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strange issue with hyphens
by Pablo Rodriguez 28 Sep '22

28 Sep '22

Dear list, I’m experiencing a weird issue with hyphenation: \setuphyphenation [method=traditional] \starttext \hyphenatedword{a-legibility-c} \sethyphenationfeatures [strict] \hyphenatedword{a-legibility-c} \stoptext I need the setup hyphenation commands to get underscore hyphenation. But how can I make that strict hyphenation features behave as standard hyphenation ones? I mean, that the first hyphen doesn’t get doubled and that hyphenation is also enabled after the first hyphen. I don’t know whether the strict hyphenation features are misbehaving here or I am missing something very basic here. Many thanks for your help, Pablo

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Command for specifying et al limit
by Jethro Djan 28 Sep '22

28 Sep '22

Dear list, I am trying to specify that 'et al’ should be appended after the first author if paper has multiple authors. It seems from the mkiv-publications.pdf manual that it should work like this but it doesn’t. Here is my MWE: \startbuffer[ref] @Article{bb:2017, author = {Bronstein, Michael M. and Bruna, Joan and Cohen, Taco and Veličković, Petar}, journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.13478}, title = {Geometric Deep Learning: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges}, year = {2021}, } \stopbuffer \definebtxdataset[ref] \setupbtx[dataset=ref] \definebtxrendering [ref] [apa] [ dataset=ref, ] \usebtxdefinitions[apa] \usebtxdataset[ref][ref.buffer] \setupbtx[ dataset=ref, etaldisplay = 1, etallimit = 1, ] \starttext \cite[author][bb:2017] says in their paper \cite[bb:2017] \startsection[title={References}, number=no, incrementnumber=no] \placelistofpublications[ref][method=dataset] \stopsection \stoptext Thanks in advance. Jethro

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lmtx status
by Hans Hagen 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

Hi, At the ctx meeting we released luametatex, that is, the source code is now in the context zip (so it grew a few MB). At the same time Mojca set up some contextgarden repositories on github. We're working on a setup for users to generate older snapshots, if needed (for instance because there are platform changes). She's also working on cmake based installation helpers. One of the things we did was pruning the fonts that are part of the installation. With a few exceptions the type one fonts were dropped, which is most noticeable for math. There is no need for px and tx fonts, they served their puspose in the transition from old style t1 fonts to opentype math (when we started with mkiv; we could have dropped them already). We're looking into antykwa math as well as in alternative script and calligraphic math alphabets so eventually virtual math from t1 construction can be dropped completely (in principle if can be integrated in the tweak mechanisms) because it is not wirth the effort to make them better. That means that we will ship some additional companion fonts. There are math times fonts but they are currently not free and there is some effort going on to turn them opentype so we can ditch their setups too (we can't test anyway; to some extend that is also true for minion math). High on the agenda is euler (in combination with pagella). This also relates to upgraded mixed script and calligraphic support in math. It actually means that enabling alternative alphabets will happen a bit differently (more naturally integrated as we introduced dedicated ranges of slots). Again a side effect is that we have more granular math glyph properties (opentype math is too limited but basically frozen so we have to get over that and move on). We (Mikael and me) also try to compensate for the ommissions and weird things in unicode math but it will take some time before we have that all documented. One of the next uploads will have the pruned / upgraded texmf tree (one can always install more in the local tree of course). At some point installing from the garden (or from a git clone) will also be supported (basically anyone can host a lmtx install). For the next texlive we hope to switch to lmtx as default and that also means that luametatex is the runner then. One can (as currently in lmtx) always run luatex with "--luatex". Als-in-all it's a lot of work but we're getting there. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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new hash for buffer (as file)
by Pablo Rodriguez 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

Dear list, playing with buffer contents, I have the following file: \setupinteraction[state=start] \setupinteractionscreen[option={attachment}] \startbuffer[test] just a test and another one \stopbuffer \starttext \ctxlua{require("util-sha")} \def\shabuffer#1% {\cldcontext{utilities.sha2.hash256(buffers.raw("#1"))}} \def\shafile#1% {\cldcontext{utilities.sha2.hash256(io.loaddata("#1"))}} \def\shabufferfile#1% {\cldcontext{utilities.sha2.hash256(buffers.raw("#1"))}} \shabuffer{test} \savebuffer[test][temporary-αβγ, prefix=no] \shafile{temporary-αβγ} \attachment[buffer=test, name=\shabufferfile{test}, method=hidden] \stoptext I mean, to get hash of the file attached to the document, I need to save the buffer for "context(utilities.sha2.hash256(io.loaddata(buffer)))". But I don’t need to save the buffer to attach it to the PDF document. My question is how to define \shabufferfile to avoid \savebuffer (only required to get the hash). An approach would be the following one. If I’m not totally wrong, "savebuffer" (https://github.com/contextgarden/context/blob/main/tex/context/base/mkxl/bu…) may be just replacing new lines with "\n" in the original buffer (https://github.com/contextgarden/context/blob/main/tex/context/base/mkxl/bu…) The function string.replacenewlines() is defined at https://github.com/contextgarden/context/blob/main/tex/context/base/mkiv/ut…. If I’m not totally wrong about savebuffer replacing newlines with "\n", I wonder how to create a temporary buffer with such a replacement, so that it could be hashed later. I hope my question is clear. Many thanks in advance for your help, Pablo

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PDF viewer
by Henning Hraban Ramm 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

Hi all, I compiled a kind of wishlist what we need or look for in a new or enhanced open source PDF viewer, as discussed e.g. at the 2021 meeting. https://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDF_viewer I’d like to further the subject to find a developer (or a team) and make this a reality. (Of course I’d be happy to have Michal on board!) Feel free to enhance the wiki page or discuss here. I suggest we’ll discuss funding in the context group board, but there was also a discussion about fundraising at the 2022 meeting that I didn’t follow – I think Paulo said he had experience in fundraising? Hraban

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IBM Plex updates
by Henning Hraban Ramm 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

Hi, just for information: There were new releases of the IBM Plex fonts recently: https://github.com/IBM/plex/releases They’re now at version 2.3. Some faces were annoyingly renamed (Semi Bold and Medium to SmBld and Medm). Hraban

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Spacing in \unit
by Gavin 25 Sep '22

25 Sep '22

Hello list, I have a few questions about space produced by the unit command. Consider this MWE \starttext \unit{3.00e8 kg m/s} $\unit{3.00e8 kg m/s}$ \stoptext The dot between “kg” and “m” has different spacing depending on whether the \unit command is in text or math mode. I think that the tighter spacing in the first one, in text, is correct. I personally would also like less space around the \times. To me, the number 3.00e8 should be typeset more like a single number, rather than like a product of 3.00 and 10^8. I am probably in the minority here. If \unit and \digit had an option for tighter spacing around the \times, I’d use it, but the current output with more space is probably what most people expect and want. Perhaps something like [scispace=tight]. Finally, \unit does not play nicely with surrounding spaces. For example: $2\pi\,\unit{3.00e8 kg m/s}$ causes a fatal error: tex error > tex error on line 9 in file ./Untitled.tex: Incompatible glue units (case 1) <macro> \phys_units_direct #1->\begingroup \the \everyunits \ifdim \lastskip >\zeropoint \settrue \c_phys_units_dospace \removelastskip \fi \c_phys_digits_method \unitparameter \c!method \relax \ifmmode \else \dontleavehmode \fi \edef \currentunit {#1}\always\edef \unitlanguag <line 3.9> $2\pi\,\unit {3.00e8 kg m/s}$ Using \thinspace produces the same fatal error. Putting the 2\pi after the \unit{…} can also cause surprises. $\unit{3.00e8 kg m/s}\times 2\pi$ produces a \times that is right up against the “s”. I am very happy with all of the work done on spacing in math. I hope that my observations above are helpful in fine-tuning the excellent system. Thanks! Gavin P.S. I am on as M1 Mac, using ConTeXt ver: 2022.09.11 20:44 LMTX fmt: 2022.9.25 int: english/english.

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Is there an "align with item on facing page" option?
by Bruce Horrocks 25 Sep '22

25 Sep '22

Is there a way to align text with an item on the facing page? I'm typesetting author biographies for a book and I'm doing two per page. The author's name appears on a line of its own in \tfa size and then the bio text follows. Ideally I'd like their names aligned so that all four (on a two page spread) appear nicely symmetrical. Currently I'm using \godown[\dimexpr80mm-\pagetotal] (for A5 pages) between each pair which works nicely in that if the first biography is too long it overlaps and I know to edit it to be shorter. However, if the second biography is a little long, it pushes the first back up the page a little - maybe only one line - and then it no longer aligns with the the one on the facing page. If I could somehow tell ConTeXt to vertically align the author names then that might do the job? I've tried using two frames above each other with fixed min and maxheight but then I can't get the author's thumbnail picture to place properly and have the text wrap around it. Any thoughts? — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK

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line numbering for \setuptyping
by Pablo Rodriguez 25 Sep '22

25 Sep '22

Dear list, I have the following sample: \setuplinenumbering[typing] [step=3] \starttext \starttyping[numbering=line] Line Line Line \stoptyping \stoptext Which \setuplinenumbering is applied to typing fragments? Just in case my question isn’t clear: how can I get "step=3" in the sample above? Many thanks for your help, Pablo

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Math alignment question
by Jeong Dal 25 Sep '22

25 Sep '22

Dear Mikael and Hans, Recently, you introdued the new command “\alignhere, \breakhere, \skiphere” which works fine. Since I usually use the following code that is adopted from My Way(Mathalign.pdf), I’d like to know that there is a way to use “\alignhere, \breakhere, \skiphere” for the case below? \startformula\startalign \NC A \NC = 3 \NR \NC B \NC = 5 \NR \stopalign\stopformula Thank you. Best regards, Dalyoung

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