, 2023, at 8:30 PM, jbf via ntg-context wrote:
\startitemize[continue]% THIS SHOULD DO WHAT YOU WANT
Wow, thanks. I must have read that 'Enumerations' contextgarden wiki page a
half dozen times and missed it anyway.
Mike
\startitemize[continue]% THIS SHOULD DO WHAT YOU WANT
\item Picking up where we left off.
\item And all is well.
\stopitemize
Julian
On 26/4/23 13:21, Michael Urban via ntg-context wrote:
I am trying to have two numbered itemizations, with a paragraph in between,
such that the second list
:36 schrieb jbf via ntg-context:
I tried all those Hraban, unsuccessfully, but finally 'happened' upon
a solution by trying whitespace instead in the setups. Except that I
had read somewhere in the mailing list (Pablo I think) that I would
need to use \directsetup. I don't actually understand why
wrote:
Am 23.04.23 um 09:21 schrieb jbf via ntg-context:
I realise that I should have been talking about the space between
local footnotes, rather than interlinespace (previous email on this
issue), but my basic problem still stands. My efforts to influence
the space between footnotes placed locally
wrote:
Am 23.04.23 um 09:21 schrieb jbf via ntg-context:
I realise that I should have been talking about the space between
local footnotes, rather than interlinespace (previous email on this
issue), but my basic problem still stands. My efforts to influence
the space between footnotes placed locally
I realise that I should have been talking about the space between local
footnotes, rather than interlinespace (previous email on this issue),
but my basic problem still stands. My efforts to influence the space
between footnotes placed locally is to no avail so far.
I assume it is \setupnote
I am using only local footnotes in a document, but am having difficulty
influencing the interlines space between these notes. Since I am only
using local footnotes, I thought initially that the following would work
for them
\startsetups[footnote:interlinespace]
Yes, that is clear from the emails over a decade or so on the list. But
as you will see from my response to Taco, it is possible I can achieve a
satisfactory result from Wolfgang's 2016 'stream' suggestion.
Julian
On 3/4/23 22:04, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
This is one these
will also!
Julian
On 3/4/23 20:55, Peter Münster via ntg-context wrote:
On Mon, Apr 03 2023, jbf via ntg-context wrote:
Q 1: Has anybody reading this actually produced a bilingual book (it doesn't
have to be en-vn) with ConTeXt?
Hi,
Only some pages of a book: https://wiki.contextgarden.net
Okay Taco, so that's a possibility I can explore, even though it is not
a nice one, as you say. I can think of a couple of other not-so-nice
ways of achieving a result as well. The manuscript shown me (in MSWord,
obviously) has been carefully prepared to ensure no text flows over a
page, so we
Am always up for a challenge, but hope this one is not beyond my
possibilities! Have a request to produce a book with English-Vietnamese
facing pages. The text doesn't have to be strictly in sync, but
generally so. The only ConTeXt guidelines I think I have at the moment
are (1) an old module
Got it! But I would not have picked that up from reading
http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/xtables-mkiv.pdf, which was my
guide for this particular exercise. It certainly says
\placetable[here,split] but there is no mention of the \start...stop
version of that.
Anyway, I now
I cannot understand why my xtable setup does not split to the next page.
As far as I can see I have it set up correctly... though obviously not!
What might be wrong? Below is a sample. In the real case the number of
rows would demand a second page.
Every user has his or her own preferred test editor. Over years I have
used Emacs for just about everything except the kitchen sink, but not,
as it happens, for ConTeXt.
For what it's worth here is what I use:
(1) TeXworks. All one has to do is indicate the correct path to ConText
in the
-context wrote:
Am 25.03.23 um 06:45 schrieb jbf via ntg-context:
Hi, I am struggling with the last row of a table which, according to
its author, should have a black bottomframe, but gray (I am using a
defined 'lightgray') for the sides. The first row has a black frame.
All intermediate rows have
Hi, I am struggling with the last row of a table which, according to its
author, should have a black bottomframe, but gray (I am using a defined
'lightgray') for the sides. The first row has a black frame. All
intermediate rows have gray.
I have no difficulty achieving the first row, and the
Not sure if this helps, Bruce, but there is \definestartstop
Julian
On 21/3/23 10:34, Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context wrote:
I have a technical manual style document that requires a lot of examples to be
included.
They can easily be typeset with a table so I thought I would save myself some
),
but it should work.
Massi
Il 24/02/23 06:41, jbf via ntg-context ha scritto:
I have the following setup for side-by-side paras.
\defineparagraphs[Two][n=2]
\setupparagraphs[Two][1][width=.1\textwidth,style=\bfx,align=tolerant]
\setupparagraphs[Two][2][width=.9\textwidth,style=normal,align=tolerant
I have the following setup for side-by-side paras.
\defineparagraphs[Two][n=2]
\setupparagraphs[Two][1][width=.1\textwidth,style=\bfx,align=tolerant]
\setupparagraphs[Two][2][width=.9\textwidth,style=normal,align=tolerant]
My difficulty is that while there is only ever just a couple of
Indeed, that works. Thank you.
Julian
On 30/1/23 20:14, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
On 1/30/2023 1:14 AM, jbf via ntg-context wrote:
Am trying to understand how best to change the title metadata in
headertext halfway through a document that has two parts:
Constitutions and Regulations
Am trying to understand how best to change the title metadata in
headertext halfway through a document that has two parts: Constitutions
and Regulations.
My first attempt (did not work)
\startsetups[headertext]
\startdocument
[metadata:title={Regulations}]
\stopsetups
\setupheadertexts
[
That solves the problem. Thank you.
Julian
On 28/1/23 23:22, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:
\setupnote[footnote][location=none] might help.
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Re my earlier question on footnotes by defined paragraph:
\start...stoplocalfootnotes and \placelocalfootnotes largely solves the
issue (had forgotten that option), but I am still getting the footnotes
repeated at the bottom of the page. I am obviously missing a setting.
There are parts of
Here's a tricky one (for me) that I haven't been able to work out. I am
dealing with a set of constitutions that I am organizing with a
paragraph definition
\defineparagraphs[Two][n=2]
\setupparagraphs[Two][1][width=.2\textwidth,style=\bfx,after={\blank},align=flushleft]
\chr {k line below }ḵ \withlinebelow k
On 11/9/22 01:41, Steffen Wolfrum via ntg-context wrote:
Hi,
a text is to be set in Garamond Premier Pro and uses this character: ḵ
Is there a way to set a combining macron below (U+0331), preferable in a
Garamond-like font?
Best,
Steffen
Bruce,
This is off-list because I see you already had an answer, but I'm
wondering if I have misunderstood your problem. I thought there was a
simple way to do this (or at least it is how I do it):
|\setuphead [chapter] [page={yes,header,footer,right}] |
Which
* Finishes the last page of
The setup I offered in the previous email was all correct, but in a
large project like a dictionary with 26 or more components there can
always be something else that goes wrong! Component 'D' had an extra {
in it, but oddly enough the component was compiling, except that I
picked up an error
Hi, I wonder what I might be doing wrong for \placelistofabbreviations
not to work in a project. Everything else about \definesysnonyms and
indeed the project is working, but I seem unable to place the list
correctly in the component that is intended to list all abbreviations.
The main
Maybe \setupnote[footnote][width=\textwidth]?
Julian
On 16/6/22 18:56, Denis Maier via ntg-context wrote:
Hi,
I think I’ve ran into a somewhat strange behaviour. If you have a
footnote in a float caption, the footnote won’t use the full
textwidth, but only the width of the corresponding
That is progress, Garulfo, and real progress! I'm sorry I have not been
any help to you in achieving this... a bit beyond my skill set. But I
have long regarded this particular 'feature' to be a quite important
'missing' feature of ConTeXt, since I occasionally get requests from
authors as to
I think I'll take comfort from your final comment - the output looks
good enough! But I remain intrigued.
Julian
On 24/5/22 17:26, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
you can ignore a lot of warnings if the output looks good enough.
I wonder if someone can help me interpret this message in the log file
fonts > start missing characters:
/home/jbf/bin/context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre/texgyrepagella-regular.otf
fonts > 88 U+00336 ̶ COMBINING LONG STROKE OVERLAY
fonts > stop
To those who assisted me with helpful hints yesterday, thank you. I
finally got the cross-referencing working correctly after examining my
overall structure in the light of those hints.
I think that what was preventing things from working properly, was that
I had all the entries for a
03 schrieb jbf via ntg-context:
Hi list,
In an attempt to make a dictionary interactive in certain ways,
perhaps I am misusing the \in{}[] command here, but sometimes a
reference works and sometimes it doesn't. I have no idea why it
doesn't. Here is the situation:
Each dictionary entry is
Hi list,
In an attempt to make a dictionary interactive in certain ways, perhaps
I am misusing the \in{}[] command here, but sometimes a reference works
and sometimes it doesn't. I have no idea why it doesn't. Here is the
situation:
Each dictionary entry is a section that has been defined
Hi list,
Back in March, Garulfo asked a question about pull quotes and offered
two links by way of example. One of the styles in those links interested
me in particular, namely
https://www.societal.fr/sites/societal/files/old_site/societal-46-6-boiteux-reperesettendances.pdf#page=2
I know
,
:-) I am confronted with my own comments :-)
However, this is precisely what I am using in my attempt to get this hidden
number. But no it does not appear…
Thank you!
Willi
On 21 Mar 2022, at 22:33, jbf via ntg-context wrote:
Willi,
I see a comment by yourself back in 2011 at
https
Willi,
I see a comment by yourself back in 2011 at
https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Last_Head_Number
I wonder if this helps?
Julian
On 22/3/22 07:47, Willi Egger via ntg-context wrote:
Hello everybody!
I would like to typeset the chapter title without number in the text. — However
I still
Bruce, I suppose one way to achieve your aim, if there is no easy way to
prevent superscript, would be to put your reference in parentheses: (See
my video at link 1), followed by the normal superscript number for
footnote anchors. You can still go with the endnotes.
The other thing, and I
“marks”.
BTW, I can’t remember when you need \structurevariable vs.
\namedstructurevariable...
Hraban
Am 19.03.22 um 03:16 schrieb jbf via ntg-context:
I might need a little more help just to understand how best to adapt
this to my situation:
One thing is clear: I was attempting to use
Sorry, of course I meant swap 'chapter' with \setups{contributor}
J
On 19/3/22 13:16, jbf wrote:
Then just swap 'chapter' in \setupheadertexts, with 'contributor'?
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I might need a little more help just to understand how best to adapt
this to my situation:
One thing is clear: I was attempting to use a 'list' variable, and I can
see why that was an error, since it is headertexts, not TOC that I want
to influence.
But let me simplify my situation:
You
Off list for the moment. Late at night where I am. I will take a look at
this more closely on the morrow. Thanks.
Julian
On 18/3/22 18:52, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
\setupheadertexts[] % empty
\setupheadertexts[\setups{text right}][][][\setups{text left}]
\startsetups[text
I thought this should work, since \structurelistuservariable{author}
works fine to call the author name into the TOC, but the same does not
work for header texts it seems:
\setupheadertexts
[{\hfill\getmarking[\structurelistuservariable{author}]\hfill}][]
Thanks Hans, and Rik. Perhaps I need to take a much closer look at this
file to see if I have created some grouping issues. The removal of the
.tuc file is a very handy tip that I hadn't thought of, and I assume it
is associated with the way Hans put it, namely, 'looks like you load the
same
I'd like to understand what is happening in this particular instance:
While playing with a suggestion to a recent request (re
\currentlistentrynumber etc.) I suddenly got a compiling error:
TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [file=2000].
I returned everything to how it was before I was trying out
But thanks anyway and also to Jean-Pierre (although I do understand
sufficient German and could also have made headway in French if it came
to that!). The \currentlistentry... options were what I needed. I was
playing with wrong options (for this particular problem) like
\currentheadnumber.
I wonder if there is a way I can call in the chapter number in the TOC,
although that number is not used for chapters as such. I know the
chapter number is 'remembered' anyway, so there is probably a way I can
call it in just for the TOC.
The context for this question is the layout for book
Thanks Wolfgang. This version is the 'icing on the cake' I think, a
further refined version of the suggestion put forward by Sreeram.
Grateful as always,
Julian
On 11/3/22 23:36, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
\definepageinjectionalternative
[chapter:image]
) for your patience.
Julian
On 10/3/22 17:51, śrīrāma wrote:
On Thursday, March 10, 2022 3:32 AM jbf via ntg-context wrote:
Am endeavouring to explore Wolfgang's very 'elegant' solution to this
facing page challenge. The exploration has included a look at
base/mkxl/page-inj.mklx (thanks Sreeram
[pageinjection:chapter:image]
\dorecurse{7}{\samplefile{lorem}}
\stopchapter
I tried that (and a few other combinations of the kind) but to no effect.
Julian
On 10/3/22 16:35, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:
On Thu, 10 Mar 2022, jbf via ntg-context wrote:
Am endeavouring to explore Wolfgang's
wrote:
jbf via ntg-context schrieb am 07.03.2022 um 09:27:
Appreciate your assistance. I'll do my best with what you offer here.
Of course, I've always said these images are at the beginning, not
"the end of their respective chapters" and I've already indicated how
the images are nam
Special thanks to Sreeram, Wolfgang, Bruce, Hraban for help with this
issue, ranging from the simplest 'manual' approach (Bruce) to one that I
must confess I could never have thought of using: definepageinjection
(Wolfgang). Needless to say, all contributions work, with a bit of
adjustment in
Appreciate your assistance. I'll do my best with what you offer here. Of
course, I've always said these images are at the beginning, not "the end
of their respective chapters" and I've already indicated how the images
are named, simply as Chapter1.jpg and so on, so I'll need to work
around
:19 AM jbf via ntg-context wrote:
Author wants an image on facing page to each of 10 chapters in the
bodypart of the document. Assume that everything else is working
properly for this document (double-sided etc.), but other than before
chapter 1, I can't seem to get my facing page image to ap
I wonder if someone can help me untangle the current little mess I seem
to be creating!
Author wants an image on facing page to each of 10 chapters in the
bodypart of the document. Assume that everything else is working
properly for this document (double-sided etc.), but other than before
And indeed it does! I should have just kept playing with my basic
"width=" insight, especially since I was already talking about "textarea"!
Thanks Sreeram,
Julian
On 20/2/22 16:00, śrīrāma wrote:
On Sunday, February 20, 2022 5:57 AM jbf via ntg-context wrote:
Is t
I need to typeset a document that contains many poetry/verse examples,
and am using \defineparagraphs[mypar][n=2] for the purpose. In one
specific case a footnote is required. All good except that the footnote
is the width of one of those two 'columns', not the usual textarea width.
Here is
You could try this (note the url setup then called in before
\hyphenatedurl):
\setuppapersize[A6]
\setuphead[chapter][align={right,nothyphenated}]
\startsetupsurl
\setupalign[hyphenated]
\stopsetups
\starttext
-%5}’ )
s = unicode.utf8.gsub … other action
\end{luacode}
\begin{document}
text text text text \TWI{dī-::dū::kin::dah} text text text text text
\end{document}
Op 1 feb. 2022, om 01:41 heeft jbf via ntg-context
het volgende geschreven:
Yes, Adam, that works. Though it can
}
\placeindex
\stoptext
See result in: https://live.contextgarden.net/cgi-bin/result.cgi?id=j46XhZ
Adam
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 10:38 PM jbf via ntg-context
wrote:
Let me come back to the unresolved (for me) question of two
situations in sub entries to a book index (register). Sub entries
Let me come back to the unresolved (for me) question of two situations
in sub entries to a book index (register). Sub entries that have
formatting or sub entries that are surrounded by quote marks (straight
or curly, it makes no difference) do not appear in the correct
alphabetical order.
No, I had already tried that. It places the subentry at the top of the
list of subentries, not in its correct alphabetical order. Using the
example below, I assume you meant (I am including text before and after):
The \index[Plenary+periti]{Plenary Council+{\it periti} (experts)} group
get it to work for a subentry?
Julian
On 29/1/22 21:39, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 1/29/2022 11:02 AM, jbf via ntg-context wrote:
Thanks for this response. I'll have to work on this (but tomorrow...
it's late at night for me at the moment). I can see part of what you
mean: I can use, for example
, as you say, to 'set the sort entry to the unformatted
version' which is not clear to me at the moment. I'll tackle it on the
morrow when I'm thinking more clearly!
Julian
On 29/1/22 20:43, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
Am 29.01.22 um 06:23 schrieb jbf via ntg-context:
Any
Well done Adam - or should I say well read in the Wiki! For all my
reading of it I still hadn't cottoned on to that. There are several of
these cases, but I have been able to fix them all now. Thank you.
Any thoughts (but I'm pretty sure this isn't fully explained in the
wiki) how I can get
Let me add one more difficulty I have come across with registers. I need
the title of a book to be in italics (and know exactly how to do that
with \defineprocessor), but the author's name to follow is to be normal,
not italic. So I need: /book name/, author name.
I tried setting up a second
I have an issue that has been raised at least twice in this list but as
far as I can see it has not received an answer. Perhaps someone can help
with the following?
I have an index entry that has unicode quote marks either side:
‘Innovative Beings’. I need to retain those quote marks. If I
Just be careful, though (writing as a native English speaker), because
the word 'polymath' for English speaker is not a reference to
mathematicians at all. (Greek/mathē/ means 'learning' not mathematics).
Translators are well aware of the danger of homonyms, and if you go for
a title like
For poetry that has non-regular indentations, I simply
\definelines[poem] and set that up the way I want, obviously, with
\setuplines[poem] e.g. [before={\blank
\setupinterlinespace[line=2.5ex]},after={\blank},indenting=first].
And then, but I guess it is still a hack, I use \hskip at a
I knew it had to be simple! Just couldn't get the right combinations.
Feliz Año Nuevo para ti también, y muchas gracias,
Julian
On 2/1/22 7:56 am, Jairo A. del Rio wrote:
El sáb, 1 ene 2022 a la(s) 15:37, jbf via ntg-context
(ntg-context@ntg.nl <mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl>) es
Am typesetting a book that has 'STUDY ONE', 'STUDY TWO' etc. in place of
CHAPTER ONE, etc. I have no difficulty getting 'STUDY' with
\setuplabeltext[chapter=STUDY~], and I can achieve 'STUDY One' with the
key conversion=Words in \setuphead[chapter].
My question: how do I get ONE instead of
and another lesson learned - look to the simple rather than the
more complicated solutions first.
Thank you for the patient mentoring.
Julian
On 25/11/21 7:22 pm, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
Am 25.11.21 um 00:06 schrieb jbf via ntg-context:
The following MWE produces a passable
The following MWE produces a passable result for a half-title page, but
I need to reduce the vertical space between 'A JOURNEY' and 'from the'
so that the 'h' of the 'the' is just touching the baseline of the 'R' in
JOURNEY. At the moment there is some distance between them.
I thought I could
In fact, in this instance, adjusting the roffset solved the problem, and
I didn't see any marked change using the proportional tabular
(monospaced?) fontfeature you suggest, though it is an interesting point
to bear in mind in the future. I'd always thought of proportional versus
tabular
is not quite centered; almost but not quite.
So am playing around with the roffset to adjust that.
Julian
On 12/11/21 3:49 pm, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:
On Fri, 12 Nov 2021, jbf via ntg-context wrote:
The following MWE deliberately shows two ways of getting a short rule
beneath a chapter
The following MWE deliberately shows two ways of getting a short rule
beneath a chapter number, but neither achieve what I want. \underbar is
too close to the number and \crlf\blackrule too far below. So basically
my question is: is there a way of adjusting the position of a brief rule
beneath
the difference between state=repeat and
repeat=yes, and I can see that both do work in the snippet you gave me,
so perhaps there is no difference between these?
Julian
On 10/11/21 2:05 am, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:
On 11/9/21 4:18 AM, jbf via ntg-context wrote:
I want
I want a particular layer to repeat on recto pages only, but I don't
want this to happen in frontmatter, only in bodymatter.
This is what I have done, just before the first chapter after
\startbodymatter (but unsuccessfully; the layer repeats for every page
at the moment. I must have omitted
In fact, Hans, that was going to be my comment after updating yesterday
to the 10-10-21 version: some of the breaks were a bit overdone. Are
these changes you indicate as tests actually included in the latest
upload, or should I wait a bit?
Julian
On 14/10/21 2:34 am, Hans Hagen via
Ah, I see the latest is 10 Oct. Mine is 17 September, so I'll upgrade
and see the difference, hopefully.
Thanks
Julian
On 12/10/21 10:25 pm, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 10/12/2021 3:09 AM, jbf via ntg-context wrote:
Dear list,
I note previous discussions on the matter of body text invading
Dear list,
I note previous discussions on the matter of body text invading footnote
space (as late as last year). As I am currently typesetting a 400 plus
page academic text with hundreds of footnotes, and do not have the
option of making them endnotes, I am facing this issue page after page.
At the moment \hyphenatedurl is not working for me in the latest LMTX
but is in MkIV. Am I the only one experiencing this? I am aware that I
am using a rather special typeface (Atkinson Hyperlegible) but am not
sure if that would cause a problem... it doesn't for MkIV.
Julian
Der! Of course... 'Introduction' is phantom! So something like 'Intro'
brings it back to where I want. Thanks.
Julian
On 29/9/21 2:17 pm, Rogers, Michael K wrote:
Can you stick "\phantom{Introduction:}" in front of “DIsability”?
Michael
On Sep 28, 2021, at 11:08 PM, jbf via n
?
Michael
On Sep 28, 2021, at 11:08 PM, jbf via ntg-context wrote:
In just one instance I would like the following to work differently:
\startchapter[title={Introduction\\Disability and
marginalisation},list={Introduction:\crlf Disability and marginalisation}].
That gives me:
Introduction:
In just one instance I would like the following to work differently:
\startchapter[title={Introduction\\Disability and
marginalisation},list={Introduction:\crlf Disability and marginalisation}].
That gives me:
Introduction:
Disability and marginalisation
But I would like to have:
I may have seen a response to this at some stage in the list, but I
cannot find it.
\- works for manual hyphenation in Mkiv but not (for me at least) in LMTX.
My general setting is \setupalign [hz,
nothyphenated,stretched,verytolerant] because I am typesetting a book
for visually-impaired
s helps.
Best regards,
Jairo
El dom, 26 de sep. de 2021 a la(s) 20:54, jbf via ntg-context
(ntg-context@ntg.nl <mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl>) escribió:
The occasional response to a similar question can be found,
e.g. on
stackexchange, but none of
] -- My favorite viewer
And then, after pdfview.method assignments,
pdfview.method = "evince"
Now textadept opens the .tex file once compiled. I don't know if
making the format again is mandatory, but it doesn't hurt, anyways. I
hope this helps.
Best regards,
Jairo
El dom, 26
The occasional response to a similar question can be found, e.g. on
stackexchange, but none of the responses work for me.
Textadept is very fast at compiling (and does compile correctly). I can
certainly open the pdf independently in various pdf viewers, but I
cannot get Textadept to
a run on this particular text without postponing and see how it
goes, since I already have a working result from the other.
Julian
On 28/7/21 5:32 pm, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 7/27/2021 11:46 PM, jbf via ntg-context wrote:
No, in fact I discovered that \startpostponingnotes is what is
needed
Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
Am 27.07.2021 um 06:07 schrieb jbf via ntg-context :
Is there any reason why the following MWE does not produce the footnote at the
bottom of the page? It seems like the use of framedtext is preventing it, but
am not sure why. Can I get around this problem
I solved my own problem of the footnote not appearing. Discovered
\startpostponingnotes! That solved the problem.
Julian
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Is there any reason why the following MWE does not produce the footnote
at the bottom of the page? It seems like the use of framedtext is
preventing it, but am not sure why. Can I get around this problem and
still have framed text?
Julian
\setupframed[location=middle]
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