May 2013 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

square in Cambria font
by Sietse Brouwer 01 May '13

01 May '13

Hello Hans, The bad news: I think it's the font. The good news: here comes MetaPost to the rescue! I don't have Cambria, so I plucked a cambria.ttf file off the Internet somewhere, which contains both Cambria and Cambria Math. I don't know whether you have the same file/version, so YMMV, but it does exhibit the problem you describe. According to the lovely and free FontForge, * the WHITE SQUARE glyph (U+25A1) is 1060 units high * the SQUARED PLUS glyph (U+229E) is 1630 units high (of which 230 below the baseline). This is in Cambria Math — Cambria does does not have either of these glyphs. I suspect the square size is a design decision: that the designers decided they wanted the white square to match the letters rather than the 'squared *' operators. Anyway, here's a very close MetaPost approximation of the 'squared plus' square, made by looking in with FontForge and copying the glyph dimensions. (And then tweaking them because some things still didn't look right; didn't manage to fix everything, alas.) It scales with the font size. Cheers, Sietse \setuppapersize[A7][A7] \setuppagenumber[state=stop] \setupbodyfont[cambria,40pt] \showframe \showgrid \startuseMPgraphic{square} numeric u, strokewd, strokeht, sqwd, sqht; u := BodyFontSize / 2083; strokewd := 128u; strokeht := 123u; sqwd := 1506u; sqht := 1533u; offset := 200u; pickup pensquare xscaled strokewd yscaled strokeht; draw unitsquare xscaled sqwd yscaled sqht; setbounds currentpicture to boundingbox currentpicture leftenlarged offset rightenlarged offset; \stopuseMPgraphic \def\mysquare{% \lower \dimexpr \bodyfontsize / 2083 * 234 \relax\hbox{\useMPgraphic{square}}% } %%%% try it out %%%% \starttext $\square+\mysquare\boxplus$ \crlf $\mysquare\boxplus$ \page[yes] $+ \ruledhbox{\boxplus}$ \crlf $+ \ruledhbox{\mysquare}$ \crlf $\ruledhbox{\boxplus}$ \crlf $\ruledhbox{\mysquare}$ \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] Formatting enumerations in MKIV
by Lance Larsen 01 May '13

01 May '13

Thankyou Wolfgang. This was what I was missing. I think I was not understanding the purpose of the width parameter. -Lance > Lance Larsen <lance.c.larsen(a)gmail.com>: > I am trying to configure an enumeration in MKiv, but it is not clear > how to set some of the formatting. I need to be able to control the > distance between the title and the enumeration text, but parameters > such as 'inbetween' seem to have no effect. Is there a parameter I can > use to set the spacing. Also, how do I find out what parameters are > available. I tried to figure out where defineenumeration is defined in > the lua or mkiv files without luck. > > \starttext > > \defineenumeration[ref][alternative=left,inbetween=\blank] > > \ref Testing \par > \ref Testing \par > > \stoptext Your inbetween setting is ignored because \blank is a command to add vertical space but the text of your enumeration is on the same line as the content and you need a horizontal space. To control the spacing you can change the width of the text with the ?width? key and the distance between the text and the content with the ?distance? key. \starttext \defineenumeration[ref][alternative=left,width=2cm,distance=5mm] \startref Testing \stopref \startref Testing \stopref \stoptext Wolfgang

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Heading flow
by lance.c.larsen＠gmail.com 01 May '13

01 May '13

I have a word template I am trying to convert to context. In the word template, section headings are used to manage bibliography numbering (i.e. each reference is included as a subsection). This translates fine to context except for one thing. Context headings seem to have a ‘keep with next’ type property such that if there is a long list of headings with no other paragraphs between, the headings go off the bottom of the page. I expect that I can change this by defining a custom heading via \setuphead, but how to I override the ‘keep with next’ behavior so that ? -Lance Larsen

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Headings flow question
by gaffer.lc＠gmail.com 01 May '13

01 May '13

I have a word template I am trying to convert to context. In the word template, section headings are used to manage bibliography numbering (i.e. each reference is included as a subsection). This translates fine to context except for one thing. Context headings seem to have a ‘keep with next’ type property such that if there is a long list of headings, the headings go off the bottom of the page. I expect that I can change this by defining a custom heading via \setuphead, but how to I override the ‘keep with next’ behavior? -Lance Larsen

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Re: [NTG-context] Header not repeating for tabulate
by lance.c.larsen＠gmail.com 01 May '13

01 May '13

I tested this on the online context tool, and the tabulate repeats header in MKii, but doesn’t in MKiv. Have the settings changed in MKiv, or is the functionality not there yet? -Lance Larsen Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:08:44 -0700 From: "Lance Larsen" <lance.c.larsen(a)gmail.com> To: <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Subject: [NTG-context] Header not repeating for tabulate Message-ID: <518032de.6dd2440a.6573.04f0(a)mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I created a table using tabulate. I want the header to repeat, and used the following code. The table splits correctly, but the header doesn't repeat. Any idea why the header doesn't repeat? \setuptabulate[split=yes,header=repeat] \starttabulatehead \HL \NC \bf Variable \NC \bf Value \NC \bf Reference \NR \HL \HL \stoptabulatehead \starttabulate[|lw(1in)|lw(1in)|l|] \dorecurse{100}{\NC Column 1 value \NC Column 2 value \NC Ref. Column 3 value \NC \AR} \stoptabulate

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Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination "fi"
by "H. Özoguz" 01 May '13

01 May '13

Hi, \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[AGaramondPro] \starttext Amficool \stoptext gives an "i" without dot, see attachment. And the letters "i" and "f" are curiously bonded. The second attachment shows the same word written in MS-Word, again with Adobe Garamond Pro, without this curiosity. Where this comes from and how to fix? Huseyin

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Formatting enumerations in MKIV
by Lance Larsen 01 May '13

01 May '13

I am trying to configure an enumeration in MKiv, but it is not clear how to set some of the formatting. I need to be able to control the distance between the title and the enumeration text, but parameters such as 'inbetween' seem to have no effect. Is there a parameter I can use to set the spacing. Also, how do I find out what parameters are available. I tried to figure out where defineenumeration is defined in the lua or mkiv files without luck. \starttext \defineenumeration[ref][alternative=left,inbetween=\blank] \ref Testing \par \ref Testing \par \stoptext -Lance Larsen

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