Re: [NTG-context] final thoughts on experiments with lua

> On 10. Jan 2019, at 01:08, Hans Hagen wrote: > > it all depends on use ... if you can be more specific ... Hans, Luigi, thanks for your hints on list sorting - they are appreciated, but I’ve been there many many times: it’s impossible to be more specific because numbering can be

Re: [NTG-context] Font installation help needed!

> On 30. Sep 2018, at 20:56, Geert Verhaag wrote: > > I'd like to use the Advent Pro font, so I downloaded the font and have 7 ttf > files available. > > After looking around for some manual I found: "Integrating TrueType Fonts > into ConTEXt" by Thomas A. Schmitz. > > Immediately I run

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting information from git

> On 23. Feb 2018, at 22:00, Hans Hagen wrote: > > maybe you mean > > \startluacode > > context.setupdocument { >gitversion = string.strip( >os.resultof("git --no-pager log --pretty='%h of %aD' -1 " .. > environment.jobfilefullname) or "") > } > > \stopluacode >

[NTG-context] typesetting information from git

Hi, I like to add a sort of watermark with info about the git revision at the bottom of some files that I typeset. I’m using Lua, so I have: context(os.resultof("git --no-pager log --pretty='%h of %aD' -1 foo.xml”)) which gives something like "git revision b085c92a of Wed, 14 Feb 2018 12:49:35

Re: [NTG-context] rulecolor in columns

> On 23. Feb 2018, at 12:04, Gerard wrote: > > Why does not work "rulecolor" in my example below ? it keeps the color of > textcolor... > > The other options of setcolumns (background...) work well but I fail on that > one. Have I understood everything? > If you look into

Re: [NTG-context] XITS Math

> On 5. Feb 2018, at 16:51, Hans Hagen wrote: > > here i get > > loaded fonts: 4 files: xits-math.otf, dejavusans.ttf, dejavusansmono.ttf, > dejavuserif.ttf You’re right: after deleting and remaking the cache, it works here too. Sorry for the noise! Thomas

[NTG-context] XITS Math

The following test file runs without errors in the texlive version (2017.05.15 21:48) but fails with the current beta (2018.01.24 10:47); several errors "font with asked name 'xits-math' is not found": \definefontfamily [test] [serif] [DejaVu Serif] \definefontfamily [test] [sans] [DejaVu

Re: [NTG-context] How to remove that "Oxford Comma" in a bibliography?

> \usebtxdefinitions[aps] Here you’re loading the *aps* definitions. > > \setupbtx > [apa:list:author] > [separator:3={\btxnobreakspace\textampersand\space}] % last of a list > And here you’re modifying the *apa* setups. That won’t work. This works: \startbuffer[references] @misc{test,

Re: [NTG-context] Thicker \cdot ?

> On 6. Nov 2017, at 21:44, Weber, Matthias wrote: > > It looks like Metapost is a good way of doing this. > If anybody knows a better way, please let me know. Not “better,” but maybe simpler: you can just scale the cdot; if you want to be fancy, you can make a macro

Re: [NTG-context] framed with titles

> On 5. Nov 2017, at 10:14, Javier M Mora wrote: > > Questions: > > * what is the way for implement a title in the frame? There are examples for titles in frames at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Titles#Chapter_titles_in_new_line > > * Could you write a minimal example witch

Re: [NTG-context] Wiki pages on Unicode blocks

> On 25. Oct 2017, at 15:47, N. Raghavendra wrote: > > Based on what I have learnt from the replies to my queries in the last > few days, I have added the following Wiki pages on Unicode blocks in > ConTeXt: Very good articles, nice introduction and instructive

Re: [NTG-context] Line numbers in output

> On 21. Aug 2017, at 16:25, Roger Mason wrote: > > > Is there a switch to enable lines to be numbered in the output pdf > document? I have seen the garden entries on numbering for sections of > verbatim text but I would like the whole document to have line numbers.

Re: [NTG-context] question for metapost experts

> On 10. Aug 2017, at 14:18, Hans Hagen wrote: > > p intersection_point q > > (also sets intersection_found) Boy, impressive and wonderful, thanks a lot!!! It also made me see why I the error stopped the compilation: I had a naming conflict between the slide background and

[NTG-context] question for metapost experts

Hi all, this one is for all the metapos/metafun experts out there (Alan, are you there?). For a counter in one of my slide backgrounds, I have to calculate an intersectionpoint, given in percentage of the difference between current page and last page. I have always had some difficulties on the

Re: [NTG-context] xml verbatim in xml...

> On 8. Aug 2017, at 23:26, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: > > Thomas, > > \xmlprettyprint seems an easier approach. Thank you, I did’n know about \xmlprettyprint. But I want to define my own prettyprinters, so it’s not suitable for my purpose. And it doesn’t solve the issue I was

[NTG-context] xml verbatim in xml...

Hi all, excellent excuse to pester the list with a program: it’s for my presentation at the ConTeXt meeting (have YOU registered yet?)… So: I want to show verbatim xml, and I’m writing in xml. This solution: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Verbatim_XML mostly works (for Lua and TeX code),

Re: [NTG-context] letters in context mkiv

> On 1. Aug 2017, at 12:15, r.erm...@hccnet.nl wrote: > > While understanding what it means, I guess this might imply that it is > difficult (?) or impossible (?) to correctly process files such as the knuth > text and for that matter any other letter text that contains regular Context >

Re: [NTG-context] letters in context mkiv

> However, the color and style instructions (\ss\tfa) have no effect. I tried > to solve that, as a first step, by putting \ss before the \xmlall instruction: > > \startxmlsetups xlm:contact > \setlayer[AddressBg] {\framed[width=55mm,height=30mm, > align=right,background=color, >

Re: [NTG-context] letters in context mkiv

> On 31. Jul 2017, at 18:58, r.erm...@hccnet.nl wrote: > > Would it be wise to perhaps follow the path set out by Thomas? In that case > there should be a way to shift the address. What efforts have you made to “shift the address”? Here is one way: \startbuffer[participants] Hendriks

Re: [NTG-context] letters in context mkiv

> On 30. Jul 2017, at 14:15, r.erm...@hccnet.nl wrote: > > Let me as a turcologist compare my problem to learning Kazakh: I am prepared > to give you a manual with the grammatical rules, provide you with lists of > nouns, verbs, adjectives and postpositions, explain the application of >

Re: [NTG-context] (again) index sorting of accented characters

> On 29. Apr 2017, at 16:51, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: > > An index with classical Greek words (or names) that follows the same > principle as in German, English or Dutch: word sorting is the same as in > most important dictionaries. > > This is the main reason of having it as a

Re: [NTG-context] (again) index sorting of accented characters

> On 29. Apr 2017, at 13:10, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: > > I don‘t know why "α" isn’t the first in sorting, but it is clear that > letters with different diacritical marks are considered as different > letters for word sorting. > > Could you confirm that the right word order is the

Re: [NTG-context] ConteXt and Slackware

> On 10 Aug 2016, at 05:36, Jose Luis Arellano wrote: > > Hi guys, am trying to install ConTeXt on this distribution, but when try to > install it i get this: > > /usr/bin/env: 'texlua': No such file or directory > > Suggestions? > Hi, fancy telling us how you’re

Re: [NTG-context] lua tables - how do you cope?

> On 30 Jul 2016, at 23:46, Lukas Prochazka wrote: > > Hello Thomas, > > here is my "dump()" I've been using for several years: Arthur, Lukas, these are both great and very helpful, thanks a lot! I feel bad for not knowing table.serialize (which can even be used with the

Re: [NTG-context] lua tables - how do you cope?

Thank you, but this is not what I’m looking for. I know how to sort a table, and I know the Lua table tutorial (the Lua wiki is, IMHO, really terrible and disorganized). I have to construct deeply nested tables and sometimes lose track of what is at what level of my table, so I was wondering if

[NTG-context] gmane might go off-line soon

Hi all (especially the gardeners), have you seen this post? https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/ Long story short: the sole maintainer of gmane is getting fed up with ddos attacks and is thinking about terminating the service. If I’m not mistaken, for the time being,

[NTG-context] lua tables - how do you cope?

This is less a specific question about ConTeXt than a hope for good advice: I’m maltreating my xml files with a mixture of TeX and Lua. I want to extract and typeset information in different forms, so I first collect everything in lua tables, rearrange and order these tables and typeset the

Re: [NTG-context] Colors not showing inside metapost after \showcolor

> On 23 Jul 2016, at 09:24, Bou Salim wrote: > > Hi > I have this problem to show colors properly. I have defined color "myred", > but after \showcolor command colors inside metapost can't be displayed. Your example shows the correct colors here. Which version are

Re: [NTG-context] Recent changes in paragraph composing

> On 31 Mar 2016, at 22:17, Jan Tosovsky wrote: > > In time of producing the result image it was sufficient to set the tolerance > to 'strict'. > > (1) How can this be fixed efficiently? > (2) What has changed internally? > > Thanks for any hints, The example is missing

Re: [NTG-context] placelist not working in latest beta

> On 21 Mar 2016, at 15:28, Hans Hagen wrote: > > when playign with some new feature i commented too much > > around line 722, uncomment: > > \setuplistalternative > [\c!command=\strictlistparameter\c!command, > \c!symbol=.] > > Done, and it works again! Thanks Hans!

[NTG-context] placelist not working in latest beta

Hi all, example attached with output from latest beta and an older one. The \placelist command appears to have changed recently; the older beta I tested is from November, but this used to work in February as well, the change must be recent. Thanks a lot Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] kerning with \quotation

> On 06 Mar 2016, at 15:56, Hans Hagen wrote: > > \setupdelimitedtext > [method=font] Excellent - thanks Hans! Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to

[NTG-context] kerning with \quotation

Hi all, short example in extra big size to make the effect visible: \setupbodyfont [termes,48pt] \mainlanguage [de] \starttext „Vater“ \quotation{Vater} \stoptext In the first line, the character „ has a bit of kerning with the following V (could be even more, to my taste). With

Re: [NTG-context] \replaceword and \setreplacements with xml files

> On 16 Jan 2016, at 12:24, Jan U. Hasecke wrote: > > Both solutions work fine if I use them in a simple context file, but I > can't use neither solution in my xml processing. > > I use a customized version of the from-pandoc-to-context solution of Pablo. > > When

Re: [NTG-context] Error in latest beta: luat-exe.lua not found

> On 16 Jan 2016, at 00:32, Hans Hagen wrote: > > you're the only one with this issue (or the only one who reports it) so i > have no clue what to do > > does a fresh install work ? Everything works normally here after updating an existing minimal tree is all I can say. And

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

> On 19 Nov 2015, at 22:45, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: > > I have just updated and compilation from XML sources works fine again > (at least with the file I tested ;-)). The problem with xml entities persists. They are not processed, but printed as is. I sent an example on Oct. 13.

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta

> On 13 Oct 2015, at 13:41, Hans Hagen wrote: > > if you have a small example ... this whole entity stuff is a mess .. > officially entities are replaced at load time but tex code is delayed .. so > maybe i need to invent some other trick (there was an issue with & ; >

Re: [NTG-context] footnote in title

> On 13 Oct 2015, at 11:56, Thomas A. Schmitz > wrote: > > I thought something like this had been asked on the list recently, but a > search came up empty: how to get footnotes to titles typeset? > > \automigrateinserts > > \starttext > > \startchapter

Re: [NTG-context] Illegal parameter number in definition

On 17 Jul 2015, at 19:26, juh juh+ntg-cont...@mailbox.org wrote: Hi all, I am totally new to ConTeXt. I am a long time LaTeX user and I got interested in ConTeXt by a posting from Pablo in the Pandoc mailing list. So he is to blame if you have to read silly questions from me in the

Re: [NTG-context] Illegal parameter number in definition

I see. Impressive (I think I have to learn lua, too) You don’t have to, but you’ll see that it’s actually fun. But for now I am better off with the coontains statement. \xmlsetsetup{#1}{hi[contains(@rendition, 'in')]}{xml:hi:in} It matches hi rendition=#inS/hi without problems

Re: [NTG-context] E-books and XML.

On 27 Aug 2014, at 16:38, john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: Some questions: What tool do you recommend for entering text etc. in XML format? I have the Bluefish Editor but usually code html in a plain editor (Gvim). “Recommend” is too strong, because everything depends on the type

Re: [NTG-context] reading modules broken?

On 07 Jun 2014, at 19:09, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: s-simpleslides would have been a better choice I have uploaded a new version with these changes, it appears to work. I don’t have time right now to look at all the styles (most work, some have small defects) and do the

Re: [NTG-context] issues with greeknumerals

On 07 Apr 2014, at 23:24, Otared Kavian ota...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe not, since Roman numerals i, ii, iii, iv, etc correspond really to the way Romans used to write numbers, while Greek numerals \alpha, \beta, \gamma, \delta, etc are rather our modern way of numbering items, analogous to

[NTG-context] quick and shallow question about layers

Hi, this is pretty shallow, but maybe someone knows a way: for one of my presentation, every slide has a (different) picture as background. The title is typeset within a narrow colored frame which extends across the entire slide. Is there any way to make the background picture show through the

[NTG-context] mp: choose colors randomly from list

Hi all, I would like to have mp choose a (transparent) color randomly from a predefined list. My naive approach was (let’s restrict it to three colors): \startuniqueMPgraphic{colortest} save mycolor ; color mycolor[] ; mycolor[1] := (0.07, 0.21, 0.65) ; mycolor[2] := (0.6, 0.6, 0.4) ;

Re: [NTG-context] mp: choose colors randomly from list

On 19 Feb 2014, at 11:37, Alan BRASLAU alan.bras...@cea.fr wrote: uniformdeviate returns a random number between zero and the value of the argument. So you do not want (uniformdeviate i). Ah, that explains it. Thanks a lot Alan! Otared Kavian wrote: One way is to increase the « degree of

Re: [NTG-context] mp: choose colors randomly from list

On 19 Feb 2014, at 12:16, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2012/065815.html Wolfgang Not only I’m bad at math, I don’t even remember the answers to my own questions - thanks Wolfgang for reminding me! I’m getting old and senile,

Re: [NTG-context] MacOsX Mavericks and Luatex

On 24 Oct 2013, at 07:41, Pierre Bovet pierr...@me.com wrote: Hi all! It seems that Luatex (0.76 2013/04/05) don't works with Mavericks? Thank's in advanced for your help and testimonies Best wishes I’m afraid you’re right! I installed Mavericks yesterday; trying to build the format,

Re: [NTG-context] MacOsX Mavericks and Luatex

On 24 Oct 2013, at 09:01, Schmitz Thomas A. thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de wrote: But so far, I have not been able to unset OSFONTDIR and make context ignore this directory. (Unlike some people in a recent discussion, my preference would be to NOT include any system fonts by default: it slows

Re: [NTG-context] MacOsX Mavericks and Luatex

On 24 Oct 2013, at 09:04, Wolfgang Schuster wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com wrote: There are no problems for me with the last version of the context suite and OS 10.9. This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.76.0-2013040508 (TeX Live 2013/dev)(rev 4627) Wolfgang not on my system. I have this

Re: [NTG-context] MacOsX Mavericks and Luatex

On 24 Oct 2013, at 10:00, Wolfgang Schuster wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com wrote: Can you remove the Skia.ttf (copy it to another directory) font from /Library/Fonts, this helped on my system to get rid of the error message. Wolfgang Yes, that helped, and I can at least compile my documents

Re: [NTG-context] MacOsX Mavericks and Luatex

On 24 Oct 2013, at 16:17, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: Hm. The problem is that we get some oscillation (with a few year cycle) between the 'demand' for os fonts support vs tree only (as far as remember os font support was mostly requested by osx users). Anyhow, we can make it an

Re: [NTG-context] MacOsX Mavericks and Luatex

On 24 Oct 2013, at 16:44, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote: You need to set it to a dummy directory! See: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/136073/323 No, even that doesn’t help: echo $OSFONTDIR /tmp/dummy and then on a first run (after regnerating the format with this variable set), I

Re: [NTG-context] error when installing ConTeXt Standalone

On Oct 3, 2013, at 8:57 PM, Pablo Rodríguez oi...@gmx.es wrote: Installing zsh gives the same error, but I don’t have zsh installed (I removed after installing it to test this). I play around with quite a few linux distributions and use them on a regular basis. The error only crops up on

[NTG-context] bug in current beta

Hi Hans, I get this error running 2013.08.14 15:25: ! LuaTeX error .../context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-col.lua:180: table index is nil stack traceback: .../context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-col.lua:180: in function 'fontcollectionclone' [string

Re: [NTG-context] bug in current beta

On Aug 15, 2013, at 1:43 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: as you know lua ... just look at those lines and a few lines above ... you need to add local unic = unicode + offset - start (new beta later, in the middle of something) Ah, you're right, I could have seen that

Re: [NTG-context] footnotes on wrong page

On Jul 24, 2013, at 11:57 AM, Marco Patzer home...@lavabit.com wrote: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Unexpected_behavior#Footnotes:_The_Difference_between_.5Csetupnotation_and_.5Csetupnote I wasn't aware of this page - thanks a lot, this is VERY useful! Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] ContML module?

On Jun 15, 2013, at 4:34 PM, Sander Maijers s.n.maij...@student.ru.nl wrote: I use a very recent version of ConTeXt MKIV, and I was following the instructions on this Wiki page:http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mixing_XML_and_ConTeXt . However the contml module cannot be found and the

Re: [NTG-context] ContML module?

On Jun 15, 2013, at 4:47 PM, Sander Maijers s.n.maij...@student.ru.nl wrote: I did not visit the page from the main XML page, but via Google. In the page itself there is no mention of MkII. By the way, the dead link to the old module shouldn't be there in any case. OK, then thanks for

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

On Apr 27, 2013, at 12:16 AM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: Someone had to show me the first ligature years ago and when he did that, I had to check every single book and document I had at hand to check if ligatures were really commonly used. I simply couldn't believe my eyes and the fact

[NTG-context] processing xml with lua

Hi all, one of my favorite topics… Here is a minimal example which shows something that I don't understand: when I process the subsection with the lua code, I want to get the value of the current section's label attribute in xml.attribute(r, ../../section, label, X). So i was expecting that

Re: [NTG-context] processing xml with lua

On Feb 26, 2013, at 1:54 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: you go up to the parent of sections which to far up, try: section = xml.attribute(r, .., label, X) or section = xml.filter(r, ../attribute(label)) Mojca, Hans, thanks, that is exactly right! I wasn't too sure about

Re: [NTG-context] index: distinguish entries by pagestyle

On Jan 14, 2013, at 2:54 PM, Andreas Mang m...@imt.uni-luebeck.de wrote: Hi there, I got a question considering the registers. I'd like to distinguish between the definition of some term and its appearance/use somewhere else (boldface vs. normal font of page number for instance). The

Re: [NTG-context] here is ae

On Dec 16, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: Using xml sounds ok to me (esp as you know how to do it) ... with xinclude you mean combining multiple files into one? It's what we do in all xml related projects here. There is actually an \xmlinclude command

Re: [NTG-context] here is ae

On Dec 16, 2012, at 11:08 PM, Sietse Brouwer sbbrou...@gmail.com wrote: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/xmlinclude Wikified, but sans example for now. Thomas, could I leave that to you? Writing about things I don't understand is one thing, but producing working code that I don't

Re: [NTG-context] Equivalent of Includeonly?

On Nov 19, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com wrote: No there isn’t. @Hans: With with \includeonly and \excludeonly command you can specify which external files should be included in the document by the \inlcude{…} (a special version of \input{…}) command.

Re: [NTG-context] The on-going process of the Proceedings for Context Meeting 2011

Dear John, unfortunately, this is not, as I had hoped, a mail sending my completed article for the proceeding, but a request for an extension of the deadline. I will be in China next week; I had hoped I could finish before leaving, but that turned out to not work quite as I expected. So, I

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography, unicode strings, @ELECTRONIC, sorting and bibtex

On Sep 18, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Marco Patzer home...@lavabit.com wrote: Hi, I have some questions regarding the bibliography. 1) The style files bibl-ams.tex, bibl-ssa.tex, etc contain strings like ``, ~. This does not make sense to me. The `` ends up like that in the output and the

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography, unicode strings, @ELECTRONIC, sorting and bibtex

On Sep 18, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Marco Patzer home...@lavabit.com wrote: This doesn't work, either: \setupbibtex [database=sample] \setuppublications [alternative=apa, criterium=cite, sorttype=author] \starttext \cite[hh2010a] \cite[Eijkhout1991] \placepublications \stoptext