pt] \setuppagenumbering   [location={footer,mid

[NTG-context] Cron /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror

2024-01-23 Thread Cron Daemon
receiving incremental file list ./ ctan.lsr document-2.htm download-1.htm download-2.htm install.htm logo-ade.png logo-cts.png logo-pod.png rss.xml show-fil.pdf context/latest/ context/latest/cont-lmt.zip context/latest/cont-mpd.zip context/latest/cont-ppc.zip context/latest/cont

[NTG-context] Re: upload

2024-01-23 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 1/20/2024 10:32 AM, Ursula Hermann wrote: 32 bits Windows download does not work, because 404 report. i uploaded a win32 installer (for now we only keep 32 bit win but once all users are on 64 bit ...) the current upload is as usual work in progress Hans

[NTG-context] Re: Named characters

2024-01-23 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/15/2024 7:57 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi all, not a complaint, just a question (for Hans and Wolfgang, I guess): in recent versions of lmtx, Greek named characters (constructs such as \greekdasiatonos) don't work any more. Which means I have to adapt some of my older macros

[NTG-context] Re: OpenBSD install failed

2024-01-22 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/23/2024 12:34 AM, Damien Thiriet via ntg-context wrote: Hello, I tried to install OpenBSD 7.4 binaries but failed. What I did: download the zip from pragma unpack it in /usr/local/context chmod 744 install.sh ./install.sh After running it, there is no file in /usr/local/context/tex/texmf

[NTG-context] Re: context version 20240118 ("Registerhaltigkeit")

2024-01-22 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
lax}% \dontleavehmode\blank[\number\numexpr\noflines-2\relax*line]% \unvbox\nextbox \else \getnoflines{\dimexpr\scratchdimen-\nextboxht\relax}% \blank[\number\numexpr\noflines-1\relax*line]% \unvbox\nextbox \fi} \vbox} \let\stopPlaceAtBottom\egroup \

[NTG-context] Re: After Compiling the Context test, there was no PDF.

2024-01-22 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
t; Command Line: > C:\Users\Hermann\Downloads\context-win64\text\texmf-win64\bin\context.exe > --synctex=-1 "context-test.tex" > > Startup Folder: > C:\Users\Hermann\Downloads\context-win64\tex\texmf-context\tex\context\test\mkiv > > > > > > Error Launchin

[NTG-context] Re: After Compiling the Context test, there was no PDF.

2024-01-22 Thread Ursula Hermann
System at work. After trying to compile the test at work, I got in the Folder: Command Line: C:\Users\Hermann\Downloads\context-win64\text\texmf-win64\bin\context.exe --synctex=-1 "context-test.tex" Startup Folder: C:\Users\Hermann\Downloads\context-win64\tex\texmf-context\tex\co

[NTG-context] Re: After Compiling the Context test, there was no PDF.

2024-01-22 Thread Ursula Hermann
, and have Windows 32 System at work. After trying to compile the test at work, I got in the Folder: Command Line: C:\Users\Hermann\Downloads\context-win64\text\texmf-win64\bin\context.exe --synctex=-1 "context-test.tex" Startup Folder: C:\Users\Hermann\Downloads\context-win64

[NTG-context] Re: context version 20240118 ("Registerhaltigkeit")

2024-01-22 Thread Thomas Meyer
Context! Greetings Thomas Am 22.01.24 um 10:56 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: On 1/22/2024 10:47 AM, Thomas Meyer wrote: Hi Hans, maybe you understand the question mark now, you are part of it. Unfortunately, I haven't received a reply to my last e-mail from January 18. No I don't. Are you

[NTG-context] Re: context version 20240118 ("Registerhaltigkeit")

2024-01-22 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 1/22/2024 10:47 AM, Thomas Meyer wrote: Hi Hans, maybe you understand the question mark now, you are part of it. Unfortunately, I haven't received a reply to my last e-mail from January 18. No I don't. Are you sayign that you want an instant reply every time? I assume you realize

[NTG-context] Re: context version 20240118 ("Registerhaltigkeit")

2024-01-22 Thread Thomas Meyer
hrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: On 1/18/2024 12:59 PM, Thomas Meyer wrote: What is going on? Yesterday I got a perfect on-grid-written document! But today, with the newest context-version (20240118) all changed for the worse. as follow up on the keyword thread we decided to treat bad v

[NTG-context] Re: upload

2024-01-21 Thread Alain Delmotte
Hi Hans, Le 20-01-24 à 09:38, Hans Hagen via ntg-context a écrit : On 1/19/2024 6:34 PM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote: On 1/18/24 20:43, Denis Maier via ntg-context wrote: *Von:*Alain Delmotte *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 18. Januar 2024 20:04 *An:* ntg-context@ntg.nl *Betreff:* [NTG

[NTG-context] Re: cont-new.mkiv and \everymathematics

2024-01-21 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 1/20/2024 7:49 PM, Rogers, Michael K wrote: Hi all, In writing class notes, I frequently make one-letter macros for formatted symbols, such \v and \w for vectors. Generally speaking, one-letter names for function/macros/variables is frowned upon in programming, but I find this localized

[NTG-context] cont-new.mkiv and \everymathematics

2024-01-20 Thread Rogers, Michael K
: 1. Is there a better way than adding the definition to \everymathematics? 2. I don’t think these definitions should be in ConTeXt. Let users add them if they wish. Or add a ‘useshortcuts’ option to \setupmathematics. 3. \t and \w are undocumented, \mathword is undocumented, and it took me

[NTG-context] Re: upload

2024-01-20 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
On 1/20/24 09:38, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > On 1/19/2024 6:34 PM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote: >> [...] >> I get a 404 error for both https://www.pragma-ade.nl/install.htm and >> https://www.pragma-ade.com/install.htm. >> [...] > can you try again?

[NTG-context] Re: upload

2024-01-20 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/20/2024 10:32 AM, Ursula Hermann wrote: 32 bits Windows download does not work, because 404 report. 32 bit windows has been dropped for now, i could generate native win32 bins but they are less performing that mingw crosscompiled but all this is more manual work than using the garden

[NTG-context] Cron /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror

2024-01-20 Thread Cron Daemon
receiving incremental file list ./ ctan.lsr download-1.htm install.htm logo-ade.png logo-cts.png logo-pod.png rss.xml sent 1,300 bytes received 125,566 bytes 84,577.33 bytes/sec total size is 578,761,180 speedup is 4,561.99

[NTG-context] Re: upload

2024-01-20 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 1/19/2024 6:34 PM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote: On 1/18/24 20:43, Denis Maier via ntg-context wrote: *Von:*Alain Delmotte *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 18. Januar 2024 20:04 *An:* ntg-context@ntg.nl *Betreff:* [NTG-context] Re: upload [...] When I go to https://www.pragma-ade.nl, I get

[NTG-context] Re: upload

2024-01-19 Thread Alain Delmotte
On 19 Jan 2024, at 18:34, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote: On 1/18/24 20:43, Denis Maier via ntg-context wrote: *Von:*Alain Delmotte *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 18. Januar 2024 20:04 *An:* ntg-context@ntg.nl *Betreff:* [NTG-context] Re: upload [...] When I go to https://www.pragma-ade.nl

[NTG-context] Re: upload

2024-01-19 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Pablo, Indeed the two URL you mention result t a 404 error. I guess the correct URL is https://www.pragma-ade.nl <https://www.pragma-ade.nl/> and there one may go to the appropriate tab. Best regards: Otared > On 19 Jan 2024, at 18:34, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context > wrot

[NTG-context] Re: upload

2024-01-19 Thread Denis Maier via ntg-context
  Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> hat am 19.01.2024 18:34 CET geschrieben:     On 1/18/24 20:43, Denis Maier via ntg-context wrote: >> *Von:*Alain Delmotte <alain.delmo..

[NTG-context] Re: Why LuaMetaTex is so slow?

2024-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/19/2024 7:13 PM, Bruce Horrocks wrote: On 19 Jan 2024, at 09:31, Hans Hagen wrote: On 1/18/2024 11:15 PM, Bruce Horrocks wrote: On 18 Jan 2024, at 18:56, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: I understand that why it is slow, but the problem is that the difference is too high. My book has

[NTG-context] Re: Why LuaMetaTex is so slow?

2024-01-19 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 19 Jan 2024, at 09:31, Hans Hagen wrote: > > On 1/18/2024 11:15 PM, Bruce Horrocks wrote: >> On 18 Jan 2024, at 18:56, Shiv Shankar Dayal >> wrote: >>> >>> I understand that why it is slow, but the problem is that the difference is >>

[NTG-context] Re: upload

2024-01-19 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
On 1/18/24 20:43, Denis Maier via ntg-context wrote: >> *Von:*Alain Delmotte >> *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 18. Januar 2024 20:04 >> *An:* ntg-context@ntg.nl >> *Betreff:* [NTG-context] Re: upload >> [...] >> When I go to https://www.pragma-ade.nl, I get an

[NTG-context] Re: Why LuaMetaTex is so slow?

2024-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/19/2024 11:00 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 19.01.24 um 10:31 schrieb Hans Hagen: (that said: luametatex runs fine on my mobile phone) What’s the smallest/oldest device someone tried LMTX on? (We were joking about “Hans’ thermostate and Alan’s fridge“…) Would it run on some 8 bit

[NTG-context] Re: Why LuaMetaTex is so slow?

2024-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/18/2024 11:15 PM, Bruce Horrocks wrote: On 18 Jan 2024, at 18:56, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: I understand that why it is slow, but the problem is that the difference is too high. My book has lots of math, so perhaps that is the reason. Option 1: Buy or borrow a faster computer

[NTG-context] Re: LuaMetaTeX code

2024-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/19/2024 9:31 AM, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: I see code like # define luametatex_version          210 # define luametatex_revision         10 # define luametatex_release          10 # define luametatex_version_string   "2.10.10" starting with C99 these become unnecessary. Rather t

[NTG-context] Re: LuaMetaTeX code

2024-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/19/2024 9:26 AM, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: Dear Hans, I saw the C code of LuaMetaTeX and I saw a lot of gotos which is not good coding practice. These potions of code which have goto should be refactored. I am a C programmer, but I know very little of TeX. If you can point me towards

[NTG-context] Re: Why LuaMetaTex is so slow?

2024-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/19/2024 1:33 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: \starttext \dorecurse{5000}{\ReadFile{knuth}} \stoptext I'll send you the PDFs offlist. lmtx defaults to 'modern' so you need to \setupbodyfont[modern] for mkiv Hans

[NTG-context] Re: LuaMetaTeX code

2024-01-19 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
t; # define luametatex_release 10 > > # define luametatex_version_string "2.10.10" > > > > starting with C99 these become unnecessary. Rather they should be like > const int luametatex_version=210; const char* > luametatex_version_string="2.10.10&q

[NTG-context] Re: LuaMetaTeX code

2024-01-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
rsion_string="2.10.10"; > > These ensure type-safety in the code and are good coding practice. > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 1:56 PM Shiv Shankar Dayal > wrote: > Dear Hans, > > I saw the C code of LuaMetaTeX and I saw a lot of gotos which is not good > coding

[NTG-context] Re: LuaMetaTeX code

2024-01-19 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
210; const char* luametatex_version_string="2.10.10"; These ensure type-safety in the code and are good coding practice. On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 1:56 PM Shiv Shankar Dayal < shivshankar.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Hans, > > I saw the C code of LuaMetaTeX and I saw a lot

[NTG-context] Re: Why LuaMetaTex is so slow?

2024-01-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 19 Jan 2024, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > On 1/19/2024 12:34 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Jan 2024, Hans Hagen wrote: > > > >> Of course we'll never be as fast as (pure) plain tex (no layers added) or > >> latex (which often is

[NTG-context] Re: Why LuaMetaTex is so slow?

2024-01-18 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 1/19/2024 12:34 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 18 Jan 2024, Hans Hagen wrote: Of course we'll never be as fast as (pure) plain tex (no layers added) or latex (which often is advocated as faster than context). I was curious, so did a quick experiment: typeset \input knuth 500 times

[NTG-context] Re: Why LuaMetaTex is so slow?

2024-01-18 Thread Bruce Horrocks
On 18 Jan 2024, at 18:56, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: > > I understand that why it is slow, but the problem is that the difference is > too high. > My book has lots of math, so perhaps that is the reason. Option 1: Buy or borrow a faster computer. You'll get your desired speed-up

[NTG-context] Re: Why LuaMetaTex is so slow?

2024-01-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/18/2024 7:56 PM, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: In comparison to LaTeX with LuaHBTeX, ConTeXt with LuaMetaTeX is lightning fast. pdfTeX is 8bit, and Knuth’s plain TeX is very low level – for a fairer comparison, try the TeXbook on LuaMetaTeX (I don’t know if “plain” works

[NTG-context] Re: Why LuaMetaTex is so slow?

2024-01-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 18.01.24 um 18:47 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context: On 1/18/24 18:24, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: I can process TeXBook in almost an instant using PDFTeX which is about 450+ pages but my math book takes around 30 seconds averaging ~40 pages/second. Hi Shiv Shankar Dayal, I guess

[NTG-context] Re: Why LuaMetaTex is so slow?

2024-01-18 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
On 1/18/24 18:24, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: > I can process TeXBook in almost an instant using PDFTeX which is about > 450+ pages but my math book takes around 30 seconds averaging ~40 > pages/second. Hi Shiv Shankar Dayal, I guess that “The TeXbook” (having been written by Knuth him

[NTG-context] scaling tweaked fonts

2024-01-18 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
, no scaling was 1000, after that one no scaling became 1. This should be the reason behind my previous issue about too large sizes in the first latest from 2024 (https://mailman.ntg.nl/archives/list/ntg-context@ntg.nl/thread/JVB7AWJE53NW4AAE3ODUQN6GB34IBO5X/). I just want to confirm that this change

[NTG-context] Re: upload

2024-01-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/18/2024 3:27 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: Dear Dalyoung, dear Mikael, I installed anew the whole LMTX tree and now everything is working fine. I don’t know whether this is related or not, somehow in my previous tree I had a directory (or folder in the MacOS language) named « texmf-osx-64

[NTG-context] How to Create Asymmetrical Continuous Columns in ConTeXt?

2024-01-18 Thread seyal . zavira
text across several pages without manually breaking it, and in columns, I haven't found a way to implement asymmetric columns. How can I achieve this layout in ConTeXt? this is a MWE but it does not work properly: \definecolumnset[mymixedcolumn][n=2] \setupcolumnset[mymixedcolumn:1][width=4cm

[NTG-context] Re: Fwd: Re: x mark symbol and general symbol guide

2024-01-18 Thread Gerion Entrup
Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2024, 15:56:32 CET schrieb Gerion Entrup: > Am Dienstag, 9. Januar 2024, 21:17:57 CET schrieb Hans Hagen: > > On 1/9/2024 8:31 PM, Gerion Entrup wrote: > > > > > My system awesome font is version 6 but isn't the one bundled with > > > C

[NTG-context] Re: context version 20240118

2024-01-18 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 1/18/2024 12:59 PM, Thomas Meyer wrote: What is going on? Yesterday I got a perfect on-grid-written document! But today, with the newest context-version (20240118) all changed for the worse. as follow up on the keyword thread we decided to treat bad values to equivalent to 'no' I may

[NTG-context] Re: [ \copypages ]

2024-01-18 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 1/17/2024 10:20 PM, vm via ntg-context wrote: Is there a (hidden) option that allows for changing the font color of external included pdfs yes but experimental and not yet documented Hans

[NTG-context] Re: How to obtain older versions of LMTX?

2024-01-17 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Hans, Many thanks for your attention ! I just saw that you uploaded a new version, which fixes the issue. I am speechless to thank you… Best regards: Otared > On 17 Jan 2024, at 23:47, Hans Hagen wrote: > > On 1/17/2024 11:13 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: >> Hi Gavin, >>

[NTG-context] Cron /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror

2024-01-17 Thread Cron Daemon
receiving incremental file list ./ ctan.lsr document-2.htm download-1.htm download-2.htm logo-ade.png logo-cts.png logo-pod.png rss.xml show-fil.pdf context/latest/ context/latest/cont-lmt.zip context/latest/cont-mpd.zip context/latest/cont-ppc.zip context/latest/cont-sci.zip

[NTG-context] Re: How to obtain older versions of LMTX?

2024-01-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/17/2024 11:13 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi Gavin, Thanks for your reply. Does TeX Live contain LuaMetaTeX (LMTX)? That is because I need LMTX to typeset a presentation for which most of the content is ready, but using features from LMTX… You can try to fetch https://github.com

[NTG-context] Suggestions and problems of the manuals

2024-01-17 Thread Gerion Entrup
tem > ConTeXt ver: 2024.01.08 11:23 LMTX fmt: 2024.1.16 int: english/english system > system > 'cont-new.mkxl' loaded open source > level 1, order 1, name '/home/gerion/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/cont-new.mkxl'

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