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Example for switching page numbering from roman to numeric in PDF outline
by Shiv Shankar Dayal 25 Sep '24

25 Sep '24

Hi all, I want to switch page numbering from roman(which is typical in frontmatter) to roman. I also want these to appear in PDF outline. Can someone provide an MWE? -- Respect, Shiv Shankar Dayal

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As a person with very basic LaTeX skills, no experience with programming languages and an interest in LMTX (I have been coding extremely basic LMTX), how do I properly learn LMTX as a beginner to any coded language?
by Felix 25 Sep '24

25 Sep '24

I am someone who knows very basic LaTeX (I mostly learned with YouTube videos, but I would also honestly use AI to generate some code that I wanted it to make), extremely basic LMTX, and nothing like C++ or anything that I think would be considered "proper" programming languages. I have an interest in learning the newest edition of ConTeXt, but I am not sure if there is anything that could even guide a beginner wanting to learn the newest edition of ConTeXt (I believe MKIV and LMTX are regarded as being quite different). I want to get out of the habit of using AI to make stuff for me and to truly understand LMTX, but how can I do so if I seemingly do not have much understanding of ... I'll say "coding" in general? It is sometimes hard for me to read the documentation on ConTeXt garden, and I don't understand some things, but is this due to my lack of experience of looking at documentation? I would love any advice given to me.

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How to change the way one input file's data is displayed, depending on where it is in the document.
by Joel 25 Sep '24

25 Sep '24

I have some code like this--it is a very reduced minimum-working example, from 10,000+ lines of code: fileA.tex------------------------------ \datatypeA{fish}{an animal that lives in the sea} \datatypeA{bear}{a big animal with claws and fur} \datatypeA{squid}{a sea creature with many legs} fileB.tex------------------------------ \datatypeB{fish}{an animal that lives in the sea} \datatypeB{bear}{a big animal with claws and fur} \datatypeB{squid}{a sea creature with many legs} main.tex------------------------------ \datatypeA[2]{\startitemize \item #1 #2 \stopitemize} \datatypeA[B]{#1 -- #2} \define[8]\activity{ \subject{#1} #2 \startitemize \item #3 \item #4 \item #5 \item #6 \item #7 \stopitemize #8 } \define[2]\balloongame{ \activity{Balloon Toss Game}{Instructions}{scissors}{plates}{construction paper}{#1}{#2}{\input fileA} } \define[2]\fishinggame{ \activity{Fun Fishing Game}{Instructions}{scissors}{plates}{construction paper}{#1}{#2}{\input fileB} } \starttext \balloongame{balloons}{tape} \fishinggame{crayons}{glue} \stoptext Basically, I have different classroom activities, defined as macros. \balloongame gives all details to the teacher about a "Balloon Toss Game" and \fishinggame defines a "Fun Fishing Game". (code has been reduced and simplified significantly). The main issue I have is I have data being stored in filesA.tex, fileB.tex, etc. (there are often a dozen such files). Note that strangly the datasets are all identical, but a different file is called, and the only difference in the dataset is they call different macros. So "Balloon Game" pulls the list, but displays them in datatypeA format, the other game takes the same data, but its in a different file, and since the macros are different, it displays the information differently. Basically, I have tons of data files sharing basically the same information, but each one defined inside the file as using a different macro, according to how the information is to be displayed (maybe sometimes as a list, sometimes in a table, etc.) This method seems horribly inefficient. I should be able to store that data in one file, but display the data in different ways. The problem is if I use one format, like this... \datatype{fish}{an animal that lives in the sea} \datatype{bear}{a big animal with claws and fur} \datatype{squid}{a sea creature with many legs} ...how do I get that dataset to be included, but displayed in a different format each time? My thinking is perhaps constantly redefine the macro \datatype, but that seems still inefficient and prone to lead to errors in the code. Is that the best solution? Any suggestion for the most proper way to go about displaying the information from this file, but in different ways in the document? NOTE: My event code already uses 8 of the #1 #2 variables, so there's not really room to include that information there. --Joel

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Curious about 3D Metapost
by Shiv Shankar Dayal 25 Sep '24

25 Sep '24

Please correct me if I'm wrong. LMTX has Metapost built in then can we not write a pure lua extension of it to do real 3D probably using Vulkan? -- Respect, Shiv Shankar Dayal

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How to keep nested itemize group together with parent itemize item?
by Joel 25 Sep '24

25 Sep '24

I have a nested itemize list like this, with first a question, then answer: \starttext \startitemize[n] \startitem What is the color of the sky? \stopitem \startitemize[3] \startitem blue \stopitem \startitem green \stopitem \startitem red \stopitem \startitem yellow \stopitem \stopitemize \startitem What is the color of the grass? \stopitem \startitemize[3] \startitem blue \stopitem \startitem green \stopitem \startitem red \stopitem \startitem yellow \stopitem \stopitemize \startitem What is the color of the butterfly? \stopitem \startitemize[3] \startitem blue \stopitem \startitem green \stopitem \startitem red \stopitem \startitem yellow \stopitem \stopitemize \stopitemize \stoptext My copyeditor has noticed that often times a page break will appear after a question, leaving the answers, or some answers on a new page. He's requested I make sure the page breaks can only occur in front of a question, such that if a new page is needed, it places the question and answers always on the same page. Is there any way to make that happen in ConTeXt? --Joel

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Cron <context@cgl> /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror
by root＠ntg.nl 25 Sep '24

25 Sep '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/primitives.pdf sent 193,184 bytes received 43,334,804 bytes 4,145,522.67 bytes/sec total size is 617,887,014 speedup is 14.20 Running archiver: New dir: /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-09-25.12 272209978 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-09-25.12/latest 126745317 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-09-25.12/current 398959391 /var/www/aanhet.net/context//htdocs/archives/context-2024-09-25.12 398959391 total

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Why does text within a very simple xtable seem to not want to take up a lot of free space?
by Felix 24 Sep '24

24 Sep '24

\setuppapersize[letter][ letter ] \setuplayout[ backspace=0.5in, topspace=0.0in, header=.5in, % No headers footer=.5in, % Space for the footer width=middle, height=middle, ] \setupbodyfont[12pt] \starttext \startxtable[frame=off,topframe=on,bottomframe=on,option=fixed,width=1tw,align=middle,] \startxrow \startxcell {\tfa\setsmallcaps \startquotation Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude. \stopquotation - Ralph Marston } \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtable \stoptext inputting this code into ConTeXt LMTX 2024 will show you that text after \stopquotation will make - Ralph Marson go into a new line, but there is so much text on the sides beside the first line, that it makes me wonder why the 2nd line was even made. Did I do something wrong with my code?

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images with alt text
by Steffen Wolfrum 23 Sep '24

23 Sep '24

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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LMTX and PDF document form German »Bundesgesetzblatt«
by Pablo Rodriguez 23 Sep '24

23 Sep '24

Dear list, for some reason unknown to me, LMTX has problems with PDF documents comming form the German official gazzette. http://www.bgbl.de/xaver/bgbl/start.xav?startbk=Bundesanzeiger_BGBl&jumpTo=… contains one of the documents and here is a minimal sample: \setuplayout[page] \starttext \externalfigure[bgbl_Bundesgesetzblatt Teil I_2022_Nr. 20 vom 22.06.2022_bgbl122s0928.pdf] \stoptext The source above distorts the page presentation with LMTX, but it is perfectly fine with LuaTeX. Could anyone confirm the issue? Many thanks for your help, Pablo

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How to tell a single *.tex file to produce separate PDFs?
by Joel 23 Sep '24

23 Sep '24

I have a document that's quite long. It uses a recurse function, a bit like this: \starttext \dostepwiserecurse{1}{180}{1}{% \input chapter\recurselevel } \stoptext That produces 180 chapters of content. Anyway, my boss is upset she has to use a table of contents to navigate to the page she wants, and so wants me to split the file into 180 separate files, which somehow is going to be easier to look at. Honestly, she probably still won't ever actually look at it, but that's her requirement. The problem is, I've been splitting the file by using Print --> PDF and choosing a custom print range, and then saving it. If I ned to repeat that 180 times, it not only will have errors, but probably take 5-10 hours. Is there something I can put, like \breakpdf or something that will tell it to start a new PDF file? They can be named something like file1.pdf, file2.pdf, etc. \starttext \dostepwiserecurse{1}{136}{1}{% \input chapter\recurselevel \breakpdf } \stoptext The perhaps "obvious" answer is just make 180 *.tex files, but since the minimal example above is like 0.01% of the complexity of the real file, that isn't so easy... --Joel

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