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

2024-03-06 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
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: imposition: getting to the last page of a booklet

2024-03-06 Thread Hans Hagen
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 in th elow level manual and also explain

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

2024-03-06 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
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 example is just a > condensed version of example 2. Many

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

2024-03-06 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
which is shorter than writing "\ifnum ... = 0". The semicolon is also mysterious to me, I don’t know what it does there in plain language. The semicolon is a undocumented extension (I noticed it in the definition of \page[quadruple]) of \numexpr in Luametatex for the modulus operator

[NTG-context] Re: \showsymbolset is noop

2024-03-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
: 2024.02.22 18:31 LMTX fmt: 2024.2.22). Can someone try on MkIV? """ \usesymbols[nav] \starttext \showsymbolset[nav] \stoptext """ You pass the wrong name to \showsymbolset. \usesymbols[nav] \starttext \showsymbolset[navigation 1]\page \showsymbolset[navigation 2]\

[NTG-context] Re: \showsymbolset is noop

2024-03-05 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
try on MkIV? """ \usesymbols[nav] \starttext \showsymbolset[nav] \stoptext """ You pass the wrong name to \showsymbolset. \usesymbols[nav] \starttext \showsymbolset[navigation 1]\page \showsymbolset[navigation 2]\page \showsymbolset[navigatio

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

2024-03-05 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
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 answered before, Wolfgang. I’m afraid I don’t get how \ifcase

[NTG-context] Re: Japanese

2024-03-02 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
into the margins as expected. \starttext \ruledhbox{a \ruby{x}{y} b} \stoptext In my previous mail, I wrote wrong amounts of lines. They should be 46 lines on one page, while the actual example doesn't show the 46th line. It would be important to identify the reason why only 24 characters are used

[NTG-context] Re: Japanese

2024-03-01 Thread Emanuel Han via ntg-context
://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq/#fig1_30 aligning lines to the text box: https://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq/#fig1_3 protrusion of ruby: https://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq/#fig_ad1_6 In my previous mail, I wrote wrong amounts of lines. They should be 46 lines on one page, while the actual example doesn't show the 46th line

[NTG-context] Re: Japanese

2024-03-01 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
that when this is achieved for the layout box for text, then this box would hold the expected 45 lines, and not 44 lines as it is doing now. Ruby characters in the first line should protrude the box, what they already do. I tried to implement the 1em hskip of the header and footer away from the page

[NTG-context] Wiki page : Mixed languages sample (French, Ancient Greek, Arabic, Chinese)

2024-03-01 Thread Jean-Pierre Delange
and Chinese are introduced into a document written in French. With footnotes and a few framed lines. I submit this example for your perusal and ask you whether it could possibly appear on a wiki page devoted to the combination of non-European languages in the same text. In English translation

[NTG-context] Re: Japanese

2024-03-01 Thread Emanuel Han via ntg-context
characters in the first line should protrude the box, what they already do. I tried to implement the 1em hskip of the header and footer away from the page border. While it works for left aligned headers and footers, it doesn't for the right aligned headers and footers (negative hskip has

[NTG-context] Re: Japanese

2024-02-29 Thread luigi scarso
his is a lot of work. Hopefully we can achieve with joint efforts > to make ConTeXt Japanese ready. > > If I happen to have made false statements, please accept my apology. I > tried to be of help as far as I could. I grew up in Japan and know more or > less how typeset text should look

[NTG-context] Re: \in, \at, and labletext

2024-02-29 Thread Ursula Hermann
Hermann Gesendet: Mittwoch, 28. Februar 2024 13:05:25 An: mailing list for ConTeXt users Betreff: [NTG-context] \in, \at, and labletext Dear List, In the Documentation IntroCTX_eng_s.pdf at page 170 , I found the two examples with \in and \at, and also the lable. The Problem

[NTG-context] Re: Japanese

2024-02-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
y inter-character spacing reduction" is preferred. The last point which ConTeXt is missing, when talking about Japanese typesetting, is vertical writing. Vertical typesetting is possible but only for small text blocks which fit on a single page. Typesetting text which spans multiple pages is

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

2024-02-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
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]).

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

2024-02-28 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
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 to find a trick for

[NTG-context] Structuring a magazine or booklet

2024-02-28 Thread Jean-Pierre Delange
Dear list, I am reading up on how to replace InDesign with CTX when producing a newsletter, using 2 or 3 double-sided A3 sheets containing text in two columns per page (with images). I'm looking for an example of a composition structure. Unfortunately, the wiki page devoted to projects seems

[NTG-context] Re: \in, \at, and labletext

2024-02-28 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
On 2/28/24 13:05, Ursula Hermann wrote: > Dear List, > > In the Documentation IntroCTX_eng_s.pdf at page 170 , I found the two > examples with \in and \at, and also the label. Dear Uschi, I guess you mean (a link may be simpler than attaching a single page): https://raw.githubuse

[NTG-context] \in, \at, and labletext

2024-02-28 Thread Ursula Hermann
Dear List, In the Documentation IntroCTX_eng_s.pdf at page 170 , I found the two examples with \in and \at, and also the lable. The Problem is, that in the following sentence only the number (3.1) is a placed formula in an example, should have a link. Without the brackets. The sentence says

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

2024-02-28 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
On 2/28/24 11:56, Bruce Horrocks wrote: > [...] > The sample works for me if you set plain A4 and doublesided, thus: > > \setuppagenumbering[alternative={doublesided}] > \starttext > \samplefile{lorem} > \page[quadruple] > page before the quadruple (must be 3, not 4)

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

2024-02-28 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 27 Feb 2024, at 10:13, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context > wrote: > > I’m afraid I cannot make your sample work: The sample works for me if you set plain A4 and doublesided, thus: \setuppagenumbering[alternative={doublesided}] \starttext \samplefile{lorem} \page[quad

[NTG-context] Re: Hyperlinks cease working after page selection

2024-02-27 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
On 2/26/24 21:25, Michael Guravage wrote: > Greetings, > > The document in question compiles correctly. Its hyperlinks are correct > and work as expected. However, if I apply a page selection, the > hyperlinks in the resulting document, while correctly coloured, n

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

2024-02-27 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
On 2/24/24 14:30, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > 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,

[NTG-context] Hyperlinks cease working after page selection

2024-02-26 Thread Michael Guravage
Greetings, The document in question compiles correctly. Its hyperlinks are correct and work as expected. However, if I apply a page selection, the hyperlinks in the resulting document, while correctly coloured, no longer work. Any suggestions on how to correct or work around this would

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

2024-02-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
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: new context option

2024-02-24 Thread Otared Kavian
n hat am 24.02.2024 10:40 CET geschrieben: >> >> >> Hi Hans, >> >> Thanks for this nice option: it comes handy for many situations. >> >> I added a page for it: >> https://wiki.contextgarden.net/find <https://wiki.contextgarden.net

[NTG-context] Re: new context option

2024-02-24 Thread Denis Maier via ntg-context
for many situations.   I added a page for it: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/find   Best regards: Otared On 22 Feb 2024, at 18:40, Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl>

[NTG-context] Re: new context option

2024-02-24 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Hans, Thanks for this nice option: it comes handy for many situations. I added a page for it: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/find <https://wiki.contextgarden.net/find> Best regards: Otared > On 22 Feb 2024, at 18:40, Hans Hagen wrote: > > Hi, > > As I

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

2024-02-23 Thread Michael Guravage
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 page was last updated nearly four years ago. Is anyone

[NTG-context] Re: Text in Margin

2024-02-19 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
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] Re: Text in Margin

2024-02-19 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
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: Fwd: Re: Working with layer sets with Metapost

2024-02-19 Thread Emanuel Han via ntg-context
Thanks Mikael. This helped indeed. I updated my example on the Metapost page in the wiki accordingly. The`pagestate=start` functionality is not documented in the wiki. It's not clear for which context commands it can or should be used. Who is willing to help out here? Best regards Emanuel

[NTG-context] Re: Fwd: Re: Working with layer sets with Metapost

2024-02-19 Thread Mikael Sundqvist
acos preview and showing miniatures, all pages except the last one show page > number 1 (the last showing page number 2). > > Which was not the case with the output pdf of the attached > multipage_metapost_mwe-very_simple.tex. > > How can I change my code to have proper consecutive pag

[NTG-context] Fwd: Re: Working with layer sets with Metapost

2024-02-19 Thread Emanuel Han via ntg-context
 I just made a strange observation in the output pdf of the attached layer_set.tex, which is that when opening it with a pdf viewer like skim or macos preview and showing miniatures, all pages except the last one show page number 1 (the last showing page number 2). Which was not the case

[NTG-context] Text in Margin

2024-02-19 Thread 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 and small descriptions to emphasize some

[NTG-context] Re: manuals

2024-02-18 Thread Jean-Pierre Delange
ittle more detailed. Once this documentation has been passed as an introductory part (itself containing chapters explaining how this page of documentation was put together, with notes in the margins, etc.), this book could introduce MKIV, LuaTeX, MetaPost and so on, but with a clear distincti

[NTG-context] Re: Memory consumption in new upload

2024-02-17 Thread Hans Hagen
s a bit less consuming) on the one hand luametatex is more efficient than luatex due to all kind of ímprovements' but some nodes are larger so that takes more memory, which is only noticed when one has lots of text on a page (or keeps boxes stuff around)

[NTG-context] Re: Problem with wiki example

2024-02-17 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
draw fullcircle scaled 10cm ; > \stopMPPage > \stoptext > > It generates a PDF but when I open it with Evince, Evince complains that > no page was found > and does not show anything. Any help would be much appreciated. > > -- > Respect, >

[NTG-context] Problem with wiki example

2024-02-17 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
I found following on Wiki to produce PDF out of standalone type( https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Sharing_graphics): \starttext \startMPpage draw fullcircle scaled 10cm ; \stopMPPage \stoptext It generates a PDF but when I open it with Evince, Evince complains that no page was found and does

[NTG-context] Re: Memory consumption in new upload

2024-02-17 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
bit less consuming) >> >> on the one hand luametatex is more efficient than luatex due to all kind >> of ímprovements' but some nodes are larger so that takes more memory, >> which is only noticed when one has lots of text on a page (or keeps >> boxes stuff around) >

[NTG-context] Re: Memory consumption in new upload

2024-02-17 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
the one hand luametatex is more efficient than luatex due to all kind > of ímprovements' but some nodes are larger so that takes more memory, > which is only noticed when one has lots of text on a page (or keeps > boxes stuff around) > > anyway, not that much changed since the previ

[NTG-context] Re: Memory consumption in new upload

2024-02-17 Thread Hans Hagen
, which is only noticed when one has lots of text on a page (or keeps boxes stuff around) anyway, not that much changed since the previous upload, so maybe you just stay below a threshold I recently generated a 180MB document with 2500 fonts + metapost outlines of them and that could bump mem

[NTG-context] Re: Working with layer sets with Metapost

2024-02-17 Thread Emanuel Han via ntg-context
ikael > On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 6:54 AM Emanuel Han via ntg-context > wrote: > > > > Resp. the solution should be such that each generated PDF page has the same > > dimension, the same background colour and a page number and the metapost > > content on each page has t

[NTG-context] Re: Working with layer sets with Metapost

2024-02-15 Thread Mikael Sundqvist
Emanuel Han via ntg-context wrote: > > Resp. the solution should be such that each generated PDF page has the same > dimension, the same background colour and a page number and the metapost > content on each page has the same scaling factor. > > On Feb. 15 2024, at 11:10 pm, E

[NTG-context] Re: Working with layer sets with Metapost

2024-02-15 Thread Emanuel Han via ntg-context
Resp. the solution should be such that each generated PDF page has the same dimension, the same background colour and a page number and the metapost content on each page has the same scaling factor. On Feb. 15 2024, at 11:10 pm, Emanuel Han via ntg-context wrote: > Dear Mikael, > > I

[NTG-context] Re: Working with layer sets with Metapost

2024-02-15 Thread Emanuel Han via ntg-context
Dear Mikael, I actually need to keep the \dorecurse mechanism of the mwe (from line 44 on), because I need the "setbounds currentpicture to TheFrame" and also because I need page numbering inside the MPpage, as done with draw textext(decimal(currentime)). So, how can I use the \us

[NTG-context] Re: Working with layer sets with Metapost

2024-02-15 Thread Emanuel Han via ntg-context
and each layer subset. > > I don't know the proper syntax to do that. Let's assume we could use a > > variable type called "myset". > > > > myset layersubsetGamma; > > layersubsetGamma:={layerU,layerM}; > > > > In my logic, the layers will be drawn in t

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

2024-02-15 Thread Tommaso Gordini
with using a git repo as a tutorial: > > https://github.com/adityam/context-slides-example/commits > > The following page is generated automatically from the git commit log: > https://adityam.github.io/context-

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

2024-02-15 Thread Aditya Mahajan
ides-example/commits The following page is generated automatically from the git commit log: https://adityam.github.io/context-blog/post/presentation-40-commits-redux/ Aditya ___ If your question is of interest to ot

[NTG-context] Re: Working with layer sets with Metapost

2024-02-14 Thread Mikael Sundqvist
led "myset". > > myset layersubsetGamma; > layersubsetGamma:={layerU,layerM}; > > In my logic, the layers will be drawn in the order of their appearance within > the {}. In the example, drawn content of layerM might cover drawn content of > layerU. > > Contrar

[NTG-context] Working with layer sets with Metapost

2024-02-14 Thread Emanuel Han via ntg-context
drawn in the order of their appearance within the {}. In the example, drawn content of layerM might cover drawn content of layerU. Contrary to a layer subset, each layer set will result in a PDF page, and thus the layer sets are related to each other by an inner order. That's why I would

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

2024-02-14 Thread Alain Delmotte
Linux and OpenBSD in some of the boxes where I previously was only running OpenBSD when the OpenBSD version was dropped to be able to run ConTeXt. But where can I find them, please?  I can's see a link on the Wiki Installation page. I re-added the link to https://wiki.contextgarden.net

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

2024-02-14 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
when the OpenBSD version was dropped to be able to run ConTeXt. But where can I find them, please?  I can's see a link on the Wiki Installation page. I re-added the link to https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Installation Hraban

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

2024-02-14 Thread Angel M Alganza
to run ConTeXt. But where can I find them, please? I can's see a link on the Wiki Installation page. Cheers, Ángel ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

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

2024-02-13 Thread Oliver Marugg
/context/base/mkxl/context.mkxl >> mtx-context | current version: 2024.01.24 22:39 >> ------ >> Stripped down MWE: >> \setuppapersize[A4] [A4] >> \starttext >> \completecontent[criterium=all] >> % ToC >> \page >> \chapter{CHAP 1} >>

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

2024-02-13 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
-context | main context file: /Applications/ConTeXtStandalone/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/context.mkxl mtx-context | current version: 2024.01.24 22:39 -- Stripped down MWE: \setuppapersize[A4] [A4] \starttext \completecontent[criterium=all] % ToC \page \chapter{CHAP 1} TEXT

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

2024-02-13 Thread Oliver Marugg
/context/base/mkiv/context.mkiv >> mtx-context | current version: 2024.01.24 22:39 >> mtx-context | main context file: >> /Applications/ConTeXtStandalone/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/context.mkxl >> mtx-context | current version: 2024.01.24 2

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

2024-02-13 Thread Taco Hoekwater
text.mkxl > mtx-context | current version: 2024.01.24 22:39 > -- > > Stripped down MWE: > > \setuppapersize[A4] [A4] > \starttext > \completecontent[criterium=all] > % ToC > \page > \chapter{CHAP 1} > TEXT > \startbackmatter >

[NTG-context] Section numbering does not work

2024-02-12 Thread Oliver Marugg
/ConTeXtStandalone/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/context.mkxl mtx-context | current version: 2024.01.24 22:39 -- Stripped down MWE: \setuppapersize[A4] [A4] \starttext \completecontent[criterium=all] % ToC \page \chapter{CHAP 1} TEXT \startbackmatter \startchapter[title=Literature

[NTG-context] Re: How to print the book title and section title where \reference is located?

2024-02-09 Thread Bruce Horrocks
uirement A is met in TB, "Cats", p. 11" basically letting the reader know > its in the textbook, section called "Cats", on p. 11. To mark the pages, I'm > simply dropping in macros called "\requirementA" "\requirementB" on whichever > page of whiche

[NTG-context] How to print the book title and section title where \reference is located?

2024-02-06 Thread Joel via ntg-context
on p. 11. To mark the pages, I'm simply dropping in macros called "\requirementA" "\requirementB" on whichever page of whichever book demonstrates it meets the requirement, then the file will aquatically list the book, section, and page number by searching for that macr

[NTG-context] Re: chronological TOC

2024-01-29 Thread jbf
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 show up in the TOC. There is the normal TOC at the front

[NTG-context] Re: chronological TOC

2024-01-29 Thread Bruce Horrocks
order at the back of the book (i.e. not >>> in page number order, although I need the page numbers to show up in the >>> TOC. There is the normal TOC at the front of the book, according to chapter >>> titles. >>> >>> I have succeeded i

[NTG-context] Re: chronological TOC

2024-01-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
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

[NTG-context] Re: How to stop

2024-01-28 Thread Bruce Horrocks
TABLE[r][2,3,4,5,6,8,9,11,12,14][bottomframe=off] > \setupTABLE[r][1][bottomframe=on] > \bTABLE[split=yes] > \bTR\bTD {\it Lesson}\eTD\bTD {\it > Time} \\eTD\bTD {\it Date} \eTD\bTD {\it Page} \eTD\eTR >

[NTG-context] Re: How to stop

2024-01-27 Thread Hraban Ramm
=on]                             \bTABLE[split=yes]                                 \bTR\bTD {\it Lesson}  \eTD\bTD {\it Time} \\eTD\bTD {\it Date} \eTD\bTD {\it Page} \eTD\eTR                             \eTABLE What I've been finding is that previous settings on TABLES appearing earlier in the document

[NTG-context] How to stop

2024-01-27 Thread Joel via ntg-context
]                                 \bTR\bTD {\it Lesson}        \eTD\bTD {\it Time} \\eTD\bTD {\it Date} \eTD\bTD {\it Page} \eTD\eTR                             \eTABLE What I've been finding is that previous settings on TABLES appearing earlier in the document is impacting later tables. For instance

[NTG-context] Re: \framed{\externalfigure} vs \externalfigure[frame=on]

2024-01-27 Thread Jim
On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 19:12 (+0100), Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote: > On 1/27/24 17:44, Jim wrote: >> The wiki page for \setupexternalfigure says >> "Show frame around image. Most(?) options of \setupframed are usable!" Hi Pablo, > I’m afraid that this

[NTG-context] Re: \framed{\externalfigure} vs \externalfigure[frame=on]

2024-01-27 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
On 1/27/24 17:44, Jim wrote: > The wiki page for \setupexternalfigure says > "Show frame around image. Most(?) options of \setupframed are usable!" Hi Jim, I’m afraid that this is a too generous statement. https://www.pragma-ade.com/general/qrcs/setup-en.pdf#page=218

[NTG-context] \framed{\externalfigure} vs \externalfigure[frame=on]

2024-01-27 Thread Jim
The wiki page for \setupexternalfigure says "Show frame around image. Most(?) options of \setupframed are usable!" I tried to put a frame around a picture (using \externalfigure with frame=on) but I didn't get the frame to play nicely (see example below). I can get the frame wh

[NTG-context] Re: chronological TOC

2024-01-27 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
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 show up in the TOC. There is the normal TOC

[NTG-context] chronological TOC

2024-01-26 Thread 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 show up in the TOC. There is the normal TOC at the front of the book, according

[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

2024-01-25 Thread Jim
t;> While tabulate produced a table with the above input, it needs some work to >> make the table look good. (The columns are too narrow, the vrules don't >> meet the hrules, ...). >> Perhaps these can be fixed with some tweaking, but I notice that in all of >> https://wi

[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

2024-01-25 Thread Aditya Mahajan
> https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb29-1/tb91mahajan.pdf > > Aditya, > > thanks for those links. Would you mind if I added them to the "See also" > section of the \starttable wiki page (notwithstanding someone's claim at the > top of the page saying the

[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

2024-01-25 Thread Jim
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 17:30 (+0100), Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2024, Jim wrote: >> In a recent answer on this list, Mikael helped someone by pointing out the >> \HF[...] command. The \HF command is not listed in the \starttable wiki >> page. >> Q2: I

[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

2024-01-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
ing, but I notice that in all of https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/starttabulate and https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tabulate and http://www.ntg.nl/maps/22/28.pdf there is a conspicuous lack of examples with vrules. And the tables in the (at least) the starttabulate wiki page which use vrules

[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

2024-01-25 Thread Jim
eet the hrules, ...). Perhaps these can be fixed with some tweaking, but I notice that in all of https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/starttabulate and https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tabulate and http://www.ntg.nl/maps/22/28.pdf there is a conspicuous lack of examples with vrules. And the tables

[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

2024-01-25 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 25 Jan 2024, Jim wrote: > In a recent answer on this list, Mikael helped someone by pointing out the > \HF[...] command. The \HF command is not listed in the \starttable wiki page. > > Q2: Is \HF[] documented anywhere? If so, can someone point me to that/those >

[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

2024-01-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
ion. I’m quite sure \starttable will stay, it’s just discouraged since \startTABLE (natural tables) is better if you need more than \starttabulate. In a recent answer on this list, Mikael helped someone by pointing out the \HF[...] command. The \HF command is not listed in the \starttable wiki

[NTG-context] \starttable questions

2024-01-25 Thread Jim
;soon", or is that wiki comment gratuitously pessimistic? In a recent answer on this list, Mikael helped someone by pointing out the \HF[...] command. The \HF command is not listed in the \starttable wiki page. Q2: Is \HF[] documented anywhere? If so, can someone point me to that/those

[NTG-context] upload

2024-01-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, I uploaded a new lmts: - important fix for empty page (pdf, recently introduced) - win32 installer fix - bsd installer fix Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27

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

2024-01-23 Thread Thomas Meyer
\dimexpr\pagegoal-\pagetotal\relax    \ifdim\nextboxht>\scratchdimen      \page \getnoflines{\dimexpr\textheight-\nextboxht\relax}% \dontleavehmode\blank[\number\numexpr\noflines-2\relax*line]% \unvbox\nextbox    \else \getnoflines{\dimexpr\scratchdimen-\nextbo

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

2024-01-22 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
is a simple solution which adds the required number of \blank lines. \def\PlaceAtBottom {\par \dowithnextbox {\scratchdimen\dimexpr\pagegoal-\pagetotal\relax \ifdim\nextboxht>\scratchdimen \page \getnoflines{\dimexpr\textheight-\nextboxht\re

[NTG-context] Re: upload

2024-01-21 Thread Alain Delmotte
installed version, but I wouldn’t be able to install a brand new distribution. Do you reach any of the urls included in my first paragraph? Many thanks for your help, can you try again I tried and passed the first step: I can go to the "Installation" page, but then again "Er

[NTG-context] Re: Why LuaMetaTex is so slow?

2024-01-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
LMTX generates more pages so it is > > faster. > > puzzling > > > Of course, this is a meaningless experiment from a practical point of view > > as a 1000 page document will be more complex than just text. > % engine=pdftex 1.2 > % engine=luatmetatex 1.6 >

[NTG-context] Re: Why LuaMetaTex is so slow?

2024-01-18 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
from a practical point of view as a 1000 page document will be more complex than just text. % engine=pdftex 1.2 % engine=luatmetatex 1.6 % engine=luatex 1.8 % engine=xetex 2.4 \starttext \dorecurse{500} { \input knuth \par } \stoptext 125 pages, so how does your test file

[NTG-context] Re: Why LuaMetaTex is so slow?

2024-01-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
faster. Of course, this is a meaningless experiment from a practical point of view as a 1000 page document will be more complex than just text. Aditya ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an

[NTG-context] Re: Why LuaMetaTex is so slow?

2024-01-18 Thread Hans Hagen
style (also lightweight). On the contrary context uses layers of abstraction, a more complex font, math, structure, page etc etc etc sytstem. In fact, plain tex had to be as it is because otherwise it would take ages to process teh texbook. On a pc one could see the page numbers crawl so

[NTG-context] Re: Why LuaMetaTex is so slow?

2024-01-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
/manuals/musings.pdf#page=96 might explain why Lua(Meta)TeX is slower. Other chapters in that document from Hans might give you some insight on the reasons why LMTX has to pay a price for being more feature-rich. I got such impression when I read it. Just in case it might help, In comparison to LaTeX

[NTG-context] Re: Why LuaMetaTex is so slow?

2024-01-18 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
self) may be optimized for speed. Your math book may use features (I’m guessing again) that require more resources than the features used by “The TeXbook”. > Why LuaMetaTeX is so slow? How can I speed it up? https://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/musings.pdf#page=96 might explain why

[NTG-context] How to Create Asymmetrical Continuous Columns in ConTeXt?

2024-01-18 Thread seyal . zavira
reaches the end of the line and there is not enough space for another line in that frame, it continues the text in another frame that is already specified? in other word How do you make text flow to another part of a page? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Seyal

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

2024-01-18 Thread Thomas Meyer
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 trying to place at the bottom of the page. Wolfgang

[NTG-context] Re: "Registerhaltigkeit"

2024-01-17 Thread Thomas Meyer
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 trying to place at the bottom of the page. Wolfgang

[NTG-context] Suggestions and problems of the manuals

2024-01-17 Thread Gerion Entrup
t; driver time: 0.021 seconds mkiv lua stats > used backend: pdf mkiv lua stats > jobdata time: 0.000 seconds saving, 0.000 seconds loading mkiv lua stats > callbacks: file: 137, saved: 1212, direct: 2, function: 814, value: 429, message: 0, bytecode: 620, late

[NTG-context] Re: After Compiling the Context test, there was no PDF.

2024-01-16 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
I wanted also do a new installation of ConTeXt LMTX, but if I want to do > it, the is a report, that the page cannot be found. > > > > Many thanks > > Uschi > > ___ > If your question is of inte

[NTG-context] After Compiling the Context test, there was no PDF.

2024-01-16 Thread Ursula Hermann
\endcsname {\ } % \def\^^I{\ } tab ! Missing \endcsname inserted. I wanted also do a new installation of ConTeXt LMTX, but if I want to do it, the is a report, that the page cannot be found. Many thanks Uschi

[NTG-context] Re: "Registerhaltigkeit"

2024-01-14 Thread Thomas Meyer
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 trying to place at the bottom of the page. Wolfgang Test.tex Description: TeX document Test.pdf Description

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

2024-01-14 Thread mf
Thank you Wolfgang, but my problem is getting back the page of the document starting from a "realpage" value picked from structures.registers.collected in the .tuc file. Anyway, looking at the .tuc file produced by your example, I found that structures.pages.collect

[NTG-context] Re: "Registerhaltigkeit"

2024-01-14 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
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

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