[NTG-context] command line arguments

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

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

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

[NTG-context] Re: Adjusted Chapter Headings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[NTG-context] Mikael’s missing math manual

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

[NTG-context] can we do binding correction?

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

[NTG-context] ck hyphenation in old German orthography

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[NTG-context] regular online meet-up

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

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

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

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

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

[NTG-context] Re: additional font faces

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

[NTG-context] additional font faces

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

[NTG-context] Re: missing metadata in LMTX

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

[NTG-context] Re: \showsymbolset is noop

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

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

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

[NTG-context] \showsymbolset is noop

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

[NTG-context] enhancing documentation: initials

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

[NTG-context] Re: Japanese

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

[NTG-context] Re: Japanese

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

[NTG-context] Re: Japanese

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

[NTG-context] Re: Japanese

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

[NTG-context] Re: FreeBSD 13.2

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

[NTG-context] Re: FreeBSD 13.2

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

[NTG-context] Re: FreeBSD 13.2

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

[NTG-context] Re: FreeBSD 13.2

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

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

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

[NTG-context] Re: FreeBSD 13.2

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

[NTG-context] typing with scite module and escape

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[NTG-context] Re: Text in Margin

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

[NTG-context] MetaPost lines in tables?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[NTG-context] regular online meet-up

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

[NTG-context] Re: distance in \setupinitial

Am 09.02.24 um 22:06 schrieb Thomas Meyer: Thank you, Pablo, next question: why does it say here https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupinitial default is 0pt? Why does the information not match? Crazy! Either it changed since 2020, or Garulfo just assumed wrongly when they wrote it.

[NTG-context] Re: OT: interview with John Warnock

Am 09.02.24 um 20:15 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context: On 2/6/24 14:04, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Hi, I came across this interview with John Warnock (founder of Adobe and developer of PostScript): https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2023/08/102738759-05-01-acc.pdf

[NTG-context] Re: Square right aligned

Am 08.02.24 um 12:23 schrieb Ursula Hermann: Dear List, I am at Home  and have the following example.: klar.\startalignment[right]\square\stopalignment}\stoptext} There should be a sign like this □ at the end of the proof. What’s your problem – is the square missing? Then there’s probably

[NTG-context] color profiles

Hi, I thought I could finally setup color management properly instead of converting all print PDFs with Acrobat Pro… On the wiki, there’s something in https://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDFX; I updated it a bit, but we (I?) should combine it with https://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDF/A … How can I

[NTG-context] OT: interview with John Warnock

Hi, I came across this interview with John Warnock (founder of Adobe and developer of PostScript): https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2023/08/102738759-05-01-acc.pdf Maybe you already know it. And there’s probably a video version. While the first half about his personal

[NTG-context] Re: chronological TOC

Am 29.01.24 um 21:45 schrieb jbf: And indeed this is the best solution I could find, though it obviously meant that something like '29 April 2017' was no good for sorting on... it has to be the US date format YY-MM-DD How did you expect a simple sorting algorithm to sort by verbose dates?

[NTG-context] Re: How to stop

Just use a group (\start ... \stop, \bgroup ... \egroup or {} ) around the setup commands and their table, or use \startsetup mytable ... \stopsetup and \startTABLE[setups=mytable] if you need the same settings for several tables. HR Am 27.01.24 um 22:29 schrieb Joel via ntg-context: I have

[NTG-context] Re: chronological TOC

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 at the

[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

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 one gets with \input table in plain TeX) and would like to use what appears to be ConTeXt's version of those

[NTG-context] Re: OpenBSD install failed

Am 23.01.24 um 00:34 schrieb Damien Thiriet via ntg-context: Hello, I tried to install OpenBSD 7.4 binaries but failed. What I did: download the zip from pragma unpack it in /usr/local/context chmod 744 install.sh ./install.sh After running it, there is no file in

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

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 depends on the current attention, capacity and mood of the few who can answer your questions. So the

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

Am 19.01.24 um 10:31 schrieb Hans Hagen: (that said: luametatex runs fine on my mobile phone) What’s the smallest/oldest device someone tried LMTX on? (We were joking about “Hans’ thermostate and Alan’s fridge“…) Would it run on some 8 bit homecomputer? (I’d guess the RAM is too limited, and

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

Am 18.01.24 um 18:47 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context: On 1/18/24 18:24, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: I can process TeXBook in almost an instant using PDFTeX which is about 450+ pages but my math book takes around 30 seconds averaging ~40 pages/second. Hi Shiv Shankar Dayal, I guess that

[NTG-context] Re: [ \copypages ]

Am 17.01.24 um 22:20 schrieb vm via ntg-context: Is there a (hidden) option that allows for changing the font color of external included pdfs \copypages[file.pdf][color=blue] does not work as intended ;-) No, it can’t. You can try to use transparency: put a colored area on top of the PDF

[NTG-context] Re: issue with fonts in current latest (2024.01.08 11:23)

Am 15.01.24 um 21:43 schrieb Mikael Sundqvist: Try this: \definebodyfontenvironment[16pt] Yes, works. Hraban ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

[NTG-context] Re: Looking for itemize help

Am 15.01.24 um 17:15 schrieb Jim: "after" does the trick, but not in an automatic way. I would like something which automagically "does the right thing". With “automagically”, do you mean for all instances? \setupitemgroup[itemize][nowhite,after] Sorry, then you need "nowhite". Usually

[NTG-context] Re: issue with fonts in current latest (2024.01.08 11:23)

Am 15.01.24 um 18:16 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context: I guess there might be an issue here. Could anyone confirm this? Yes, same beta from last week (2024.01.08). No error in the console output. mkiv lua stats > loaded fonts: 4 files: latinmodernmath-companion.otf,

[NTG-context] OT: special ToC

I came across a table of contents style that’s hardly possible with TeX: https://historians.social/@dbellingradt/111760591144801241 (image is too big for the ML) (Yes of course you can do it with manual references and MetaPost lines…) ;D

[NTG-context] Re: Looking for itemize help

Am 15.01.24 um 15:36 schrieb Jim: \startitemize[packed,joinedup] should be the right combination. I won't argue about "should", but I will point out it isn't, at least on my computer with a recently updated context. Here is a non-minimal but short non-working example. Sorry, then you need

[NTG-context] Re: Spacing problem in formula

Am 15.01.24 um 13:21 schrieb Hans Hagen: On 1/15/2024 8:00 AM, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: Thanks a lot Mikael. in addition: in context lmtx {} are grouping symbols not (ordinary) empty atoms Only in math, or generally? \startquotation {}[…] Here I need the empty group, otherwise the

[NTG-context] Re: Looking for itemize help

Am 15.01.24 um 01:42 schrieb Jim: Some text preceding the list of items: a. Item one. b. Second item. This sentence is part of the same paragraph. The next paragraph starts here... \startitemize[packed,joinedup] should be the right combination. Hraban

[NTG-context] Re: "Registerhaltigkeit"

Am 14.01.24 um 10:30 schrieb Thomas Meyer: which settings are necessary to achieve "Registerhaltigkeit"? \setuplayout[grid=yes] You might like \showgrid, and please read the manual details.pdf WRT to placement of elements that don’t fit the grid. Hraban

[NTG-context] Re: font error in float placement?

Am 13.01.24 um 21:09 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Here’s the image: https://yemaya.fiee.net/s/8TqwfcP7mLMmy9p (In a simple document it works.) I found a workaround: I opened the file with Inkscape and converted everything in curves. The PDF is even smaller now, and it proves that the problem

[NTG-context] Re: font error in float placement?

Am 13.01.24 um 19:43 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: (LMTX, latest beta with self-compiled binary on OSX-intel.) With my book, I run into an Lua error while placing a sidefloat. If I comment \externalfigure or replace the image with a different one, the error disappears. I can’t reproduce

[NTG-context] font error in float placement?

(LMTX, latest beta with self-compiled binary on OSX-intel.) With my book, I run into an Lua error while placing a sidefloat. If I comment \externalfigure or replace the image with a different one, the error disappears. I can’t reproduce it in a minimal example, so I guess it depends on the

[NTG-context] Re: Do we have a geometry library for Metafun?

Am 13.01.24 um 15:54 schrieb Gavin via ntg-context: One pretty MetaPost drawing option is the byrne package by Sergey Slyusarev, which he used (with ConTeXt) to reproduce Oliver Byrne’s 1847 quirky edition on the first six books of Euclid’s “Elements”. All of the drawing is in MetaPost, and

[NTG-context] Re: LMTX schema for poster

Am 11.01.24 um 22:04 schrieb Bruce Horrocks: 1. "ConTeXt" should be the biggest word - or as an obvious title for the poster, away from the actual drawing. This will be only a part of the poster. I imagine a 3x3 grid with a title above and some information (website etc.) below. The 9

[NTG-context] Re: LMTX schema for poster

Am 11.01.24 um 20:15 schrieb vm via ntg-context: On 11/01/2024 19:52, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Here’s a preliminary schema of LMTX. What do you think? as is, it is difficult to understand where to look. what does is describe? e.g. what is the distinction between the 'source' (lua tex

[NTG-context] Re: [ flowing figures ]

Am 11.01.24 um 20:07 schrieb Floris van Manen via ntg-context: the \dontleavehmode construction works fine as it allows me to set the width. Now I try to use the thumb image as the 'button' to open the full rendered page in an external pdf at a give page. But my Linux pdf viewer just notice

[NTG-context] Re: LMTX schema for poster

Here’s a preliminary schema of LMTX. What do you think? Is there something important missing? Maybe add mtxrun, hyphenation patterns, modules. Move the images to the resources? Maybe I should replace the “files” within MkXL with the parts like parser, par builder and whatever? I don’t want to

[NTG-context] Re: [ flowing figures ]

Am 11.01.24 um 16:15 schrieb vm via ntg-context: How can I wrap an externalfigure into a box that can be placed within running text? \externalfigure[dummy][frame=on] With or without a \placefigure Should I wrap the externalfigure into a start/stop buffer, then place it? I don’t see why.

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

Reminder: this is tonight! I’m looking forward to hear more details about the latest changes. CU HR Am 06.01.24 um 18:25 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: A happy & healthy new year! You’re invited to the first online meet-up of the year, this upcoming Wednesday, January 10th, 19:00 CET (U

[NTG-context] Re: Chemnitz, Leipzig, Call for Poster

Am 10.01.24 um 08:00 schrieb juh via ntg-context: Am Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 09:59:14AM +0100 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: I’d like to have a poster that shows off ConTeXt/MetaFun features. Do you have suggestions or (even better) would you like to create it? It would be nice to have for further

[NTG-context] Re: Setuphead issue!

Am 09.01.24 um 14:43 schrieb G.C.H.M. Verhaag via ntg-context: Hi, The example below works as expected, but within my product it doesn't. % Subject example before and after! \setuphead[subject][color=limegreen,before={\blank[none]},after={\blank[none]},align={flushleft,nothyphenated,tolerant}]

[NTG-context] Re: Links

Am 08.01.24 um 14:10 schrieb Ursula Hermann: Dear List, Is this the right way? I want to use linked bibliography numbers, linked Chapter, section subsection, linked margin numbers, in the text. \setupinteraction[state=start] This is essential. \starttext Der Wert von \m{y = f(x)} ist

[NTG-context] Re: Chemnitz, Leipzig, Call for Poster

Am 07.01.24 um 17:11 schrieb garulfo: does this kind of poster would make sense ? https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Cover_Pages#Poster_01_-_proposal_for_Libre_Planet_2021 Thank you, that looks good but it’s not what I had in mind. I meant a poster _about_ ConTeXt, not only made with our toolset

[NTG-context] Chemnitz, Leipzig, Call for Poster

Hi folks, in March, there’ll be Linux Days in Chemnitz/Germany (Chemnitzer Linuxtage, https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2024/en/), an OSS fair. DANTE usually has a booth there, and this time I’ll help. I’d like to have a poster that shows off ConTeXt/MetaFun features. Do you have suggestions

[NTG-context] regular online meet-up

A happy & healthy new year! You’re invited to the first online meet-up of the year, this upcoming Wednesday, January 10th, 19:00 CET (UTC+1) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Looking

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

Am 04.01.24 um 18:00 schrieb Jeroen: I just would like to have a lot of mark-up for combined figures and tables etc moved out of the way, similar to this. I am loosing the general documetn flow because of all this markup. Would there be a construction similar to this: \starttext

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

Am 04.01.24 um 17:12 schrieb Jeroen: 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: install-modules script and git URLs

Just so that everyone knows: Taco has fixed the modules management scripts, so that git checkouts and zip uploads work now. Hraban ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the

[NTG-context] Re: install-modules script and git URLs

Am 19.12.23 um 18:29 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context: Hi Hraban and Taco, the install-modules script doesn’t allow .tar.gz as compression format to install modules. .tar.gz seems to be the compression format offered for modules that are uploaded using a git URL. Hraban explained in

[NTG-context] Re: Seeking advice for module that draws globes

Am 19.12.23 um 15:27 schrieb Gavin via ntg-context: This was very helpful. I think I have everything organized according to TDS now. Thank you for the feedback! Sort these files into folders according to TDS (TeX directory structure) – just have a look at the distribution to understand what

[NTG-context] Re: QR Code

Am 18.12.23 um 17:05 schrieb Ursula Hermann: Dear List After compiling \usemodule[m-zint] \starttext \barcode[alternative=isbnx, text=9783865419026, width=4cm] \blank[big] \barcode[alternative=qrcode, text={wie weet waar willem wever woont}, width=3cm] \stoptext I got , what you see in the

[NTG-context] Re: QR Code

Am 18.12.23 um 13:00 schrieb Ursula Hermann: Dear  List I was interested how it works. So I started this example. \starttext \usemodule[m-zint] \barcode[alternative=isbnx, text=9783865419026, width=4cm] \barcode[alternative=qrcode, text={https://wiki.contextgarden.net}, width=3cm]

[NTG-context] Re: Seeking advice for module that draws globes

Am 18.12.23 um 00:58 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: On 12/17/2023 11:22 PM, Gavin via ntg-context wrote: 2. How do I organize this according to TDS for sharing? I know what TDS is and why it’s important, but that’s about it! Hraban will guide you here. I’ll try ;) Hi Gavin, thank you

[NTG-context] Re: How to input first n lines from file?

Am 16.12.23 um 22:30 schrieb Joel via ntg-context: With the command `\input file`, I can input the entire contents of `file.tex`. Is there a way to limit it to the first n lines, for instance, something like `\input[10]` file would only input the first 10 lines from `file.tex` and ignore the

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

Am 13.12.23 um 19:09 schrieb Floris van Manen via ntg-context: On 13/12/2023 10:50, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) https://lecture.senfcall.de/gdpr/consent?url=https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku

[NTG-context] Re: About framedtext

Am 13.12.23 um 18:55 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: 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

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