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Typical font size and interline space for Adobe Garamond Premier Pro.
by Pawel Urbanski 13 May '25

13 May '25

Hi Everyone, Adobe Garamond Premier Pro is a very popular font. Understanding that typesetting is both art and science it is not easy to find some neat guidelines on values for size and spacing for this particular font. There are threads on the web that mostly relate to self-publishing with regular text editors. I'm currently drafting a book using the 5.5x8.5 trim size, with typical outer margins of 0.5 inch and the inner one of 0.75 (including the gutter). Would you mind sharing the values for font size and any spacing adjustment for Garamond Premier? I am currently using 11.5pt for font size, and adjust spacing from the default 2.8ex to 2.9ex. Using whitespace between paragraphs set to small, in addition to the former values. It gives me roughly 35...36 lines per page. Thank you for your answers... Pawel

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The showlayout command output is missing cutspace value.
by Pawel Urbanski 13 May '25

13 May '25

Hi Everyone, I've noticed one thing while tweaking my layout. Namely, the \showlayout command output is missing the value for the cutspace. The values for margins, text area, and backspace is listed, but the mentioned cutspace. The documentation says that cutspace is equal to backspace when cutspace is equal to zero. We can obviously set it to the desired value. Listing it in the output would be useful and complete the values for layout keys when debugging. Sending it as a possible thing to consider. All the best, Pawel

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How to force indents to always appear, even after figure?
by Joel 13 May '25

13 May '25

\starttext \setupindenting[yes, big, always] \input knuth \placefigure{...}{% \externalfigure[cow][frame=on, width=.6666\textwidth]% }% \input knuth \stoptext With the code above, you will notice that after the figure is placed, the next paragraph no longer gets an indent. My copy editor has warned that because my target audience is children, this will confuse them, so I need to make sure the start of a new paragraph always has an indent. I tried adding the 'always' detail to \setupindenting, see above, but that didn't help. What setting will make sure the start of my paragraph always gets an indent? Note, in my passage, I've marked every single paragraph with \startparagraph and \stopparagraph. --Joel

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bytemap problem
by Keith McKay 11 May '25

11 May '25

Hi all, I've been playing with bytemaps (see the latest LuaMetaFun manual) and I have come across a problem when I create more than 15 bytemaps. This came about as part of a bigger project where I create a large bytemap and then make smaller bytemaps with the data from the large bytemap. I've made a MWE below %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \startMPpage i := 1; for x = 1 upto 5: for y := 1 upto 5: newbytemap i of (250,250,3); setbytemap i to (floor(uniformdeviate(255) + 1),floor(uniformdeviate(255) + 1),floor(uniformdeviate(255) + 1)); fill unitsquare xyscaled (250,250) shifted ((x) * 255, (y) *255) withbytemap i; i := i + 1; endfor; endfor; \stopMPpage %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The MWE above is for a 5 X 5 grid of randomly generated colours and you can see that the last 10m squares are black. Changing x or y to 3 will give 15 coloured squares, but a 4 X 4 grid and above gives black squares above 15 coloured squares. I can't see anything wrong with the code so I'm wondering if it is a bug. Any advice would be gratefully received. I'm running the latest update on a mac mini M1. Thanks Best Wishes Keith

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Images and Accessibility (ConTeXt LMTX 2025.04.28)
by Matthias Weber 11 May '25

11 May '25

Dear All, I am starting a new thread as requested. I can confirm that > > the following should work with current latest (from yesterday, > LuaMetaTeX 2.11.07 20250427 + ConTeXt LMTX 2025.04.28 14:29): > > \enabledirectives [backend.usetags=testing] > \setuptagging[state=start] > \setupstructure[state=start] > \setupbackend > [format=PDF/A-3a] > \setupbackend[format=pdf/ua-1] > \setupexternalfigures[location=default] > \starttext > \externalfigure[hacker][label={this is an image}] > > \startparagraph > a > \stopparagraph > \stoptext produces a PDF that passes the accessibility check in the current Adobe Acrobat. In particular, it passes the alternate text checks. Hovering over the image shows the alternate text in Acrobat. However, VoiceOver (on the Mac) does not read the alternate text; it completely ignores the existence of the image. In Preview, no alternate text is shown or read. So it seems that the only benefit is that readers with vision can see an alternate text... I don’t have access to a Windows machine, so I cannot test what other screen readers can do with this document. Thanks, Matthias

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Shadow around a figure
by Jeroen 11 May '25

11 May '25

Is there a way with metapost to get a slightly off-centered (upper-right) shadow around a figure?

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Error with xml files and attribute lists
by Wolfgang Schuster 11 May '25

11 May '25

Hi, the xml parser fails on attribute list settings in xml files. %%%% begin example \startbuffer[jmdict] <!DOCTYPE JMdict [ <!ATTLIST lsource xml:lang CDATA "eng"> ]> <JMdict> </JMdict> \stopbuffer \starttext \startluacode local jmdict = lxml.loadbuffer("","jmdict",false) inspect(jmdict) \stopluacode \stoptext %%%% end example Wolfgang

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comparing text with the new typo-dif.mkxl
by Pablo Rodriguez 11 May '25

11 May '25

Hi Hans, from typo-dif.mkxl, lines 16-17: > % Currently only a color can be set but I might add support for underline > % and simple background. Would it be possible to have simple (color) background implemented? After comparing texts, I realize that when few chars differ (or even only one), it is harder to notice. Colored background (with even white foreground color) is far easier to notice. Many thanks for your help, Pablo

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Change Figure Capture
by Jeroen 10 May '25

10 May '25

Is there an easy way to change the capture below all figure captures to italic? Many thanks, Jeroen

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List of abbreviations
by Jeroen 10 May '25

10 May '25

At the beginning of a report I would like to have a page with an abbreviation listing with for example HTML hypertext mark-up language CSS cascade style sheets etc The distancing where the long explanation starts should be the same at lets say 30mm from the margin and in case it jumps to a next line, it also should continue at 30mm from the margin and not back at the margin. What would be the best way to achieve this? Thanks Jeroen

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