Re: [NTG-context] seeindex problem with recent betas

2018-08-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
\setupregister[index][check=no] Wolfgang Rik Kabel schrieb am 09.08.18 um 04:32: With older versions of ConTeXt (including that in TL18) seeindex entries pointing to a multi-level (plussed) index entry worked (visually, at least) without complaint. The output might look like: Digby,

Re: [NTG-context] Define the dimensions of a layout

2018-08-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
\setuplayout [topspace=10mm, header=10mm, footer=10mm, height=middle, backspace=20mm, width=middle] \showframe \starttext \showsetups \stoptext Wolfgang Lizardo M. Reyna Bowen schrieb am 09.08.18 um 04:50: Hi, May be this setup works. \setuppapersize[A4] \setuplayout[

Re: [NTG-context] Define the dimensions of a layout

2018-08-08 Thread Lizardo M. Reyna Bowen
Hi, May be this setup works. \setuppapersize[A4] \setuplayout[   header=20mm,   footer=20mm,   height=fit,   topspace=0cm,   width=fit,   backspace=2cm,   rightmargin=0cm,   leftmargin=0cm,   leftmargindistance=0pt,   rightmargindistance=0pt] \showframe \starttext  \showsetups \stoptext --

[NTG-context] seeindex problem with recent betas

2018-08-08 Thread Rik Kabel
With older versions of ConTeXt (including that in TL18) seeindex entries pointing to a multi-level (plussed) index entry worked (visually, at least) without complaint. The output might look like: Digby, John 73 Dilbert see Adams+Scott Dirac, Paul 287 or Digby, John 73 Dilbert

[NTG-context] Define the dimensions of a layout

2018-08-08 Thread Fabrice Couvreur
Hello, I want the text area to be surrounded by a margin of 20 mm (top, right, left and bottom). I have already done this to have a left and right margin of 20 mm. \setuplayout [height=middle, backspace=20mm, width=middle] I think that I must now have : topdistance + header +

Re: [NTG-context] resetting footnote counter

2018-08-08 Thread Robert Zydenbos
Pablo's example works well on my machine. So there must be a disturbance at a different level in my complex text – perhaps in my settings: \setupnotedefinition [footnote] [location=serried, distance=1em, hang=1em] or \setupfootnotes[bodyfont={Mainfont,8pt}, width=\textwidth, frameoffset=1em,

Re: [NTG-context] xrightarrow is not straight

2018-08-08 Thread Joshua Moerman
Dear Alan, Thanks for the reply! Using \definemathstackers I can set the voffset to adjust the vertical spacing. This is exactly what I needed, thanks! However, I couldn't use the ahlength variable. I tried different values, but it doesn't seem to change anything (and the current arrowhead is

Re: [NTG-context] general suggestion for ConTeXt documentation

2018-08-08 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 08/08/2018 08:50 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > [...] > I’m also writing a (beginners) book on ConTeXt in German, and I find > it really hard to decide what I should include. It can’t become a > reference, a complete one is impossible anyway. Hi Hraban, your book will be an important

Re: [NTG-context] general suggestion for ConTeXt documentation

2018-08-08 Thread Alan Braslau
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 17:54:34 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote: > On 8/8/2018 3:30 PM, Robert Zydenbos wrote: > > > profile = NAME > > empty = yes no > > … > > > > and similar questions arise: “what kind of profile?”, “what is empty or > > not?” etc. > > it's pretty safe to ignore keys like 'profile'

Re: [NTG-context] general suggestion for ConTeXt documentation

2018-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/8/2018 8:18 AM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: For MkIV (as Alan mentioned), you have tex/texmf-context/tex/context/interface/mkiv/i-context.pdf. also have a look at the test suite ... many examples there I mean, ConTeXt is a huge task (support for Kannada is one of the many features we would

Re: [NTG-context] resetting footnote counter

2018-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/8/2018 5:48 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 8 Aug 2018, Robert Zydenbos wrote: A simple footnote question this time. I would like to print endnotes at the end of every chapter in my book, and then reset the footnote counter so that in the next chapter the first note will be ‘1’ again.

Re: [NTG-context] question regarding \placefloats

2018-08-08 Thread Alan Braslau
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 14:33:21 +0200 "Susanne G. Loeber" wrote: > \placelistoffloats does not exist as a command > > My solution is two seperate commands, one for the tables \placelistoftables > and one for the figures \completelistoffigures. > > Question: how to use \placefloats correctly to get

Re: [NTG-context] general suggestion for ConTeXt documentation

2018-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/8/2018 3:30 PM, Robert Zydenbos wrote: profile = NAME empty = yes no … and similar questions arise: “what kind of profile?”, “what is empty or not?” etc. it's pretty safe to ignore keys like 'profile' (if you grep the documentation tree it's just an example of a potential

Re: [NTG-context] resetting footnote counter

2018-08-08 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018, Robert Zydenbos wrote: A simple footnote question this time. I would like to print endnotes at the end of every chapter in my book, and then reset the footnote counter so that in the next chapter the first note will be ‘1’ again. I suppose this should be done by means of

Re: [NTG-context] resetting footnote counter

2018-08-08 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 08/08/2018 05:03 PM, Robert Zydenbos wrote: > Sorry, neither of these work (MkII with XeTeX). I get no error > messages with Pablo's suggestion, but not the desired result either. Weird, this works for me (with and without XeTeX): \setuppapersize[A8]

Re: [NTG-context] general suggestion for ConTeXt documentation

2018-08-08 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 08/08/2018 03:30 PM, Robert Zydenbos wrote: > On 8. Aug 2018, at 00:54, Alan Braslau wrote: >> >> tex/context/interface/mkiv/i-context.pdf > > Thank you! I didn’t know I already had this updated version of a > document I’ve already been using. But however useful this document > already is, it

Re: [NTG-context] resetting footnote counter

2018-08-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
%\setupnote[footnote][way=bychapter,location=none] \setupfootnotes[way=bychapter,location=none] \starttext \dorecurse{10} {\expanded{\chapter{Chapter \recurselevel}} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte\footnote{\input ward }\par} \placenotes[footnote]} \stoptext Wolfgang Robert Zydenbos

Re: [NTG-context] resetting footnote counter

2018-08-08 Thread Robert Zydenbos
Sorry, neither of these work (MkII with XeTeX). I get no error messages with Pablo's suggestion, but not the desired result either. Perhaps I need a very primitive command that I can insert at the beginning of every chapter. Robert > On 8. Aug 2018, at 16:54, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: > > On

Re: [NTG-context] resetting footnote counter

2018-08-08 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 08/08/2018 03:55 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: >> On 8 Aug 2018, at 15:33, Robert Zydenbos wrote: >> >> A simple footnote question this time. I would like to print >> endnotes at the end of every chapter in my book, and then reset the >> footnote ounter so that in the next chapter the first note

Re: [NTG-context] resetting footnote counter

2018-08-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
> On 8 Aug 2018, at 15:33, Robert Zydenbos wrote: > > A simple footnote question this time. I would like to print endnotes at the > end of every chapter in my book, and then reset the footnote counter so that > in the next chapter the first note will be ‘1’ again. I suppose this should > be

[NTG-context] resetting footnote counter

2018-08-08 Thread Robert Zydenbos
A simple footnote question this time. I would like to print endnotes at the end of every chapter in my book, and then reset the footnote counter so that in the next chapter the first note will be ‘1’ again. I suppose this should be done by means of \setupfootnotes – but with which parameter?

Re: [NTG-context] general suggestion for ConTeXt documentation (was: footnote and endnote markers...)

2018-08-08 Thread Robert Zydenbos
On 8. Aug 2018, at 00:54, Alan Braslau wrote: > > tex/context/interface/mkiv/i-context.pdf Thank you! I didn’t know I already had this updated version of a document I’ve already been using. But however useful this document already is, it does illustrate some of my problems. For instance, in

Re: [NTG-context] faulty to unicode mapping of chars encoded with surrogate pairs?

2018-08-08 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Wed, 8 Aug 2018 14:15:41 +0200 schrieb Hans Hagen: > line 228 in font-map should be: > > k = k - 0x1 > > (not v = ...) Thanks, that corrects the problem. -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/

[NTG-context] question regarding \placefloats

2018-08-08 Thread Susanne G. Loeber
Dear Reader, I have a document with figures and tables. I have tried to use the command \placefloats to create a list of all my floats as recommended on the page Floating Objects, section Flushing floats. There it states: The command \placefloats outputs all pending floats. I hoped to get a

Re: [NTG-context] faulty to unicode mapping of chars encoded with surrogate pairs?

2018-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/8/2018 12:13 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: when I compile the following with context \pdfvariable compresslevel=0 \starttext $f$ \stoptext I get in the pdf 1 beginbfchar <0515> endbfchar D875DC53 is according to http://www.russellcottrell.com/greek/utilities/surrogatepaircalculator.htm the

[NTG-context] faulty to unicode mapping of chars encoded with surrogate pairs?

2018-08-08 Thread Ulrike Fischer
when I compile the following with context \pdfvariable compresslevel=0 \starttext $f$ \stoptext I get in the pdf 1 beginbfchar <0515> endbfchar D875DC53 is according to http://www.russellcottrell.com/greek/utilities/surrogatepaircalculator.htm the codepoint 2D453 and this is not a valid

Re: [NTG-context] general suggestion for ConTeXt documentation

2018-08-08 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hi, I won’t reply to single points, thus I don’t quote previous mails. I’m one of the few who work a lot on the wiki. But that means: if I find the time and if I find issues that I’m able to address. Often it needs an hour of research to just explain one parameter properly. Don’t ask about all

Re: [NTG-context] general suggestion for ConTeXt documentation

2018-08-08 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 08/08/2018 12:40 AM, Robert Zydenbos wrote: > That is it. I have no idea why – but that is the solution. Dear Robert, I will try to explain the reason of this (in my very limited understanding of how ConTeXt works). Notes in both MkII and MkII have two setup commands. One is for the group of