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15th International ConTeXt Meeting (registration closes Aug 22)
by Taco Hoekwater 13 Aug '21

13 Aug '21

Hi all, There is still room for some extra participants for the ConTeXt meeting in Bassenge, Belgium from Sept 20 to Sept 25. Despite the still somewhat lingering situation wrt COVID-19, we are now certain that the meeting can and will in fact take place in person. Hurrah! Even if we still have room by then, registration will close on Aug 22, because by that time we need to make final arrangements for T-shirt printing and catering. So if you are still on the fence about attending, do not wait too long! Also remember that it is possible for ConTeXt Group members to attend online-only for free. That is less than ideal because you cannot join us for a drink and a chat, but it gives you bragging rights for attending, and you will get a T-shirt as well ! (if you register before Aug 22) You can easily become a member of CG by filling in the form at https://group.contextgarden.net/register.shtml Besides being able to register for the online portion of the upcoming meeting, you will also receive the nicely printed ConTeXt journal, and additionally you will help the ConTeXt Group to do more for the community in the future. Even if you are not going to attend the online meeting, we think becoming a CG member is a great idea! More that fifty people have joined already! To see more details about the upcoming meeting, see the website at https://meeting.contextgarden.net/ In other news, there is now a provisional programme page: https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2021/programme.shtml I can't wait to see (some of) you in person in Bassenge! Best wishes, Taco — Taco Hoekwater E: taco(a)bittext.nl genderfluid (all pronouns)

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Footnotes in columns
by Clyde Johnston 13 Aug '21

13 Aug '21

I can no longer print the footnotes when I using columns in LTMX. If I remove the \{start|stop}columns, it works fine. This works on my old MKIV 2018.07.02 14:39 version. \setupcolumns[n=2,rule=off,balance=no] \starttext \startcolumns \input ward\footnote{A small footnote here} \stopcolumns \stoptext Context Version: 2021.01.24 16:07 Clyde

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Conditional formatting with *frontpart, *bodypart, *backpart modes
by Joey McCollum 12 Aug '21

12 Aug '21

Hi, I was curious about the possibility of handling general formatting settings (e.g., page layout, headers and footers, page numbering, alignment, default body font assignment, etc.) conditionally for front, body, and back matter using modes. According to the wiki page at https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modes, this should be doable with blocks like \startmode[*frontpart] ... \stopmode, but even in the following minimal example, the conditional formatting isn't getting applied: ``` \startmode[*frontpart] \setupbodyfont[modern, 12pt] \stopmode \startmode[*bodypart] \setupbodyfont[pagella, 12pt] \stopmode \startmode[*backpart] \setupbodyfont[termes, 12pt] \stopmode \starttext \startfrontmatter \input knuth\par \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \input knuth\par \stopbodymatter \startbackmatter \input knuth\par \stopbackmatter \stoptext ``` Is there something obvious that I'm missing? Or is there a different recommended approach to conditional formatting by front/body/back matter division? Thank you! Joey

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JavaScript in multimedia PDF
by Pablo Rodriguez 12 Aug '21

12 Aug '21

Dear list, I have the following sample: \setupinteraction [state=start] \startJSpreamble varia used now this.pageNum = 0 ; // start at 0 function GoToFirstSlide(label) { this.pageNum = 0 ; var rendition = this.media.getRendition(label) ; var player = app.media.openPlayer({ rendition: rendition, }); } function GoToLastSlide(label) { this.pageNum = this.numPages ; } function GoToNextSlide(label) { ++this.pageNum ; } function GoToPreviousSlide(label) { --this.pageNum ; } function SwitchFS() { if (app.fs.isFullScreen == true) app.fs.isFullScreen = false ; else app.fs.isFullScreen = true ; } \stopJSpreamble \setuppapersize[A9, landscape] \definefontfamily [mainface] [rm] [Latin Modern Sans] \definefontfamily [mainface] [ss] [Hans] \setupbodyfont [mainface, 25pt] \setupalign[middle] \setupfooter [style={\ss}] \def\SlideNavigationButtons{% \goto{A}[JS(GoToFirstSlide{mainsound})]% \goto{K}[JS(GoToPreviousSlide{mainsound})]% \goto{L}[JS(GoToNextSlide{mainsound})]% \goto{B}[JS(GoToLastSlide{mainsound})] \goto{{\ssb Q}}[JS(SwitchFS{})]% } \setupfootertexts[\SlideNavigationButtons] \starttext \definerenderingwindow[soundplace] [width=0pt, height=0pt] \useexternalrendering[mainsound][audio/mp3][sound.mp3][embed=yes] \placerenderingwindow[soundplace][mainsound] \dorecurse{25}{\null\page} \stoptext I don’t know why I get the following message: TypeError: a.doc is undefined It seems to be caused by "app.media.openPlayer", but the code is copied from the documentation Adobe released early this year. Does anyone know what is wrong here or what am I missing? Many thanks for your help in advance, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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space before section titles sometimes disappears in grid mode
by Henning Hraban Ramm 12 Aug '21

12 Aug '21

E.g. in CG journal, there are usually 3 blank lines before a section title. Most of it is single column and without grid, no problem there. But some articles use columnsets and are therefore in grid mode. Sometimes the space before the section title disappears completely, so that it is glued to the previous paragraph. If I include \startlinecorrection in "before" of \setuphead[section], in front of the \blank, the space is only reduced by 1 line, but I get the space also at the top of a column (or at the start of the article). If I put \startlinecorrection after \blank, the space disappears the same as without linecorrection. \setuphead[section] [before={\startlinecorrection\blank[BigCGblank]}, after={\stoplinecorrection\blank[CGblank]}, grid=both, ] It happens reproducably if there is a float before \startsection, but sometimes I can’t find a reason. In the other magazine I’m typesetting ATM, I get the same problem. No columnsets involved in that case, but still in grid mode. There I can "fix" it with some \blank[3*line], but it doesn’t help in the floats case. Hraban

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Vertical offset in framedtext has changed
by Christoph Reller 12 Aug '21

12 Aug '21

Hi, Somewhere between versions 2021-07-06 and 2021-07-30 the vertical top-offset in framedtext has changed. Consider the MWE: \starttext \startframedtext Bla \stopframedtext \stoptext Output 2021-07-06: [image: FramedText-ConTeXt-2021-07-06.png] Output 2021-07-30 (and later): [image: FramedText-ConTeXt-2021-07-30.png] Is this a regression? Cheers, Christoph

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Different in-text and list citation renderings
by Joey McCollum 10 Aug '21

10 Aug '21

Hi, I'm currently working on implementing a new citation rendering for SBL style. One of the challenges of this style is that it specifies slightly different rules for citations in the text (which are generally expected to look like citations made with the "entry" alternative) and entries in the final list of publications. The two most common differences are (1) Authors in the in-text citation are printed in normal form (i.e., first name followed by last name), while authors in the list citation are printed in inverted for for the first author and normal form for all subsequent authors. (2) Most fields in the in-text citation are separated by commas, while the list citation uses periods in these places. Is there already a mechanism for handling this for another citation style? And if not, could anyone offer a suggestion on how I might go about implementing separate rules for in-text citations and list citations? Thanks! Joey

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Harvard bibliography style
by Jorge Manuel 10 Aug '21

10 Aug '21

Dear Sirs Is there a way to set my bibliography style to Harvard specifications? Tanks four your support Have a nice day Jorge Magalhães

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ConTeXt exporter for Org Mode
by Jason Ross 10 Aug '21

10 Aug '21

Hello, I have developed a ConTeXt exporter for Org Mode. It is available at https://github.com/Jason-S-Ross/ox-context The exporter provides custom environments for each Org Mode entity in an effort to make customization easier, in contrast to the Pandoc exporter which uses built-in environments for document elements. I appreciate any feedback. Thanks, Jason

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nil from TeX to Lua
by Hans van der Meer 10 Aug '21

10 Aug '21

In the TeX to Lua interface with \def\Macro#1{\directlua{luafunction("#1")}} the transfer from TeX to Lua is by string. However what to do at the Lua end when calling \Macro{}? As I understand it, then on the Lua side an empty argument and an empty string are indistinguishable. This is not always wanted, for example when one needs to place either a nil or an empty string into a Lua table. I am running in trouble when to t.key set to \Macro{} should become nil or when it should become "". Is there some common understanding about how to handle this situation? dr. Hans van der Meer

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