Re: [NTG-context] cropoffset reduces paper size

2022-04-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Hi, I’d like to know if the changed behavior is intentional and will stay this way – in that case I’d need to change my environments and update the documentation. Hraban Am 15.04.22 um 21:31 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context: Hi, at least in the current and previous LMTX beta

Re: [NTG-context] How do I define a smallcaps font?

2022-04-24 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 24.04.22 um 16:21 schrieb Joel via ntg-context: I have a font that already comes with a smallcaps variant. How do I define it? I've tried the following, which I think should work from the documentation I've seen, but doesn't: \starttypescript[serif]                            [garamond]

Re: [NTG-context] placing (on) layers

2022-04-16 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
of the \setlayerframed command . — What would be possible is to attach the layer as a background to one of the different areas of the paper. I hope this gives you a hint how to proceed.. Willi On 15 Apr 2022, at 21:51, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: Hi again, I’m always struggling

[NTG-context] placing (on) layers

2022-04-15 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Hi again, I’m always struggling with putting stuff on layers, since these just never start where I’d expect them to, and the offsets changed a few times within the last years. Please explain how I should define a layer that covers the whole page, since the following MWE is wrong (the layer

[NTG-context] cropoffset reduces paper size

2022-04-15 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Hi, at least in the current and previous LMTX beta, the paper size gets reduced if I use cropoffset as well as \setupinteractionscreen. (It is known that the PDF box settings only work with the latter.) In the MWE below, paper size gets reduced by cropoffset: \setuppapersize[A4]

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

2022-04-11 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
You’re invited to join next *Wednesday*, April 13th, 15:00 CEST (UTC+2) (Beware, we changed the weekday!) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Hans will probably give a Q session again – please announce subjects you’d like to discuss ASAP, so

Re: [NTG-context] Switching fonts changes framedtext justification

2022-04-08 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 08.04.22 um 02:25 schrieb Thangalin via ntg-context: Works flawlessly, thank you! Here's a demo with left and right speech bubbles: Thank you for the speech bubbles! This is something I need for the messenger chats in my novel. Will be a good learning experience to adapt your solution to

Re: [NTG-context] two requests for ConTeXt

2022-04-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 06.04.22 um 17:02 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context: The first one is to allow that ConTeXt LMTX also downloads the available modules. The second feature would be the addition of an "emoji" range for font fallbacks. +2 Hraban

Re: [NTG-context] Switching fonts changes framedtext justification

2022-04-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 04.04.22 um 01:21 schrieb Thangalin via ntg-context: Confirmed there is a font issue with LMTX. $ context --version mtx-context | current version: 2022.04.01 09:37 The issue was also present with version 2021.11.30. Are you sure it's not a tolerance issue? Pablo's example also

Re: [NTG-context] new upload / more math

2022-04-01 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Oh, great work, thank you! (While I keep working with WebCMS and avoid math...) And I guess you forgot to mention that you discontinued the support for non-metric measures like the obsolete inch, except Potrzebie, of course. Hraban Am 01.04.22 um 10:02 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context:

Re: [NTG-context] \figuresymbol with underlying hyperlink?

2022-03-29 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
)]\autoinsertnextspace} \chapter{a\Link} text \stoptext Steffen Am 29.03.2022 um 09:56 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context : Am 28.03.22 um 21:08 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum via ntg-context: Hi, is it possible to combine figuresymbol with some kind of \useurl? The goal is to have an inline symbol

Re: [NTG-context] \figuresymbol with underlying hyperlink?

2022-03-29 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 28.03.22 um 21:08 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum via ntg-context: Hi, is it possible to combine figuresymbol with some kind of \useurl? The goal is to have an inline symbol that provides a http url link. AFAIK there’s nothing ready-made in that regard, but just define your own macro. E.g. I

Re: [NTG-context] Trying to get a simple bibliography

2022-03-26 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 26.03.22 um 14:51 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz via ntg-context: On 26. Mar 2022, at 14:04, A A via ntg-context wrote: The next question I guess is whether ConTeXt support other specs like MLA or Chicago style. I tried MLA but without sucess. Is MLA possible in ConTeXt? One (admittedly

Re: [NTG-context] \setupheadertexts for chapters with different authors

2022-03-19 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
but don't appreciate why. Julian On 18/3/22 18:52, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: The *list* variables work only in lists. There’s also \structurevariable and \structureuservariable. Make sure you use setups for the header, otherwise the variable gets expanded only once

Re: [NTG-context] \setupheadertexts for chapters with different authors

2022-03-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 18.03.22 um 10:13 schrieb jbf via ntg-context: Off list for the moment. Late at night where I am. I will take a look at this more closely on the morrow. Thanks. You’re welcome. BTW I answered with some German last time since I mixed up jbf and juh – the latter I know to be German.

Re: [NTG-context] \setupheadertexts for chapters with different authors

2022-03-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 18.03.22 um 01:48 schrieb jbf via ntg-context: I thought this should work, since \structurelistuservariable{author} works fine to call the author name into the TOC, but the same does not work for header texts it seems: \setupheadertexts

Re: [NTG-context] Calling in chapter number in list={}

2022-03-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 17.03.22 um 11:31 schrieb Jean-Pierre Delange via ntg-context: Which could be translated in English ! Yes, I was a bit lazy and Thunderbird also messed up the line breaking. HR ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] Calling in chapter number in list={}

2022-03-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Hi Julian, have fun with: \currentlistentrylocation = Laufende Nummer des Listeneintrags \namedstructureheadlocation{section} = Abschnittsnummer der angegebenen Hier­archiestufe (chapter, section usw.) \currentlistentrynumber = Abschnittsnummer des aktuellen Listen­ eintrags

Re: [NTG-context] Force a hyphenation

2022-03-16 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 16.03.22 um 16:48 schrieb Willi Egger via ntg-context: Hi, at the moment I am dealing with a German text. Although I have \mainlanguage[de] in the preamble the word 'des Eiweißes' is hyphenated as 'des Eiwei-ßes'. Of course this should be 'des Eiweis-ses'. How can I make sure that ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] tilde character

2022-03-14 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 14.03.22 um 18:45 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: On Mon, 14 Mar 2022, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: Hi, I’ve a stupid question: How do I get the default tilde character from a font? ~ is a fixed space \texttilde gives a tilde accent \utfchar{0x007E} yields a space (probably the same

[NTG-context] tilde character

2022-03-14 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Hi, I’ve a stupid question: How do I get the default tilde character from a font? ~ is a fixed space \texttilde gives a tilde accent \utfchar{0x007E} yields a space (probably the same as ~) Hraban ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] \asciimode and MetaPost in LMTX result in “Isolated expression”

2022-03-12 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 12.03.22 um 18:08 schrieb Marco Patzer via ntg-context: Maybe someone else with more MetaPost-heavy workflows¹ can test this, too? Marco ¹ Hraban? nudge, nudge… My use of MetaPost is very simple, I still don’t understand much... My current and most MP-heavy project so far, fails in

Re: [NTG-context] new upload

2022-03-12 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 12.03.22 um 00:16 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: Hi, It has been a while since there was an updaste but there it is. The most significant 'changes' are: Thank you so much! Finally log files of reasonable size again. My latest book (with a lot MetaPost and image trickery) ran

[NTG-context] interlinespacing in margin notes – solved

2022-03-10 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Hi all, esp. Hans and Massimiliano, yesterday in the online meeting we discussed (again) my margin notes problems. A quite minimal setup is shown below. My remaining problem was that the footnotes always used the interlinespacing (baseskip) of the main text. Finally I found the reason in my

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

2022-03-09 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
That’s NOW, BTW. ;) Am 06.03.22 um 13:28 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context: You’re invited to join next *Wednesday*, March 9th, 15:00 CET (UTC+1) (Beware, we changed the weekday!) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Hans

Re: [NTG-context] What’s wrong with installation?

2022-03-08 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 08.03.22 um 14:03 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: On 3/8/2022 12:55 PM, Stephen Gaito via ntg-context wrote: Hans, I am having the same problem on an XUbuntu 21.10 : hm, maybe the server has some issue ... i rebooted the machine Thank you! I can confirm it’s working again – and the

Re: [NTG-context] help with facing page image

2022-03-07 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 07.03.22 um 21:08 schrieb Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context: On 7 Mar 2022, at 03:49, jbf via ntg-context wrote: I wonder if someone can help me untangle the current little mess I seem to be creating! Author wants an image on facing page to each of 10 chapters in the bodypart of the

[NTG-context] What’s wrong with installation?

2022-03-07 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Hi, I just tried to install a new instance of LMTX without success. """ $ unzip -l *.zip Archive: context-osx-64.zip Length DateTimeName - -- - 0 03-05-2019 22:50 bin/ 19082 01-21-2022 20:13 bin/mtx-install.lua 693184 01-21-2022

[NTG-context] Regular online meet-up

2022-03-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
You’re invited to join next *Wednesday*, March 9th, 15:00 CET (UTC+1) (Beware, we changed the weekday!) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Hans will probably give a Q session again – please announce subjects you’d like to discuss ASAP, so

Re: [NTG-context] shapepar for ConTeXt

2022-02-14 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 14.02.22 um 12:20 schrieb Peter Münster via ntg-context: Hi, Is there something like shapepar (LaTeX-package) for ConTeXt? I would like to do the same as "\heartpar{text}" (see http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/shapepar/shapepar.pdf page 9) with ConTeXt. You can use plain

[NTG-context] LuaMetaLa(!)TeX

2022-02-13 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
WTF, someone wrote a LaTeX format for LuaMetaTeX already 3 years ago: https://github.com/zauguin/luametalatex (Herbert Voss just pointed me to it.) Hraban ___ If your question is of interest to others as well,

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

2022-02-08 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
FYI: We decided to move the date to Wednesday, so next time will be Wednesday, March 9th! HR Am 05.02.22 um 13:51 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context: You’re invited to join next Tuesday, February 8th, 15:00 CET (UTC+1) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke ConTeXt users

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

2022-02-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
. And if there are more fundamental questions, my can wait. See you on Tuesday. Regards, Alain Le 5/02/2022 à 13:51, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context a écrit : You’re invited to join next Tuesday, February 8th, 15:00 CET (UTC+1) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke ConTeXt users of all levels

[NTG-context] Regular online meet-up

2022-02-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
You’re invited to join next Tuesday, February 8th, 15:00 CET (UTC+1) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Hans offered to give a Q session again – please announce subjects you’d like to discuss ASAP, so that he can prepare. Regarding the

Re: [NTG-context] control cite - bibliographical references

2022-01-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 30.01.22 um 10:25 schrieb Robert via ntg-context: Dear list, I am struggling with the color of bibliographical references. I found (Ulrike’s) hack to render the items in the bibliography the regular color (black): \appendtoks \iflocation \letinteractionparameter{color}\empty \fi \to

Re: [NTG-context] How to stop \placefigure from floating off to some other page?

2022-01-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 30.01.22 um 00:44 schrieb Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context: On 29 Jan 2022, at 21:30, Joel via ntg-context wrote: When I used `\placefigure`, ConTeXt often puts the figure on a completely different page, my readership of young students is getting confused where the image is. How can I have

Re: [NTG-context] registers, how to ignore quote marks

2022-01-29 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 29.01.22 um 06:23 schrieb jbf via ntg-context: Any thoughts (but I'm pretty sure this isn't fully explained in the wiki) how I can get part of the index entry in italics and part normal? That might be a bit more difficult I think. If you want to format the page number or the whole entry,

Re: [NTG-context] OT world history: other measuring systems?

2022-01-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 25.01.22 um 18:45 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: On 1/25/2022 6:27 PM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote: Some of the units, particularly for measurement of land area, are still in use as they are effectively codified in the land records. Wikipedia has some summary of the ancient

Re: [NTG-context] OT world history: other measuring systems?

2022-01-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 25.01.22 um 18:27 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: On Tue, 25 Jan 2022, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: why didn’t "we" stick to the Roman system? All you need to do is look at the definitions of roman imperial units to understand why we didn't stick to that: An inch was

[NTG-context] OT world history: other measuring systems?

2022-01-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Hi all, just out of curiosity and since some of you are knowledgable in many fields: Were there widely accepted measuring systems in Asia before the introduction of the imperial or metric system? In Europe there was a mess of local miles, feet, cubits, inches etc.; why didn’t "we" stick to

Re: [NTG-context] How to add entire chapter's page ranger for index entry?

2022-01-23 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 23.01.22 um 22:40 schrieb Joel via ntg-context: I am adding items to an index simply using `\index{word}`. There are a few cases where instead of printing just the page number where `\index{word}` is placed, I need the entire page range for that chapter to be displayed. For instance, if

Re: [NTG-context] Credit in DTK

2022-01-23 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Salut Jean-Pierre, ich werde nicht versuchen, dir ebenso polyglott zu antworten. (Mein Latein ist arg eingestaubt, wegen Altgriechisch wäre ich damals beinahe sitzen geblieben, mein Russisch, Italienisch und Französisch reicht zum Einkaufen, von Schwedisch ist nicht mehr viel übrig, an

Re: [NTG-context] May I credit you in DTK?

2022-01-23 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 23.01.22 um 13:58 schrieb śrīrāman: I am flattered that you want to credit me, but am not sure why you would want to do so: I am just a beginner here (relatively) and only recently from a month or two back got involved with the indic things. Well, you are very active in this discussion and

[NTG-context] May I credit you in DTK?

2022-01-23 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Hi, I’m writing an article for DANTE’s magazine “Die TeXnische Komödie” (DTK) about the current discussions and developments in ConTeXt, and I’m planning to do that regularly. Find attached the current version (in German / LaTeX). I’d like to give credit to people involved and mention some of

Re: [NTG-context] new upload

2022-01-21 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 21.01.22 um 20:28 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: so we can have fixed values too .. will be explained in due time by Mikael (in manual) as we're still experimenting with all this - initial indic transliteration support .. recent indic (font) experiences and transliteration tricks will

Re: [NTG-context] Iterating over MP paths (was: Fuzzy lines)

2022-01-21 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 03.09.21 um 18:04 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context: Would it make sense to check if a point is an edge point (without curve controls)? In a private reply to my old message, Hans explained to me why this was not possible like I thought (check if the point has control points

Re: [NTG-context] How to create an index that refers to multiple other books?

2022-01-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 18.01.22 um 14:27 schrieb Joel via ntg-context: One possible solution I see, since the textbooks and workbooks share the same macros, formatting, fonts, etc. is to just render them as a single file, resetting the page number at the start of each new book, then later use pdfjam to split the

Re: [NTG-context] How to manually adjust the sort order of items appearing in a custom index?

2022-01-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 17.01.22 um 16:53 schrieb Joel via ntg-context: I created a custom index that displays a list of "Important Dates" appearing in my book. It lists the year, a short description of what happened, and should show the page number. I'm running into two errors though: First, if the date is the

Re: [NTG-context] How to let a macro check the previous value of #1 the last time the same macro was called?

2022-01-10 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 10.01.22 um 20:21 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context schrieb am 10.01.2022 um 09:52: Would it make more sense, or would it be “cleaner” to use a variable? You can get rid of the temp variable before the command definition but now you have to access

Re: [NTG-context] How to let a macro check the previous value of #1 the last time the same macro was called?

2022-01-10 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 09.01.22 um 16:03 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context: Joel via ntg-context schrieb am 09.01.2022 um 15:16: Is there a way for a macro to check the previous value of #1, the last time that same macro was called? To check is the current value differs from the last one you need a temp

[NTG-context] Regular online meet-up (tomorrow!)

2022-01-10 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
You’re invited to join Tuesday, January 11th, 15:00 CET at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Hans offered to give a Q session again – please announce subjects you’d like to discuss ASAP, so that he can prepare. I guess we can talk more

Re: [NTG-context] \its disappeared

2022-01-08 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 08.01.22 um 17:34 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context schrieb am 08.01.2022 um 16:53: strc-itm.mklx -\protected\tolerant\def\strc_itemgroups_start_items_indeed[#1]% +\protected\tolerant\def\strc_itemgroups_start_items[#1]% Thank you for the quick fix! It’s also

[NTG-context] descriptions with long titles

2022-01-08 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Hi again, I tried to use a description for a list of organizations with partly long titles. * title and description should both use linebreaking (works) * title should have a fixed width (doesn’t work) * description should run beside a multi-line title, without a gap (doesn’t work) Is this

[NTG-context] \its disappeared

2022-01-08 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
I don’t know since when the questionnaire item command \its doesn’t exist any more: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/its \starttext \startitemize[5,packed][items=7,width=5em,distance=1em] \ran{\ss\tfx 1 \hss 7} \its \CONTEXT\ or \LaTeX? \its Tofu or sausage?

Re: [NTG-context] critical fun

2022-01-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 06.01.22 um 20:00 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: Hi, Maybe this is of interest to critical users: \setupsynchronize [paralleltext] [color=darkblue] % \setupsynchronize [paralleltext] [style=\tx,color=darkred] % \setupsynchronize [paralleltext] [style=\txx,color=darkgreen] I played a

Re: [NTG-context] critical fun

2022-01-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 06.01.22 um 22:09 schrieb Jean-Pierre Delange via ntg-context: This ‘CriticalFun’ test failed, and CTX complains that \setupsynchronize was never defined (see the log, It works (for me) with the latest LMTX. Hraban

Re: [NTG-context] Critical Editions?

2022-01-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 06.01.22 um 19:41 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: there was a time when publishers did typesetting and printing themselves in which case they might have some interest in tools but afaik that time is long gone (and i admit that i never met a publisher where investing in know how and

[NTG-context] zint doesn’t work in "lines"

2022-01-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Hi, while the zint module generally works well, I run into "TeX capacity exceeded" as soon as I try a barcode within \startlines ... \stoplines: \usemodule[zint] \starttext \startlines My homepage: \barcode[alternative=qr code,text={www.fiee.net},width=2.5cm] \stoplines \stoptext What’s

Re: [NTG-context] Critical Editions?

2022-01-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 05.01.22 um 12:54 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context: On 1/5/22 9:43 AM, luigi scarso via ntg-context wrote: [...] quite old (2014),  but perhaps still interesting: embedding of a tei-xml into a tagged pdf https://www.guitex.org/home/images/ArsTeXnica/AT018/teitagged.pdf Luigi, if

Re: [NTG-context] Documentation about CTX installation on MacOS X

2022-01-03 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 03.01.22 um 09:22 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context: You might want to set: OSFONTDIR='/System/Library/Fonts//:/Library/Fonts//:~/Library/Fonts//:/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts// #:~/FontExplorer\ X/Font\ Library//' ICCPROFILES='~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles//:/Library

Re: [NTG-context] Documentation about CTX installation on MacOS X

2022-01-03 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 03.01.22 um 08:09 schrieb Jean-Pierre Delange via ntg-context: Thank you very much for your quick answer to you both Fabrice and Henning ! It seems there is no detailed documentation about peculiar aspects of CTX on MacOS. For instance, the use of fonts database on unix-like and MacOS are

Re: [NTG-context] Documentation about CTX installation on MacOS X

2022-01-02 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 03.01.22 um 03:26 schrieb Jean-Pierre Delange via ntg-context: Now my question : I want to try CTX (ConTeXtver: 2021.12.30) on MacOS X (currently 10.13  High Sierra), while I was formerly working with old versions on Linux and Windows based systems. Among other difficulties (like how to

[NTG-context] New Year / meetup

2022-01-02 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Hi everybody, my best wishes for a healthy, successful and generally happy new year! (We need it.) The next online meetup will be on Tuesday, Jan. 11th. I’ll send a reminder. Hraban ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] Critical Editions?

2021-12-21 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 21.12.21 um 11:06 schrieb Denis Maier via ntg-context: Thanks for bringing this topic up again. I'd also be highly interested in this! Me too as a publisher in the humanities and evangelist for ConTeXt ;) I raised the subject at previous context meetings, but the requirements for

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

2021-12-14 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
We’re online NOW! You can still join us. ;) Hraban Am 07.12.21 um 15:29 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context: You’re invited to join next Tuesday, December 14th, 15:00 CET (UTC+1) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Hans offered

[NTG-context] inserts and columns

2021-12-10 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
I stumbled upon a curious problem: """ \starttext Some text\footnote{with a footnote} \startcolumns \samplefile{knuth} \samplefile{knuth} \stopcolumns \samplefile{knuth} \stoptext """ The footnote is typeset after the columns, not at the bottom of the page, and collides with text before

Re: [NTG-context] All Equations

2021-12-10 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 10.12.21 um 18:03 schrieb Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context: On Fri, 10 Dec 2021, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: Since I never used math with ConTeXt, I tried to replicate XKCD 2034 as an exercise (see below and attached). I’d like to put it on the wiki and in my book. I know

[NTG-context] All Equations

2021-12-10 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Since I never used math with ConTeXt, I tried to replicate XKCD 2034 as an exercise (see below and attached). I’d like to put it on the wiki and in my book. I know this is nonsense, but I’d like to do it right. In some cases I’m unsure which symbol the author meant, e.g. p or \rho, 0 or O, 1

Re: [NTG-context] \WORD regression

2021-12-10 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 10.12.21 um 12:53 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context schrieb am 10.12.2021 um 08:20: Am 09.12.21 um 19:00 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context: \starttext \WORD{größer} \stoptext \WORD used to handle "ß" correctly, i.e. convert it to "SS&

Re: [NTG-context] \WORD regression

2021-12-09 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 09.12.21 um 19:00 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context: \starttext \WORD{größer} \stoptext \WORD used to handle "ß" correctly, i.e. convert it to "SS"; now it makes "sS". (If the current font contains an uppercase ß that would be even better, but t

[NTG-context] \WORD regression

2021-12-09 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
\starttext \WORD{größer} \stoptext \WORD used to handle "ß" correctly, i.e. convert it to "SS"; now it makes "sS". (If the current font contains an uppercase ß that would be even better, but those are rare). I can’t tell when it changed (some LMTX versions ago) and can’t check MkIV,

Re: [NTG-context] double underbars

2021-12-09 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 30.11.21 um 16:17 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: Another question: what do you mean with a dy-shift version? Nested bars have a parameter ‘dy’ which controls the vertical shifts needed to make sure that they do not overlap. Text backgrounds do not have that option at all. i've

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

2021-12-07 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
You’re invited to join next Tuesday, December 14th, 15:00 CET (UTC+1) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Hans offered to give a Q session again – please announce subjects you’d like to discuss ASAP, so that he can prepare. I’d suggest to

Re: [NTG-context] [DKIM] Re: [DKIM] circuitikz module seems broken

2021-12-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 04.12.21 um 00:27 schrieb Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context: Not placed at the right place. From your log file: open source > level 2, order 3, name '/Users/jan-erikhagglof/context/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-local/m-circuitikz.mkxl' (I am surprised it gets found! The should be

Re: [NTG-context] double underbars

2021-11-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 30.11.21 um 14:19 schrieb Taco Hoekwater via ntg-context: I would like to have this type of “complete” bar nesting as well. YES, #metoo As it stands, you can nest \underbars inside \underbars and \overstrikes inside \overstrikes and \overbars inside \overbars, but no other combinations

Re: [NTG-context] Parameter order in float location matters

2021-11-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 30.11.21 um 13:38 schrieb Marco Patzer via ntg-context: As far as I know there's no way to only turn off captions, so one has to know the default placement value (which might be buried in an environment file) and specify it again together with the “none” option. If you (or someone else)

Re: [NTG-context] Parameter order in float location matters

2021-11-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 30.11.21 um 12:16 schrieb Marco Patzer via ntg-context: Hi! Today I discovered that the parameter order in float location matters: \starttext \samplefile{knuth} \startplacefigure [location={top,none}] %% works: float is at the top \externalfigure \stopplacefigure

Re: [NTG-context] Influence location of luametatex-cache

2021-11-29 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 29.11.21 um 11:16 schrieb Marco Patzer via ntg-context: Hi! when LMTX is installed in a read-only location (e.g. /opt) it creates a directory "luametatex-cache" in $HOME. How to influence the location of the cache directory? Try to set TEXMFCACHE see also: mtxrun --variables Hraban

Re: [NTG-context] Blocks inside a conditional mode.

2021-11-28 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 28.11.21 um 19:39 schrieb Fabrice L via ntg-context: I have an error when I try to insert a block inside a conditional mode (but there is two nested conditional mode.. is this the problem ?). You can’t nest modes in \startmode ... \stopmode. I don’t know what are the limitations of

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical quotes

2021-11-28 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 28.11.21 um 11:32 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: On 11/27/2021 9:48 PM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote: I am not opposed to remove 8bit TeX hacks. I was simply objecting for removing the apostrophe mapping. For example, you used it in the sentence above (in “don't”)! english

Re: [NTG-context] Have a cell span multiple columns with tabulate

2021-11-27 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 27.11.21 um 21:49 schrieb Denis Maier via ntg-context: Hans added a short while ago a span feature to tabulate but it works only for simple tables (e.g. single line cells). You mean every cell has to be a single line cell? Or the ones where this span features applies ? That would be enough

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical quotes

2021-11-27 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 27.11.21 um 18:40 schrieb Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context: On Sat, 27 Nov 2021, Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context wrote: The option is no longer part of the default feature set. Personally, I think that that is a bit extreme. An apostrophe is a really common construct and I suspect that

Re: [NTG-context] adjusting vertical space

2021-11-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 25.11.21 um 00:06 schrieb jbf via ntg-context: The following MWE produces a passable result for a half-title page, but I need to reduce the vertical space between 'A JOURNEY' and 'from the' so that the 'h' of the 'the' is just touching the baseline of the 'R' in JOURNEY. At the moment there

Re: [NTG-context] Creating bibliographies with ox-context

2021-11-23 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 23.11.21 um 18:51 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context: Am 23.11.21 um 18:02 schrieb juh via ntg-context: Hi all, I am kind of lost with references and ox-context and ox-epub. What do you mean with "ox"? Is there a tutorial how to integrate a bibliography in ConTeX

Re: [NTG-context] Creating bibliographies with ox-context

2021-11-23 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 23.11.21 um 18:02 schrieb juh via ntg-context: Hi all, I am kind of lost with references and ox-context and ox-epub. What do you mean with "ox"? Is there a tutorial how to integrate a bibliography in ConTeXt and epub-Export? Did you read the bibliography manual (mkiv-publications.pdf)?

Re: [NTG-context] Multiline cell in spreadsheettable

2021-11-19 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 19.11.21 um 08:48 schrieb juh via ntg-context: And in https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupTABLE the parameter width is not mentioned at all. Because it inherits from \setupframed where all these parameters are declared. I would like to improve the wiki, any hint where a hint to

Re: [NTG-context] Can modes be used for content control?

2021-11-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
> Am 17.11.2021 um 16:08 schrieb ⁨Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد⁩ > <⁨idris.ha...@colostate.edu⁩>: > >> That looks to me like flawed logic – why should content for the unabridged >> version appear within the abridged version? > > TeX comments will illustrate: > > == > This

Re: [NTG-context] Checking for a macro in a string without expanding it

2021-11-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
> Am 16.11.2021 um 22:18 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context > : > it's pretty fast and needs no lua magic, only a twisted mind May I quote you as “ConTeXt needs a twisted mind”? ;D Hraban ___ If your question is

Re: [NTG-context] Can modes be used for content control?

2021-11-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
> Am 17.11.2021 um 04:06 schrieb ⁨Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد via > ntg-context⁩ <⁨ntg-context@ntg.nl⁩>: > > Unfortunately - as pointed out on the wiki - modes cannot be nested. Why would you need that? You know about \startnotmode and that you can use lists of modes?

Re: [NTG-context] Footnotes in margins

2021-11-16 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
> Am 16.11.2021 um 12:57 schrieb Marcus Vinicius Mesquita via ntg-context > : > > Dear list, > > When running the MWE below, the first footnote does not appear. > What am I missing? > > \starttext > \inmargin{Foo\footnote{Foo 1.}}Foo\footnote{Foo 2.} > \stoptext Footnotes are "inserts", and

[NTG-context] space handling in \type

2021-11-16 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Hi, \starttext \quotation{\type{\CONTEXT\ }} \stoptext gives “\CONTEXT \” i.e. the space moved. Why? Bug? Hraban ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] mwe (font proble) SOLVED

2021-11-14 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
> Am 15.11.2021 um 04:34 schrieb Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context > : > > On Sun, 14 Nov 2021, skyhorse--- via ntg-context wrote: > >> >> Solved. Well almost. I do know that it's an access problem of some sort. >> I used 'font-manager' to look at fonts and it showed 'DejaVu Math Tex Gyre'

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with Google Font 'Vollkorn'

2021-11-12 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
> Am 12.11.2021 um 18:23 schrieb Michael Urban via ntg-context > : > > I downloaded the Google free font ‘Vollkorn’ > (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Vollkorn) into an appropriate directory > and ran > mtxrun --script font --reload > all went well, and the Vollkorn truetype fonts show

Re: [NTG-context] rule beneath chapter number

2021-11-12 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
y default to oldstyle numbers. > Am 12.11.2021 um 14:47 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster > : > > Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context schrieb am 12.11.2021 um 09:09: >> \definefontfeature[ptabnum][default][ >> onum=no,pnum=yes,tnum=yes, >> ] > > You can't activate pnum

Re: [NTG-context] rule beneath chapter number

2021-11-12 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
> Am 12.11.2021 um 06:26 schrieb jbf via ntg-context : > > It does seem, though, just using '1' as the chapter number for the moment, > that the underline is not quite centered; almost but not quite. So am playing > around with the roffset to adjust that. It might make sense to use a

Re: [NTG-context] escape io.fileseparator in Windows

2021-11-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
> Am 04.11.2021 um 15:54 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context > : > > I’m really suprised that Windows accepts slashes in paths. It does at least since Windows NT. Hraban ___ If your question is of interest to

[NTG-context] Regular online meet-up

2021-11-02 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
You’re invited to join next Tuesday, November 9th, 15:00 CET (UTC+1) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Hans offered to give a Q session again – please announce subjects you’d like to discuss ASAP, so that he can prepare. From my part: I

Re: [NTG-context] Color profiles (was: Bloody PDF boxes)

2021-11-01 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
> Am 01.11.2021 um 08:58 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context > : > > And it seems like GWG is in conflict with the PDF association, at least GWG’s > recommendations contradict PDF/X. GWG doesn’t want to contradict but has a quality focus, see https://www.pdfa.org/

Re: [NTG-context] Color profiles (was: Bloody PDF boxes)

2021-11-01 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
> Am 01.11.2021 um 08:05 schrieb Floris van Manen via ntg-context > : > > this document: >> and also extendedhttps://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDFX a bit. > > contains a link to the Ghent Workshop that returns a 404 > > [here] -> http://www.gwg.org/recommended_ICC_profiles.phtm -> 404 Thank

[NTG-context] SyncTeX setup

2021-10-31 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Hi, has anyone a working SyncTeX setup with ConTeXt LMTX for anything else than TeXshop? With LaTeX, it works for me with Skim (+ Atom/Textadept/TeXworks) and TeXstudio. And in TeXshop we got our own parser. But can we expect others to adapt to our “superior” SyncTeX format? (I don’t

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