[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 wo

[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 cu

[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 it in

[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: "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: 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: 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 bracket

[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 "n

[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: 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, latinmodern-math.

[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 that

[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-

[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: 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: 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 l

[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 p

[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 /usr/local/context/tex/texmf-

[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: 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 fr

[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? BTW,

[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 h

[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] 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 a

[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: 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. Any

[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? (I

[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] 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: 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 s

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

: 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 h

[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 runni

[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] 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: 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 and

[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: 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 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] 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 escape=y

[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: /home/rmason/Software/Conte

[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 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 downl

[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: ~/cont

[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 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 | resolvin

[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 u

[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 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 th

[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 on

[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 in

[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 \showsym

[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] 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: 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: \setup

[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: 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, usi

[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: \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}, it={styl

[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? Look

[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 m

[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 Hi

[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 confir

[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 inks

[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 con

[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: Headertext

Am 26.03.24 um 17:12 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: begin example \showframe \definetext   [chapterheader] % identifier   [header]    % vertical position (header/footer) % [text]  % horizontal position (text/margin)   [This is a custom header for \tex{chapter}] % content \setuph

[NTG-context] Re: How to get an image to fill the maximum available space?

Am 30.03.24 um 03:15 schrieb Joel via ntg-context: I have code like this:     \placefigure[here, force]{my caption}{%         \externalfigure[#1][frame=on, maxheight=1.2\textwidth, maxwidth=\textwidth]%     }% I need some images to appear in a book. I need them to keep their proper ratios

[NTG-context] context editor support / syntax highlighting for Pulsar

Hi Hans (et al.), find attached a slightly extended version of the "interface" script that can also generate the list of commands in cson format for Pulsar/Atom. It just creates a basic list of commands for syntax highlighting; for a complete plugin, "grammars" and "settings" are missing, see

[NTG-context] OT: San Seriffe

in honour of Knuth and the current occasion: https://realdougwilson.com/writing/san-serriffe Hraban ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg

[NTG-context] Re: OT: San Seriffe

Am 01.04.24 um 16:34 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: On 4/1/2024 3:56 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: in honour of Knuth and the current occasion: https://realdougwilson.com/writing/san-serriffe the subject title suggest that you found an open type version Well, I found one, but it‘s not

[NTG-context] what about "textdisplay"?

A while ago, I was pointed (by Wolfgang or Hans, I guess) to \start/stoptextdisplay to enhance whitespace handling around images. I wanted to document it, but can’t find it in the sources: $ context --find=textdisplay mtx-context | …/tex/texmf-context/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/on

[NTG-context] Re: what about "textdisplay"?

Am 01.04.24 um 18:21 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 01.04.2024 um 17:19: A while ago, I was pointed (by Wolfgang or Hans, I guess) to \start/stoptextdisplay to enhance whitespace handling around images. My guess is Mikael because I saw the command the first time in

[NTG-context] Re: what about "textdisplay"?

Am 01.04.24 um 18:54 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 01.04.2024 um 18:29: Am 01.04.24 um 18:21 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 01.04.2024 um 17:19: A while ago, I was pointed (by Wolfgang or Hans, I guess) to \start/stoptextdisplay to

[NTG-context] international type design

Have a look at these beautiful font designs: https://esadtype.esad-amiens.fr/ Unfortunately the fonts are not available (yet). Take your time to browse the papers about intention, design process etc. I just browsed the dissertation about the (Vietnamese) "Dilinh" font and found the consideratio

[NTG-context] statistical charts module re-published

Hi, since the Akela server at Mendel University is down since a while, I got no response from Tomáš, and it would be a pity to lose this module, I re-published the statistical charts module at https://codeberg.org/fiee/context-statistical-charts I’ll also put it on modules.contextgarden.net T

[NTG-context] Re: incosistent output of --- dash

Am 06.04.24 um 11:43 schrieb madiazm.eo...@gmail.com: Hi everyone, I'm a bit puzzled because I usually don't get an em-dash when I type tree hyphens. If I use the command \emdash, no problem but when I use the hyphens some days it works... and somedays I see three small hyphens. I tried it on o

[NTG-context] Re: blank line and \placefigure

Am 06.04.24 um 12:48 schrieb Thomas Meyer: how can I suppress a blank line between a text paragraph and \placefigure? I get one there, but I don't want it. Did you try \setupfloat[figure][spacebefore=,] ? or "none" or "{disable,nowhite,back}" https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupfloat h

[NTG-context] PDF/UA-2, WTPDF

Quoting a post by Philipp Kiff, https://mastodon.social/@pkiff/11221949350928: In amongst the release of PDF/UA-2 (PDF for Universal Accessibility) and the new Well-Tagged PDF (WTPDF) standard last month, some PDF professionals may have missed two other new resources that may help explai

[NTG-context] Re: PDF/UA-2, WTPDF

Am 07.04.24 um 08:06 schrieb Hans Hagen: On 4/6/2024 5:34 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: 1. PDF/UA-2 https://pdfa.org/iso-14289-2-pdfua-2/ looks likes one has to pay for it Oh, as usual with PDF association… That’s not how you promote open standards. (Didn’t check, jost forwarded the

[NTG-context] regular online meet-up

You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, April 10th, 19:00 CEST (UTC+2) 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? Loo

[NTG-context] Re: PDF/UA-2, WTPDF

Am 07.04.24 um 11:17 schrieb Ulrike Fischer: Am Sun, 7 Apr 2024 09:31:30 +0200 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Am 07.04.24 um 08:06 schrieb Hans Hagen: On 4/6/2024 5:34 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: 1. PDF/UA-2 https://pdfa.org/iso-14289-2-pdfua-2/ looks likes one has to pay for it Oh, as

[NTG-context] Re: how to apply gradient color to a piece of text?

Am 07.04.24 um 15:51 schrieb Keith McKay: Have a look at the posts starting on the 2 March 2021 with the subject heading "Shaded Large Letters in LMTX". Hans gave a great solution. Neither for the example in https://mailman.ntg.nl/archives/list/ntg-context@ntg.nl/message/SNL5YJ3NKZNFYAPG3MCZXA2

[NTG-context] Re: Fwd: Re: how to apply gradient color to a piece of text?

Am 07.04.24 um 19:05 schrieb Hans Hagen: \startMPpage     picture tt ; tt := lmt_outline [     kind = "fillup",     text = "\definedfont[name:texgyrepagellabold*default]foo f o o",     ] xsized 12cm ;     path bb ; bb := boundingbox tt ;     path pp ; pp := bb enlarged 2cm ;    

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

reminder: this is tonight (in European perception). Am 07.04.24 um 09:37 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, April 10th, 19:00 CEST (UTC+2) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu

[NTG-context] Re: Figure reference failing

Am 10.04.24 um 14:21 schrieb Hans Hagen: It fails for me as well, when "mode=columns" is used. compare with and without mode columns: \starttext     \enablemode[columns]     As we see \doifelsemode {columns} {in \in {table} [demo-1]} {below} we can have     more than one cell in a row.

[NTG-context] Re: Most recent context doesn't like synctex?

Am 13.04.24 um 22:28 schrieb Mikael Sundqvist: What will work will depend on the viewers. We noticed a few weeks ago that synctex (pdf -> editor) was not working in a few viewers (okular) while it was working in others. Could you please tell us which combinations of viewers and editors you ch

[NTG-context] Re: Wiki - question about Command/ pages which start with a space character

Am 14.04.24 um 14:46 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: garu...@azules.eu schrieb am 14.04.2024 um 12:41: Hi all, Is it on purpose that 128 pages "https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/ " start with a space character ? I didn't find an explanation in https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command

[NTG-context] Re: Wiki - test/proposal to further clarify documentation

Hi Garulfo, I’m not against the “new order”, but I’d keep the colorful subject tiles. Different accesses are good IMO (as long as it doesn’t get to convoluted). I’d say updating, sorting, restructuring pages is more important than a new start page. Yes, please sort out reference vs. tutori

[NTG-context] Re: Is TIFF image no longer supported?

Am 14.04.24 um 22:25 schrieb Denis Maier via ntg-context: Thomas A. Schmitz > hat am 14.04.2024 22:18 CEST geschrieben: On 4/14/24 22:11, Joel via ntg-context wrote: I have a document with PNG, JPG, and TIFF. When I try using \externalfigure[filename][frame=on

[NTG-context] Re: Most recent context doesn't like synctex?

I made it work with Pulsar and the pdfjs-viewer plugin: The sourcecode of the plugin is broken but easily fixable: https://github.com/allefeld/atom-pdfjs-viewer/issues/15 Then pdf->tex works with synctex from TeX live, "--synctex=repeat" and a right click in the viewer. Sigh, should I learn

[NTG-context] Re: Wiki - test/proposal to further clarify documentation

Am 14.04.24 um 21:45 schrieb Peter Hopcroft via ntg-context: It would be great if the main page actually said what Context does. In my poster (still WIP) I wrote: start --- The “infamous” alternative to LaTeX While most designers use graphical tools, there are still areas where code-based t

[NTG-context] Re: Wiki - test/proposal to further clarify documentation

Am 17.04.24 um 10:36 schrieb Hans Hagen: On 4/17/2024 8:32 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On 16. Apr 2024, at 21:56, Peter Hopcroft via ntg-context wrote: On 17/04/2024, at 7:11 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: In my poster (still WIP) I wrote: … Excellent No, I must admit I don’t

[NTG-context] Re: Wiki - test/proposal to further clarify documentation

Am 17.04.24 um 13:57 schrieb Bruce Horrocks: - There are at least two books, and a third being written but not yet released: these fit into the Tutorials and Explanation quadrants. Which published books do you mean? I know of Alan Braslau’s book, AFAIK that will be published in French “soon”

[NTG-context] Re: How to isolate serious errors from warnings?

Am 18.04.24 um 02:09 schrieb Joel via ntg-context: I'm about to have a lengthy (2,000+ page) document published. Normally if it compiles and looks okay, I regard that as meaning no errors appeared, but I've noticed that sometimes ConTeXt will still compile, even if something isn't displayed on

[NTG-context] Re: Wiki - test/proposal to further clarify documentation

Am 17.04.24 um 23:25 schrieb Garulfo: - exactly, it's not a question of proposing new documents, but of proposing another complementary way of accessing and browsing existing ones. - Actually, the wiki is (or can be) a hub for the 4 needs:   - "Reference" like https://wiki.contextgarden.net/C

[NTG-context] [off topic] non-English programming languages: Arab and Cuneiform

Came across this, I guess some of you might find it interesting: https://nas.sr/%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8/ https://github.com/MrLogarithm/emeszida ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry

[NTG-context] documentation: parameters of \setuplist

I tried to complete https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setuplist, but I don’t understand all parameters. Can anyone explain these please: * state (start stop): what does this en-/disable? collecting entries? * label (yes no none Name): language dependent labels? as a prefix or what? * locat

[NTG-context] Re: documentation: parameters of \setuplist

Am 22.04.24 um 18:30 schrieb Duncan Hothersall: Hi Hraban, I can help with one - aligntitle means an unnumbered section will align in the table of contents under the number rather than the title. So for example if you have a TOC combining \section and \subject entries, they would look like th

[NTG-context] Re: documentation: parameters of \setuplist

Am 22.04.24 um 18:09 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: I tried to complete https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setuplist, but I don’t understand all parameters. Can anyone explain these please: * state (start stop): what does this en-/disable? collecting entries? * label (yes no none Name

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