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Laundry symbols (now: altered picture)
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 02 Jan '22

02 Jan '22

Hello ConTeXters, is there a way how to get laundry symbols into ConTeXt? - The image is copied from "The Comprehensive LATEX Symbol List", Scott Pakin. TIA. Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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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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\showmathfontcharacters ?
by Meer, H. van der 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

Why do I get an error on \starttext \showmathfontcharacters \stoptext When that macro is defined in s-mat-10.mkiv as \unexpanded\def\showmathfontcharacters {\dodoubleempty\doshowmathfontcharacters} ConTeXt ver: 2013.04.16 12:08 MKIV beta fmt: 2013.4.19 int: english/english ! Undefined control sequence. 9 >> \showmathfontcharacters Hans van der Meer

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problem with \startcolumns[distance=0pt]
by Peter Münster 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

Hi, The distance is not 0pt here (MKIV): --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- \starttext \startcolumns[distance=0pt] \input tufte \stopcolumns \stoptext --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- -- Peter

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SOLVED: too many open files
by Henning Hraban Ramm 19 Jun '16

19 Jun '16

Hi again, in my current songbook project I use t-filter with LilyPond as shown in http://wiki.contextgarden.net/LilyPond with latest beta MkIV on OSX. Every line (system) of notes is included as its own PDF to leave the page breaking to ConTeXt. But since I have some hundred songs with each a few lines, it sums up... I guess ConTeXt keeps every externalfigure open, since I get this error: pages > flushing realpage 70, userpage 70 (c_helpmesee.tex structure > sectioning > TitelKlein @ level 2 : 0.83 -> Help Me See GNU LilyPond 2.16.2 ERROR: In procedure open-file: ERROR: Too many open files: "/Applications/music/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/../share/guile/1.8/ice-9/r4rs.scm" LILYPOND > name='lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee.pdf' LILYPOND > including system no.1 LILYPOND > including system no.2 LILYPOND > including system no.3 LILYPOND > including system no.4 LILYPOND > including system no.5 ) (c_hochaufdem.tex </Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-1.pdf> </Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-2.pdf> </Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-3.pdf> </Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-4.pdfI/O Error: Couldn't open file '/Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-4.pdf': Too many open files. !LuaTeX error: xpdf: reading PDF image failed ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! It works with songbook excerpts (some 30 songs). I don't understand if the error is really from LilyPond or from LuaTeX (I guess the former), and how I would be able to increase the number of possible files (in bash on OSX 10.8.4). So probably it's more a general Unix question than a ConTeXt one, but anyway... ANALYSIS: $ ulimit -n 256 $ sysctl kern.maxfiles kern.maxfiles: 12288 $ sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc kern.maxfilesperproc: 10240 SOLUTION: $ ulimit -S -n 2048 (Properly describing a problem often helps to solve it. I send this for the records, in case someone runs into the same.) Greetlings, Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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MacOsX Mavericks and Luatex
by Pierre Bovet 19 May '16

19 May '16

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 -- Pierre Bovet Documentaliste technique | Chargé de sécurité CFST Tel : +41 (0) 26 401 61 56 Courriel : pierre67(a)me.com

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Overlays as background in textbackground
by Marco Patzer 18 May '16

18 May '16

Hi, overlays are not displayed when used as a background for textbackground. Is this a bug or are overlays not supported? \defineoverlay [myoverlay] [\ssd Foo] \definetextbackground [mybackgroundColour] [background=color, backgroundcolor=gray] \definetextbackground [mybackgroundOverlay] [background=myoverlay] \starttext %% overlay works \framed [background=myoverlay, align=normal] {\input knuth\par} %% background=color works \startmybackgroundColour \input knuth \stopmybackgroundColour %% overlay is missing \startmybackgroundOverlay \input knuth \stopmybackgroundOverlay \stoptext Marco

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halign broken
by Meer, H. van der 16 May '16

16 May '16

There seems something very much amiss with \halign in later ConTeXt versions. This typesets fine in PlainTeX and is an example taken from a textbook. \tabskip=1em\halign{% \hfil\it#\hfil&\hfil#\hfil&#&\hfil#\crA&B&C&D\cr} Also in contextversion 2012.05.30 (from a TeXlive distribution). But it fails at least in ConTeXt ver: 2013.03.20 10:34 MKIV and in ConTeXt ver: 2013.04.16 12:08 MKIV beta with the following error ! Only one # is allowed per tab. system > tex > error on line 5 in file fixedwidth.tex: Only one # is allowed per tab ... 1 \starttext 2 contextversion=\contextversion\par 3 \tabskip=1em 4 \halign{% 5 >> \hfil\it#\hfil&\hfil#\hfil&#&\hfil#\cr 6 A&B&C&D\cr} 7 \stoptext l.5 \hfil\it#\hfil&\hfil# \hfil&#&\hfil#\cr Why? How primitive it may be, I would like to use \halign now and then. Hans van der Meer

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Re: [NTG-context] Hanging punctuation misalignment in footnotes
by Wolfgang Schuster 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Am 22.02.2014 um 01:25 schrieb Jan Tosovsky <j.tosovsky(a)email.cz>: > On 2014-02-22 Jan Tosovsky wrote: >> >> when hanging in footnotes is enabled and the starting character is a >> punctuation, it is not protruded. However, the same character in the >> footnote body works fine. When both cases are close each other, it >> looks weird, see the screenshot: >> >> http://drifted.in/other/footnote_alignment.png >> >> Would it be possible make this behaviour uniform - either do not >> protrude it >> on the starting (left) edge or protrude it everywhere? >> > > A minimal example is available at > http://drifted.in/other/sample.tex There are two things which prevent the protrusion of the opening quote at the begin of the paragraph. One of these can be avoided with a change in the setup for footnotes but not the other without destroying the layout of the footnote text. One problem is the way how context places the footnote number in front of the text, by default context uses the \llap command to move the number into the left margin but this prevents also the protrusion of the opening quote. You can avoid this problem when you change the footnote setup to \setupnotation[footnote][alternative=margin]. <example> \definefontfeature[default][default][expansion=quality,protrusion=quality] \setupbodyfont[modern] \setupalign[hanging] \showframe[text][text] \starttext »Text« \noindent\hbox to 0pt{}»Text« \noindent\hbox to 0pt{\hss}»Text« \stoptext </example> The second problem which prevents the opening quote to protrude are the struts which are added by context at the begin and end of the footnote content and there is no way to disable them because they are needed to have proper spacing between the individual footnote texts on the same page. <example> \definefontfeature[default][default][expansion=quality,protrusion=quality] \setupbodyfont[modern] \setupalign[hanging] \showframe[text][text] \starttext »Text« \strut »Text« \stoptext </example> In the example below where I took care of these two problems (don’t take care of \begstrut in this way in your real document because it will cause many problems, it’s just for educational purpose) to show you this is what caused the unwanted output. <example> \definefontfeature[default][default][expansion=quality,protrusion=quality] \setupbodyfont[modern] \setupalign[hanging] \showframe[text][text] \setupnotation[footnote][alternative=margin,align=hanging] \starttext \let\begstrut\relax First Footnote.\footnote{»\input{ward}«} Second Footnote.\footnote{»\input{ward}«} \stoptext </example> Wolfgang

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