[NTG-context] Re: \m vs $ for math mode

2024-09-11 Thread Mikael Sundqvist
Hi, you do not need to change the $ into \m. With \m, you can use some arguments, like \m[color=red]{x+y}. /Mikael On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 4:44 AM Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: > > Hi all, > > I had been using $ for math mode. Then I read the new manual that \m > is better for mat

[NTG-context] Re: how do I get the correct page numbers and do the calculations with it?

2024-09-11 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
he box. I run your code and already found a few example where it fails, e.g. - when you have a very short text it is spread over the while line and you get a line break at the end - when you use it in the narrower environment you don't compensate the left/right indentations Regarding the pa

[NTG-context] Inmargin labels fail to be placed on makeup pages

2024-09-11 Thread Rik Kabel
their validity. -- Abraham Lincoln\epi[epigraph]\ipe[EPIGRAPH] This page is numbered, but the number is not displayed. \stopmakeup Label TOP is on page \at[TOP]. Label top is on page \at[top]. Label epigraph is on page \at[epigraph]. Label EPIGRAPH is on page \at[EPIGRAPH

[NTG-context] Re: regular online meetup

2024-09-11 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Reminder: This is tonight. Am 09.09.24 um 09:59 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Oops, I nearly forgot: You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, September 11, 19:00 CEST (UTC+2) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu

[NTG-context] Re: how do I get the correct page numbers and do the calculations with it?

2024-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Bruce Horrocks schrieb am 11.09.2024 um 00:35: On 10 Sep 2024, at 19:47, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: You can't use page counters in running text without problems because you're working against the way how TeX constructs pages. The only reliable way are multipass solutions like the

[NTG-context] Re: how do I get the correct page numbers and do the calculations with it?

2024-09-10 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 10 Sep 2024, at 19:47, Wolfgang Schuster > wrote: > > You can't use page counters in running text without problems because you're > working against the way how TeX constructs pages. > > The only reliable way are multipass solutions like the pagestate

[NTG-context] Re: how do I get the correct page numbers and do the calculations with it?

2024-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
\tolerant\def\warichu[#1]#:#2%   {...} \global\advance\cnt@warichu by 1\relax% You don't need % at the end when you end the line with a command (e.g. \relax). \iffirstargument\setupwarichu[#1]\fi% Change this to \ifparameter#1\or\setupwarichu[#1]\fi when you use \tole

[NTG-context] Re: How to use Adobe Acrobat Reader (free) as the pdf viewer when compiling file in Windows Terminal (Windows)

2024-09-10 Thread Hans Hagen
On 9/10/2024 9:22 PM, Jim wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 05:52 (-), Felix wrote: I want to use Adobe Acrobat Reader (free) and I always get this message when I have my Windows Terminal, vs code and acrobat setup backend > quitting because file 'Chapter 4 Assignment.pdf

[NTG-context] Re: How to use Adobe Acrobat Reader (free) as the pdf viewer when compiling file in Windows Terminal (Windows)

2024-09-10 Thread Jim
On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 05:52 (-), Felix wrote: > I want to use Adobe Acrobat Reader (free) and I always get this message when > I have my Windows Terminal, vs code and acrobat setup > backend > quitting because file 'Chapter 4 Assignment.pdf' cannot be >

[NTG-context] Re: how do I get the correct page numbers and do the calculations with it?

2024-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Bruce Horrocks schrieb am 09.09.2024 um 23:27: On 9 Sep 2024, at 08:57, ai2472206...@yeah.net wrote: As the title suggests, how do I get the correct page numbers? There does seem to be an anomaly here. Simpler MWE: \starttext \dorecurse{15}{ \input knuth %{\ssd\color[red]{\pagenumber}} % not

[NTG-context] Re: How to use Adobe Acrobat Reader (free) as the pdf viewer when compiling file in Windows Terminal (Windows)

2024-09-09 Thread Joseph Wright
t locks files when open - as such, you have to close your PDF before you run any process that modifies it (so true for all *TeX). It's one reason there is a tendency not to use Acrobat as the main previewer in TeX workflows. That said, some editors (WinEdt at least) will auto-close the PDF when

[NTG-context] Re: What could possibly be wrong with 'P'?

2024-09-09 Thread jbf
e commands is looking for additional parameters and when it encounters the "p" at the beginning of metadata:title it assumes you set the plus parameter. To prevent the error either add a \relax after the dimension (i.e. \hskip1em\r

[NTG-context] Re: What could possibly be wrong with 'P'?

2024-09-09 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
chapter]\hskip1em \pagenumber}] [] [ {\pagenumber \hskip1em \documentvariable{metadata:title}}] But that should not be a problem. The \hskip is a problem because the commands is looking for additional parameters and when it encounters the "p" at the beginning of metadata:title it assumes you se

[NTG-context] Re: how do I get the correct page numbers and do the calculations with it?

2024-09-09 Thread vm via ntg-context
\dorecurse{15}{ \input knuth {\color[red]{\pagenumber}} % as expected } \stoptext (and there is probably a valid reason to it ;-) .F On 09/09/2024 23:27, Bruce Horrocks wrote: On 9 Sep 2024, at 08:57,ai2472206...@yeah.net wrote: As the title suggests, how do I get the correct page numbers

[NTG-context] Re: how do I get the correct page numbers and do the calculations with it?

2024-09-09 Thread Bruce Horrocks
On 9 Sep 2024, at 08:57, ai2472206...@yeah.net wrote: > > As the title suggests, how do I get the correct page numbers? There does seem to be an anomaly here. Simpler MWE: \starttext \dorecurse{15}{ \input knuth %{\ssd\color[red]{\pagenumber}} % not as expected {\color[red]{\page

[NTG-context] regular online meetup

2024-09-09 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Oops, I nearly forgot: You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, September 11, 19:00 CEST (UTC+2) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Looking forward to seeing you

[NTG-context] Re: Is \not still supported?

2024-09-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
} \im{x \not\in M} \stoptext end example indeed, because old school \not was a symbols that got overlayed. we could of course make some clever not but i hav eto discuss that with MS .. if there are \not cases at all My main reason for the question was to get clarification about the status

[NTG-context] Re: Is \not still supported?

2024-09-08 Thread Hans Hagen
indeed, because old school \not was a symbols that got overlayed. we could of course make some clever not but i hav eto discuss that with MS .. if there are \not cases at all Hans - Hans

[NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt beginner, What should I enable within font features? And how do I see all the options possible?

2024-09-07 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
, I am a beginner at ConTeXt) It is applied to all fonts which use the "default" feature set and which enabled after you made the changes. In the following example only pagella uses the "trep" feature because modern was loaded before the settings was added to the

[NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt beginner, What should I enable within font features? And how do I see all the options possible?

2024-09-05 Thread Marcus Vinicius Mesquita
Hi, Felix In linux, to find the GSUB/GPOS features of a opentype face you can use the command otfinfo -f fontname.ttf otfinfo is part of the lcdf-typetools package Regards Marcus Vinicius Marcus Vinicius On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 6:02 PM Felix wrote: > > https://pastebin.com/245uwYj4

[NTG-context] ConTeXt beginner, What should I enable within font features? And how do I see all the options possible?

2024-09-05 Thread Felix
https://pastebin.com/245uwYj4 I have this setup for my fonts, called myfonts. I assume that `\definefontfeature [default] [default] [trep=yes,dlig=yes,itlc=yes]` will affect every single font that goes into my preamble (Forgive me if I seem incompetent, I am a beginner at ConTeXt) I have dlig

[NTG-context] Re: \ldot and \ldotp not working

2024-09-04 Thread Aditya Mahajan
t;>> \ldotp=permanent \Umathchar"06"00"2E > >> > >> which appears correct. > >> > >> So, not sure what is going on. Any ideas? > > > > > > I have no idea what's the cause for the error but I can narrow it dow

[NTG-context] Re: \ldot and \ldotp not working

2024-09-04 Thread Hans Hagen
I have no idea what's the cause for the error but I can narrow it down. When you replace \ldot with it's mathchar version you can reproduce the error when there is *no* space at the end, \ldots on the other hand has no problem without the space. \starttext No space at the end o

[NTG-context] Re: \ldot and \ldotp not working

2024-09-04 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
or but I can narrow it down. When you replace \ldot with it's mathchar version you can reproduce the error when there is *no* space at the end, \ldots on the other hand has no problem without the space. \starttext No space at the end of \tex{Umathchar}: $\Umathchar"19"00"002

[NTG-context] Re: Combining styles (especially bold and italic)

2024-09-04 Thread Gerion Entrup
italic part while the heading is bold, but both styles > > are defined at another place. > > Is there a way to tell ConTeXt to combine them, so that it is bold _and_ > > italic? > > > > Here is a minimal example: > > ``` > > \define\somename{HX\style[italic]{

[NTG-context] Re: Combining styles (especially bold and italic)

2024-09-04 Thread Gerion Entrup
an italic part while the heading is bold, but both > > styles are defined at another place. > > Is there a way to tell ConTeXt to combine them, so that it is bold > > _and_ italic? > Hi Gerion, > > you may combine emphasis with bold and set emphasis to italic (default

[NTG-context] Re: Combining styles (especially bold and italic)

2024-09-04 Thread Gerion Entrup
italic part while the heading is bold, but both styles > > are defined at another place. > > Is there a way to tell ConTeXt to combine them, so that it is bold _and_ > > italic? > > try \bi > > Hraban This does not really work in my case, since I have the italic styl

[NTG-context] Re: Is there an alternative to \reference[]{} that won't interfere with the document design?

2024-09-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
finalising a book at the moment. References need an anchor to know on which page they end up because a page is finished you don't know the answer. The following example sets three references, one and three marks the start of each paragraph but where should two end up? begin example \usem

[NTG-context] Re: Combining styles (especially bold and italic)

2024-09-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Gerion Entrup schrieb am 03.09.2024 um 18:28: Hi, I have the situation that I want to typeset a special formatted name within a section heading. The name contains an italic part while the heading is bold, but both styles are defined at another place. Is there a way to tell ConTeXt to combine

[NTG-context] Re: Combining styles (especially bold and italic)

2024-09-03 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
On 9/3/24 18:28, Gerion Entrup wrote: > Hi, > > I have the situation that I want to typeset a special formatted name > within a section heading. > The name contains an italic part while the heading is bold, but both > styles are defined at another place. > Is there a way to te

[NTG-context] Re: Combining styles (especially bold and italic)

2024-09-03 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 03.09.24 um 18:28 schrieb Gerion Entrup: Hi, I have the situation that I want to typeset a special formatted name within a section heading. The name contains an italic part while the heading is bold, but both styles are defined at another place. Is there a way to tell ConTeXt to combine

[NTG-context] Re: Inserting text between end notes

2024-09-03 Thread Rik Kabel
: On 1 Sep 2024, at 03:53, Rik Kabel wrote: Hello all, I am trying to implement some style-guide-defined (Chicago 17, and now, 18) requirements to the end notes in a book. The need is to insert non-end-note text into the list of end notes. But end notes are not a list (as far as I can see) and

[NTG-context] Combining styles (especially bold and italic)

2024-09-03 Thread Gerion Entrup
Hi, I have the situation that I want to typeset a special formatted name within a section heading. The name contains an italic part while the heading is bold, but both styles are defined at another place. Is there a way to tell ConTeXt to combine them, so that it is bold _and_ italic? Here is

[NTG-context] Placement of floats with an "anchor"

2024-09-03 Thread Gerion Entrup
Hi, in my document, I recently left a TODO note that said: "This floating graphic needs to be on the same page than this formula at the end." My floating graphic currently uses: \startplacefigure[title={bla}, location=top, reference=fig:bla] ... \stopplacefigure The graphic

[NTG-context] Re: Has anyone packages the ConTeXt standalone distributon for nixpkgs/NixOS?

2024-09-02 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 27 Aug 2024, at 19:52, m...@silentumbrella.com wrote: > > Thanks Bruce. For now I'm just using ConTeXt from TeXLive, which is packaged > and is recent enough. If it helps, I managed to build a Docker image containing LMTX and run that under NixOS. I’ve added Docker b

[NTG-context] Re: BUG(?): mailing list archive formatting

2024-09-01 Thread Jim
On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 10:23 (+0100), Bruce Horrocks wrote: >> On 30 Aug 2024, at 01:19, Jim wrote: >>> FWIW I use >>> <https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg108280.html> which >>> gets it right. >> Also thanks. I haven't used

[NTG-context] Re: (ConTeXt LMTX) How do I fix the centering and setting up width in xtables?

2024-09-01 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
x for your case is to set a fixed width for all three column which ensures the text in the second column is centered. You can also simplify your setup by moving all settings at the start of the table and the only local change is needed for the merged cells. begin example \starttext

[NTG-context] Re: Inserting text between end notes

2024-09-01 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 1 Sep 2024, at 03:53, Rik Kabel wrote: > > Hello all, > I am trying to implement some style-guide-defined (Chicago 17, and now, 18) > requirements to the end notes in a book. The need is to insert non-end-note > text into the list of end notes. But end notes are not a

[NTG-context] Inserting text between end notes

2024-08-31 Thread Rik Kabel
text to be inserted is of two types. The first is the name of the chapter from which the following notes were generated. It would be nice to automatically generate these. The second type is pseudo-end-notes crediting the book and chapter epigraphs, which should appear as unnumbered end notes (at

[NTG-context] Re: Is there an alternative to \reference[]{} that won't interfere with the document design?

2024-08-31 Thread Jürgen Hanneder via ntg-context
I recently learned not to leave a space before and after \reference , but have not seen further complex problems as you describe so far. Can you give more specific examples for these, I have to check, because I am also finalising a book at the moment. Best wishes, Jürgen - Nachricht

[NTG-context] Re: Is there an alternative to \reference[]{} that won't interfere with the document design?

2024-08-31 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 31 Aug 2024, at 15:37, Joel via ntg-context wrote: > > I've found just placing \reference[]{} anywhere on a page will create extra > blank spaces, In the following MWE you should get two spaces, no spaces and one space respectively. If you get spaces with some other

[NTG-context] Re: for loop not working in metapost

2024-08-30 Thread Mikael Sundqvist
Hi, try "dashed evenly" instead of just "dashed". /Mikael (did not test...) On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 1:24 PM Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: > > Hi, > > I have plotted a log function and I want to draw an xy axis grid. > Below is the code > > \starttext >

[NTG-context] Re: BUG(?): mailing list archive formatting

2024-08-30 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 30 Aug 2024, at 01:19, Jim wrote: > >> FWIW I use >> <https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg108280.html> which >> gets it right. > > Also thanks. I haven't used mail-archive.com before. Is it obvious how > one divines the

[NTG-context] Re: BUG REPORT: Italic Correction in ConTeXt LMTX

2024-08-29 Thread Jim
On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 23:04 (+0200), Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Jim schrieb am 29.08.2024 um 21:19: >> Hans (et al), >> I'm a couple of days late to this party, but none of the above suggestions >> give me any italic correction. I updated my ConTeXt today, but the

[NTG-context] Re: BUG(?): mailing list archive formatting

2024-08-29 Thread Jim
On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 21:31 (+0100), Bruce Horrocks wrote: >> On 29 Aug 2024, at 21:07, Jim wrote: >> To whomever might be able to do something about this: >> The "quoting" on the mailing list archive seems to have a bug. >> For example, in >>

[NTG-context] Re: BUG REPORT: Italic Correction in ConTeXt LMTX

2024-08-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
then. The \em variant didn't work because it inserts \/ (which was broken) at the end of the text. Wolfgang ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-

[NTG-context] Re: BUG REPORT: Italic Correction in ConTeXt LMTX

2024-08-29 Thread Jim
On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 09:07 (+0200), Hans Hagen wrote: > On 8/26/2024 8:32 PM, cont...@vladimirgrbic.com wrote: >> Hello, >> I started using ConTeXt LMTX 2 days ago and after some initial testing I >> noticed an unexpected behavior regarding italic correction. >>

[NTG-context] Re: BUG(?): mailing list archive formatting

2024-08-29 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 29 Aug 2024, at 21:07, Jim wrote: > > To whomever might be able to do something about this: > > The "quoting" on the mailing list archive seems to have a bug. > > For example, in > > https://mailman.ntg.nl/archives/list/ntg-context@ntg.nl/th

[NTG-context] MetaPost dirtree?

2024-08-29 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hi, did someone already create directory trees with MetaPost? It should be quite easy, but I couldn’t find examples and was thinking about porting the LaTeX dirtree package (i.e. look at the code and try to implement something similar in Lua and MP). I have ideas… (but I have always too many

[NTG-context] Re: Steps to become a ConTeXt developer

2024-08-28 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
asymptote work with ConTeXt but I can live with including generated images and use PDFs. There is zero change that that will be integrated as it introduces a (long term) dependency. It's pretty much geared at latex anyway and we would need some backend that fits in. We already have metapost (and

[NTG-context] Re: Steps to become a ConTeXt developer

2024-08-28 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 28.08.24 um 16:47 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 at 12:03, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: I have two specific interests. I want to make asymptote work with ConTeXt but I can live with including generated images and use PDFs. There’s the built-in asymptote module: https

[NTG-context] Re: Steps to become a ConTeXt developer

2024-08-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 at 12:03, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: > > I have two specific interests. I want to make asymptote work with ConTeXt > but I can live with including generated images and use PDFs. This is a much better specified question. It would ideally require some work both on the

[NTG-context] Re: Help with Metapopst code

2024-08-28 Thread Mikael Sundqvist
It is rotated with respect to the origin (that is (0,0)). If you want to rotate around another point you have rotatedaround. /Mikael On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 12:27 PM Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: > > > I don't know where you found the code, but the answer to "What is (0, &

[NTG-context] Re: Help with Metapopst code

2024-08-28 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
For your labeling problem, see the last example of section 2.9 of > > https://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/metafun-p.pdf > Thanks, I am reading that. > /Mikael > > PS Please do not cross post here and on stackexchange (at least not > without telling). > I wi

[NTG-context] Re: Help with Metapopst code

2024-08-28 Thread Mikael Sundqvist
-p.pdf /Mikael PS Please do not cross post here and on stackexchange (at least not without telling). On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 11:12 AM Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: > > I think it works like (0, r) rotated (a) -- (0, r) rotated (a * 2) -- > ... (0, r) rotated (a*20) -- cycle > > Is my un

[NTG-context] Re: Steps to become a ConTeXt developer

2024-08-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Dear Shiv, On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 at 03:17, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: > > Suppose a C programmer wants to become a core ConTeXt developer then > what steps one should follow. Assume that the programmer knows only > the basics of LaTeX and never wrote macros etc using TeX or ConTeXt.

[NTG-context] Re: Steps to become a ConTeXt developer

2024-08-28 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
red. > Things like that get discussed at meetings and personal cummunication. > > The source code is under rather stict dev regime. We don't want to break > compatibility, all has to fit into the user interface, performance might > not be impacted significantly. We don't ha

[NTG-context] Re: Steps to become a ConTeXt developer

2024-08-28 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 8/28/2024 10:57 AM, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 8:17 AM Jethro Djan wrote: Hi, Not sure what you mean by a core ConTeXt developer. I think, as with anything, you get better at it by using it extensively. I would focus on a use case of interest and take advantage of

[NTG-context] Re: Steps to become a ConTeXt developer

2024-08-28 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 28.08.24 um 10:57 schrieb Shiv Shankar Dayal: On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 8:17 AM Jethro Djan wrote: Hi, Not sure what you mean by a core ConTeXt developer. I think, as with anything, you get better at it by using it extensively. I would focus on a use case of interest and take advantage of

[NTG-context] Re: Help with Metapopst code

2024-08-28 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
I think it works like (0, r) rotated (a) -- (0, r) rotated (a * 2) -- ... (0, r) rotated (a*20) -- cycle Is my understanding correct? Also, how can I label these vertices in a for loop? On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 2:25 PM Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: > > Hi, > > Consider following code

[NTG-context] Re: Steps to become a ConTeXt developer

2024-08-28 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 8:17 AM Jethro Djan wrote: > > Hi, > > Not sure what you mean by a core ConTeXt developer. I think, as with > anything, you get better at it by using it extensively. I would focus on a > use case of interest and take advantage of ConTeXt’s unmatched e

[NTG-context] Re: Questions regarding fonts: obliques (fake italics), ligatures and kerning

2024-08-27 Thread Gerion Entrup
el™, \italic{effi > >>> abcdel™}, \slanted{effi abcdel™}}\\ > >>> \style[mono]{Vitae, Vase, LT, VA, Y., Effizient, abcdel™, \italic{effi > >>> abcdel™}, \slanted{effi abcdel™}}\\ > >>> > >>> \showbodyfont[myfont] > >>> > &g

[NTG-context] Re: Steps to become a ConTeXt developer

2024-08-27 Thread Jethro Djan
Hi, Not sure what you mean by a core ConTeXt developer. I think, as with anything, you get better at it by using it extensively. I would focus on a use case of interest and take advantage of ConTeXt’s unmatched extensibility to automate much of it as possible. Then you ask for help when you get

[NTG-context] Re: Questions regarding fonts: obliques (fake italics), ligatures and kerning

2024-08-27 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
{effi abcdel™}}\\ \showbodyfont[myfont] \stopTEXpage ``` It produces the PDF in the attachment. I'm struggling with several things: - xcharter seems to have no kerning applied. It is listed as font feature, though. Is it correct to have no kerning at all for that font? The font has ke

[NTG-context] Re: Questions regarding fonts: obliques (fake italics), ligatures and kerning

2024-08-27 Thread Gerion Entrup
ted{effi abcdel™}}\\ > > > > \showbodyfont[myfont] > > > > \stopTEXpage > > ``` > > It produces the PDF in the attachment. I'm struggling with several things: > > - xcharter seems to have no kerning applied. It is listed as font feature, > > though

[NTG-context] Re: Questions regarding fonts: obliques (fake italics), ligatures and kerning

2024-08-27 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
with several things: - xcharter seems to have no kerning applied. It is listed as font feature, though. Is it correct to have no kerning at all for that font? The font has kerning information but none for characters in the ASCII range. - xcharter also have no ligatures (at least it doesn't

[NTG-context] Re: About the font used in the document mathincontext-paper.pdf

2024-08-27 Thread Marcus Vinicius Mesquita
Thank you for the info, Hans Regards Marcus Vinicius On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 11:54 AM Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > > On 8/27/2024 3:37 PM, Marcus Vinicius Mesquita wrote: > > pdffonts mathincontext-paper.pdf lists quite a bunch of fonts named > > C

[NTG-context] Questions regarding fonts: obliques (fake italics), ligatures and kerning

2024-08-27 Thread Gerion Entrup
x27;m struggling with several things: - xcharter seems to have no kerning applied. It is listed as font feature, though. Is it correct to have no kerning at all for that font? - xcharter also have no ligatures (at least it doesn't look like that). That is listed as font feature, too, althoug

[NTG-context] Re: Has anyone packages the ConTeXt standalone distributon for nixpkgs/NixOS?

2024-08-27 Thread Mica via ntg-context
Thanks Bruce. For now I'm just using ConTeXt from TeXLive, which is packaged and is recent enough. I guess some sort of FHSEnv in nix, and then running the install script and patchelf might be enough? Best, Mica August 25, 2024 at 5:09 AM, "Bruce Horrocks" wrote: > >

[NTG-context] Re: BUG REPORT: Italic Correction in ConTeXt LMTX

2024-08-27 Thread Vladimir Grbić
Thank you all, I am looking forward to it being fixed. Vladimir On Tuesday, August 27th, 2024 at 03:07, Hans Hagen wrote: > > > On 8/26/2024 8:32 PM, cont...@vladimirgrbic.com wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I started using ConTeXt LMTX 2 days ago an

[NTG-context] Re: About the font used in the document mathincontext-paper.pdf

2024-08-27 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Fabrice Couvreur schrieb am 27.08.2024 um 15:35: In this " A small note, with source". As Mikael already wrote, the example use Antykwa Torunska for the text but when you take a look at the end of the source you find the following note: On the next few pages we show the re

[NTG-context] Re: About the font used in the document mathincontext-paper.pdf

2024-08-27 Thread Marcus Vinicius Mesquita
pdffonts mathincontext-paper.pdf lists quite a bunch of fonts named ContextRuntimeFont1 … ContextRuntimeFont17. I'm curious to know what they are. Marcus Vinicius On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 10:22 AM Mikael Sundqvist wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 3:08 PM Fabrice

[NTG-context] Re: About the font used in the document mathincontext-paper.pdf

2024-08-27 Thread Fabrice Couvreur
In this " A small note, with source". Le mar. 27 août 2024 à 15:23, Mikael Sundqvist a écrit : > Hi, > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 3:08 PM Fabrice Couvreur > wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I read this very good document and it says that it was written with th

[NTG-context] Re: About the font used in the document mathincontext-paper.pdf

2024-08-27 Thread Mikael Sundqvist
Hi, On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 3:08 PM Fabrice Couvreur wrote: > > Hello, > I read this very good document and it says that it was written with the > Pagella font. I use this font with a simple \setupbodyfont[pagella,11pt] but > I find that the rendering is not the same as on the

[NTG-context] Re: BUG REPORT: Italic Correction in ConTeXt LMTX

2024-08-26 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 26 Aug 2024, at 19:32, cont...@vladimirgrbic.com wrote: > > Please confirm if this, in fact, is the issue/bug or if I am not approaching > this correctly. I am brand new to ConTeXt, so it could be me. Thank you in > advance! It seems as though it used to work (see &l

[NTG-context] BUG REPORT: Italic Correction in ConTeXt LMTX

2024-08-26 Thread contact
other user confirmed the suspicion in his answer. I would suggest you take a look at it because the formatting of the question and the answer is prettier than in this plain text email. Furthermore, a person who provided the answer already did some research. See the question here:

[NTG-context] Re: Strange extra space when using cases in an inner align in math

2024-08-25 Thread Mikael Sundqvist
Hi Gerion, Hans is working on the problem. /Mikael On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 4:01 PM Gerion Entrup wrote: > > Hi Mikael, > > your examples are simpler, that is correct, but all of them have the extra > space. > Thanks for the simpler code, I will integrate it! > > Ge

[NTG-context] Re: understanding units / dimensions

2024-08-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 25.08.24 um 15:52 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: vh doesn't exist. Ok, I had mis-noted vh from some older talk, meeting, or whatever, and forgot vs. Stumbled upon it again: At the end of https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb42-3/tb132hagen-dk.pdf Hans wrote: vw (relative to the \hsize

[NTG-context] Re: Strange extra space when using cases in an inner align in math

2024-08-25 Thread Gerion Entrup
\NR > \NC f(x,y) \NC = \NC \startcases >\NC 1 \NC a \NR >\NC 2 \NC b \NR > \stopcases >\NR > \stopalign > \stopformula > > \stopd

[NTG-context] Re: Installation problem

2024-08-25 Thread Thomas Meyer
n for macOS X86 is not reachable?! No. But there were problems with the Pragma servers at least Thursday night and this morning, maybe continuously. Hraban ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, p

[NTG-context] Re: understanding units / dimensions

2024-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 25.08.2024 um 13:45: At the meeting I noted a few units that I didn’t know about, while I already knew many. * general units: in, m, cm, mm (ft?) * typographical units: pt, dd, bp, pc, cc, sp * font related: em, ex, fs, fa, fd, fc, ch * layout related: pw, ph, tw

[NTG-context] Re: Has anyone packages the ConTeXt standalone distributon for nixpkgs/NixOS?

2024-08-25 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 15 Aug 2024, at 18:31, Mica via ntg-context wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm wondering if anyone has packaged the ConTeXt standalone for nixpkgs/NixOS > and if yes, can you share your derivation? > > Thanks! Hi Mica, Short answer: no. Longer answer: I’ve n

[NTG-context] Re: Installation problem

2024-08-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 25.08.24 um 11:37 schrieb Thomas Meyer: is it right that https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Installation for macOS X86 is not reachable?! No. But there were problems with the Pragma servers at least Thursday night and this morning, maybe continuously. Hraban

[NTG-context] understanding units / dimensions

2024-08-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
At the meeting I noted a few units that I didn’t know about, while I already knew many. * general units: in, m, cm, mm (ft?) * typographical units: pt, dd, bp, pc, cc, sp * font related: em, ex, fs, fa, fd, fc, ch * layout related: pw, ph, tw, th, cw, cd, lw, hs, vh * frame related: fw, fh, fo

[NTG-context] Re: Installation problem

2024-08-25 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 25 Aug 2024, at 10:37, Thomas Meyer wrote: > > Hi, > > is it right that > https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Installation > for macOS X86 > is not reachable?! > > Greetings > Tomás It worked for me just no

[NTG-context] Re: Does ConTeXt still support ePub output?

2024-08-24 Thread Keith McKay
epub using kindle previewer. Best wishes Keith McKay On Sat, 24 Aug 2024, 18:08 Hans Hagen via ntg-context, wrote: > On 8/24/2024 6:25 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > > Unfortunately, the ePub at least doesn’t work with Calibre. I need to > > check what’s actually the proble

[NTG-context] Re: Does ConTeXt still support ePub output?

2024-08-24 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 8/24/2024 6:25 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Unfortunately, the ePub at least doesn’t work with Calibre. I need to check what’s actually the problem. Indeed we need to check the current state ... at that time there weer variations of the 'standards' and various devices expected

[NTG-context] Re: Does ConTeXt still support ePub output?

2024-08-24 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
n.net/Export) and probably \setupexport[alternative=html], that creates the necessary content files, and then mtxrun --script epub yourdocument creates an ePub, as documented in https://wiki.contextgarden.net/ePub Unfortunately, the ePub at least doesn’t work with Calibre. I need to check w

[NTG-context] Re: How should I be compiling my for-printers file?

2024-08-24 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 24.08.24 um 03:16 schrieb Joel via ntg-context: I’m nearing the final stages of preparing a file for printing, which will be used to produce a textbook at a professional printer. The printer can accept PDF files, and I’ve been generating them using the |context filename.tex| command as part

[NTG-context] How should I be compiling my for-printers file?

2024-08-23 Thread Joel via ntg-context
I’m nearing the final stages of preparing a file for printing, which will be used to produce a textbook at a professional printer. The printer can accept PDF files, and I’ve been generating them using the context filename.tex command as part of my regular workflow. I’m wondering if this

[NTG-context] Re: Strange extra space when using cases in an inner align in math

2024-08-20 Thread Mikael Sundqvist
\stopalign \stopformula \stopdocument On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:55 AM Gerion Entrup wrote: > > Hi, > > I currently have the case of a strange extra space in math mode when using > cases in inner align. > > Here is a MWE to demonstrate the problem: > ``` > \defin

[NTG-context] Variable counting citations

2024-08-20 Thread Niklas
Hi there, I want to show the bibliography at the end, only when there are actually citations in this document. My attempt was to create a custom defined command to combine a citation with incrementing a counter. Is this the right way, or is there any native variable that holds the number of

[NTG-context] Re: Probably a very simple question, but how do I get a page number to be centered, at the bottom and vertically in the middle whilst having my doc margins?

2024-08-19 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
On 8/19/24 17:11, Felix wrote: > Hello mikail, I would send a picture to be more clear with what I > want but it seems to not be possible Hi Felix, attachments to the list should be less than 100kb. If you generate your image as a PNG file, it should fit in that file size. I attach sample image

[NTG-context] Re: Probably a very simple question, but how do I get a page number to be centered, at the bottom and vertically in the middle whilst having my doc margins?

2024-08-19 Thread Felix
Hello mikail, I would send a picture to be more clear with what I want but it seems to not be possible, what adding the footer=.5in code does is simply take away .5in from the bottom margin, what I mean is that The bottom margin really just becomes 1in because the footer takes up .5in from the m

[NTG-context] Re: Probably a very simple question, but how do I get a page number to be centered, at the bottom and vertically in the middle whilst having my doc margins?

2024-08-18 Thread Mikael Sundqvist
set up, or even \showlayout if you want some more information. /Mikael PS You can also play with \setupfootertexts [pagenumber] or \setupfootertexts [pagenumber] [B] On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 7:32 AM Felix wrote: > > I have the following code that I tried editing with no s

[NTG-context] Probably a very simple question, but how do I get a page number to be centered, at the bottom and vertically in the middle whilst having my doc margins?

2024-08-18 Thread Felix
I have the following code that I tried editing with no success https://pastebin.com/jT58Z8uY This has no footer or header but when I add code for a header that is AI generated it outputs a wrong result l, and I tried reading documentation too but didn't really find anything helpful What I wan

[NTG-context] Re: Why are some external PDF figures leading to a stack overflow error?

2024-08-18 Thread Mikael Sundqvist
The unknownpicture was there to hint that you did not give an example showing the problem. The compact= was an initial guess by an anonymous participant at the meeting. Den sön 18 aug. 2024 17:20Joel via ntg-context skrev: > The file compiles and just has a grey empty box saying &q

[NTG-context] Re: Why are some external PDF figures leading to a stack overflow error?

2024-08-18 Thread Joel via ntg-context
If I add [compact=] it seems to be rendering the PDF. What does [compact=] do? On Sunday, August 18, 2024 at 09:14:37 AM MDT, Mikael Sundqvist wrote: Hi, >From the meeting: What happens if you do \externalfigure   [unknownpicture]   [compact=] ? On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 4:53

[NTG-context] Re: Why are some external PDF figures leading to a stack overflow error?

2024-08-18 Thread Joel via ntg-context
nday, August 18, 2024 at 09:14:37 AM MDT, Mikael Sundqvist wrote: Hi, >From the meeting: What happens if you do \externalfigure   [unknownpicture]   [compact=] ? On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 4:53 PM Joel via ntg-context wrote: > > I am making a book that includes a series of

[NTG-context] Re: Why are some external PDF figures leading to a stack overflow error?

2024-08-18 Thread Mikael Sundqvist
Hi, From the meeting: What happens if you do \externalfigure [unknownpicture] [compact=] ? On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 4:53 PM Joel via ntg-context wrote: > > I am making a book that includes a series of maps which I created in > LibreOffice Draw, but exported as a lossless P

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