In addition Hrabans note
When using tikz, don't use filenames with spaces.
not: picture test.tex, better: picture-test.tex
Building may work, so possibly not your error, but some text about pgf may
appear in
the PDF and empty files (here eg pictures) maybe created.
bye, Martin
On Wed
sorry for the slow reply, a cold knocked me out.
Thanks Henri for pointing to a solution you already offered on stackexchange! I
will save
it as a good universal solution.
Thanks to Kitz, for the very specific solution. This is what I am using at the
moment.
This might help.
> https://tex.stac
Hi all, I am writing some maths exercises that include simplifying fractions.
For that
reason I would like to cross out some numbers. Unfortunately overstrike doesn't
do the
trick, eg with a 4 the overstrike is practically invisible.
Is there any way to get a diagonal stroke like the latex modul
Thanks for that Henri. I didn't expect a simple thing like that. As I had some
similar
"glitches" before, I'll have a look through the module.
All the best, Martin
On Tue, 2019-10-01 at 14:03 +1300, Henri Menke wrote:
> Circuitikz uses \textbf inside, which is a LaTeX macro. Unfortunately, this
Hello ...
I am drawing some simple circuits for an electro-physics class I am teaching
using
circuitikz. Using meters gives some effects I don't quite understand.
The MWE works as shown. The commented lines fail with "Undefined control
sequence". If I
put the same 3 lines into Latex (via Texstu
Hi Hraban,
I can't answer your question counter or \define.
However in my specific situation I would not use the number as a counter but
just as a value. Actually my situation is an exam in which the total points are
44. From these I want to calculate percentages. And, as I find it easier to
Thanks for the quick answers. Both suggestions work for me.
@Massi Thanks for the pointer into the cld-mkiv.pdf
@Wolfgang: I have to admit that I don't completely comprehend your solution,
though it
works. Searching around for the commands you use, I came across an older
posting you
answered
Hi, I am trying to pass variables/data between context and lua. Lua would be
used for
calculations on data coming from context.
Unfortunately I can't figure out what to do. The code below doesn't work, but
is there to
illustrate my idea.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Martin
\d
Hi ... I am outputting some numbers in maths mode that have a comma as decimal
separator.
I get a big space after the comma, which I can prevent by writing $1{,}5$
Is there a less awkward way of getting the comma as a "real" decimal separator?
Thanks, Martin
\starttext
$1,5$
\math{1,5}
$1{,
On Wed, 2019-09-11 at 08:42 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 9/11/2019 4:15 AM, Martin Althoff wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > the \date is output wrong. Whatever value is given for d= I get the 11th.
> > That is todays
> > date. Not sure what would happen tom
Hi all,
the \date is output wrong. Whatever value is given for d= I get the 11th. That
is todays
date. Not sure what would happen tomorrow
Thanks for any fix suggestions.
\starttext
\date[d=16,m=9,y=2019][weekday, day,{. }, month, year]
\stoptext
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Thanks for all the replies.
@Ulrike: You are right, this example you give works for me too. Me experiencing
it not
working must have come out of some strange constellation.
@Aditya: Yes, it does. But {} are needed:
\tikzstyle{label}=[font={\switchtobodyfont[20pt] \red}]
@Hagen: Yes, most exa
Hi Hans, thanks for this. Yes, that works.
Am I right to assume that Context does not have a full tikz engine in the
background due
to the module implementation? For example, the \coordinate command is unknown
as well.
Is there any way to integrate a standalone tikz into context documents? Sor
Hello all, I am trying to set the fontsize in a tikz image and that is failing.
Strangely
at the \node line with : ! Undefined control sequence.
As the MWE stands now, it will fail. The now commented line works.
main context file:
/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/conte
Thanks for sharing this! Great help for me as a teacher :)
On Sun, 2019-06-23 at 19:06 +0100, Jorge Manuel wrote:
> After some attempts to build crosswords puzzles with context, I found this
> approach:
>
>
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If
\bTD
\rotate[rotation=90,location=depth]{\framed[frame=on,align={lohi,middle},width=\dimexpr(\o
verlaywidth-05pt),width=48mm,height=29mm]{3. even more huge text, wondering
where the
rabbit runs)}} \eTD
\eTR
\eTABLE
On Wed, 2019-06-12 at 22:23 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Martin Althoff
mechanism places the object independent of the align=
statement. For
that reason some other handling might be needed. I just don't know which :)
Martin
On Wed, 2019-06-12 at 14:31 +0200, Willi Egger wrote:
> Martin, did you try to add [align=lohi]?
>
> Willi
>
> >
I am trying to align rotated text horizontally and vertically in a table cell.
Vertically
is no problem, horizontally it fails. Non-rotated text is, of course, fine.
What can I do to fix the problem? Thanks for suggestions.
Martin
using: mtx-context | current version: 2019.05.18 10:42
PDF o
I am trying to place some lines in "Z" shape over several cells of a
table. This single "Z" has the intention of blocking manual alterations
to the table in empty cells. The cells to blocked are always a coherent
rectangle. I hope that makes sense.
In the example below, the table with 4 rows,
Apologies if this is a double posting. But my first mail never appeared on the
list.
Hello, I am trying to vertically align images within a bTABLE/Natural Table
cell.
The result should be 4 cards on an A4 page with a simple maths exercise and a
small image that illustrates the exercise. The im
Hello, I am trying to vertically align images within a bTABLE/Natural Table
cell.
The result should be 4 cards on an A4 page with a simple maths exercise and a
small image that illustrates the exercise. The image should be horizontally and
vertically centered within the space after the text. Ex
OK, was using: 2012.07.21 16:50 MKIV.
Ran an update (now 2012.07.27 16:41 MKIV). Problem was in another place though
(working on several docs at the moment).
A module had the line:
\setupfootnotes[textcolor=black]
Then adding this what you gave at a later point:
\setupinteraction
[state=sta
I just realized my mail was marked as spam..., not sure what impact that has.
Might be worth mentioning the Context version:
ConTeXt ver: 2012.07.21 16:50 MKIV fmt: 2012.7.21
Looking through the generated PDF the placement of other interpunctuation is
also off and the text is running rather "
Hi Marco,
Thanks for that. Though it seems that is only part of the situation. With the
definition, as you give it, the footnote numbers at the bottom of the page turn
green, but the ones in the text remain black. I deleted all generated files
just to be sure.
Martin
>> The footnote numbers t
> \dontleavehmode{\bf ...} ...
>
> or
>
> \bold{...} ...
Thanks Wolfgang,
\bold{...} ... doesn't work, \dontleavehmode{\bf ...} does work.
Could you, or someone, give me an idea what is going on? Is something broken in
the background? Am I using outdated (not current MKIV) syntax by just us
In the example below (just updated minimals too) the \bf in the second
paragraph prevents the text flowing around the picture, the text runs over the
picture. Take \bf out and all is fine. If I use an \input statement instead of
the lorem text the effect does not show. The image name is delibera
> Use natural tables, they provide better control about the
> cell size and
> layout.
Wolfgang, thanks! I wasn't aware of them. They don't seem to have found their
way into contextref.pdf
I could do what I want and more! Below is the solution for my situation.
Gleened from http://wiki.context
> As far as I know, this should be written as
>
> \DC \DL[3] \DR
OK, maybe syntactically better -- actually changes the appearance too. Now the
the columns that I do not want with lines have them and vice versa. Kind of the
negative of what I need.
The use of DC DL DR kind of eludes me.
Ho
I am having trouble working out a solution for spanning some rows of tables.
The instructions at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Table got me so far as the
example shows.
The example is a timetable excerpt. So I want horizontal lines everywhere,
except on Mo, Di, Mi (Monday Tuesday Wednesday) wh
Khaled,
a while ago I was getting strange results: wanted to use roman font got bold
italic, etc. Font listing roman name and italic filename, all with several
fonts.
I just deleted the font cache folder Did the trick for the time being.
./tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/
> Dunno the
I've been been OpenSolaris user, but mainly as a big "data pot". Attempts with
Minimals were cut short, because my OpenSolaris install had issues with
updates. Seeing the news... No so sure if my need will be there.
Mac serves me fine for the time being.
Martin
> ... is there still any interes
> and it doesn't work. The title and subject parts never get
> into the generated TOC. Any idea why? Thanks very much!
Not sure, seems to work for me. Though I do get two TOCs, one for front matter,
one for body matter -- the limit of my knowledge is reached here.
Are you all current and update
> For the moment, at least. Lettrine could be made smarter in
> mkiv,
Good to know
> but I have no time.
I know that feeling! Not a big problem for me, I mean the errors. Good thing
needs good time (Gut Ding braucht gut Weile.)
Take care, Martin
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> Both are attempting to do something special with the
> paragraph
> shape, and the interaction is causing trouble.
Taco, thanks. Does that mean I have either live with it or forget about left
alignment?
Martin
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There appears to be some kind of clash between the lettrine module and setting
up \setupalign[right] when used together: on a 200 page text every line has
Overfull \hbox errors.
As a (stupid?) side question: why is text, that aligns on the left edge of an
odd-numbered page called "right" align
I am having a couple of small problems with the interaction. In principle it's
working, but...
1. The TOC is added to the bookmarks, which is fine, but with a lower-case "c",
ie. "content"
2. From http://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDF_Bookmarks_and_Headers I figured out
how to get rid of the \crlf
> Basically I need a few
> unnumbered entries at the top of the table (like abstract,
> acknowledgements, etc)
Rio,
I handle this through using the unnumbered sectioning (\title, \subject..) and
then a
\definecombinedlist [content][title,chapter]
Essentially you add "title" to the already pr
Does the job, thanks to Hans an Hraban!
Now, I'll have a look at putting that into the wiki.
Martin
> there you go
>
> \definenote [onenote] [location=page,way=bychapter]
> \definenote [twonote] [location=text,way=bychapter]
>
> \starttext
>
> \chapter{First}
>
> \section {Alpha} test \onenote{alp
Marcus,
> After \blank I always need an
> \indenting[no].
>
> How do I set up this general behaviour?
Not sure if I read your question correctly.
a. to disable indenting completely (which is default)
\setupindenting[no]
b. disabling in front of particular paragraphs seems to be a bit sensit
Hraban, Thanks.
I will have a play with that -- I am always getting lost in the various sets of
syntax rules (mk's, etc)...
You are right, the new MKIV syntax hints at possibilities. Is any documentation
other than the footnote page on the wiki and a few recent posts? Do I really
have to dig t
Wolfgang, thanks for the input. Got me a bit further.
> You should also use ConTeXt’s own commands \indentation
> and \noindentation.
OK, had taken them to be equivalent reading the manual. But I see the context
commands do what I want...
> \input{...} is LaTeX style, to read files with spaces
Just curious about the intented behaviour of \noindent.
If I place it as shown in the example, the next paragraph will still be
indented. However, if the blank line between \noindent and the following text
is deleted or contains a comment, the following text will not be indented. Is
this place
Hi all, I'm trying to do a (re-)layout for an older book which holds a few
challenges for me. Hopefully I can find some help here.
In this book I need to track 2 kinds of footnotes, sidenotes and the original
page numbering (I don't replicate the old text flow but put comments where
pages origi
>
> No way that i'm going back to messy encodings for
> patterns.
>
> Hans
I not worried and not pushing for a quick-fix (I went back to a previous
edition (my fav zip-of-minimals-method)) and am happy to hold off with updates
until there is a proper solution...
cheerful Martin
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Luigi,
check out Mojca's reply to my : "minimals update issues"
Martin
--- On Tue, 3/8/10, luigi scarso wrote:
> From: luigi scarso
> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Minimals on windows 32 bit fails ?
> To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users"
> Date: Tuesday, 3 August, 2010, 4:25 PM
> On Tue, Aug 3,
> > \usetypescriptfile has changed. Earlier it used to
> load file.tex, but now it loads file.mkiv and therefore,
> none of the typescripts from the typescript module work. A
> short-term work around is to add
Ok, so a more fundamental problem.
Both suggestions you made, work for me:
%workaroun
Thanks Luigi, I note that down. But it didn't do the trick to solve the
problem. Guess it is as Aditya said: there is a problem in principle at this
point in time.
Best, Martin
> luatools --generate
> mtxrun --script fonts --reload
> context --make
>
_
> There is a typo in the last line of type-charissil.tex:
> Change
>
> \loadmarkfile{charissil}
>
> to
>
> \loadmarkfile{type-charissil}
>
> Aditya
>
Aditya, thanks for that -- hope that typo gets fixed in the sources.
Unfortunately that did not fix the problem. Despite runs of
mtxrun --s
Just ran ./first-setup.sh (yesterday it ran fine, now=5:20AM GMT 3.Aug) and it
ends very ungracefully:
A section from some the first (of more) failure. Am I doing something wrong?
MTXrun | run: texexec --make --all --fast --pdftex cont-nl cont-enTeXExec |
using search method 'kpsewhich'
TeX
Using the typescript for CharisSIL as given doesn't work for me. "Modern" is
substituted (as should be). It appears to load the mkiv file, but not the
fonts, What am I doing wrong? Example below.
(on Mac: MTXrun | current version: 2010.07.30 11:35, LuaTeX, Version
beta-0.61.0-2010072816)
-- I
> It has to do with the backend resolving fontnames and
> expansions factors
> and so ... first I need to hear from Hartmut what he thinks
> of it.
No stress :) I'll wait silently -- just wanted to submit, what I thought to be,
useful info.
cheers, Martin
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> Could as well be a luatex backend problem so I have to
> discuss it with Taco and Hartmut.
>
> Hans
>
Hi Hans,
Thanks for looking into this further. I have tried to drill down the effect
being switchable through \setupfootertexts here are my results.
In the example below, I get (with the s
I hate to pick up on this again, but...
The basic Palatino, together with protrusion and small caps is causing issues.
Essentially horizontal placing of the characters fails (see previous PDF).
In the example below, I can reliably cause the effect by commenting out (or
not) the line with the \
As I am working in China at the moment, rsync only works sporadically (super
slow, possibly not at all for a couple of days, then at high speed for a day or
two), kind of soft blocked. Having clobbered my installation of minimals (and
other things) because of it,
Not a solution, but a crutch:
> While \MODULA\ taught me to structure, \TEX\ taught me to think recursive.
I would certainly go along with the "teaching structure" part for Modula!
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> indeed. in that case it's mostly the cpu caches that
> matter
Ah... Time to save some money for new hardware
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If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the
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Hans, thanks for the detailed answer! My understanding is slowly advancing :D
> in principle we could do without, but this helps
> predefining a couple of things that otherwise would slow
> down each font switch
This confirms my (vague) assumption that deep in the internals it helps
structure t
> cjk fonts are huge ... are you using a slow machine with
> not that much memory?
Hi Hans, well, slow is kind of right: MacBook 2GHz Core Duo (first series of
MacBooks), but 2GB of RAM is something I would think to be ok. For the Chinese
example I see:
mkiv lua stats : current memory usage
> Fonts are sometimes special and when ypu load a font it's
> setting (e.g. ligatures, protrusion etc.) are frozen. To change the
> settings you need \definefontfeature before \setupbodyfont,
OK, got it. Makes sense!
Could this also be extended to \switchtobodyfont, in case I am using more then
> Can you show me a example where simplefonts is so slow.
Sure, here goes.
I should say, most of my documents are 1-5 pages and build time is usually
under 5 seconds (2nd and higher runs).
One (relatively) slow use of simplefonts is the Chinese example (1) below. The
way I pasted it, it runs
As someone new to Context, I am trying to get to grips with font handling.
Reading through a fair amount of documentation it is not always to clear to me
what recommended practice in todays Luatex/MKIV enviroment is.
My setup is "Minimals" updated 26.7.2010 (luatex 0.60.2, MTXrun 2010.07.22)
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