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

Denis Maier schrieb am 26.04.2024 um 19:52: I see. But there's no command that could be used to simulate an empty line? If not, me should I perhaps try to replicate the wrapper structure from the XML source in context? (I'll also look into the format module of course.) What do you think?

[NTG-context] Re: wrong spacing after command with optional arguments

Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 26.04.2024 um 19:04: On 4/26/24 18:18, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 26.04.2024 um 17:29: What is wrong in my definition above? There is nothing wrong, this is just a side effect of the scanner used with the \do

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

Denis Maier schrieb am 26.04.2024 um 19:18: Wolfgang Schuster hat am 26.04.2024 18:24 CEST geschrieben: Denis Maier via ntg-context schrieb am 26.04.2024 um 18:10: Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context <mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl>> hat am 26.04.2024 17:25 CEST geschrieben: On 4/26/24 15:33,

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

Denis Maier via ntg-context schrieb am 26.04.2024 um 18:10: Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context > hat am 26.04.2024 17:25 CEST geschrieben: On 4/26/24 15:33, denis.ma...@unibe.ch wrote: Hi, I’m trying to typeset a poem from XML, but I can’t

[NTG-context] Re: wrong spacing after command with optional arguments

Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 26.04.2024 um 17:29: Dear list, I have the following sample: \starttext \def\MyCommand{\doquadruplegroupempty\doMyCommand} \def\doMyCommand#1#2#3#4{% \iffourthargument #4% \orelse\ifthirdargument #3% \else

[NTG-context] Re: what are the interaction between \showframe and \realpageno in \startuseMPgraphic ?

garu...@azules.eu schrieb am 20.04.2024 um 23:00: I can not figure out why this progress bar only works when \showframe is activated. When you comment on \showframe, it's as if \realpageno is at zero. (current version: 2024.04.01 08:59) \showframe \startuseMPgraphic{MonGraphisme_MP}

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

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: * state (start stop): what does this

[NTG-context] Re: kpfonts

Mikael Sundqvist schrieb am 20.04.2024 um 14:04: Hi, On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 2:03 PM Xavier B. wrote: Hi, Just a courious: is there kpfonts available for context? I love kpfonts. Thanks in advance, Xavier Yes, just download the fonts and do \setupbodyfont[kpfonts] The fonts are included

[NTG-context] Re: kpfonts

Xavier B. schrieb am 20.04.2024 um 13:51: Hi, Just a courious: is there kpfonts available for context? I love kpfonts. \setupbodyfont[kpfonts] \starttext \samplefile{lorem} \stoptext Wolfgang ___ If your

[NTG-context] Re: minwidth not working ?

Denis Maier schrieb am 19.04.2024 um 22:55: Wolfgang Schuster hat am 19.04.2024 20:32 CEST geschrieben: denis.ma...@unibe.ch schrieb am 10.04.2024 um 12:47: Hi, Shouldn’t minwidth set a default minimal width for external figures? But this here does not work [...] Am I missing something

[NTG-context] Re: minwidth not working ?

denis.ma...@unibe.ch schrieb am 10.04.2024 um 12:47: Hi, Shouldn’t minwidth set a default minimal width for external figures? But this here does not work == \setupexternalfigures   [   maxwidth=\textwidth,   minwidth=\textwidth,  

[NTG-context] Re: Weird (?) float placement for specific widths of image

Denis Maier via ntg-context schrieb am 19.04.2024 um 17:48: Hi again, just a quick follow up on this one. Can anyone reproduce this? Would be good to know how this can be fixed. I have this in a real document, and as I’m typesetting a XML source I cannot just adjust slightly adjust the

[NTG-context] Re: [ using horizontal table lines ]

vm via ntg-context schrieb am 15.04.2024 um 13:15: I'm probably using the \starttable incorrectly: with this code I only get only *one* horizontal line in the header [...] with this code I get two horizontal lines, but the second is too short. [...] with this code I get two horizontal

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

Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 14.04.2024 um 14:53: 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 d

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

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 For example, these two pages exist : -

[NTG-context] Re: how to apply metapost effects to section title?

seyal.zav...@gmail.com schrieb am 09.04.2024 um 14:53: i want to produce a gradient header i tried this code but it does not produce any result: \startext \def\Mystyle#1{\startMPcode picture tt ; tt := lmt_outline [ kind = "path", text = "#1", ] ; fill for i within tt :

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

Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 06.04.2024 um 12:56: 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

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

Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 06.04.2024 um 12:23: 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...

[NTG-context] Re: last page number for a list

Alan Bowen schrieb am 30.03.2024 um 20:59: How can I get the last page number of a chapter for a list (ToC)? Outside of a list, I use \lastpagenumber. But that does not work in a list such as the ToC. Any tips or pointers will be gladly received. You can try this: \definepagestate[alanpage]

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

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 to enhance whitespace handling around images. My guess

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

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 in the source of a presentation from him. I

[NTG-context] Re: Underbar

Willi Egger schrieb am 28.03.2024 um 17:23: Hello everybody, I have a text, where a couple of lines are typeset with \underbar. — To me this underbar is a fraction to near the text. So I wanted to use \setupbar[…] to change the offset. Unfortunately nothing happens whatever I try. MWE:

[NTG-context] Re: Visually balanced columns

Alexey Kryukov schrieb am 27.03.2024 um 14:02: Hi list, I'd like to know if its is possible to get visually balanced mixedcolumns in lmtx. For example, if I have \blank's between paragraphs, I would like them to be stretched or expanded by a such way that the bottommost lines have the same

[NTG-context] Re: Headertext

Thomas Meyer schrieb am 26.03.2024 um 16:28: Hi folks, I know, with \setuphead[chapter][header=high] I can suppress the header text on the first page. But what can I do if I still want to have part of the header text on the first page? Is there something I can do with \definetext and if so,

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

Jan Ulrich Hasecke via ntg-context schrieb am 23.03.2024 um 13:57: I saw this in (the btw great) bachotex-stepbystep presentation \definepapersize [example] [width=8.5es, height=11es] \setuptextbackground [location=paragraph, backgroundcolor=MyColors:4, backgroundoffset=1dk, frame=off] The

[NTG-context] Re: Struggling with the distance and right margin text

Ursula Hermann schrieb am 22.03.2024 um 15:57: Dear Pablo, Many thanks for your example. Sorry for writing so late. At least I found out, how it works for me .  This is the best way. \setuppapersize[A8,landscape] \setupbodyfont[termes, 12.50pt] \setuplayout[inrightmargin=5.1cm              

[NTG-context] Re: offset with \copypages

Peter Münster schrieb am 21.03.2024 um 15:04: Hi, When inserting pages with \copypages, the included pages are slightly shifted to the left and to the bottom. Minimal example: % test-file.tex: \setuplayout[page] \starttext \input tufte \vfill \input tufte \stoptext % test.tex: \starttext

[NTG-context] Re: command line arguments

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, as used in \dorecurse{\Pages}{…}, but not for the

[NTG-context] Re: Suppress the Chapter Number in the Section Numbering

Jeroen schrieb am 19.03.2024 um 20:35: I am trying to suppress the chapter number in a section number as below as in 1., 2., etc instead of 1.1, 1.2, etc. Is there a simple way to achieve this? 1. The First Chapter 1. The First Section ... 2. The Second Section ... 2. The Second Chapter

[NTG-context] Re: Adjusted Chapter Headings

Jeroen schrieb am 19.03.2024 um 12:59: I have some style adjustments for the chapters. The chapter "numbers" need to be Boek I, Boek II, etc. A vertical separator was introduced with an inframe. The chapter title at the right side does not vertically align properly with the chapter number in

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

Jeroen schrieb am 19.03.2024 um 19:34: This one unbolds the margin text: \setupmargindata[inouter][style=\tf] This one works well, it unbolds and reduces the size of the margin text: \setupmargindata   [inouter]   [style={\switchtobodyfont[8pt]}] This one does not seem to make a change:

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

Jeroen schrieb am 19.03.2024 um 15:38: 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

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

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 \mainlanguage[deo] \setuplanguage[deo][  

[NTG-context] Re: issue with typing in footnotes

Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 17.03.2024 um 17:38: Dear list, I have the following sample (which was on the way of showing another issue): \starttext a \starttyping b \stoptyping c \startfootnote a \starttyping b \stoptyping c \stopfootnote

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

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 with arranging (imposition) or can I enable it

[NTG-context] Re: Japanese

Otared Kavian schrieb am 14.03.2024 um 14:48: Dear Emmanuel, Thank you for your reply: indeed I understand your approach, which is quite efficient. I am not at all good in coding, so I naively thought there would be a way for your setup to retrieve the information it needs from what the user

[NTG-context] Re: Why aren't cross-references working in tabulate?

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

[NTG-context] Re: How to track down source of [entry not flushed] displaying in indexes?

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

[NTG-context] Re: Japanese

Emanuel Han via ntg-context schrieb am 10.03.2024 um 17:43: Hi all, I added https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Chinese_Japanese_and_Korean#Meeting_the_JIS_X_4051_Requirements_for_Japanese_Text_Layout with attached working example code and to-do list. Thanks for any contributions! The working

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

Hans Hagen via ntg-context schrieb am 10.03.2024 um 10:46: On 3/10/2024 9:32 AM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote: On 3/9/24 16:04, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 08.03.2024 um 19:39: [...]     \enableexperiments[fonts.compact] Which seeems weird

[NTG-context] Re: How to set section title based on section content?

Joel via ntg-context schrieb am 09.03.2024 um 16:01: 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 }

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

Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 08.03.2024 um 19:39: On 3/8/24 19:09, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 08.03.2024 um 18:50: [...] LMTX gets b, c and d in slanted form. LuaTeX gets only b and c in slanted form. [...] I get b and d in italic which

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

Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 08.03.2024 um 18:50: 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: imposition: getting to the last page of a booklet

Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 06.03.2024 um 20:17: On 3/6/24 19:50, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: [...] Could you write the first line in plain language? Look at the second example of the Lua code in the example below for each command (the first example is your version), the third

[NTG-context] Re: imposition: getting to the last page of a booklet

Hans Hagen schrieb am 06.03.2024 um 21:38: On 3/6/2024 7:50 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: The semicolon is a undocumented extension (I noticed it in the definition of \page[quadruple]) of \numexpr in Luametatex for the modulus operator. One of these days I have to write the pending section

[NTG-context] Re: missing metadata in LMTX

Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 06.03.2024 um 20:11: [...] \startxmlsetupsxml:meta %\aftergrouped{\setupinteraction% \setupmetadata [author={\xmlconcat{#1}{/h2[contains(@class,'author')]}{, }}] %} \stopxmlsetups Use \expanded. \startxmlsetups xml:meta

[NTG-context] Re: missing metadata in LMTX

Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 06.03.2024 um 20:11: On 3/6/24 17:35, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 06.03.2024 um 16:52: [...] I wonder whether this requires a minimal sample to be fixed. Yes, a minimal example would help because \setupmetadata

[NTG-context] Re: imposition: getting to the last page of a booklet

Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 04.03.2024 um 20:00: On 2/28/24 19:28, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: [...] \def\beforequadruplenumber#1% {\ifcase\numexpr#1+1;4\relax \number\numexpr#1+4\relax \else \number\numexpr#1+3-#1;4\relax \fi} Sorry for not having

[NTG-context] Re: missing metadata in LMTX

Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 06.03.2024 um 16:52: On 3/6/24 15:54, Hans Hagen wrote: [...] \setupmetadata [title=FooBar] that's for those who go global Many thanks for the new command, Hans. I‘m afraid this new command breaks my compilation. The error message isn’t very

[NTG-context] Re: missing metadata in LMTX

Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 04.03.2024 um 07:17: On 3/4/24 01:18, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 03.03.2024 um 20:02: [...] With LuaTeX, I get PDF metadata. With LuaMetaTeX, I cannot get them. [...] I can confirm the issue and it happens

[NTG-context] Re: \showsymbolset is noop

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: 2024.02.22 18:31 LMTX fmt: 2024.2.22). Can someone

[NTG-context] Re: .jpx and .jxl

Jim schrieb am 04.03.2024 um 15:30: Recently I've been trying to make some PDFs smaller by using better compression of JPEG pictures. I was happy to see that \externalfigure cheerfully accepts .jp2 (JPEG 2000) files. However, my understanding (and I could well be wrong, but I've seen it

[NTG-context] Re: missing metadata in LMTX

Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 03.03.2024 um 20:02: Dear list, this issue has been bugging me for some time: [...] With LuaTeX, I get PDF metadata. With LuaMetaTeX, I cannot get them. For both, I’m using current latest (from 2024.02.27 09:21). Could anyone confirm the issue or

[NTG-context] Re: Japanese

Emanuel Han schrieb am 01.03.2024 um 16:23: Dear Wolfgang, thank you for your valuable remarks. I integrated them, see corrected attached example. Yes, correct layout examples exist. They're all showing vertical writing, but the rules and principles are exactly the same for horizontal

[NTG-context] Re: Japanese

Emanuel Han via ntg-context schrieb am 01.03.2024 um 13:08: Dear all, thanks for your contributions. Sure I'll update the https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Chinese_Japanese_and_Korean hopefully with the help of Jeong Dal and others as soon as things are sorted out. In attached example, the

[NTG-context] Re: Japanese

Emanuel Han via ntg-context schrieb am 28.02.2024 um 20:51: 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. So the

[NTG-context] Re: imposition: getting to the last page of a booklet

Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 28.02.2024 um 19:02: On 2/28/24 12:24, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote: [...] This is why beforequadruple would make sense. I guess some Lua magic could do that, computing x to the follwing page that "x % 4 = 3" (and then \page[x]). I will try

[NTG-context] Re: Issue with italics

Jean-Pierre Delange schrieb am 26.02.2024 um 18:41: Thanks to Thomas and Denis, That's it: use GFS Didot for the French text and Theano Didot for the Greek. In my working text I have this preamble (and other things): [...] I've found a solution, with Segoeui (Windows font) as the main font

[NTG-context] Re: imposition: getting to the last page of a booklet

Michael Guravage schrieb am 23.02.2024 um 10:07: Greetings, I would like to use the nextquadruple and beforequadruple pagebreakhandlers described at the bottom of the wiki's imposition page. However, the examples complain of an error invoking the \installpagebreakhandler command. The wiki

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

Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 21.02.2024 um 19:04: 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

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

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-less TABLE; it will probably work, but it’s a

[NTG-context] Re: Text in Margin

Jeroen schrieb am 19.02.2024 um 14:14: 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: You can use

[NTG-context] Re: XML processing, unwanted indentation/alignment

Michael Guravage schrieb am 15.02.2024 um 21:28: Greetings, I'm typesetting an address book whose addresses are in XML. A typical entry has this structure:                 email="" mobile="" />                   initials and birthday are required, first_name can be left

[NTG-context] Re: Two bugs with descriptions in ConTeXt.

SirColeman via ntg-context schrieb am 13.02.2024 um 22:04: The first bug is that descriptions interfere with the counters, resulting in the peculiar behavior demonstrated in the resulting PDF. Still no bug and there is no need to create your own counter because enumerations exist which are

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

SirColeman via ntg-context schrieb am 13.02.2024 um 20:44: >> This is wrong, the counter commands are official and the number variants are kept for backwards compatibility with old styles. I do recall reading on the ConTeXt wiki that \definenumber is maintained for backwards compatibility

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

SirColeman via ntg-context schrieb am 12.02.2024 um 08:49: Greetings all. I have a passion for typesetting. I found that currently the best typesetting systems are those that are based on TeX. Of them, there are LaTeX, and ConTeXt. LaTeX is very well documented and popular; ConTeXt, on the

[NTG-context] Re: Section numbering does not work

Oliver Marugg schrieb am 13.02.2024 um 00:17: Hi Section numbering does not work until I remove \startbackmatter \stopbackmatter. I had a longer text file and I stripped it down until I found this? Greets Oliver Running freshly installed context ARM64 on m1 and updated it via sh install.sh

[NTG-context] Re: removing whitespace

Michael Guravage schrieb am 13.02.2024 um 14:01: While reading the documentation I spotted something similar from which I derived this solution: \setupinteraction[state=start] \def\squeeze#1%   {     \goto{#1} [url(tel:\ctxlua{context(string.gsub("#1", " ", ""))})]   } ConTeXt has a Lua

[NTG-context] Re: Square right aligned

Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 09.02.2024 um 20:07: On 2/8/24 22:37, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi Ursula, I think you mean the so-called end of the proof sign, or QED (Quod Erat Demonstrandum). You can use this: \definesymbol[QED][\mathematics{\square}]

[NTG-context] Re: chronological TOC

Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 27.01.2024 um 10:05: Am 26.01.24 um 23:46 schrieb jbf: I wonder if someone can point me in the right direction for a separate TOC which needs to be in chronological order at the back of the book (i.e. not in page number order, although I need the page numbers to

[NTG-context] Re: Own command definition breaks with interaction: Use of \do_my_command doesn't match its definition

Gerion Entrup schrieb am 25.01.2024 um 09:18: Hi, I want to make a proper definition of a new command to be able to process it in Lua. I found something on StackOverflow [1] but that breaks in enumeration _and_ when interaction is enabled and I do not understand why? Can you give me some help

[NTG-context] Re: Section number in the margin and the section title followed by paragraph!

Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 27.01.2024 um 18:40: On 1/27/24 17:40, Ali Ali wrote: Thanks, those seems close to what I wanted but not exactly. The ASCII graphic (better in typewriter font) may explain what I desired, ``` text width

[NTG-context] Re: Section number in the margin and the section title followed by paragraph!

Ali Ali schrieb am 27.01.2024 um 06:03: I've able to achieve the results I wanted by trial/e using the code shown below. """ \def\subsecnumwrapper#1{\llap{#1\hskip8pt}} \setuphead[subsection][alternative=text,numbercommand=\subsecnumwrapper,distance=0pt] """ I just wanted to know if there

[NTG-context] Re: Suggestions and problems of the manuals

Gerion Entrup schrieb am 25.01.2024 um 09:24: Am Mittwoch, 17. Januar 2024, 13:44:51 CET schrieb Gerion Entrup: Hi, I discovered the manuals in the context distribution. My general way to built the manuals were these steps: ``` # execute one time git clone

[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

Jim schrieb am 25.01.2024 um 22:01: Hi Henning, On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 17:16 (+0100), Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 25.01.24 um 16:12 schrieb Jim: Hi, I was wondering if anyone here could help me with these three things: For a long time I have been using Wichura's TaBle macros (i.e., what

[NTG-context] Re: Caching Metafun images and VIM Syntax highlighted code

Shiv Shankar Dayal schrieb am 24.01.2024 um 17:06: I am writing two books. One is on Rust programming and another is on geometry, so I have syntax highlighted code and in second has lost of diagrams. Perhaps Aditya Mahajan can tell me how can I cache code snippets. Invoking VIM will have

[NTG-context] Re: Using plain TeX commands in ConTeXt

Shiv Shankar Dayal schrieb am 24.01.2024 um 16:52: Thanks for correcting me, Wolfgang. I meant only TeX commands not plan TeX macros. As I already wrote you can use \parindent etc. in your document but unless you know what you're doing you should keep it to a minimum to avoid conflicts with

[NTG-context] Re: Using plain TeX commands in ConTeXt

Shiv Shankar Dayal schrieb am 24.01.2024 um 16:37: For example: \kern, \parindent and so on. Rephrasing the question, can LuaMetaTeX/ConTeXt compile plain TeX files. If yes, how can I do that? You mix up two different things here. 1. Plain TeX is a collection of TeX macros like ConTeXt or

[NTG-context] Re: context version 20240118 ("Registerhaltigkeit")

Thomas Meyer schrieb am 22.01.2024 um 13:04: Am 22.01.24 um 12:06 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Am 22.01.24 um 11:46 schrieb Thomas Meyer: I might get a bit impatient if I have the impression that others get an answer faster. Sorry for that. It’s not unusual to get that impression. It

[NTG-context] Re: Looking for itemize help

Jim schrieb am 15.01.2024 um 01:42: I have \setupwhitespace [big] so that I get "a blank line" between paragraphs. I would like to *not* have "blank lines" before and after my items. For example, if there is more "paragraph text" after the last item I would like to see this structure:

[NTG-context] Re: "Registerhaltigkeit"

Thomas Meyer schrieb am 14.01.2024 um 11:21: Thank you Wolfgang and Hraban, it can be so easy! But if my last subject should be at the end of the page and I shift it with \vfill to the end, the last subject doesn't fit the grid! Can you provide a minimal example where you show what you're

[NTG-context] Re: "Registerhaltigkeit"

Thomas Meyer schrieb am 14.01.2024 um 10:30: Hi folks, which settings are necessary to achieve "Registerhaltigkeit"? \setuplayout[grid=yes] but sometimes elements elements have to be forced to be on the grid, e.g. tables need to be part of a float. Wolfgang

[NTG-context] Re: Why the way key-value argument is called affected the document's output?

Ali Ali schrieb am 08.01.2024 um 23:53: Since in the "setup-en.pdf" on p. 234, in "\setuplayout" the possible values for "grid" key is "yes", "no" (default), and "off" respectively. The commands in the document are not always up to date and somtimes miss entries or list no longer valid ones,

[NTG-context] Re: conversion from realpage to pagenumber

mf schrieb am 12.01.2024 um 10:18: Hello list, how do I convert the realpage number to a page number? Suppose you have a document with a frontmatter of 20 pages in roman numerals, followed by the main text starting from page 1 in arabic numerals. So the twelfth page is 'XII', while the

[NTG-context] Re: [ flowing figures ]

vm via ntg-context schrieb am 11.01.2024 um 16:15: How can I wrap an externalfigure into a box that can be placed within running text? Should I wrap the externalfigure into a start/stop buffer, then place it? There is no need any extra code because \externalfigure can be used in running

[NTG-context] Re: Fwd: Re: x mark symbol and general symbol guide

Gerion Entrup schrieb am 09.01.2024 um 16:21: Hi, I have to come back to that topic, since it seems not to work. The said source code produces just the text "times" and "check" for me (see 1.pdf). I also tried: ``` \usesymbols[fontawesome] \starttext \showsymbolset[fontawesome-solid]

[NTG-context] Re: Why the way key-value argument is called affected the document's output?

Ali Ali schrieb am 08.01.2024 um 23:33: So is "\setuplayout[grid=yes]" AND "\setuplayout[ grid=yes ]" not same? I mean, we are initializing "grid" to "yes" in both cases. No, in the first case you end the value of the grid-key with ] which results in "yes" as argument but in the second case

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

eroen schrieb am 04.01.2024 um 17:12: I have a document that is getting a lot of mark-up instructions for creating tables and placing figures. I would like to move this out of the main text flow. The easiest way would be using \input, but i rather place all this at the bottom of the file and

[NTG-context] Re: Equivalent for hdots and hdotsfor

Shiv Shankar Dayal schrieb am 30.12.2023 um 09:41: In LaTeX, I can use \hdots for horizontal dots and \hdotsfor{n} to fill for several columns in a determinant. But these do not work in ConTeXt. What is the equivalent for these in ConTeXt? Can you show the desired output from LaTeX with a PDF

[NTG-context] Re: old style factorial symbol and theorems

Shiv Shankar Dayal schrieb am 30.12.2023 um 09:40: I tried this for old style factorial, but it appears much below the line in which it is used. How can I bring it up? Replace the \inmframed command with \mcframed. \define[1]\oldfact  

[NTG-context] Re: old style factorial symbol and theorems

Shiv Shankar Dayal schrieb am 27.12.2023 um 13:31: What do you expect here to pass as argument to the oldfact command? I will pass something like n, 5, 10 etc. A simple alternative to tikz is the usage of \framed. \define[1]\oldfact  

[NTG-context] Re: old style factorial symbol and theorems

Shiv Shankar Dayal schrieb am 27.12.2023 um 13:19: I use following in Latex to generate old factorial symbol: \newcommand{\oldfact}[1]{% \tikz[baseline]{\node[anchor=base,inner sep=0.3ex](mynode){\ensuremath{#1}};\draw(mynode.north west)--(mynode.south west)--(mynode.south east);\path[use as

[NTG-context] Re: old style factorial symbol and theorems

Shiv Shankar Dayal schrieb am 27.12.2023 um 13:01: Hi, How can I typeset old style factorial symbol and theorems in ConTeXt. I found https://www.ntg.nl/maps/36/09.pdf but it does not work. What adaptation should I do for it to work? Can you be more precise what you have tried and doesn't

[NTG-context] Re: error: Control sequence expected instead of undefined

Jeong Dal via ntg-context schrieb am 25.12.2023 um 16:09: Hi, I got an error message as following: Control sequence expected instead of undefined If I comment out the “\externalfigure[][]” line, then there is no error message. I don’t know what is wrong in the sample code. The problem

[NTG-context] Re: \setupsynonyms textstyle=cap failing

Garulfo schrieb am 23.12.2023 um 12:41: Hi all, the following  minimum working example is properly typesetted with textstyle=bold, but it fails with textstyle=cap (ConTeXt version : 2023.09.26 18:19) A number should have been here; I inserted '0'. (If you can't figure out why I needed to

[NTG-context] Re: increase vertical between underbrace and equation

Aditya Mahajan schrieb am 18.12.2023 um 21:55: On Mon, 18 Dec 2023, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2023, Dean Hung wrote: The documentation on underbrace (and overbrace, underbracket, etc...) in the ContextGarden wiki seems to be very limited, and I was not able to find any

[NTG-context] Re: error with definestartstop and startmode

Peter Münster schrieb am 17.12.2023 um 10:09: On Sat, Dec 16 2023, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: \usemodule[abbreviations-logos] \defineblock [H] [before=\startcolor[blue],after=\stopcolor] \keepblocks[H] Thanks for this solution. Is there also something for inline-mode? Example: test

[NTG-context] Re: Problem with the paragraph

Ursula Hermann schrieb am 13.12.2023 um 15:22: Dear list, I have this example. I need the whole paragraph in color. But there is something wrong. \definepapersize[MyBook][width=19cm,height=24cm] \setuppapersize[MyBook][MyBook] % Prints on paper the size of MyBook

[NTG-context] Re: About framedtext

Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 13.12.2023 um 18:19: Am 13.12.23 um 19:03 schrieb Fabrice Couvreur: Hi, Is this a bug or not ? The key to coloring the background of the text seems to no longer work. Thanks Fabrice    \definecolor[ColorA][0.8(white)]   

[NTG-context] Re: About framedtext

Fabrice Couvreur schrieb am 13.12.2023 um 19:03: Hi, Is this a bug or not ? The key to coloring the background of the text seems to no longer work. There is a problem with the corner option, you can either hope it gets fixed in the next release (corner=round still works) or create your own

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