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Re: [NTG-context] [Context] Xindy
by Gour 22 Jul '19

22 Jul '19

>>>>> "Mojca" == Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists(a)gmail.com> writes: Mojca> Hello Gour, This is not a question for this mailing list, but Mojca> rather for Hans himself. OK. Mojca> ConTeXt doesn't use makeindex, so I don't really understand your Mojca> complaints about makeindex. Well, I mentioned 'makeindex' in the context of the tool which cannot properly handle Unicode, afaik. Mojca> What features exactly do you miss? I'm not sure if indexing-feature in ConTeXt allow me to use English, Croatian and Sanskrit diacritics (not Devanagari) all in one document and define that I want e.g. that \'{s}, \d{s} has to be sorted under 'Š' ? In short, xindy allows one to define his own sort-rules. Mojca> It makes no sense to discuss distributing something before it can Mojca> be used with ConTeXt.) Right, that's why also asked "Now I'm interested how is support for Xindy in ConTeXt" hoping that the context-distribution list has enough knowledgeable people able to answer it. Excuse me for the noise...redirecting to other list... Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Zagreb, Croatia | GPG key: D19DB797 ----------------------------------------------------------------

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Feature request: \digits command
by Morgan Brassel 29 Apr '18

29 Apr '18

Hi everyone, The \digits command is really great when it comes to typeset numbers in different languages. However, I miss one functionality from the numprint package in latex: when you type for example $e-5$, you get 10^{-5} (with no dot in front of it). Would it be possible to add an option to \digits to reproduce this? Best wishes, Morgan

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metafun
by Herbert Voss 24 Mar '16

24 Mar '16

It is a hard job to understand how all works ... I tried to create the first example of the documentation "Page 257 Anchors and layers", but failed with mkii and iv. The page is created, but without the graphical elements. Not using \startbuffer--\stopbuffer makes no difference. MTXrun | current version: 2010.07.30 11:35 Herbert \starttext \section {Anchors and layers} \startbuffer[a] \setMPpositiongraphic{X-1}{mypos:arrow}{to=X-2} \setMPpositiongraphic{X-2}{mypos:arrow}{to=X-3} \stopbuffer \startbuffer[b] In a previous section we saw that some \hpos {X-1} {words} were \hpos {X-2} {circled} and connected by an \hpos {X-3} {arrow}. As with most things in \CONTEXT, marking these words is separated from declaring what to do with those words. This paragraph is keyed in as: \stopbuffer \getbuffer[a,b] \stoptext

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Setting expansion depth limit for metapost
by Michal Suszko 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

I'm preparing quite long presentation -- nearly 3000 sides, 900 figures (500 distinct PNG files). I'm using ConTeXt MkIV installed using minimals (2010.03.12 19:49). Recently I'm hitting MetaPost capacity limit on expansion depth: !mplib : mp terminal: ! MetaPost capacity exceeded, sorry [expansion depth=10000]. Increasing expand_depth in texmf.cnf and regenerating formats with context --make doesn't help. expansion depth is still at 10000 in error message. texmf.cnf in texmf-local I've changed is reported by context as first one in log line starting with "mkiv lua stats : used config path" What am I missing? Michal

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Overfull boxes using m-cweb
by Edwin Wisse 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Hello, I am running into overfull boxes when including a weaved cweb file into a context document. The original reference to the cwebmac.tex file (the plain TeX macro) is commented out and replaced by \usemodule[cweb]. The cweb macros appear to expand something into \*11ptmmmt* which seems to have something to do with it. Is there anyone here with experience and deep (Con)TeX(t) knowledge who understands what is happening? Regards, Edwin ----------------------------------part of my log file------------------------------------------------ Overfull \hbox (6.4885pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 3--13 \*11ptmmmr* for the ap-pli-ca-tion de-vel-op-ment mod-ule. This is a small ap-p li-ca-tion which loads file \hbox(7.63889+2.13889)x398.33858 .\*11ptmmmr* f .\*11ptmmmr* o .\*11ptmmmr* r .\glue(\spaceskip) 3.66628 .\*11ptmmmr* t .etc. Overfull \hbox (8.38132pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 3--13 \*11ptmmmr* with point and line da-ta and dis-plays it in a win-dow. It pro-vid es a us-er in-ter-face al- \hbox(7.63889+2.13889)x398.33858 .\*11ptmmmr* w .\*11ptmmmr* i .\*11ptmmmr* t .\*11ptmmmr* h .\glue(\spaceskip) 3.66628 .etc.

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Q about hangaround commands
by Vladimir Lomov 06 Dec '12

06 Dec '12

Hi. I'm trying to figure out the limitation of \start/stophangaround commands. 1. Is it correct that currently the figure could be placed only on left? If so is it easy to extend the command to allow placing figure at right side? 2. Is there way to increase/decrease the space between the text and image? 3. Is it correct that hangaround command is tricky hack that change normal flow? I prepare simple example (it is attached). 1) is obvious from the example (default behavior I assume). 3): I got the '2.' not on left side as 1) and 3) but on left side of text block right after image. Another example if 3): if I put empty line between \starthangaround and \input (see the file) then there would be mess. P.S. I tried the example with MkIV only. --- WBR, Vladimir Lomov

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two problems with natural tables
by Florian Wobbe 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Hi, 1) I tried the following minimal example from http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20110109.151431.f774696a.en.html \placetable[split]{Test} {\bTABLE[split=yes] \dorecurse{60}{ \bTR \bTD hello \eTD \eTR } \eTABLE} with the current context versions which works fine. However, if I insert the code in a big project with many setups it fails with the attached error message. So there are setups which cause this error. Unfortunately I couldn't figure out what causes the problem. I could determine the context version at which my big document fails: 2010.12.22 14:07. The example still works in 2010.12.21 10:50. Anyone got an idea which setups might cause this issue? 2) How do I get a small and bold header? This does not work: \bTABLE \setupTABLE[style=\tfx] \setupTABLE[row][1][style=\bfx] % redundant w/ line 5 \bTABLEhead \bTR[style=\bfx] \bTH Header \eTH \eTR \eTABLEhead \bTABLEbody \bTR \bTD hello \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD world \eTD \eTR \eTABLEbody \eTABLE Thanks! Florian ! Missing number, treated as zero. system > tex > error on line 178 in file test.tex: Missing number, treated as zero ... 173 \placetable[split]{Test} 174 {\bTABLE[split=yes] 175 \dorecurse{60}{ 176 \bTR \bTD hello \eTD \eTR 177 } 178 >> \eTABLE} <to be read again> { \docompletefloat ...\vbox \floatcaptionattribute { \doifelsemainfloatbody \cu... <argument> ...loat {table}{}{split}{Test}\nextbox \else \docompletefloat {ta... \thirdofthreearguments #1#2#3->#3 \xdocompletefloat ...afloat ,#3}{#4}\nextbox \fi } \else \docompletefloat {#1... \dodowithnextbox ...tefloat {table}{}{split}{Test} \doifnotinset \v!text {spl... ... l.178 \eTABLE }

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bibliography: current status, Wiki page Bibliography, [[error 2]] and bibltx
by Paul Menzel 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

Dear ConTeXt folks, I am trying to use the module bib, but I only get [[error 2]] displayed. I am following the Wiki page Bibliography [1], which suggests the following example (adapted by me). \usemodule[bib] \usemodule[bibltx] \setupbibtex[database=sample] \setuppublications[numbering=yes] % Show reference numbers in the generated list. \starttext As \cite[hh2010b] already indicated, bibtex is a \LaTeX-centric program. \completepublications \stoptext I copied the file `sample.bib` @STRING{hh = {Hans Hagen}} @ELECTRONIC{hh2010, author = hh, year = {2010}, title = {Metafun. \CONTEXT\ mkiv}, url = {http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/metafun-s.pdf}, } @ARTICLE{hh2010a, author = hh, title = {The Font Name Mess}, journal = {MAPS}, year = {2010}, volume = {40}, pages = {2-8}, keywords = {context}, } @ARTICLE{hh2010b, author = hh, title = {Grouping in Hybrid Environments}, journal = {MAPS}, year = {2010}, volume = {40}, pages = {67-71}, keywords = {context}, } @BOOK{Eijkhout1991, title = {\TeX\ by Topic. A \TeX nician's Reference}, publisher = {Addison-Wesley}, year = {1991}, author = {Victor Eijkhout}, address = {London}, keywords = {general}, } from the bib module to the directory. Unfortunately I only get »[[error 2]]« displayed. Please find all files attached. Regarding `bibltx` the bib manual does also contain it [2][3]. Searching the Wiki for it, it says that it was dropped in version 2006.04.06 [4]. Thanks, Paul [1] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bibliography [2] http://modules.contextgarden.net/bibman [3] http://dl.contextgarden.net/modules/bibmod-doc/doc/context/bib/ [4] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2006.04.06

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Textbackgrounds
by Andreas Harder 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

Hi all, I've played with text backgrounds. Please have a look at the following example. \definetextbackground [test] [location=paragraph, % frame=off, % -> no round corners anymore corner=round, % -> corner=1|2|3… would be nice leftoffset=.5\bodyfontsize, rightoffset=.5\bodyfontsize, topoffset=.5\bodyfontsize, bottomoffset=.5\bodyfontsize] \setuphead [subject] [after=, command=\MyHead] \def\MyHead#1#2% {\framed [background=color, backgroundcolor=gray, frame=off, offset=.5\bodyfontsize, corner=3]{#1#2}} \starttext \subject{Test} \starttest \input tufte \stoptest \stoptext There is a nasty little space between the two backgrounds. How can I avoid it? Further the left borders of the frame are not aligned. I appreciate your help. Andreas

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jump to PDF page
by Steffen Wolfrum 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

Hi, I there a command to "jump" to a specific pdf page? Like \goto,\at, \in, \about ... only, in this case a page number should be given! Any ideas? Thanks, Steffen

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