Re: [NTG-context] Bug in searching TTC fonts for the script of mtxrun

2023-03-23 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 08:50:10 +0100 Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > I might have missed a link. https://github.com/notofonts/notofonts.github.io -- Alan ___ If your question is of interest to others as well,

Re: [NTG-context] Absolute positioning of \startcombination... \stopcombination

2023-03-16 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 18:27:53 +0100 Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context wrote: > Keith McKay via ntg-context schrieb am 16.03.2023 um 17:59: > > > > Hi, > > > > I would like to position a combination of images where the centre > > of the combination coincides with the centre of the text area of a >

Re: [NTG-context] \unit parser ignoring case, in some cases.

2023-03-14 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 12:03:23 -0600 Gavin wrote: > I’d really like one of the acceptable forms to be the form prescribed > by Le Système international d'unités I believe that this point is essential, regardless of history of use of the \unit{} command. Non-standard use of units can be

Re: [NTG-context] \unit parser ignoring case, in some cases.

2023-03-14 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:36:37 +0100 Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > > Indeed, I would like to make NONE of them case insensitive. But > > currently, when I register an upper case key (C=coulomb) it messes > > up the lower case prefix (“cm" gets typeset as C•m). I was > > expecting the parser

Re: [NTG-context] \unit parser ignoring case, in some cases.

2023-03-13 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:55:50 -0600 Gavin via ntg-context wrote: > > you can look at phys-dim and see plenty of short and long keys and > > making all case insensitive is asking for troubles > > Indeed, I would like to make NONE of them case insensitive. But > currently, when I register an

Re: [NTG-context] How to extend an existing macro to take optional parameters?

2023-03-13 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
Designating "optional" parameters within [...] is a LaTeX notion. ConTeXt handles parameters differently. Alan > > and I'd like to be able to extend it so that any of the following > > can be used: > > > >\mycommand{aa}{bb}{cc} > >\mycommand{aa}{bb}{cc}{dd} > >

Re: [NTG-context] Float control

2023-03-01 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 00:12:53 +0100 Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > On 2/28/2023 11:45 AM, Denis Maier via ntg-context wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I’ve recently had to typeset a document that gave me some headaches > > with the floats. The floats where jumping around, appearing in a > >

Re: [NTG-context] How to add data from another PDF in index?

2023-02-26 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
tandards > blah blah 1, WB: 1, 3-8 > > some more 2, WB: 8-9 > yet more WB: 10, 12 > > -- > Is this possible to merge index information like this? > --Joel -- Alan Braslau 816 West Mountain Avenue Fort Collins, CO 80521 USA mobile: (970) 237-0957 Con

Re: [NTG-context] How to add data from another PDF in index?

2023-02-24 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
; With the data in the Workbook it might look like this: > Standards > blah blah 1, WB: 1, 3-8 > > some more 2, WB: 8-9 > yet more WB: 10, 12 > > -- > Is this possible to merge index information like this? > --Joel -- Alan Braslau 816 West Mountain Avenue F

Re: [NTG-context] Lettrine module not working?!

2023-02-20 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 16:02:30 +0100 "G.C.H.M. Verhaag via ntg-context" wrote: > Hi, > > Yes Hraban it works outside in normal text flow. When I do e.g. > *{\InitialCapFont test in normal text flow}* the text '/test in > normal text flow/' is rendered correctly in the Antykwa-Poltawskiego >

Re: [NTG-context] Lettrine module not working?!

2023-02-19 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
In mkiv and mkxl, we use \placeinitial rather than the obsolete (mkii) lettrine module. See also \setupinitial. Alan On Sun, 19 Feb 2023 17:12:45 +0100 "G.C.H.M. Verhaag via ntg-context" wrote: > Dear ConTeXt-user, > > Have been using ConTeXt for quite some time now and did a fresh >

[NTG-context] setupregister/placeregister

2023-02-10 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
Hello, The criterium key in setupregister (so placeregister, placeindex, ...) takes the following values: criterium local text current previous all section all: places all entries of the document section: (part, chapter, section, ...) places entries associated with that structure element.

Re: [NTG-context] Wrong prefix in cross references to formulas in external document

2023-01-29 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
c and prefixspec == no) or > prefixdata.prefix == no then > +prefixdata = false > +end > +sections.typesetnumber(prefixdata,"prefix", > prefixspec or false, prefixdata) > + end > +-- > > sec

[NTG-context] bug $\vec{}$

2023-01-20 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
MWE: \starttext $\vec{k}$ \stoptext places the arrow *before* the symbol "k", latest download. Alan ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] Meta(post)/(fun) macro with label position

2023-01-19 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 22:40:13 +0100 Alexandre Christe via ntg-context wrote: > def labelT(expr pos)(text t) = > ... > enddef; vardef labelT@#(text t) = ... enddef ; Then you can pass on the "suffix" @# Alan ___

Re: [NTG-context] multimedia inclusion added to the wiki

2023-01-18 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Mon, 16 Jan 2023 19:00:06 +0100 Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote: > Dear list, > > just in case it might help, I have just added a new wiki article about > how to add multimedia in PDF documents. > > https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Multimedia_Inclusion > > I hope it helps, > > Pablo

Re: [NTG-context] Trouble with latest...

2023-01-10 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 19:08:54 -0700 Alan Braslau via ntg-context wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 18:40:08 +0100 > Alain Delmotte via ntg-context wrote: > > > Anytime a new upload is announced, I download the > > context-win64.zip unpack it and run install.bat and setpath.bat. &

Re: [NTG-context] Trouble with latest...

2023-01-09 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
might have worked by updating the binary with the unzip, even if it is not a "fresh" install. Alan -- Alan Braslau 816 West Mountain Avenue Fort Collins, CO 80521 USA mobile: (970) 237-0957 Conserve energy! ;-)

Re: [NTG-context] TUG 2023

2023-01-06 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 18:20:14 +0100 Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > The only meeting in my agende is the ctx meeting later that year, so > no plans. The seventeenth ConTEXt meeting will take place in Prague–Sibřina, Czech Republic on September 10th–16th, 2023 Anyone who has not been to

Re: [NTG-context] MP figure continuation

2023-01-06 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 15:43:07 +0100 Alexandre Christe via ntg-context wrote: > Dear list, > > Is there a way to "continue" an MP figure? Like keeping the axes, > etc. and just adding code to the figure? > > Maybe I missed something, otherwise I'd find it super useful. > > Thanks in advance and

Re: [NTG-context] Math bug (maybe) - prime

2022-12-28 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 08:26:24 +0100 Mikael Sundqvist via ntg-context wrote: > Note that the 2 sits higher in > > \primed{a}^2 > > than it does in > > (a')^2. > > For readability, I really prefer the version with parentheses. Certain Mathematical writing styles seek to minimize the use of

Re: [NTG-context] Math bug (maybe) - prime

2022-12-27 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:27:39 +0100 Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > What you can do is: > > $\primed{a}^2$ > > which basically makes the prime an operation .. a small price to pay > for more robust handling of primes (also across fonts) I anticipated that (unicode) prime is a pain to

[NTG-context] Math bug (maybe) - prime

2022-12-27 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
MWE: \starttext $a^2′$ $a′^2$ $\mathord{a′}^2$ $a^*^2$ \stoptext Should the \mathord{} be necessary to get the desired result? (I would expect the second line to work, just like $a^*^2$.) Alan ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] bottlenecks

2022-12-18 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 22:35:04 +0100 Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > > mkiv lua stats > runtime: 17.027 seconds, 578 processed pages, 578 > > shipped pages, 33.946 pages/second > > that's quite decent i guess I certainly don't complain! CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11700 @ 2.50GHz

Re: [NTG-context] Command line arguments on context project

2022-12-18 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:14:33 + Jethro Djan via ntg-context wrote: > 2. How do I get CoTeXt to recognise the ref.bib file when I run the > components not the product? > > For context, I don’t want the references printed at the end of each > chapter but I would like the in-text citation to

Re: [NTG-context] Structure: multi-volume products

2022-12-18 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 06:57:44 -0700 Alan Braslau via ntg-context wrote: > On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 09:08:47 + > wrote: > > > Last time I had to do something like this I've kept both books in > > one master file (actually one master file for part 1, one for part > &g

Re: [NTG-context] Change in \vec behavior

2022-12-18 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 19:37:17 +0100 Jean-Philippe Rey via ntg-context wrote: > What is the rationale for the change in \vec? Is there a way to get > the previous behavior back? I certainly hope that this is a bug (and not a "design choice"). Alan

Re: [NTG-context] bottlenecks

2022-12-17 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
With lots of MetaPost, lots of references, lots of figures, lots of tables, lots of bibliography entries, lots of chemical structures, ... mkiv lua stats > used config file: selfautoparent:/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua mkiv lua stats > used cache path:

Re: [NTG-context] Structure: multi-volume products

2022-12-16 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 22:31:59 +1300 Richard Mahoney | Indica et Buddhica wrote: > Alan, > > I'm attaching the two master files used for the following (also ran > cross refs between > each vol.): > > Murugaiyan, Appasamy & Parlier-Renault, Édith (2021) (Eds) Whispering > of Inscriptions: > South

Re: [NTG-context] Structure: multi-volume products

2022-12-16 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 13:59:20 + wrote: > What was his approach? Did he probably send it off-list? > It was sent on the list: To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Structure: multi-volume products Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 22:31:59 +1300 Alan

Re: [NTG-context] Structure: multi-volume products

2022-12-16 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
Thank you, This looks like a good solution! I will try it later, as soon as I can. Alan On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 22:31:59 +1300 Richard Mahoney | Indica et Buddhica wrote: > Alan, > > I'm attaching the two master files used for the following (also ran > cross refs between > each vol.): > >

Re: [NTG-context] Structure: multi-volume products

2022-12-16 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
. Thank you. This was my initial approach, although I know that ConTeXt can do better! I will look into the suggestion sent by Richard Mahoney, as it looks like a good solution to the problem. Alan -- Alan Braslau 816 West Mountain Avenue Fort Collins, CO 80521 USA mobile: (970) 237-0957 Con

[NTG-context] Structure: multi-volume products

2022-12-15 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
Hello, I have a book project that is being cut into two volumes (because it is too long and will be sold as a boxed set). Each volume is presently a separate *product* in the project structure. I presently set the counters in the second volume using: \setupheadnumber [part] [2]

Re: [NTG-context] new upload

2022-10-18 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On 18/10/2022 09:40, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote: A complete install has revealed the real cause of the slow download: the antivirus software (that works like crap). My antivirus software is called ... Unix ;-)

Re: [NTG-context] atan2 function

2022-10-14 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:09:41 -0700 Thangalin wrote: > Would making the conditional part of the API be useful to others? Of course, $\tan^{-1}(\pm 1)$ is undefined (mathematically). Alan ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] atan2 function

2022-10-14 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 11:59:49 -0700 Thangalin wrote: > I don't think an atantwo is needed. I *thought* I had read somewhere > that atan( y, x ) was equivalent to calling atan2 in Lua. Ensuring > there's no breakage when x == y would be nice, though. It was a little > surprising to see angle

Re: [NTG-context] issues with current latest

2022-10-14 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:33:12 -0600 Max Chernoff wrote: > Do you know how to rebuild the format? I've tried the following to no > avail: > > --script mtx-context I believe that you have to give the full script path here to mtxrun Alan

Re: [NTG-context] issues with current latest

2022-10-14 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 15:38:52 -0600 Max Chernoff via ntg-context wrote: $ context --luatex test.tex mtx-context | redirect luametatex -> luatex: luatex --luaonly "/opt/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/mtxrun.lua" --script mtx-context --luatex test.tex --redirected mtxrun |

Re: [NTG-context] (any) neovim users?

2022-10-14 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 18:59:24 - (UTC) Nicola via ntg-context wrote: > Yours is a valid concern, but maintaining (Neo)Vim plugins is > a community effort. I took over the development of the ConTeXt plugin > because I wanted to improve the support for ConTeXt in Vim, and at the > time the

Re: [NTG-context] (any) neovim users?

2022-10-14 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 18:59:24 - (UTC) Nicola via ntg-context wrote: > > I wonder why a lua error is reported? > > Sorry, I should have said that I am only *assuming* that what I wrote > may be the reason for the error. In fact, I have now tried to open > a file starting with %, and I get

Re: [NTG-context] (any) neovim users?

2022-10-14 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:48:42 - (UTC) Nicola via ntg-context wrote: > On 2022-10-14, Alan Braslau via ntg-context > wrote: > > A recent upgrade of the editor neovim leads to the following error > > when using % identification at the head of .tex source > > files.

[NTG-context] (any) neovim users?

2022-10-14 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
im/runtime/filetype.lua:12: in function Has anyone encountered this? (perhaps it has been fixed upstream?) Alan -- Alan Braslau 816 West Mountain Avenue Fort Collins, CO 80521 USA mobile: (970) 237-0957 Conse

Re: [NTG-context] atan2 function

2022-10-14 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 10:07:19 +0200 Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > So you suggest to add atantwo? As side note, you can redure your > definition to: > > vardef atantwo(expr dy, dx) = > if dx == 0 : > if dy < 0 : - fi pi / 2 > else : >

Re: [NTG-context] new upload

2022-10-14 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:14:01 +0200 Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote: > I have discovered that it includes in > tex/texmf-context/source/luametatex what should be the LMTX source > (about 11MB). > > I wonder whether this could be made optional. Internet speed is not > constant where I live

Re: [NTG-context] atan2 function

2022-10-14 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
Are you using MP in scaled integer or in doubleprecision mode? I have not looked into the MP angle operator code, but my suspicion is that it is based on some super-clever John Hobby scheme optimized for scaled integer calculations. Hans has integrated the entire math library (and more) into

Re: [NTG-context] Spacing in \unit - degrees

2022-10-13 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Wed, 12 Oct 2022 21:14:52 -0600 Gavin wrote: > As a recovering string theorist, I cannot help but speculate that > this rule extends to spherical coordinates in any number of > dimensions. However, if you don’t want the space, you can use > 135\unit{℃}, which does not add a space. Will

Re: [NTG-context] Spacing in \unit - degrees

2022-10-12 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
Further \unit question(s): \unit{135℃} adds a space after the digits 135. I do not believe that this is correct (for ℃ is *not* a "real" unit, unlike \unit{408.15 K} which *is* a real unit). Also, \unit{135°C} drops the "C". Is this a parsing bug? Related, \unit{90°} does not seem to introduce

Re: [NTG-context] \quotation, protrusion and linebreaking

2022-10-12 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On 12/10/22 12/10/22, 14:25, Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context wrote: Denis Maier via ntg-context schrieb am 12.10.2022 um 21:17: Instead of what? By default the symbols are placed with a box because you aren't limited to normal quotation marks. \setupexternalfigure [location=default]

Re: [NTG-context] Spacing in \unit

2022-10-09 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Sat, 8 Oct 2022 11:59:04 -0600 Gavin via ntg-context wrote: > I’m trying to fix four issues: > - No space between the number and the following units. Should be a > thin space. > - No space between the units and the following symbol (+ and = > above). Should be appropriate “bin" or “rel"

Re: [NTG-context] Command for specifying et al limit

2022-09-27 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Tue, 27 Sep 2022 13:33:20 + jethro Reuel via ntg-context wrote: > I want something like: > > Bronstein et al. says in their paper… > > I found the etaldisplay affects the display of the references and I > don’t want that. Try \setupbtx[apa:cite] and leave [apa:list] alone. Alan

Re: [NTG-context] Command for specifying et al limit

2022-09-26 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 21:40:14 -0600 Alan Braslau via ntg-context wrote: > On Sat, 24 Sep 2022 18:57:25 + > Jethro Djan via ntg-context wrote: > > > \setupbtx[ > > dataset=ref, > > etaldisplay = 1, > > etallimit = 1, > > ] > > Remove extr

Re: [NTG-context] Command for specifying et al limit

2022-09-26 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Sat, 24 Sep 2022 18:57:25 + Jethro Djan via ntg-context wrote: > \setupbtx[ > dataset=ref, > etaldisplay = 1, > etallimit = 1, > ] Remove extra spaces. Alan ___ If your question is of interest to

Re: [NTG-context] PDF viewer

2022-09-22 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Thu, 22 Sep 2022 18:47:50 -0600 Max Chernoff via ntg-context wrote: > I've been using pdf.js almost exclusively for the past few years > either via Firefox or VS Code, and I've never really had any > problems. The only real issue that I've had is that it gets fairly > slow with documents over

Re: [NTG-context] How can I make a Gentoo Linux package for ConTeXt LMTX?

2022-08-15 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
I believe that you are missing the point of LMTX. LMTX Context is intended to be a self-contained AND PORTABLE directory tree. It does not need system installation paths and such and is designed to happily co-exist with system installed TeX (using packages) or TeXlive or others, without

Re: [NTG-context] How to display these characters

2022-08-08 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On 05/08/22 05/08/22, 12:13, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: I recently had the same problem and was wondering if there isn’t a Metapost module for directory trees? There is a Metapost/Context module for drawing flow charts that should handle this nicely. There is also a

Re: [NTG-context] mp-geo Metapost package with ConTeXt

2021-07-27 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On 27/07/21 08:12, Gavin via ntg-context wrote: Hi All, Getting Closer I asked: 2) While I’m having good luck with paths, colors are causing trouble. In the data set the color information is in strings with French names of the color, like “rouge.” If I hand this string to MetaPost, MetaPost

Re: [NTG-context] Problem getting lmtx version up

2021-07-16 Thread Alan Braslau
On 16/07/21 21:47, Hans Hagen wrote: would be a pitty because i like the ubuntu interface that we have on it more than the rather ugly default rpi one (an ubuntu install is also more comfortable) ... when we go headless we might give opensuse a try (actually we had debian first but it was a

Re: [NTG-context] mp-geo Metapost package with ConTeXt

2021-07-16 Thread Alan Braslau
On 16/07/21 21:51, Hans Hagen wrote: On 7/16/2021 4:53 PM, Gavin Polhemus wrote: P.S. I marked the location of our local ConTeXt users group on the map, in case any of you want to visit. 1/3rd of your user group fled the country and is way closer by where i live now, And in the same time

Re: [NTG-context] Harvard bibliography style

2021-07-16 Thread Alan Braslau
On 16/07/21 20:05, Jorge Manuel wrote: Dear Sirs Is there a way to set my bibliography style to Harvard specifications? Tanks four your support Have a nice day Jorge Magalhães There is no Harvard bibliography specification, but the system is designed to be totally configurable. What is

Re: [NTG-context] Extract bib entries used in a document

2021-07-15 Thread Alan Braslau
On 15/07/21 21:53, Benjamin Buchmuller wrote: I was wondering if there is a way to get the internal bibliography manager to write out a .bib (or XML or Lua table) containing only the entries used in a document? Somewhat similar to BibTeX

Re: [NTG-context] LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name

2021-07-08 Thread Alan Braslau
On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 21:57:27 +0200 Ulrike Fischer wrote: > Am Wed, 7 Jul 2021 12:25:29 -0600 schrieb Alan Braslau: > > > Windows, I believe, does not take kindly to filenames containing > > multiple dots. > > > > Therefore, Hans never uses such filenames and does n

Re: [NTG-context] LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name

2021-07-07 Thread Alan Braslau
Windows, I believe, does not take kindly to filenames containing multiple dots. Therefore, Hans never uses such filenames and does not expect them, either, so I am not surprised that this yields unpredictable results. An unfortunate side-effect of dealing with Windows. Alan On Tue, 6 Jul 2021

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenate nothyphenated

2021-07-01 Thread Alan Braslau
On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 17:57:28 +0200 Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > Am 01.07.2021 um 17:54 schrieb Alan Braslau > > : > > > > On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 00:12:40 +0200 > > Hans Hagen wrote: > > > >>>> \= macron accent (bar) should not be changed. >

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenate nothyphenated

2021-07-01 Thread Alan Braslau
On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 00:12:40 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote: > >> \= macron accent (bar) should not be changed. > >> > >> \-- is a good suggestion, like insisting, and should not get > >> confused with -- (en dash). > > > > Is there some problem to make it just another option. > > > >

Re: [NTG-context] Different authorconversion for citation alternatives and bibliographic entries

2021-06-30 Thread Alan Braslau
On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 19:40:06 + wrote: > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > > Von: Alan Braslau > > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Juni 2021 21:11 > > An: mailing list for ConTeXt users ; Maier, > > Denis Christian (UB) > > Betreff: Re: [NTG-context] Dif

Re: [NTG-context] Different authorconversion for citation alternatives and bibliographic entries

2021-06-30 Thread Alan Braslau
On 30/06/21 12:59, denis.ma...@unibe.ch wrote: Hi, -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ntg-context Im Auftrag von Ágoston Volcz Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Juni 2021 10:20 An:ntg-context@ntg.nl Betreff: [NTG-context] Different authorconversion for citation alternatives and bibliographic

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenate nothyphenated

2021-06-30 Thread Alan Braslau
On 30/06/21 12:25, Hans Hagen wrote: On 6/30/2021 7:35 PM, Alan Braslau wrote: On 29/06/21 05:52, Hans Hagen wrote: well, you ask for nothyphenated; we could define \permanent\protected\def\-%    {\begingroup     \hyphenationmode\explicithyphenationmodecode\explicitdiscretionary     \endgroup

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenate nothyphenated

2021-06-30 Thread Alan Braslau
On 29/06/21 05:52, Hans Hagen wrote: well, you ask for nothyphenated; we could define \permanent\protected\def\-%   {\begingroup    \hyphenationmode\explicithyphenationmodecode\explicitdiscretionary    \endgroup} i will ponder this I believe that \- defines an *optional* hyphenation

Re: [NTG-context] Different authorconversion for citation alternatives and bibliographic entries

2021-06-30 Thread Alan Braslau
On 30/06/21 02:20, Ágoston Volcz wrote: 2. Entries in the bibliography and fist time citations must have 'normal' authorconversion, while consequent citations must have 'normalshort'. For consequent citations I defined the 'authortitle' alternative. In the thesis I have: ```

Re: [NTG-context] log: use \thinspace instead of \,

2021-06-29 Thread Alan Braslau
On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 14:06:02 +0200 Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Maybe, but in running text I use \, all the time e.\,g. in > abbreviations or for numbers (10\,000). At least in German typography > these “spatiums” are necessary. In French typography as well. Indeed, American: 10,000.00 French:

Re: [NTG-context] Install script not working

2021-06-27 Thread Alan Braslau
On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 23:30:00 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote: > -- on freebsd always (does anyone know an env var?) On FreeBSD, there is `uname -m` but also `hostname`. I find the environment variable $HOST to be set, but I am not sure that this is done by default (for standard installations). Alan

Re: [NTG-context] [#1] CJK regression? | lmtx-20210613 .

2021-06-16 Thread Alan Braslau
On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 17:14:22 +0200 luigi scarso wrote: > > Did you try this one? > > > > http://www.xpdfreader.com/download.html > > > I doesn't workunder ubuntu 20.04 > libicudata.so.56 => not found > I have libicudata.so.66 The ubuntu package must be built incorrectly, for I have

Re: [NTG-context] [#1] CJK regression? | lmtx-20210613 .

2021-06-15 Thread Alan Braslau
On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 20:57:09 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote: > On 6/15/2021 8:54 PM, Alan Braslau wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 20:29:26 +0200 > > Hans Hagen wrote: > > > >> On 6/15/2021 7:53 PM, Alan Braslau wrote: > >>> On Tue, 15 Jun 2

Re: [NTG-context] [#1] CJK regression? | lmtx-20210613 .

2021-06-15 Thread Alan Braslau
On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 20:29:26 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote: > On 6/15/2021 7:53 PM, Alan Braslau wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 13:07:04 +0200 > > Hans Hagen wrote: > > > >> the windows mupdf viewer is somewhat crippled (no selection) but > >> searc

Re: [NTG-context] [#1] CJK regression? | lmtx-20210613 .

2021-06-15 Thread Alan Braslau
On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 13:07:04 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote: > the windows mupdf viewer is somewhat crippled (no selection) but > searching for something shows the right bbox I do not know about Windows ports, but mupdf and mupdf-gl differ, not only in their rendering but also in their keystrokes and

Re: [NTG-context] upload / some new math stuff

2021-06-11 Thread Alan Braslau
On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 23:35:14 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote: > So, assuming that one installs these fonts: It looks modern (and new). Why not include it in the lmtx distribution? Alan ___ If your question is of interest to

Re: [NTG-context] BibTeX inproceedings entries not rendered correctly in APA style

2021-05-28 Thread Alan Braslau
On Fri, 28 May 2021 19:52:19 - (UTC) Nicola wrote: > > If there is no publisher, then @unpublished is a better category. > > APA explicitly, and for good reason, accounts for self-publishing, > > indicating that the Author was the publisher. > > Ah ok, that explains the output I was

Re: [NTG-context] BibTeX inproceedings entries not rendered correctly in APA style

2021-05-28 Thread Alan Braslau
On Fri, 28 May 2021 13:02:10 -0400 (EDT) Aditya Mahajan wrote: > > If you have not defined a publisher, how should ANY format place the > > undefined publisher's name? > > Simply leave it blank? If there is no publisher, then @unpublished is a better category. APA explicitly, and for good

Re: [NTG-context] BibTeX inproceedings entries not rendered correctly in APA style

2021-05-28 Thread Alan Braslau
On Thu, 27 May 2021 20:21:55 - (UTC) Nicola wrote: > Thank you all for the precious comments. > > The current LMTX appears to have almost fixed my issue, except that > inproceedings entries without a publisher have the text "Author" > instead of the publisher's name. > > I must say that I

Re: [NTG-context] BibTeX inproceedings entries not rendered correctly in APA style

2021-05-25 Thread Alan Braslau
On Mon, 24 May 2021 23:10:34 -0400 Rik Kabel wrote: > > On 5/24/2021 22:12, Alan Braslau wrote: > > On Mon, 24 May 2021 17:53:49 -0400 > > Rik Kabel wrote: > > > >> This is intended. Or rather, it is a side-effect of the intended > >> behavior. > &g

Re: [NTG-context] BibTeX inproceedings entries not rendered correctly in APA style

2021-05-24 Thread Alan Braslau
On Mon, 24 May 2021 17:53:49 -0400 Rik Kabel wrote: > This is intended. Or rather, it is a side-effect of the intended > behavior. > > If you add an editor ("editor={Baz, Bar}") you will get something > like: > > Foo, B. (1983). Title of the paper. In B. Baz (Ed.), /Booktitle/. >

Re: [NTG-context] \documentvariable (used in environment)

2020-07-25 Thread Alan Braslau
(without the .tex extension) of the main file (and filename.tex under File). I'll chase it down... Alan On 25/07/20 02:40, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 25.07.2020 um 10:20 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster : Alan Braslau schrieb am 25.07.2020 um 00:21: On 22/07/20 22:36, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: What

Re: [NTG-context] \documentvariable (used in environment)

2020-07-24 Thread Alan Braslau
On 22/07/20 22:36, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: What exactly doesn't work and do you get the same problems when you set the values in the following minimal example (everything has to be in the same file). begin example \setupdocument   [metadata:title={\documentvariable{title}},   

[NTG-context] \documentvariable (used in environment)

2020-07-22 Thread Alan Braslau
Hello, I have put the following in an environment \startenvironment MYENVIRONMENT \setupdocument [metadata:title={\documentvariable{title}}, metadata:subtitle={\documentvariable{subtitle}}, metadata:author={\documentvariable{author}}, metadata:keywords={\documentvariable{keywords}}]

Re: [NTG-context] Broken PDF with latest MkIV

2020-07-12 Thread Alan Braslau
On 12/07/20 03:48, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Hi, I just installed the latest ConTeXt MkIV (LuaTeX 2.06 20200706 + ConTeXt MkIV 2020.07.09 14:51) to check if the CG journal will look the same as with my "old” installation (LuaTeX 1.11 7215 + ConTeXt MkIV 2020.01.30 14:13). All looks well in

Re: [NTG-context] Translation of ConTeXt interface

2020-06-27 Thread Alan Braslau
fonte ? (police) principale ? (corps) ... Alan On 26/06/20 16:04, Garulfo wrote: Math. I get the following error : fonts  > preloading latin modern fonts (second stage) fonts  > defining > font with asked name 'fichier' is not found using lookup 'file' fonts  > defining > unknown font

Re: [NTG-context] LSP support

2020-06-27 Thread Alan Braslau
A start: lua-lsp A Language Server for Lua code, written in Lua. Supports Lua 5.1-5.3 and Luajit Alan On 27/06/20 04:13, Saša Janiška wrote: Hello, yesterday while exploring features/plugins of Kakoune (https://kakoune.org/) editor I, naturally, asked about ConTeXt/LaTeX support and was told

Re: [NTG-context] How to define an array of pens

2020-06-22 Thread Alan Braslau
On 22/06/20 01:17, Otared Kavian wrote: for j = -1 step 1 until 1 : MyPens[j] := pencircle scaled 2pt ; % I would like to say here (2+j) pt endfor MyPens[j] := pencircle scaled (2+j)*pt ; pt is just a variable, and one can write 2pt implicitly implying the

Re: [NTG-context] What alternative for scantokens( "btex " & texcommands & " etex")?

2020-03-30 Thread Alan Braslau
On 29/03/20 07:06, Gerben Wierda wrote: I’m trying in METAPOST to build a command to pass on to ConTeXt using btex/etex. picture p; p := scantokens( "btex " & texcommands & " etex”); btex/etex is better replaced by textext(). Nevertheless, this does not change anything. Context intercepts

[NTG-context] reference a paragraph

2020-03-25 Thread Alan Braslau
Hello, One creates references for structure elements as, for example, \startsubject [reference=sub:mysubject] ... \stopsubject and then can refer to these using, e.g. \on{page} [sub:subject] How might one reference a *paragraph*, for example? Parallel syntax might suggest \startparagraph

Re: [NTG-context] A question about whatever (Metapost)

2020-01-26 Thread Alan Braslau
What error are you getting? (perhaps you need "save carre,p,a,b,c,d,N,P,M ;") A perpendicular line is also the line "rotated 90" (about the intersection point). Alan On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 00:09:38 +0100 Fabrice Couvreur wrote: > Hi, > The point M is such that the line (CM) is perpendicular to

Re: [NTG-context] problem with a new installation of LMTX

2019-12-08 Thread Alan Braslau
On Sun, 8 Dec 2019 12:15:26 +0100 Otared Kavian wrote: > but otherwise as Floris suggests in his response, maybe we have to abandon > MacOS in the near future… No, simply we need to adapt our procedures (installation scripts) to be compatible with MacOS policy. Alan

Re: [NTG-context] problem with a new installation of LMTX

2019-12-08 Thread Alan Braslau
On Sun, 8 Dec 2019 00:35:13 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote: > I have no clue. Normally there is a check if directories can be accessed > and written to, so where then do these files go to? > > I fear that other mac users have to help (no new mac here). Maybe Mojca > knows as she knows all there is to

Re: [NTG-context] tikz

2019-11-27 Thread Alan Braslau
You may want to take a look at the ConTeXt nodes module: https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb39-1/tb121braslau-nodes.pdf Alan On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 15:42:43 + Ursula Hermann wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I have: > \usemodule{tikz} > > \starttext > \starttikzpicture > node {root} > child {node

Re: [NTG-context] PDF viewer poll

2019-10-14 Thread Alan Braslau
On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 12:43:14 +0200 Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Hi, I’d like to update my list of (usable!) PDF viewers. > Which one do you use? (Current version?) On Mac OS, there is skim, which has better features than preview but uses the same Apple rendering engine (with all of its bugs).

Re: [NTG-context] metafun 2

2019-08-16 Thread Alan Braslau
We have eofill in MP (in pdf/ps in fact) and that likely will do what you need. Alan On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 00:31:38 +0100 Adam Reviczky wrote: > Hi Hans, > > One MetaPost feature that I was looking forward to is the ability to create > a fill between two shapes. > Something like a difference

Re: [NTG-context] Wrong MetaPost text output

2019-08-11 Thread Alan Braslau
On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 11:12:55 -0700 Henri Menke wrote: > Thank you for the quick repsonse. This looks good to me. However, > could you tell me a way to get the correct baseline with textext? When > I use > > \startMPpage > draw btex dummy etex shifted (0,0); > draw btex foo etex

Re: [NTG-context] \setupheadertexts \setupfootertexts

2019-08-02 Thread Alan Braslau
On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 23:36:47 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > we have a lot or areas ... and if you really want you can do this ... > > > > \setuplayouttext > > > > Has been there for ages ... (but I never use that method). > > I has the same question a few years ago but I never used it >

Re: [NTG-context] \setupheadertexts \setupfootertexts

2019-08-02 Thread Alan Braslau
On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 21:08:00 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Thank you > When you use three arguments the first is used for the position of text, > i.e. above the text, margin or edge areas. I know this, and I find the syntax unfortunate, to say the least. > Only six or seven arguments work

[NTG-context] \setupheadertexts \setupfootertexts

2019-08-02 Thread Alan Braslau
Hello, \setupheadertexts [{center}] sets a centered header (and wipes-out any left and right header) \setupheadertexts [{left}] [{right}] sets the left and right headers (and keeps the centered header) \setupheadertexts [{left odd}] [{right odd}] [{left even}] [{right even}] sets the left and

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