October 2024 - ntg-context

missing metadata in LMTX
by Pablo Rodriguez 18 Nov '25

18 Nov '25

Dear list, this issue has been bugging me for some time: \startbuffer[demo] <doc> <meta> <author>author</author> <title>title</title> </meta> <text> text </text> </doc> \stopbuffer \starttext \startxmlsetups xml:initialize \xmlsetsetup{#1}{code|meta|text}{xml:*} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregistersetup{xml:initialize} \startxmlsetups xml:doc \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:meta \setupinteraction [author={\xmltext{#1}{/author}}, title={\xmltext{#1}{/title}}] \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:text \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \setupinteraction[state=start] \xmlprocessbuffer{main}{demo}{} \stoptext With LuaTeX, I get PDF metadata. With LuaMetaTeX, I cannot get them. For both, I’m using current latest (from 2024.02.27 09:21). Could anyone confirm the issue or explain me what I am missing? Many thanks for your help, Pablo

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context / auctex problem?
by hanneder＠staff.uni-marburg.de 24 Feb '25

24 Feb '25

Apologies for this question, which is probably an auctex problem. I have a new install of everything (LinuX, emacs, texlive) and the latest (?) context (ConTeXt ver: 2024.05.27 18:16 LMTX) installed in a separate directory. Running context from the commandline works fine, so I guess I did not misspell the path, but when running "Context All" from emacs, the error is: ----- Running `ConTeXt' on `context-test' with ``context --once --nonstop context-test.tex'' /bin/sh: Zeile 1: context: Kommando nicht gefunden. TeX Output exited abnormally with code 127 at Mon Jun 17 14:03:03 ------ I don't think the .emacs is at fault, it worked before the reinstall and contains, for instance: (setq-default TeX-master t) (setq TeX-parse-self t) (setq TeX-auto-save t) (setq ConTeXt-Mark-version "IV") Any ideas welcome, Jürgen --- Prof. Dr. Juergen Hanneder Philipps-Universitaet Marburg FG Indologie u. Tibetologie Deutschhausstr.12 35032 Marburg Germany Tel. 0049-6421-28-24930 hanneder(a)staff.uni-marburg.de

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images with alt text
by Steffen Wolfrum 06 Feb '25

06 Feb '25

Hi, as publishing houses (at least in Germany) are forced to provide «alt text» with their PDF-publications (from June 2025 on), I need to know how «images with alternate text» (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_attribute) are typeset with ConTeXt LMTX. In HTML it looks like this: <img src="example.jpg" alt="Example text"> What is the equivalent in ConTeXt LMTX? Yours, Steffen

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max function in spreadsheettable
by juh+ntg-context＠mailbox.org 14 Nov '24

14 Nov '24

Dear all, I have a cell that calculates a value that may not be a negative value. If it is a negatiive value the cell should show zero. \startcell[style=normal] @ "0.2f EUR" $pauschale.eintag$ - ((D[row] * (0.2 * $pauschale.vororttag$)) + (E[row] * (0.4 * $pauschale.vororttag$)) + (F[row] * (0.4 * $pauschale.vororttag$))) \stopcell The $-variables will get resolved by Pandoc before ConTeXt comes into play. As far as I understood the handdbook spreadsheets-mkiv.pdf it is possible to define lua functions inside a cell. Who would you implement a max function that sets the value to 0 if it is negative? TIA juh P.S. For German speakers: We try to implement a Reisekostenformular.

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serial letters
by Henning Hraban Ramm 11 Nov '24

11 Nov '24

How would you approach serial letters, e.g. to all members of a club? (Actually I need to send out donation receipts.) I’d like to use the letter module, since my usual letter design is using it. I can export the addresses to CSV, JSON, Lua tables or whatever or transfer them to a SQLite db. Would it make more sense to read them in Lua and combine this data with a buffer, or to write a single tex file for every letter? I know how to do the latter, but I’d like to learn a more ConTeXt-ish way. Would it make sense to use the bibliographies module? Greetlings, Hraban --- https://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.dreiviertelhaus.de GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD

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penalties
by Thomas Meyer 05 Nov '24

05 Nov '24

Hi folks, following today's update, \startsetups[grid][mypenalties] \setdefaultpenalties \setpenalties\widowpenalties{2}{10000} \setpenalties\clubpenalties {2}{10000} \stopsetups \setuplayout[grid=yes, setups=mypenalties] doesn't work any longer, I think. Can anyone confirm this. There is another problem (page break in the paragraph) that I have yet to verify. Greetings Thomas

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Seeking Advice on Electron Configuration Notation in ConTeXt
by Jorge Manuel 31 Oct '24

31 Oct '24

Hello everyone, I’m searching for an efficient way to represent electronic configurations in subshell and orbital notation within ConTeXt. I found similar examples discussed on StackExchange, which you can see here: Atomic electronic configuration with small boxes: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/372581/atomic-electronic-configurat… Box and arrow notation of writing electron configuration https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/616989/box-and-arrow-notation-of-wr… Ideally, I’d like to use a package similar to atoms.sty for this purpose. Does anyone know of a straightforward approach to achieve this in ConTeXt? Thank you very much for any guidance or examples! Best regards, Jorge

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Cron <context@cgl> /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror
by root＠ntg.nl 31 Oct '24

31 Oct '24

receiving incremental file list ./ ctan.lsr document-2.htm download-1.htm download-2.htm logo-ade.png logo-cts.png logo-pod.png rss.xml show-fil.pdf context/latest/ context/latest/cont-lmt.zip context/latest/cont-mpd.zip context/latest/cont-ppc.zip context/latest/cont-sci.zip context/latest/cont-tmf.zip context/latest/cont-tst.7z context/latest/cont-tst.tar.xz context/latest/cont-tst.zip general/manuals/ general/manuals/beyond.pdf general/manuals/lmt.pdf general/manuals/luametatex.pdf general/manuals/pdfmerge.pdf general/manuals/primitives.pdf sent 201,517 bytes received 52,195,104 bytes 4,191,729.68 bytes/sec total size is 619,736,117 speedup is 11.83 Running archiver: New dir: /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-10-31.13 271824855 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-10-31.13/latest 126745317 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-10-31.13/current 398574268 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-10-31.13 398574268 total

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using command line arguments
by Henning Hraban Ramm 28 Oct '24

28 Oct '24

Hi, I’m trying to use a command line argument in parameter names – color name in the example below, variable namespace in my actual project. I guess I need more expansion, but where? Or what’s the problem here? """ \setupbodyfont[plex,18pt] % set \OEM to the parameter name, fall back to "fiee" \expanded\define\OEM{\expanded\doifelsedocumentargument{OEM}{\expanded\getdocumentargument{OEM}}{fiee}} \definecolor[col:fiee][c=1] \definecolor[col:pragma][m=1,y=1] \definecolor[col:black][k=1] \starttext \color[col:\OEM]{Company: \OEM} \stoptext """ Hraban

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Why is my custom bullet point not rendering?
by Joel 27 Oct '24

27 Oct '24

\starttypescript[serif] [garamond] \definefontsynonym[Serif] [file:/home/joel/.fonts/EBGaramond-Regular.otf] \definefontsynonym[SerifBold] [file:/home/joel/.fonts/EBGaramond-Bold.otf] \definefontsynonym[SerifItalic] [file:/home/joel/.fonts/EBGaramond-Italic.otf] \definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalic] [file:/home/joel/.fonts/EBGaramond-BoldItalic.otf] \definefontsynonym[SerifCaps] [file:/home/joel/.fonts/EBGaramond12-AllSC.otf] \stoptypescript % \starttypescript[sans] [garamond] \definefontsynonym[Sans] [file:/home/joel/.fonts/EBGaramond-Regular.otf] \definefontsynonym[SansBold] [file:/home/joel/.fonts/EBGaramond-Bold.otf] \definefontsynonym[SansItalic] [file:/home/joel/.fonts/EBGaramond-Italic.otf] \definefontsynonym[SansBoldItalic] [file:/home/joel/.fonts/EBGaramond-BoldItalic.otf] \definefontsynonym[SansCaps] [file:/home/joel/.fonts/EBGaramond12-AllSC.otf] \stoptypescript % \starttypescript[garamond] \definetypeface[garamond] [rm][serif][garamond][default] \definetypeface[garamond] [ss][sans][garamond][default] \definetypeface[garamond] [mm][math][modern][default] \stoptypescript % \setupbodyfont[garamond, 12pt] \definesymbol[bighand][{{☞}}] \define[1]\prompt{% \startitemize[symbol=bighand] {\it #1} \stopitemize }% \defineitemgroup[prompt][symbol=bighand, style=italic] \starttext Why does this work? ☞☞☞☞ \prompt{\startitem But not here?\stopitem} \stoptext I am trying to make a pointing finger the bullet point symbol. When I put the bullet point into the document, it works just fine. But when defined as the pointer, it somehow isn't showing up. What am I doing wrong?

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