Re: [NTG-context] special book layout problem in ConTeXt

2019-09-21 Thread nicolas mondon
> > end of your message. Nevertherless, there is some thing in your last > > paragrph which is not clear for me : " Afterwards you split each page > > in half and create two separate pages from one single page which can > > be done with a loop (can be done theoretically w

Re: [NTG-context] special book layout problem in ConTeXt

2019-09-21 Thread Nicolas Mondon
y to achieve such a layout is to to increase the paper width to twice the normal layout and use the left half for a very big margin area where you can place the tables/graphics. In a first step you create a normal document with this unusual layout. Afterwards you split each page in half and creat

Re: [NTG-context] comma as decimal separator in maths mode

2019-09-20 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Martin Althoff schrieb am 14.09.2019 um 08:34: Hi ... I am outputting some numbers in maths mode that have a comma as decimal separator. I get a big space after the comma, which I can prevent by writing $1{,}5$ Is there a less awkward way of getting the comma as a "real" decimal

Re: [NTG-context] special book layout problem in ConTeXt

2019-09-19 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
ut a separate document is easier)." Step 1:  Create a document with a very big left margin where you can place all floats. \setuppapersize   [A3,landscape] \setuplayout   [backspace=23.5cm,    width=15cm,edge=14cm] \showframe \setupfloat   [default=leftedge,    minwidth=

Re: [NTG-context] special book layout problem in ConTeXt

2019-09-15 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
ges? >> > There is no easy solution for this yet and it also depends on your > requirements mentioned above. The easiest way to achieve such a layout is to > to increase the paper width to twice the normal layout and use the left half > for a very big margin area where you can pl

Re: [NTG-context] special book layout problem in ConTeXt

2019-09-15 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
ht pages, and the figures on the left pages? There is no easy solution for this yet and it also depends on your requirements mentioned above. The easiest way to achieve such a layout is to to increase the paper width to twice the normal layout and use the left half for a very big margin are

[NTG-context] comma as decimal separator in maths mode

2019-09-13 Thread Martin Althoff
Hi ... I am outputting some numbers in maths mode that have a comma as decimal separator. I get a big space after the comma, which I can prevent by writing $1{,}5$ Is there a less awkward way of getting the comma as a "real" decimal separator? Thanks, Martin \starttext $1,5$ \mat

Re: [NTG-context] Arithmetic overflow on placing an external figure in MP

2019-09-07 Thread Fabrice L
\startMPpage > 2 draw externalfigure "dodo.png" scaled 5cm shifted (-6cm,0) ; > 3 >> \stopMPpage > 4 > I can reproduce your error with MKIV, but this world with lmtx; I think this is just too big for MKIV (I’m not sure why !). Be aware of the difference be

Re: [NTG-context] balanced vertical spaces under \startcolumnset

2019-08-24 Thread Sytse Knypstra
> Without \column, the heights of the two problems in the last column are > different. > With \column, the heights are same, but it create another extra blank page. > > It is not a big problem, but I wonder there is a solution. > > Thank you for your concern. > > Best rega

[NTG-context] Different layout for specific pages

2019-08-23 Thread Stanislav Sokolenko
] \definelayout[smallheader][header=0.1\textheight] \setuplayout[smallheader] \definelayout[1][bigheader] \definelayout[2][smallheader] \starttext \showframe \input knuth \input knuth \input knuth \stoptext However, rather then having the big header only on page 1, I end up with it on every page except page 2

Re: [NTG-context] balanced vertical spaces under \startcolumnset

2019-08-22 Thread Jeong Dal
space for solution. In general, it worked well, except the solution space of the last problem. Without \column, the heights of the two problems in the last column are different. With \column, the heights are same, but it create another extra blank page. It is not a big problem, but I wonder there

[NTG-context] Fwd: metafun 2

2019-08-19 Thread Mikael P. Sundqvist
On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 5:37 PM Hans Hagen wrote: > On 8/14/2019 4:58 PM, Mikael P. Sundqvist wrote: > > > 1) 3d support. This is of course a very big request, but it would also > > be useful for many people. > > yes ... Alan and I are thinking of some (not that we came

Re: [NTG-context] metafun 2

2019-08-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/14/2019 4:58 PM, Mikael P. Sundqvist wrote: 1) 3d support. This is of course a very big request, but it would also be useful for many people. yes ... Alan and I are thinking of some (not that we came far yet) 2) About graphing, it would be nice to be able to do contour polots and

Re: [NTG-context] metafun 2

2019-08-14 Thread Mikael P. Sundqvist
s well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > __

[NTG-context] white space after a float in a column

2019-08-10 Thread Sytse knyps...@home.nl
ntermezzo? A secondary remark: \placeintermezzo always puts the framed text at the top of the next column, no matter whether the parameter is top or bottom. But this is not a big deal. Sytse Knypstra ___ If your question is of inte

[NTG-context] consecutive full stops in "num" bib style after "et al"

2019-07-29 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
ative=num] \setuppublicationlist[artauthoretallimit=3, authoretaldisplay=3, editoretaldisplay=3, artauthoretaldisplay=3, % authoretaltext={ et al}, % artauthoretaltext={ et al}, ] \starttext Test \cite[Larkin:1980]. \blank[big] \placepublications[criterium=text] \stoptext (

Re: [NTG-context] some mac fonts do not work correctly

2019-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/25/2019 2:57 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: Am Wed, 24 Jul 2019 12:03:07 +0200 schrieb Hans Hagen: Big Caslon Medium [BigCaslon.ttf] ABCDEFGHIJKLM I don't have that file. After number of test rounds we managed to get all fonts (with one odd exception) working with these v

Re: [NTG-context] some mac fonts do not work correctly

2019-07-25 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Wed, 24 Jul 2019 12:03:07 +0200 schrieb Hans Hagen: >> Big Caslon Medium [BigCaslon.ttf] ABCDEFGHIJKLM > I don't have that file. After number of test rounds we managed to get all fonts (with one odd exception) working with these values: BigCaslon.ttf needs {0, 1, 12

Re: [NTG-context] some mac fonts do not work correctly

2019-07-24 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/24/2019 11:47 AM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: Big Caslon Medium [BigCaslon.ttf] ABCDEFGHIJKLM I don't have that file. Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridders

Re: [NTG-context] some mac fonts do not work correctly

2019-07-24 Thread Ulrike Fischer
e necessary cmap formats are "platform 0 (Unicode), encoding 1 >> (Unicode 1.1(?)), format 12" and maybe as a fallback "platform 1 >> (Mac), encoding 0 (Roman), format 0". >> >> A test would be >> >> \starttext >> \font\oddfont="Bi

Re: [NTG-context] some mac fonts do not work correctly

2019-07-24 Thread Hans Hagen
form 0 (Unicode), encoding 1 (Unicode 1.1(?)), format 12" and maybe as a fallback "platform 1 (Mac), encoding 0 (Roman), format 0". A test would be \starttext \font\oddfont="Big Caslon Medium" \oddfont A \stoptext what filename ... when i copy ACaslonPro-Regular from a (by now

[NTG-context] some mac fonts do not work correctly

2019-07-23 Thread Ulrike Fischer
format 12" and maybe as a fallback "platform 1 (Mac), encoding 0 (Roman), format 0". A test would be \starttext \font\oddfont="Big Caslon Medium" \oddfont A \stoptext (I don't have a mac and so couldn't check) The bug report we got is here https://github.com/u

Re: [NTG-context] background color, was: CMYK Color profile

2019-06-02 Thread Benjamin Koppe
ed}-\measured{shortfold}\relax > ] > > > %% The vertical pageshift is simple. > \definepageshift > [flyer] > [vertical] > [\measure{bleed}] > > \setuppageshift > [paper] > [flyer] > > %% We define some measures to construct the page lay

Re: [NTG-context] background color, was: CMYK Color profile

2019-05-31 Thread Benjamin Koppe
] %% The vertical pageshift is simple. \definepageshift [flyer] [vertical] [\measure{bleed}] \setuppageshift [paper] [flyer] %% We define some measures to construct the page layout. \definemeasure [small] [3mm] \definemeasure [big] [\measure{small}*2] %% Each

Re: [NTG-context] Extend figure to margin, or extend figure from margin to text

2019-05-30 Thread Zhichu
ne, I am writing a book, in which all figures are placed in the margin. But some graphics are too big to fit in the margin. I was wondering whether there's an elegant way to use some room of the text body? Take a look into the Details man

[NTG-context] Wiki update

2019-05-30 Thread Taco Hoekwater
big shame considering the enormous amount of work that went into the process. But recently we have been discussing the wiki and (especially) the sorry state of the reference portion of that. At some point, I realised that we could rather easily combine the new xml interface files with a small

Re: [NTG-context] Extend figure to margin, or extend figure from margin to text

2019-05-29 Thread Zhichu
n, or extend figure from margin to text Zhichu schrieb am Mi., 29. Mai 2019, 10:30: Hi everyone, I am writing a book, in which all figures are placed in the margin. But some graphics are too big to fit in the margin. I was wondering whether there's an elegant way to use some room of the

Re: [NTG-context] Extend figure to margin, or extend figure from margin to text

2019-05-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Zhichu schrieb am Mi., 29. Mai 2019, 10:30: > > Hi everyone, > > I am writing a book, in which all figures are placed in the margin. But > some graphics are too big to fit in the margin. I was wondering whether > there's an elegant way to use some room of the text body?

[NTG-context] Extend figure to margin, or extend figure from margin to text

2019-05-29 Thread Zhichu
Hi everyone, I am writing a book, in which all figures are placed in the margin. But some graphics are too big to fit in the margin. I was wondering whether there's an elegant way to use some room of the text body? The output is close to the following, but the caption should be as wide a

[NTG-context] Strange behavior concerning pdf-output of .png-externalfigures

2019-05-20 Thread Rudolf Bahr
-red-frame.png gm display imagered-frame.png are looking ok. And GIMP2.10 has produced all image-files. Rudolf PS.: echo $PATH /home/sam/Android/platform-tools:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/sam/context-lmtx/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin:/home/sam/context-lmtx/bin:/home/sam/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/

Re: [NTG-context] Creating one's own style

2019-05-18 Thread Alan Braslau
A strange effect (full MWE in attachment): Corrected MWE attached. -- Alan Context_bib.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document %\enabletrackers[publications.setups] \setuplanguage[ru] \setupbodyfont[dejavu] \mainlanguage[russian] \setupindenting[big,yes] \setbreakpoints[compound] \startbuffer[bi

Re: [NTG-context] XML roundtripping

2019-05-15 Thread Denis Maier
r to the input file or to a new file.). > it all depends on where the number comes from; saving a number is a file > that later gets loaded by something else is no big deal > > als

Re: [NTG-context] XML roundtripping

2019-05-15 Thread Hans Hagen
to the input file or to a new file.). it all depends on where the number comes from; saving a number is a file that later gets loaded by something else is no big deal also, there is always the tuc file one can analyze Hans

Re: [NTG-context] Inline math with \int and \sum exhibits nonstandard behaviour

2019-05-12 Thread Henri Menke
}_^{m} where you are using \sum\nolimits_{k=1}^{n} Cheers, Henri On 11/05/19 7:42 AM, Eric Scmidt wrote: > Hello everyone! > So, I have some inline math in my document,and it's looking too big or > "airy"; a > bit like when \nolimits is specified in display mode but

[NTG-context] Inline math with \int and \sum exhibits nonstandard behaviour

2019-05-11 Thread Eric Scmidt
Hello everyone!   So, I have some inline math in my document,and it's looking too big or "airy"; a bit like when \nolimits is specified in display mode but smaller. The limits are placed next to the symbol when using for example pdflatex, and I prefer this tight way for inli

[NTG-context] No menu bar option for Adobe Reader

2019-04-27 Thread Paul Schalck
ll approach. For instance we share all resources i.e. we -- don't make subsets for each xform or page. The current approach is -- quite efficient. A big difference between MkII and MkIV is that we -- now use forward references. In this respect the MkII code shows that -- it evolved over a long peri

Re: [NTG-context] Formula number misplaced

2019-04-24 Thread Mikael P. Sundqvist
when you use framed and construct that depend on it. Then > use: > > \startTEXpage[autowidth=no] > > Hans > > - >Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat

Re: [NTG-context] luaotfload

2019-04-12 Thread Hans Hagen
). On my Mac the first run with context (upcoming TL2019) needs 9.5 Gbyte memory and nearly 100% CPU load to scan the Sparks-Dotline font. This one is, of course, 400 kB big, but why do we need more than 8 GByte Ram?? - the cpu load is puzzling: assuming that you have multiple cores, luatex will

[NTG-context] luaotfload

2019-04-12 Thread Herbert Voss
(upcoming TL2019) needs 9.5 Gbyte memory and nearly 100% CPU load to scan the Sparks-Dotline font. This one is, of course, 400 kB big, but why do we need more than 8 GByte Ram?? The font files are here: http://tug.org/~hvoss/Sparks-Bar-Medium.otf http://tug.org/~hvoss/Sparks-Dotline-Medium.otf -rw-r

Re: [NTG-context] Prevent indentation after itemize

2019-04-11 Thread Procházka Lukáš Ing .
following code gives the desired output: \setupindenting[yes,big] \starttext \section{Sec} \input knuth \startitemize[][after={\blank\noindent}] \item Aaa \item Bbb \stopitemize % "%" JUST TO SUPPRESS BLANK LINE \input knuth \stoptext but (obvious

Re: [NTG-context] Prevent indentation after itemize

2019-04-11 Thread Mikael P. Sundqvist
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 10:02 AM Procházka Lukáš Ing. wrote: > > Hello, > > Czech typo rules prefer not indenting paragraphs after itemization. > > How to setup indenting best to achieve this? > > The following code gives the desired output: > > > \setup

[NTG-context] Prevent indentation after itemize

2019-04-11 Thread Procházka Lukáš Ing .
Hello, Czech typo rules prefer not indenting paragraphs after itemization. How to setup indenting best to achieve this? The following code gives the desired output: \setupindenting[yes,big] \starttext \section{Sec} \input knuth \startitemize[][after={\blank\noindent}] \item

[NTG-context] DIN lang folder with crop marks

2019-04-10 Thread Benjamin Koppe
\setuppageshift [paper] [flyer] %% We define some measures to construct the page layout. \definemeasure [small] [3mm] \definemeasure [big] [\measure{small}*2] %% Each page has a slightly different page layout. %% The named layouts (1. bracket) inherit values from other layou

Re: [NTG-context] SyncTeX and Skim/TeXShop

2019-04-10 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Nicola, I do use ConTeXt with TeXShop on MacOS, and I use extensively synctex. Indeed there has been a big change in synctex a few years ago, since the « classic » synctex code by Jérôme Laurens was changed, and more or less at the same time Hans introduced independently a new synctex

Re: [NTG-context] Welcome to LMTX

2019-04-02 Thread Paul Hoffman
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 I don't think I can upgrade glibc, however -- I'm stuck on Slackware 14.1 for now. Oh well, it's no big deal for me.

Re: [NTG-context] Spacing between text and footnote line

2019-03-24 Thread Huseyin Özoguz
@mmnetz.de Am 24.03.2019 um 16:02 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Huseyin Özoguz schrieb am 24.03.19 um 15:50: Hello, one way could be \setupnote[footnote][before={\blank[10*big]}] Best wishes, Tomáš Thanks, but that does not work. It only changes the distance between the footnote-line and the

Re: [NTG-context] Spacing between text and footnote line

2019-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Huseyin Özoguz schrieb am 24.03.19 um 15:50: Hello, one way could be \setupnote[footnote][before={\blank[10*big]}] Best wishes, Tomáš Thanks, but that does not work. It only changes the distance between the footnote-line and the footnote-text. But I want to manipulate the distance above

Re: [NTG-context] Spacing between text and footnote line

2019-03-24 Thread Huseyin Özoguz
Hello, one way could be \setupnote[footnote][before={\blank[10*big]}] Best wishes, Tomáš Thanks, but that does not work. It only changes the distance between the footnote-line and the footnote-text. But I want to manipulate the distance above the footnote-line: between the (standard) text

Re: [NTG-context] Spacing between text and footnote line

2019-03-24 Thread Tomas Hala
Hello, one way could be \setupnote[footnote][before={\blank[10*big]}] Best wishes, Tomáš Sun, Mar 24, 2019 ve 02:22:34PM +0100 Huseyin Özoguz napsal(a): # Hello, # # how an I change the distance between the text and the line of the # footnotes? See this min-example: # # \setuplayout[grid

Re: [NTG-context] How to define a new language?

2019-02-28 Thread Paul Hoffman
("no valid file", "convertion aborted") because, after converting hyph-foo.tex, mtx-patterns.lua tries to convert everything in its hard-coded list, but that's not a big deal. Besides lang-foo.lua, which is all I really need, I also get lang-foo.rme, lang-foo.hyp, and lang-foo

[NTG-context] horizontal headalternatives ignore indentnext

2019-02-27 Thread Henri Menke
i \fi \synctexpopline \egroup \egroup \ifconditional\headisdisplay \useindentnextparameter\headparameter \else \ignoreparskip % \noindentation % recently added, was a bug \fi} \protect \setupindenting[yes,big] \setuphead[section][alternative=text,indentnext=yes] \starttext

[NTG-context] upcoming current

2019-02-11 Thread Hans Hagen
izations impose) and that one will be used to experiment with a mkiv only installation (it works ok at my end already, a bit slower initial install but a faster update). For all this to be possible the context garden as well as the build farm are pretty important. Hans (A big thank you to a

Re: [NTG-context] Best strategy for ConTeXt to ePub update

2019-02-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
’s export and ePub script, but re-make most of the ePub files via Python and XSLT). Footnotes and such are a PITA, because there’s no working mechanism in ePub for them. ePub reader compatibility is still a big mess. Greetlings, Hraban --- https://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net http

Re: [NTG-context] problem with \sym?

2019-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
\leaderfill{\leaders\hbox to 1em{\hss. \hss}\hfill} \define[1]\pg{{\switchtobodyfont[10pt]\hfill\at[#1]\crlf}} \startcomponent%\starttext \startCList \sym{} Illustrations and Tables\pg{Illustrations} \sym{} Preface\pg{Preface} \sym{} Acknowledgments\pg{Acknowledgments} \blank[big, fixed] \sym{0

Re: [NTG-context] New logo proposal

2019-01-30 Thread Lars
of the logo into the CTX distributions. My wish has to do with the way how Windows handles modifications to its user interface (UI). Having a fixed location and naming structure for a file icon would be a big improvement. If the CTX distribution always downloaded the logo.ico to some place which I jus

Re: [NTG-context] How to adjust inter item vertical space

2019-01-16 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi, You can define your own white space and then attribute it to each item, as in the following: \setupwhitespace[big] \startsetups[mywhitespace] \setupwhitespace[small] \setupblank[small] \stopsetups \setupitemize[each][inner=\directsetup{mywhitespace}] \starttext \input knuth

Re: [NTG-context] two different outputs.

2019-01-01 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
inner effect appears two times. I have two more questions. 1. I’d like to put a title only in a page using the following. How to put a title as center aligned? \setuphead[title][align=middle] % \page[yes] \dontleavehmode\blank[5cm] \title{Why, Math?} \blank[big] \midaligned{\fancy Why do

Re: [NTG-context] two different outputs.

2019-01-01 Thread Jeong Dal
questions. 1. I’d like to put a title only in a page using the following. How to put a title as center aligned? % \page[yes] \dontleavehmode\blank[5cm] \title{Why, Math?} \blank[big] \midaligned{\fancy Why do we learn mathematics?} \vfill \midaligned{\tfb Institution} \blank[2cm] \page

[NTG-context] issue with initial

2018-12-20 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
\setinitial Πρῶτον \blank[5*big]\setinitial Ὄνομα \stoptext I’m afraid I cannot get an initial with a fallback font and a glyph in the Unicode block for extended Greek. I think it might be a bug. Sorry for insisting. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

Re: [NTG-context] modifying kerning breaks opentype ligatures (and other features)

2018-12-10 Thread Hans Hagen
ou can do that extreme (larg evalues) if needed (after all, big publishers do that too) Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands

Re: [NTG-context] whitespace inside a description

2018-12-01 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Pablo Rodriguez schrieb am 30.11.18 um 19:36: Dear list, I have the following sample: \setupwhitespace[big] \startsetups[small:whitespace] \setupwhitespace[small] \stopsetups \definedescription [description] [setups={small:whitespace

[NTG-context] whitespace inside a description

2018-11-30 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
Dear list, I have the following sample: \setupwhitespace[big] \startsetups[small:whitespace] \setupwhitespace[small] \stopsetups \definedescription [description] [setups={small:whitespace}, inbetween={\directsetup[small:whitespace

Re: [NTG-context] Sources of Tutorial.text.pdf

2018-11-28 Thread Aditya Mahajan
ou need to do this? well, the commands that are useful to you are this and that». I really appreciated that. :-) We did not publish the source anywhere, but they are still on my computer. I will send it to you offlist (the zip file is too big to be send on the list). Do keep in mind that

Re: [NTG-context] Grammar to parse TeX input?

2018-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
=darkgreen, style=\setfontfeature{smallcaps}, n=3] \setupinitial [location=text, n=2, color=darkred, voffset=1.2\lineheight, before={\blank[2*big]}] % \enabletrackers[typesetters.firstlines,typesetters.initials] \starttext \setfirstline \input ward \par

Re: [NTG-context] optical bounds with hanging diacritics

2018-11-25 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
ng code: > > > the pdf is too big .. I have unlocked it for this time... Sorry, Luigi, I forgot that we had a maximum size for the message (attachments included). The PDF document isn’t that big (30KB). The font with the OT lfbd values is a bigger file (177KB

Re: [NTG-context] optical bounds with hanging diacritics

2018-11-25 Thread luigi scarso
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 7:24 PM Pablo Rodriguez wrote: > Hans, > > I added lfbd values for GFS Didot (attached) to get hanging diacritics > in Greek. > > The attached PDF document is the optput from the following code: > the pdf is too big .. I have unlocked it for th

[NTG-context] How to adjust the sistance between a letter and subscript

2018-11-22 Thread Jeong Dal
Hi, In the following example, the distance between a letter ${\cal T}$ and its subscript is too big. It is not an error, but it looks a little bit strange. How to reduce it for a good looking? Thank you. Best regards, Dalyoung * \starttext Compare the distance between a letter and its

Re: [NTG-context] spacing

2018-11-10 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hans Hagen schrieb am 09.11.18 um 17:01: - the new mixed column code has been around for even longer (and always was default on my machine) btu the old code is available as module A big difference between the old columns environment and the new mixed columns code is that the new environment

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting abbreviations

2018-10-28 Thread Clyde Johnston
\stoptext Wolfgang Clyde Johnston schrieb am 27.10.18 um 23:04: What is the correct way to typeset an abbreviation in ConTeXt? The space after the full stop seems too big and if I use \thinspace, I cannot use ties. No command - space is too big \starttext Mr. John Doe \stoptext With

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting abbreviations

2018-10-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
too big and if I use \thinspace, I cannot use ties. No command – space is too big \starttext Mr. John Doe \stoptext With tie – space is too big \starttext Mr.~John Doe \stoptext With \thinspace – looks right except at an end of line \starttext Mr.\thinspace John Doe \stoptext Any

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting abbreviations

2018-10-27 Thread Alan Braslau
frenchpunctuation ;-) On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 00:04:37 +0300 "Clyde Johnston" wrote: > What is the correct way to typeset an abbreviation in ConTeXt? The space > after the full stop seems too big and if I use \thinspace, I cannot use > ties. > > > >

[NTG-context] Typesetting abbreviations

2018-10-27 Thread Clyde Johnston
What is the correct way to typeset an abbreviation in ConTeXt? The space after the full stop seems too big and if I use \thinspace, I cannot use ties. No command - space is too big \starttext Mr. John Doe \stoptext With tie - space is too big \starttext Mr.~John Doe \stoptext

Re: [NTG-context] what defines the font size?

2018-10-16 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
thought that I was missing something. For sure, but it was the > explanation why there is no standarization in size. Even in the times of lead type, there were differences in font size interpretation e.g. between Linotype and Berthold. You could trust that the big vendors would handle their fonts alike

Re: [NTG-context] insert natural table at the top left of some png

2018-10-15 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/15/2018 8:11 PM, Damien Thiriet wrote: Hello, I am still working on maps and facing some new issue. The program I used to design one map is not convenient for writing key to symbols, and what I have is a map.png file with big spare space on its upper left corner. So I have either to write

[NTG-context] insert natural table at the top left of some png

2018-10-15 Thread Damien Thiriet
Hello, I am still working on maps and facing some new issue. The program I used to design one map is not convenient for writing key to symbols, and what I have is a map.png file with big spare space on its upper left corner. So I have either to write on the png with ImageMagick or GIMP, or have

Re: [NTG-context] Text around a table (xtables)

2018-10-10 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Fabrice Couvreur schrieb am 10.10.18 um 20:09: Hi Pablo, Thank you, I thought that indicating width = 1.7cm, the size of the cells would have been 1.7cm. You’re correct and what Pablo meant is the textwidth option for natural tables where you can set a width for the whole table. The big

Re: [NTG-context] Using context.setupexternalfigures

2018-10-09 Thread Hans Hagen
[cow] \stoptext Called with $env:IMG_PATH = 'D:\Applications\Context\tex\texmf-context\tex\context\sample\common'; context test.tex Additionally, using a path with non-ascii symbols in environment variables does not seem to work at all but this is not a big issue for me. How should I c

[NTG-context] Using context.setupexternalfigures

2018-10-08 Thread moi
ications\Context\tex\texmf-context\tex\context\sample\common'; context test.tex Additionally, using a path with non-ascii symbols in environment variables does not seem to work at all but this is not a big issue for me. How should I call context.setupexternalfigures? Best regards, Gilles

Re: [NTG-context] Implicit plots/level curves possible?

2018-10-07 Thread Mikael P. Sundqvist
today I answered something else giving a reference to the metafun manual. Now I'm here not reading it carefully enough myself. In the helpers section it is clearly written how to import and plot data. Thus, I exported the data from the Mathematica plot (that file is pasted below in case anyone w

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun scaling problem

2018-10-01 Thread Lutz Haseloff
al, 97x70.6 mm, all ok. >> >> If I try to scale to the original size, i get arithmetic overflow >error. >> >> \startMPpage >> draw externalfigure "cow.pdf" xscaled 97mm yscaled 70.6mm ; >> \stopMPpage >> >> >> Whe i scale it down, the pdf

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun scaling problem

2018-10-01 Thread luigi scarso
is, as the original, 97x70.6 mm, all ok. > > If I try to scale to the original size, i get arithmetic overflow error. > > \startMPpage > draw externalfigure "cow.pdf" xscaled 97mm yscaled 70.6mm ; > \stopMPpage > > > Whe i scale it down, the pdf gets really big.

[NTG-context] Metafun scaling problem

2018-10-01 Thread Lutz Haseloff
c overflow error. \startMPpage draw externalfigure "cow.pdf" xscaled 97mm yscaled 70.6mm ; \stopMPpage Whe i scale it down, the pdf gets really big. \startMPpage draw externalfigure "cow.pdf" xscaled 27.5mm yscaled 20mm ; \stopMPpage results in a pdf with width of 4.938,8 m

Re: [NTG-context] prevent page break when using blocks

2018-09-27 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
]     [text={Question},      after={\blank[2*big]}, inbetween={\blank[nowhite]},      way=bychapter, prefixsegments=chapter,      prefix=yes] Put your questions in a framedtext environment. \defineframedtext   [questionframe]   [before=\blank,    after=,    offset=none,    frame=off

[NTG-context] prevent page break when using blocks

2018-09-27 Thread Jan Willem Flamma
Dear list members, How can I prevent that a question block breaks across a page? Kind regards, Jan Willem Flamma MWE \defineblock[question] \defineblock[answer] \hideblocks[question] \hideblocks[answer] \defineenumeration [question] [text={Question}, after={\blank[2*big

Re: [NTG-context] Why do I have to enclose \rawcounter in braces in this MWE ?

2018-09-25 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
nter[fiche][way=bytext] >\setupheadertexts[Fiche méthodologique N.{\rawcountervalue[fiche]} ][][][] BTW, I can compile you sample perfectly right on my computer. A similar sample would be: \setuphead[title][after={\blank[3*big]}] Just in case it helps, Pablo -- h

Re: [NTG-context] Creating flyers with ConTeXt

2018-09-25 Thread Marco Patzer
Just comment out \setuppageshift and check the result. > You adjust the backspace of the pages with multiples of the measure > "big". Right? Multiples of measure “small”, but yes. That's general page layout, nothing to do with unequal pages or bleed. > As you can se

Re: [NTG-context] Creating flyers with ConTeXt

2018-09-24 Thread Jan U. Hasecke
my horizon so I won't comment on this. You adjust the backspace of the pages with multiples of the measure "big". Right? As you can see in my example I use layers on page 2-4 to have bleeding images on the top of the page. This works more or less. But as you can see there are

Re: [NTG-context] Variable instance identifiers exhausted

2018-09-21 Thread Hans Hagen
m sure I can learn ! Below is minimal code. (Just to be clear, this code work, even for 20K objects.) Thanks. \starttext   \startMPpage   path Obj[] , ObjTemp ;   pair ObjPos , Inter ;   numeric NObj ;   % Change herte "NObj" to a big numer (says 20K)   NObj := 100;   numeric Dang

Re: [NTG-context] Variable instance identifiers exhausted

2018-09-21 Thread Fabrice L
. This is an algorithmic problem more than a ConTeXt/Metapost one… but I you have suggestions, I’m sure I can learn ! Below is minimal code. (Just to be clear, this code work, even for 20K objects.) Thanks. \starttext \startMPpage path Obj[] , ObjTemp ; pair ObjPos , Inter ; numeric NObj ;

Re: [NTG-context] Creating flyers with ConTeXt

2018-09-21 Thread Marco Patzer
e why. \definepageshift [flyer] [horizontal] [\zeropoint, \measure{shortfold}, \measure{shortfold}, 3\measured{shortfold}, \measure{shortfold}, \zeropoint] \definepageshift [flyer] [vertical] [\measure{shortfold}] \setuppageshift [paper] [flyer] \definemeasure [small] [3mm] \definemea

Re: [NTG-context] setuptyping

2018-09-11 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
, there is [style=bigger], which is a bit inconsistent (with [style=small] rather than "smaller"). I would have expected "style=big", especially as the value "big" is already used in other contexts. Alan On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 22:16:04 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

Re: [NTG-context] Attempt to call a nil value

2018-09-08 Thread Lars
Thank you very much Wolfgang. You were a big help, as usual. It never came to my mind, that the Textadept lexer file /context.lua/ in my working directory could interfere with /mtxmrun/, which is located elsewhere. I should also have tried to process files from another directory instead of

Re: [NTG-context] Modes in tables

2018-09-07 Thread Jan Willem Flamma
table varies. It is larger when using tabulate. 4. The vertical space between the lines in the table text also varies. It is larger when using TABLE. (I left out the modes in MWE below because I don’t think it is relevant here.) \starttext \setupwhitespace[big] \startsetups [tablesetups

Re: [NTG-context] Modes in tables

2018-09-06 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
can I achieve this? Regards, Jan Willem MWE: \starttext %Toggles %\enablemode[BL] \defineblock[question] \defineblock[answer] \hideblocks[question] \hideblocks[answer] \defineenumeration [question] [text=Question, after={\blank[2*big]}, inbetween={\blank[nowhite

[NTG-context] Modes in tables

2018-09-06 Thread Jan Willem Flamma
] \defineblock[question] \defineblock[answer] \hideblocks[question] \hideblocks[answer] \defineenumeration [question] [text=Question, after={\blank[2*big]}, inbetween={\blank[nowhite]}, way=bychapter, prefixsegments=chapter, prefix=yes] \defineenumeration

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt ignores crop in some pdf graphics

2018-09-05 Thread Mari Voipio
meant that I had to spend a few hours today fixing problematic graphics in my big old file, the fact that output from my current Corel works means that any future graphics will be fine and I don't have to change my workflows. This reduces the problem into the level of minor annoyance, assum

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with simplefonts

2018-08-30 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
wever, the big beast fails right after loading env-fonts-23 (attached) and it seems to be a problem connected to the Simplefonts module. This is what the log says: - fonts > preloading latin modern fonts (second stage) fonts > 'fallback modern-designsize rm 12pt

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with simplefonts

2018-08-30 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/30/2018 11:41 AM, Mari Voipio wrote: Hello! Partly due to the upcoming ConTeXt meeting I updated my ConTeXt, although with the --current option for latest stable. Most of my files compile fine and there don't seem to be any problems. However, the big beast fails right after loadin

[NTG-context] Problem with simplefonts

2018-08-30 Thread Mari Voipio
Hello! Partly due to the upcoming ConTeXt meeting I updated my ConTeXt, although with the --current option for latest stable. Most of my files compile fine and there don't seem to be any problems. However, the big beast fails right after loading env-fonts-23 (attached) and it seems to

Re: [NTG-context] future versions - synctex

2018-08-21 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/21/2018 4:46 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Are the x and y values in pts (post script points or big points?) measured from the top-left corner? afaik bottom up base points the script will look into the synctex file and figure out where to go to. Basically all the viewer needs to do is

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