I may be dumb... but I can't figure out how to change the mirror.
minimals.contextgarden.net seems to be hard-coded in a number of places.
Help please?
Best,
Mica
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Mojca Miklavec
mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Hans Hagen
Xan,
not sure if you're aware, but you can execute Lua code within a ConTeXt
document.
Best,
Mica
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Xan dxpubl...@telefonica.net wrote:
Thank you very much, Henning and Aditya. It clear the actual programming
in ConTeXt. Now I use mako templates for emulate
Forgive me if this has been answered else where, I couldn't seem to spot it.
I have my own little version of t-title.tex that worked with the beta
before luatex 0.75.
Upon updating to the latest beta last night, the document wouldn't compile.
It looked like it wasn't reading up the
Wolfgang and Marco,
Thank you. Changing p-title.tex has solved the problem.
Best,
Mica
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Wolfgang Schuster
wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com wrote:
Am 07.03.2013 um 23:59 schrieb Marco Patzer home...@lavabit.com:
On 2013–03–07 Mica Semrick wrote:
Upon updating
I would agree with the (no subject) or SPAM titles, but if your search tool
can't tell the difference between \column, Bug in - - \column, Bug in
\column and Bug in \column then you probably need to find a new search
tool. I subscribe to the list in non-digest format, e.g. I get every
email. I
Hi John,
Perhaps http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupheadertexts will be of
some help? Though, the wiki page does not list the [text] argument in your
second command. I'm not sure that ConTeXt sees recto and verso, as the wiki
page talks of even and odd pages.
HTH,
Mica
On Fri, Apr 5,
Hi John,
My logic in thinking about this says odd=right=page 1 = list it first in
the command. Anyway. I've been using ConTeXt for a couple of years and have
found that the manuals usually lag behind the wiki. I gather most of my
needed context info from this mailing list and the wiki. I will
I've always thought that TEI-Lite was a nice, general purpose xml markup.
There is already an example of an XML stylesheet on the wiki.
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Martin Schröder mar...@oneiros.de wrote:
2013/5/11 Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at:
Does anyone have experience with
Alan,
This is clearly the greatest font ever, thank you!
-Mica
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Arthur Reutenauer
arthur.reutena...@normalesup.org wrote:
http://nekofont.upat.jp/
At some point, people will have to stop the madness about cute cats ;-)
Arthur
Have you had a look at
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Footnotes#Footnote_Numbering ?
Can you post some code of what you've already tried?
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 8:47 AM, H. Özoguz h.oezo...@mmnetz.de wrote:
No way? I am sure, there is some :)
Another solution, which would work equally would
On Linux, there separate programmes for KDE, new gnome and old gnome,
and desktop-agnostic:
kde-open myfile.pdf || gvfs-open myfile.pdf || gnome-open myfile.pdf
|| xdg-open myfile.pdf
On my linux mint/debian boxes, xdg-open works fine across MATE, XFCE, and
KDE.
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:15
Do you perhaps needs to rebuild your font cache?
From the terminal: sudo fc-cache -fv
Best,
Mica
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Pablo Rodríguez oi...@web.de wrote:
On 26/07/13 21:08, john Culleton wrote:
I am trying to follow the wiki on Fonts in Luatex. It suggests the
following
You editor probably isn't picking up ConTeXt because it's probably not on
the system path. I add the setuptex command at the end of .bashrc or
.bash_profile. This makes it accessible from the terminal, but not all
programs read in .bashrc or .bash_profile. You should add ConTeXt to your
editor's
Hi Wim,
TL is a huge beast. ConTeXt is still a moving target in terms of
development and thus the frozen nature of TL will leave their version of
context quite stale.
You can install ConTeXt as a stand-alone on your system, then just run a
bat or bash script to update it. This is much easier
Try running:
mktexlsr
texexec --make --all
mktexlsr
texexec --make --xtx --all
mtxrun --selfupdate
mtxrun --generate
luatools --generate
context --make
You may not need to run all of them... but it is easier this way.
Best,
Mica
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Oualkacha, Karim
] *De
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*Objet :* Re: [NTG-context] Problem with context in windows
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Try running:
mktexlsr
texexec --make --all
mktexlsr
texexec --make --xtx --all
mtxrun --selfupdate
mtxrun --generate
You will probably need CSS styling.
Maybe you can use one of the popular CSS reset or normalize stylesheets
available. I haven't tested, but http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/ is
pretty popular.
Beware, a lot of EPUB rendering engines are crap, and there is not a lot of
conformity
I'd say use an xml source (docbook, TEI, or DITA) and then write a ConTeXt
stylesheet to typeset your XML. See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TEI_xml
I think that TEI-lite is a nice, very general XML vocabulary...
Best,
Mica
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
On
Another small note, since I just walked down the ePUB path: you'll be very
sad to find out that a lot of rendering engines for popular readers are not
consistent, won't render standard XHTML markup correctly (nest an ordered
list within an unordered list and then look at it in adobe digital
I think base are the basic TeX fonts, probably Computer Modern and Latin
Modern. Third is third-party.
Best,
Mica
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:14 PM, john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.comwrote:
I note that in texlive 2013 the typescripts are found in two
subdirectories, base and third. Is there
Hi,
Not sure if this is helpful, but I get a very similar error when trying to
build the nokogiri gem with RVM ruby 2.0 on my Mac OS X 10.6.8 machine.
I'm not at that machine currently, but I can post the error if you think
that will help.
Best,
Mica
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Hans
Are there any ConTeXt meetups or conferences on the US? I'd like to go, but
$$ to fly to Europe = :-\
Best,
Mica
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
On 9/19/2013 2:11 AM, Pavneet Arora wrote:
All the best to those who are attending. I am envious!
Thanks. A
Have you added the bin directory to your PATH?
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Pablo Rodríguez oi...@web.de wrote:
Dear list,
I have installed a system-wide ConTeXt Standalone in Fedora 19,
following the instructions from the wiki.
But when I try to rebuild the font cache, I get the
$ source tex/setuptex
Do you do that as root? You probably need to add it to something like
/etc/bashrc or the like... it sounds like you don't have permission/your
shell isn't getting the right path...
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Pablo Rodríguez oi...@web.de wrote:
On 09/25/2013 10:21
@Peter github makes collaboration quite painless. Users can manage their
own accounts.
+1 for github from me too!
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Peter Münster pmli...@free.fr wrote:
On Thu, Sep 26 2013, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
Wouldn't it be better to move the manuals to github rather than
was on github, it could have been forked, branched, content
added, pull request made. End of story. So we do want the features of
github.
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Peter Münster pmli...@free.fr wrote:
On Thu, Sep 26 2013, Mica Semrick wrote:
@Peter github makes collaboration quite painless
Maybe we can have the best of both: https://gist.github.com/ticean/1556967 ?
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
On 9/27/2013 3:26 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
Also, if this matters, Git has an excellent Emacs front-end, Magit. I
don't know whether SVN has
Any chance of getting that tutorial in some sort of version control?
Github/SVN/bitbucket or whatever?!
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Lars Huttar lars_hut...@sil.org wrote:
On 9/29/2013 1:05 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:
Some thoughts:
1.1.1
Unfortunately there’s no really easy way to
Hi list!
I am hoping that someone can point me towards some more information on
typesetting FO (Formatting Objects) with foXet and ConTeXt. I've read
the threads on the foxet mailing list (and I assume that's dead, last
post in 2005), and the wiki provides pretty sparse information. There
are
Hi List!
I'm using TEI for a personal project, and I'd like to set it using
ConTeXt. I'm having a bit of trouble getting started, and I was
wondering if anyone has an environment file for TEI Lite that they'd
like to share. It would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
Mica
Have you considered authoring in something besides context? Say TEI XML or
Docbook, or even markdown (if possible)? If markdown is suitable, then you
can end up with both epub and context at the end. Or if using TEI or
docbook, you can write a map file (something I have been trying to do) and
Or more general: No indentation of paragraphs, wich are the
top-paragraphs of the page. Is that possible?
How would your reader tell if the paragraph at the top of the page is a
continuation of the one on the last page, or a new paragraph? Sounds
problematic!
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 6:46 AM,
Keith,
Maybe you should explore an XML format that can be transformed directly to
epub. You'd also be able to write a style sheet with ConTeXt that would out
put a PDF as well. I think TEI-Lite is a good starting point.
Since you can make your own commands in ConTeXt, it will never be able to
Bill,
With more recent version of pandoc, you can write filters for it in python.
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/scripting.html
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Bill Meahan subscribed_li...@meahan.netwrote:
To save possibly reinventing the wheel, has anyone written a filter for
processing
Unless you can find a module (at http://modules.contextgarden.net/) then
you'll have to design it yourself.
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Vyatcheslav Y. yatskov...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
Is there any dissertation/high-school diploma style for Context? I'm sure
if there any, I can adapt it
my .emacs looks like this:
;; Open in ConTeXt mode
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'TeX-PDF-mode) ;; AucTeX turn on PDF mode by
default
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook (function turn-on-reftex)) ;; Turn on RefTeX
when AucTeX loads
(add-hook 'ConTeXt-mode-hook 'yas/minor-mode-on) ;; Turn on YaSnippet minor
Hi list,
I've been contemplating making a ConTeXt output or parser for DITA XML and was
wondering if anyone has worked with DITA and ConTeXt before? If you have and
could offer any advice and/code, that would be most helpful!
Best,
Mica
Hi Hans,
Thanks for your reply. I found my way to foxet, but never got it working. I've
written several mapping files for XML with good results, but DITA is a bit of a
different beast.
DITA is geared towards technical writing, and its main features are defined
content types, a mechanism for
Hi Jan,
What is your real use case? A typical XML based workflow involves XSL-FO -
PDF route using FO processor (Antenna House, XEP, FOP etc).
I'm looking to use DITA to publish a literary journal. The journal will contain contributions from multiple authors. I also want to publish works by
Hi Jan,
Thanks for the pointer towards dbcontext. I had previoiusly used dblatex for
some tech docs a while back, but never realized there was a ConTeXt version.
Best,
Mica
___
If your question is of interest to
John,
Perhaps you may find the columnsets command to your liking. See more here:
http://pragrama-ade.com/general/manuals/columns.pdf
Best,
Mica
On 05/26, john Culleton wrote:
In Scribus, (which has many shortcomings compared
to Context for book length documents,) there is
one trick that is
Hi John,
Sorry to hear that didn't work.
Could you not have a box that spans two columns, the put the graphic in the box
and position the graphic as you wish?
I'm just getting started myself with columns; sorry if the suggestion doesn't
make sense.
Best,
Mica
Hello list,
I've started making a stylesheet for a fairly large XML vocabulary. The XML vocabulary is already divided into semantic chunks, so I'd like the strucure of my ConTeXt file to match that structure.
When typesetting an XML document with the command context
I am also a technical editor and have been using context for about five years.
Maybe my typesetting needs are simple, but the wiki and manuals have served me
well. When they don't, this list is quick to respond. Thanks to everyone for
the effort.
If you want a fund for tech doc, have you
Hello,
I'm trying to get the subject heading in the margin. I found this code on the
wiki, but it is not compiling with the latest version of ConTeXt.
\setuppapersize[A5]
\setuphead
[subject]
[alternative=text,distance=0pt,command=\MyHead,style=\sc]
\def\MyHead#1#2{\inmargin{#1 #2}}
Thanks Wolfgang. I will test this later tonight and update the wiki when it is
working.
Best,
Mica
___
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the
Wiki!
maillist :
Best of luck Hans!
___
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the
Wiki!
maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
webpage :
The best commercial XML editor is oxygenxml IMHO. If you need free, look at
xmlmind.
-m
On August 27, 2014 7:03:06 AM PDT, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
l...@pontex.cz wrote:
Hello Thomas,
I'm just curious:
- Which editor(s) (including commercial one(s)) do you usually use to
create
Hello!
Given:
\starttext
\framed[frame=on,width=local,offset=0in,loffset=0in,roffset=0in,frameoffset=0in]{
\framed
[frame=on,
location=middle,
align={flushleft,nothyphenated,verytolerant}] % maybe also stretch
{%
{\tfd My Name Here}
}
\hfill
\framed
[frame=on,
location=middle,
Thanks Wolfgang, that worked well.
Are there more reasons to use start stop over start{}?
On August 31, 2014 9:32:31 PM PDT, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote:
Am 01.09.2014 um 00:18 schrieb Mica Semrick m...@silentumbrella.com:
Hello!
Given:
\starttext
\framed
On Debian, you can try:
fc-list : family
to list the family name. I was playing with this last night on my Debian Jessie
system.
The colon is a wildcard operator that will match all fonts on the system. I
usually just grep the results for what I need.
You may want to refresh the font cache,
Hello,
I seem to be having some trouble getting the system fonts to load from my
Debian Jessie system.
I'm using:
mica@box:~/Working$ context -version
mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 0.61
mtx-context |
mtx-context | main context file:
Hi Hans,
That did not seems to solve the problem. I'll assume there is a problem elsewhere with my
system, unless there is anything else I can try. It is strange, as this worked before
when Debian Jessie was still testing.
Thanks,
Mica
On 04/27, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 4/26/2015 11:57 PM, Mica
And after troubleshooting my shell further, something was inserting $OSFONTDIR.
Everything is working now, sorry for the noise.
Best,
Mica
On June 22, 2015 12:23:35 AM PDT, Mica Semrick m...@silentumbrella.com wrote:
Hello list,
I'm having trouble getting system fonts to load with simplefont
Hello list,
I'm having trouble getting system fonts to load with simplefont on Debian 8.1.
I'm not exactly sure how to troubleshoot this issue. This worked when Debian
Jessie was still 'testing' but now fails on a machine it was working on and on
a fresh install. All my fonts are in ~/.fonts
Sure, you can grab the otf version of font awesome and load it like any other
font.
-m
On November 4, 2015 10:06:48 AM PST, Romain Diss wrote:
>> I'm not a font expert with ConteXt so maybe my question is trivial
>but
>> is there a simple way to use Font Awesome Icons in
ist the results from
saxon-lint
{xml:*}
\stopxmlsetups
That would give me the "blank" mapping file I want, saving me the
trouble of typing out the whole thing every time.
Best,
Mica
On 02/24/2016 01:10 AM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
On 02/24/2016 09:20 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 2/
Thank you! And sorry for my poor description.
Best,
Mica
On February 24, 2016 2:26:55 AM PST, Hans Hagen wrote:
>On 2/24/2016 11:11 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>> On 02/24/2016 10:52 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>>
>>> context --extra=xml --analyze yourfile.xml
>>
>> Hmm, that sounds
> I don't know if the "blank mapping file" as conjectured by Pablo is a useful
> idea
I find extremely useful. When I go to style some XML file, I don't have to type
all of that stuff or study the XML file to find out what elements are
contained. This feature will make it extremely easy to get
Reading the docbook thread earlier today reminded me to ask this:
Is there any feature or script that anyone can share that will read in an XML
document and spit out a blank mapping file?
Thanks!
-m
___
If your
Hi Pablo,
Sorry for the brevity of my original message, it is quite late.
I'm working on styling an XML dialect, where nesting can go, and often does
quite deep, and several different section level elements can be allowed to nest
within each other. If nested sections were possible, I wouldn't
The wiki at contextgarden.net should be of help.
On March 9, 2016 1:04:53 PM PST, "L.S.-Soc" wrote:
>hey guys, this is my first mail here so please bear with me.
>
>i read on TeX exchange that it's best to subscribe to this mailing list
>
>in order to get help with ConTeXt.
//group.contextgarden.net/ or rather something different?
>
>Am 09.03.2016 um 22:08 schrieb Mica Semrick:
>> The wiki at contextgarden.net <http://contextgarden.net> should be of
>
>> help.
>>
>> On March 9, 2016 1:04:53 PM PST, "L.S.-Soc" <axte
Yes that looks like what I want. Thank you!
On March 11, 2016 1:43:27 AM PST, Hans Hagen wrote:
>On 3/11/2016 9:08 AM, m...@silentumbrella.com wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Is it possible to have
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \startchapter
>> Hey a chapter!
>> \startsection
>> something.one
I'm interested in this thread too... But I'm american, so English only. I
appreciate your understanding!
-m
On April 14, 2016 1:56:18 PM PDT, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>Hans,
>
>excuse my top-posting.
>
>I was really interested in this thread. But Dutch isn’t something in
>between
Thank you, this is much appreciated!
Best,
Mica
On April 21, 2016 12:41:26 AM PDT, "Meer, Hans van der" <h.vanderm...@uva.nl>
wrote:
>A week ago I posted here by accident part of a private conversation (in
>Dutch) with Hans Hagen. I already apologized for this.
>
>On
09:20 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 2/23/2016 10:26 PM, Mica Semrick wrote:
>>> Reading the docbook thread earlier today reminded me to ask this:
>>>
>>> Is there any feature or script that anyone can share that will read in
>>> an XML document and sp
Congratulations! I published my first book using context back in March :)
On July 3, 2016 5:27:24 AM PDT, Andrea Valle wrote:
>I’d like to thank Hans and all the community for allowing me to do
>this:
>
>http://www.logos-verlag.de/cgi-bin/engbuchmid?isbn=4017=eng
If you think it is a system problem and not a context one, then:
fc-cache -fv
-m
On February 20, 2017 8:24:07 AM PST, Nicola wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>I am re-typesetting a mkiv document that uses system fonts for text and
>math (through \definefontfamily). Suddenly, it
Any reason you want to use MKII instead of MKIV?
It looks lime you need to set the environment variable OSFONTDIR, which should
point to the directory where your fonts are stored.
-m
On October 27, 2016 2:02:10 PM PDT, Asim ConTeXt
wrote:
>Dear list members,
>I
I haven't checked in a while, since this is already set in my init.el file, but
auxtex was using mkii/texexec a few years ago. Have you checked you're using
mkiv/context?
On October 28, 2016 6:04:27 AM PDT, Fabrice Couvreur
wrote:
>Hello,
>I just upgraded to
Hello,
I'm also using emacs with auctex, currently using reftex, but will have a look
at ebib.
-m
On October 24, 2016 5:14:02 AM PDT, Michael Eidenbenz
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I use emacs with the spacemacs distribution.
>To manage my bibliographies (and also images) I use
?
>Fabrice
>
>2016-10-28 19:07 GMT+02:00 Mica Semrick <m...@silentumbrella.com>:
>
>> I haven't checked in a while, since this is already set in my init.el
>> file, but auxtex was using mkii/texexec a few years ago. Have you
>checked
>> you're using mkiv/conte
>From the pandoc github issues page, looks like they're working on asciidoc.
>See issue 1465 in the pandoc repo.
-m
On October 13, 2016 3:35:14 AM PDT, "Saša Janiška" wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I plan to adopt AsciiDoc(tor) as general markup for my writing (web
>content, blog posts,
I often find adding 'TeX' to my search query to be helpful. Something like
'ConTeXt TeX margin error'
-m
On October 12, 2016 8:29:45 AM PDT, Yi Qingliang
wrote:
>can we change name other than context? it is too difficult to search
>it on google :(
>
>On Wed, Oct 12,
Sorry! I often transpose numbers. Thanks for the correction.
-m
On October 13, 2016 2:20:13 PM PDT, Pablo Rodriguez <oi...@gmx.es> wrote:
>On 10/13/2016 10:57 PM, Mica Semrick wrote:
>> From the pandoc github issues page, looks like they're working on
>> asciidoc. See iss
Perhaps not the best answer, but exiftool can add that metadata after the fact.
-m
On March 7, 2017 8:55:17 AM PST, Csikos Bela wrote:
>Dear context users:
>
>In latex I could use \pdfinfo command to add information metadata to
>pdf file:
>Title, Author, Creator,
It’s a plain text format for writing structured documents, based on formatting
conventions from email and usenet.
http://commonmark.org
-m
On May 6, 2017 8:42:46 AM PDT, John Culleton wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: "Hans
Hi John,
Have a look at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDFX
-m
On August 25, 2017 2:47:47 PM PDT, John Culleton wrote:
>I need to have context generate the above format. Any hints?
>
>
> John Culleton
>
>
If your web requirement is single XML files per article, you should be able to
feed ConTeXt multiple XML files and typeset them as one PDF.
On May 15, 2019 7:35:47 AM PDT, Denis Maier wrote:
>Our workflow is not settled yet; we're still discussing options. All
>depends upon what is possible ...
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