[NTG-context] Re: Adding a line after the TOC

2024-10-08 Thread jbf
Well, you couldn't be more clearer than that! So I should have applied Occam's Razor all along... the law of parsimony, or put otherwise, the simplest solution is the best! I hadn't realised I could simply add to the TOC that way. Always assumed it was to do with the heads, and those alone. T

[NTG-context] Re: Adding a line after the TOC

2024-10-08 Thread jbf
ote: You need to write to a list at the end of your document if you want what you are writing to appear at the end of the list. Is there something stopping you just outputting the line of text after the TOC? Do you need it to appear as if it was part of the TOC? Duncan On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 at 10:2

[NTG-context] Adding a line after the TOC

2024-10-08 Thread jbf
I am struggling with something that might be simple enough, but... The author is insisting that on the TOC page, after all the chapters and their page numbers, I need to add the line (obviously without any page number associated with it): 'All translations are by the author'. I have trie vari

[NTG-context] Re: collector advice

2024-09-12 Thread jbf
][width=5cm,frame=off]} \setcollector [example] [corner={right,bottom},location={right,top}] {\rotate[rotation=90]{\framed[frame=off]{\tfxx Taken by Kathy Luck, used with permission}}} \leftaligned{\composedcollector{example}} Julian On 13/9/24 02:26, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: jbf schrieb am

[NTG-context] collector advice

2024-09-11 Thread jbf
Using the example in the ConTexT wiki for "collectors", I have as follows, to credit the person who took the photo: \setupcaption[number=no] \definecollector[example] \setcollector [example] {\leftaligned{\externalfigure[bird.jpg][width=5cm,frame=off]}} \setcollector [example] [corner={righ

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

2024-09-09 Thread jbf
after the \startdocument, I guess. But just the same, grateful for your patience and clarity. Julian On 10/9/24 13:25, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: jbf schrieb am 10.09.2024 um 02:36: Here is a really odd one that I have a simple workaround for, but for the life of me I cannot work out why this

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

2024-09-09 Thread jbf
Here is a really odd one that I have a simple workaround for, but for the life of me I cannot work out why this is happening. Is 'p' (or 'P') some sort of restricted letter in certain circumstances? Here is the issue: \startdocument [metadata:author={Author name}, metadata:title={Psalms}] A

[NTG-context] Re: No roman numerals in frontmatter header

2024-06-29 Thread jbf
get roman numerals in \setupheadertexts situations, as my own case demonstrates. Grateful as always, Julian On 29/6/24 19:33, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 29.06.2024 um 10:10: Am 29.06.24 um 06:49 schrieb jbf: But if I change to \setuppagenumbering[location= ], and

[NTG-context] Re: No roman numerals in frontmatter header

2024-06-29 Thread jbf
Thanks for this... though the later indication from Wolfgang is clearly the easiest. On 29/6/24 18:10, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 29.06.24 um 06:49 schrieb jbf: But if I change to \setuppagenumbering[location= ], and choose, for example: \setupheadertexts     [ ]    [{\getmarking

[NTG-context] No roman numerals in frontmatter header

2024-06-28 Thread jbf
Perhaps someone can advise me where I am going wrong. I have no trouble getting roman numeral page numbers in the footer text in frontmatter with \startsectionblockenvironment [frontpart] \setupuserpagenumber [numberconversion=romannumerals] \setcounter [userpage] [5] \stopsectionblockenv

[NTG-context] Re: roman numerals frontpart

2024-06-25 Thread jbf
=] \setupfooter [style=normal] \setupfootertexts [{\framed[width=max,frame=off,boffset=2mm]{\pagenumber}}] \stopsetups How can I continue to use the setup but still get my roman numerals in the frontpart? Julian On 26/6/24 10:52, jbf wrote: Something that has worked for me in the past

[NTG-context] roman numerals frontpart

2024-06-25 Thread jbf
Something that has worked for me in the past is not working for me at the moment, and I cannot figure out why: \startsectionblockenvironment [frontpart] \setupuserpagenumber [numberconversion=romannumerals] \setcounter [userpage] [5] \stopsectionblockenvironment \startsectionblockenvironment

[NTG-context] upgrade problem, more info

2024-06-19 Thread jbf
I should give a little more info on the upgrade problem. My system is Linux (Mint). Context installed at /home/jbf/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/context Current version after upgrade : 2024.06.18 22:04 I tried reinstalling, but same result: error, no format found with name: cont-en

[NTG-context] upgrade problem

2024-06-19 Thread jbf
I have just upgraded Context to the latest, but am getting the message: mtx-context | warning: no format found, forcing remake (commandline driven) and at the end, mtx-context | error, no format found with name: cont-en, aborting Is there something that did not work properly in the upgra

[NTG-context] Re: Wiki - test/proposal to further clarify documentation

2024-04-17 Thread jbf
Unfortunately, despite all that has been said, we have to realise what words actually mean in English, and 'infamous' has a negative connotation. So I recommend rephrasing this and perhaps the entire paragraph so that it presents a positive perspective on ConTeXt. But if you mean 'less known' t

[NTG-context] Re: chronological TOC

2024-01-29 Thread jbf
10:05: Am 26.01.24 um 23:46 schrieb jbf: I wonder if someone can point me in the right direction for a separate TOC which needs to be in chronological order at the back of the book (i.e. not in page number order, although I need the page numbers to show up in the TOC. There is the normal TOC at the

[NTG-context] chronological TOC

2024-01-26 Thread jbf
I wonder if someone can point me in the right direction for a separate TOC which needs to be in chronological order at the back of the book (i.e. not in page number order, although I need the page numbers to show up in the TOC. There is the normal TOC at the front of the book, according to chap

[NTG-context] Re: \underbar in head

2023-09-21 Thread jbf
So clearly I would need to upgrade my version. It does not work with what I have at the moment. Thank you. Julian On 22/9/23 02:04, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: I get a line below the chapter title with LMTX and LuaTeX with the current ConTeXt version. ___

[NTG-context] Re: \underbar in head

2023-09-20 Thread jbf
ould it be something to do with the version of LMTX? Mine is 2022.08.25 19:21 LMTX. I do have a workaround, with a \defineframed[underbarframed] and then setting offsets accordingly and using that as a textcommand. Julian On 21/9/23 14:26, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: jbf schrieb am 21.09.202

[NTG-context] \underbar in head

2023-09-20 Thread jbf
Am attempting to get an underlined head style (chapter) with: \setuphead[chapter][textcommand=\underbar] But I get no underline. Am I doing something wrong? I can, of course, achieve the result at each chapter level with \startchapter[title={\underbar{text}}] but would prefer to achieve this

[NTG-context] Re: streams reversed?

2023-09-15 Thread jbf
s ultimate limitations. Even if the final MWE seems too bulky, you could post cloud links to the source and pdf files. Thank you for your contribution. Best wishes Idris -- Original Message ------ From "jbf" To "Bruce Horrocks" ; "mailing list for ConTeXt users&q

[NTG-context] Re: streams reversed?

2023-09-15 Thread jbf
My feeling at the moment is that this might be about the only way one could go ahead in a production situation, and yes, I am familiar with PDF tools that can achieve this, though it is effectively stepping aside from ConTeXt and working with PDF. For that matter I can easily go ahead with a co

[NTG-context] Re: streams reversed?

2023-09-14 Thread jbf
break at the end of the chapter in en, so that the last line can 'catch up' with the last paragraph (in vi). Maybe this one will be harder to solve! Julian On 14/9/23 20:14, Bruce Horrocks wrote: On 13 Sep 2023, at 07:47, jbf wrote: When I come to bodymatter and Chapter 1, agai

[NTG-context] streams reversed?

2023-09-12 Thread jbf
I am making some progress with a bilingual text using the streams mechanism suggested by Wolfgang: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Columns, but see below. The aim has been to have en and vi on facing pages (en left, vi right). It works correctly for the Foreword in two languages (en, vi) in fr

[NTG-context] Re: TOC with sections titles and page numbers like a paragraph beneath chapter

2023-09-04 Thread jbf
That's kind of you Max, and I will definitely take a look at that, both for the current book I am working on, but also for the variations it can offer for other titles. In the meantime, Wolfgang gently reminded me that I had overlooked one various obvious (and simple) approach using alternativ

[NTG-context] TOC with sections titles and page numbers like a paragraph beneath chapter

2023-09-03 Thread jbf
I am attempting to get a TOC that looks like the following (in other words with section titles and their relative page numbers in a block below the chapter): Chapter 1 ...5 Section 1   5, Section 2  6, Section 3  7, Section 4   8, Section 5   9

[NTG-context] Low res output possible?

2023-08-21 Thread jbf
Just wondering: in programs like InDesign, Viva Designer, it is trivial to produce a low resolution pdf output (useful when exchanging a hi-res file with authors and editors prior to pre-print is difficult). I assume it might be possible to do so in ConTeXt. Currently I use a script (gs) to ach

[NTG-context] disable header for endnotes

2023-08-16 Thread jbf
I wonder if someone might be able to help me with this. I have a book in three parts and the author wants endnotes. No problem. I can produce those with \setupfootnotes[location=text] and then \placefootnotes. However, I would like the header to read 'Notes' on the recto page (or indeed be b

Re: [NTG-context] Numbered Itemlist With Interruption

2023-04-25 Thread jbf via ntg-context
e: On Apr 25, 2023, at 8:30 PM, jbf via ntg-context wrote: \startitemize[continue]% THIS SHOULD DO WHAT YOU WANT Wow, thanks. I must have read that 'Enumerations' contextgarden wiki page a half dozen times and missed

Re: [NTG-context] Numbered Itemlist With Interruption

2023-04-25 Thread jbf via ntg-context
\startitemize[continue]% THIS SHOULD DO WHAT YOU WANT \item Picking up where we left off. \item And all is well. \stopitemize Julian On 26/4/23 13:21, Michael Urban via ntg-context wrote: I am trying to have two numbered itemizations, with a paragraph in between, such that the second list s

Re: [NTG-context] adjustment to my local footnotes problem

2023-04-24 Thread jbf via ntg-context
4.23 um 23:36 schrieb jbf via ntg-context: I tried all those Hraban, unsuccessfully, but finally 'happened' upon a solution by trying whitespace instead in the setups. Except that I had read somewhere in the mailing list (Pablo I think) that I would need to use \directsetup. I don'

Re: [NTG-context] adjustment to my local footnotes problem

2023-04-23 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Ramm via ntg-context wrote: Am 23.04.23 um 09:21 schrieb jbf via ntg-context: I realise that I should have been talking about the space between local footnotes, rather than interlinespace (previous email on this issue), but my basic problem still stands. My efforts to influence the space between foot

Re: [NTG-context] adjustment to my local footnotes problem

2023-04-23 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Ramm via ntg-context wrote: Am 23.04.23 um 09:21 schrieb jbf via ntg-context: I realise that I should have been talking about the space between local footnotes, rather than interlinespace (previous email on this issue), but my basic problem still stands. My efforts to influence the space between foot

[NTG-context] adjustment to my local footnotes problem

2023-04-23 Thread jbf via ntg-context
I realise that I should have been talking about the space between local footnotes, rather than interlinespace (previous email on this issue), but my basic problem still stands. My efforts to influence the space between footnotes placed locally is to no avail so far. I assume it is \setupnote (

[NTG-context] interlines space for local footnotes

2023-04-22 Thread jbf via ntg-context
I am using only local footnotes in a document, but am having difficulty influencing the interlines space between these notes. Since I am only using local footnotes, I thought initially that the following would work for them \startsetups[footnote:interlinespace] \setupinterlinespace[line=2.4e

Re: [NTG-context] English-Vietnamese facing pages

2023-04-03 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Yes, that is clear from the emails over a decade or so on the list. But as you will see from my response to Taco, it is possible I can achieve a satisfactory result from Wolfgang's 2016 'stream' suggestion. Julian On 3/4/23 22:04, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: This is one these pr

Re: [NTG-context] English-Vietnamese facing pages

2023-04-03 Thread jbf via ntg-context
also! Julian On 3/4/23 20:55, Peter Münster via ntg-context wrote: On Mon, Apr 03 2023, jbf via ntg-context wrote: Q 1: Has anybody reading this actually produced a bilingual book (it doesn't have to be en-vn) with ConTeXt? Hi, Only some pages of a book: https://wiki.contextgarde

Re: [NTG-context] English-Vietnamese facing pages

2023-04-03 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Okay Taco, so that's a possibility I can explore, even though it is not a nice one, as you say. I can think of a couple of other not-so-nice ways of achieving a result as well. The manuscript shown me (in MSWord, obviously) has been carefully prepared to ensure no text flows over a page, so we

[NTG-context] English-Vietnamese facing pages

2023-04-03 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Am always up for a challenge, but hope this one is not beyond my possibilities! Have a request to produce a book with English-Vietnamese facing pages. The text doesn't have to be strictly in sync, but generally so. The only ConTeXt guidelines I think I have at the moment are (1) an old module c

Re: [NTG-context] xtable - what might prevent splitting?

2023-03-28 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Got it! But I would not have picked that up from reading http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/xtables-mkiv.pdf, which was my guide for this particular exercise. It certainly says \placetable[here,split] but there is no mention of the \start...stop version of that. Anyway, I now understand

[NTG-context] xtable - what might prevent splitting?

2023-03-28 Thread jbf via ntg-context
I cannot understand why my xtable setup does not split to the next page. As far as I can see I have it set up correctly... though obviously not! What might be wrong? Below is a sample. In the real case the number of rows would demand a second page. \setupxtable[width=4cm,option={stretch,width}

Re: [NTG-context] Text editors

2023-03-26 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Every user has his or her own preferred test editor. Over years I have used Emacs for just about everything except the kitchen sink, but not, as it happens, for ConTeXt. For what it's worth here is what I use: (1) TeXworks. All one has to do is indicate the correct path to ConText in the setu

Re: [NTG-context] \setupTABLE: framecolor

2023-03-25 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: Am 25.03.23 um 06:45 schrieb jbf via ntg-context: Hi, I am struggling with the last row of a table which, according to its author, should have a black bottomframe, but gray (I am using a defined 'lightgray') for the sides. The first row has a black fram

[NTG-context] \setupTABLE: framecolor

2023-03-24 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Hi, I am struggling with the last row of a table which, according to its author, should have a black bottomframe, but gray (I am using a defined 'lightgray') for the sides. The first row has a black frame. All intermediate rows have gray. I have no difficulty achieving the first row, and the b

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with \stoptabulate

2023-03-20 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Not sure if this helps, Bruce, but there is \definestartstop Julian On 21/3/23 10:34, Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context wrote: I have a technical manual style document that requires a lot of examples to be included. They can easily be typeset with a table so I thought I would save myself some t

Re: [NTG-context] \setupparagraphs - can they run over two pages?

2023-02-27 Thread jbf via ntg-context
it should work. Massi Il 24/02/23 06:41, jbf via ntg-context ha scritto: I have the following setup for side-by-side paras. \defineparagraphs[Two][n=2] \setupparagraphs[Two][1][width=.1\textwidth,style=\bfx,align=tolerant] \setupparagraphs[Two][2][width=.9\textwidth,style=normal,align=tolerant

[NTG-context] \setupparagraphs - can they run over two pages?

2023-02-23 Thread jbf via ntg-context
I have the following setup for side-by-side paras. \defineparagraphs[Two][n=2] \setupparagraphs[Two][1][width=.1\textwidth,style=\bfx,align=tolerant] \setupparagraphs[Two][2][width=.9\textwidth,style=normal,align=tolerant] My difficulty is that while there is only ever just a couple of numbers

Re: [NTG-context] how to change metadata halfway through document

2023-01-30 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Indeed, that works. Thank you. Julian On 30/1/23 20:14, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: On 1/30/2023 1:14 AM, jbf via ntg-context wrote: Am trying to understand how best to change the title metadata in headertext halfway through a document that has two parts: Constitutions and Regulations

[NTG-context] how to change metadata halfway through document

2023-01-29 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Am trying to understand how best to change the title metadata in headertext halfway through a document that has two parts: Constitutions and Regulations. My first attempt (did not work) \startsetups[headertext] \startdocument [metadata:title={Regulations}] \stopsetups \setupheadertexts [

Re: [NTG-context] notes by paragraph

2023-01-28 Thread jbf via ntg-context
That solves the problem. Thank you. Julian On 28/1/23 23:22, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote: \setupnote[footnote][location=none] might help. ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add

[NTG-context] notes by paragraph

2023-01-27 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Re my earlier question on footnotes by defined paragraph: \start...stoplocalfootnotes and \placelocalfootnotes largely solves the issue (had forgotten that option), but I am still getting the footnotes repeated at the bottom of the page. I am obviously missing a setting. There are parts of thi

[NTG-context] footnotes by paragraph?

2023-01-27 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Here's a tricky one (for me) that I haven't been able to work out. I am dealing with a set of constitutions that I am organizing with a paragraph definition \defineparagraphs[Two][n=2] \setupparagraphs[Two][1][width=.2\textwidth,style=\bfx,after={\blank},align=flushleft] \setupparagraphs[Two]

Re: [NTG-context] Combining Macron Below needed

2022-09-11 Thread jbf via ntg-context
\chr {k line below }ḵ \withlinebelow k On 11/9/22 01:41, Steffen Wolfrum via ntg-context wrote: Hi, a text is to be set in Garamond Premier Pro and uses this character: ḵ Is there a way to set a combining macron below (U+0331), preferable in a Garamond-like font? Best, Steffen ___

[NTG-context] I may have misunderstood...

2022-07-26 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Bruce, This is off-list because I see you already had an answer, but I'm wondering if I have misunderstood your problem. I thought there was a simple way to do this (or at least it is how I do it): |\setuphead [chapter] [page={yes,header,footer,right}] | Which * Finishes the last page of t

[NTG-context] \placelistofabbreviations - solved

2022-06-19 Thread jbf via ntg-context
The setup I offered in the previous email was all correct, but in a large project like a dictionary with 26 or more components there can always be something else that goes wrong! Component 'D' had an extra { in it, but oddly enough the component was compiling, except that I picked up an error m

[NTG-context] \placelistofabbreviations in project structure?

2022-06-19 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Hi, I wonder what I might be doing wrong for \placelistofabbreviations not to work in a project. Everything else about \definesysnonyms and indeed the project is working, but I seem unable to place the list correctly in the component that is intended to list all abbreviations. The main environ

Re: [NTG-context] Footnotes in captions -> "inherit" textwidth from floatntg

2022-06-16 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Maybe \setupnote[footnote][width=\textwidth]? Julian On 16/6/22 18:56, Denis Maier via ntg-context wrote: Hi, I think I’ve ran into a somewhat strange behaviour. If you have a footnote in a float caption, the footnote won’t use the full textwidth, but only the width of the corresponding cap

Re: [NTG-context] Pull quote between two column - trial

2022-05-28 Thread jbf via ntg-context
That is progress, Garulfo, and real progress! I'm sorry I have not been any help to you in achieving this... a bit beyond my skill set. But I have long regarded this particular 'feature' to be a quite important 'missing' feature of ConTeXt, since I occasionally get requests from authors as to t

Re: [NTG-context] font question re U+00336

2022-05-24 Thread jbf via ntg-context
I think I'll take comfort from your final comment - the output looks good enough! But I remain intrigued. Julian On 24/5/22 17:26, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: you can ignore a lot of warnings if the output looks good enough. _

[NTG-context] font question re U+00336

2022-05-23 Thread jbf via ntg-context
I wonder if someone can help me interpret this message in the log file fonts   > start missing characters: /home/jbf/bin/context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre/texgyrepagella-regular.otf fonts   >   88  U+00336  ̶  COMBINING LONG STROKE OVERLAY fonts  

[NTG-context] cross-reference query solved

2022-05-11 Thread jbf via ntg-context
To those who assisted me with helpful hints yesterday, thank you. I finally got the cross-referencing working correctly after examining my overall structure in the light of those hints. I think that what was preventing things from working properly, was that I had all the entries for a particul

Re: [NTG-context] a cross-reference query

2022-05-10 Thread jbf via ntg-context
10.05.22 um 04:03 schrieb jbf via ntg-context: Hi list, In an attempt to make a dictionary interactive in certain ways, perhaps I am misusing the \in{}[] command here, but sometimes a reference works and sometimes it doesn't. I have no idea why it doesn't. Here is the situation: Each

[NTG-context] a cross-reference query

2022-05-09 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Hi list, In an attempt to make a dictionary interactive in certain ways, perhaps I am misusing the \in{}[] command here, but sometimes a reference works and sometimes it doesn't. I have no idea why it doesn't. Here is the situation: Each dictionary entry is a section that has been defined as

[NTG-context] pull quotes

2022-04-26 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Hi list, Back in March, Garulfo asked a question about pull quotes and offered two links by way of example. One of the styles in those links interested me in particular, namely https://www.societal.fr/sites/societal/files/old_site/societal-46-6-boiteux-reperesettendances.pdf#page=2 I know ho

Re: [NTG-context] Chapter number retrieval

2022-03-21 Thread jbf via ntg-context
ote: Hi Julian, :-) I am confronted with my own comments :-) However, this is precisely what I am using in my attempt to get this hidden number. But no it does not appear… Thank you! Willi On 21 Mar 2022, at 22:33, jbf via ntg-context wrote: Willi, I see a comment by yourself back in

Re: [NTG-context] Chapter number retrieval

2022-03-21 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Willi, I see a comment by yourself back in 2011 at https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Last_Head_Number I wonder if this helps? Julian On 22/3/22 07:47, Willi Egger via ntg-context wrote: Hello everybody! I would like to typeset the chapter title without number in the text. — However I still

Re: [NTG-context] Make footnote/endnote number not superscript?

2022-03-20 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Bruce, I suppose one way to achieve your aim, if there is no easy way to prevent superscript, would be to put your reference in parentheses: (See my video at link 1), followed by the normal superscript number for footnote anchors. You can still go with the endnotes. The other thing, and I know

Re: [NTG-context] \setupheadertexts for chapters with different authors

2022-03-19 Thread jbf via ntg-context
next “marks”. BTW, I can’t remember when you need \structurevariable vs. \namedstructurevariable... Hraban Am 19.03.22 um 03:16 schrieb jbf via ntg-context: I might need a little more help just to understand how best to adapt this to my situation: One thing is clear: I was attempting to

Re: [NTG-context] \setupheadertexts for chapters with different authors

2022-03-18 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Sorry, of course I meant swap 'chapter' with \setups{contributor} J On 19/3/22 13:16, jbf wrote: Then just swap 'chapter' in \setupheadertexts, with 'contributor'? ___ If your questi

Re: [NTG-context] \setupheadertexts for chapters with different authors

2022-03-18 Thread jbf via ntg-context
I might need a little more help just to understand how best to adapt this to my situation: One thing is clear: I was attempting to use a 'list' variable, and I can see why that was an error, since it is headertexts, not TOC that I want to influence. But let me simplify my situation: You see

Re: [NTG-context] \setupheadertexts for chapters with different authors

2022-03-18 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Off list for the moment. Late at night where I am. I will take a look at this more closely on the morrow. Thanks. Julian On 18/3/22 18:52, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: \setupheadertexts[] % empty \setupheadertexts[\setups{text right}][][][\setups{text left}] \startsetups[text ri

[NTG-context] \setupheadertexts for chapters with different authors

2022-03-17 Thread jbf via ntg-context
I thought this should work, since \structurelistuservariable{author} works fine to call the author name into the TOC, but the same does not work for header texts it seems: \setupheadertexts [{\hfill\getmarking[\structurelistuservariable{author}]\hfill}][] [{\hfill\documentvariable{metadata:ti

[NTG-context] Tex capacity exceeded...

2022-03-17 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Thanks Hans, and Rik. Perhaps I need to take a much closer look at this file to see if I have created some grouping issues. The removal of the .tuc file is a very handy tip that I hadn't thought of, and I assume it is associated with the way Hans put it, namely, 'looks like you load the same fi

[NTG-context] TeX capacity exceeded.... but....

2022-03-17 Thread jbf via ntg-context
I'd like to understand what is happening in this particular instance: While playing with a suggestion to a recent request (re \currentlistentrynumber etc.) I suddenly got a compiling error: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [file=2000]. I returned everything to how it was before I was trying out t

Re: [NTG-context] Calling in chapter number in list={}

2022-03-17 Thread jbf via ntg-context
But thanks anyway and also to Jean-Pierre (although I do understand sufficient German and could also have made headway in French if it came to that!). The \currentlistentry... options were what I needed. I was playing with wrong options (for this particular problem) like \currentheadnumber. J

[NTG-context] Calling in chapter number in list={}

2022-03-16 Thread jbf via ntg-context
I wonder if there is a way I can call in the chapter number in the TOC, although that number is not used for chapters as such. I know the chapter number is 'remembered' anyway, so there is probably a way I can call it in just for the TOC. The context for this question is the layout for book wh

Re: [NTG-context] help with facing page image

2022-03-11 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Thanks Wolfgang. This version is the 'icing on the cake' I think, a further refined version of the suggestion put forward by Sreeram. Grateful as always, Julian On 11/3/22 23:36, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \definepageinjectionalternative   [chapter:image]   [renderingsetup=pageinjection:chapter

Re: [NTG-context] help with facing page image

2022-03-10 Thread jbf via ntg-context
ll! Thank you (all) for your patience. Julian On 10/3/22 17:51, śrīrāma wrote: On Thursday, March 10, 2022 3:32 AM jbf via ntg-context wrote: Am endeavouring to explore Wolfgang's very 'elegant' solution to this facing page challenge. The exploration has included a look at bas

Re: [NTG-context] help with facing page image

2022-03-09 Thread jbf via ntg-context
[pageinjection:chapter:image] \dorecurse{7}{\samplefile{lorem}} \stopchapter I tried that (and a few other combinations of the kind) but to no effect. Julian On 10/3/22 16:35, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2022, jbf via ntg-context wrote: Am endeavouring to explore Wolfgang&#

Re: [NTG-context] help with facing page image

2022-03-09 Thread jbf via ntg-context
/3/22 05:35, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: jbf via ntg-context schrieb am 07.03.2022 um 09:27: Appreciate your assistance. I'll do my best with what you offer here. Of course, I've always said these images are at the beginning, not "the end of their respective chapters" and I'

Re: [NTG-context] help with facing page image

2022-03-07 Thread jbf via ntg-context
On Monday, March 7, 2022 11:50 AM jbf wrote: All ten images are different, though, in my case (Chapter1.jpg, Chapter2.jpg... Chapter10.jpg all in a pics directory, so I'd point \setupexternalfigures to that). I wonder if there is a way to list them so that they get called in order as chapters pro

Re: [NTG-context] help with facing page image

2022-03-07 Thread jbf via ntg-context
I'll need to work around these differences in your example. But with trial and error, let's hope I get there! Thank you, Julian On 7/3/22 18:01, śrīrāma wrote: On Monday, March 7, 2022 11:50 AM jbf wrote: All ten images are different, though, in my case (Chapter1.jpg, Chapter2

Re: [NTG-context] help with facing page image

2022-03-06 Thread jbf via ntg-context
in a pics directory, so I'd point \setupexternalfigures to that). I wonder if there is a way to list them so that they get called in order as chapters proceed. A kind of "if such and such then \setlayer 1,2,3" Julian On 7/3/22 16:38, śrīrāma wrote: On Monday, March 7, 2

[NTG-context] help with facing page image

2022-03-06 Thread jbf via ntg-context
I wonder if someone can help me untangle the current little mess I seem to be creating! Author wants an image on facing page to each of 10 chapters in the bodypart of the document. Assume that everything else is working properly for this document (double-sided etc.), but other than before cha

Re: [NTG-context] footnote width in specific paragraph instance

2022-02-19 Thread jbf via ntg-context
And indeed it does! I should have just kept playing with my basic "width=" insight, especially since I was already talking about "textarea"! Thanks Sreeram, Julian On 20/2/22 16:00, śrīrāma wrote: On Sunday, February 20, 2022 5:57 AM jbf via ntg-context wrote: Is there

[NTG-context] footnote width in specific paragraph instance

2022-02-19 Thread jbf via ntg-context
I need to typeset a document that contains many poetry/verse examples, and am using \defineparagraphs[mypar][n=2] for the purpose. In one specific case a footnote is required. All good except that the footnote is the width of one of those two 'columns', not the usual textarea width. Here is th

Re: [NTG-context] \hyphenatedurl in non-hyphenation context

2022-02-14 Thread jbf via ntg-context
You could try this (note the url setup then called in before \hyphenatedurl): \setuppapersize[A6] \setuphead[chapter][align={right,nothyphenated}] \startsetupsurl \setupalign[hyphenated] \stopsetups \starttext \chapter[title={asdfasdf\goto{\setup[url]\hyphenatedurl{https://doi.org/10.12345

Re: [NTG-context] sorting for particular sub entries to register

2022-02-01 Thread jbf via ntg-context
trk%]{%#%1!%1%-%2%-%3%-%4-%5}’ )   s = unicode.utf8.gsub … other action \end{luacode} \begin{document} text text text text \TWI{dī-::dū::kin::dah} text text text text text \end{document} Op 1 feb. 2022, om 01:41 heeft jbf via ntg-context het volgende geschreven: Yes, Adam, that

Re: [NTG-context] sorting for particular sub entries to register

2022-01-31 Thread jbf via ntg-context
ls+tpecial} \placeindex \stoptext See result in: https://live.contextgarden.net/cgi-bin/result.cgi?id=j46XhZ Adam On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 10:38 PM jbf via ntg-context wrote: Let me come back to the unresolved (for me) question of two situations in sub entries to a book index (register). S

[NTG-context] sorting for particular sub entries to register

2022-01-31 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Let me come back to the unresolved (for me) question of two situations in sub entries to a book index (register). Sub entries that have formatting or sub entries that are surrounded by quote marks (straight or curly, it makes no difference) do not appear in the correct alphabetical order. Two

Re: [NTG-context] registers, how to ignore quote marks

2022-01-30 Thread jbf via ntg-context
No, I had already tried that. It places the subentry at the top of the list of subentries, not in its correct alphabetical order. Using the example below, I assume you meant (I am including text before and after): The \index[Plenary+periti]{Plenary Council+{\it periti} (experts)} group compris

Re: [NTG-context] registers, how to ignore quote marks

2022-01-29 Thread jbf via ntg-context
sort order. That seems to be the case for a main entry. How do I get it to work for a subentry? Julian On 29/1/22 21:39, Hans Hagen wrote: On 1/29/2022 11:02 AM, jbf via ntg-context wrote: Thanks for this response. I'll have to work on this (but tomorrow... it's late at night for

Re: [NTG-context] registers, how to ignore quote marks

2022-01-29 Thread jbf via ntg-context
rstand how, as you say, to 'set the sort entry to the unformatted version' which is not clear to me at the moment. I'll tackle it on the morrow when I'm thinking more clearly! Julian On 29/1/22 20:43, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: Am 29.01.22 um 06:23 sc

Re: [NTG-context] registers, how to ignore quote marks

2022-01-28 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Well done Adam - or should I say well read in the Wiki! For all my reading of it I still hadn't cottoned on to that. There are several of these cases, but I have been able to fix them all now. Thank you. Any thoughts (but I'm pretty sure this isn't fully explained in the wiki) how I can get pa

[NTG-context] registers - only part of an entry to be italics

2022-01-28 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Let me add one more difficulty I have come across with registers. I need the title of a book to be in italics (and know exactly how to do that with \defineprocessor), but the author's name to follow is to be normal, not italic. So I need: /book name/, author name. I tried setting up a second \

[NTG-context] registers, how to ignore quote marks

2022-01-28 Thread jbf via ntg-context
I have an issue that has been raised at least twice in this list but as far as I can see it has not received an answer. Perhaps someone can help with the following? I have an index entry that has unicode quote marks either side: ‘Innovative Beings’.  I need to retain those quote marks. If I pu

Re: [NTG-context] OT world history: other measuring systems?

2022-01-26 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Just be careful, though (writing as a native English speaker), because the word 'polymath' for English speaker is not a reference to mathematicians at all. (Greek/mathē/ means 'learning' not mathematics). Translators are well aware of the danger of homonyms, and if you go for a title like Manua

Re: [NTG-context] poetry \startlines and tab

2022-01-11 Thread jbf via ntg-context
For poetry that has non-regular indentations, I simply \definelines[poem] and set that up the way I want, obviously, with \setuplines[poem]  e.g. [before={\blank \setupinterlinespace[line=2.5ex]},after={\blank},indenting=first]. And then, but I guess it is still a hack, I use \hskip at a suita

Re: [NTG-context] Getting ONE, TWO... for chapters

2022-01-01 Thread jbf via ntg-context
I knew it had to be simple! Just couldn't get the right combinations. Feliz Año Nuevo para ti también, y muchas gracias, Julian On 2/1/22 7:56 am, Jairo A. del Rio wrote: El sáb, 1 ene 2022 a la(s) 15:37, jbf via ntg-context (ntg-context@ntg.nl <mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl>

[NTG-context] Getting ONE, TWO... for chapters

2022-01-01 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Am typesetting a book that has 'STUDY ONE', 'STUDY TWO' etc. in place of CHAPTER ONE, etc. I have no difficulty getting 'STUDY' with \setuplabeltext[chapter=STUDY~], and I can achieve 'STUDY One' with the key conversion=Words in \setuphead[chapter]. My question: how do I get ONE instead of One

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