[NTG-context] Re: Issue with bibliographical items in footnotes

2025-07-26 Thread Bruce Horrocks
ut not sure where to suggest you look. Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK tt.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! ma

[NTG-context] [OT] Mini-keypad for typing math symbols

2025-07-21 Thread Bruce Horrocks
ed to hunt around in fiddly character viewers. It's switchable between Word, OpenOffice and LaTeX — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the

[NTG-context] Re: weird issue with latest win64 binaries

2025-07-17 Thread Bruce Horrocks
ersion using nothing but Windows command line commands. Don't do anything with MSYS2 until you first have it working in Windows. — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as w

[NTG-context] Re: weird issue with latest win64 binaries

2025-07-14 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 14 Jul 2025, at 14:39, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context > wrote: > > On 7/13/25 00:32, Bruce Horrocks wrote: > >> What do you get if you run >> >> C:\> where.exe context.exe >> >> It's the equivalent of Unix's 'which'

[NTG-context] Re: weird issue with latest win64 binaries

2025-07-12 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 11 Jul 2025, at 15:42, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context > wrote: > > On 7/10/25 22:37, Bruce Horrocks wrote: >> On 10 Jul 2025, at 15:25, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context > cont...@ntg.nl> wrote:>> >>> It seems to work fine, except for `mtxrun.exe` (

[NTG-context] Re: testing tagging for UA-2

2025-07-10 Thread Bruce Horrocks
ier invasion in 55-54BC) :-) — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailma

[NTG-context] Re: weird issue with latest win64 binaries

2025-07-10 Thread Bruce Horrocks
least one line with RX for an Active Directory group that you are a member of. Try the above first and we can troubleshoot a bit more if the cause still isn't clear. — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your qu

[NTG-context] Re: weird issue with latest win64 binaries

2025-07-09 Thread Bruce Horrocks
version` gave the following > message (and no more than that): > > Access denied Is there anti-virus / "endpoint protection" software installed? Otherwise I would look at the permissions of the binary (i.e. whatever `context` resolves to when it is run on Window

[NTG-context] Re: Full-page illustrations

2025-07-07 Thread Bruce Horrocks
figure, > which is inconvenient for the reader. \placefigure [90] {This is a cow} {\externalfigure[cow]} Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please ad

[NTG-context] Re: Problem with the second \HL in the matrix

2025-07-02 Thread Bruce Horrocks
ntries > mkxl run stats > used platform: win64, type: windows, binary subtree: bin > mkxl run stats > used engine: luametatex version: 2.11.07, functionality > level: 20250609, format id: 720, compiler: gcc > mkxl run stats > tex properties: 93

[NTG-context] Re: Problem with the second \HL in the matrix

2025-06-30 Thread Bruce Horrocks
artmathmatrix [fences=parenthesis] \VL\NR \HL \NC \NC \NC \NC \NC \NC \VL \NR \stopmathmatrix \stopformula \startformula \startmathmatrix [fences=parenthesis] \NC \GL[1][t]\GL[1][b] \NC a \NC b \NC c \NC d \NR \NC \GL[2][t] \NC a \NC b \NC c \NC d\NC \GL[2][t]\GL[2][b]\NR \stopmathmatrix

[NTG-context] \setupwhitespace[default]

2025-06-23 Thread Bruce Horrocks
lt;https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupwhitespace> — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.

[NTG-context] Re: Two questions to counter in margin

2025-05-28 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 28 May 2025, at 10:53, Bruce Horrocks wrote: > > The reason I suggest it is that \heading gives you much more control \section not \heading — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your quest

[NTG-context] Re: Two questions to counter in margin

2025-05-28 Thread Bruce Horrocks
n't have to change what you've already written very much. Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@

[NTG-context] Re: Enumerations: How to place an itemized list's index above an item's contents?

2025-05-14 Thread Bruce Horrocks
ize to keep count you could use a counter <https://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_and_Lua_programming/Counters> and increment it after each poem, resetting at the next chapter? Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If

[NTG-context] Re: List of abbreviations

2025-05-09 Thread Bruce Horrocks
the best way to achieve this? > > https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/definesynonyms There is also \definetabulate - see page 42 of the ma-cb-en.pdf manual. — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your que

[NTG-context] Re: TDM Reservation Protocol (TDMRep)

2025-04-30 Thread Bruce Horrocks
thing similar where invisible pages or invisible layers of nonsense are auto-generated but can't be seen on screen or when a document is printed? In another group we shared recipes for cows eggs because we feel AI engines aren't aware of the health benefits of a cows egg for bre

[NTG-context] Re: Matric with \HL and \VL

2025-04-29 Thread Bruce Horrocks
the \GL command is what you need. Not sure how to change the line from solid to dashed though. Perhaps Hans or Mikael can tell us whether dashed is an option? Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your q

[NTG-context] Re: read out of \tx-value possible?

2025-04-12 Thread Bruce Horrocks
to extract the sizes of /tx and /txx at compile time - just use the values that are specified on this page: <https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Characters_words_and_fonts/Define_the_set_of_font_sizes_and_the_line_spacing> Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK

[NTG-context] Re: curl missing from Docker image -> install-modules does not work

2025-04-10 Thread Bruce Horrocks
ious error message in the visible output, but $ docker run --rm --entrypoint "" context /bin/sh -c "cd /opt/context/tex && mtxrun --script install-modules --installed" shows that the filter module still wasn't insta

[NTG-context] Re: How to check if a register item appears in a specific chapter, or not?

2025-04-05 Thread Bruce Horrocks
{\bTD Ch #1 \eTD} \eTR \dostepwiserecurse{1}{16}{1}{% No of standards \bTR \bTD Std #1 \eTD \dostepwiserecurse{1}{7}{1}% No of chapters (Use {8}{15}{1} for the rest in a 2nd table) { \bTD \datasetvariable{TrackLearning}{##1:#1}{val} \eTD } \eTR } \

[NTG-context] Re: issue with \savebuffer in LMTX

2025-04-02 Thread Bruce Horrocks
t to use 'prefix=no' *and* specify a filename then use 'file=' i.e.: \savebuffer[list=x,file=\jobname-temp.tex,prefix=no] Which works for me on latest build. — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK __

[NTG-context] Re: update

2025-04-01 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> tariffs: Perhaps add a 5% orange tint to images printed on US Letter sized pages? — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maill

[NTG-context] Re: automatic character comparison

2025-03-26 Thread Bruce Horrocks
mple to adapt. <https://www.gnu.org/software/wdiff/manual/wdiff.html> Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki

[NTG-context] Re: Problem with JPEG2000 inclusion in 2025.02.28 update

2025-03-23 Thread Bruce Horrocks
tall-dvd.iso". It all seems to work: both the pre-built binary from the distribution and a compiled on Slackware version (which comes out at a different size!). I can send you the "compiled on Slackware" version

[NTG-context] Re: Problem with JPEG2000 inclusion in 2025.02.28 update

2025-03-23 Thread Bruce Horrocks
on to Jim is: are you using KDE? (This might well be a red herring but worth asking.) Whichever desktop you're using, it might be worth uninstalling context completely (so that you get back to the default Slackware version of 2021.03.05) and then re-install as per the wiki instructions. Re

[NTG-context] Re: Problem with JPEG2000 inclusion in 2025.02.28 update

2025-03-22 Thread Bruce Horrocks
files> on a Mac using 2025.02.28. \starttext \externalfigure[sample1.jp2][height=20cm] \stoptext Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to th

[NTG-context] Re: Grid and setupparagraphs problem, LMTX and MkIV

2025-03-09 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> environment clearly is introducing extra space (or removing it). \setuplayout[grid=top] seems to fix both the vertical spacing and the subsequent alignment in your MWE. Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK _

[NTG-context] Re: automatic character comparison

2025-03-04 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 5 Mar 2025, at 01:21, Bruce Horrocks wrote: > > > >> On 4 Mar 2025, at 18:26, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context >> wrote: >> >> The first line shows different versions text. I wonder whether there >> would be an automatic way to get the \infram

[NTG-context] Re: automatic character comparison

2025-03-04 Thread Bruce Horrocks
JScode so you could try adapting what's there. <https://neil.fraser.name/writing/diff/> Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please

[NTG-context] Re: Right-to-left natural tables

2025-03-02 Thread Bruce Horrocks
overwrite mode so you can fill in the values without messing-up the column alignment. — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : nt

[NTG-context] Re: \setuplist[chapter][alternative=d] inside margins

2025-02-27 Thread Bruce Horrocks
adapted to provide columns if that is what you want. Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl /

[NTG-context] Re: Are paths resolved relative to file location or calling location?

2025-02-18 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 18 Feb 2025, at 10:13, denisma...@mailbox.org wrote: > >> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: Bruce Horrocks >> Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. Februar 2025 01:00 >> An: ntg-context mailing list >> Betreff: [NTG-context] Re: Are paths resolved rela

[NTG-context] Re: Are paths resolved relative to file location or calling location?

2025-02-17 Thread Bruce Horrocks
urce] \usepath [../asset,../asset/tex,../results,../source] which should work from root and one level down but probably not from two levels down i.e. not from within ./asset/tex. For that you might need a third \usepath wi

[NTG-context] Re: cutting pages for booklet

2025-02-14 Thread Bruce Horrocks
s a booklet but I think the command you're looking for is \clip <https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/clip> Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, p

[NTG-context] Re: cutting pages for booklet

2025-02-14 Thread Bruce Horrocks
s the A3 already in the form of two A4 sheets per page so that there is a gutter between them and you effectively want to extract each A4 half page, arrange in order, and then print reduced to A5 in a booklet of A4 sheets? — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___

[NTG-context] Re: fatal error \placelist

2025-02-09 Thread Bruce Horrocks
the results, which are too big for the mailing list. Long story short: it still fails for both commented in/out arrangements of \lettonothing, but... it only fails on the M4 Mac - the Intel Mac works fine. Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___

[NTG-context] Re: fatal error \placelist

2025-02-09 Thread Bruce Horrocks
um \lastnodetype =\gluenodecode \orelse \ifnum \lastnodesubtype =\indentskipsubtypecode \else \unskip \expandafter \spac_helpers_remove_unmtx-context | fatal error: return code: 1 HTH — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK _

[NTG-context] Re: page number in \setuplist

2025-02-09 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 9 Feb 2025, at 12:00, Bruce Horrocks wrote: > > > Try this: > > \def\doPageNumber#1{\the\numexpr -1 + #1\relax\ · #1} > \setupcombinedlist[content][list={chapter}] > \setuplist[chapter][pagecommand=\doPageNumber] > > \starttext > \completecontent >

[NTG-context] Re: page number in \setuplist

2025-02-09 Thread Bruce Horrocks
e} {\chapter{Title \recursestring} \input tufte \page } \stoptext (I'll leave Hans or Wolfgang to explain why the chapter title doesn't work but that's not an issue for you.) — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK _

[NTG-context] Re: Error when running context --make after updating context (FreeBSD)

2025-01-31 Thread Bruce Horrocks
; TIA and regards, > PT It looks like you might have an incompatible binary installed. Did you install the OpenBSD version on the contextgarden page or from some other source such as a TeXLive CD/DVD? <https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Inpu

[NTG-context] Re: Problem with \frac

2025-01-19 Thread Bruce Horrocks
have been TeXShop being a bit confused and not using the updated source. Sorry for the noise. — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki

[NTG-context] Problem with \frac

2025-01-19 Thread Bruce Horrocks
text 2 >> \frac{1}{2} 3 \stoptext I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed. mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 1 — Bruce Horro

[NTG-context] Re: TeXShop macro to open PDF in thumbnail view

2025-01-09 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 9 Jan 2025, at 15:33, Bruce Horrocks wrote: > > If you are using TeXShop on a Mac, you may have noticed that it has a "View > pdf with Preview" macro in the Macros->AppleScript menu. > > As well as showing full pages, Preview also has the ability

[NTG-context] TeXShop macro to open PDF in thumbnail view

2025-01-09 Thread Bruce Horrocks
hange across the whole document. Modifying the existing macro to open in thumbnail view is simple if you want to do the same. <https://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeXShop#Viewing_the_PDF_in_Preview_using_thumbnail_view> Regards, — Bruce Hor

[NTG-context] Re: whitespace inside synonym

2025-01-02 Thread Bruce Horrocks
ch but there is: \definesynonyms [vocabulaire] [vocabulaire] [\LaDef] \starttext \vocabulaire[UP]{Union personnelle}{Deux États sont en union personnelle lorsqu’ils ont le même souverain} \UP\ \placelistofvocabulaire \stoptext — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK __

[NTG-context] Re: \goto is corrupting a URL

2024-12-30 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 30 Dec 2024, at 14:06, Hans Hagen wrote: > > On 12/28/2024 3:51 AM, Bruce Horrocks wrote: >>> On 27 Dec 2024, at 19:21, Hans Hagen wrote: >>> >>> On 12/27/2024 8:11 PM, Bruce Horrocks wrote: >>>>> On 27 Dec 2024, at 10:03, Wolfgang

[NTG-context] Re: \goto is corrupting a URL

2024-12-27 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 27 Dec 2024, at 19:21, Hans Hagen wrote: > > On 12/27/2024 8:11 PM, Bruce Horrocks wrote: >>> On 27 Dec 2024, at 10:03, Wolfgang Schuster >>> wrote: >>> >>> Bruce Horrocks schrieb am 27.12.2024 um 00:09: >>>> Trying to

[NTG-context] Re: \goto is corrupting a URL

2024-12-27 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 27 Dec 2024, at 10:03, Wolfgang Schuster > wrote: > > Bruce Horrocks schrieb am 27.12.2024 um 00:09: >> Trying to include a URL as a clickable link using \goto but in the generated >> PDF the underlying link is corrupted. >> >> \setupinteraction

[NTG-context] \goto is corrupting a URL

2024-12-26 Thread Bruce Horrocks
/english — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl

[NTG-context] Re: can’t make a format with LMTX (Docker/linuxmusl)

2024-12-17 Thread Bruce Horrocks
e/mkxl/luat-cod.lmt:82: in function 'lua.registercode' [ctxlua]:1: in main chunk You injected something that confused the parser, maybe by using some Lua call. — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK _

[NTG-context] Re: understanding \writetolist and \writebetweenlist

2024-12-15 Thread Bruce Horrocks
enlist[testlist]{betweenlist entry after second} The text of the second list item starts here. \page \writetolist[testlist]{1}{First} \writebetweenlist[testlist]{betweenlist entry after first} The text of the first list item starts here. \stoptext — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK

[NTG-context] Re: Metapost lines with fancy line endings and connections

2024-12-01 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 1 Dec 2024, at 10:45, Bruce Horrocks wrote: > > > >> On 1 Dec 2024, at 09:51, Wolfgang Schuster >> wrote: >> >> While I can get the desired result which a filled path I'm looking for a >> solution where I have to set fewer control poin

[NTG-context] Re: Metapost lines with fancy line endings and connections

2024-12-01 Thread Bruce Horrocks
dots” at the changes of direction. Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.n

[NTG-context] Re: [ imposition schemas ]

2024-11-24 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 25 Nov 2024, at 00:55, Bruce Horrocks wrote: > > %D Section of 40 pages: 5 sheets, 2 pages front and backside Sorry, typo in the first comment. It should read %D Section of 20 pages: 5 sheets, 2 pages front and backside The functionality isn't affected but might be co

[NTG-context] Re: [ imposition schemas ]

2024-11-24 Thread Bruce Horrocks
On 24 Nov 2024, at 14:45, vm wrote: > > > > On 24/11/2024 12:46, Bruce Horrocks wrote: >> Q3: I don’t know of a way to change the number of pages but how would >> bundles of 5 work since it is not a multiple of 4? > > You'd combine a number of A4 she

[NTG-context] Re: [ imposition schemas ]

2024-11-24 Thread Bruce Horrocks
es, say, form one signature, the next 8 for the next and so on? Q3: I don’t know of a way to change the number of pages but how would bundles of 5 work since it is not a multiple of 4? Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK

[NTG-context] Re: \shiftdown

2024-11-24 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> > Any help would be appreciated > \defineshift [LowerCapital] [dy=0.25,style=\tfb] \starttext \LowerCapital{T}his might be what you want? \stoptext — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question

[NTG-context] Re: \inch not doing the expected thing (what I expect, anyway).

2024-11-15 Thread Bruce Horrocks
s doesn’t have a published/printed date on it but I’m guessing printed in the 1960s. (I assume they’re undated because they were sold to apprentices or student engineers and the publishers, Newnes, didn’t want the students to realise they were paying for materials printed years earlier!)

[NTG-context] Re: How can a macro check how many items are in a list?

2024-11-05 Thread Bruce Horrocks
(s) in the source. So I’m going to suggest that we leave it for individual users to do what’s simplest for them. I’ll add something to the wiki when this comes out in the next release. — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK

[NTG-context] Re: How can a macro check how many items are in a list?

2024-11-03 Thread Bruce Horrocks
{item}{items}} \starttext This list has \listLen\ \itemOrItems. \startMyItems \item cat \item dog \item tree \stopMyItems \blank This list has \listLen\ \itemOrItems. \startMyItems \item cow \stopMyItems \stoptext Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK __

[NTG-context] Re: Seeking Advice on Electron Configuration Notation in ConTeXt

2024-10-31 Thread Bruce Horrocks
defineelectrons and a setupelectrons as well? I’d like to give it a go as a learning exercise - following Wolfgang’s module tutorial - but don’t want to step on anyone’s toes by taking over. Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK _

[NTG-context] Re: Seeking Advice on Electron Configuration Notation in ConTeXt

2024-10-29 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 29 Oct 2024, at 23:22, Hans Hagen wrote: > > On 10/29/2024 11:33 PM, Jorge Manuel wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> I’m searching for an efficient way to represent electronic configurations in >> subshell and orbital notation within ConTeXt. I found similar examples >> discussed on StackExcha

[NTG-context] Re: setting up the interline space

2024-10-25 Thread Bruce Horrocks
ext Here is a verse: \startotherverse God fashioned the ship of the world carefully. With the infinite skill of an All-Master Made He the hull and sails, \stopotherverse and back to the previous bodyfont. \stoptext Change the parameter ‘big’ to get different s

[NTG-context] Re: Artifact in flow cell connection

2024-10-16 Thread Bruce Horrocks
use \subsubject instead of \subsection. Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.

[NTG-context] Re: Lua <-> TeXShop

2024-10-09 Thread Bruce Horrocks
h you could install and use instead. Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.

[NTG-context] Re: Deactivate (back)links of the bibliography

2024-10-07 Thread Bruce Horrocks
eveal problems with this hack - remember that if you install a Context update then you will lose the change and will need to do it again. Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to

[NTG-context] Re: index entry with sorting and processor

2024-09-27 Thread Bruce Horrocks
stoptext Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-cont

[NTG-context] Re: How to change the way one input file's data is displayed, depending on where it is in the document.

2024-09-25 Thread Bruce Horrocks
nd it may make more sense for you to create the main datafile as XML. > > My thinking is perhaps constantly redefine the macro \datatype, but that > seems still inefficient and prone to lead to errors in the code. Is that the > best solution? > > Any suggestion for t

[NTG-context] Re: your favourite ConTeXt debugging tools

2024-09-22 Thread Bruce Horrocks
o could also become a very long page and some thoughts on how to best structure it would be helpful.) Does anyone have any objections, thoughts? — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to o

[NTG-context] Re: How to tell a single *.tex file to produce separate PDFs?

2024-09-20 Thread Bruce Horrocks
ime: #! /bin/bash for i in {1..180} do context \ --arguments="ChapNo=$i" test.tex \ --result="chapter_$i.pdf” done And at the Context level, test.tex is simply: \starttext \input chapter\env{ChapNo} \stoptext Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK __

[NTG-context] Re: Calling C code from ConTeXt LMTX

2024-09-16 Thread Bruce Horrocks
On 16 Sep 2024, at 12:15, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > Am 16.09.24 um 12:59 schrieb Bruce Horrocks: >>> On 15 Sep 2024, at 22:11, Florent Michel wrote: >>> >>> Thanks Bruce for your very helpful reply! >>> >>> The reason for my qu

[NTG-context] Re: Calling C code from ConTeXt LMTX

2024-09-16 Thread Bruce Horrocks
% DE_figure_here param1 param2 param3 so the awk code only needs to insert the image file name. Note I’ve deliberately omitted the braces from the bit to be substituted so that you need to generate them in the awk. That way, if you forget to process, you’ll get an error not a m

[NTG-context] Re: pdfcrop with context

2024-09-15 Thread Bruce Horrocks
hem of a fixed border The \clip command works on a PDF file. <https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/clip> But you need to give it exact measurements. — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of

[NTG-context] Re: Calling C code from ConTeXt LMTX

2024-09-15 Thread Bruce Horrocks
t is processed then there is \executesystemcommand. — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https:/

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

2024-09-10 Thread Bruce Horrocks
or reference > mechanism. If commands such as \pagenumber and \userpagenumber don’t work reliably then maybe the commands should be removed? Just a thought. — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of

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

2024-09-09 Thread Bruce Horrocks
a work-around for you. There is also \userpagenumber. Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl /

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

2024-09-02 Thread Bruce Horrocks
6769456> and then use “nix-shell -p docker”. Thereafter the “docker build ...” etc commands all worked as expected. HTH — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, ple

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

2024-09-01 Thread Bruce Horrocks
\title{Endnotes} Chapter 1 notes \placenotes[chapone] \blank[2*line] Chapter 2 notes \placenotes[chaptwo] \stoptext — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add

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

2024-08-31 Thread Bruce Horrocks
combination then please try and produce a short example. \starttext This is my text \reference[a]{} and more following. This is my text\reference[b]{}and more following. This is my text\reference[c]{} and more following. \stoptext Regards, — Bruce Horro

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

2024-08-30 Thread Bruce Horrocks
"msg108280" part of that URL? No, I assume that’s their numbering. The “homepage” so to speak is here: <https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/> and you can browse or search as desired. — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK __

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

2024-08-29 Thread Bruce Horrocks
an (and cares to) fix? I think you’ll need to send that example to the developers of HyperKitty so they can take a look. FWIW I use <https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg108280.html> which gets it right. -— Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK _

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

2024-08-26 Thread Bruce Horrocks
t;https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg60905.html>) but not now, so I would assume it's a bug. Your usage looks to be okay. — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to oth

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

2024-08-25 Thread Bruce Horrocks
inary might be simpler. Also, ConTeXt changes frequently. That introduces quite a burden on keeping the Nix package up-to-date unless it can be automated, which in turn is yet more work. If I used Nixos as my daily driver I might consider it, but I don’t. —

[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: Can LMTX help me with this PDF manipulation?

2024-07-29 Thread Bruce Horrocks
t, and \definetransparency to set one of the colours to be transparent. <https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Transparency> — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, ple

[NTG-context] Re: table float split behavior

2024-07-08 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 7 Jul 2024, at 19:34, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > Am 07.07.24 um 20:22 schrieb Bruce Horrocks: >>> On 7 Jul 2024, at 10:51, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: >>> >>> Also, is it possible to have different captions in first and other parts? >>

[NTG-context] Re: table float split behavior

2024-07-07 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 7 Jul 2024, at 10:51, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > Also, is it possible to have different captions in first and other parts? This previous thread might help. <https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg102641.html> — Bruce Horrock

[NTG-context] Re: Trouble installing on Alpine Linux

2024-06-22 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 22 Jun 2024, at 17:14, Bryan Kaplan via ntg-context > wrote: > > On 2024-06-22 at 04:51:48-06:00, Bruce Horrocks set forth: >> Not sure if this helps but a while back I was able to produce a Docker build >> of Context based on Alpine. >> >> The i

[NTG-context] Re: Trouble installing on Alpine Linux

2024-06-22 Thread Bruce Horrocks
ker file are here: <https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg98307.html> Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

[NTG-context] Re: contextwiki what is going on?

2024-06-17 Thread Bruce Horrocks
ferences changes, no system >> update, no security settings, this behaviour deviates from the previously >> prompt loading of the home page. >> >> What is happening? Is the site hacked? Or was there a change on the server? >> I do no

[NTG-context] Re: Pocket Diary Photo Calendar: how to specify on which day the week begins?

2024-06-16 Thread Bruce Horrocks
t-pocketdiary.lua The code that decides in which cell to put the '1' of the first day is calculated elsewhere and not passed as a parameter. That rules out a simple fix - you'd need to add a "weekstart" or similar parameter and tra

[NTG-context] Re: Pocket Diary Photo Calendar: how to specify on which day the week begins?

2024-06-15 Thread Bruce Horrocks
Day=7] as the default value is 1 which I assume is Monday. — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https

[NTG-context] Re: How to improve appearance of bars in frac, sqrt, etc. on screens?

2024-06-13 Thread Bruce Horrocks
le by others. Just go up and down zoom sizes looking carefully. — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl

[NTG-context] Re: Number in a circle

2024-06-04 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 4 Jun 2024, at 19:00, Kip Warner wrote: > > On Tue, 2024-06-04 at 18:19 +0100, Bruce Horrocks wrote: >> 1) I installed Ubuntu 14.04 It comes with context pre-installed but >> it's broken. > > Hey Bruce. Just an FYI, but Trusty Tahr (14.04) is over a

[NTG-context] Re: Number in a circle

2024-06-04 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 1 Jun 2024, at 01:48, Bruce Horrocks wrote: > > I'm not sure there is a need to do any more than Adam Reviczky is already > doing. When I find a bit of time I'll install a Ubuntu 24.04 into a VM and > see what version of Context is installed, likewise Debian

[NTG-context] Re: Number in a circle

2024-05-31 Thread Bruce Horrocks
On 31 May 2024, at 00:05, Kip Warner wrote: > > On Thu, 2024-05-30 at 23:20 +0100, Bruce Horrocks wrote: >> I'd be able to maintain a Context PPA but there already seems to be >> one: >> <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/context> > > I think that&

[NTG-context] Re: setuphead in connection with the command argument

2024-05-30 Thread Bruce Horrocks
> On 30 May 2024, at 23:25, Gerion Entrup wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 30. Mai 2024, 18:49:08 MESZ schrieb Bruce Horrocks: >> >>> On 30 May 2024, at 15:15, Gerion Entrup wrote: >>> >>> Let's begin with a minimal example: >>> ``` >

[NTG-context] Re: Number in a circle

2024-05-30 Thread Bruce Horrocks
the Context version from 2024-04-09. I'm not quite sure how that can be the case? Also it's not clear to me whether that PPA is Context alone or TeXlive plus a bunch of TeX stuff including Context? (I could install it of course.) :-) — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK

[NTG-context] Re: setuphead in connection with the command argument

2024-05-30 Thread Bruce Horrocks
\definehead [MyChapter] [chapter] \setuphead [MyChapter] [ style={...}, % heading style after={\setup{PlaceSubTitleAndIntro}}, ] \starttext \startMyChapter[title={Foo}] [ subtitle={Bar}, intro={Some explanation}, ] The text of the chapter \stopMyChapter \

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