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How to print the book title and section title where \reference is located?
by Joel 09 Feb '24

09 Feb '24

I have an extensive multi-book project. Each book has a nickname, like TB for "Textbook", "WB 1" for the "Workbook, Vol. 1": TB -- 01_textbook.texWB 1 -- 03_workbook.texWB 2 -- 04_workbook.texWB 3 -- 05_workbook.tex WB 4 -- 06_workbook.tex TG -- 08_teachersguide.tex I have to prove to a government agency that the content meets several requirements, so I'm giving them a simple file that says something like "Requirement A is met in TB, "Cats", p. 11" basically letting the reader know its in the textbook, section called "Cats", on p. 11. To mark the pages, I'm simply dropping in macros called "\requirementA" "\requirementB" on whichever page of whichever book demonstrates it meets the requirement, then the file will aquatically list the book, section, and page number by searching for that macro. \define\requirementA{ \reference[markerA]{This is a comment.} } \define\requirementB{ \reference[markerB]{This is a comment.} } \define\requirementC{ \reference[markerC]{This is a comment.} } \starttext \section{Cats} \requirementA \input knuth \requirementC \requirementB \pagebreak \section{Fish} \input knuth \input knuth \input knuth \input knuth \requirementC \requirementB \pagebreak \section{Frogs} \input knuth \requirementB \pagebreak \section{Markers} \startitemize \item Requirement A is met \at{page}[markerA]. \item Requirement B is met \at{page}[markerB]. \item Requirement C is met \at{page}[markerC]. \stopitemize \stoptext I have this sample code, but it only works for a single document, and only displays page number. I tried looking at the \about and other related command, but that requires giving a reference name and referring to the titles, not my dropped macro. How can I modify this to display a message like below, plus also scans the other files. *It only needs to reference the first found occurrence.* Here is a sample message what the output should give: "Requirement A is met in WB 3, "Bears", p. 33." --Joel

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\startcolumns and \startcolumnset
by Jeong Dal 09 Feb '24

09 Feb '24

Dear all, I have a little problem to use “columns” in the following example. If I use “\startcolumnset”, then I have the following problems: 1. The figures is aligned left even though I use \startplacefigure[]. 2. In the second column, the first item located at the end of the page. However, \vfill works, so I managed the items evenly spaced vertically. If I use “\startcolumns”, then I have the following problems: 1. \vfill doesn’t works, but \blank[] works. So, it isn’t easy to locate the items evenly spaced vertically. Here are sample code and its outputs of two cases for comparison. Any suggestions are welcomed. Tomorrow is the New Years day in Lunar calendar. Happy new year, again. Best regards, Dalyoung %%%%%%% \startuseMPgraphic{mark} path p; p := unitsquare scaled 3cm; draw p; draw (point 0 of p)--(point 2 of p); draw (point 1 of p)--(point 3 of p); \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{verticalrule3} draw rightboundary OverlayBox shifted (1mm,0); %if CurrentColumn = 1: shifted(-2mm,0) fi ; draw leftboundary OverlayBox shifted (-1mm,0); %if CurrentColumn = 2: shifted(2mm,0) fi ; draw bottomboundary OverlayBox leftenlarged 1mm rightenlarged 1mm; draw topboundary OverlayBox leftenlarged 1mm rightenlarged 1mm; \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay [verticalrule] [\useMPgraphic{verticalrule3}] \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] \setupexternalfigures[location={local,defalut}] \definecolumnset [quiz] [n=2,background=verticalrule] \setupbodyfont[bonum, rm, 11pt] \starttext %\startcolumns[n=2,background=verticalrule] \startcolumnset[quiz] \startitemize[n] \item Solve the following linear equations. \startitemize[r] \item equation % \blank[3.5cm] \vfill \item equation % \blank[3.5cm] \vfill \item equation \blank[3.5cm] \item equation \blank[3.5cm] \item equation \blank[3.5cm] \stopitemize \hrule \column \item Draw the graph of the following linear function. \startitemize[r] \item $2x +3y = 6$ \startplacefigure[location={here,none},] \useMPgraphic{mark} \stopplacefigure \item $y = 2x - 1$ \startplacefigure[location={here,none}] \useMPgraphic{mark} \stopplacefigure \stopitemize \item Find the formula of the line 1: \vfill \item Find the formula of the line 2: \vfill \stopitemize \stopcolumnset \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%

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color profiles
by Henning Hraban Ramm 07 Feb '24

07 Feb '24

Hi, I thought I could finally setup color management properly instead of converting all print PDFs with Acrobat Pro… On the wiki, there’s something in https://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDFX; I updated it a bit, but we (I?) should combine it with https://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDF/A … How can I add my own profiles to the distributed set in colorprofiles.xml? Should I provide a colorprofiles.xml or .lua in texmf-local? Hraban

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hyphenation question
by Hans van der Meer 02 Feb '24

02 Feb '24

In the 18th century documents I am transcribing often words are abbreviated as for example voorschreeve becoming voors: In the transcription it is usual to write this as voors[chreeve] indicating to the reader how the abbreviation was interpreted. The problem then arises with hyphenation, because voors[chreeve] in the example will not be hyphenated as if the []'s were absent. Which is what I would like to happen. Question: is it possible to realize this and how? yours sincerely dr. Hans van der Meer

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\type ignores space between command and bracket
by Wolfgang Schuster 02 Feb '24

02 Feb '24

Hi, in the following code example the result from \type lacks the space between \cmd and the following left bracket. \starttext \starttyping \cmd [...] \stoptyping \type{\cmd [...]} \stoptext Wolfgang

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BUG: colour spilling in btxrendering
by Alexandre Christe 02 Feb '24

02 Feb '24

Dear list, It seems with one of the latest lmtx this old reported issue (https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg84988.html) is back. MWE: \setupinteraction[state=start,color=red,style=] \setupbtx[aps:cite][alternative=entry] \usebtxdefinitions[aps] \startbuffer [bib] @ARTICLE{67533, author={De Doncker, R.W.A.A. and Divan, D.M. and Kheraluwala, M.H.}, journal={IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications}, title={A three-phase soft-switched high-power-density DC/DC converter for high-power applications}, year={1991}, volume={27}, number={1}, pages={63-73}, keywords={DC-DC power converters;Resonance;Switching frequency;Inverters;Filters;Snubbers;Circuit topology;Thyristors;Switching converters;Industry Applications Society}, doi={10.1109/28.67533}} } \stopbuffer \usebtxdataset [bib.buffer] \starttext \cite[alternative=entry][67533] \startnointerference \placelistofpublications \stopnointerference \stoptext A. Christe

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Nested itemize lists: unexpected spacing
by Jim 01 Feb '24

01 Feb '24

Consider the following: \starttext Text before. \startitemize[1,nowhite] \item item 1 \item item 2 \startitemize[5,nowhite] \item sub-item 1 \item sub-item 2 \stopitemize \item item 3 \stopitemize Text after. \stoptext Notwithstanding the "nowhite" options, there is a blank line before sub-item 1, which I do not want. Oddly (to me), if I change the first "nowhite" to "packed", the space before sub-item 1 goes away, but then I get undesired space before and after the out itemization. Q1: Can someone explain the Zen of this? That is, why does the blank line before sub-item 1 go away with "packed", but not "nowhite"? Poking around on the internet, I find that if I leave the "nowhite"s, but precede "Text before." with \unprotect \c_strc_itemgroups_spacing_mode=1 % 0 works too, but 2 doesn't \protect then I get the spacing I want. Q2: \c_strc_itemgroups_spacing_mode seems to be an undocumented "feature". Is there a "documented" way of making the unwanted blank line go away, without introducing unwanted blank lines before and after the outer itemize list? Thanks. Jim

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textbackground spacing offset
by Marco Patzer 31 Jan '24

31 Jan '24

Hi! I'm having problems getting the textbackground spacing offset to work. Example: \setupframedtext [offset=overlay, width=max, depthcorrection=off] \setuptextbackground [location=paragraph, %% offset=overlay, %% does nothing %% backgroundoffset=overlay, %% does nothing %% depthcorrection=off, %% does nothing %% topoffset=3mm, %% works, but only for positive values background=, frame=on] \starttext \startframedtext \framed{Foo} \stopframedtext \starttextbackground \framed{Foo} \stoptextbackground \stoptext How do it get the same spacing as in the framedtext case? The textbackground has a small gap between the inner and outer frame at the top and a larger gab at the bottom. I'm not concerned with horizontal spacing here. Marco LMTX 2023.09.04 19:15

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chronological TOC
by jbf 30 Jan '24

30 Jan '24

I wonder if someone can point me in the right direction for a separate TOC which needs to be in chronological order at the back of the book (i.e. not in page number order, although I need the page numbers to show up in the TOC. There is the normal TOC at the front of the book, according to chapter titles. I have succeeded in defining a separate TOC to place at the back, but have not succeeded in the chronological order! Here is what I have done: \definelist[chron][criterium=all,alternative=c] At the back of the book: \placelist[chron][criterium=all] Then at an appropriate point after each \startchapter I have placed (as an example): \writetolist[chron]{}{{\bf 29 April 2017,} Speech, Panama City} This gives me my list, but in page number order. How do I get the date (e.g. 29 April 2017) to be the ordering factor in the list. I assume it will be something to do with criterium, but am clueless at the moment on how to indicate this. Julian

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Own command definition breaks with interaction: Use of \do_my_command doesn't match its definition
by Gerion Entrup 29 Jan '24

29 Jan '24

Hi, I want to make a proper definition of a new command to be able to process it in Lua. I found something on StackOverflow [1] but that breaks in enumeration _and_ when interaction is enabled and I do not understand why? Can you give me some help here? I want to make commands like \foo{bla} and \foo[b]{bla} possible at the same time. Here is a minimal example (also attached): ``` \startluacode function userdata.my_command(keywords, text) commands.writestatus("test", string.format("text: %s, config: %s", text, keywords)) local cfg = utilities.parsers.settings_to_hash(keywords) if cfg['emph'] ~= nil then context("\\emph{" .. text .. "}") elseif cfg['bold'] ~= nil then context("\\bold{" .. text .. "}") else context(text) end end \stopluacode % without that line there is no problem \setupinteraction[state=start] \defineenumeration[enu][text=Enu] \unprotect \def\mc{\dosingleempty\do_my_command} \def\do_my_command[#1]#2{% \iffirstargument{% \ctxlua{userdata.my_command('#1', [==[#2]==])}% }\else {% \ctxlua{userdata.my_command('', [==[#2]==])}% }\fi } \protect \starttext % all the following works \mc{foo} \mc[bold]{foo} \mc[emph]{foo} \startenu[title=Some] \stopenu % this breaks \startenu[title=Some \mc{foo}] \stopenu \stoptext ``` The compilation fails with: ``` tex error > tex error on line 41 in file ./test.tex: Use of \do_my_command doesn't match its definition ``` Best, Gerion [1] https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/55778

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