Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt features in pandoc 3

On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 08:22:46 +0100 juh via ntg-context wrote: > At work at my cooperative Hostsharing eG we use the way Markdown --> > Pandoc --> ConTeXt and we are quite happy with the results. Sadly I > don't have time to document it in full up to now. OK. thanks. > For my own writing I was

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt features in pandoc 3

On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 22:00:31 +0100 Albert Krewinkel via ntg-context wrote: > Hello, > a new version of pandoc, the universal document converter, was > released two days ago; pandoc 3 comes with new ConTeXt-related > features on which we've spend a good bit of time: I'll probably start to work

Re: [NTG-context] New VSCode extenstion using ConTeXt Language server

On Tue, 8 Nov 2022 22:20:10 +0800 Ramkumar KB via ntg-context wrote: > Hello All, > > I have published the new VSCode Extension for ConTeXt, that I > presented during the 2022 ConTeXt meeting - > > https://wiki.contextgarden.net/VSCode Any plan to make it work with other editors which do

Re: [NTG-context] New VSCode extenstion using ConTeXt Language server

On Tue, 8 Nov 2022 22:20:10 +0800 Ramkumar KB via ntg-context wrote: > Hello All, > > I have published the new VSCode Extension for ConTeXt, that I > presented during the 2022 ConTeXt meeting - > > https://wiki.contextgarden.net/VSCode Any plan to make it work with other editors which do

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt support in LTEX

On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 10:02:34AM +0100, Saša Janiška via ntg-context wrote: > didn't have time to (properly) test, but you might be interested to hear > that since 15.2.0 release - hot from the owen - there is now support for > ConTeXt as well. I apologize for forgetting to include

[NTG-context] ConTeXt support in LTEX

Hello, didn't have time to (properly) test, but you might be interested to hear that since 15.2.0 release - hot from the owen - there is now support for ConTeXt as well. Sincerely, Gour -- Bewildered by the modes of material nature, the ignorant fully engage themselves in material activities

[NTG-context] (neo)vim support & Lua

Hello, some months ago there was a 0.5 release (https://neovim.io/news/2021/07) of Neovim which brings support for Lua language to a new level - "Lua as a first-class scripting and configuration language". Moreover, Neovim now it also has built-in LSP client...so, I wonder if there is some work

Re: [NTG-context] Org-Mode for ConTeXt

On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 20:27:57 +0100 "Jan U. Hasecke" wrote: > Is anybody aware of a ConTeXt export tool for Org-Mode? Via Pandoc, maybe? Sincerely, Gour -- Not by merely abstaining from work can one achieve freedom from reaction, nor by renunciation alone can one attain perfection.

Re: [NTG-context] A not so short introduction to ConTeXt Mark IV

On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 10:45:00 +0100 Joaquín Ataz López wrote: Hiya Joaquín, > It is precisely the members of this list who need no introduction at > all, but it can sometimes be useful to help someone get started with > the fascinating typesetting system that is ConTeXt. Well, I'm the one who

Re: [NTG-context] Text editor support via Digestif

On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 19:58:06 +0100 Augusto Stoffel wrote: > I have only tested it with TeXLive. But if lmtx provides a lua > interpreter with kpathsea bindings, like the usual texlua, then it > will surely work. OK. > If that's not the case and you installed lmtx in a > nonstandard location,

Re: [NTG-context] Text editor support via Digestif

On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 10:25:20 +0100 Augusto Stoffel wrote: Hiya Augusto, > I have worked a bit on ConTeXt support in the Digestif language server > [1], and I think it's pretty usable by this point, so I would like to > invite everyone to check it out. Feedback is welcome. Thanks a lot for your

[NTG-context] [solved] Re: fatal error: return code: 256

On Fri, 1 Jan 2021 12:42:04 +0100 Saša Janiška wrote: > runtime error : input file './t.tex' is not found, quitting Ahh..blindness. :-( Did not realize that I rm-ed (by mistake) source file... Sincerely, Gour -- Everyone is forced to act helplessly according to the qualities he

[NTG-context] fatal error: return code: 256

Hello, tried to install lmtx (Debian Sid) from scratch, did: * wipe the texmf-cache directory * mtx-install | - run: mtxrun --generate * mtx-install | - run: context --make but still getting: [...] languages > language 'en' is active runtime error : input file './t.tex' is

Re: [NTG-context] Installing VSCode extension?

On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 07:51:34 +0100 Mikael Sundqvist wrote: > To set the color theme, click the blue button "Set color theme". So, this is the only thing which can be configured? Sincerely, Gour -- Everyone is forced to act helplessly according to the qualities he has acquired from the modes

Re: [NTG-context] Installing VSCode extension?

On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 14:38:05 +0200 Mikael Sundqvist wrote: > To make a symlink worked well here, in the sense that I got a context > extension in vs code, and when opening a context file it was > recognized as such. I was able to install vscode extension by symlinking... > I could go into

Re: [NTG-context] Installing VSCode extension?

On Wed, 5 Aug 2020 22:07:53 +0200 Mikael Sundqvist wrote: > * Since January, the editor supports a global tasks.json file (if I > understood > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41046494/making-global-tasks-in-vs-code > correctly). Are those extensions only for VSCode or they should work with

Re: [NTG-context] Beamer --> ConTeXt (sample)

On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 04:01:39PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > Agreed. I find that all beamer presentations look the same and it can > be difficult to change the look and feel of beamer presentations. Indeed. > A presentation is just a regular document with small margins and some > color

Re: [NTG-context] Beamer --> ConTeXt (sample)

On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 07:57:56PM +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > If you need columns, look into columnsets: > https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Columns#Column_Sets > > Read https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layers and play around with layers. > (But your example doesn’t need layers at all.) >

[NTG-context] Beamer --> ConTeXt (sample)

Hello, recently I ha dto quickly put together few presentations for online meetings and not knowing better (aka quicker) way, I took/installed LyX on my Fedora machine. The process is not so smooth and end result is OK if we forgive ourselves that all Beamer presentations are looking almost

[NTG-context] LSP support

Hello, yesterday while exploring features/plugins of Kakoune (https://kakoune.org/) editor I, naturally, asked about ConTeXt/LaTeX support and was told about TexLab project (https://github.com/latex-lsp/texlab) bringing LSP (https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/) support for

Re: [NTG-context] status of t-rst

On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 09:13:35 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > There is a newer version on gitlab: > https://gitlab.com/phgsng/context-rst Thank you! Found it, cloned the repo...now I wonder how does installing 3rd party modules

[NTG-context] status of t-rst

Hello, yesterday when browsing new ConTeXt site (yay!!) I found about the existance of 't-rst' to be used for typesetting files written in reST markup. However the referenced web site (https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-rst/src/default/) shows last activity 6yrs ago, so wonder if it is still

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting Markdown - Part 8

On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 08:32:57 +0200 "Jan U. Hasecke" wrote: > 3. Being a writer I think that Markdown --> ConTeXt is the best way to > achieve what I want: easy writing and professional looking books. I've the same opinion! > Up to now I used Pablos way via pandoc and XHTML described here: >

Re: [NTG-context] [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: lmtx & lohit-devanagari fonts

On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:01:16 +0800 Vladimir Lomov wrote: > Do you understand well how your shell work? If you do, it is Ok Actually, the problem was that OSFONTDIR is like a $PATH variable, so I reset it as: set -g -x OSFONTDIR "/home/gour/.local/share/fonts:/usr/share/fonts" > but otherwise

Re: [NTG-context] lmtx & lohit-devanagari fonts

On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 08:10:10 +0200 Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > OSFONTDIR=/home/gour/.fonts/ /usr/share/fonts/ > > Can you spot the difference? Ahh, you are right! > I don’t know about fish, but I guess even there a space is not a > valid path separator. Well, fish shell works a bit

Re: [NTG-context] lmtx & lohit-devanagari fonts

On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 23:07:48 +0200 Pablo Rodriguez wrote: Hello Pablo, thank you for your assistance! > This works for me with LMTX in Fedora. > > Add to ~/.bashrc "export OSFONTDIR=~/.fonts/:/usr/share/fonts/" (log > out and log in) I'm using fish shell, but here is my env: $ env | grep

Re: [NTG-context] lmtx & lohit-devanagari fonts

On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:27:22 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > ConTeXt doesn't use system fonts on Linux by default but you have to set them > yourself, the following should also work on Fedora Thank you. Is there some documented procedure which does work with LMTX? Sincerely, Gour -- He who

Re: [NTG-context] lmtx & lohit-devanagari fonts

On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 17:58:05 +0200 Pablo Rodriguez wrote: > The easiest way to achieve that is: > > 1. Remove "/home/gour/opt/lmtx/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/". > 2. Run "mtxrun --generate". > 3. Run "context t.tex" > > Now the glyphs should be there. That didn't work either - same symptom

Re: [NTG-context] lmtx & lohit-devanagari fonts

On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 15:32:24 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hello Wolfgang, thank you very much for prompt reply! > You have to set a font which has the required glyphs but you can also > use different fonts for both scripts and combine them. I understand that the font was not set... tried

[NTG-context] lmtx & lohit-devanagari fonts

Hello! I'm working on a small presentation for an upcoming video meeting and started writing some points in Markdown. After using Pandoc to convert I noticed that *.pptx file does contain everything, but if I try with ConTexT, then Devanagi and some diacritics are missing. By inspecting *.pdf

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts/Layouts in ConTeXt books

On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:31:08 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote: > There are plenty of free font but here are my commercial favourites: > - lucida (very cheap via tug.org and a full set with math) I do not have need for the math, do you still recommend them? >- optima nova(quite expensive but

[NTG-context] Fonts/Layouts in ConTeXt books

Hello, I'm putting all my 'eggs' into ConTeXt basket and would like to learn it as thoroughly as possible. Considering that I always prefer physical books over starring at my computer screen, I wonder if the books from the subject are still relevant for learning about creating layouts and

Re: [NTG-context] translating LyX/LaTex book into ConTeXt

On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 12:35:09 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote: > You can extend the default feature to also add missing composed > characters to the font. In mkiv we have way more control and these > missign characters are then made virtual ones but in the text they > are proper unicodes. > >

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting Markdown -- Part 2

David Nebauer writes: > https://github.com/Witiko/markdown is forked from > https://github.com/jgm/lunamark. Github user "jgm" is John MacFarlane, > the creator of pandoc, and pandoc itself is hosted on github under > "jgm" as well: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc. > > So, it seems a good bet that

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting Markdown -- Part 2

Hans Hagen writes: > just test it and tell me what needs to be fixed / added I'm looking at https://github.com/Witiko/markdown and wondering which flavour of Markdown this package does support? By reading https://github.com/Witiko/markdown/issues/25 it could mean it could be Pandoc's one, but

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting Markdown

Thangalin writes: > I added an abstract, an overview section with the plan, and an RSS > feed: Thanks a lot - now it's much better seeing what is ahead of us. ;) > One of the reasons I chose Pandoc's Markdown is for its support of > classes and annotations. I was not using Pandoc's markdown,

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting Markdown

Thangalin writes: > I'm thinking about writing a series of blog posts about how to typeset > Markdown using ConTeXt. I've written the first part and am wondering > if anyone would be interested in reading more: I'm interested for the topic, but it would be nice, imho, if the Part-1 would

Re: [NTG-context] tikz is not found

On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 19:08:12 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Change "with color" to "withcolor" (no space). Thank you! Sincerely, Gour -- pgpXOljXTa38u.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] markdown module vs pandoc

Pablo Rodriguez writes: > the code in my private repository is unnecessarily complex for too > narrow cases. OK. > > I think that the most valuable feature of environment itself (the file > 'pandoc-xhtml.tex') is the practical introduction to “Dealing with XML > in ConTeXt”

Re: [NTG-context] Missing number, treated as zero

On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:59:46 +0100 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > You need (note the “start”) > > \startsection[title={...}] > > when you use \stopsection. Ahh, I managed to try just those combination which do not work...feeling really embarrassed. :-( Thank you for being kind and exposing

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

Russell Urquhart writes: > but why couldn't you do: > > AsciiDoc => DocBook => Pandoc => reveal.js Because, as I’m told, only {txt,md} => reveal.js routes are currently supported in Pandoc. > It worked for me, here was my source: That worked, is a bit twisted in

Re: [NTG-context] Footnotes in footnotes

Otared Kavian writes: > Indeed the example you sent does not work as expected, but as far as I > remember for nested footnotes one can use the following construction It’s a bit convoluted, but, well… Otoh, it’s interesting to note that in my static-site-generator which uses

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

Hans Hagen writes: > (These projects need pdf and html, all kind of products from > one source or collection of sources). Forgot to ask, whether for those products that require pdf and html, do you work with the tex (context) sources or xml? If the answer is ’context’, I’d like

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

Russell Urquhart writes: > While Pandoc does NOT input asciidoc, i use Asciidoc FX, as a > previewer, and it also exports out to html, pdf, and i think you can > get it to export to DocBook. Yeah, I kmow about using e.g. AsciiDoc(tor)’s docbook5 backend to export to

Re: [NTG-context] Footnotes in footnotes

Jose Luis Arellano writes: > Dear list, > I want to report a possible bug (I think), when one try to put a > footnote into another footnote, here is MWE (from wiki): > > \starttext > This\footnote{Or that\footnote{Or possibly even the other.}, if you > prefer.} is a

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

Hans Hagen writes: > actually, some styles use layers and js to step through them .. very > efficient and minimal javascript But that’s more like helpers, right? Still, wonder how portable is that in different PDF viewers? Sincerely, Gour -- In this endeavor there is no loss

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

Russell Urquhart writes: > I had first started looking at Markdown, but then came to Asciidoc, > as, imo, Asciidoc is a superset of Markdown. In my previous job, and > some in my current job, there is a need to have tables that have cells > that go across multiple rows

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

Hans Hagen writes: > just look at the presentation styles in the distribuition. Many of > them you can just process to get an example Will do. > then start making your own ... such styles are rather simple and not > much coding in the document source is needed .. just develop

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

Hans Hagen writes: > Before we started with context we uses ascii based markup (i still > have printouts of the code used for pagination, figure placement, tocs > around somewhere) ... That’s very interesting… > but as the input becomes more complex it makes no sense any more to

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

Russell Urquhart writes: > About a year ago i really got into Asciidoc, and use it at my work for > technical writing. What are your output formats? > For me, i had some Context files, that had, for example, footnotes, > within footnotes, within footnots. This is

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

Pablo Rodriguez writes: > What you can achieve is: > > AsciiDoc -> HTML -> PDF generated by ConTeXt > > If the conversion to HTML is fine, you even avoid the conversion to > ConTeXt input format (and you might be very close to parse AsciiDoc > sources with ConTeXt). Hmm…that’s

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

Pablo Rodriguez writes: > this feature makes ConTeXt much superior than LaTeX, but not all TeX > users are aware of this jewel. :-) > Sure it can handle it, but I wonder whether this would make sense. (I > mean, does DocBook handle slides?) That’s valid point…I was also thinking

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

Mica Semrick writes: > From the pandoc github issues page, looks like they're working on > asciidoc. See issue 1465 in the pandoc repo. That issue (#1456) is in regard to providing AsciiDoc as Pandoc’s *input* format, but my proposed toolchin is the following: AsciiDoc

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

Pablo Rodriguez writes: Hello Pablo, > since ConTeXt can handle XML natively, how about converting AsciiDoc to > an XML presentation and then compiling the XML file with ConTeXt? I must admit I was not aware of that. AsciiDoc can convert to e.g. DocBook(5), but I wonder if/how

[NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

Hello, I plan to adopt AsciiDoc(tor) as general markup for my writing (web content, blog posts, study notes etc.) and I’d prefer to use ConTeXt for my & wife’s presentations over something like reveal.js, so wonder if anyone has some experienec with the AsciiDoc --> ConTeXt (converted by Pandoc)

Re: [NTG-context] ’Undefined control sequence’ with basic example

Wolfgang Schuster writes: > context Ahh, that is embarrassing. :-( It seems the time is ripe to dive more seriously into ConTeXt… Sincerely, Gour -- Before giving up this present body, if one is able to tolerate the urges of the material senses and check the

[NTG-context] ’Undefined control sequence’ with basic example

Hello, I had to prepare some text for my mother by extracting some portions from her book (done in LyX/LaTeX) and now wanted to use it as example to see the quality of job done by LuaTeX… However, converting LyX —> LaTeX —> Pandoc –> ConTeXt failed and I tried with the simple example

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

On Uto, 2016-01-26 at 09:57 +0100, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > unfortunately, there's no ConTeXt support, but adding it is a > questions of a few hours of simple Emacs Lisp hacking). Let me just say that I've decided to move to Spacemacs (it's RSI- friendly) along with Org-mode/Gnus etc. However,

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

On Pon, 2016-01-25 at 13:55 -0700, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > Beamer presentations look like ... beamer presentations. That's very true, indeed! > For something simple using ConTeXt, you might want to look at the > simpleslides module. That could be a starting point. That should be installed by

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

On Pon, 2016-01-25 at 22:15 +0100, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > I used ConTeXt once for a presentation, and then came back to Beamer. > Not necessarily because it's better, but I know it quite well, so > I could prepare my slides faster.   Hmm, that's valid point. > So I don't have a lot of

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

On Pon, 2016-01-25 at 22:56 +0100, Otared Kavian wrote: > I have been using Context for all my presentations for many years and > I think it is easier to use than any Latex package, since out of the > box I can add pictures, menus, graphs of functions, etc. That is very encouraging to hear. ;)

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

On Uto, 2016-01-26 at 09:56 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: > The "Considering that there might be need to do such thing more often > in the future as well as possibility that I might have to produce lot > of presentations for my public lectures/workshops based on philosophy" > is an argument for using

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

On Uto, 2016-01-26 at 08:34 +0100, Jan U. Hasecke wrote: > For the sake of completeness, have a look at Pandoc, which produces > presentations from simple markdown sources in various formats > including beamer and some nice looking html based presentations. I usually find too simple and prefer

[NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

Hello, I have just checked that my first post to this list was more than 10yrs ago (end of 2002). Then I was working on some full-sized books and ended up with LyX/LaTex. Later, had few attempts to switch to ConTeXt, but as a result I reduced even my LyX/LaTeX usage and was using light markups