Re: [NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-09-30 Thread Mari Voipio 
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Keith J. Schultz  wrote:
> 3) I could write up a tutorial for installing and TeXlive and Standalone
>if you care for one.

Maybe that should go on page
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mac_Installation . While I'm used to the
command line, I still picked TextMate because it was an easy way out.
I've got MacTeX (=TeXlive) on my computer for occasional dabble with
LaTeX and I rather like the editor (and it's free), but I didn't know
that it can be configured to use ConTeXt Suite (=standalone) instead
of having to make do with whatever version is in the package.

So if you have time to edit that wiki page, I'm sure that would be appreciated!


Mari
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Re: [NTG-context] question about linespace adjustment

2013-09-30 Thread Lars Huttar 
On 9/26/2013 3:47 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> You can use \switchtobodyfont to change the size for certain parts of a text
> but it’s best to keep this to a minimum because \tfa etc. are a  lot faster.
>
> The reason why you don’t need \setupinterlinespace when you use
> \switchtobodyfont is that \setupinterlinespace is already called by
> \switchtobodyfont.
>
> Another thing which shouldn’t be forgotten is that \switchtobodyfont
> controls and changes the sizes for \tfa etc.
>
> Wolfgang

To summarize this, and what I've learned from others on this list over
the last week or two, I've updated the wiki page
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Font_Switching
It's a pretty substantial change, so I hope someone knowledgeable will
look at it and make sure it's right.

I'm trying to find ways to express the fact that, as I understand it,
there are two distinct concepts of "current font" in effect at any given
time:
1) the bodyfont, which is set by \setupbodyfont or \switchtobodyfont
2) the "effective" font (is there a more standard term for this?) which
is changed by \tfa, \ss, etc.

\tfa etc. change the effective font based on what the bodyfont is.
Anything that changes the bodyfont, such as \switchtobodyfont, also
affects the linespacing.
Just changing the effective font does not affect the linespacing.
Changing the bodyfont changes the effective font.

Does that give an accurate picture?

Thanks,
Lars




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Re: [NTG-context] outer floats on doublesided pages UNSOLVED

2013-09-30 Thread john Culleton 
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:28:45 +0200
Hans Hagen  wrote:

> On 9/14/2013 7:25 AM, R. Ermers wrote:
> > Hi Contexters,
> >
> > Does anyone know whether it is possible in mkiv to position figures
> > protruding in the outer margin? In mkii it used to work
> 
> there is a check missing .. fixed in next beta
> 
> 


How about asymmetric margins, such as .75 inch on the inner edge
and .50 inch on the outer edge. How does MKIV handle this?

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[NTG-context] beta

2013-09-30 Thread Hans Hagen 

Hi,

I uploaded a new beta (still catching up from last week). The core now 
has the simplefonts-turned-fontselector code included but only those 
present last week have the edge of knowing how to use it unless WS 
decides to reveal its secrets and/or LS undiscloses it by posting source 
code.


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Re: [NTG-context] What do \start and \stop mean?

2013-09-30 Thread Lars Huttar 
On 9/30/2013 11:44 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, Lars Huttar wrote:
>
>> I found \start and \stop referenced in the context reference manual
>> (e.g. section 5.5).
>> While \startXYZ - \stopXYZ pairs are discussed earlier, I can't find any
>> place that \start and \stop (with no suffix) are described.
>> They seem to be used like \bgroup and \egroup. Is that right?
>> They are defined in core-sys.mkiv, but I can't figure out from there
>> what they actually do.
>
> (Untested, based on what I remember):
>
> \start = \bgroup
> \stop  = \egroup
>
> but \start scans the next argument, so there are situations when
> \start may fail but \bgroup works.
>
> \start[whatever] ... \stop = \startwhatever ... \stopwhatever
>

Ouch, that sounds like two very different behaviors, depending on
whether an argument is present.


I think I'll document \start at
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/start
but take the usage of it out of the ref man's examples, replacing it
with { and }, as long as the examples still work. It's not important to
any of the examples.

Thanks, Aditya and Luigi, for the quick assist.

Lars


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Re: [NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-09-30 Thread Mica Semrick 
Any chance of getting that tutorial in some sort of version control?
Github/SVN/bitbucket or whatever?!


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Lars Huttar  wrote:

> On 9/29/2013 1:05 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:
> > Some thoughts:
> >
> >   1.1.1
> >   Unfortunately there’s no really easy way to install ConTEXt on Windows.
> >
> > I never installed ConTeXt on Windows, but if this is true this
> > should definitely be fixed. According to
> >
> >   http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone#Command_line_method
> > ...
>
> For my part ... I recently installed TeXLive 2012 and 2013 on Windows 7,
> and it was easy.
>
> I told it to install only the ConTeXt scheme, instead of installing
> everything.
> Also I had to configure the TeXWorks editor options to use ConTeXt
> (LuaTeX) by default instead of pdfLaTeX.
> But other than that, unless I'm forgetting something, it worked fine,
> out-of-the-box.
>
> Lars
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Re: [NTG-context] What do \start and \stop mean?

2013-09-30 Thread luigi scarso 
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:00 PM, luigi scarso wrote:

>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Lars Huttar  wrote:
>
>> I found \start and \stop referenced in the context reference manual
>> (e.g. section 5.5).
>> While \startXYZ - \stopXYZ pairs are discussed earlier, I can't find any
>> place that \start and \stop (with no suffix) are described.
>> They seem to be used like \bgroup and \egroup. Is that right?
>> They are defined in core-sys.mkiv, but I can't figure out from there
>> what they actually do.
>>
>> I'll contribute documentation for them if someone can tell me what they
>> mean.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Lars
>>
>
>
>
>
> core-sys.mkiv :
>
>
> \unexpanded\def\start
>   {\dosingleempty\syst_start}
>
> \def\syst_start
>   {\bgroup
>\iffirstargument
>  \expandafter\syst_start_yes
>\else
>  \expandafter\syst_start_nop
>\fi}
>
> \def\syst_start_yes[#1]%
>  {\edef\m_syst_start_stop{#1}%
>   \ifx\m_syst_start_stop\empty
> \let\syst_stop_indeed\donothing
>   \else\ifcsname\e!start\m_syst_start_stop\endcsname
>
> \expandafter\let\expandafter\syst_stop_indeed\csname\e!stop\m_syst_start_stop\endcsname
>
> \csname\e!start\m_syst_start_stop\expandafter\expandafter\expandafter\endcsname
>   \else
> \let\syst_stop_indeed\donothing
>   \fi\fi}
>
> \def\syst_start_nop[#1]%
>   {\let\syst_stop_indeed\donothing}
>
> \unexpanded\def\stop
>   {\syst_stop_indeed
>\egroup}
>
>
> (it should be \let\donothing\empty)
>
> sorry, hit return too early.
\start <...> \stop without argument is

\bgroup % from\def\syst_start
\expandafter\syst_start_nop

\syst_start_nop is
{\let\syst_stop_indeed\donothing}

and \stop is hence
\syst_stop_indeed
\egroup
i.e.
\donothing
\egroup


are like \bgroup <...> \egroup

It seems that there are no examples of \start[]<..>\stop .

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Re: [NTG-context] What do \start and \stop mean?

2013-09-30 Thread luigi scarso 
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Lars Huttar  wrote:

> I found \start and \stop referenced in the context reference manual
> (e.g. section 5.5).
> While \startXYZ - \stopXYZ pairs are discussed earlier, I can't find any
> place that \start and \stop (with no suffix) are described.
> They seem to be used like \bgroup and \egroup. Is that right?
> They are defined in core-sys.mkiv, but I can't figure out from there
> what they actually do.
>
> I'll contribute documentation for them if someone can tell me what they
> mean.
>
> Thanks,
> Lars
>




core-sys.mkiv :


\unexpanded\def\start
  {\dosingleempty\syst_start}

\def\syst_start
  {\bgroup
   \iffirstargument
 \expandafter\syst_start_yes
   \else
 \expandafter\syst_start_nop
   \fi}

\def\syst_start_yes[#1]%
 {\edef\m_syst_start_stop{#1}%
  \ifx\m_syst_start_stop\empty
\let\syst_stop_indeed\donothing
  \else\ifcsname\e!start\m_syst_start_stop\endcsname

\expandafter\let\expandafter\syst_stop_indeed\csname\e!stop\m_syst_start_stop\endcsname

\csname\e!start\m_syst_start_stop\expandafter\expandafter\expandafter\endcsname
  \else
\let\syst_stop_indeed\donothing
  \fi\fi}

\def\syst_start_nop[#1]%
  {\let\syst_stop_indeed\donothing}

\unexpanded\def\stop
  {\syst_stop_indeed
   \egroup}


(it should be \let\donothing\empty)



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Re: [NTG-context] What do \start and \stop mean?

2013-09-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan 

On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, Lars Huttar wrote:


I found \start and \stop referenced in the context reference manual
(e.g. section 5.5).
While \startXYZ - \stopXYZ pairs are discussed earlier, I can't find any
place that \start and \stop (with no suffix) are described.
They seem to be used like \bgroup and \egroup. Is that right?
They are defined in core-sys.mkiv, but I can't figure out from there
what they actually do.


(Untested, based on what I remember):

\start = \bgroup
\stop  = \egroup

but \start scans the next argument, so there are situations when 
\start may fail but \bgroup works.


\start[whatever] ... \stop = \startwhatever ... \stopwhatever


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[NTG-context] What do \start and \stop mean?

2013-09-30 Thread Lars Huttar 
I found \start and \stop referenced in the context reference manual
(e.g. section 5.5).
While \startXYZ - \stopXYZ pairs are discussed earlier, I can't find any
place that \start and \stop (with no suffix) are described.
They seem to be used like \bgroup and \egroup. Is that right?
They are defined in core-sys.mkiv, but I can't figure out from there
what they actually do.

I'll contribute documentation for them if someone can tell me what they
mean.

Thanks,
Lars


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Re: [NTG-context] Find all words set into the margin

2013-09-30 Thread john Culleton 
On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:52:52 +0100
"H. Özoguz"  wrote:

> I use
> 
> \definefontfeature[default][default][expansion=quality,protrusion=quality]
> 
> \setupalign[hz,hanging]
> 
> \usetypescript[times]
> 
> \setupbodyfont[times,11pt]
> 
> 
> \setuptolerance[verystrict]
> 
> 
> Is there a command or a macro to find all occurences in a file (or 
> projekt), where some word is printed into the margin? (Maybe because
> of bad hyphenation or something else.) - Would be perfect for manual 
> check-up and corrections!
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> Huseyin
> 
> 
You could try setting \overfullrule=5pt
This is an original TeX primitive. Plain TeX sets it at 5pt. You can
then scan pages looking for a black rectangle in the right margin. I
cannot determine which code to search for in e.g., grep but perhaps you
can. 

I just tested it and \overfillrule  works with MKIV context if it is
set for some value other than zero. 


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Re: [NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-09-30 Thread Lars Huttar 
On 9/29/2013 1:05 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:
> Some thoughts:
>
>   1.1.1
>   Unfortunately there’s no really easy way to install ConTEXt on Windows.
>
> I never installed ConTeXt on Windows, but if this is true this
> should definitely be fixed. According to
>
>   http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone#Command_line_method
> ...

For my part ... I recently installed TeXLive 2012 and 2013 on Windows 7,
and it was easy.

I told it to install only the ConTeXt scheme, instead of installing
everything.
Also I had to configure the TeXWorks editor options to use ConTeXt
(LuaTeX) by default instead of pdfLaTeX.
But other than that, unless I'm forgetting something, it worked fine,
out-of-the-box.

Lars

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[NTG-context] ConTeXt Meetings come and go

2013-09-30 Thread Taco Hoekwater 

Hi all,

We just finished the ConTeXt meeting in Brejlov. Once again,
it was a great pleasure to meet in person. A big "thank you!"
to Jano Kula is in order for organizing yet another flawless
meeting!



Now looking forward; at the annual members meeting of the ConTeXt Group
in Brejlov, the location for the next meeting (the eight one already)
was decided, we will go back to the same place we were at in 2011.

't Sjetootje in Bassenge-Boirs, Belgium.

Good food, nice beers, a quirky location and a very friendly host
should make for a perfect return visit in 2014!

Registration is not open yet as I have to figure out the correct pricing
levels first and that will take a few months, but the date is firmly
set already:

  Monday evening September 8 -- Saturday morning September 13, 2014

More news will be posted once it becomes available.

Best wishes,
Taco

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Re: [NTG-context] fake feature “extend” behaving weirdly

2013-09-30 Thread Philipp Gesang 
·

> On 9/29/2013 11:55 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> > Hi Hans,
> >
> > this got posted on the DANTE list today.
> >
> >\definefontfeature [quite_wide] [extend=1.5]
> >\definefont [mainfont] [file:Iwona-Regular.otf]
> >\definefont [widefont] [file:Iwona-Regular.otf*quite_wide]
> >
> >\starttext
> >  \mainfont
> >  {\widefont foo} %% comment this line and “bar” is fine
> >  bar
> >  {\widefont baz}
> >\stoptext
> >
> > The example defines two fonts with the same base font. If the
> > scaled variant is used before the regular one then the latter
> > will appear scaled as well and the spacing (bboxes?) gets messed
> > up.
> >
> > I suspect a relation to this old issue:
> >
> >http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=829
> >
> > but if I substitute “slant” for “extend” the behavior is
> > different.
> 
> indeed a known bug in the backend that will be resolved once that part 
> of the code has been cleaned up (extend etc is a seldom used hack so has 
> a low priority)

Ah, so it’s the same bug. Thanks for clarifying!

Philipp



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Re: [NTG-context] Wrong spacing using stretch effect

2013-09-30 Thread Hans Hagen 

On 9/25/2013 12:32 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:

Hi,

the stretch effect does not take the final width of the string into
account. Is this a bug or a limitation? Example:

\starttext
   (\effect[stretch]{fftabc})\par  %% “c” collides with “)”
   (\kerncharacters[.05]fftabc)%% no collision
\stoptext


these are unrelated mechanisms where the first one just does some pdf 
magic ... no feedback to tex about widths (ok, i could write something 
better but never had and still don't have a reason for that kind of low 
level pdf based approach to be really deeply integrated)


a better test is this:

  (\effect[stretch]{\dorecurse{50}{x}})\par  %% “c” collides with “)”


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Re: [NTG-context] fake feature “extend” behaving weirdly

2013-09-30 Thread Hans Hagen 

On 9/29/2013 11:55 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote:

Hi Hans,

this got posted on the DANTE list today.

   \definefontfeature [quite_wide] [extend=1.5]
   \definefont [mainfont] [file:Iwona-Regular.otf]
   \definefont [widefont] [file:Iwona-Regular.otf*quite_wide]

   \starttext
 \mainfont
 {\widefont foo} %% comment this line and “bar” is fine
 bar
 {\widefont baz}
   \stoptext

The example defines two fonts with the same base font. If the
scaled variant is used before the regular one then the latter
will appear scaled as well and the spacing (bboxes?) gets messed
up.

I suspect a relation to this old issue:

   http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=829

but if I substitute “slant” for “extend” the behavior is
different.


indeed a known bug in the backend that will be resolved once that part 
of the code has been cleaned up (extend etc is a seldom used hack so has 
a low priority)


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Re: [NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-09-30 Thread Keith J. Schultz 
Hi Mari,

As some already mentioned "In"  is not correct either use 
 or "On"!

In section 1.1.1 the last sentence is:
TeXLive comes with a quite nice editor, TeXShop, that works well with 
ConTEXt 

   1) Missing period
   2) TeXShop is Mac only. You probably meant to to say TeXWorks!
  TeXWorks is based on TeXShop. I do not know if it runs on Windows.

In section 1.1.2 in the last sentence you write:
 […] and (abt 40 euros; a non-commercial licence is cheaper) […]

1) I do not get this? Where do you buy it? Never new you could buy it!
2) On can install the ConTeXt Standalone and download TeXShop,
   very little effort is needed to direct TeXShop to the standalone
   version. Switching between TeXLive and Standalone is then easy.
3) I could write up a tutorial for installing and TeXlive and Standalone 
   if you care for one. 

Furthermore, Mac OS is a Unix system, though most do not realize this.
Also, It might be best to point to the wiki for installing ConTeXt.

In section 2.2 you talk about command, yet you forget to mention that commands
can have a "setup"-command. I believe it is important to mention this as
it is a integral part of ConTeXt and very important when using it as you example
commands show. 

In general I would say your general way of going about things are O.K.
Yet, I have one problem.  I personally believe you should go into more
detail about the relationship between typesetting, layout and ConTeXt.
It depends if you are writing a getting started manual or want to write
a comprehensive tutorial. 

I myself started on a tutorial as I find the contextref not comprehensive
enough and it really does not go into the caveats and use of all the options
of the commands therein. My idea was to divide the section into basics and
explanation of the options and advanced usage. 

Hope this helps.

Keep up the good work.

reagrds
Keith. 

Am 29.09.2013 um 17:22 schrieb Mari Voipio :

> Hello!
> 
> Inspired by some informal discussions at the recent ConTeXt meeting I
> started to write a *really* basic ConTeXt tutorial. However, before I
> get further than the first six chapters, I'd like to get feedback on
> it, especially on the content, but also on the layout. The file is (at
> least temporarily) available at
> .
> 
> I know already that there are a few things missing in the existing
> chapters, but I'd like to know if the document is any good and if the
> style is suitable for such a document. I've planned and written it out
> of my own experiences with ConTeXt, so maybe this document could
> become a My Way doc when it is finished (something public domain
> anyway).

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