April 2016 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

convert old dvi files
by Meer, Hans van der 20 Apr '16

20 Apr '16

I need to convert some old dvi files into pdf. One of the routes seems dvi --(dvips) ->- ps --> pdf But dvips (taken from the ConTeXt-beta distribution) complains "Couldn't find header file: tex.pro" Where can I find it? It doesn't seem present in the above mentioned distribution. Or is there a ConTeXt mtxrun-call or such, that can do it directly? Hans van der Meer

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parallel texts, setuptabulate and widows-orphans control
by massifr＠fastwebnet.it 19 Apr '16

19 Apr '16

Hello list, I've found that \start ... \stoptabulate can be used to format parallel texts, with paragraphs that are synchronized and split well on different pages. I also found that they don't play well with widow-orphan penalties. Try this: \setuptabulate[split=yes] \starttext \setpenalties\widowpenalties{1}{10000} \setpenalties\clubpenalties{1}{10000} \starttabulate[|p|p|] \NC \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth} \NC \dorecurse{2}{\input knuth} \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stoptext The penalties' settings make some lines overlap. Comment out those two lines and everything works well. Not a great problem, since I don't think you need widow-orphan control in parallel texts. It took me some time to understand what was making lines overlap. So I leave it here for future reference, if someone else stumbles on the same problem.

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Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 142, Issue 52
by Brian Ballsun-Stanton 19 Apr '16

19 Apr '16

I'm dealing with a 500 page book (if you give me your github username, I'll happily add you to the repo) and many of these problems emerge only at scale. (when I render individual chapters, there are no issues, but when rendering the whole book, the tables just have all sorts of formatting issues.) Here's a working example % engine=luajittex \startenvironment env_trap \enableregime[utf-8] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupreferencing[autofile=yes] \setupinteraction[state=start, color=blue, contrastcolor=blue, style={\tf}] \usemodule[simplefonts] \usemodule[database] % Enable hyperlinks \setuppapersize [A4][A4] \definepapersize[standing][A4][A4] \definepapersize[lying][A4,landscape][A4] \setuplayout [width=middle, backspace=.75in, cutspace=.75in, height=middle, topspace=.5in, bottomspace=.5in] \setupbodyfont[11pt] \setupwhitespace[none] \setupcaption[table][location=top] \setupcaptions[style={\tfx}, width=.9\textwidth,align=middle] \unprotect \appendtoks \setupbackgrounds[\v!page][\c!background=\makeupparameter\c!background] \to \t_page_makeup_every_setup \protect \defineseparatedlist[CSV] [separator={,}, quotechar={"}, left=\bTD,right=\eTD, first=\bTR,last=\eTR, before=\bTABLE,after=\eTABLE] \setupTABLE[c][each][align=flushleft,style={\tfx},width=fit] \setupTABLE[r][1][background=color,backgroundcolor=gray,style={\tf}] \setupTABLE[align=middle] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \stopenvironment \starttext \placetable[here][tab01]{Kazanlak site numbers, aggregate area and average area through through time}{ \setupTABLE[c][each][align=middle,style={\tfx},alignmentcharacter={.},aligncharacter=yes] \chardef\characteralignmentmode=2 \startCSV Period,NL,Chl,EBA,LBA,EIA,LIA,RM,LA,BYZ,MA,OTT Aggregate Area (ha),1.5,2.9,5.0,6.7,21.5,43.3,54.9,31.2,24.4,30.7,94.9 Site Count,3,6,10,7,23,38,23,19,15,21,15 Avg Area (ha),0.5,0.5,0.5,1.0,0.9,1.1,2.4,1.6,1.6,1.5,6.3 \stopCSV } \stoptext And I wasn't able to cause it to fail via a trivial 'making it a component' and calling it from a project. > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 22:11:28 +0200 > From: Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> > To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Table index is nil > Message-ID: <57153F70.6050505(a)wxs.nl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > On 4/18/2016 3:59 AM, Brian Ballsun-Stanton wrote: > > I'm getting (suddenly) an error: > > ...ext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/font-hsh.lua:124: table > > index is nil > > > > > > And I have a bunch of tables: > > > > > > \placetable[here][tab01]{Kazanlak site numbers, aggregate area and > > average area > > through through time}{ > > > \setupTABLE[c][each][align=middle,style={\tfx},alignmentcharacter={.},aligncharacter=yes] > > \chardef\characteralignmentmode=2 > > \startCSV > > Period,NL,Chl,EBA,LBA,EIA,LIA,RM,LA,BYZ,MA,OTT > > Aggregate Area (ha),1.5,2.9,5.0,6.7,21.5,43.3,54.9,31.2,24.4,30.7,94.9 > > Site Count,3,6,10,7,23,38,23,19,15,21,15 > > Avg Area (ha),0.5,0.5,0.5,1.0,0.9,1.1,2.4,1.6,1.6,1.5,6.3 > > \stopCSV > > } > > > > The odd thing is that no other chapters of the book (all of which use > > the same environment, and many use the same table) > > > > When I comment out the series of tables, the errors go away. > > I've just rerun first-setup.sh just out of paranoia. mtx-context | > > current version: 2016.04.17 11:56 > > i really need a small *working* example for this > > >

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Table index is nil
by Brian Ballsun-Stanton 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

I'm getting (suddenly) an error: ...ext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/font-hsh.lua:124: table index is nil And I have a bunch of tables: \placetable[here][tab01]{Kazanlak site numbers, aggregate area and average area through through time}{ \setupTABLE[c][each][align=middle,style={\tfx},alignmentcharacter={.},aligncharacter=yes] \chardef\characteralignmentmode=2 \startCSV Period,NL,Chl,EBA,LBA,EIA,LIA,RM,LA,BYZ,MA,OTT Aggregate Area (ha),1.5,2.9,5.0,6.7,21.5,43.3,54.9,31.2,24.4,30.7,94.9 Site Count,3,6,10,7,23,38,23,19,15,21,15 Avg Area (ha),0.5,0.5,0.5,1.0,0.9,1.1,2.4,1.6,1.6,1.5,6.3 \stopCSV } The odd thing is that no other chapters of the book (all of which use the same environment, and many use the same table) When I comment out the series of tables, the errors go away. I've just rerun first-setup.sh just out of paranoia. mtx-context | current version: 2016.04.17 11:56

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Vertical line in natural table
by MANUEL GONZALEZ SUAREZ 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Hello friends. I send an attachment where a natural table appears with the PDF output. I can not get the second vertical line scroll the table up and down, like the first vertical line. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thank you

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copy/paste text broken with certain ligatures
by Brian R. Landy 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Hi, sometime between version 2015.08.05 and 2016.04.10 the handling of certain ligatures changed (sorry, I don't have intermediate versions to test with). The issue is the ligatures no longer copy/paste as the original two characters, which also breaks text searched of the pdf. Instead they copy as a single glyph. I'm seeing the problem with "ti" and "fj", while others like "ffi", "fi", and "ff" are fine in both versions. I see this using Calibri (other fonts I tried don't support those two ligatures): \starttypescript[cleartype] \definetypeface[\typescriptone][ss][sans][calibri][default] \stoptypescript \usetypescript[cleartype] \setupbodyfont[cleartype,sans,10pt] \starttext ffi\par fi\par ff\par fi\par ti\par fj\par \stoptext Thank you. Best regards, Brian

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Layer placement problem
by Mari Voipio 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Hi, after I updated my ConTeXt a few weeks ago, my cover page suddenly started looking funny. As far as I understand it, the page consists of stuff piled on a layer and then the layer is placed on a page. Except that now the top edge of the layer seems to be placed at the midpoint of the page or something like that. The text that should be in the middle of the page now ends up on the bottom edge of the page. How can I align the top of the layer to the top of the page so that everything on the page shows up again? Thank you, Mari

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Uppercase sharp s
by Wolfgang Schuster 17 Apr '16

17 Apr '16

Hi Hans, can you add option which uses the uppercase the uppercase ß with \WORD instead of the current SS replacement. This replacement should only be optional and not the default. %% begin example \setupbodyfont[libertine] \starttext Straße \WORD{Straße} STRAẞE \stoptext %% end example Wolfgang

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Strange behavior with Utopia fonts in math mode
by Fabrice Couvreur 17 Apr '16

17 Apr '16

Hello, I compiled this file with a strange exit for mathematical formula. What's missing in my file ? Thank you. Fabrice \loadtypescriptfile[mathdesign] \usetypescriptfile[utopia] \definetypeface[mainface][rm] [serif][palatino][default][encoding=texnansi] \definetypeface[mainface][ss][sans] [helvetica] [default][encoding=texnansi] [rscale=auto] \definetypeface[mainface][mm] [math] [utopia] [default] [rscale=auto] \setupbodyfont[mainface,12pt] \starttext \input knuth \startformula f(x) = \sum_{i=1}^n a_i x^i \stopformula \stoptext

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Fourier install fonts
by Fabrice Couvreur 17 Apr '16

17 Apr '16

Hi, With Latex, just do it : \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\usepackage{fourier} I'm confused about how to do it with Context. Thanks for your help. Fabrice

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