Re: [NTG-context] graphics

2018-12-05 Thread Procházka Lukáš Ing .
Hello, would it be possible to provide some samples finally? That would be very handy especially for those who are used to create plots via "several clicks on Excel ribbon". Personally, I am interested in 2D plots to be created loading (an) external data file(s) (text files formed into

Re: [NTG-context] commands manual (setup-en.pdf) organized by topic

2018-12-05 Thread Jan U. Hasecke
Am 05.12.18 um 19:01 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: > You can get a list of the files with > >   context --extra=setups --list > > and create a document with a limited number of commands > from certain categories with > >   context --extra=setups delimitedtext,narrow Cool! Neat factsheet to print

[NTG-context] align in setuphead

2018-12-05 Thread Jan U. Hasecke
Hi all, why aligns left to right and right to left in this example? \setuphead [title] [align=left] \starttext \starttitle[title=Test] \stoptitle \stoptext TIA juh ___ If your question is of interest to others

Re: [NTG-context] regression in bib system

2018-12-05 Thread Alan Braslau
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 23:35:21 +0100 "Thomas A. Schmitz" wrote: > compilation hangs with > this message: > > close source> level 2, order 8, name > '/mnt/shared/Documents/excerpts.tex' > close source> level 1, order 8, name >

[NTG-context] regression in bib system

2018-12-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hans, Alan, I'm experiencing a regression with bibliographies in the latest beta (2018.12.01 13:20). I haven't been able to reduce it to a MWE yet, but here's what I get from my bibliographic files: compilation hangs with this message: close source> level 2, order 8, name

Re: [NTG-context] Ending strings with non-break space in lang-txt.lua

2018-12-05 Thread Alan Braslau
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 19:47:31 +0100 Marco Patzer wrote: > Hi! > > I've got a few unfortunate line breaks in my documents. In > particular, breaks are introduced in between the string “page” and > the number: > > See figure 1 at page > 2. > > The reason is that many strings in lang-txt.lua

[NTG-context] Ending strings with non-break space in lang-txt.lua

2018-12-05 Thread Marco Patzer
Hi! I've got a few unfortunate line breaks in my documents. In particular, breaks are introduced in between the string “page” and the number: See figure 1 at page 2. The reason is that many strings in lang-txt.lua end in a space, rather than a non-break space: ["atpage"]={

Re: [NTG-context] commands manual (setup-en.pdf) organized by topic

2018-12-05 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
mf schrieb am 05.12.18 um 18:04: Hello list, i always use the "Commands" manual a lot to retrieve information about the parameters and options of ConTeXt commands. The manual is built from the .xml files in the tex/texmf-context/tex/context/interface directory. Since those files are

[NTG-context] commands manual (setup-en.pdf) organized by topic

2018-12-05 Thread mf
Hello list, i always use the "Commands" manual a lot to retrieve information about the parameters and options of ConTeXt commands. The manual is built from the .xml files in the tex/texmf-context/tex/context/interface directory. Since those files are organized by topic, is it possible to

Re: [NTG-context] graphics

2018-12-05 Thread Alan Braslau
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 13:59:35 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote: > > On this note: I would like to have an ‘official’ way to map 3D > > coordinates to 2D coordinates with for a camera position with an > > orthogonal window. > > > > Not the most complicated thing in the world, but it would be nice if > >

[NTG-context] upcoming betas

2018-12-05 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi We currently have mkii : which uses pdftex/xetex mkiv : which uses lua(jit)tex 1.10 and next year we will also have lmtx : which runs luatex functionally there is no difference between mkiv and lmtx but there are some diferences under the hood. It might also turn out to be a bit

Re: [NTG-context] Text running of the page with default=top float parameter

2018-12-05 Thread Marco Patzer
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 13:44:53 +0100 Marco Patzer wrote: > I've got a problem with text running off the page. The culprit is > the "default=top" float parameter. Is this expected behaviour? > > Slightly OT bonus question: What does the “default=auto” parameter > do? I added that years ago and have

Re: [NTG-context] graphics

2018-12-05 Thread Hans Hagen
On 12/5/2018 10:02 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: On 4 Dec 2018, at 19:54, Alan Braslau wrote: 2) to generalize the notion of user data space from the two-dimensional drawing space of MetaPost (and the represented page), and affine transformations of this 2D space to other coordinate systems and

Re: [NTG-context] graphics

2018-12-05 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 1:37 PM Hans Hagen wrote: > On 12/5/2018 10:14 AM, Henri Menke wrote: > > ConTeXt already comes with a full XML parser. SVG is XML. It would be > > nice if it was possible to render some subset of SVG. > So what subset? ... Doing some shapes etc is doable but doing all is

[NTG-context] Text running of the page with default=top float paremeter

2018-12-05 Thread Marco Patzer
Hi! I've got a problem with text running off the page. The culprit is the "default=top" float parameter. Is this expected behaviour? Slightly OT bonus question: What does the “default=auto” parameter do? I added that years ago and have not found documentation what it actually does. I actually

Re: [NTG-context] graphics

2018-12-05 Thread Hans Hagen
On 12/5/2018 10:14 AM, Henri Menke wrote: ConTeXt already comes with a full XML parser. SVG is XML. It would be nice if it was possible to render some subset of SVG. So what subset? ... Doing some shapes etc is doable but doing all is over the top Hans

Re: [NTG-context] graphics

2018-12-05 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 10:15 AM Henri Menke wrote: > ConTeXt already comes with a full XML parser. SVG is XML. It would be > nice if it was possible to render some subset of SVG. > In the mean time, I think we should also consider Headless Chromium for SVG -> PDF (with --print-to-pdf )

Re: [NTG-context] graphics

2018-12-05 Thread Henri Menke
ConTeXt already comes with a full XML parser. SVG is XML. It would be nice if it was possible to render some subset of SVG. On 12/5/18 6:03 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: > Hi, > > As most mechanism are reasonable okay now we can look into what future > versions of ConteXt should provide in terms of

Re: [NTG-context] graphics

2018-12-05 Thread Taco Hoekwater
> On 4 Dec 2018, at 19:54, Alan Braslau wrote: > > 2) to generalize the notion of user data space from the > two-dimensional drawing space of MetaPost (and the represented page), > and affine transformations of this 2D space to other coordinate > systems and dimensions. We are not thinking