[NTG-context] Re: Why Difference Between \placefloat and \definefloat

Where’s the float type "sidebar" defined? AFAIK it’s not a default type. And it might interfere with the actual sidebar stuff from https://source.contextgarden.net/tex/context/base/mkxl/anch-bar.mkxl, see also https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupsidebar Hraban Am 28.04.24 um 19:54

[NTG-context] Re: statistical charts module re-published

tatistical-charts module is now www.thala.cz/statcharts, available also via www.konvoj.cz/statcharts, and mirrored at user.mendelu.cz/thala/statcharts. Best, Tomáš On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 08:54:46PM +, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Hi, since the Ak

[NTG-context] Re: \par and \startlines

Am 26.04.24 um 18:24 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: BTW: ConTeXt has a module for poems which can be loaded with \usemodule[format]. Never heard of it. Version says “ancient” ;) https://source.contextgarden.net/tex/context/modules/mkiv/m-format.mkiv What’s the advantage of all this markup over

[NTG-context] Re: \par and \startlines

Am 26.04.24 um 19:52 schrieb Denis Maier via ntg-context: I see. But there's no command that could be used to simulate an empty line? Did you try \vskip{…}? Hraban ___ If your question is of interest to others as

[NTG-context] Re: start/stopregister

Am 25.04.24 um 15:44 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz: Hi all, has \startregister been superseded in luametatex or is it not yet implemented? I tried to read strc-reg.lmt but couldn't figure out what is going on. The following silly minimal test produces the expected result with mkiv but not in

[NTG-context] Re: which parameter is for adjust the distance between items in a list?

Am 25.04.24 um 10:46 schrieb h...@hongfeng.ch: thank you. just tried, not worked out yet. Here it is my text: ``` setuplist[height=0] \startitemize[n] \item It's impossible --- don't waste my time. \item It's possible, but not worth doing. \item I said it was a good ideal all along.

[NTG-context] Re: which parameter is for adjust the distance between items in a list?

Am 25.04.24 um 10:20 schrieb h...@hongfeng.ch: which parameter in `\setuplist` is used for adjusting the distance between the items of a list? Usually it’s the general line height. You can use "inbetween=\blank[3pt]" to insert extra space. (Untested) Hraban

[NTG-context] Re: documentation: parameters of \setuplist

Am 23.04.24 um 23:14 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 23.04.2024 um 21:43: Am 22.04.24 um 18:09 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: I tried to complete https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setuplist, but I don’t understand all parameters. Can anyone explain these please

[NTG-context] Re: documentation: parameters of \setuplist

Am 24.04.24 um 01:00 schrieb Bruce Horrocks: In the source there is a comment relating to location: %D Regular list entries are bound to a specific location in order to get the right %D pagenumber etc.\ associated. When pushing something inbetween (in mkiv) it ends %D up directtly in the

[NTG-context] Re: documentation: parameters of \setuplist

Am 22.04.24 um 18:09 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: I tried to complete https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setuplist, but I don’t understand all parameters. Can anyone explain these please: * state (start stop): what does this en-/disable? collecting entries? * label (yes no none Name

[NTG-context] Re: documentation: parameters of \setuplist

Am 22.04.24 um 18:30 schrieb Duncan Hothersall: Hi Hraban, I can help with one - aligntitle means an unnumbered section will align in the table of contents under the number rather than the title. So for example if you have a TOC combining \section and \subject entries, they would look like

[NTG-context] documentation: parameters of \setuplist

I tried to complete https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setuplist, but I don’t understand all parameters. Can anyone explain these please: * state (start stop): what does this en-/disable? collecting entries? * label (yes no none Name): language dependent labels? as a prefix or what? *

[NTG-context] [off topic] non-English programming languages: Arab and Cuneiform

Came across this, I guess some of you might find it interesting: https://nas.sr/%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8/ https://github.com/MrLogarithm/emeszida ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an

[NTG-context] Re: Wiki - test/proposal to further clarify documentation

Am 17.04.24 um 23:25 schrieb Garulfo: - exactly, it's not a question of proposing new documents, but of proposing another complementary way of accessing and browsing existing ones. - Actually, the wiki is (or can be) a hub for the 4 needs:   - "Reference" like

[NTG-context] Re: How to isolate serious errors from warnings?

Am 18.04.24 um 02:09 schrieb Joel via ntg-context: 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

[NTG-context] Re: Wiki - test/proposal to further clarify documentation

Am 17.04.24 um 13:57 schrieb Bruce Horrocks: - There are at least two books, and a third being written but not yet released: these fit into the Tutorials and Explanation quadrants. Which published books do you mean? I know of Alan Braslau’s book, AFAIK that will be published in French

[NTG-context] Re: Wiki - test/proposal to further clarify documentation

Am 17.04.24 um 10:36 schrieb Hans Hagen: On 4/17/2024 8:32 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On 16. Apr 2024, at 21:56, Peter Hopcroft via ntg-context wrote: On 17/04/2024, at 7:11 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: In my poster (still WIP) I wrote: … Excellent No, I must admit I don’t

[NTG-context] Re: Wiki - test/proposal to further clarify documentation

Am 14.04.24 um 21:45 schrieb Peter Hopcroft via ntg-context: It would be great if the main page actually said what Context does. In my poster (still WIP) I wrote: start --- The “infamous” alternative to LaTeX While most designers use graphical tools, there are still areas where code-based

[NTG-context] Re: Most recent context doesn't like synctex?

I made it work with Pulsar and the pdfjs-viewer plugin: The sourcecode of the plugin is broken but easily fixable: https://github.com/allefeld/atom-pdfjs-viewer/issues/15 Then pdf->tex works with synctex from TeX live, "--synctex=repeat" and a right click in the viewer. Sigh, should I

[NTG-context] Re: Is TIFF image no longer supported?

Am 14.04.24 um 22:25 schrieb Denis Maier via ntg-context: Thomas A. Schmitz > hat am 14.04.2024 22:18 CEST geschrieben: On 4/14/24 22:11, Joel via ntg-context wrote: I have a document with PNG, JPG, and TIFF. When I try using

[NTG-context] Re: Wiki - test/proposal to further clarify documentation

Hi Garulfo, I’m not against the “new order”, but I’d keep the colorful subject tiles. Different accesses are good IMO (as long as it doesn’t get to convoluted). I’d say updating, sorting, restructuring pages is more important than a new start page. Yes, please sort out reference vs.

[NTG-context] Re: Wiki - question about Command/ pages which start with a space character

Am 14.04.24 um 14:46 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: garu...@azules.eu schrieb am 14.04.2024 um 12:41: Hi all, Is it on purpose that 128 pages "https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/ " start with a space character ? I didn't find an explanation in https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command

[NTG-context] Re: Most recent context doesn't like synctex?

Am 13.04.24 um 22:28 schrieb Mikael Sundqvist: What will work will depend on the viewers. We noticed a few weeks ago that synctex (pdf -> editor) was not working in a few viewers (okular) while it was working in others. Could you please tell us which combinations of viewers and editors you

[NTG-context] Re: Figure reference failing

Am 10.04.24 um 14:21 schrieb Hans Hagen: It fails for me as well, when "mode=columns" is used. compare with and without mode columns: \starttext     \enablemode[columns]     As we see \doifelsemode {columns} {in \in {table} [demo-1]} {below} we can have     more than one cell in a row.

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

reminder: this is tonight (in European perception). Am 07.04.24 um 09:37 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, April 10th, 19:00 CEST (UTC+2) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu

[NTG-context] Re: Fwd: Re: how to apply gradient color to a piece of text?

Am 07.04.24 um 19:05 schrieb Hans Hagen: \startMPpage     picture tt ; tt := lmt_outline [     kind = "fillup",     text = "\definedfont[name:texgyrepagellabold*default]foo f o o",     ] xsized 12cm ;     path bb ; bb := boundingbox tt ;     path pp ; pp := bb enlarged 2cm ;    

[NTG-context] Re: how to apply gradient color to a piece of text?

Am 07.04.24 um 15:51 schrieb Keith McKay: Have a look at the posts starting on the 2 March 2021 with the subject heading "Shaded Large Letters in LMTX". Hans gave a great solution. Neither for the example in

[NTG-context] Re: PDF/UA-2, WTPDF

Am 07.04.24 um 11:17 schrieb Ulrike Fischer: Am Sun, 7 Apr 2024 09:31:30 +0200 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Am 07.04.24 um 08:06 schrieb Hans Hagen: On 4/6/2024 5:34 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: 1. PDF/UA-2 https://pdfa.org/iso-14289-2-pdfua-2/ looks likes one has to pay for it Oh

[NTG-context] regular online meet-up

You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, April 10th, 19:00 CEST (UTC+2) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Do you have a subject that you’d like to talk about?

[NTG-context] Re: PDF/UA-2, WTPDF

Am 07.04.24 um 08:06 schrieb Hans Hagen: On 4/6/2024 5:34 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: 1. PDF/UA-2 https://pdfa.org/iso-14289-2-pdfua-2/ looks likes one has to pay for it Oh, as usual with PDF association… That’s not how you promote open standards. (Didn’t check, jost forwarded

[NTG-context] PDF/UA-2, WTPDF

Quoting a post by Philipp Kiff, https://mastodon.social/@pkiff/11221949350928: In amongst the release of PDF/UA-2 (PDF for Universal Accessibility) and the new Well-Tagged PDF (WTPDF) standard last month, some PDF professionals may have missed two other new resources that may help

[NTG-context] Re: blank line and \placefigure

Am 06.04.24 um 12:48 schrieb Thomas Meyer: how can I suppress a blank line between a text paragraph and \placefigure? I get one there, but I don't want it. Did you try \setupfloat[figure][spacebefore=,] ? or "none" or "{disable,nowhite,back}" https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupfloat

[NTG-context] Re: incosistent output of --- dash

Am 06.04.24 um 11:43 schrieb madiazm.eo...@gmail.com: Hi everyone, I'm a bit puzzled because I usually don't get an em-dash when I type tree hyphens. If I use the command \emdash, no problem but when I use the hyphens some days it works... and somedays I see three small hyphens. I tried it on

[NTG-context] statistical charts module re-published

Hi, since the Akela server at Mendel University is down since a while, I got no response from Tomáš, and it would be a pity to lose this module, I re-published the statistical charts module at https://codeberg.org/fiee/context-statistical-charts I’ll also put it on modules.contextgarden.net

[NTG-context] international type design

Have a look at these beautiful font designs: https://esadtype.esad-amiens.fr/ Unfortunately the fonts are not available (yet). Take your time to browse the papers about intention, design process etc. I just browsed the dissertation about the (Vietnamese) "Dilinh" font and found the

[NTG-context] Re: what about "textdisplay"?

Am 01.04.24 um 18:54 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 01.04.2024 um 18:29: Am 01.04.24 um 18:21 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 01.04.2024 um 17:19: A while ago, I was pointed (by Wolfgang or Hans, I guess) to \start/stoptextdisplay

[NTG-context] Re: what about "textdisplay"?

Am 01.04.24 um 18:21 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 01.04.2024 um 17:19: A while ago, I was pointed (by Wolfgang or Hans, I guess) to \start/stoptextdisplay to enhance whitespace handling around images. My guess is Mikael because I saw the command the first time

[NTG-context] what about "textdisplay"?

A while ago, I was pointed (by Wolfgang or Hans, I guess) to \start/stoptextdisplay to enhance whitespace handling around images. I wanted to document it, but can’t find it in the sources: $ context --find=textdisplay mtx-context |

[NTG-context] Re: OT: San Seriffe

Am 01.04.24 um 16:34 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: On 4/1/2024 3:56 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: in honour of Knuth and the current occasion: https://realdougwilson.com/writing/san-serriffe the subject title suggest that you found an open type version Well, I found one, but it‘s

[NTG-context] OT: San Seriffe

in honour of Knuth and the current occasion: https://realdougwilson.com/writing/san-serriffe Hraban ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

[NTG-context] context editor support / syntax highlighting for Pulsar

Hi Hans (et al.), find attached a slightly extended version of the "interface" script that can also generate the list of commands in cson format for Pulsar/Atom. It just creates a basic list of commands for syntax highlighting; for a complete plugin, "grammars" and "settings" are missing,

[NTG-context] Re: How to get an image to fill the maximum available space?

Am 30.03.24 um 03:15 schrieb Joel via ntg-context: 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

[NTG-context] Re: Headertext

Am 26.03.24 um 17:12 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: begin example \showframe \definetext   [chapterheader] % identifier   [header]    % vertical position (header/footer) % [text]  % horizontal position (text/margin)   [This is a custom header for \tex{chapter}] % content

[NTG-context] Re: Unknown units es and dk

Am 23.03.24 um 19:05 schrieb Hans Hagen: On 3/23/2024 2:27 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Regarding the dk unit: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb42-3/tb132hagen-dk.pdf The es, ts and eu are discussed here: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb44-2/tb137egger-edith.pdf In German, I call these "Spaßeinheiten"

[NTG-context] Re: Use of marking

ng[section]}] [] > Kapitel - Aufgabe Thanks in advance Greetings Thomas Am 20.03.24 um 09:09 schrieb Hraban Ramm: Am 20.03.24 um 08:18 schrieb Thomas Meyer: HI folks, yesterday while reading along I learned how to suppress the chapter numbers in sections. That was something I was looki

[NTG-context] Re: command line arguments

Am 19.03.24 um 23:53 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Hraban Ramm schrieb am 19.03.2024 um 21:41: Following up on the other imposition question, I'm trying to make an example file that shows an imposition schema according to command line arguments. This way it works for the number of pages

[NTG-context] Re: can we do binding correction?

Hi Andrés, thank you! Am 20.03.24 um 06:07 schrieb Andres Conrado Montoya: I have found with experience that a formula to calculate the binding correction for a saddle stitch binding, not more than 4 pages in a signature (only one fold in the middle) usually is 1/2 the circumference of a

[NTG-context] Re: Use of marking

Am 20.03.24 um 08:18 schrieb Thomas Meyer: HI folks, yesterday while reading along I learned how to suppress the chapter numbers in sections. That was something I was looking for myself. But how do you use marking correctly in startsection? I would like to see "1. Kapitel - 1. Aufgabe" in

[NTG-context] Re: can we do binding correction?

Am 19.03.24 um 23:42 schrieb Willi Egger: Generally I know for what binding correction is used, I just never tried to set it up. If I look carefully at one of our printed booklets, the printshop also didn’t. So I'd need pageshift without applying imposition (setting it up wouldn’t hurt). I

[NTG-context] Re: can we do binding correction?

are probably more circles than just adding thickness of paper. Willi On 18 Mar 2024, at 17:35, Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 17.03.24 um 23:54 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Hraban Ramm schrieb am 17.03.2024 um 22:48: Hi, this question was rised in my ConTeXt beginners workshop* at Chemnitz Linux Days

[NTG-context] command line arguments

Following up on the other imposition question, I'm trying to make an example file that shows an imposition schema according to command line arguments. This way it works for the number of pages, as used in \dorecurse{\Pages}{…}, but not for the imposition schema. Typesetting \Schema looks

[NTG-context] Re: Comments placed in the margin

Am 19.03.24 um 15:38 schrieb Jeroen: For comments that are placed in the margin, the \inleft{}, \inouter{} etc will place text in the margin in bold. Can this text be placed in the margin in regular text or possibly in slightly smaller font size compared to the regular text in the document?

[NTG-context] Re: Adjusted Chapter Headings

Hi Jeroen, it might make sense to use \setuphead[chapter][ conversion=R, ] \setuplabeltext[nl][chapter={Boek }] instead of ownnumber. I would use one command for number and title and put both in the same kind of frame. Probably you should use a \strut in the text or \inframed[strut=yes]

[NTG-context] Re: ck hyphenation in old German orthography

Am 18.03.24 um 00:02 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Hraban Ramm schrieb am 17.03.2024 um 12:06: Hi, the sample file aesop-de is in old German orthography, there, ck should get hyphenated as k-k, this doesn’t work (e.g. Mücke isn’t hyphenated at all). Is there something I can configure? Hraban

[NTG-context] Re: Mikael’s missing math manual

Am 18.03.24 um 07:36 schrieb Mikael Sundqvist: Hi, On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 10:57 PM Hraban Ramm wrote: … and another thing that came up in my workshops and in discussions at our booth: the math manual is eagerly awaited! (My book too, but I can’t answer most questions about math.) Oh, I see

[NTG-context] Re: can we do binding correction?

Am 17.03.24 um 23:54 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Hraban Ramm schrieb am 17.03.2024 um 22:48: Hi, this question was rised in my ConTeXt beginners workshop* at Chemnitz Linux Days today: Can I configure binding correction for saddle-stitched or thread-bound booklets, and if, does it only work

[NTG-context] Mikael’s missing math manual

… and another thing that came up in my workshops and in discussions at our booth: the math manual is eagerly awaited! (My book too, but I can’t answer most questions about math.) One participant tested some math alignment examples from an older paper by Aditya and found them working in her

[NTG-context] can we do binding correction?

Hi, this question was rised in my ConTeXt beginners workshop* at Chemnitz Linux Days today: Can I configure binding correction for saddle-stitched or thread-bound booklets, and if, does it only work with arranging (imposition) or can I enable it somehow for the layout (if the printshop does

[NTG-context] ck hyphenation in old German orthography

Hi, the sample file aesop-de is in old German orthography, there, ck should get hyphenated as k-k, this doesn’t work (e.g. Mücke isn’t hyphenated at all). Is there something I can configure? Hraban \mainlanguage[deo] \setuplanguage[deo][   hyphenmin=4,   lefthyphenmin=2,   righthyphenmin=2,

[NTG-context] Re: Why is header page number appearing when I define a header?

Am 16.03.24 um 22:28 schrieb Marco Patzer: On Sat, 16 Mar 2024 20:33:33 + (UTC) Joel via ntg-context wrote: How do I remove the page number from the header texts? \setupheadertexts [] or \setuplayouttext [header][text] [middletext=] I’d have guessed

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

Reminder: This is tonight! Am 10.03.24 um 21:51 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, March 13th, 19:00 CET (UTC+1) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) ConTeXt users of all

[NTG-context] Re: how to include an an svg file?

Am 13.03.24 um 13:14 schrieb Jean-Pierre Delange: Hi Hraban & Seyal I can confirm that converting the *.svg file into a *.pdf file displays the colour shades correctly ... (I used Gimp to export the smile.svg file to a smile03.pdf file). Gimp is a really bad choice in this case, since it

[NTG-context] Re: how to include an an svg file?

Am 12.03.24 um 23:59 schrieb seyal zavira: You are correct. when i convert this svg to pdf via inkscape it works like a charm. But what is standard way of including an svg file with context if we want to inkscape render the images? \externalfigure[smile] without any other settings, but

[NTG-context] Re: how to include an an svg file?

Am 12.03.24 um 14:53 schrieb seyal zavira: > when i want to put some SVGs in my document the svg does not render properly here is the code: > > \starttext > \startMPcode > draw lmt_svg [ > filename = "smile.svg"] > \stopMPcode > \stoptext I can

[NTG-context] Re: Creating a module for calligraphy practice templates

Am 12.03.24 um 08:57 schrieb Andres Conrado Montoya: Hello, list! I've been working on a module to typeset calligraphy practice templates using ConTeXt and MetaPost. You are welcome to check it out on github: https://github.com/conradolandia/pauta

[NTG-context] has the statistical charts module a new home?

Hi Tomáš et al., the site https://akela.mendelu.cz/~thala/statcharts/ and actually the whole server disappeared. Is there a new download location for the charts module? It would be nice if we could just host it on https://modules.contextgarden.net, then it could also get installed via the

[NTG-context] regular online meet-up

You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, March 13th, 19:00 CET (UTC+1) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Do you have a subject that you’d like to talk about?

[NTG-context] Re: \em issue in MkXL (2024.03.05 11:26)

Am 08.03.24 um 18:50 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context: Dear list, the following latest gets differents results when compiled with MkXL and MkIV (in current latest from 2024.03.05 11:26): \definefontfamily[mainface][rm][TeX Gyre Termes] [features={default, quality},

[NTG-context] Re: How can I do this?

Am 08.03.24 um 17:56 schrieb Otared Kavian: Hi Ursula, The reason for which you did not get the expected result is that you have « } » missing in your file, that is the closing brace after your italic command « {\it » at the end of your document. Moreover you did not have a \stoptext in your

[NTG-context] Re: additional font faces

Am 08.03.24 um 18:02 schrieb Hans Hagen: On 3/8/2024 5:55 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Hi, if I need an additional pair of upright and italic font faces, e.g. a Medium or Light version, would it make sense to define them like this: I'd just define a new typeface / bodyfont, using fo

[NTG-context] additional font faces

Hi, if I need an additional pair of upright and italic font faces, e.g. a Medium or Light version, would it make sense to define them like this: % adapted from font-pre.mkxl \definefontalternative[md] \definefontalternative[mi] \definefontalternative[ms] \definealternativestyle [medium]

[NTG-context] Re: missing metadata in LMTX

Am 06.03.24 um 11:18 schrieb Marco Patzer: On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 23:14:04 +0100 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Here is the official solution: \startxmlsetups xml:meta \setupmetadata [author={\xmltext{#1}{/author}}, title={\xmltext{#1}{/title}}] \stopxmlsetups So now we have:

[NTG-context] Re: \showsymbolset is noop

Am 05.03.24 um 23:11 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 04.03.2024 um 21:24: The \showsymbolset has no output any more, apparently already for some time. I checked on COW (ConTeXt ver: 2022.12.22 22:17 LMTX fmt: 2022.12.23) and my local installation (ConTeXt ver

[NTG-context] Re: Local alternative to \input

Am 04.03.24 um 10:43 schrieb Denis Maier via ntg-context: Hi, Aren’t environments used for setups (and not for textual content). Maybe a buffer may be what you want ? https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/startbuffer Yes, buffers are the way to go for (textual) contents, while setups or

[NTG-context] \showsymbolset is noop

The \showsymbolset has no output any more, apparently already for some time. I checked on COW (ConTeXt ver: 2022.12.22 22:17 LMTX fmt: 2022.12.23) and my local installation (ConTeXt ver: 2024.02.22 18:31 LMTX fmt: 2024.2.22). Can someone try on MkIV? """ \usesymbols[nav] \starttext

[NTG-context] enhancing documentation: initials

Hi, I tried to figure out what the "method" parameter of \setupinitial does – it changes the handling of quotation marks at the beginning of the text. It’s defined in context/base/mkiv/typo-drp.lua But I found no difference between first, last, and none; just "auto" includes the mark in the

[NTG-context] Re: Japanese

Am 01.03.24 um 16:23 schrieb Emanuel Han via ntg-context: I made manual corrections to scrp-cjk.lua, but with no effect to the ConTeXt output of my example. Do I have to recompile ConTeXt first? Not compile the engine (luametatex), but re-make the ConTeXt format with context --make and to be

[NTG-context] Re: Japanese

Am 28.02.24 um 20:51 schrieb Emanuel Han via ntg-context: Thank you all for your suggestions and contributions to the wiki. I don't intend to nag, but when looking at what ConTeXt is producing, I need to state that the result is still far away from a properly typeset Japanese text. That’s

[NTG-context] Re: Japanese

Am 28.02.24 um 08:34 schrieb Otared Kavian: Dear Dalyoung, Thank you very much for your insight. I downloaded the Noto Serif JP fonts and set up a fontfamily as you indicated, by adding \setscript[nihongo] which solves a problem I had with line breakings. And everything works smoothly! So,

[NTG-context] Re: Japanese

Am 26.02.24 um 21:08 schrieb Otared Kavian: Does anyone have a simple setup of fonts to write a small Japanese document (possibly with furagana) ? I am using MacOS and I have several Japanese fonts on the system. I have some old examples which do not typeset correctly now, maybe because they

[NTG-context] Re: FreeBSD 13.2

Am 26.02.24 um 12:22 schrieb Roger Mason: resolvers | resolving | variable 'SELFAUTOLOC' set to '/usr/home/rmason/context/tex/texmf-freebsd-amd64/bin' resolvers | resolving | variable 'SELFAUTODIR' set to '/usr/home/rmason/context/tex/texmf-freebsd-amd64' resolvers |

[NTG-context] Re: FreeBSD 13.2

Am 25.02.24 um 20:24 schrieb Roger Mason: Hello Hraban, Henning Hraban Ramm writes: Am 25.02.24 um 17:08 schrieb Roger Mason: Do I need mtxrun? If so, where are the sources and how do I build it? Yes, you need it, but it’s just an alias to luametatex: ~/context/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin

[NTG-context] Re: FreeBSD 13.2

Am 25.02.24 um 17:08 schrieb Roger Mason: I see that the build does not provide the mtxrun binary that the installer uses. Does that mean I dont need mtxrun? Do I need mtxrun? If so, where are the sources and how do I build it? Yes, you need it, but it’s just an alias to luametatex:

[NTG-context] Re: FreeBSD 13.2

Am 25.02.24 um 13:12 schrieb Hans Hagen: We could add a flag to the installer that doesn't update the binaries but intead (advices) to build the bins but it assumes Cmake and gcc to be installed (we could cheat and use an existing cmake made make file). Yes please! A platform-independent

[NTG-context] Re: typing with scite module and escape

Am 24.02.24 um 13:53 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Hi, I’m trying to use escaping in a typing environment. It works until I load the scite module. I need that only for btx highlighting, but I can’t limit it to that. What should I do? \usemodule[scite] \define[1]\SAY{\hfill{\rm #1

[NTG-context] Re: FreeBSD 13.2

Am 24.02.24 um 15:20 schrieb Roger Mason: Hello, I've been away from ConTeXt for some time but now I want to install it on my FreeBSD 13.2 system(s) (I have not switched any machines to 14.0 yet). After unpacking, running the install scripts results in: ld-elf.so.1:

[NTG-context] typing with scite module and escape

Hi, I’m trying to use escaping in a typing environment. It works until I load the scite module. I need that only for btx highlighting, but I can’t limit it to that. What should I do? \usemodule[scite] \define[1]\SAY{\hfill{\rm #1}} \setuptyping[TEX][ option=tex,% scite sets cld

[NTG-context] Re: MetaPost lines in tables?

Am 22.02.24 um 18:35 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: On 2/21/2024 7:47 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: (I’m sure I already used that somewhere… Must document…) ok, new feature dedicated to Hraban ... who then of course has to document it. This is nice. Thank you, will do. (Actually I’m

[NTG-context] Re: MetaPost lines in tables?

Am 21.02.24 um 19:43 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: … but it would be visible on a colored background. I’m sure you can show me a better way… \startuseMPgraphic{dottedborder}   draw bottomboundary OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled 2 dashed withdots withcolor "red";   setbounds currentpicture

[NTG-context] Re: MetaPost lines in tables?

Am 19.02.24 um 23:15 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 19.02.2024 um 22:39: I guess I asked this a while ago, but I can’t find an answer: Is it possible to replace the lines of a TABLE with my own MetaPost graphics? ATM I’m trying to place my MP lines behind a frame

[NTG-context] Re: Text in Margin

Am 19.02.24 um 14:14 schrieb Jeroen: In a textbook I am looking to place a large left margin at every page of each chapter. At left printed pages a left margin and at right printed pages a right margin, so like a double sided construction. In this margin I would like to place: 1. Keywords

[NTG-context] MetaPost lines in tables?

I guess I asked this a while ago, but I can’t find an answer: Is it possible to replace the lines of a TABLE with my own MetaPost graphics? ATM I’m trying to place my MP lines behind a frame-less TABLE; it will probably work, but it’s a crutch… Hraban

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

Don’t forget the articles from the context journal: https://articles.contextgarden.net/ (2022 is still missing) Esp. Taco’s about MetaPost are very interesting and maybe that’s some low level stuff you’re missing. You don’t need to look at Hans’ contributions – everything that’s still valid

[NTG-context] Re: Fwd: Re: Context lmtx for 32bit under LUBUNTU 18.04

Am 14.02.24 um 18:59 schrieb Angel M Alganza: On 2024-02-14 18:10, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: But Hans’ latest upload includes 32bt Linux binaries again. That's an excellent piece of news!  I'm dual booting Linux and OpenBSD in some of the boxes where I previously was only running OpenBSD

[NTG-context] Fwd: Re: Context lmtx for 32bit under LUBUNTU 18.04

An: Henning Hraban Ramm Dear Henning, --- Your instructions: PWD=`pwd` cd tex/texmf-context/source/luametatex sh build.sh cp build/native/luametatex "$PWD/tex/texmf-linux/bin/" cd "$PWD" --- My actions: I created a 'context' folder in my home/alain

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

Reminder: This is today & quite soon! Am 10.02.24 um 23:01 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, February 14th, 19:00 CET (UTC+1) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ct

[NTG-context] Re: Seeindex with zie instead of see?

Am 14.02.24 um 10:42 schrieb G.C.H.M. Verhaag via ntg-context: Hi ConTeXt users, Wondering whether there is a possibility to modify the word *see* into the Dutch word *zie* in the use of the \seeindex command? Did you set \mainlanguage[nl]? Hraban

[NTG-context] Re: Context lmtx for 32bit under LUBUNTU 18.04

Am 13.02.24 um 17:29 schrieb Alain Delmotte: Hi, A month or so ago Hans provided a new upload (thanks I managed to get and install it on my Windows 10 64b). At that time I was struggling for having my computers back in order (that appends sometimes). Now I'd like to have LMTX on an old but

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

/wiki/Politischer_Aschermittwoch Hraban Am 12.02.24 um 19:48 schrieb Willi Egger: Hi Hraban, hm there is a incongruence of the date. Either it is Wednesday the 14th of February or Tuesday the 13th of February… Which correct? Cheers Willi On 10 Feb 2024, at 23:01, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote

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

Oops, yes I meant 14th - Valentine and Ash Wednesday at the same time. Hraban Am 11.02.24 um 12:20 schrieb mf: Hello Hraban, February 13th is Tuesday. Maybe you meant February 14th. Best wishes, Massimiliano Il 10/02/24 23:01, Henning Hraban Ramm ha scritto: You’re invited to our regular

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