[NTG-context] Is there a way to consolidate index reference numbers by book?
\useregister[workbookA][03_workbook][learnedlong][WB~1:~] \useregister[workbookB][04_workbook][learnedlong][WB~2:~] \useregister[workbookC][05_workbook][learnedlong][WB~3:~] \useregister[workbookD][06_workbook][learnedlong][WB~4:~] \startchapter[title=Standards] \placeregister[learnedlong,workbookA,workbookB,workbookC,workbookD] \stopchapter I setup a custon index that lists items from four different workbooks. The problem is in the indexi, it displays entreis like this: WHST.1.1: 11, 231, WB 1: 124, WB 1: 133, WB 2: 325, WB 2: 345, etc. In other words, it says WB 1 in front of every page number from the first workbook. Is there any way to consolidate the page numbers by book, e.g. output instead like this: WHST.1.1: 11, 231, WB1: 124, 133, WB 2: 325, 345 In other words, it list all page numbers for Workbook 1 right after WB 1: instead of placing WB 1 in front of every single page from Workbook 1? --Joel ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] How to place text, but make it completely hidden from viewers?
I have found a few situations is confusing/breaking ConTeXt:
- Footnotes inside tables, figures, frames, margins (won't render the cited
item).
- Custom index items inside those items (displays "entry not flushed").
My workaround has been to define a size 0 font \tfz, then put it in a block
like this:
{\tfz% \starteffect[hidden]%
\cite[author1912] \stopeffect%
}%
The problem this seems to create, is sometimes if placed between two passages,
it interprets a need to create two paragraph breaks:
\input knuth
{\tfz% \starteffect[hidden]%
\cite[author1912] \stopeffect%
}%
\input knuth
It creates a paragraph break after the first knuth, then another after the
hidden text, thereby creating a "double spaced" break between two paragraphs.
Note the above code is used in many macros, so I don't have full control always
where it appears, but its making the double-spaced break everywhere.
Is there either (1) something can enter before this code that essentially has
the effect of "backup to the previous paragraph" or (2) some other method of
hiding text that makes it present on the page, but just not visible to the
reader, that won't create a double spaced break, or take up any space
what-so-ever?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] Why is this description environment not showing the correct title?
\definedescription[latexdesc][headstyle=bold, style=normal, align=flushleft,
alternative=hanging, width=broad, margin=1cm]
\starttext
\latexdesc{1540} some event happened
\latexdesc{1541} some other event happened
\latexdesc{1542} some event happened quite different
\stoptext
I found the above code (the first line) in the ConTeXt Wiki, as a way to create
the equivalent of a desc environment from LaTeX. The items inside {} should be
bold, then there is a gap before the next text.
I am using this to display a simple timeline.
Though the formatting looks perfect, very strangely when I compile it, it
changes all of the dates to say "1540" (or whatever date was used first).
Why is it showing the wrong title on the desc environment?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] How to stop ConTeXt from thinking period is at the end of a sentence?
I noticed that some code is being rendered wrong, most especially apparent in a column environment where sometimes the text can get stretched a bit more to fit the column width nicer. If a sentence says "They appeared between c. 1200 BCE and c. 1500 CE." it appears ConTeXt thinks that the period in "c." marks the end of a sentence. As such, when setting the text, sometimes it will give a large space between "c." and "1200 BCE". How do I correctly tell ConTeXt that that period doesn't mark the end of a sentence, so shouldn't be given extra space afterwards? --Joel ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Re: How to make superscript text match footnote mark formatting?
Thank you! --Joel
On Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 12:08:13 PM MDT, Wolfgang Schuster
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Joel via ntg-context schrieb am 27.04.2024 um 19:16:
> \starttext
> test\high{1}test\footnote{some text}
> \stoptext
>
> How can I create a superscript number that has exactly the same
> formatting as a footnote, but which won't create a footnote. I tried
> \high{}, which I believe should be the way to superscript text, but if
> you compile this, you can see the first "1" and second "1" have entirely
> different formatting. How do I make the first one have the same exact
> formtating as the real footnote?
Footnotes apply the \tx style to the number in the running text and to
get the same text size with \high you need \tx before the argument.
Another solution is to create your own \high command where you set the
text size as default value but now you have to pass \txx as value
because by default \high already uses style=\tx. When you now combine
the default \tx from \high and the \tx from the footnote you get the
\txx size (which is used in the custom \high command).
begin example
\definehigh[fakenotesymbol][style=\txx]
\starttext
\startlines
test\footnote{\unknown}
test\high{\tx 1}
test\fakenotesymbol{1}
\stoplines
\stoptext
end example
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[NTG-context] How to make superscript text match footnote mark formatting?
\starttext
test\high{1}test\footnote{some text}
\stoptext
How can I create a superscript number that has exactly the same formatting as a
footnote, but which won't create a footnote. I tried \high{}, which I believe
should be the way to superscript text, but if you compile this, you can see the
first "1" and second "1" have entirely different formatting. How do I make the
first one have the same exact formtating as the real footnote?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] Re: Why don't footnotes appear in floats or figures?
Okay, I've been trying many things with this \startpostponing code--if I
understand what's happening, its moving the figures to a later page. I'm not
sure that's quite ideal, its not fully working with my actual documents, and
leaves lots of empty white space, when I'm already in a situation where I need
to reduce page count.
So I thought an alternative route:
(1) have a code that checks "what is current footnote number?" that sets that
as a variable
\def\currentfoodnote{\somevariableincontextthatgetsfoodnotenumber}
(2) adjust my placefigure macro such that the footnote is outside the
placefigure, but color it white so its invisible:
\define\showafigure{
\cite[author2019]<--somehow hide this invisible
\placefigure{Caption\superscript{\currentfootnote}}}{\externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth]}
<--this places a superscript number inside the caption, but it isn't the true
marker(3) in the caption, place a superscript number with value to
\currentfootnoteIts basically a fake footnote, just a superscript number of the
same value as the real footnote.
Shouldn't this result work? Any idea how I can get current footnote value?
--Joel
On Monday, April 22, 2024 at 07:22:24 AM MDT, vm via ntg-context
wrote:
On 22/04/2024 14:38, Joel via ntg-context wrote:
> Is this the correct way to be using the \startpostponing code (see
> example below)?
>
> \starttext
> \input knuth
> \startpostponing
> \placefigure{Caption\footnote{message
> A}}{\externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth]}
> \stoppostponing
> \stoppostponing
double stop ?
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[NTG-context] Re: Why are ConTeXt-SBL endnotes empty?
Changing location=none to location=text still left me with the bullet points
appearing in a big list at the end of my chapter, but without any messages in
them.
On Monday, April 22, 2024 at 07:54:39 AM MDT, Joel via ntg-context
wrote:
A few years back, I tried using endnotes with ConTeXt-SBL, and it failed to
compile. I'm forced to try again (due to some other issue with footnotes), and
instead of compiling to error, it compiles, but the footnote's message ends up
being empty.
Why is it appearing empty? Is there a fix?
Here is a minimum working example:
\usemodule[publ-imp-sbl]
\startbuffer [bib]
@Article{na2006,
title={Volcanoes \word{of} New Mexico},
year={2006},
journal={New Mexico Earth Matters},
publisher={New Mexico Bureau \word{of} Geology \word{and} Mineral Resources},
volume={6},
number={1},
location={Socorro, New Mexico}
}
@Book{clark1989,
author = {Clark, William},
title = {Railroads \word{and} railroad towns \word{in} New Mexico},
publisher = {New Mexico Magazine},
year = {1989},
address = {Albuquerque, New Mexico},
isbn = {9780937206126}
}
\stopbuffer
\usebtxdataset[bib.buffer]
\setupbtx[dataset=default]
\usebtxdefinitions[sbl]
\setupbtx[sbl]
\setupnote[footnote][location=none]
\starttext
\input knuth
\cite[clark1989]
\placenotes[footnote]
\startchapter[title=Bibliography]
\placelistofpublications
\stopchapter
\stoptext
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[NTG-context] Why are ConTeXt-SBL endnotes empty?
A few years back, I tried using endnotes with ConTeXt-SBL, and it failed to
compile. I'm forced to try again (due to some other issue with footnotes), and
instead of compiling to error, it compiles, but the footnote's message ends up
being empty.
Why is it appearing empty? Is there a fix?
Here is a minimum working example:
\usemodule[publ-imp-sbl]
\startbuffer [bib]
@Article{na2006,
title={Volcanoes \word{of} New Mexico},
year={2006},
journal={New Mexico Earth Matters},
publisher={New Mexico Bureau \word{of} Geology \word{and} Mineral Resources},
volume={6},
number={1},
location={Socorro, New Mexico}
}
@Book{clark1989,
author = {Clark, William},
title = {Railroads \word{and} railroad towns \word{in} New Mexico},
publisher = {New Mexico Magazine},
year = {1989},
address = {Albuquerque, New Mexico},
isbn = {9780937206126}
}
\stopbuffer
\usebtxdataset[bib.buffer]
\setupbtx[dataset=default]
\usebtxdefinitions[sbl]
\setupbtx[sbl]
\setupnote[footnote][location=none]
\starttext
\input knuth
\cite[clark1989]
\placenotes[footnote]
\startchapter[title=Bibliography]
\placelistofpublications
\stopchapter
\stoptext
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[NTG-context] Re: Why don't footnotes appear in floats or figures?
I've managed to get a minimum working example. If you check, you'll see the
5th footnote inside a placefigure doesn't render anywhere:
\starttext
\input knuth
\placefigure{Caption\footnote{message
A}}{\externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth]}
\input knuth
\placefigure{Caption\footnote{message
B}}{\externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth]}
\input knuth
\placefigure{Caption\footnote{message
C}}{\externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth]}
\input knuth
\placefigure{Caption\footnote{message
D}}{\externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth]}
\input knuth
\placefigure{Caption\footnote{message
E}}{\externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth]}
\input knuth
\placefigure{Caption\footnote{message
F}}{\externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth]}
\stoptext
Is this the correct way to be using the \startpostponing code (see example
below)?
\starttext
\input knuth
\startpostponing
\placefigure{Caption\footnote{message
A}}{\externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth]}
\stoppostponing
\stoppostponing
\input knuth
\startpostponing
\placefigure{Caption\footnote{message
B}}{\externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth]}
\stoppostponing
\input knuth
\startpostponing
\placefigure{Caption\footnote{message
C}}{\externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth]}
\stoppostponing
\input knuth
\startpostponing
\placefigure{Caption\footnote{message
D}}{\externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth]}
\stoppostponing
\input knuth
\startpostponing
\placefigure{Caption\footnote{message
E}}{\externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth]}
\stoppostponing
\input knuth
\startpostponing
\placefigure{Caption\footnote{message
F}}{\externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth]}
\stoppostponing
\stoptext
On Monday, April 22, 2024 at 02:31:30 AM MDT, Hans Hagen via ntg-context
wrote:
On 4/22/2024 2:45 AM, Joel via ntg-context wrote:
> I'm three days out from sending my work to an editor, and found some
> serious problem: many footnotes just aren't rendering.
>
> I have a history text that uses ConTeXt-SBL for the citations, as such,
> it has lots of footnotes. Sometimes the footnotes are just in the main
> text, but sometimes also in figure captions, inside floats, inside
> tables that are inside floats, inside tabulations inside floats, etc.
>
> What I find alarming is it is frequently not rendering all of the
> footnote messages at the bottom of the page. The actual footnote number
> within the body is rendered, but no number is listed in at the bottom of
> the page. So I might see a list of footnotes, for instance, on page 1, I
> only get footnotes 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6, but 4 was mysteriously skipped.
>
>
> ---
> 1 message
> 2 message
> 3 message
> 5 message
> 6 message
>
> After a lot of trial-and-error and checking logs and checking my BibTeX
> files for errors, running everything through BibTex Tidy, etc., and
> failures to make a minimum working example, I found a single pattern:
>
> If the footnote marker appears on the SAME page as the footnote text, it
> has no problem rendering the footnote. But, if ConTeXt decides to move a
> float a page or two later on--as it frequently seems to do---such that
> the footnote marker and footnote text at bottom of page should be on
> DIFFERENT pages, the footnote message at the bottom of the page won't
> render.
>
> I've seen some 2+ year old mailing list posts suggesting ConTeXt might
> have issues with footnotes; they appear to be similar to my issue--is
> that still a problem? Is there a fix or workaround? Old fixes I could
> finding in the mailing list don't seem to work with current versions of
> ConTeXt anymore.
you need to consider the complications of such notes ...
- tex needs to take the notes into account when determining a page break
- it does so by the insert mechanism
- when floats can't be placed they also become inserts (top and bottom)
- when there are inserts in inserts th eproblem becomes more complex (so
notes inside floats)
- in traditional tex deeply burried inserts disappearm less so in lmtx
There are things that are hard to get right. This works:
\startpostponing
\startplacefigure[location=here,title={test \footnote{oeps 1}}]
\blackrule[width=1tw]
here
\footnote{hello 1} and
\footnote{hello 2} and
\footnote{hello 3} done
\stopplacefigure
\stoppostponing
\dorecurse{10}{\samplefile{tufte}\par}
Because here the inserts (notes) will migrate but even then one can get
them out of order (unless we renumber, which then is sensitiev for
oscillation).
I occasionally wonder if top floats could be done more directly but
bottom notes still would have an out-of-sync problem
-
Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE
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[NTG-context] Why don't footnotes appear in floats or figures?
I'm three days out from sending my work to an editor, and found some serious problem: many footnotes just aren't rendering. I have a history text that uses ConTeXt-SBL for the citations, as such, it has lots of footnotes. Sometimes the footnotes are just in the main text, but sometimes also in figure captions, inside floats, inside tables that are inside floats, inside tabulations inside floats, etc. What I find alarming is it is frequently not rendering all of the footnote messages at the bottom of the page. The actual footnote number within the body is rendered, but no number is listed in at the bottom of the page. So I might see a list of footnotes, for instance, on page 1, I only get footnotes 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6, but 4 was mysteriously skipped. ---1 message2 message3 message5 message6 message After a lot of trial-and-error and checking logs and checking my BibTeX files for errors, running everything through BibTex Tidy, etc., and failures to make a minimum working example, I found a single pattern: If the footnote marker appears on the SAME page as the footnote text, it has no problem rendering the footnote. But, if ConTeXt decides to move a float a page or two later on--as it frequently seems to do---such that the footnote marker and footnote text at bottom of page should be on DIFFERENT pages, the footnote message at the bottom of the page won't render. I've seen some 2+ year old mailing list posts suggesting ConTeXt might have issues with footnotes; they appear to be similar to my issue--is that still a problem? Is there a fix or workaround? Old fixes I could finding in the mailing list don't seem to work with current versions of ConTeXt anymore. --Joel___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] How to isolate serious errors from warnings?
I'm about to have a lengthy (2,000+ page) document published. Normally if it compiles and looks okay, I regard that as meaning no errors appeared, but I've noticed that sometimes ConTeXt will still compile, even if something isn't displayed on screen as it should: (1) I tried placing a table inside a startitemize environment, as instead of it not compiling, it left a message in the document warning that wasn't supported. (2) In another case, I had an image that ConTeXt couldn't find, as I mispelled the filenmame, and it fully compiled and made a PDF, without me noticing. (3) Or maybe in some case, a font couldn't be found for a specific character, so a single character in the file isn't displaying. Those are just some examples; I intended for something to be printed on the PDF, but it isn't showing there. Since a document of this size will have a lot of messages, is there a way to adjust the settings, from "show everything" to "show some" to "show only serious errors"? Or maybe to use > to send the errors to another file for careful study? (using Linux if that matters) --Joel ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Is TIFF image no longer supported?
I have a document with PNG, JPG, and TIFF. When I try using \externalfigure[filename][frame=on, width=.\textwidth] it displays JPG and PNG fine, but the TIFF files don't render. Is TIFF not supported in ConTeXt anymore? --Joel ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] How to get an image to fill the maximum available space?
I have code like this:
\placefigure[here, force]{my caption}{%
\externalfigure[#1][frame=on, maxheight=1.2\textwidth, maxwidth=\textwidth]%
}%
I need some images to appear in a book. I need them to keep their proper
ratios, but scale up to the maximize the available space.
The image can't be more than \textwidth wide, and can't ever be more than
1.2\textwidth high.
The problem I am getting with this code, and it does seem to be limiting the
images to be not bigger than those two dimensions above, is some of the images,
for reasons I can't understand, are appearing really tiny and aren't scaling up
to fill as much space as is possible. I can't explain why this is
happening--the images themselves are very very high resolution.
Is there any way to modify the code to make sure the image stretches up to be
the biggest it can, without exceeding the sizes I've listed?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] Why is header page number appearing when I define a header?
\starttext \setupheadertexts[Name:~][Date:~__][Date:~__][Name:~] \setupfootertexts[][pagenumber][][pagenumber] \input knuth \stoptext I used this code to create header texts that prints Name / Date on the top and page numbers in the bottom corners. But somehow when I define this code, its also adding the page number not just to the bottom of the page, but to the top of the page as well. How do I remove the page number from the header texts? --Joel ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Re: Why aren't cross-references working in tabulate?
Thank you! The solution worked!
On Friday, March 15, 2024 at 02:30:40 PM MDT, Wolfgang Schuster
wrote:
Joel via ntg-context schrieb am 15.03.2024 um 20:50:
> When I run this code, \at{page}[xyz] is unable to find the cross reference:
>
> \starttext
> %\reference[xyz]{}
> \starttabulate[|lp(.3\textwidth)|lp(.\textwidth)|]
> \NC \reference[xyz]{} \NC \NC\NR
\NC \doifnotmode{*trialtypesetting}{\pagereference[xyz]} \NC \NC\NR
> \stoptabulate
>
>
> \pagebreak
>
> \at{page}[xyz]
>
> \stoptext
>
> The code does work when I uncomment line #2, revealing the
> cross-references work find when outside of a table.
>
> I also tried using a TABLE environment instead and the result was
> similar, it wouldn't show the page number.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
Tabulate and natural tables process the table content multiple times and
therefore you're setting the reference multiple times, to avoid this
check for trialtypesetting mode and set the reference only when you're
out of the mode.
@Hans: Can we add the check trialtypesetting check to \reference etc.?
\protected\def\strc_references_set_named_reference
- {\ifreferencing
+ {\iftrialtypesetting
+ \expandafter\gobblefourarguments
+ \orelse\ifreferencing
\expandafter\strc_references_set_named_reference_indeed
\else
\expandafter\gobblefourarguments
\fi}
Wolfgang
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[NTG-context] Why aren't cross-references working in tabulate?
When I run this code, \at{page}[xyz] is unable to find the cross reference:
\starttext%\reference[xyz]{}
\starttabulate[|lp(.3\textwidth)|lp(.\textwidth)|]
\NC \reference[xyz]{} \NC \NC\NR
\stoptabulate
\pagebreak
\at{page}[xyz]
\stoptext
The code does work when I uncomment line #2, revealing the cross-references
work find when outside of a table.
I also tried using a TABLE environment instead and the result was similar, it
wouldn't show the page number.
What am I doing wrong?
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[NTG-context] Re: How to track down source of [entry not flushed] displaying in indexes?
I'm not understanding in a much much larger document how I sold this, as I've
tired placing \dontleavehmode in different places, but no success.
On Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 04:46:54 PM MDT, Wolfgang Schuster
wrote:
Joel via ntg-context schrieb am 13.03.2024 um 23:27:
> After many hours of trial-and-error, I was able to recreate the problem
> in a minimum working example:
>
> file main.tex only contains:
>
> \starttext
>
> \index{birds}
> \index{insects}
>
> \input secondary
>
> \placeindex
>
> \stoptext
>
> file secondary.tex only contains:
>
>
> \index{turtles}
>
> For reasons I can't understand, the index produces the same [entry not
> flushed] error. It seems here happening when contents are input.
The message appears even without the external file.
> My code is so simple, I can't understand what I've typed wrong.
Indices need an anchor to be flushed. When you put \index entries
between environments the next anchor appears at the start of a new
paragraph (I used \dontleavehmode for this in the following example).
\starttext
\index{birds}
\index{insects}
\index{turtles}
\dontleavehmode % comment this line for [entry not flushed]
\placeindex
\stoptext
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[NTG-context] Re: How to track down source of [entry not flushed] displaying in indexes?
What is an anchor? Does that mean the index needs to me next to some items,
like placed next to some text?
On Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 04:46:54 PM MDT, Wolfgang Schuster
wrote:
Joel via ntg-context schrieb am 13.03.2024 um 23:27:
> After many hours of trial-and-error, I was able to recreate the problem
> in a minimum working example:
>
> file main.tex only contains:
>
> \starttext
>
> \index{birds}
> \index{insects}
>
> \input secondary
>
> \placeindex
>
> \stoptext
>
> file secondary.tex only contains:
>
>
> \index{turtles}
>
> For reasons I can't understand, the index produces the same [entry not
> flushed] error. It seems here happening when contents are input.
The message appears even without the external file.
> My code is so simple, I can't understand what I've typed wrong.
Indices need an anchor to be flushed. When you put \index entries
between environments the next anchor appears at the start of a new
paragraph (I used \dontleavehmode for this in the following example).
\starttext
\index{birds}
\index{insects}
\index{turtles}
\dontleavehmode % comment this line for [entry not flushed]
\placeindex
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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[NTG-context] Re: How to track down source of [entry not flushed] displaying in indexes?
After many hours of trial-and-error, I was able to recreate the problem in a
minimum working example:
file main.tex only contains:
\starttext
\index{birds}
\index{insects}
\input secondary
\placeindex
\stoptext
file secondary.tex only contains:
\index{turtles}
For reasons I can't understand, the index produces the same [entry not flushed]
error. It seems here happening when contents are input.
My code is so simple, I can't understand what I've typed wrong.
--Joel
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wrote:
Okay, I maybe made some progress. I traced the code back and back through the
various documents and found I have some items inside:
\startnointerference\startnointerference
My intent is to have items that are "there" but invisible to viewers, taking up
no space on screen, but treated as being present, so the index will still point
to that particular page.
This solution seems to be what's causing the [entry not flushed] error in the
index.
Is there another solution instead of startnointerferencethat will hide text or
any content but still allow page references to link to that blank spot?
--Joel
On Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 07:53:21 AM MDT, Joel via ntg-context
wrote:
I have some custom registers that I use to index some information. When
compiled, it just prints [entry not flushed] instead of printing some of the
page numbers.
I have tens of thousands of lines of code, so have no idea how to break the
problem down to a minimal example. What does [entry not flushed] mean? What
kind of feature in my document do I need to search for that might explain why
this is appearing?
Here is the minimal code used in my index, as you see it isn't showing the
error, so something else in the document is causing it:
\setvalue{W3}{this is text for W3}
\defineregister[learnedshort][compress=yes]
\setupregister[learnedshort][style=sansbold, textstyle=slanted, n=3,
pagenumber=yes, indicator=no]
%
\defineregister[learnedlong][compress=yes]
\setupregister[learnedlong][style=sansbold, textstyle=slanted, n=2,
pagenumber=yes, indicator=no]
%
\define[1]\learnedis{%
\txt{} \getvalue{#1}
\learnedshort{#1}
\learnedlong{#1}
}
\define[1]\learned{%
\textreference[textref#1]{\expanded{\currentstructuretitle}}
\reference[ref#1]{}%
%
\learnedshort{#1}
\learnedlong{\getvalue{#1}}
}
\starttext
\learned{W3}
\startchapter[title=Standards]
\placeregister[learnedlong]
\stopchapter
\stoptext
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[NTG-context] Re: How to track down source of [entry not flushed] displaying in indexes?
Okay, I maybe made some progress. I traced the code back and back through the
various documents and found I have some items inside:
\startnointerference\startnointerference
My intent is to have items that are "there" but invisible to viewers, taking up
no space on screen, but treated as being present, so the index will still point
to that particular page.
This solution seems to be what's causing the [entry not flushed] error in the
index.
Is there another solution instead of startnointerferencethat will hide text or
any content but still allow page references to link to that blank spot?
--Joel
On Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 07:53:21 AM MDT, Joel via ntg-context
wrote:
I have some custom registers that I use to index some information. When
compiled, it just prints [entry not flushed] instead of printing some of the
page numbers.
I have tens of thousands of lines of code, so have no idea how to break the
problem down to a minimal example. What does [entry not flushed] mean? What
kind of feature in my document do I need to search for that might explain why
this is appearing?
Here is the minimal code used in my index, as you see it isn't showing the
error, so something else in the document is causing it:
\setvalue{W3}{this is text for W3}
\defineregister[learnedshort][compress=yes]
\setupregister[learnedshort][style=sansbold, textstyle=slanted, n=3,
pagenumber=yes, indicator=no]
%
\defineregister[learnedlong][compress=yes]
\setupregister[learnedlong][style=sansbold, textstyle=slanted, n=2,
pagenumber=yes, indicator=no]
%
\define[1]\learnedis{%
\txt{} \getvalue{#1}
\learnedshort{#1}
\learnedlong{#1}
}
\define[1]\learned{%
\textreference[textref#1]{\expanded{\currentstructuretitle}}
\reference[ref#1]{}%
%
\learnedshort{#1}
\learnedlong{\getvalue{#1}}
}
\starttext
\learned{W3}
\startchapter[title=Standards]
\placeregister[learnedlong]
\stopchapter
\stoptext
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[NTG-context] How to track down source of [entry not flushed] displaying in indexes?
I have some custom registers that I use to index some information. When
compiled, it just prints [entry not flushed] instead of printing some of the
page numbers.
I have tens of thousands of lines of code, so have no idea how to break the
problem down to a minimal example. What does [entry not flushed] mean? What
kind of feature in my document do I need to search for that might explain why
this is appearing?
Here is the minimal code used in my index, as you see it isn't showing the
error, so something else in the document is causing it:
\setvalue{W3}{this is text for W3}
\defineregister[learnedshort][compress=yes]
\setupregister[learnedshort][style=sansbold, textstyle=slanted, n=3,
pagenumber=yes, indicator=no]
%
\defineregister[learnedlong][compress=yes]
\setupregister[learnedlong][style=sansbold, textstyle=slanted, n=2,
pagenumber=yes, indicator=no]
%
\define[1]\learnedis{%
\txt{} \getvalue{#1}
\learnedshort{#1}
\learnedlong{#1}
}
\define[1]\learned{%
\textreference[textref#1]{\expanded{\currentstructuretitle}}
\reference[ref#1]{}%
%
\learnedshort{#1}
\learnedlong{\getvalue{#1}}
}
\starttext
\learned{W3}
\startchapter[title=Standards]
\placeregister[learnedlong]
\stopchapter
\stoptext
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[NTG-context] How to set section title based on section content?
How to set section title based on section content?
I have a document that has some structures like this:
\starttext
\startsection[title={Animals}]
\event{\input knuth }
\stopsection
\startsection[title={Books}]
\event{\input knuth }
\stopsection
\stoptext
The event macro runs a bunch of conditionals, deciding which content to place
inside the section. It places any one of neary 200 possible different types of
content there.
Sadly when I wrote the code, I thought generic titles would be okay. Now I
realize I need to be more specific, giving titles that match the content
inside. I could move the section titles inside the \event macro, but it means
rewriting ~200 other macros.
In other words, how do I define a section title by defining it somewhere in the
content of the \event macro?
\starttext
\startsection[\whatistitle] %<-- would display "Neon Tetras"
\event{\thetitleis{Neon Tetras}\input knuth }
\stopsection
\startsection[\whatistitle] %<-- would display "Detective Stories"
\event{\thetitleis{Detective Stories}\input knuth }
\stopsection
\stoptext
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[NTG-context] How to print the book title and section title where \reference is located?
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 government agency that the content meets several
requirements, so I'm giving them a simple file that says something like
"Requirement A is met in TB, "Cats", p. 11" basically letting the reader know
its in the textbook, section called "Cats", on p. 11. To mark the pages, I'm
simply dropping in macros called "\requirementA" "\requirementB" on whichever
page of whichever book demonstrates it meets the requirement, then the file
will aquatically list the book, section, and page number by searching for that
macro.
\define\requirementA{
\reference[markerA]{This is a comment.}
}
\define\requirementB{
\reference[markerB]{This is a comment.}
}
\define\requirementC{
\reference[markerC]{This is a comment.}
}
\starttext
\section{Cats}
\requirementA
\input knuth
\requirementC
\requirementB
\pagebreak
\section{Fish}
\input knuth
\input knuth
\input knuth
\input knuth
\requirementC
\requirementB
\pagebreak
\section{Frogs}
\input knuth
\requirementB
\pagebreak
\section{Markers}
\startitemize
\item Requirement A is met \at{page}[markerA].
\item Requirement B is met \at{page}[markerB].
\item Requirement C is met \at{page}[markerC].
\stopitemize
\stoptext
I have this sample code, but it only works for a single document, and only
displays page number. I tried looking at the \about and other related command,
but that requires giving a reference name and referring to the titles, not my
dropped macro. How can I modify this to display a message like below, plus also
scans the other files. *It only needs to reference the first found occurrence.*
Here is a sample message what the output should give:
"Requirement A is met in WB 3, "Bears", p. 33."
--Joel
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[NTG-context] How to stop
I have a document that uses ~40 different TABLE configurations, each with their
own special requirements, such as these below, and in total, perhaps 2000
tables appear in a file, using one of the configurations.
\setupTABLE[r][1][align=raggedleft]
\setupTABLE[c][1][width=.1\textwidth]
\setupTABLE[c][2][width=.33\textwidth]
\setupTABLE[c][3][width=.37\textwidth]
\setupTABLE[c][4][width=.1\textwidth]
\setupTABLE[c][5][width=.1\textwidth]
\setupTABLE[c][1,2,3,4,5][align=raggedleft,
frame=off]
%\setupTABLE[r][2,3,4,5,6,8,9,11,12,14][bottomframe=off]
\setupTABLE[r][1][bottomframe=on]
\bTABLE[split=yes]
\bTR\bTD {\it Lesson} \eTD\bTD {\it
Time} \\eTD\bTD {\it Date} \eTD\bTD {\it Page} \eTD\eTR
\eTABLE
What I've been finding is that previous settings on TABLES appearing earlier in
the document is impacting later tables. For instance, if one has a frame to the
right of column 1, then the next table seems to acquire this setting as well,
even if it isn't expected to have any frames at all.
Note that each unique table is defined inside a macro.
How can I make these table settings only apply to the a specific table?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] How to input first n lines from file?
With the command `\input file`, I can input the entire contents of `file.tex`. Is there a way to limit it to the first n lines, for instance, something like `\input[10]` file would only input the first 10 lines from `file.tex` and ignore the rest of the lines. --Joel ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] How to really force figure to appear "here"?
Here, I've created an example that does just that. I want the figure to appear
immediately after the bold text. Even if a lot of whitespace is placed and the
figure appears on the next page, that is fine, but I don't want the next group
of text to appear until *after* the figure. This is really confusing my readers.
\starttext
\input knuth
\input knuth
{\boldface This is a short note about the picture. It should appear right
after this.}
\placefigure[here,force]{caption}{
\externalfigure[1.jpg][width=\textwidth]
}
\input knuth
\input knuth
\input knuth
\input knuth
\input knuth
\input knuth
\stoptext
--Joel
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wrote:
I have been using \placefigure[here, force] to place some graphics, but its
instead showing other text from the next section, then the picture. In testing,
this is causing readers to be confused, as they expect to see a picture, but
its somehow appearing two pages later. I don't care it it requires a huge blank
area on the page before it, how can I make it so any text after
\placefigure[here, force] doesn't appear before the figure?
--Joel
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I have been using \placefigure[here, force] to place some graphics, but its instead showing other text from the next section, then the picture. In testing, this is causing readers to be confused, as they expect to see a picture, but its somehow appearing two pages later. I don't care it it requires a huge blank area on the page before it, how can I make it so any text after \placefigure[here, force] doesn't appear before the figure? --Joel ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Is there a way to centrally add a list of indexed items to a sub category?
I have a document like this:
\starttext
\index{dogs}
\index{cats}
\index{flowers}
\index{snails}
\index{trees}
\placeindex
\stoptext
As I understand, if you use \index{animals+dogs}, it will place dogs as a
sub-category of dogs.
Is there any way to control this centrally, for instance:
\addtosub[animals]{dogs, cats, snails}
\addtosub[plants]{flowers, trees}
Such a way would make it so \index{dogs} places an entry for "dog" under "d"
and "animals --> dogs" under "a".
--Joel
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[NTG-context] How to print all pages for a single index entry?
I have an index like this:
\starttext
\index{butterflies}\index{horses}\index{cows}
\placeindex
\stoptext
The placeindex will place every index.
Is there a way to say, display an index, but only for a specific single entry,
or specific list of entries, e.g.
\placeindex[horses, cows] (would exclude butterflies from the index entries)
--Joel
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[NTG-context] How to fix indexes displaying [entry not flushed] with hidden data?
I have a document that needs to place some "hidden" data. In other words, there
is an entire \input file with an article, but it doesn't get rendered visibly.
However, the indexes, registers, and bibliography need to still function as if
it were displayed right there on the page.
It should be as if the data actually is all there, on a single page, but either
compressed inside a single invisible pixel off or plain invisible to readers,
not using any physical space on the page.
I tried two methods suggested at Stack Exchange for hiding the data:
1. \startnointerference
2. \setbox\scratchbox=\vbox{}
These both successfully seem to place the data there, without it actually being
visible and bibliograhy entries still function fine.
The problem is, index and customer registers are getting confused:
When one goes to render the page numbers in \placeindex, it gets confused,
displaying the message: "[entry not flushed]" instead of the page number. When
I render this minimum working example below, the index is populated with [entry
not flushed] instead of page numbers. Note that if I delete the test "This is
invisible text."and recompile, I can get a successful render. The problem is, I
have text that needs to remain invisible.
\starttext
\index{birds}
\index{insects}
\startnointerference
\index{spiders}
\index{bears}
\index{rabbits}
This is invisible text.
\stopnointerference
\input knuth
\placeindex
\stoptext
How to fix indexes displaying [entry not flushed] with hidden data?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] How to show bibliography only for the chapter?
I am trying to place a bibliography at the end of the chapter, not the end of
the whole document. I tried various code such as `criteria=bychapter` etc., but
it will only show the entire bibliography for the whole document. How can I
limit the list to the material falling within that chapter?
\starttext
\startchapter[title={Robots}]
\input knuth \cite[source1]
\placelistofpublications[criteria=bychapter]
\placelistofpublications[way=bychapter]
\placelistofpublications[criteria=chapter]
\stopchapter
\stoptext
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Re: [NTG-context] How to print the section number of a reference in ConTeXt?
To explain more simply, I've put \pagereference[sample] somewhere in a
document. Intead of just printing the page number that appeared with
\at{page}[sample], I'd like to print the section or subsection title of where
that appeared.
--Joel
On Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 09:18:19 AM MST, Joel via ntg-context
wrote:
I've set a \pagereference in a chapter, and want to print its chapter title
and page number, ex.
"You can find more information in "Fish" on p. 1" (where "Fish" is the title of
the chapter or section).
I've tried looking all through the wiki, thinking this was a basic feature, but
couldn't get anything to work. I even tried my own custom macros, see below,
but strangely, it won't give me the correct title, it tells me the title of the
current chapter, instead of the title in which the reference was placed:
\define[1]\dropref{% \textreference[#1]{\expanded{\currentstructuretitle}}
}
\starttext
\startchapter[title=Fish]
\dropref{hello}
\input knuth
\stopchapter
\startchapter[title=Whales]
You can more information at \at{page}[hello] in \at{chapter}[hello] or
\about[hello].
\stopchapter
\stoptext
Strangely both at commands give the correct information, but \about doesn't.
How do I place a reference somewhere in a text, then later tell which chapter
title and page number that reference appeared in?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] How to print the section number of a reference in ConTeXt?
I've set a \pagereference in a chapter, and want to print its chapter title and
page number, ex.
"You can find more information in "Fish" on p. 1" (where "Fish" is the title of
the chapter or section).
I've tried looking all through the wiki, thinking this was a basic feature, but
couldn't get anything to work. I even tried my own custom macros, see below,
but strangely, it won't give me the correct title, it tells me the title of the
current chapter, instead of the title in which the reference was placed:
\define[1]\dropref{% \textreference[#1]{\expanded{\currentstructuretitle}}
}
\starttext
\startchapter[title=Fish]
\dropref{hello}
\input knuth
\stopchapter
\startchapter[title=Whales]
You can more information at \at{page}[hello] in \at{chapter}[hello] or
\about[hello].
\stopchapter
\stoptext
Strangely both at commands give the correct information, but \about doesn't.
How do I place a reference somewhere in a text, then later tell which chapter
title and page number that reference appeared in?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] How to place a page reference multiple times?
I need to report every chapter that a particular macro appeared. I would do
this by placing `\pagereference[sample]` inside the macro definition, so
whenever it is called, it marks the reference info. But I can't seem to get
references to work with multiple reference locations marked, example:
\starttext
You can find it at \at{page}[sample] in \at{chapter}[sample].
\chapter{Fish}
\pagereference[sample]
\input knuth
\input knuth
\pagebreak
\chapter{Whales}
\input knuth
\pagereference[sample]
\stoptext
(you can see in this example, it only finds `\pagereference[sample]` on page 1
and ignores the second appearance.
Ideally, I need to be able to output something like, "See examples in Chapter
3, 8, 19" (because those chapters contain a particular macro that I marked with
\pagereference. Or, if even possible, see chapters 3 (p. 22), 8 (p. 40), and 20
(though the first example is fine.
Is there a way to place a page reference multiple times, so multiple pages or
chapter details will appear?
--Joel
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Re: [NTG-context] How to add data from another PDF in index?
Fantastic! Exactly what I needed. My publisher was gong to ask for the
information of this index soon, so its great that already works!
--Joel
On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 11:45:48 AM MST, Alan Braslau
wrote:
Hans needs to confirm, "In the next update..."
Test files (MWEs):
% index-1.tex
\setupinteraction[state=start]
\starttext
test \index{entry WB.1} \page empty \page
test \index{another WB.1} \page empty \page
test \index{onemore WB.1} \page empty \page
test \index{whatever WB.1} \page empty \page
test \index{common} \page empty \page
\placeregister[index]
\stoptext
% index-2.tex
\setupinteraction[state=start]
\defineregister[xedni]
\useregister[workbook][index-1][index][WB ]
\starttext
test \index{onemore TB.1} \page
test \index{another TB.1} \page
test \index{entry TB.1} \page
test \index{common} \page
test \xedni{onemore TB.2} \page
test \xedni{another TB.2} \page
test \xedni{entry TB.2} \page
test \xedni{common} \page
\placeregister[index,xedni,workbook]
\stoptext
This seems to work well - I have applied it to a long and complicated
multi-volume book project to great success!
We need to thank Hans for the quick implementation.
Alan
On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 05:43:01 +0000 (UTC)
Joel via ntg-context wrote:
> I am making a textbook and workbook set.
> I have this custom index using this code, in both the textbook and
> workbook: %
> \defineregister[learnedshort][compress=yes]
> \setupregister[learnedshort][style=sansbold, textstyle=slanted, n=2,
> pagenumber=yes, indicator=no] %
> \defineregister[learnedlong][compress=yes]
> \setupregister[learnedlong][style=sansbold, textstyle=slanted, n=2,
> pagenumber=yes, indicator=no] %
> \define[1]\learnedis{%
> \txt{} \getvalue{#1}
> \learnedshort{#1}
> \learnedlong{#1}
> }
> \define[1]\learned{%
> \learnedshort{#1}
> \learnedlong{\getvalue{#1}}
> }
>
> \starttext
>
> \learnedis{blah blah}
>
> \input knuth
>
> \learnedis{some more}
>
>
> \startchapter[title=Standards]
> \placelearnedshort
> \stopchapter
>
> \stoptext
>
>
> My question is, can I have references to the Workbook page numbers in
> the textbook? And visa-versa?
>
> For instance, the Textbook index currently looks like this:
> -
> Standards
> blah blah 1
> some more 2
> --
> With the data in the Workbook it might look like this:
> Standards
> blah blah 1, WB: 1, 3-8
>
> some more 2, WB: 8-9
> yet more WB: 10, 12
>
> --
> Is this possible to merge index information like this?
> --Joel
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[NTG-context] Can ConTeXt display a simple itemized list as a comma-separated list?
I have a list like this: \startitemize[1]\item fish\item eggs\item milk\stopitemize Is there any command in ConTeXt to make this display the items as a comma-separated list, like this: fish, eggs, milk Or a semi-colon-separated list? fish; eggs; milk --Joel ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] How to add data from another PDF in index?
I am making a textbook and workbook set.
I have this custom index using this code, in both the textbook and workbook:
%
\defineregister[learnedshort][compress=yes]
\setupregister[learnedshort][style=sansbold, textstyle=slanted, n=2,
pagenumber=yes, indicator=no]
%
\defineregister[learnedlong][compress=yes]
\setupregister[learnedlong][style=sansbold, textstyle=slanted, n=2,
pagenumber=yes, indicator=no]
%
\define[1]\learnedis{%
\txt{} \getvalue{#1}
\learnedshort{#1}
\learnedlong{#1}
}
\define[1]\learned{%
\learnedshort{#1}
\learnedlong{\getvalue{#1}}
}
\starttext
\learnedis{blah blah}
\input knuth
\learnedis{some more}
\startchapter[title=Standards]
\placelearnedshort
\stopchapter
\stoptext
My question is, can I have references to the Workbook page numbers in the
textbook? And visa-versa?
For instance, the Textbook index currently looks like this:
-
Standards
blah blah 1
some more 2
--
With the data in the Workbook it might look like this:
Standards
blah blah 1, WB: 1, 3-8
some more 2, WB: 8-9
yet more WB: 10, 12
--
Is this possible to merge index information like this?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] How to create multi-line headers and footers?
I am creating a template for a 1-page newsletter.
At the top of every page is a huge title, below which is a block with a brief
introduction to the newsletter. The body is just 200-300 words each issue--I
edit it such that all of the content fits on just one-side, one page. Finally,
in the footer, is contact information and some other closing details.
==TITLE <-- big title
<-- introduction paragraph
==
<-- body text
--== <-- message in footer
==
I tried placing that all into a macro called "\introduction" then calling with
this
\setupheadertexts[\introduction]
It seems when placing the macro inside \setupheadertexts, the text is reduced
to a single line. Any code involving \frames{} doesn't seem to work normally.
Its all compressed to a single line, then centered.
How can I put a mult-line frame or multi-line text in the headers and footers?
--Joel
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Re: [NTG-context] Can ConTeXt print specific paragraph and sentences from an input file?
I've tried to keep all of the input files entirely plain text, as much as
possible. The exception is two custom macros used to mark citations that are in
the text, \turabian{}{}{} and \ibid{}{}{}. I could find no way of getting
around including that in the text, as legally I must include the citations. The
rest of the text is plain text with no other ConTeXt markup, or at leave hardly
any.
--Joel
On Thursday, January 26, 2023 at 11:44:07 PM MST, Hans Hagen via ntg-context
wrote:
On 1/27/2023 4:22 AM, Joel via ntg-context wrote:
> Assuming I have an input file with an essay:
>
> \starttext
>
> \input essay
>
> \stoptext
>
>
> Is there any command to tell ConTeXt to print a specific sentence, e.g.
> the first sentence from paragraph 2, or the last sentence from paragraph
> 1, etc?
depends on the kind of input, coding etc .. how reliable is is to
recognize a sentence and such, but given that tex is a programing
environment all is possible in the end
Hans
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[NTG-context] Can ConTeXt print specific paragraph and sentences from an input file?
Assuming I have an input file with an essay: \starttext \input essay \stoptext Is there any command to tell ConTeXt to print a specific sentence, e.g. the first sentence from paragraph 2, or the last sentence from paragraph 1, etc? --Joel ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Why won't custom indexes work when the value comes from \getvalue?
I setup a custom index like this (see minimum example code below):
The problem is, when I try to create an index entry, using \setcoreidea, but
place \getvalue inside, it won't render, ex.: \setcoreidea{\getvalue{secret1}}
As you can see in this sample code, \setcoreidea will work fine, but when
\getvalue{} is placed inside, it can't find the value.
Any suggestions?
--Joel
\defineregister[coreidea][compress=yes]\setupregister[coreidea][style=sansbold,
textstyle=slanted, n=2, pagenumber=yes, indicator=no]
\define[1]\setcoreidea{%
\coreidea{#1}%
}
\setvalue{secret1}{this won't work}
\starttext
%
\setcoreidea{this works}
\input knuth
\input knuth
\input knuth
\input knuth
\setcoreidea{\getvalue{secret1}}
\startchapter[title=Core Ideas]
\placecoreidea
\stopchapter
\stoptext
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[NTG-context] Is the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) style files for ConTeXt incompatible with \setupinteraction[state=start]?
When I am using the SBL ConTeXt files for citations, if I add a line
`\setupinteraction[state=start` my code starts complaining:
Undefined control sequence \currentbtxloctext
\16>:btx:sbl:cite:inline
#1->\fastsetup {\s!btx :\s!cite :concat}\fastsetup
{btx:sbl:cite:lefttext}\begingroup \letbtxparameter {punct}\empty \def
\currentbtxcitealternative {inline}\def \currentbtxcategory {\btxfield
{category}}\def \currentbtxloctext
{\btxparameter {loctex
\normalexpanded
\Word {\fastsetup {btx:sbl:cite:inline}
}\doif {\btxparameter {righttext}}{\empty } {\btxperiod }
\strc_constructions_register_yes
...
Is this package incompatible with interaction?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] Why does \doifsomething think there is content?
I am creating a book that presents readers with a list of recommended materials.
If materials are listed, then its displayed under the \subject{Materials}
heading in a simple itemized list.
I'm using \doifsomething{} to check if any items are listed.
The problem I'm having is, when fed a blank macro, `\define\needsoven{}` it
thinks there is content, so it displays the "Materials" heading, but an empty
list. I have a custom macro that determins "if oven is needed" independent of
these other items. So I need `\define\needsoven{}` to be regarded as nothing.
How can I get \doifsomething{} to think \define\needsoven{} is an empty value?
--Joel
My minimal working example is below:
\define\needsoven{}
\define[1]\materialsneeded{%
\doifsomething{#1}{
\subject{Materials}
\startitemize
#1
\stopitemize
}
}
\starttext
\chapter{Recipe 1}
\materialsneeded{\needsoven}
\subject{Instructions}
Spread peanut butter on sandwich.
\chapter{Recipe 2}
\materialsneeded{\item pizza cutter \item stove}
\subject{Instructions}
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
\stoptext
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Re: [NTG-context] How to display the pages of a particular section in another PDF?
Thanks so much! It took some work for me to figure out how to make it work, but it now works great! --Joel On Monday, December 5, 2022 at 05:15:49 AM MST, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: On 12/4/2022 11:30 PM, Joel via ntg-context wrote: > I can use this code to display page 5 from a PDF: > > \externalfigure[filename.pdf][page=5] > > I am making a teacher's guide for a workbook (workbook.pdf). I need to > be able to display on the page all pages of a particular section. > > The teacher's guide uses the same section titles as the workbook, e.g.: > > 17-A: Title > 17-B: Title > > In other words, there is 1:1 pairing of section titles in the teacher's > guide and the workbook. > > Is there any way to tell ConTeXt to display all of the pages for a > particular section? > > \externalfigure[filename.pdf][section=17A] prototype attached (first process crap, then load) Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl - ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___ ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] How to display the pages of a particular section in another PDF?
I can use this code to display page 5 from a PDF:\externalfigure[filename.pdf][page=5]I am making a teacher's guide for a workbook (workbook.pdf). I need to be able to display on the page all pages of a particular section. The teacher's guide uses the same section titles as the workbook, e.g.: 17-A: Title 17-B: Title In other words, there is 1:1 pairing of section titles in the teacher's guide and the workbook. Is there any way to tell ConTeXt to display all of the pages for a particular section? \externalfigure[filename.pdf][section=17A] --Joel ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Why are my captions overlapping next text in combinations?
I have some combinations used throughout my document like this:
\starttext
\startcombination[4*2] {%
\framed[width=.25\textwidth, height=.25\textwidth]{}%
}{%
\strut word \\ \thinrule\hairline\hairline%
}%
\stopcombination \input knuth
\stoptext
This makes a box, then displays a word underneath, and then some blank lines.
The problem I'm having is many times the caption text is covering up whatever
appears after. In this minimal example, I tried showing the problem, but
somehow this is rendering find, not covering the \input knuth text.
Also, if I add more more items to the combination, the second row appears above
the first row!
My document is rather complex, so I couldn't find a way to simplify it enough
to get a minimal example to reveal the problem that is appearing.
Any ideas what might be causing the caption text to overlap and cover whatever
appears after it?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] How to break margin notes across page breaks?
How can I allow margin text to break across the page breaks?
I have a document with many \inmargin code.
The problem I'm finding is that sometimes I have a lot of items in the margin.
I hope this margin details can break across the page and continue onto the next
page. The problem is instead it just runs off the print boundaries of the page.
See this sample code for an example:
\starttext
\input knuth
\inmargin{\input knuth }
\input knuth
\input knuth
\input knuth
\input knuth
\input knuth
\input knuth
\stoptext
How can I allow margin notes to break across pages instead of running off the
page boundaries?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] How to make a block of text narrower?
I need to make a section of text in my document narrower, about .\textwidth. Basically the text has normal alignment and everything, just instead of filling \textwidth, its compressed so there is a larger white space to the right. I've tried dozens of things, but cannot get a good solution, every solution has strange other effects. The best thing that has worked so far is \setuplayout[width=3in] But the problem with this solution is then I cannot get it to return to the original settings afterward. --Joel ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] How to stop enumerated tabulate environments from shifting to the right?
When I place a tabulate environment inside itemize, it indents and the entire table is shifted to the right about 1/2". \starttext \input knuth \startitemize[n] \item x \stopitemize \startitemize[n] \starttabulate[|lp(.1\textwidth)|cp(.35\textwidth)|cp(.2\textwidth)|cp(.35\textwidth)|] \NI \NC \NC \NC\NR \NC \NC \NC \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stopitemize \input knuth\stoptext See this code which when compiled, the first itemize numbers line up with the left edge of text, but the one with tables indents. It also seems to spill into the right margin. How can I stop enumerated table environments from indenting? --Joel ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] What to do when ConTeXt not revealing the error details?
I found what it was, a % in the text preventing a \stopitemize to close a list. Thanks! --Joel On Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 07:56:44 PM MDT, Gavin wrote: Hi Joel, I get this error frequently when I forget to stop an environment, for example a \startsection with no \stopsection or a \startplacefigure with no \stopplacefigure. This freqeuntly doesn’t cause an error because the engine is happily packing my entire book into a margin figure. See if there something you should have stopped near the place where things go bad? Good luck! Gavin > On Oct 30, 2022, at 7:46 PM, Joel via ntg-context wrote: > > I have a very large document that, when compiled, produces a PDF, but reports > the error "mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 1". > > The PDF can open, but after about 100 pages in, the content starts appearing > all in the wrong place. > > Usually when I compile, it says there is an error, and I just scroll up until > I find the details. I've scrolled through the output, and *.log file, but > cannot see anything that looks like an error. > > It could be that just because the document is so long (about 1200 pages), I > can't find the error among the huge logs, but I looked through them all > carefully. > > How can I isolate the error when ConTeXt isn't showing it? Is there some > setting for showing only errors, or revealing more details about an error? > > --Joel > ___ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > wiki : https://contextgarden.net > ___ ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] What to do when ConTeXt not revealing the error details?
I have a very large document that, when compiled, produces a PDF, but reports the error "mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 1". The PDF can open, but after about 100 pages in, the content starts appearing all in the wrong place. Usually when I compile, it says there is an error, and I just scroll up until I find the details. I've scrolled through the output, and *.log file, but cannot see anything that looks like an error. It could be that just because the document is so long (about 1200 pages), I can't find the error among the huge logs, but I looked through them all carefully. How can I isolate the error when ConTeXt isn't showing it? Is there some setting for showing only errors, or revealing more details about an error? --Joel ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] How to make a row of text have vertical centering in tabulate environment?
I have a simple tabulate environment like this: \starttext \starttabulate[|p(.45\textwidth)|cp(.1\textwidth)|p(.45\textwidth)|] \NR \HL \NC Cause \NC \NC Effect \NC\NR \HL \NC \NC \NC \NC\NR \NC text a \NC text b \NC \input knuth \NC\NR %<-- vertically center this row \HL \NR \stoptabulate \stoptext I'd like to vertically center the content in the one marked row. By default, they seem to place each cell aligned to the top, but how can I adjust them vertically so the text is vertically centered just in specific rows? --Joel ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] How to set the vertical spacing between a sequence of images?
I have code like this which randomly pulls a page from `comic2.pdf` and
displays it, scaled to fit \textwidth, then displays four more random pages
afterwares.
\starttext \dorecurse{5}{
\placefigure[force,
none]{}{\framed[frame=off]{\externalfigure[comic2.pdf][page=\randomnumber{1}{34},
width=\textwidth]}}
}\stoptext
The problem is I need to adjust the vertical space between the images. It seems
to be set to some lineheight or such, but I need the distance between each
image to be at 1/50th or 0.02 of \textwidth. ...though the last image can have
the ordinary gap afterwards.
How can I se the vertical spacing between this sequence of image to
0.02\textwidth?
--Joel
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Re: [NTG-context] How to make something appear to the right of every paragraph?
These both work great, but do that for the whole document? Is there a way to
restrict it to only apply the lines to some parts of the file, not every single
paragraph?
Thanks!
--Joel
On Monday, October 10, 2022 at 04:57:07 PM MDT, Max Chernoff
wrote:
Hi Joel,
On Mon, 2022-10-10 at 12:46 +, Joel wrote:
> Hello Max,
> It is preferred if the solution is just three lines per paragraph,
> rather than some content parallel to the text
A Lua callback solution:
\startluacode
-- Constants
RULE_OFFSET = tex.sp "1em"
RULE_THICKNESS = tex.sp "0.4pt"
RULE_LENGTH = tex.sp "3cm"
-- Callback
function userdata.lines(head)
if status.output_active or
tex.nest.ptr > 1
then
return head
end
local i = 0
for n in node.traverseid(node.id "hlist", head) do
i = i + 1
if i > 3 then
break
end
local offset = node.new "glue"
offset.width = RULE_OFFSET
node.slide(n.list).next = offset
local rule = node.new "rule"
rule.width = RULE_LENGTH
rule.height = RULE_THICKNESS
rule.depth = 0
offset.next = rule
end
return head
end
nodes.tasks.appendaction(
"finalizers",
"after",
"userdata.lines"
)
\stopluacode
\parskip=\baselineskip
\starttext
One line paragraph
Two line paragraph \\
Two line paragraph
Three line paragraph \\
Three line paragraph \\
Three line paragraph
Four line paragraph \\
Four line paragraph \\
Four line paragraph \\
Four line paragraph
\samplefile{bryson}
\samplefile{knuth}
\stoptext
An \everypar solution:
\appendtoks%
\vbox to 0pt{%
\dorecurse{3}{%
\rlap{%
\hskip\dimexpr\hsize+1em%
\vrule height 0.4pt width 3cm%
\relax%
}%
}%
}%
\to\everypar
\parskip=\baselineskip
\starttext
One line paragraph
Two line paragraph \\
Two line paragraph
Three line paragraph \\
Three line paragraph \\
Three line paragraph
Four line paragraph \\
Four line paragraph \\
Four line paragraph \\
Four line paragraph
\samplefile{bryson}
\samplefile{knuth}
\stoptext
Neither of these solutions are great though. Both of these solutions are
pretty low-level, so there's presumably a more ConTeXt-y way of doing
this.
Thanks,
-- Max
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Re: [NTG-context] How to make something appear to the right of every paragraph?
When I use the code given, it compiles and displays fine. But when I try
replacing \everypar with \EveryPar, it halts during compiling with this
complaint:
"A number should have been here; I inserted '0'. (If you can't figure out why I
needed to see a number, look up 'weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)
mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 1
"
On Monday, October 10, 2022 at 09:58:11 PM MDT, Wolfgang Schuster
wrote:
Max Chernoff via ntg-context schrieb am 11.10.2022 um 00:57:
> Hi Joel,
>
> On Mon, 2022-10-10 at 12:46 +, Joel wrote:
>> Hello Max,
>> It is preferred if the solution is just three lines per paragraph,
>> rather than some content parallel to the text
> A Lua callback solution:
>
> [...]
>
> An \everypar solution:
>
> \appendtoks%
> \vbox to 0pt{%
> \dorecurse{3}{%
> \rlap{%
> \hskip\dimexpr\hsize+1em%
> \vrule height 0.4pt width 3cm%
> \relax%
> }%
> }%
> }%
> \to\everypar
You can use the \EveryPar register but \everypar is off limits.
Wolfgang
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[NTG-context] How to get line numbering to match block quote position?
I have some text that is a block quote, but also has line numbering: \setuplinenumbering[step=3] \starttext \startblockquote \startlinenumbering \input knuth \stoplinenumbering \stopblockquote \stoptext The line numbering is appearing in the left margin as if the text were not a block quote. How can I tell it to move the numbering closer to the text, since the text is not up against the margin, being block quote text? --Joel___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] How to make something appear to the right of every paragraph?
Hello Max, It is preferred if the solution is just three lines per paragraph, rather than some content parallel to the text...I'll be modifying whatever solution to fix a bunch of other situations (e.g. display a box next to each paragraph). --Joel On Monday, October 10, 2022 at 12:24:03 AM MDT, Max Chernoff wrote: Hi Joel, > I'd like to add some area for readers to write in the margins of some > text. This would leave three lines, like this to the right of the > text. Is it okay if there are rules continuously down the right column? If so, this is fairly simple to do with layers/backgrounds + MetaFun. If you want for there to be exactly three rules per paragraph, then that is more complicated. I can think of some bad solutions (\everypar, Lua callbacks), but I'll leave it to someone else to think of a good solution. Thanks, -- Max ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] How to make something appear to the right of every paragraph?
I'd like to add some area for readers to write in the margins of some text. This would leave three lines, like this to the right of the text. __ The passage would take up about the left 60% of the text and the margin note space about 30% of textwidth, so no need to use the margins. Though its easy for me to implement this code using some \thinrules and manually dropping macros in the text, is there some way ConTeXt can be told to just add them to right of every paragraph (at the start of the paragraph)? Sample: This is some text that is written in the passage and you can see the th-ree lines to the right.The text in the para-graph continues eventhough there arejust three lines tothe right. Here is another par- agraph. Here is yet another paragraph. You can see it also has the three liens. This is just for a segment of the book, not every paragraph in the book. --Joel ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] How to reset settings in setuphead back to defaults?
I have some settings like this, which define the part, chapter, and section
titles within a file that contains all of my common settings for all files.
\definepagebreak[chapterpagebreak][yes, right]
\setuphead[part][style=\sse, placehead=yes, expansion=yes]
\setuphead[chapter][style=\sse, placehead=yes, expansion=yes, page=yes,
numbercommand=\groupedcommand{}{\blank[1cm]},
alternative=middle,
numberstyle=ssl,
numbercolor=white,
strut=yes,
page=chapterpagebreak,
header=empty]
\setuphead[subject][style=\sse, placehead=yes, expansion=yes, page=yes,
numbercommand=\groupedcommand{}{\blank[1cm]},
alternative=middle,
numberstyle=ssl,
numbercolor=white,
strut=yes,
page=chapterpagebreak,
header=empty]
A problem I have is I need one document to ignore all the above, basically
pretend each of these is reset to defaults. Is there a way to rest all of the
above items to default settings quickly?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] How to print a random whole number between x and y?
I was using this code for a long time in my document. I have a PDF with 10
pages, and this would randomly display one of those pages:
\ctxlua{math.randomseed( os.time() )}
\getrandomnumber \n {1} {10}
\placefigure[force,
none]{}{\framed[frame=off]{\externalfigure[comic.pdf][page=\n,
width=\textwidth]}}
For reasons I cannot understand, after an update of ConTeXt, the code no longer
works, though trying to reduce it to a minimum working example it works, so I
cannot figure out what is wrong in my code.
Undefined control sequence
...domseed( os.time() )} \par \getrandomnumber \n
{1} {10} \par \placefigure...
\doifsomething #1->\edef \m_syst_string_one {#1
}\ifx \m_syst_string_one \emp...
\event ... {#6}{{\bf #6}} \par \doifsomething {#7}
{#7 } \par \doifsomething ...
Is there another solution for generating a random whole number between 1 and 10?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] Why are some images rendered very tiny?
I wrote this macro to display images in my book. It should place the image to
the left, filling ~50% of \textwidth, then the caption is to the right.
\setupcaption[location=right, minwidth=.5\textwidth]
\define[4]\figureis{%
\placefigure{#2, Courtesy #3, photo no.
#1\nocite[#4]{}}{\externalfigure[#1][maxheight=.7\paperheight,
maxwidth=.5\paperwidth, minwidth=.5\paperwidth]}
}
#1 = filename, other variables are used for reference/credit details.
The problem is, somehow some images are inexplicably displayed very tiny on the
page. I check the image file and they are not small, but somehow is rendered
small with the code above.
What is wrong in my code?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] How to define a section title, after the section title appears?
I have a document with conditionally-generated content.
There are some situations when I need the section title to change according to
the content displayed within that section.
For instance, the 14th section that appears in *every* chapter is either called
"Cause and Effect" if the conditions decide to place macros \altMa, \altMb, or
\altMc inside, but becomes called "Compare and Contrast" if one of a dozen
other macros are pladed there.
- The macros are defined in an entirely different macros.tex file.
- The whole document is in a recurse loop, so \recurselevel or \chaptertitleis
can give the current chapter number.
I tried defining chapter titles inside the macros,
`\setvalue{title\recurselevel}{Cause and Effect}`, but
\getvalue{title\recurselevel}` couldn't find the defined value.
I tried just defining in each macro \define\thesectiontitleis{Compare and
Contrast}, but that only affects things AFTER the macro is called, so the wrong
titles appear.
How do I very simply make a section title change according to what content is
inside it?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] Table of Contents empty for unknown reason
I need to display a table of contents, but only displaying chapters.
Here is my minimum working example:
\starttext
\startfrontmatter
\startchapter[title={Contents}]
\placelist[chapter]
\stopchapter
\completecontent
\stopfrontmatter
\startbodymatter
\startchapter[title={Title 1}]
\input knuth
\stopchapter
\stopbodymatter
\stoptext
For reasons I don't understand, both \placelist[chapter] and \completecontent
display the title, but are otherwise empty of contents. I believe the code was
working before an update. I used ConTeXt live though and confirmed this code
even doesn't work there.
Why isn't it rendering the table of contents?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] How to install the ConTeXt-SBL module?
I had https://github.com/jjmccollum/context-sbl this module working fine, but ran and update, and somehow it deleted my extra files. I can't figure out how I was able to get it working in the first place--I had just copied all the files to a folder somewhere. What is the correct way to install an unofficial ConTeXt module, such as this one? --Joel ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] How to include a file with table data within a table?
Adding the brackets + file name also didn't work.
--Joel
On Sunday, May 29, 2022, 11:33:48 AM MDT, Henning Hraban Ramm via
ntg-context wrote:
Did you try \input{file.tex} ?
(Just an idea, didn’t try.)
Hraban
Am 29.05.22 um 18:34 schrieb Joel via ntg-context:
> After a recent update to ConTeXt, the code no longer seems to allow me
> to \input a file within a table:
>
> \starttext
> \starttabulate[|p(.3\textwidth)|p(.7\textwidth)|]
> \HL
> \NC {\bf Term} \NC {\bf Definition} \NC\NR
> \HL
> \input test2.tex %<here you see I have input a file inside
> the table
> \HL
> \stoptabulate
> \stoptext
>
> File test2.tex contains "\NC {\bf Term} \NC {\bf Definition} \NC\NR".
>
> I also tried defining a macro earlier in the document...
>
> \define[2]\tablewordis{%
> \NC \NC \NC\NR
> \NC #1 \NC #2 \NC\NR
> }
>
> ...then placing that in test2.tex, e.g.:
>
> \tablewordis{my word}{my definition}
>
> I get the error: " The file ended when scanning an argument."
>
> Before the update, this code worked fine.
>
> How can I \input a file while inside a table environment, as above?
>
> I have a document that has 100s of these inputs in my code, and now
> nothing will compile.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Joel
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[NTG-context] How to include a file with table data within a table?
After a recent update to ConTeXt, the code no longer seems to allow me to
\input a file within a table:
\starttext
\starttabulate[|p(.3\textwidth)|p(.7\textwidth)|]
\HL
\NC {\bf Term} \NC {\bf Definition} \NC\NR
\HL
\input test2.tex %
[NTG-context] Does writing \emdash versus writing "—" in the source file impact the displayed output?
I have been using \endash, \emdash, and \figuredash in place of the various
types of dashes in my document, \quotation{} around quotes, etc. so basically
the only really punctuation appearing in the tex file are periods, commas,
semi-colons, colons, apostrophes, and question-marks. The problem I have is
when copying to a tool like Grammarly for grammar checks, these special symbols
throw off the grammar-checking tools.
Does ConTeXt render and display these punctuation differently when I write them
in the coded form, versus simply writing in the unicode directly?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] How to place "Content" and other chapter-level titles the same vertical distance from the top?
I created a chapter title style with a large number telling the chapter number,
and below it the title of the chapter.
It looks like this:
- 1 <--really big chapter
number=== <-- there is a border created by a background image between
these
How to keep <--chapter title
fish
This is the article <-- the article begins
about how to keepfish -
\definefontsize[a]%
\definefontsize[b]%
\definefontsize[c]%
\definefontsize[l]%
\setupbodyfontenvironment[default]%
[%
a=1.200,
b=1.440,
c=1.728,
l=8.916
]%
%
\setuplabeltext[chapter=\strut]
\setuphead[chapter][style=\ssc,placehead=yes,expansion=yes,page=yes,
numbercommand=\groupedcommand{}{\blank[1cm]},
alternative=middle,
numberstyle=ssl,
numbercolor=green,
strut=yes]
\starttext
\completecontent
\chapter{Test}
\input knuth
\chapter{Test}
\input knuth
\stoptext
The problem I'm facing, is anytime a chapter title is called, such as "Content"
in complete content, or something in the appendix, such as one of the indexes,
no number is printed above, so the vertical distance from the top of the page
to the top of the chapter title changes. I need these to be consistent, as
there is a background image, with vertical lines.
Basically, if I call \chapter{}, it appears perfectly aligned vertically on the
page, with no other settings. But when calling \completecontent or a similar
title that won't get a number, because the number isn't placed, it is
vertically higher on the page, but I need it to be printed the same height, as
it it had an invisible number.
I've tried adding strut (the code has it in two places), but don't know if I've
used it appropriately, and it didn't solve the problem.
--Joel
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Re: [NTG-context] How do I define a smallcaps font?
Replacing \smallcaps with \sc fixed it. I had assumed they were synonyms---the
same as \bf vs \boldface, \it vs \italicface, but it seems they are different
entirely?
Thanks!
--Joel
On Sunday, April 24, 2022, 11:19:10 AM MDT, Henning Hraban Ramm via
ntg-context wrote:
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]
> \definefontsynonym[Serif]
> [file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Regular.otf]
> \definefontsynonym[SerifBold]
> [file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Bold.otf]
> \definefontsynonym[SerifItalic]
> [file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Italic.otf]
> \definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalic]
> [file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-BoldItalic.otf]
> \definefontsynonym[SerifCaps]
> [file:/home/joel/.fonts/13/EBGaramond12-AllSC.otf]
> \stoptypescript
>
> \starttypescript[sans] [garamond]
> \definefontsynonym[Sans]
> [file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Regular.otf]
> \definefontsynonym[SansBold]
> [file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Bold.otf]
> \definefontsynonym[SansItalic]
> [file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Italic.otf]
> \definefontsynonym[SansBoldItalic]
> [file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-BoldItalic.otf]
> \definefontsynonym[SansCaps]
> [file:/home/joel/.fonts/13/EBGaramond12-AllSC.otf]
> \stoptypescript
>
> \starttypescript[garamond]
> \definetypeface[garamond]
> [rm][serif][garamond][default]
> \definetypeface[garamond]
> [ss][sans][garamond][default]
> \definetypeface[garamond]
> [mm][math][modern][default]
> \stoptypescript
>
> \starttext
>
> This is regular text.
>
> {\smallcaps This should be in smallcaps.}
>
> {\WORD This should be regular text, but capitalized, not really
> smallcaps.}
>
> \stoptext
SerifCaps etc. works with the traditional \sc, don’t know about \smallcaps.
Are you sure your fonts are found?
mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=EBGaramond
If your regular OpenType font contains smallcaps, try:
\definefontfeature[mysmallcaps][default][
smcp=yes, % smallcaps
script=latn,
]
\starttypescript [serif] [garamond] [name]
...
\definefontsynonym [SerifCaps][EBGaramond-Regular][features=mysmallcaps]
...
Hraban
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[NTG-context] How do I define a smallcaps font?
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]
\definefontsynonym[Serif]
[file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Regular.otf]
\definefontsynonym[SerifBold]
[file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Bold.otf]
\definefontsynonym[SerifItalic]
[file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Italic.otf]
\definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalic]
[file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-BoldItalic.otf]
\definefontsynonym[SerifCaps]
[file:/home/joel/.fonts/13/EBGaramond12-AllSC.otf]
\stoptypescript
\starttypescript[sans] [garamond]
\definefontsynonym[Sans]
[file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Regular.otf]
\definefontsynonym[SansBold]
[file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Bold.otf]
\definefontsynonym[SansItalic]
[file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Italic.otf]
\definefontsynonym[SansBoldItalic]
[file:/home/joel/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-BoldItalic.otf]
\definefontsynonym[SansCaps]
[file:/home/joel/.fonts/13/EBGaramond12-AllSC.otf]
\stoptypescript
\starttypescript[garamond]
\definetypeface[garamond] [rm][serif][garamond][default]
\definetypeface[garamond] [ss][sans][garamond][default]
\definetypeface[garamond] [mm][math][modern][default]
\stoptypescript
\starttext
This is regular text.
{\smallcaps This should be in smallcaps.}
{\WORD This should be regular text, but capitalized, not really smallcaps.}
\stoptext
--Joel
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[NTG-context] Why can I no longer place \input inside table after update?
After I ran an update on ConTeXt, my code gets an error:
\starttext
\starttabulate[|p(.3\textwidth)|p(.7\textwidth)|]
\HL
\NC {\bf Term} \NC {\bf Definition} \NC\NR
\HL
\input test2.tex
\HL
\stoptabulate
\stoptext
File test2.tex contains "\NC {\bf Term} \NC {\bf Definition} \NC\NR".
I also tried defining a macro earlier in the document...
\define[2]\tablewordis{%
\NC \NC \NC\NR
\NC #1 \NC #2 \NC\NR
}
...then placing that in test2.tex, e.g.:
\tablewordis{my word}{my definition}
I get the error: " The file ended when scanning an argument."
Before the update, this code worked fine.
How can I \input a file while inside a table environment, as above?
Thanks,
--Joel
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[NTG-context] How to create a more human-readable syntax for displaying workbook activities?
I am creating a student workbook. There are ~30 chapters, each containing ~20
activities, called "Activity A", "Activity B", and so on.
The `workbook.tex` itself uses a recurse function, so it prints chapter 1-30.
The reason I use this, is if I need to do a fast test of the code, I can
compile a specific range of chapters, not the whole workbook.
\define\activityA{}
\define\activityB{}
\dostepwiserecurse{1}{30}{1}{
\chapter{\recurselevel}
\activityA
\activityB
}
\activityA prints the workbook activity "Activity A".
\activityB prints the workbook activity "Activity B".
The problem comes in that some activities have varied versions. Just as an
example, "Activity C might be a crossword puzzle in some chapters, but a word
search in other chapters. My poor solution has been to use registercyclist:
\define\altCa{print a crossword}
\define[3]\altCb{print a word search}
\registercyclelist{activityClist}{\altCa, \altCb{}{}{}, \altCb{}{}{}}
\define\activityC{%
\usecyclelist{activityClist}
}
This code works okay, but becomes broken if I try to change the page range in
`dostepwiserecurse` when testing my code. The other problem is the syntax is
super messy. Within this single line, tones of data is crammed in:
\registercyclelist{activityClist}{\altCa, \altCb{}{}{}, \altCb{}{}{}}
...not only is it not easy to read which chapter gets which activity, I also
have to fill in the {}{}{} with data, making it more difficult to read.
How can I create a much cleaner, human-readable syntax for storing this? Is
there some simpler way to tell ConTeXt Chapter 1 gets one variant, Chapter 2,
3, and 4 get another, etc.?
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[NTG-context] How to stop \placefigure from floating off to some other page?
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 all of my `\placefigure` in the entire document appear exactly where called, even if that means having to place it on a new page with lots of space before it or even a new page afterwards? I need it to show up in the order it was called. I think `\setupexternalfigures[location=]` should provide the solution, but cann't figure what is the correct location, I'm not seeing that in the manual anywhere. ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] How to create multiple PDFs from one TeX file?
I have several books in a set that have many things I'd like to have linked together, such as page references, shared indexes, shared glossaries, etc. One solution I see is putting all the files together, then using a tool like pdfjam to seperate the pages later, but I'm wondering if ConTeXt can already produce multiple files, or a split in the PDF, already? I tried this code below, as I hoped it would create two PDFs, but it only rendered everything between the first set of `\starttext` and `\stoptext`. --Joel Minimum example: \starttext This is document 1. \input knuth \stoptext \starttext This is document 2. \input knuth \stoptext ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] How can I get a section title to change depending on the section content?
I have a section somewhat like this...I'm replacing the code with something
much simpler, but its basically doing a similar thing, running conditionals to
check which content to place:
\section{Brave Rabbits}
\ifnum\somenumber>3 Print this content about rabbits. \else
Print this stuff about pigeons instead. \fi
Basically the content inside that section can change, either being about
rabbits or about pigeons. I need the section title to follow that change, the
problem is the section title appears before this code, so defining some
variable in the later code won't affect the rendeiring of the section title.
Is there a way I can tell the section title to change as well to match what
content is inside that section?
\section{\thissectiontitle}
\ifnum\somenumber>3 Print this content about rabbits.
\define\thissectiontitle{Brave Rabbits} \else Print this stuff
about pigeons instead. \define\thissectiontitle{Hungry Pigeons} \fi
--Joel
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[NTG-context] Why isn't bold + italics working together?
I am finishing the final touches on a manuscript, which I hope to send to a
publisher later today and noticed this problem where bold and italic text isn't
rendered at the same time.
I am using the EB Garamond font in my document. I set it up exactly as shown
below. Strangely, bold works, italics works, but when bold and italics are
together, it only display in italics, it doesn't display a bold italic text.
I've confirmed the `EBGaramond-BoldItalic.otf` font is present and seems just
fine. I've also tried by just using the default ConTeXt font and the error
still appears, also in live.contextgarden.net. I tried searching the mailing
list, as this seems like something that must have come up, but couldn't find
any question about this.
Why won't it render both?
\starttypescript[serif] [garamond]\definefontsynonym[Serif]
[file:~/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Regular.otf]\definefontsynonym[SerifBold]
[file:~/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Bold.otf]\definefontsynonym[SerifItalic]
[file:~/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Italic.otf]\definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalic]
[file:~/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-BoldItalic.otf]\stoptypescript%\starttypescript[sans]
[garamond]\definefontsynonym[Sans]
[file:~/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Regular.otf]\definefontsynonym[SansBold]
[file:~/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Bold.otf]\definefontsynonym[SansItalic]
[file:~/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-Italic.otf]\definefontsynonym[SansBoldItalic]
[file:~/.fonts/12/EBGaramond-BoldItalic.otf]\stoptypescript%\starttypescript[garamond]\definetypeface[garamond]
[rm][serif][garamond][default]\definetypeface[garamond]
[ss][sans][garamond][default]\definetypeface[garamond]
[mm][math][modern][default]\stoptypescript%
\setupbodyfont[garamond, 12pt]%
\starttext\startitemize\item This text has {\bf bold} in it.\item This text has
{\it italics} in it.\item Why doesn't this have {\bf\it bold and italics} in
it?\stopitemize
\stoptext
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[NTG-context] How to stop columns from splitting up items in a list?
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[NTG-context] What is the proper way to define many different list types in a document?
I have about several different types of list that reoccur multiple times in my
documents. Though I tried to keep things simple, by just defining the type when
it appears, strange glitches appear. For instance, I have one that uses the ☞
(pointing hand) logo, and sometimes that randomly appears in the wrong lists,
for reasons I cannot understand.
Below is how I'm defining my lists. I have about a dozen more, this is a
sample. Is there some more robust and consistent manner in which I should be
defining them, so the settings from one type don't spill over into the other
types?
--Joel
%prompt
\definesymbol[bighand][{{☞}}]
\define[1]\prompt{%
\setupitemize[symbol=bighand]
\startitemize
{\it #1}
\stopitemize
}%
\prompt{What did you learn about today?}
%vocabulary
\startcolumns[n=3]\startitemize[n]
\item word1
\item word2
\item word3
\stopitemize\stopcolumns
%nested outline
\startitemize[1]
\item some text
\startitemize[2]
\item some text
\startitemize[3]
\item some text
\stopitemize
\stopitemize
\stopitemize
%written answer (produces some lines after the question for writing an answer)
\define[1]\writingbox{%
\dorecurse{#1}{%
\hairline%
}
}
\startitemize[n]
\item Which planet is closest to Earth? \writingbox{4}
\item What is the moon made of? \writingbox{4}
\stopitemize
%materials list
\startcolumns[n=3]\startitemize
\item crayons
\item scissors
\item glue
\stopitemize\stopcolumns
%word search clues (should be simple, but strangely this keeps getting the ☞
logo added instead of showing numbers)
\startitemize[n]
\item a type of hat worn
\item a cold season
\stopitemize
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[NTG-context] How to get \placenotes to place footnote-style citations at the end of my content?
I'm spinning this question off another post, as my previous question was very
specific, but it was possibly discovered a more general bug exists?
I'm creating some lecture slides that have footnote citations throughout. The
problem is, the slides themselves already don't have much screen space, and
adding all of the footnotes on the same slide steals limited screen space. It
ends up showing one bullet point per slide and filling the page with the
citation information.
I still need to provide citations though. The solution is perhaps to place
`\placenotes[footnote]` after several slides. Then, at the very end of the
document list the full bibliography with ` \placelistofpublications`.
In this way, I still present the citations, but they don't bury the content of
the slides.
But something seems wrong with ConTeXt, not allowing this to function. Try to
compile this code which Joey sent me and it won't populate
`\placenotes[footnote]` with any content:
\startbuffer [bib]
@Book{clark1989,
author = {Clark, William},
title = {Railroads \word{and} railroad towns \word{in} New Mexico},
publisher = {New Mexico Magazine},
year = {1989},
address = {Albuquerque, New Mexico},
isbn = {9780937206126}
}
\stopbuffer
\usebtxdataset[bib.buffer]
\setupbtx[dataset=default]
\setupnote[footnote][location=none] % commenting out this line will produce
footnotes that expand the citation correctly
\starttext
\input knuth
\cite[alternative=footnote][clark1989]
\page
\placenotes[footnote]
\startchapter[title=Bibliography]
\placelistofpublications
\stopchapter
\stoptext
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[NTG-context] How to add entire chapter's page ranger for index entry?
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 Chapter 3 spans page 22-50, and I place
`\index{word}` in Chapter 3, I need the index to display "word 22-50", but only
for that entry...not for all index entries.
How to add entire chapter's page ranger for index entry?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] How to make an in-text list without periods
I am trying to create an in-text list, with parenthesis, but without the period. If I use this `\startitemize[text, n]`, I get an in-text list, but there are periods: There are many kinds of animals at the children's zoo: (1.) rabbits, (2.) pigs, (3.) sheep, and (4.) dogs. Strangely when I use `\startitemize[text, n, stopper=]`, which I hoped would make the period go away, I just get a regular bulleted list, it seems to ignore the 'text' command. How can I achieve this output (below)? There are many kinds of animals at the children's zoo: (1) rabbits, (2) pigs, (3) sheep, and (4) dogs. --Joel Minimum working example: \starttext There are many kinds of animals at the children's zoo: \startitemize[text, n, stopper=] \item rabbits, \item pigs, \item sheep, and \item dogs. \stopitemize \stoptext ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] How to create an index that refers to multiple other books?
I tried adding 'pageprefixsegments' to setupregister, but cannot find any
value that adds anything, ex. pageprefixsegments={WB1}
pageprefixsegments=part:number
How does it work? I'd be fine if the index listed pages like "WB1 3" meaning
"Workbook 1, page 3", it isn't ideal but is better than not having the index
showing anything.
--Joel
On Tuesday, January 18, 2022, 07:41:15 AM MST, Henning Hraban Ramm via
ntg-context wrote:
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 files, but I'm not sure how the index
> could tell readers which of the five "page 5's" (for example) the index
> is referring to. --Joel
In this case, you could use \part per workbook and use
pageprefixsegments in \setupregister to add the part number in front of
the page number.
Otherwise, I guess it would be possible to read the .tuc files of the
other products to create index entries. (Some Lua programming; shouldn’t
bee too hard, but still way over my head.)
Hraban
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Re: [NTG-context] How to create an index that refers to multiple other books?
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 files, but I'm not sure how the index could tell readers which of
the five "page 5's" (for example) the index is referring to. --Joel
On Tuesday, January 18, 2022, 06:19:01 AM MST, Joel via ntg-context
wrote:
I am writing a secondary textbook to be used in public schools. In my state,
the textbooks must adhere to standards, such as the Common Core State Standards
(CCSS). It is typical for a textbook to contain an index for teachers to check
where in the textbook which standards are used. I've used the following code to
create such an index, if I simply place `\learned{}` somewhere containing the
standard's ID, it creates a custom index entry, and `\placelearned` displays
that index.
\defineregister[learned][compress=yes]
\setupregister[learned][style=sansbold, textstyle=slanted, n=1, pagenumber=yes]
\starttext
\learned{CCSS+W.7.3}
\input knuth
\learned{CCSS+W.7.3}
\input knuth
\learned{CCSS+W.7.1}
\startchapter[title=Standards]
\placelearned
\stopchapter
\stoptext
This prints an index like this:
Standards
c
CSS
W.7.1 1
W.7.3 1
My problem is my textbook also includes four separate workbooks. I need the
index to show my publisher that I've covered all 300+ standards, so I need the
index at the back of the textbook to also contain details of which pages in
each workbook the standards are found. How can I combine the index so it refers
to all books? Something like this:
Standards
c
CSS
W.7.1 T 1, Wk.1 3-8, 12, Wk.2 8-9, 60-61
W.7.3 T 1, Wk.1 3-8, 12, Wk.2 8-9, 60-61, Wk.3 1-2, 54, 70, 90, Wk.4 99,
102, 104
...or possibly like this...
Standards
c
CSS
W.7.1
Textbook: 1
Workbook 1: 3-8, 12
Workbook 2: 8-9, 60-61
W.7.3
Textbook: 1
Workbook 1: 3-8, 12
Workbook 2: 8-9, 60-61
Workbook 3: 1-2, 54, 70, 90
Workbook 4: 99, 102, 104
Is there any way to print an index that covers pages across multiple books?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] How to create an index that refers to multiple other books?
I am writing a secondary textbook to be used in public schools. In my state,
the textbooks must adhere to standards, such as the Common Core State Standards
(CCSS). It is typical for a textbook to contain an index for teachers to check
where in the textbook which standards are used. I've used the following code to
create such an index, if I simply place `\learned{}` somewhere containing the
standard's ID, it creates a custom index entry, and `\placelearned` displays
that index.
\defineregister[learned][compress=yes]
\setupregister[learned][style=sansbold, textstyle=slanted, n=1, pagenumber=yes]
\starttext
\learned{CCSS+W.7.3}
\input knuth
\learned{CCSS+W.7.3}
\input knuth
\learned{CCSS+W.7.1}
\startchapter[title=Standards]
\placelearned
\stopchapter
\stoptext
This prints an index like this:
Standards
c
CSS
W.7.1 1
W.7.3 1
My problem is my textbook also includes four separate workbooks. I need the
index to show my publisher that I've covered all 300+ standards, so I need the
index at the back of the textbook to also contain details of which pages in
each workbook the standards are found. How can I combine the index so it refers
to all books? Something like this:
Standards
c
CSS
W.7.1 T 1, Wk.1 3-8, 12, Wk.2 8-9, 60-61
W.7.3 T 1, Wk.1 3-8, 12, Wk.2 8-9, 60-61, Wk.3 1-2, 54, 70, 90, Wk.4 99,
102, 104
...or possibly like this...
Standards
c
CSS
W.7.1
Textbook: 1
Workbook 1: 3-8, 12
Workbook 2: 8-9, 60-61
W.7.3
Textbook: 1
Workbook 1: 3-8, 12
Workbook 2: 8-9, 60-61
Workbook 3: 1-2, 54, 70, 90
Workbook 4: 99, 102, 104
Is there any way to print an index that covers pages across multiple books?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] How to achieve true double space text in ConTeXt?
I need to display one article within my book that is in double space, like what is a basic requirement in US colleges for turning in papers. Basically, I need readers to have lots of space above the text to be able to write some notes above every line. This is a line of text. % <-- here is the space between lines % <-- this space here is as tall as a line of text. % <-- here is the next space between lines This is the next visible line of text. The closest I can get is the "big" setting in `\setupinterlinespace`, but it isn't big enough. I've also tried manual measurements in cm, but I have no idea which setting is typographically good. \setupinterlinespace[on, big] \startlinenumbering \input article \stoplinenumbering \setupinterlinespace[off] How can I achieve double space text in ConTeXt? --Joel ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] How to troubleshoot why my document begins with a blank page?
I created a book that strangely renders with an entirely blank page. There are
tons and tons of macros, in dozens of files defined before the document starts,
but the document itself starts quite simply with a title page set inside
\startfrontmatter. How can I identify what types of preamble information would
be causing an entire blank page to render before the document even begins?
This minimum working example won't show me the error, but it does show I simply
have \starttext followed by my title and nothing is between that should be
rendering an entire blank page.
--Joel
My minimum working example is here:
\definemakeup[titlepage][align=middle]
\definealternativestyle[titlestyle][\ss\bfd][]
\definealternativestyle[subtitlestyle][\ss\bfb][]
\definealternativestyle[authorstyle][\ss\tfa][]
\starttext % <-- there is no code between \starttext and \startfrontmatter
below.
\startfrontmatter
\startmakeup[titlepage]
\titlestyle{My story}
\blank[big]
\subtitlestyle{\date}
\blank[big]
\authorstyle{My name}
\stopmakeup
\stopfrontmatter
\input knuth
\stoptext
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[NTG-context] How to override ConTeXt-SBL titles, to make all titles everywhere capitalized?
I am a few days from sending a document to a publisher, and using the Society
of Biblical Literature style (via the macro ConTeXt-SBL) as it is very close to
what I need, Chicago (numbers style) citations. One glaring difference I notice
between the two styles is ConTeXt-SBL presents the titles of articles and books
in lower case, but Chicago gives them in upper case (I think SBL should too,
but maybe as my entire BibTeX file is lowercase, it is not). How can I tell
ConTeXt to override the titles, everywhere they appear, so they are printed in
uppercase? I've manually marked all of the words that should not be capitalized
in my BiBTeX file as with \word{of} so they will ignore any instructions to
become capitalized.
--Joel
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[NTG-context] How to manually adjust the sort order of items appearing in a custom index?
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 same year, it is sorting alphabetically, example
\dateis{1900s+1912}{Yet another event happened}
\dateis{1900s+1912}{Another event happened}
...will print the wrong one first in the index..
1912 - Another even happened
1912 - Yet another event happened.
Is there a way to manually tell it to display one first? I don't want to add
visible month and day details, that would be even more confusing to the index
as I have to print it in American order.
Second, when it compiles it is not printing the page number, instead prints
"[Entry not flushed]".
-- Joel
Here is my minimum working example:
\defineregister[listdates][compress=yes]
\setupregister[listdates][style=sansbold, textstyle=slanted, n=1,
pagenumber=yes]
\define[2]\dateis{%
\listdates{#1~\emdash ~#2}%
}%
\starttext
\dateis{1900s+1911}{Some event happened}
\dateis{1900s+1912}{Yet another event happened}
\dateis{1900s+1912}{Another event happened}
\startchapter[title=Important Dates]
\placelistdates
\stopchapter
\stoptext
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[NTG-context] How to let a macro check the previous value of #1 the last time the same macro was called?
Is there a way for a macro to check the previous value of #1, the last time
that same macro was called?
Here is a minimum working example, pretending that `\previousvalue` is equal to
#1 from the last time the same macro was called:
\define[1]\mymacro{
\if\previousvalue=#1
same as last time
\else
it is different from last time
\fi
}
\starttext
\mymacro{cat}
\mymacro{cat}
\mymacro{mouse}
\mymacro{mouse}
\mymacro{cat}
\stoptext
This would print:
it is different from last time <--it was never called previously
same as last time
it is different from last time
same as last time
it is different from last time
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Re: [NTG-context] How to create cell data that spans four rows in a table?
Thank you! The code is much easier to understand than the other way I was
trying to use.
--Joel
On Saturday, January 8, 2022, 04:00:12 PM MST, Willi Egger via ntg-context
wrote:
I would suggest not to use \starttable at all.
To me the most suitable table environment for such a table is \bTABLE \eTABLE.
It gives you all kind of control over layout, dimensions, frames on and off etc.
\setupTABLE[c][1][leftframe=off,width=40mm]
\setupTABLE[c][2][rightframe=off, width=60mm]
\setupTABLE[c][each][align={lohi,center}]
\bTABLE
\bTR
\bTD {\bf Eons}\eTD \bTD {\bf Eras} \eTD
\eTR
\bTR
\bTD Hadeon Eon \eTD \bTD \eTD
\eTR
\bTR
\bTD[ny=4] Archanon Eon \eTD \bTD Eoarchean Era \eTD
\eTR
\bTR
\bTD Paleoarchean Era \eTD
\eTR
\bTR
\bTD Mesoarchean Era \eTD
\eTR
\bTR
\bTD Neoarchean Era \eTD
\eTR
\bTR
\bTD[ny=3] Proterozoic Eon \eTD \bTD Paleoproterozoic Era \eTD
\eTR
\bTR
\bTD Mesoproterozoic Era \eTD
\eTR
\bTR
\bTD Neoproterozoic Era\eTD
\eTR
\bTR
\bTD[ny=3] Phanerozoic Eon \eTD \bTD Paleozoic Era \eTD
\bTR
\bTD Mesozoic Era\eTD
\eTR
\bTR
\bTD Cenozoic Era \eTD
\eTR
\eTABLE
Willi
> On 8 Jan 2022, at 22:39, Joel via ntg-context wrote:
>
> I created a table that has some cells span multiple rows. This works good
> with cells that span an odd-number of rows, but when I try to span 4 rows,
> the text isn't quite vertically centered. How can I get the cell with the
> text "Archaeon Eon" to be a little lower, so it is centered within its box?
>
> --Joel
>
> Minimum working example:
>
> \starttext
>
> \starttable[|c|c|]
> \NC {\bf Eons} \NC {\bf Eras} \NC \AR
> \HL
> \NC Hadeon Eon \VL \NC \AR
> \HL
> \NC \VL Eoarchean Era \NC \AR
> \DC \DL[1] \DR
> \NC \smash{Archaeon Eon} \VL Paleoarchean Era \NC \AR
> \DC \DL[1] \DR
> \NC \VL Mesoarchean Era \NC \AR
> \DC \DL[1] \DR
> \NC \VL Neoarchean Era \NC \AR
>
> \HL\NC \VL Paleoproterozoic Era \NC \AR
> \DC \DL[1] \DR
> \NC Proterozoic Eon \VL Mesoproterozoic Era \NC \AR
> \DC \DL[1] \DR
> \NC \VL Neoproterozoic Era \NC \AR
> \HL
>
>
> \HL\NC \VL Paleozoic Era \NC \AR
> \DC \DL[1] \DR
> \NC Phanerozoic Eon \VL Mesozoic Era \NC \AR
> \DC \DL[1] \DR
> \NC \VL Cenozoic Era \NC \AR
> \HL
> \stoptable
>
> \stoptext
>
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[NTG-context] How to create cell data that spans four rows in a table?
I created a table that has some cells span multiple rows. This works good with
cells that span an odd-number of rows, but when I try to span 4 rows, the text
isn't quite vertically centered. How can I get the cell with the text "Archaeon
Eon" to be a little lower, so it is centered within its box?
--Joel
Minimum working example:
\starttext
\starttable[|c|c|]
\NC {\bf Eons} \NC {\bf Eras} \NC \AR
\HL
\NC Hadeon Eon \VL \NC \AR
\HL
\NC \VL Eoarchean Era \NC \AR
\DC \DL[1] \DR
\NC \smash{Archaeon Eon} \VL Paleoarchean Era \NC \AR
\DC \DL[1] \DR
\NC \VL Mesoarchean Era \NC \AR
\DC \DL[1] \DR
\NC \VL Neoarchean Era \NC \AR
\HL\NC \VL Paleoproterozoic Era \NC \AR
\DC \DL[1] \DR
\NC Proterozoic Eon \VL Mesoproterozoic Era \NC \AR
\DC \DL[1] \DR
\NC \VL Neoproterozoic Era \NC \AR
\HL
\HL\NC \VL Paleozoic Era \NC \AR
\DC \DL[1] \DR
\NC Phanerozoic Eon \VL Mesozoic Era \NC \AR
\DC \DL[1] \DR
\NC \VL Cenozoic Era \NC \AR
\HL
\stoptable
\stoptext
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[NTG-context] Is there a syntax for making many index entry's all in one?
I am using \index{} to populate \placeindex (an index) with items.
I am wondering if there is any syntax that allows one \index{} command to
define more than one entry, for example, something like this:
\index{presidents+Lincoln, Abraham; Lincoln, Abraham}
The result is two appearances in the index:
LLincoln, Abraham
Ppresidents Lincoln, Abraham
Is there some syntax for making this possible, without calling \index{}
multiple times?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] Why are endnotes not working with ConTeXt-SBL?
I am using the ConTeXt-SBL package for citations. I need to move my footnotes
to the end of each article.
According to the manual, I can suppress the placement of footnotes using two
lines of code. I've added these to my minimal working code, placing
\setupnote[footnote][location=none] in the header and \placenotes[footnote]
where I want the endnotes to appear. It complains this error:
"Undefined control sequence \doifendswithpunctelse"
What did I do wrong?
--Joel
Code follows:
\usemodule[publ-imp-sbl]
\startbuffer [bib]
@Article{na2006,
title={Volcanoes \word{of} New Mexico},
year={2006},
journal={New Mexico Earth Matters},
publisher={New Mexico Bureau \word{of} Geology \word{and} Mineral Resources},
volume={6},
number={1},
location={Socorro, New Mexico}
}
@Book{clark1989,
author = {Clark, William},
title = {Railroads \word{and} railroad towns \word{in} New Mexico},
publisher = {New Mexico Magazine},
year = {1989},
address = {Albuquerque, New Mexico},
isbn = {9780937206126}
}
\stopbuffer
\usebtxdataset[bib.buffer]
\setupbtx[dataset=default]
\usebtxdefinitions[sbl]
\setupbtx[sbl]
\setupnote[footnote][location=none]
\starttext
\input knuth
\cite[clark1989]
\placenotes[footnote]
\startchapter[title=Bibliography]
\placelistofpublications
\stopchapter
\stoptext
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[NTG-context] Why are back-to-back \autocite commands not working in ConTeXt-SBL?
I am using the ConTeXt-SBL module to handle the citations in my article. Using
the plain \cite[na2006] command has worked fine.
But there are some situations where I want the footnote to include page number
details. I tried using \cite[extra=2][na2006], but that doesn't seem compatible
with ConTeXt-SBL. I checked the documentation, and if I understand correctly, I
should use the autocite command to add page numbers to my citation? Like this:
\autocite[{\loc[2]}][]{na2006}
This solution works in 95% of cases, but when I need to cite another book
immediately after that, it throws up errors:
This won't compile: \autocite[{\loc[2]}][]{na2006}
\autocite[{\loc[2]}][]{clark1989} This won't compile:
\autocite[{\loc[2]}][]{na2006}%%
\autocite[{\loc[2]}][]{clark1989}
This also won't compile:
\autocite[{\loc[2]}][]{na2006}\autocite[{\loc[2]}][]{clark1989}
After much trial and error, I found this will compile:
\autocite[{\loc[2]}][]{na2006}
\autocite[{\loc[2]}][]{clark1989}
The problem with this last example, is if my citations appear within the
paragraph, then I end up with a paragraph break in the wrong place!
Here is my minimum working example, which won't compile unless I add a blank
line between the two citations.
\usemodule[publ-imp-sbl]
\startbuffer [bib]
@Article{na2006,
title={Volcanoes \word{of} New Mexico},
year={2006},
journal={New Mexico Earth Matters},
publisher={New Mexico Bureau \word{of} Geology \word{and} Mineral Resources},
volume={6},
number={1},
location={Socorro, New Mexico}
}
@Book{clark1989,
author = {Clark, William},
title = {Railroads \word{and} railroad towns \word{in} New Mexico},
publisher = {New Mexico Magazine},
year = {1989},
address = {Albuquerque, New Mexico},
isbn = {9780937206126}
}
\stopbuffer
\usebtxdataset[bib.buffer]
\setupbtx[dataset=default]
\usebtxdefinitions[sbl]
\setupbtx[sbl]
\starttext
\autocite[{\loc[2]}][]{na2006}
\autocite[{\loc[3]}][]{clark1989}
\startchapter[title=Bibliography]
\placelistofpublications
\stopchapter
\stoptext
Is the autocite command the wrong tool for what I need? How can I place
citations right next to each other, but also include page number information
with ConTeXt-SBL?
--Joel
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[NTG-context] Displaying names in Chicago-Turabian "note" style
I could not find any existing solution for using Chicago-Turabian "note" style
in ConTeXt, so I have started my own attempt.
Chicago-Turabian uses footnotes to display the author's details on the same
page, but also uses a bibliography to display an alphabetical list of the
sources again at the end. The footnotes display somewhat differently each time
a source is shown. The first time a source is cited, the footnote contains a
long, detailed reference. Subsequent reappearances of the same citation are
abbreviated somewhat. And "ibid" is used when the source is cited twice in a
row. The bibliography entry contains really detailed information, similar to
what was shown in the first footnote, with minor differences.
This code uses three macros: \turabian, used only the first time a source is
reference, \shortturabian, used for subsequent references of the same source,
and `\ibid, for when a source is referenced twice in a row. Each of these
macros simply creates a footnote, showing the author's details, and also uses
\nocite to make sure an entry is added to \placelistofpublications. Page
details are optionally added in #2, and this information only appears in the
footnotes.
I am having trouble getting the code to display the author's names correctly.
Every attempt ends with strange results, like "FirstLast" with no space or just
"Initial Last". Chicago-Turabian displays the names differently, depending on
the placement:
(1) First, the \turabian macro should show in ordinary First + Last order in
the footnote, example: "Anna Burns, Robert Smith, and Judith Green", but if the
number of authors exceeds 3, it display "Anna Burns et al."
(2) Second, the \shorturabian macro should show just the Last names in the
footnote: "Burns, Smith, and Green", also using "Burns et al." if there are
more than 3 names.
(3) The \ibid macro doesn't show any names.
(4) Finally, the actual bibliographic entry in \placelistofpublications uses a
strange format, with the first author listed as Last + First order, all
subsequent authors in First + Last order, such as "Burns, Anna, Robert Smith,
and Judith Green.", meanwhile "et al." is never used in the bibliography, even
if there are 100 authors.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
--Joel
Minimal working example follows:
\startbuffer [bib]
@Book{ball1996,
author = {Ball, Larry},
title = {Desert lawmen: The high sheriffs \word{of} New Mexico \word{and}
Arizona, 1846-1912},
publisher = {University \word{of} New Mexico Press},
year = {1996},
address = {Albuquerque, NM},
isbn = {9780826317001}
}
@Book{minear2009,
author = {Minear, Tish and Limon, Janet},
title = {Discover Native America: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, \word{and}
Utah},
publisher = {Hippocrene Books},
year = {2009},
address = {New York, NY},
isbn = {9780781803274}
}
\stopbuffer
\define[3]\ifisempty{%
\setbox0=\hbox{#1\unskip}%
\ifdim\wd0=0pt
#2%
\else
#3%
\fi
}%
\usebtxdataset[bib.buffer]
\startbtxrenderingdefinitions[chicagonum]
\definebtx[chicagonum]
[default=default,
specification=chicagonum,
otherstext={\btxspace{\it\btxlabeltext{others}}},
etallimit=10,
etaldisplay=\btxparameter\c!etallimit,
journalconversion=\v!normal,
monthconversion=\v!month,
title=yes,
separator:names:2={\btxcomma},
separator:names:3={\btxcomma\btxlabeltext{and}\space},
separator:names:4={\btxspace\btxlabeltext{and}\space}]
\setupbtxlist[chicagonum]
\definebtxrendering[chicagonum]
[specification=chicagonum,
sorttype=authoryear,
numbering=no]
\startsetups btx:chicagonum:list:book
\btxdoif{author}{
\btxflush{author}
\btxperiod
}
\btxdoif{title}{
{\it\Words \btxflush{title}}
\btxperiod
}
\btxdoif{address}{
\btxflush{address}
\btxcolon
}
\btxdoif{publisher}{
\btxflush{publisher}
\btxcomma
}
\btxdoif{year}{
\btxflush{year}
\btxperiod
}
\removeunwantedspaces
\stopsetups
\startsetups btx:chicagonum:list:article
\btxdoif{author}{
\btxflush{author}
\btxperiod
}
\btxdoif{title}{
\quotation{\Words \btxflush{title}}
\btxperiod
}
\btxdoif{journal}{
{\it\Words \btxflush{journal}}
}
\btxdoif{volume}{
\btxflush{volume}
\btxcomma
}
\btxdoif{number}{
no.~\btxflush{number}
}
\btxdoifelse{month}{
(\btxflush{month} \btxflush{year})
\btxcolon
}{
\btxdoif{year}{
(\btxflush{year})
}
\btxcolon
}
\btxdoif{pages}{
\btxflush{pages}
\btxperiod
}
\removeunwantedspaces
\stopsetups
\stopbtxrenderingdefinitions
\setupbtx[chicagonum][dataset=default,
authorconversion={normal},
etallimit=]
\setupbtx[chicagonum:list:author]
[authorconversion={normal},
etallimit=]
