August 2018 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

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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Undefined control sequence: \pdfpxdimen
by Aditya Mahajan 23 Jun '20

23 Jun '20

The drops module uses the primitive \pdfpxdimen in a couple of places, but that is no longer defined in the current beta. What is the equivalent command now? Examples of usage: \pdfpxdimen1in\relax\divide\pdfpxdimen\numexpr\dropsparameter\c! resolution\relax % set actual pixel dimension Aditya

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Outputting custom types in MKiv bibliography
by Mike O'Connor 11 Mar '20

11 Mar '20

Hello, I’m trying to create my first publication using ConTeXt mkiv. All going well except for the bibliography formatting. Previously I have used LaTeX, standard entry types in BibTeX, and custom output formats using Biblatex. My publication cites lots of historical sources, viz.: (1) Newspaper articles — currently stored as ‘article’ types in BibTex. (2) Archival sources (historic letter, some leather-bound volume, a catalogued box of old photographs, etc.) — currently stored as ‘unpublished’ or ‘misc'. I would prefer to store these (in BibTeX, buffer, lua, or xml) as custom types (eg. ‘newspaper’, ‘archivalItem’), create setups for how they are output and which fields I output. I found a ’newspaper’ type (and other non-BibTeX types) defined in publ-imp-apa.mkiv as: \startsetups btx:apa:list:newspaper \fastsetup{btx:apa:list:article} \stopsetups I hoped this would mean I could output something: Boxing. (1903, September 13). The Sunday Times, p.8 However, if I create an item of type 'newspaper’ and \cite it I get an output of all stored fields: newspaper: [day: 13] [journal: {The Sunday Times}] [month: 09] [pages:8][title: {Boxing.}] [type: newspaper article] [year: 1903] A similar thing happens if I try to cite the standard BibTeX type ‘misc’. If I store the newspaper item as type ‘article’ I get: “Boxing.”, The Sunday Times, 8, 1903. (missing day and month) Is it relevant that there is a problem when I include \showbtxfields[rotation=30] in my document? The resulting table has ‘*’ for fields in ‘article’, ‘book’, ‘demo-a’, ‘demo-b’ but the columns for ‘newspaper’ and ‘misc’ are empty. Any pointers gratefully received. Cheers, Mike O’Connor P.S. I am working in TeXShop on OSX (10.11.3), and it reports: This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.80.0 (TeX Live 2015) (rev 5238) ConTeXt ver: 2015.05.18 12:26 MKIV current fmt: 2016.3.19 int: english/english

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Luatex 1.08.0 announcement
by luigi scarso 28 Oct '19

28 Oct '19

============================================================== LuaTeX 1.08 2018-08-28 ============================================================== (1) This release is a prelude to 1.10, the next stable iteration of LuaTeX after version 1.00. (2) Lua 5.3 is now considered to be default and we might use 5.4 in version 1.10. There are no real functional changed expected. You still need to rename the binary for 5.3! (3) Binary mode is no longer available in MPlib but it is still available in stand alone MetaPost. This simplifies compilation and reduces dependencies. (4) The dependency on Poppler for pdf image inclusion has been removed. We now use a small dedicated library written by Pawel Jakowski. We no longer need c++ compilers. We're in the process of making it behave well on all platforms. It has been tested on intel platforms. (5) We know that there can be some (alignment) issues with the arm platform but these are looked into. Therefore, later this year we will release 1.09. Version 1.10 is planned for TeXlive. We hope that ffi works ok on intel and arm platforms at that point. (6) There have been some extensions to the Lua libraries and some callbacks have been added. Also, a few new primitives have been introduced. The documentation mentions the stable extensions. (7) There are the usual bug fixes and cleanups but there have been no real fundamental changes in the API. The LuaTeX team

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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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double followtokens?
by Pablo Rodriguez 01 Jan '19

01 Jan '19

Dear list, I have the following sample: \useMPlibrary[txt] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{followtokens} path RotPath ; RotPath := reverse halfcircle ; % path RotPath ; RotPath := halfcircle rotatedaround (origin, 180) ; \stopuseMPgraphic \followtokens{Just follow the tokens} \stoptext How can I get both paths (in diverse directions)? I would like to repeat the same text twice, separating both sentences with a character. I have to ask this, beause MetaPost is all Greek to me. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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page interaction in contents list entry
by Henning Hraban Ramm 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Dear wizards, in a list command (i.e. \setuplist[command=\MyCmd]) I use \currentlistentrypagenumber to show the page number. Now I’d like to make this a link, like in a normal ToC. I didn’t find a suitable command. Is there one? Greetlings, Hraban --- https://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.dreiviertelhaus.de GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD

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xtables multipage horizontally
by be ba 05 Sep '18

05 Sep '18

Hi, the wiki says for xtables and multipage "yes, even horizontally". How can I do that? Doing this: \setupxtable[split=yes] is not enough since this only gives vertically splitting. Both http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/xtables-mkiv.pdf and http://wiki.contextgarden.net/xtables do not talk about this. be ba

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Problem with simplefonts
by Mari Voipio 03 Sep '18

03 Sep '18

Hello! Partly due to the upcoming ConTeXt meeting I updated my ConTeXt, although with the --current option for latest stable. Most of my files compile fine and there don't seem to be any problems. However, the big beast fails right after loading env-fonts-23 (attached) and it seems to be a problem connected to the Simplefonts module. This is what the log says: ----- fonts > preloading latin modern fonts (second stage) fonts > 'fallback modern-designsize rm 12pt' is loaded open source > level 3, order 4, name '../../env-fonts-23.tex' modules > 'simplefonts' is loaded open source > level 4, order 5, name 'C:/context/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/third/simplefonts/t-simplefonts.mkiv' loading > ConTeXt User Module / Simplefonts resolvers > lua > loading file 'C:/context/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/third/simplefonts/t-simplefonts.lua' succeeded tex error > tex error on line 802 in file C:/context/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/third/simplefonts/t-simplefonts.mkiv: ! Undefined control sequence \simplefonts@fontfeature ...\normalexpanded {\@NX \definefontfeature [#1#2\s... \syst_helpers_comma_list_step ...\v!mainfont }{#1} \ctxlua {thirddata.simplef... \17>>2 #1,->\syst_helpers_comma_list_step {#1} \syst_helpers_do_process_comma... <argument> \relax regular, italic,slanted,bold,bolditalic,boldslanted,caps, italiccaps,slan \syst_helpers_do_process_comma_list ...m_gobble #1 ,]\relax \global \advance ... \simplefonts@definetextfont ...rocesscommacommand \ifx \currenttypeface \v!s... ... l.802 \setsansfont [Latin Modern Sans] 792 \c!smallcapsfeatures=\v!smallcaps, 793 \c!mode=\v!node, 794 \c!force=\v!yes, 795 \c!check=\v!no, 796 \c!expansion=\v!no, 797 \c!protrusion=\v!no] 798 799 %D Default fonts 800 801 \setmainfont [Latin Modern Roman] 802 >> \setsansfont [Latin Modern Sans] 803 \setmonofont [Latin Modern Mono][\s!features=\s!none] 804 \setmathfont [Latin Modern Math] 805 \sethandwritingfont [Latin Modern Roman] % neither handwritten nor calligraphic are available 806 \setcalligraphicfont[Latin Modern Roman] % for Latin Modern but I need a default font for them 807 808 \!!donesimplefontstrue 809 810 \stopmodule 811 812 \protect \endinput ? ----- My understanding of the font mechanics is flaky (to put it mildly), so I don't know if the problem is in my font definitions or if I've actually found a bug (unlikely, but you never know). What is weird is that the almost similar env-fonts-pr33.tex works without complaints. I'm running standalone ConTeXt on a 64-bit Windows10 machine, if that makes any difference. The ConTeXt version is 2018.08.28 17:21 MKIV beta. I don't need the non-working file right now. But it has to compile by the end of next week or I'll be in trouble... Thanks, Mari

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[tikz] pgfplotsreplacepdfmark error
by Pierre-Francois Bonnefoi 01 Sep '18

01 Sep '18

Hello, I'm currently working on some graphs with pgfplots and tikz and got this error : ------------ Undefined control sequence \pgfplotsreplacepdfmark {pgfid7}{pgfid6} ----------- This error occurs only in conjunction with : \tikzstyle{every picture}+=[remember picture] I use the standalone version of ConTeXt on OS X. Do you have any idea to get rid of it ? best regards, Pierre-François. -- Bonnefoi Pierre-Francois | E-mail : bonnefoi(a)unilim.fr http://p-fb.net/ Universite de Limoges, Laboratoire XLIM | Tel : 06 28 18 03 38 123 av Albert Thomas | Mrs. Peel, we're needed... 87060 Limoges CEDEX - FRANCE | The Avengers.

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