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A Note for module authors: Version String Guidelines
by Taco Hoekwater 13 Aug '18

13 Aug '18

Hi to all module authors! The CTAN team (Manfred) and us (Mojca and I) have recently been setting up a new system whereby CTAN automatically picks up new, updated versions of the ConTeXt modules that want to be archived on CTAN. For this system to properly pickup new versions of modules, it is vital that the Version of such modules is coded as YYYY.MM.DD or YYYY-MM-DD. The YYYY.MM.DD format has a slight advantage, because it follows the traditional version number setup of <Major>.<Minor>.<Revision>, but the version with dashes works as well. So, if you are a module author on https://modules.contextgarden.net/ and want to benefit from this automatic update of the your new module version to CTAN, then please make sure your version string matches the above specification. Version strings like “r10” and "hg-rev57” cannot be parsed automatically, so any module updates you make using such version strings will more than likely be ignored. Best wishes, Taco

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Start sections with 0
by Wolfgang Schuster 12 Aug '18

12 Aug '18

Hi Hans, can you add a conversion which let us show 0 as value for the first chapter etc. \def\zeronumberconversion#1{\number\numexpr#1-1\relax} \defineconversion [zero] [\zeronumberconversion] \defineconversionset [zero] [n,zero] [n] \setuphead [sectionconversionset=zero] \starttext \startchapter [title=Introduction] \startsection [title=First topic] \stopsection \startsection [title=Second topic] \stopsection \stopchapter \stoptext Wolfgang

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page-pcl.mkiv
by Wolfgang Schuster 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

Hi, line 772 uses mixedcolumns parameter to set the text color. \unexpanded\def\page_col_start_yes {\d_page_col_distance \pagecolumnsparameter\c!distance\relax ... % \useprofileparameter\pagecolumnsparameter % - \usemixedcolumnscolorparameter\c!color + \usepagecolumnscolorparameter\c!color % \setupnotes[\c!width=\textwidth]% ... \let\stoppagecolumns\page_col_stop_yes} Wolfgang

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language synonyms for registers
by Pablo Rodriguez 15 Jul '18

15 Jul '18

Hi Hans, would it be possible to add the following lines to the Greek sorting rules (in sort-lan.lua)? definitions['el'] = { parent = 'gr' } -- Greek (ISO 639) definitions['agr'] = { parent = 'gr' } -- ancient Greek definitions['grc'] = { parent = 'gr' } -- ancient Greek (ISO 639) Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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scrp-ini.mkiv: Global attributes for \setscript command
by Wolfgang Schuster 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

Hi Hans, the \setscript command has the same problem with local attributes as the bidi mechanism. Some of the following attributes in scrp-ini.mkiv have to be global: %%%% \definesystemattribute[scriptinjection][public] \definesystemattribute[scriptsplitting][public] \definesystemattribute[scriptstatus] [public] %%%% I know "scriptinjection" has to be global to have linebreaks in footnotes (and margin notes) for chinese and japanese. I guess "scriptsplitting" has to be global too because it is used for thai. Wolfgang

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typo-dir.mkiv: Making the directions attribute global
by Wolfgang Schuster 04 Jul '18

04 Jul '18

Hi Hans, the example below shows a problems Idris has reported a few times. When you enable the bidi mechanism it gets reset for - footnotes, - margin notes and - header/footer texts, because the attribute setting in typo-dir.mkiv doesn’t include the "global" keyword. %%%% type-dir.mkiv \definesystemattribute[directions][public] %%%% Adding "global" to the second argument would fix the wrong output. %%%% test.tex \definefontfamily [mainface] [rm] [ALM Fixed] [features=arabic] \setupbodyfont [mainface] \setuplayout[backspace=5cm,width=middle,leftmargin=4cm] \setupdirections [bidi=global] \setupheadertexts[Test امتحان test] \starttext Test امتحان test\footnote{Test امتحان test} Test امتحان test\inmargin{Test امتحان test} \stoptext %%%% Wolfgang

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two typos in lpdf-wid.lua
by Pablo Rodriguez 02 Jul '18

02 Jul '18

Hans, the attached file contains the corrections of two typos and the addition of a (in my opinion, much needed) pair of commas. I hope it helps, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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mult-def.lua
by Wolfgang Schuster 09 Jun '18

09 Jun '18

Hi, on the lines 18.726 and 18.727 the brackets have to be replaced with braces. - ["cd:index-s"] = { en = "[...]" }, - ["cd:index-l"] = { en = "[..+...+..]" }, + ["cd:index-s"] = { en = "{...}" }, + ["cd:index-l"] = { en = "{..+...+..}" }, Wolfgang

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Luatex 1.07.0 announcement
by luigi scarso 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

============================================================== LuaTeX 1.07 2018-01-17 ============================================================== (1) This release brings Lua 5.3 to LuaTeX. We have tested an experimental version for a few months and not encountered issues. (2) If you use Lua 5.3 you should be aware of a few changes in the language and its implementation. Numbers are now either integers or floats but are cast automatically. (3) In some cases (e.g. string.format) there is a more strict check. A float always has a decimal appended when serialized, so 1 becomes 1.0 as string. (4) We keep supporting the bit32 library on top of the new bit operators. Be aware of the fact that currently LuajitTeX does not have these operators. (5) Performance of LuaTeX with Lua 5.3 can be slightly better than with 5.2 but this really depends on your usage of Lua. In practice there should be no slowdown. (6) We are aware of possible substantial slowdown of string.format depending on the platform and compiler. This depends on Lua too and will be resolved in due time. (7) If you want to test with Lua 5.3 then have to build LuaTeX with --lua53. Because ConTeXt will switch to 5.3 after this release there will be binaries available at the ConTeXt garden. (8) The 2018 TeXlive distribution will ship with LuaTeX using Lua 5.2 but there will likely be an additional binary LuaTeX53 available. (9) From 2019 TeXlive will ship with LuaTeX and Lua 5.3 as default. We provide --lua52 as build flag for a while. By then we might be looking at Lua 5.4 already. (10) There are the usual patches and cleanups and a few small additions (mentioned in the manual) but there have been no fundamental changes in the API (apart from removing depricated and undocumented functionality). The LuaTeX team

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\currentxrow and \currentxcolumn
by Pablo Rodriguez 13 Apr '18

13 Apr '18

Hans, I wonder whether it would be possible to have \currentxrow and \currentxcolumn for synonyms for \currentxtablerow and \currentxtablecolumn. The attached .diff contains the implementation. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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