Re: [NTG-context] LMTX and my custom typescripts

2021-05-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
> On 28. May 2021, at 18:40, Michael Guravage > wrote: > > Any encouragement in how to resolve this would be much appreciated. > Hi Michael, Try renaming it to type-imp-DollyPro.tex (and then of course \usetypescriptfile[type-imp-DollyPro]), that should help. This changed a couple of

Re: [NTG-context] TeX capacity exceeded

2021-05-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 19.05.21 18:34, Hans Hagen wrote: Can you check the latest upload? You should be able to go way higher. Yes, with 2021.05.19 18:22, the file compiles again in lmtx! I'm also trying your suggestions for improving the Lua code and rethinking my tables for analyzing the vocabulary. Thank

[NTG-context] TeX capacity exceeded

2021-05-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I have a rather large (almost 120,000 lines) xml file, processing pulls in another large xml file. The project compiles under mkiv; with lmtx, I get tex error > tex error on line 8 in file : TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [reference count=32767] \reallanguagetag just twenty

Re: [NTG-context] randomize direction of arrow in metafun

2021-05-15 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 5/15/21 2:42 PM, Mikael Sundqvist wrote: Hi, you could do something like this: \startMPpage for i = 0 upto 10: drawarrow if uniformdeviate(1)<0.5: reverse fi ((0,0)--(2cm,0)) yshifted i*cm; endfor; \stopMPpage /Mikael Hi Mikael, wonderful, thanks for the quick answer! Yes that works

[NTG-context] randomize direction of arrow in metafun

2021-05-15 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, for a slide template, I want to draw colored arrows in a randomized color (from a list of colors). This works (and the code is far too clever for me, I must have copied it somewhere): save mycolor ; color mycolor[] ; mycolor[1] := (0.2, 0.3, 0.4) ; mycolor[2] := (0.6, 0.6, 0.4) ;

Re: [NTG-context] Fuzzy lines

2021-05-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
> On 13. May 2021, at 21:42, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > for my test files you only also need Aditya’s latest mp-sketch.mp, now > attached. > > Find also attached my (somewhat simplified) attempt on a cover for a new > workbook series. > In the original I’m using the

Re: [NTG-context] Fuzzy lines

2021-05-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 5/13/21 8:02 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Unfortunately, the deviation of edge points is too big – try my attached test file. Strangely, if I include the MP code in a ConTeXt document, I find the discussion interesting. Could you send complete documents, like Aditya did? When I try to

Re: [NTG-context] Corrupt PDF files with LMTX?

2021-04-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 24.04.21 08:03, Jairo A. del Rio wrote: Hi, list! When I try to convert a PDF generated by ConTeXt LMTX to PNG using ImageMagick's convert the following happens: Error: stream Length incorrect. Output may be incorrect. Error: An error occurred while reading

Re: [NTG-context] xml processing in latest

2021-04-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 4/21/21 10:34 AM, denis.ma...@ub.unibe.ch wrote: Hi What's the exact issue? You're not using the latest version: 2021.04.20 18:45 Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an

[NTG-context] xml processing in latest

2021-04-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, the latest has some strange problems with xml processing. The example below shows an issue with itemize. In my real file, I also get pages that are filled only two thirds and rugged right instead of justified, but I haven't been able to reproduce this in a MWE. Maybe this one can

Re: [NTG-context] autopdf on MacOS?

2021-04-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 4/16/21 10:26 AM, Hans Åberg wrote: That it doesn’t update in the background is more a feature than a bug, otherwise it would complain about broken/unavailable files during the TeX runs. It is likely a bug: It has worked in some past versions. It still works for me (I'm on the latest

Re: [NTG-context] issue field in bibliography

2021-03-29 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 3/29/21 10:45 AM, Damien Thiriet wrote: I have questions related with a journal named "Documentation photographque". Each issue is devoted to another theme. How should I declare this theme in bibliography fields when quoting articles? It is quite important to get it, because the main

[NTG-context] bug in lmtx

2021-03-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Hans, I've found a very interesting bug in lmtx. The following MWE gives the expected result in mkiv; in lmtx, one character is missing. Perhaps you can figure out what's happening... All best Thomas \setupbodyfont [gentium, 12pt] \starttext Test \hskip1em ἀβ Test \hskip1em ἁβ

Re: [NTG-context] lmtx error: You can't use 'integer 340' in internal vertical mode

2021-02-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 2/23/21 6:14 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: I have no clue because it just works here. I uploaded a new version (no real changed in that area) so who knows ... Are you sure? You have to compile with the --arrange switch. I just tested with 2021.02.23 17:47, still same error. Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] lmtx error: You can't use 'integer 340' in internal vertical mode

2021-02-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 20.02.21 17:12, Hans Hagen wrote: hm, but it still makes sense to know if something fails .. keep en eye on it I just stumbled upon the same error. Arranging is broken in lmtx. MWE: \setuppapersize[A6][A4] \setuparranging[2*4] \starttext \dorecurse{8}{Test: \recurselevel \page}

Re: [NTG-context] Loop?

2021-02-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 2/12/21 7:39 PM, Angel M Alganza wrote: Is it possible to do that with just ConTeXt or would I need to resort to Lua.  I guess it should be possible both ways, but I haven't figure out how to do it.  Any pointer, please? https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Processing_Lists which wasn't

Re: [NTG-context] composing commands

2021-02-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 2/5/21 10:30 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Is this ok for you? tex error   > tex error on line 6 in file ./oeps.tex: Undefined control sequence \v  4  5 \starttext  6 >>  \v  7 \stoptext  8 Otared has already replied what I was thinking: would it be possible, for a certain

Re: [NTG-context] composing commands

2021-02-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 2/5/21 5:38 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: etc ... the ones that make 'composed characters'. I think that anyone who needs them uses utf . They can be in (say) m-oldschool.mkxl or so. Objections? Hurt feelings? Sentiments? No hurt feelings, but I know that in my bib files, there are a couple of

Re: [NTG-context] Bib support broken in lmtx

2021-01-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 1/30/21 10:50 AM, Philipp A. wrote: Am I caught in a spam filter somewhere? Compiles fine here with 2021.01.28 18:22 Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the

Re: [NTG-context] code 139

2021-01-29 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
> On 29. Jan 2021, at 17:55, Otared Kavian wrote: > > Out of curiosity I tested your MWE and I get > > mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 11 Maybe lmtx uses the random number generator to produce its return codes? :-) Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] code 139

2021-01-29 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
> On 29. Jan 2021, at 16:27, Hans Hagen wrote: > > fixed in next upload Thank you for the fix! Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] code 139

2021-01-29 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 1/29/21 12:56 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Hard to say (probably some mem/stack issue) ... you can add a \tracingall around the place where the last message to the console happens ... i need to know where it happens (or you can themn make a mwe of that bit). OK, here's a minimal example. I

[NTG-context] code 139

2021-01-29 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, a complex file with a metafun background does not compile anymore with lmtx. It compiles fine with mkiv. Compilation breaks off after 10 pages (maybe that's significant) with this message: pages > flushing realpage 10, userpage 10, subpage 10 mtx-context | fatal error:

Re: [NTG-context] lmtx: new text & math font stuff

2020-12-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 12/30/20 4:53 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: As usual, it opens up possibilities, but of course at the price of testing. Hans, I had seen the alignment bug as well; this has been fixed in today's upload. I'm in a book project (from xml), so I don't have small examples right now, but I want to

[NTG-context] markings in lmtx and luatex

2020-11-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, something has changed in the way markings are handled. Consider the following example: \definemarking[Section] \setupheadertexts[{\getmarking[Section][top]–\getmarking[Section][bottom]}] \starttext A\marking[Section]{A} B\marking[Section]{B} C\marking[Section]{C} \page

Re: [NTG-context] bizarre bug in xml

2020-11-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 11/21/20 11:04 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: To check whether a stretch or shrink value is set LMTX takes a look at the next character (p, P, m or M) before it makes a decision, when you have now a word after \hskip which start with one of these characters (e.g. Materiam) you trigger the

[NTG-context] bizarre bug in xml

2020-11-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, this is the most bizarre bug I've ever seen in context. I would be grateful if others could try to replicate it. Test file: \startbuffer[test] Materiam vati da Venus alma tuo. \stopbuffer \startxmlsetups xml:testsetups \xmlsetsetup{#1}{*}{-}

Re: [NTG-context] latest lmtx

2020-11-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 11/14/20 12:17 AM, j.ha...@xs4all.nl wrote: Take today's upload. Hi Hans, since you mentioned that such buglets may occur, here's another one, but in this case, the error message is obscure to me, and I have no clue where in the environment file it is triggered (it's an xml-project):

Re: [NTG-context] latest lmtx

2020-11-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
> On 14. Nov 2020, at 00:17, j.ha...@xs4all.nl wrote: > > Take today's upload. > > Hans > > Hi Hans, Yes, it works again! Thanks for the quick fix; I’m looking forward to new adventures in context land… All best Thomas

[NTG-context] latest lmtx

2020-11-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I hadn't upgraded in a couple of weeks because I was in the middle of a project. Now that I'm up to 2020.11.08, I have a problem: I can't load my third party modules; they all throw an error. The error message is Use of \syst_modules_setup_yes doesn't match its definition So I

Re: [NTG-context] Debug mode for XML processing

2020-09-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 9/23/20 1:17 PM, Denis Maier wrote: Hi, Is there are debug mode for XML processing? I'm thinking of something where the XML mapping gets applied to your XML, and you receive a tex file as the output. Could sometimes be easier to see where things go off the rails. Best, Denis No,

Re: [NTG-context] Extreme tables and XML conflict?

2020-09-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 9/21/20 4:38 PM, Denis Maier wrote: Hi, I'm a bit confused, but this here won't compile: xtables manual, chapter 13. Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the

Re: [NTG-context] columns yet again

2020-09-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 9/17/20 3:23 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: \setuplayout[width=16cm] \starttext \enabledirectives[tabulate.linenumbers] \showframe \starttabulate[|p(7cm)|A{verytolerant}i2p(\dimexpr9cm-2em\relax)|]     \NC     \startlinenumbering     \dorecurse{10}{\input ward \par}    

Re: [NTG-context] Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020

2020-09-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 18. Sep 2020, at 12:00, Felix Krause wrote: > > The directory name luatex-cache suggests it's used for caching. That doesn’t help a lot. > I interpret the output like „something happens during the generation of the > format file and therefore the file never gets generated“. I don't know

Re: [NTG-context] Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020

2020-09-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
> On 18. Sep 2020, at 11:35, Felix Krause wrote: > > Hm. I don't have this directory (not using MacPorts) and my error seems to be > quite different (the scripts to be executed seem to be found). > I dug through the thread but for all I can see, nothing there describes my > problem or a

[NTG-context] columns yet again

2020-09-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I hope everybody made it back home safely after the meeting. It was great listening in, even if I couldn't be there in person, unfortunately! Today's question is an old one, but I'm confused. What I need: two columns, of unequal width, the left column has line numbering; two column

[NTG-context] register entries in footnotes

2020-04-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
A similar question has been asked three years ago, and Rik Kabel posted a partial solution, adapted here: \defineprocessor [Footnote] [right={ n}] \define[1] \fnindex{\index[Footnote->]{#1}} \starttext This is a sentence with a term in the index: cat\index{cat}. This sentence also has an

Re: [NTG-context] Setting vertical spacing of lines inside a \framed[align=]

2020-04-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
> On 24. Apr 2020, at 18:19, Gerben Wierda wrote: > > \starttext > > \framed[align=flushright,frame=on,offset=none,width=106.400bp]{\colored[r=0.000, > g=0.000, > b=0.000]{\switchtobodyfont[11.0pt] \setupinterlinespace[20pt] \rm > [My]\\Application\\(Component)}} > > \stoptext > > and if

Re: [NTG-context] Basic font question (Optima, but no bold, no italics). Standalone ConTeXt does not work. TeX Live 2019 works

2020-04-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
> On 24. Apr 2020, at 09:21, Gerben Wierda wrote: > > > I altready did that earlier as per the Wiki information (did not report it) > and just tried again. No difference. Steps to happiness: 1. Extract the ttc font to ttf 2. Copy the ttf files to your local texmf directory 3. reload the

Re: [NTG-context] Use a counter in a reference?

2020-04-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 4/13/20 10:13 PM, Kevin Kenan wrote: I have a need to tag elements in a text in a way that they are sequentially numbered and can have references to refer to them. Something like: Here is some \tag[tagref]{\bf text} that is tagged. . . . Refer to tag

Re: [NTG-context] xhtml export internal command \dostarttaging modify display and other XML/XHTML attributes

2020-04-10 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
> On 10. Apr 2020, at 14:49, Christoph Hintermüller > wrote: > > Please increase the USB of ConTeXt by improoving the xml/xhtml exporter > backend by allowing modules to hook into it, defining how the contotent > should be processed and what css attributes the corresponding tags > should

Re: [NTG-context] Using Lua files in project structure

2020-04-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 05.04.20 15:00, Jairo A. del Rio wrote: I'm writing a project in ConTeXt MKIV and I want to load some (pure) Lua libraries and bindings (defining \ctxlua and the like). For instance, I have the file foo.lua with some macros and I want to use them in my project. Something like this:

Re: [NTG-context] Customizing \cite alternatives

2020-02-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 20.02.20 14:16, Philipp A. wrote: Makes sense, seems like no default is defined anymore, so it won’t render without using a style. I use apa, and the attached screenshot shows my problem. If you use APA, you have to set up the APA cite options. The manual is a bit on the short side here,

Re: [NTG-context] Customizing \cite alternatives

2020-02-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
It is difficult to answer your question because we don't know which specifications you use for your citations. You will have to provide a minimal example that allows us to see what you're doing. Thomas On 2/17/20 6:26 PM, Philipp A. wrote: Hi List, I want the comma gone from “et al.”

Re: [NTG-context] math font

2020-02-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
> On 7. Feb 2020, at 15:14, Wolfgang Schuster > wrote: > > Does this also happen when you use \definetypeface to set the math font? > > \definetypeface [thomas] [mm] [math] [xits] [default] No, with this change, the warnings are gone. New syntax? Or user error? Thomas

[NTG-context] math font

2020-02-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, in my environment file, I have defined a math font: \definefontfamily [thomas] [math] [XITS Math] and as far as I can see in the log file, this font is found: system >9: filename=xits-math.lfg filetype=tex

Re: [NTG-context] line numbering within frame

2020-01-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 25.01.20 19:17, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Before I give the answer to the question we have to go back to a few TeX/ConTeXt basics. Wolfgang, thank you for this careful and helpful reply. It really made me understand what is going on here. At the same time, I also feel a bit more

Re: [NTG-context] line numbering within frame

2020-01-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
> On 23. Jan 2020, at 12:45, Tomas Hala wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > move definitions and setups for Three and Four before the use of \framed. > (With TL2019 works.) > > Wishes, > > Tomáš Thank you for the hint - we’re still waiting for an answer to Wolfgang’s bonus question. But I have

Re: [NTG-context] line numbering within frame

2020-01-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
> On 23. Jan 2020, at 22:32, Wolfgang Schuster > wrote: > > > Bonus question: Why is it necessary to put \definelinenumbering before > \framed? > > Wolfgang I would be grateful for an answer because I have no clue ;-) In my real life case, I fetch the content of the frame from an xml

[NTG-context] line numbering within frame

2020-01-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I want line numbering within a framed environment, and I need two (at least) independent numbering systems. I hit a similar problem in 2016, and Wolfgang provided a solution (defining different numbering environment). However, this does not work within a frame. The example shows the

Re: [NTG-context] Hyphenation LuaTeX

2020-01-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 17.01.20 12:55, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: I suspect "patterns" understands only one file, as far as I understood the source, but don’t trust me on this. When you mark your Greek passages with {\agr ἡ Ἑλληνικὴ γλῶσσα} (or \language[agr] instead of \agr), you should get the right pattern

Re: [NTG-context] beta 2019.12.02 18:38 fails to build format

2019-12-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
> On 4. Dec 2019, at 15:33, Hans Hagen wrote: > > it means that your binary doesn't match the tex files (it is a new feature, > mentioned a few days before at this list) OK, I see - after wiping everything and a fresh download, lmtx works again - there is a problem with line breaks, I’ll

[NTG-context] beta 2019.12.02 18:38 fails to build format

2019-12-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, has this already been reported? On my macOS machine, the latest lmtx beta fails to build the format with this error: tex error > tex error on line 99 in file hand-ini.mkxl: ! Undefined control sequence ...ansion :\currentexpansion }{\adjustspacingstep

Re: [NTG-context] How to get attribute value from xml tag?

2019-10-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
> On 20. Oct 2019, at 16:05, Geert Verhaag wrote: > > The \xmlfirst{#1}{distance} yields 20, but how can the unit attribute value > km be accessed? > > Gerard > > \xmlattribute{#1}{/distance}{unit} (probably, you need to make a real example. See xml-mkiv.pdf, chapter 3.6) Thomas

[NTG-context] arrows in FLOW charts

2019-10-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I may be missing something really obvious: is it possible to change the shape of single connection lines in the flowchart module? Let’s say in the following example, I want the connection between test2 and test3 dashed and blue. Can this be done? Thanks, and best wishes Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2019-09-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 29.09.19 16:31, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, A week ago we had the (nice and pleasant) annual context meeting and as usual some new stuff has been presented there which was not yet in the distribution at that moment. Some pending code is now being moved into the distribution. Part is font

Re: [NTG-context] Size of the font (Metapost + xtable)

2019-09-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 9/23/19 4:12 PM, Fabrice Couvreur wrote: Hello, I can not change the font size of my figures in the table. Thank you Fabrice Does changing \usecolors [xwi] to \usecolors [ema] help? All best Thomas ___

Re: [NTG-context] about SimpleSlides

2019-08-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 7/30/19 8:06 AM, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: Hi all, SimpleSlides is very useful for novice users so I do use it. But I encountered few problems which, I'm afraid, might be known. Hi, sorry, I'm on my vacation right now; I'll look into this in two weeks, when I'm back home. All best Thomas

[NTG-context] mapping seeregister command to xml

2019-07-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, I'm having trouble mapping the seeregister command to an xml setup. Example (looks somewhat messy, but explains why I need it): \startbuffer[test] This is a test. IGRR 4, 988sort="IGRR4+988" target="TAM 2 677">IGRR 4+988 = TAM 2, 677sort="TAM2+677">TAM 2+677 \stopbuffer

Re: [NTG-context] two (2) questions about footnotes

2019-05-27 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 05/27/2019 09:35 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:   Test1: \index{Adam}Adam. \footnote{Test2: \index{Eve}Eve.} \footnote[note:abel]{Test3: \index[Abel]{Abel in \in{note}[note:abel]}Abel.} \page \placeregister [index] \stoptext Ah excellent, thanks a lot, that makes everything clear! All

[NTG-context] two (2) questions about footnotes

2019-05-27 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I have two questions/problems about footnotes. Here is a minimal example, which does not compile in this form: \unexpanded\def\MyRule{\blackrule[width=\textwidth,height=3pt]} \setupfootnotes[rule=\MyRule] \starttext Test1: \index{Adam}Adam.\footnote{Test2: \index{Eve}Eve.} \page

Re: [NTG-context] Remove italics from bibliography list

2019-05-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 5/17/19 12:41 PM, Dmitry Starostin wrote: I tried several variants, but I cannot find where exactly the switch happens. \definebtx[apa:list:title:incollection][apa:list:title][style=] \definebtx[apa:list:title:book][apa:list:title][style=] \definebtx[apa:list:journal][apa:list][style=]

Re: [NTG-context] PDF output routine in lmtx

2019-04-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
> On 29. Apr 2019, at 11:46, Christian Prim wrote: > > Hi > > in lmtx the pdf output routine has changed afaik. I just wanted to report, > that in lmtx our printer/copier (Ricoh 8200S or Ricoh 8110S) doesn't print > any character. A standard document as the MWE prints well under mkiv. Under

Re: [NTG-context] index "compress" option / collapsing of page numbers

2019-04-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
> On 3. Apr 2019, at 10:56, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > Thank you – it’s not only a German habit, even if we pronounce it “folgende”, > “f.” stems from Latin “folio”, and “ff.” is a duplicated abbreviation, as was > usual in mediaeval Latin. > So, this is at least used in English, German,

Re: [NTG-context] Welcome to LMTX

2019-04-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 02.04.19 11:34, Rudolf Bahr wrote: whereis mtxrun gives: mtxrun: /home/sam/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/mtxrun whereis context gives: context: /usr/local/context /home/sam/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/context Hmm - you're still using your old context, it should say

[NTG-context] environment variable for runtime

2019-02-27 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, I would like to typeset the runtime information that context displays at the end of typesetting: mkiv lua stats > runtime: 174.639 seconds, 913 processed pages, 913 shipped pages, 5.228 pages/second system | total runtime: 526.583 seconds Is this stored in any environment

Re: [NTG-context] New logo proposal

2019-01-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 1/30/19 1:50 PM, Willi Egger wrote: I would say, that the multicolor version is dissecting the word ConTeXT to unidentifiable crumbles. It is to my taste to less connected to typesetting, herewith agreeing partly with Clyde. It is useless to argue about taste, but it may be of interest to

Re: [NTG-context] Sorting registers method for "uppercase like lowercase, diacritics ignored"

2019-01-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 20.01.19 21:59, Marcus Vinicius Mesquita wrote: Well, I tried all possible permutations thereof, and also the predefined methods, and none gives what my editor wants, which is just "uppercase like lowercase, diacritics ignored". See MWE attached. Please, would somebody help me achieve the

[NTG-context] final thoughts on experiments with lua

2019-01-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
I've finished testing my lua script, and it does exactly what I need. I think I'll write a small article about it for one of the next context group proceedings, but wanted to just give a very brief summary that might be of interest to some: Pure Lua is wonderful, but as the language is

Re: [NTG-context] further experiments with lua

2019-01-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 1/9/19 9:47 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: mtxrun has al the basic modules in it but not the character ones (thinking of it, i can add an autoload for that, maybe i should do that) so you need: require "char-ini" Hans, Luigi, thanks a lot, that solves it! Maybe autoload or at least a small hint

[NTG-context] further experiments with lua

2019-01-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Hans, I'm doing some further experiments with the utf and lpeg libraries. This code fails, and I don't understand why: local s = "Ä" print(characters.uccode(s)) mtxrun --script test.lua ./test.lua:3: attempt to index global 'characters' (a nil value) Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] papersize problem with latest beta

2019-01-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
> On 7. Jan 2019, at 17:07, Hans Hagen wrote: > > i uploaded a fix Sorry, didn’t see the new upload. Thanks, issue is fixed! Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to

[NTG-context] papersize problem with latest beta

2019-01-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Hans, the latest and greatest (2019.01.07 10:07) has a problem with papersizes. MWE: \setuppapersize[A6] \showframe \starttext Hello world \stoptext All best Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to

Re: [NTG-context] lua lpeg + utf8

2019-01-06 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 06.01.19 23:08, Hans Hagen wrote: what do you mean with "running luatex alone" ; you can run scripts with mtxrun --script yourscript foo.txt (or do you mean something different) Hi Hans, thanks, this is what I meant! I guess I was trying to reinvent the wheel and doing things in pure

Re: [NTG-context] lua lpeg + utf8

2019-01-06 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 06.01.19 19:20, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \starttext \startluacode print("abcdeφὴὰabcde") local remap = utf.remapper { a = "y", c = "z", ὴ = "ή", ὰ = "ά" } print(remap("abcdeφὴὰabcde")) \stopluacode \stoptext Wolfgang, thank you, I should have looked into this manual! Is there an easy

[NTG-context] lua lpeg + utf8

2019-01-06 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi everybody, best wishes for (the still new) 2019! My question is not strictly a ConTeXt problem, but about the way luatex (and pure Lua) can handle utf8 in lpeg. Here is my Lua example: mystring = "abcdeφὴὰabcde" local replace_table = { a = "y", c = "z", ὴ = "ή", ὰ = "ά", }

Re: [NTG-context] book

2018-12-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 12/16/18 2:45 PM, Andrea Valle wrote: sorry https://www.logos-verlag.de/cgi-bin/engbuchmid?isbn=4466 This looks very interesting, from a typographical point of view. How did you create the music notation examples? Would it be

Re: [NTG-context] Issues using publications subsystem for non-bibliographic database

2018-12-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 08.12.18 20:50, Alan Braslau wrote: In my incremental development, I place a bibliography at the end of a chapter, part, or even section - there is no need for this to be backmatter. Using modes, these then can remain or not be rendered as design advances. I've been following this thread

[NTG-context] regression in bib system

2018-12-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hans, Alan, I'm experiencing a regression with bibliographies in the latest beta (2018.12.01 13:20). I haven't been able to reduce it to a MWE yet, but here's what I get from my bibliographic files: compilation hangs with this message: close source> level 2, order 8, name

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt source from XML

2018-10-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
> On 23. Oct 2018, at 10:43, Hans Hagen wrote: > > examples ... i thought that there is a kind of error message on the console > (at least in a tex run) Yes, I often get errors like “can’t close tag with on line .” But I don’t know in which situations these messages pop up and when

Re: [NTG-context] wrong hyphenation in ancient Greek?

2018-10-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 13.10.2018 10:05, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: As far as I know, two consonants in ancient Greek aren’t hyphenated, when they may begin a word. Γν may be the beginning of word in Greek (such as γνῶσις), but even LSJ has no word that begins with γμ. Am I missing something or should this be

[NTG-context] tex-gyre fonts missing in 2018.07.02 14:39

2018-07-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Hans, is it possible that you forgot to include the texgyre fonts in the latest beta? I just realized that the directory experimental/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre is missing… (and my documents are in latin modern) All best Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] xml, language, btx problems

2018-06-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
sometimes you need to do \starttexcode   ... \stoptexcode when inside some special caocode regime (which happens in xml) Hans Hans, thank you - that was the golden hint! It works now as I've always wanted! And I realize once again that I know far less about ConTeXt than I wished and

Re: [NTG-context] xml, language, btx problems

2018-06-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Alan, thanks for joining the discussion! Just to answer your two queries about my setup: On 06/18/2018 12:58 AM, Alan Braslau wrote: Thomas, Why would the definitions need to be loaded before \starttext? The bibliographic data can be loaded independent of any rendering or use

Re: [NTG-context] xml, language, btx problems

2018-06-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 06/17/2018 09:37 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: Hi Thomas, this may work in your case: \startxmlsetups xml:document \mainlanguage[\xmlatt{#1}{language}] \doifmodeelse{**en} {\usebtxdefinitions [english]} {\usebtxdefinitions [deutsch]} \stopxmlsetups I have just

[NTG-context] xml, language, btx problems

2018-06-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, I have a conceptual problem integrating btx into my xml workflow. There are too many files involved, so no minimal example, but a minimal description. Root of my xml document: ... I have two files with btx definitions: publ-imp-deutsch.mkvi publ-imp-english.mkvi Loading one of

Re: [NTG-context] Build for Alpine Linux

2018-04-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 04/17/2018 05:25 PM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: I can’t test musl support, but the new code should avoid the problem Thomas experienced. Best, Arthur I haven't had any trouble so far but need to test with another computer, tonight. Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] linux binaries split?

2018-03-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 03/24/2018 05:51 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: I reverted the change for now until someone can come up with a working command. Arthur's if command -v ldd >/dev/null && ldd --version 2>&1 | fgrep -q '^musl' works for me, but again, there may be other corner cases that we don't see now. I

Re: [NTG-context] linux binaries split?

2018-03-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 24.03.2018 14:06, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: Quite possibly the shell makes a difference, but the expression being grepped for really should be protected by quotes. Can you try ldd --version 2>&1 | fgrep -q '^musl' ? Best, Arthur Arthur, with your

Re: [NTG-context] linux binaries split?

2018-03-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 24.03.2018 13:32, Mojca Miklavec wrote: The binaries were requested (and provided) by Henri Menke: https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2018/090611.html From what I understood (maybe I misunderstood) the regular linux binaries would not even work on machines with musl, but maybe

Re: [NTG-context] linux binaries split?

2018-03-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 03/24/2018 12:14 PM, luigi scarso wrote: hm, what does command -v ldd >/dev/null && ldd --version 2>&1 say ? ldd (GNU libc) 2.26 Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for

[NTG-context] linux binaries split?

2018-03-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, I wanted to use my minimal installation on arch linux this morning and received this error: Binaries for platform 'linuxmusl-64' are missing. (There is no folder "/mnt/shared/context/tex/texmf-linuxmusl-64/bin") provide a proper tex root (like '. setuptex /something/tex') Looking into

Re: [NTG-context] natural tables to extreme tables

2018-02-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 02/28/2018 11:35 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: page 26 of the xtable manual ... you define tagged settings and can use these tag for cells and rows OK Hans, I see that, thanks a lot! But it still means I have to tag the cells/rows? As always, I'm playing with xml and Lua and am trying to write

[NTG-context] natural tables to extreme tables

2018-02-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, for my experimenting with tables: is there a way to set up individual columns in xtables? Maybe I'm thick tonight, but I couldn't find anything in the manual or the source. If I have this setup \setupTABLE [frame=on,split=repeat] \setupTABLE [column] [1] [width=0.7cm,align=left]

Re: [NTG-context] How to do an inline itemization?

2018-02-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 02/28/2018 11:33 AM, Dr. Thomas Möbius wrote: How to do an in-line / in-text itemization? I would like to (i) enumerate something (ii) in the text (iii) but I don't know how. Thank you! Thomas \starttext \startitemize[n,text] \startitem One \stopitem \startitem Two \stopitem

Re: [NTG-context] Learning how to use \setupbtxrendering

2018-02-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Otared, > > So my first question is: how can one define one's own « specification », when > modifying built-in specifications is not satisfactory for one's needs, or > does not give the expected result? I work with lots of bibliographies and want my very own styles, and I have indeed

Re: [NTG-context] Learning how to use \setupbtxrendering

2018-02-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 02/18/2018 06:07 PM, Alan Braslau wrote: title={The Cambridge Companion to {\em Ulysses}}, Alan, I think this was Rik Kabel's point: for some scenarios, you cannot avoid to have some sort of context commands in your bibtex file. For a while, I also used biblatex from time to time, so I

Re: [NTG-context] xits-math font problem

2018-02-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 02/16/2018 11:57 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: you can look into the cache and see what names.tma mentions (and save the xits bit for later comparison when it fails) as i can't replicate it here i need that info Hans, I have compared the two files names.tma from my laptop (has the error) and my

Re: [NTG-context] xits-math font problem

2018-02-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 16.02.2018 08:37, Hans Hagen wrote: can you try mtxrun --script font --reload --force Hans, it's the same problem I reported about a week ago, and in my experience, it recurs intermittently. A reload of the font cache fixes it for a while, but it comes back, and it concerns only XITS

Re: [NTG-context] Sending data from lua to context and back to lua

2018-02-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 08.02.2018 15:34, Rudolf Bahr wrote: With the use of "\immediate\write" and "\read" in context and the read and write functions in lua I know exactly from where to where the data goes. How to do the same with "context()"? This question is impossible to answer - what is "the same"? Please

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