[NTG-context] Re: Working with layer sets with Metapost

2024-02-15 Thread Emanuel Han via ntg-context
Dear Mikael, I actually need to keep the \dorecurse mechanism of the mwe (from line 44 on), because I need the "setbounds currentpicture to TheFrame" and also because I need page numbering inside the MPpage, as done with draw textext(decimal(currentime)). So, how can I use the

[NTG-context] Re: Working with layer sets with Metapost

2024-02-15 Thread Emanuel Han via ntg-context
Dear Mikael, thanks a lot! this seems to be the solution! And it looks beatiful enough to me  I'll try to port all my layers to this new method and see if I run into new problems again  Emanuel On Feb. 15 2024, at 8:19 am, Mikael Sundqvist wrote: > Hi > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 1:03 AM

[NTG-context] Re: XML processing, unwanted indentation/alignment

2024-02-15 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Michael Guravage schrieb am 15.02.2024 um 21:28: Greetings, I'm typesetting an address book whose addresses are in XML. A typical entry has this structure:                 email="" mobile="" />                   initials and birthday are required, first_name can be left

[NTG-context] XML processing, unwanted indentation/alignment

2024-02-15 Thread Michael Guravage
Greetings, I'm typesetting an address book whose addresses are in XML. A typical entry has this structure: initials and birthday are required, first_name can be left blank and email, mobile and maiden_name are optional. I've written a macro (name) to

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-15 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Don’t forget the articles from the context journal: https://articles.contextgarden.net/ (2022 is still missing) Esp. Taco’s about MetaPost are very interesting and maybe that’s some low level stuff you’re missing. You don’t need to look at Hans’ contributions – everything that’s still valid

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-15 Thread Hans Hagen
On 2/15/2024 8:25 PM, Tommaso Gordini wrote: Thanks everyone for the suggestions on the manuals. I knew the resource reported by Alain and, of course, that of Joaquín, whose translation into Italian I have completed, but not yet refined. However, I didn't know the file reported by Mikael,

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-15 Thread Tommaso Gordini
Thanks everyone for the suggestions on the manuals. I knew the resource reported by Alain and, of course, that of Joaquín, whose translation into Italian I have completed, but not yet refined. However, I didn't know the file reported by Mikael, which I found to be an excellent tutorial to get

[NTG-context] /AFRelationship for attachments

2024-02-15 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
Dear list, the new lpdf-wid.lmt contains in lines 302 and 377: local relation = specification.relation or "Unspecified" AFRelationship = pdfconstant(relation), The following sample compiled with current latest: \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext

[NTG-context] Re: manuals

2024-02-15 Thread Alain Delmotte
One could also have a look at https://www.lesfichesabebert.fr/TeX/TeX.html It is website introducing Context in French. The author was using LaTeX, but he switched to Context for his work maintaining a regular publication. Note: the site is now under reworking, but it is very interesting.

[NTG-context] Installation of linux-32bits

2024-02-15 Thread Alain Delmotte
Hi! I tried to install the linux 32 bits kindly provided by Hans. It went all right up to: mtxrun -generate First I had to change my PATH putting the path to lmtx before TeXlive, because it was always the files from TeXlive which were used. Then I got:

[NTG-context] Re: Seeindex with zie instead of see?

2024-02-15 Thread Gerard Verhaag via ntg-context
Hi Hraban, Thanks for your suggestion! I indeed hadn't included the \mainlangauge[nl] command, I only had the \language[nl] command incorporated. So I missed that; but now it works! Gerard ___ If your question is of

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-15 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 15 Feb 2024, Mikael Sundqvist wrote: > Hi, > > This small example from BachoTeX 2023 could perhaps be useful for > someone: https://github.com/mpsmath/stepbystep For tutorials, I had played around with using a git repo as a tutorial:

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-15 Thread Tommaso Gordini
Thank you, Mikael, excellent tutorial, for me. Ciao Tommaso Il giorno gio 15 feb 2024 alle ore 09:29 Mikael Sundqvist ha scritto: > Hi, > > This small example from BachoTeX 2023 could perhaps be useful for > someone: https://github.com/mpsmath/stepbystep > > /Mikael > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2024

[NTG-context] Re: upload

2024-02-15 Thread Hans Hagen
On 2/15/2024 10:02 AM, luigi scarso wrote: On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 at 13:47, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, as we're around texlive code freeze time we're also in upload mode - i uploaded a new lmtx - i also added linux and windows 32 bin (as it seems to have users) - we're now using lua 5.5 which has

[NTG-context] Re: upload

2024-02-15 Thread Mikael Sundqvist
Hi, The 5.5 seems to come from https://github.com/lua/lua/blob/master/lua.h /Mikael On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 10:04 AM luigi scarso wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 at 13:47, Hans Hagen wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > as we're around texlive code freeze time we're also in upload mode > > > > - i

[NTG-context] Re: upload

2024-02-15 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 at 13:47, Hans Hagen wrote: > > Hi, > > as we're around texlive code freeze time we're also in upload mode > > - i uploaded a new lmtx > - i also added linux and windows 32 bin (as it seems to have users) > > - we're now using lua 5.5 which has one restriction (was already >

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-15 Thread Mikael Sundqvist
Hi, This small example from BachoTeX 2023 could perhaps be useful for someone: https://github.com/mpsmath/stepbystep /Mikael On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 8:31 AM Jan Ulrich Hasecke via ntg-context wrote: > > Hi, > > Am 14.02.24 um 19:45 schrieb Sir Coleman via ntg-context: > > I wanted to create

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-14 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke via ntg-context
Hi, Am 14.02.24 um 19:45 schrieb Sir Coleman via ntg-context: I wanted to create more of a reference, a complete reference, and one that's of course not meant to be read from cover to cover. I think that setup-en.pdf is a good starting point for a complete reference as it contains the

[NTG-context] Re: Working with layer sets with Metapost

2024-02-14 Thread Mikael Sundqvist
Hi On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 1:03 AM Emanuel Han via ntg-context wrote: > > Dear list, > > the attached .tex file is the minimal working example we discussed today in > the online meeting. > > I realized that the approach of looping through k of p[k] is not fitting my > needs, because it's not

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

2024-02-14 Thread Garulfo
The line number was 10066 as of Jan 28th, and now 10070. According to Taco's proposal, 2 chars should be changed: the bad line:              templates[i]=“% "..w..”i"..between should be switched to: templates[i]="%-"..w.."s"..between A similar changed as been done on util-fmt.lua line 79

[NTG-context] Working with layer sets with Metapost

2024-02-14 Thread Emanuel Han via ntg-context
Dear list, the attached .tex file is the minimal working example we discussed today in the online meeting. I realized that the approach of looping through k of p[k] is not fitting my needs, because it's not flexible enough. I need another approach, one which works with layer sets. I would stop

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

2024-02-14 Thread Mikael Sundqvist
Oh, that mail went wrong, sorry. /MIkael On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 11:27 PM Mikael Sundqvist wrote: > > I don't wanna delay... :) > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 11:05 PM Hans Hagen wrote: > > > > On 2/14/2024 10:05 PM, Garulfo wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > it seems that line 10066 in mtxrun.lua (now

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

2024-02-14 Thread Mikael Sundqvist
I don't wanna delay... :) On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 11:05 PM Hans Hagen wrote: > > On 2/14/2024 10:05 PM, Garulfo wrote: > > Hi, > > > > it seems that line 10066 in mtxrun.lua (now 10070) has not been updated > > for today's update. > > > > What is the command line to rebuild mtxrun locally

[NTG-context] manuals

2024-02-14 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
There's also: https://github.com/contextgarden/not-so-short-introduction-to-context Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands

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

2024-02-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 2/14/2024 10:05 PM, Garulfo wrote: Hi, it seems that line 10066 in mtxrun.lua (now 10070) has not been updated for today's update. What is the command line to rebuild mtxrun locally without downloading update from internet ? (I only know "sh install.sh"...) can you copy the 'bad line'

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

2024-02-14 Thread Garulfo
Hi, it seems that line 10066 in mtxrun.lua (now 10070) has not been updated for today's update. What is the command line to rebuild mtxrun locally without downloading update from internet ? (I only know "sh install.sh"...) Thanks

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 2/14/2024 8:37 PM, Joaquín Ataz López wrote: I join the thanks to the other members of the list. I think that good documentation is essential in any project, and, in particular, a low-level explanation of ConTeXt that is understandable without being an accomplished TeX programmer seems to

[NTG-context] Re: Fwd: Re: Context lmtx for 32bit under LUBUNTU 18.04

2024-02-14 Thread Alain Delmotte
Many thanks Hans and Hraban Le 14-02-24 à 20:13, Henning Hraban Ramm a écrit : Am 14.02.24 um 18:59 schrieb Angel M Alganza: On 2024-02-14 18:10, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: But Hans’ latest upload includes 32bt Linux binaries again. That's an excellent piece of news!  I'm dual booting

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-14 Thread Joaquín Ataz López
I join the thanks to the other members of the list. I think that good documentation is essential in any project, and, in particular, a low-level explanation of ConTeXt that is understandable without being an accomplished TeX programmer seems to me a great idea. As for TeX documentation, I

[NTG-context] Re: Fwd: Re: Context lmtx for 32bit under LUBUNTU 18.04

2024-02-14 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 14.02.24 um 18:59 schrieb Angel M Alganza: On 2024-02-14 18:10, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: But Hans’ latest upload includes 32bt Linux binaries again. That's an excellent piece of news!  I'm dual booting Linux and OpenBSD in some of the boxes where I previously was only running OpenBSD

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-14 Thread Sir Coleman via ntg-context
First of all, I'm grateful for your offer, and hope that you find it valuable indeed. However, I must say that this isn't what I had in mind. I wanted to create more of a reference, a complete reference, and one that's of course not meant to be read from cover to cover. What you're suggesting

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-14 Thread Jim
Hi, a book like this would be very valuable. I hope your project is successful. And, as soon as you have something on gitlab, I will be happy to read it and give feedback. In terms of organization... one of the things I don't like about "A Not So Short Guide..." is that it starts with

[NTG-context] Re: Fwd: Re: Context lmtx for 32bit under LUBUNTU 18.04

2024-02-14 Thread Angel M Alganza
On 2024-02-14 18:10, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: But Hans’ latest upload includes 32bt Linux binaries again. That's an excellent piece of news! I'm dual booting Linux and OpenBSD in some of the boxes where I previously was only running OpenBSD when the OpenBSD version was dropped to be able

[NTG-context] Re: Fwd: Re: Context lmtx for 32bit under LUBUNTU 18.04

2024-02-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 2/14/2024 6:10 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Sorry, I can’t help ATM. But Hans’ latest upload includes 32bt Linux binaries again. Indeed. I have to improvise a bit as the build is only partially working so some binaries i generate myself and currently we skip luatex (no big deal as most

[NTG-context] Fwd: Re: Context lmtx for 32bit under LUBUNTU 18.04

2024-02-14 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Sorry, I can’t help ATM. But Hans’ latest upload includes 32bt Linux binaries again. Hraban Weitergeleitete Nachricht Betreff:Re: [NTG-context] Re: Context lmtx for 32bit under LUBUNTU 18.04 Datum: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 17:28:38 +0100 Von:Alain Delmotte An:

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

2024-02-14 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Reminder: This is today & quite soon! Am 10.02.24 um 23:01 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, February 14th, 19:00 CET (UTC+1) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg)

[NTG-context] Re: Sorry for once more asking, i am at Work

2024-02-14 Thread Ursula Hermann
Dear Hans, This was before you wrote, that you did an new upload, but i saw it in the installation. Because there were more files. Uschi Von: Ursula Hermann Gesendet: Mittwoch, 14. Februar 2024 13:42 An: 'mailing list for ConTeXt users' Betreff: Sorry for once more asking, i am at Work So

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

2024-02-14 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

[NTG-context] upload

2024-02-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, as we're around texlive code freeze time we're also in upload mode - i uploaded a new lmtx - i also added linux and windows 32 bin (as it seems to have users) - we're now using lua 5.5 which has one restriction (was already announced a while ago): for i=1,10 in t do i = 2 *

[NTG-context] Sorry for once more asking, i am at Work

2024-02-14 Thread Ursula Hermann
So after a new update on my Computer at Work, I did once more download the installation. After compiling with context-mswin I got this file Command Line: context.exe --synctex=-1 "context-test.tex" Startup Folder:

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

2024-02-14 Thread Cron Daemon
receiving incremental file list context/latest/ context/latest/cont-lmt.zip context/latest/cont-tst.7z context/latest/cont-tst.tar.xz context/latest/cont-tst.zip sent 88,333 bytes received 17,955,327 bytes 2,405,821.33 bytes/sec total size is 579,345,820 speedup is 32.11 Running

[NTG-context] Re: Seeindex with zie instead of see?

2024-02-14 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 14.02.24 um 10:42 schrieb G.C.H.M. Verhaag via ntg-context: Hi ConTeXt users, Wondering whether there is a possibility to modify the word *see* into the Dutch word *zie* in the use of the \seeindex command? Did you set \mainlanguage[nl]? Hraban

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

2024-02-14 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 overview.htm rss.xml show-fil.pdf show-man-1.htm show-man-10.htm show-man-11.htm show-man-12.htm show-man-13.htm show-man-14.htm show-man-15.htm

[NTG-context] Seeindex with zie instead of see?

2024-02-14 Thread Gerard Verhaag via ntg-context
Hi ConTeXt users, Wondering whether there is a possibility to modify the word 'see' into the Dutch word 'zie' in the use of the \seeindex command? Regards, Gerard ___ If your question is of interest to others as

[NTG-context] Seeindex with zie instead of see?

2024-02-14 Thread G.C.H.M. Verhaag via ntg-context
Hi ConTeXt users, Wondering whether there is a possibility to modify the word *see* into the Dutch word *zie* in the use of the \seeindex command? Regards, Gerard ___ If your question is of interest to others as

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-13 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
Please write one. More documentation is needed. On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 3:55 AM Sir Coleman via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > I'm glad to know there's a demand for this book. > > Hopefully soon I'll upload a draft of it to GitLab, so if there's anything > that you learned that you

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-13 Thread Sir Coleman via ntg-context
I'm glad to know there's a demand for this book. Hopefully soon I'll upload a draft of it to GitLab, so if there's anything that you learned that you would like to contribute to this book, you would be able to do so. I personally would be very happy if someone would give me examples of things

[NTG-context] Re: Two bugs with descriptions in ConTeXt.

2024-02-13 Thread Sir Coleman via ntg-context
Oh dear... The serried alternative does indeed solve the second "bug". And to answer your question, I literally encountered this problem in one of my own documents, so yes, it's a real world problem... And also good to know the explanation of why the counter acts weird. I'll also check out

[NTG-context] Re: Two bugs with descriptions in ConTeXt.

2024-02-13 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
SirColeman via ntg-context schrieb am 13.02.2024 um 22:04: The first bug is that descriptions interfere with the counters, resulting in the peculiar behavior demonstrated in the resulting PDF. Still no bug and there is no need to create your own counter because enumerations exist which are

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-13 Thread Peter Hopcroft via ntg-context
Thank you Sir Coleman. I’m a Context beginner and I’d love a good book introducing me to Context. I’ve wasted many hours trying to figure out how to do things that turned out to be simple. The answer is often/sometimes buried in the documentation, and what would really help me is a book that

[NTG-context] Two bugs with descriptions in ConTeXt.

2024-02-13 Thread SirColeman via ntg-context
The first bug is that descriptions interfere with the counters, resulting in the peculiar behavior demonstrated in the resulting PDF. Unless I'm mistaken, I think it happens because the head of the description is evaluated twice, thus incrementing the counter twice---at least, that's the only

[NTG-context] Fwd: Re: Context lmtx for 32bit under LUBUNTU 18.04

2024-02-13 Thread Alain Delmotte
I answered only for Hraban!! Sorry8 Alain Message transféré Sujet : Re: [NTG-context] Re: Context lmtx for 32bit under LUBUNTU 18.04 Date : Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:47:09 +0100 De :Alain Delmotte Pour : Henning Hraban Ramm Le 13-02-24 à 18:21, Henning Hraban Ramm a

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-13 Thread Sir Coleman via ntg-context
Acknowledged. However, this does reinforce my point, that the documentation needs to be updated. The examples on the wiki still use \getcounter, and naturally they all fail to compile. Hence, my ambition to create a book to serve as the documentation, which I find is a better medium for

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-13 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
SirColeman via ntg-context schrieb am 13.02.2024 um 20:44: >> This is wrong, the counter commands are official and the number variants are kept for backwards compatibility with old styles. I do recall reading on the ConTeXt wiki that \definenumber is maintained for backwards compatibility

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-13 Thread SirColeman via ntg-context
>> This is wrong, the counter commands are official and the number variants are >> kept for backwards compatibility with old styles. I do recall reading on the ConTeXt wiki that \definenumber is maintained for backwards compatibility reasons. However, why then does ConTeXt fail to compile with

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-13 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
SirColeman via ntg-context schrieb am 12.02.2024 um 08:49: Greetings all. I have a passion for typesetting. I found that currently the best typesetting systems are those that are based on TeX. Of them, there are LaTeX, and ConTeXt. LaTeX is very well documented and popular; ConTeXt, on the

[NTG-context] Re: Context lmtx for 32bit under LUBUNTU 18.04

2024-02-13 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 13.02.24 um 17:29 schrieb Alain Delmotte: Hi, A month or so ago Hans provided a new upload (thanks I managed to get and install it on my Windows 10 64b). At that time I was struggling for having my computers back in order (that appends sometimes). Now I'd like to have LMTX on an old but

[NTG-context] Context lmtx for 32bit under LUBUNTU 18.04

2024-02-13 Thread Alain Delmotte
Hi, A month or so ago Hans provided a new upload (thanks I managed to get and install it on my Windows 10 64b). At that time I was struggling for having my computers back in order (that appends sometimes). Now I'd like to have LMTX on an old but still used (when travelling) portable under

[NTG-context] Re: Section numbering does not work

2024-02-13 Thread Oliver Marugg
> Am 13.02.2024 um 16:54 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster > : > > Oliver Marugg schrieb am 13.02.2024 um 00:17: >> Hi >> Section numbering does not work until I remove \startbackmatter >> \stopbackmatter. I had a longer text file and I stripped it down until I >> found this? >> Greets Oliver >>

[NTG-context] Re: Section numbering does not work

2024-02-13 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Oliver Marugg schrieb am 13.02.2024 um 00:17: Hi Section numbering does not work until I remove \startbackmatter \stopbackmatter. I had a longer text file and I stripped it down until I found this? Greets Oliver Running freshly installed context ARM64 on m1 and updated it via sh install.sh

[NTG-context] Re: removing whitespace

2024-02-13 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Michael Guravage schrieb am 13.02.2024 um 14:01: While reading the documentation I spotted something similar from which I derived this solution: \setupinteraction[state=start] \def\squeeze#1%   {     \goto{#1} [url(tel:\ctxlua{context(string.gsub("#1", " ", ""))})]   } ConTeXt has a Lua

[NTG-context] Re: Section numbering does not work

2024-02-13 Thread Oliver Marugg
Many thanks Taco, that works indeed;-) > Am 13.02.2024 um 09:29 schrieb Taco Hoekwater : > > > >> On 13 Feb 2024, at 00:17, Oliver Marugg wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> Section numbering does not work until I remove \startbackmatter >> \stopbackmatter. I had a longer text file and I stripped it

[NTG-context] Re: removing whitespace

2024-02-13 Thread Michael Guravage
While reading the documentation I spotted something similar from which I derived this solution: \setupinteraction[state=start] \def\squeeze#1% { \goto{#1} [url(tel:\ctxlua{context(string.gsub("#1", " ", ""))})] } \starttext Call \squeeze{01234 56789} \stoptext With kind regards,

[NTG-context] Re: Section numbering does not work

2024-02-13 Thread Taco Hoekwater
> On 13 Feb 2024, at 00:17, Oliver Marugg wrote: > > Hi > > Section numbering does not work until I remove \startbackmatter > \stopbackmatter. I had a longer text file and I stripped it down until I > found this? IIRC : \setupsectionblock[backpart][number=yes] Best wishes, Taco >

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

2024-02-13 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hi Willi, I guess you already saw the other message that I really meant Wednesday, 14th, regardless of Valentine and Ash Wednesday. In Germany, this is a day when political parties have a very unfriendly conference with extra polemic speeches. We can do better ;)

[NTG-context] removing whitespace

2024-02-12 Thread Michael Guravage
In the example below I pass the macro a string with a space, but the space should not appear in the url. I've tried using \ctxlua to invoke string substitution, but without success. What is the proper way to remove this space, and to perform string manipulation more generally?

[NTG-context] Section numbering does not work

2024-02-12 Thread Oliver Marugg
Hi Section numbering does not work until I remove \startbackmatter \stopbackmatter. I had a longer text file and I stripped it down until I found this? Greets Oliver Running freshly installed context ARM64 on m1 and updated it via sh install.sh on ARM64 macos 14.3.1: context --version

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

2024-02-12 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Hraban, hm there is a incongruence of the date. Either it is Wednesday the 14th of February or Tuesday the 13th of February… Which correct? Cheers Willi > On 10 Feb 2024, at 23:01, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming > Wednesday,

[NTG-context] An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-11 Thread SirColeman via ntg-context
Greetings all. I have a passion for typesetting. I found that currently the best typesetting systems are those that are based on TeX. Of them, there are LaTeX, and ConTeXt. LaTeX is very well documented and popular; ConTeXt, on the other hand, is apparently very powerful and capable, but is not

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

2024-02-11 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Oops, yes I meant 14th - Valentine and Ash Wednesday at the same time. Hraban Am 11.02.24 um 12:20 schrieb mf: Hello Hraban, February 13th is Tuesday. Maybe you meant February 14th. Best wishes, Massimiliano Il 10/02/24 23:01, Henning Hraban Ramm ha scritto: You’re invited to our regular

[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: distance in \setupinitial

2024-02-09 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 09.02.24 um 22:06 schrieb Thomas Meyer: Thank you, Pablo, next question: why does it say here https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupinitial default is 0pt? Why does the information not match? Crazy! Either it changed since 2020, or Garulfo just assumed wrongly when they wrote it.

[NTG-context] Re: distance in \setupinitial

2024-02-09 Thread Thomas Meyer
Thank you, Pablo, next question: why does it say here https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupinitial default is 0pt? Why does the information not match? Crazy! Am 09.02.24 um 20:02 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context: On 2/9/24 09:53, Thomas Meyer wrote: Hi folks, if I understand

[NTG-context] Re: OT: interview with John Warnock

2024-02-09 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 09.02.24 um 20:15 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context: On 2/6/24 14:04, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Hi, I came across this interview with John Warnock (founder of Adobe and developer of PostScript): https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2023/08/102738759-05-01-acc.pdf

[NTG-context] Re: Square right aligned

2024-02-09 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 09.02.2024 um 20:07: On 2/8/24 22:37, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi Ursula, I think you mean the so-called end of the proof sign, or QED (Quod Erat Demonstrandum). You can use this: \definesymbol[QED][\mathematics{\square}]

[NTG-context] Re: OT: interview with John Warnock

2024-02-09 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
On 2/6/24 14:04, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Hi, I came across this interview with John Warnock (founder of Adobe and > developer of PostScript): > > https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2023/08/102738759-05-01-acc.pdf Many thanks for the reference, Hraban. This is the

[NTG-context] Re: Square right aligned

2024-02-09 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
On 2/8/24 22:37, Otared Kavian wrote: > Hi Ursula, > > I think you mean the so-called end of the proof sign, or QED (Quod Erat > Demonstrandum). You can use this: > > \definesymbol[QED][\mathematics{\square}] > \def\qed{\wordright{\symbol[QED]}} > \starttext > This is the end of our proof. \qed >

[NTG-context] Re: distance in \setupinitial

2024-02-09 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
On 2/9/24 09:53, Thomas Meyer wrote: > Hi folks, > > if I understand it correct it is not necessary to set default parameters. > In my example it is a difference to set it or not (distance=0pt should > be default): Hi Thomas, the default (as per line 65 in typo-drp.mkxl) is .125\emwidth. This

[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 > WB 2 -- 04_workbook.tex > WB 3 -- 05_workbook.tex >

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

2024-02-09 Thread Jeong Dal via ntg-context
Dear Otared, Thank you for testing. I run the sample after changing the column command to ‘\startsimplecolumns … \stopsimplecolumns’. I got the same result as your output. And it is same as the result using \startcolumns … \stopcolumns. If ‘\vfill’ works, then it is OK for me, but it isn’t.

[NTG-context] distance in \setupinitial

2024-02-09 Thread Thomas Meyer
Hi folks, if I understand it correct it is not necessary to set default parameters. In my example it is a difference to set it or not (distance=0pt should be default): \setupinitial%[distance=0pt] \starttext \placeinitial \input knuth \stoptext Why? Greetings Thomas

[NTG-context] Re: Square right aligned

2024-02-09 Thread Ursula Hermann
Dear Otared and Dear Hraban, So this is my little example: works perfect, after our correspondence. \starttext \startalignment[normal] \margintext {1.1.1} {\bf Beispiel 3.2.17 (Vertauschung von All- und Existenzquantor).} \par {\it Sei M die Menge aller Männer und F die Menge aller Frauen. Die

[NTG-context] Re: Square right aligned

2024-02-08 Thread Ursula Hermann
Dear Hraban, Dear Otared! Many Thanks, Hraban: Because of \wordright: I took a look at wordright at the wiki, works perfect. Otared, many thanks too. It also works perfect with your example Uschi Von: Otared Kavian Gesendet: Donnerstag, 8. Februar

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

2024-02-08 Thread Otared Kavian
Dear Dalyoung,Have you tried \startsimplecolumns\stopsimplecolumns instead of the columnset mechanism?In your example I put the above commands and I got the attached PDF: is this what you want to obtain?Best regards: Otared columns-figures.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document On 9 Feb 2024, at

[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] Re: Square right aligned

2024-02-08 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Ursula, I think you mean the so-called end of the proof sign, or QED (Quod Erat Demonstrandum). You can use this: \definesymbol[QED][\mathematics{\square}] \def\qed{\wordright{\symbol[QED]}} \starttext This is the end of our proof. \qed \stoptext In principle it is included in ConTeXt, but

[NTG-context] Re: Square right aligned

2024-02-08 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 08.02.24 um 12:23 schrieb Ursula Hermann: Dear List, I am at Home  and have the following example.: klar.\startalignment[right]\square\stopalignment}\stoptext} There should be a sign like this □ at the end of the proof. What’s your problem – is the square missing? Then there’s probably

[NTG-context] Square right aligned

2024-02-08 Thread Ursula Hermann
Dear List, I am at Home and have the following example.: \starttext \margintext {1.1.1} {\bf Beispiel 3.2.17 (Vertauschung von All- und Existenzquantor).} \par {\it Sei M die Menge aller Männer und F die Menge aller Frauen. Die Aus-\par sage h(m, f) sei ”m ist verliebt in f“. Unter diesen

[NTG-context] color profiles

2024-02-07 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hi, I thought I could finally setup color management properly instead of converting all print PDFs with Acrobat Pro… On the wiki, there’s something in https://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDFX; I updated it a bit, but we (I?) should combine it with https://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDF/A … How can I

[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_teachersguide.tex I have to prove to a

[NTG-context] OT: interview with John Warnock

2024-02-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hi, I came across this interview with John Warnock (founder of Adobe and developer of PostScript): https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2023/08/102738759-05-01-acc.pdf Maybe you already know it. And there’s probably a video version. While the first half about his personal

[NTG-context] Re: hyphenation question

2024-02-02 Thread Hans van der Meer via ntg-context
Yes, that is a possibilty that did not escape me. But this is but an example. In those documents such abbreviations are quite common and frequent. I hoped therefore to find a generic solution! yours sincerely dr. Hans van der Meer > On 2 Feb 2024, at 18:25, Hans Hagen via ntg-context >

[NTG-context] Re: \type ignores space between command and bracket

2024-02-02 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 2/2/2024 11:16 AM, wolfgangbackes--- via ntg-context wrote: I have stumbeld across the same bug. Seems to be very elementary, but is still present after many years. Sigh. don't confuse bugs and features ... \starttext here a \type{\test is} done here a \type{\test [is]} done here a

[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 the

[NTG-context] hyphenation question

2024-02-02 Thread Hans van der Meer via ntg-context
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 the abbreviation was interpreted. The problem then arises with hyphenation,

[NTG-context] Re: \type ignores space between command and bracket

2024-02-02 Thread wolfgangbackes--- via ntg-context
I have stumbeld across the same bug. Seems to be very elementary, but is still present after many years. Sigh. ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

[NTG-context] BUG: colour spilling in btxrendering

2024-02-01 Thread Alexandre Christe
Dear list, It seems with one of the latest lmtx this old reported issue (https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg84988.html) is back. MWE: \setupinteraction[state=start,color=red,style=] \setupbtx[aps:cite][alternative=entry] \usebtxdefinitions[aps] \startbuffer [bib]

[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 before

[NTG-context] Re: textbackground spacing offset

2024-01-31 Thread Marco Patzer
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 19:41:02 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote: > >> How do it get the same spacing as in the framedtext case? > > > > Is there a solution to this? Or an explanation why the spacing > > differs? > these are fundamentally different mechanisms .. you can play with > \inframed in the

[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

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