[NTG-context] Vertical align in side by side paragraphs

[Tom Harrop]

Hello,

How can I make both/all columns in a paragraphs environment align flush bottom, 
e.g. for addressing a letter? I saw a line in the manual about using top=\vfill 
but I couldn’t get this to work. Should I be using TABLE here?

Thanks (again),

Tom

\starttext

\defineparagraphs[Par]
  [n=2, before={\blank}, after={\blank}] 

\setupparagraphs[Par][1]
  [align=flushleft]
\setupparagraphs[Par][2]
  [align=flushright]

\startPar
  \vfill % I hoped this would push bob’s address down
  Bob’s name \crlf
  Company \crlf
  Bob’s street \crlf
  Bob’s town \crlf
  Bob’s country
\Par
  My street \crlf
  My town \crlf
  My country 
  \blank
  My phone number
  \blank
  Today's date
\stopPar

Dear Bob,

Blah blah blah

\stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] Overlapping terms in description lists

[Tom Harrop]

Thanks for the reply.

> On 21 Apr 2016, at 1:18 pm, luigi scarso  wrote:
> 
> the title is in  a \vtop and not a \vbox, and its height is fixed to \strutht 
> (and the depth to \strutdp)
> so basically the title is one line.

OK, I’ll do my best to stick to one line.

I guess it would be better to use a paragraphs or column environment for long 
labels but the ConTeXt is generated by pandoc, which writes 'definition lists' 
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[NTG-context] Overlapping terms in description lists

[Tom Harrop]

Hello again,

The document I'm typsetting uses description lists. To keep the list 
entries close together I'm using before=\nowhitespace and 
after=\nowhitespace in \definedescription. This is fine so long as the 
term is short, but when the term wraps to two lines it can overlap with 
the term below.


Here's an example:


\setuppapersize[A5]
\setupalign[flushleft, nothyphenated]

\definedescription[description]
[before=\nowhitespace, after=\nowhitespace]

\starttext

\startdescription{Short term:}
  Items with short terms are fine.
\stopdescription

\startdescription{This is a really long term:}
  Long term + short definition
\stopdescription

\startdescription{This is a really long term:}
  ... the long term of the item above the mashes into the term below.
\stopdescription

\stoptext


And here is an attempt at a plain text representation of what I'm trying 
to achieve:



Short term: Items with short terms are fine.
This is a really
long term:  Long term + short definition
This is a really
long term:  ... the long term of the item above the mashes 
into the

term below.


Is this possible using \definedescription? I tried some combinations of 
\vfill and \framed but I couldn't get it to work.


Sorry to repeatedly post newbie questions. Any tips would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Tom

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Re: [NTG-context] Move textrule closer to head

[Tom Harrop]

On 13/04/16 18:47, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
Hi Tom, how about another rule? (From 
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Titles#Titling_Style.) 
\setuphead[subsubsection] [after=\hrule\blank] I hope it helps, Pablo 


Ahh, it's perfect. I missed that page of the wiki! Thank you.
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[NTG-context] Move textrule closer to head

[Tom Harrop]

Hello,

I'm a ConTeXt beginner. I'm working on a document where I would like a 
textrule under my subsubsection headings. If I use after=\textrule, the 
placement of the textrule is too far from the heading, and I haven't 
found a way to move it closer to the heading either with \setuphead or 
\setuptextrules.


Here is an example:


\setuphead[subsubsection]
  [after=\textrule]

\starttext

\subsubsection{I would like less space between this heading and its 
textrule}


Here is some text.

\stoptext



I realise that the spacing looks pretty good in the PDF produced by this 
example, so you'll just have to believe me that it needs to be closer to 
the headings in my document.


I'd appreciate any help on this, including suggestions of 
alternative/better methods to do this.


Thanks for reading,

Tom
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[NTG-context] Possible typo in source file type-imp-lato.mkiv

[Tom Harrop]

Hi,

I was having trouble getting italics to work for a PDF that uses the 
Lato font. Bold and 'normal' were rendering just fine.


In the log I saw some lines like:

fonts   > defining > font with asked name 'lato-reglta' is not 
found using lookup 'file'

fonts   > defining > unknown font 'lato-reglta', loading aborted


I noticed Context was searching for *reglta (with a lower case "L") 
rather than regita (with an "i").


Looking at the file 
http://source.contextgarden.net/tex/context/base/type-imp-lato.mkiv I 
can see that all the synonyms point to *lta rather than *lta inside the 
\definefontsynonym commands.


I tried changing all the instances of *lta to *ita in type-imp-lato.mkiv 
on two different systems (Ubuntu and MacOS) and in both cases I 
subsequently got italics in my PDF.


I suppose this could be a bug. Is this list the right place to report it?

My apologies if it is in fact something I was doing wrong!

Thanks,

Tom
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[NTG-context] Apply a start/stop command pair to certain subsections

[Tom Harrop]

Hello,

I'm a new Context user, and I have a question about conditional 
formatting of paragraphs.


I'm typsetting a CV. I am using pandoc to generate the .tex file from 
Markdown before compiling the pdf with context. Because pandoc inserts 
the body of the document from one variable ($body), I would like to 
avoid using e.g. \startmycommand and then \stopmycommand to modify 
individual subsections.


What I can do from Markdown is tag the headings, so that (for example) 
the "Publications" subsection starts as 
"\subsection[pubs]{Publications}". I would like to know if there is a 
way to automatically apply a start/stop command pair to the "pubs" 
subsection(s), or if it better to do this with an external script that 
modifies the .tex file before I call context.


Below is an example where I can get the output I'm looking for 
(paragraphs in the "pubs" subsection have a hanging indent) by defining 
a start/stop command pair and manually applying it to the "pubs" 
subsection.


If anyone has any tips to apply this automatically to the "pubs" 
subsection(s) but not the "text" subsections, I'd appreciate it! I have 
searched the wiki, read through the "Context: an excursion" document and 
looked around in the mail archive and stackexchange, but I didn't find 
exactly what I want.


Many thanks for reading,

Tom Harrop

---Example below---

\definestartstop [negindent] [
  before={%
\startnarrower[left]%
\setupindenting[-\leftskip,yes,first]%
\setuphead[subsection][indentnext=yes]%
  },
  after=\stopnarrower,
]

\starttext

\subsection[text]{Normal text}

I would like the text in this subsection to appear without indents.

In the following subsection I need hanging indents.

\startnegindent

\subsection[pubs]{Publications}

Jaynes, Julian. {\os 1990}. {\em The Origin of Consciousness in the 
Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind}. New York City: Houghton Mifflin Company.


Pye, David. {\os 1995}. {\em The Nature and Art of Workmanship}. London: 
The Herbert Press.


Persson, Tomas. {\os 2008}. {\em Pictorial Primates: A Search for Iconic 
Abilities in Great Apes}. Lund: Lund University Cognitive Studies.


\stopnegindent

\subsection[text]{More text}

This subsection should be back to normal.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod 
tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.


\stoptext


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