[NTG-context] sidefloat sorrows

Also with CGJ I found a few problems with marginfloats: – on left pages, they use only half of the margin (PDF*: p.4) – there are some unnecessary page breaks introduced (PDF*: p.2/3) – in CGJ, some captions disappeared (also from numbering), while the images were placed; couldn’t reproduce in

[NTG-context] empty page after columnset

Am 30.07.25 um 22:33 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: I’m still working at the current context journal. A few articles use 2 columns in a columnset, and sometimes there’s an empty page after it that I can’t get rid of – except by a different order of articles so that those in columns end on a

[NTG-context] \setuplayout with instances

\setuplayout[Instance][Settings] takes only 1 instance, while other similar commands take a list. IMO it would make sense to have a list here (while working at CGJ that uses 4 named layouts). At least the error message could be more understandable – something like "only one value allowed, not a

[NTG-context] empty page after columnset

I’m still working at the current context journal. A few articles use 2 columns in a columnset, and sometimes there’s an empty page after it that I can’t get rid of – except by a different order of articles so that those in columns end on a right page. My impression is that columnsets always "f

[NTG-context] Re: numbering subitems

Am 30.07.25 um 20:11 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 30.07.2025 um 19:59 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Hi, I’d like to have the number of the parent element in the number of a subitem, like 2.1, 2.2 etc. I guess I must set "numbersegments", but I don’t know to which values – I fou

[NTG-context] numbering subitems

Hi, I’d like to have the number of the parent element in the number of a subitem, like 2.1, 2.2 etc. I guess I must set "numbersegments", but I don’t know to which values – I found it only documented for sections. """ \setupitemize[packed,joinedup,n] \setupitemize[2][numbersegments=item:item]

[NTG-context] Re: Pre-loading libraries by making custom format

Am 27.07.25 um 21:57 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: Hi Hraban, If it works and adheres to the necessary structure, I’ll add it to the list of installable modules. I don’t judge usefulness. We should appreciate efforts so indeed no judgements (unless of course something doesn't fit into

[NTG-context] Re: Pre-loading libraries by making custom format

Am 27.07.25 um 21:15 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: On 7/27/2025 6:07 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 27.07.25 um 16:59 schrieb and...@borisov.dev: The package loads quite a huge library — `expl3-code.tex` from `l3kernel` package which eats a lot of time during compilation. What has

[NTG-context] Re: Pre-loading libraries by making custom format

Am 27.07.25 um 16:59 schrieb and...@borisov.dev: The package loads quite a huge library — `expl3-code.tex` from `l3kernel` package which eats a lot of time during compilation. What has expl3 to do with ConTeXt? P.S. What is the process of adding thrid-party modules in the default list of ConT

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

Am 27.07.25 um 09:56 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 21.07.2025 um 23:41 schrieb Bruce Horrocks: This might be of interest to some. I have no affiliation with the developer. It's a specialised keypad that sits alongside your normal keyboard and

[NTG-context] Re: export and tagging

Am 26.07.25 um 16:14 schrieb Matthias Weber: 4) All PDF files have to become SVG. I have not been able to set this up so that the export to HTML recognizes them and that the created PDF displays them; it has been an either-or. Did you try \startimage … \stopimage around these pictures and call

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

Am 26.07.25 um 21:07 schrieb Jean-Pierre Delange via ntg-context: Indeed, this source file should normally work, since it is coded on the same basis (in terms of the bibliography) as other files that have worked and are still working. So I'm not surprised to see that this file is functional. Wh

[NTG-context] Re: Margin text?

Am 24.07.25 um 17:09 schrieb Ursula Hermann: Many thanks for your answer. Should the thumb index be in the body text? Or be a margin text? While I don’t really understand your question: – A thumb index usually depends on the part or chapter (here it’s the part, obviously) and stays the same w

[NTG-context] Re: linebreak in setupheadertexts

Am 21.07.25 um 10:38 schrieb Thomas Meyer: Hi folks, once again I have a problem that I can't solve: I would like to have a linebreak for \setupheadertexts. \setupheadertexts [{\bf Johnson}, Uwe][{\sl Mutmassungen über Jakob}] \starttext Freiheit ist die Einsicht in die Notwendigkeit. \stoptext

[NTG-context] Re: Docker images

Am 12.07.25 um 10:12 schrieb Max Chernoff: Hi Hraban, On Fri, 2025-07-11 at 09:39 +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: the ConTeXt dockerfiles from “Island of TeX” (https://github.com/islandoftex/context) … – still distinguish MkIV beta/current – install modules via rsync also for LMTX which

[NTG-context] Re: Struggling with xml/epub export (where did the cow go?)

Am 10.07.25 um 22:43 schrieb Matthias Weber: I am still trying to get export-example.tex from the distribution to export to xml/html/epub. Thanks to all the help I got, I have the directory trees export-example-export and export-example-epub. The file export-example-div.html renders nicely in

[NTG-context] Docker images

Hi, esp. Max: the ConTeXt dockerfiles from “Island of TeX” (https://github.com/islandoftex/context) … – still distinguish MkIV beta/current – install modules via rsync also for LMTX which pulls in some outdated ones – use Debian instead of Alpine because Linux/MUSL binary wasn’t working at the

[NTG-context] Re: international interfaces (was: testing tagging for UA-2)

Am 10.07.25 um 08:53 schrieb Jean-Pierre Delange via ntg-context: Sound like you're a candidate for the french "context user interface" As for the ConTeXt interface in French, could you perhaps send me the (one) list of specifications that I could implement starting in September? See texmf-co

[NTG-context] Re: regular online meet-up

Reminder: This is tonight. Am 06.07.25 um 15:24 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, July 9th, 20:00 CEST (UTC+2) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) ConTeXt users of all

[NTG-context] optimized PDF

I just found that my big songbook (~680 pages) had ~90 MB in March and only ~60 MB today, while it grew WRT pages & contents. I guess that’s due to the enhanced combination of fonts from embedded PDFs (LilyPond notes in this case). Great! Hraban __

[NTG-context] Re: Full-page illustrations

Am 07.07.25 um 17:44 schrieb Duncan Hothersall: There are a few ways to do this. Indeed. I’m usually using layers (because "full page" for me usually means bleeding), a makeup and postponing: """ \definemeasure[Bleed][3mm] \definemeasure[Trim][7.5mm] \definemeasure[maxWidth][\paperwidth + \m

[NTG-context] Re: Keeping math formula information for export

Am 07.07.25 um 01:51 schrieb Jairo A. del Rio: AFAIK LaTeX and ConTeXt don't export to SVG natively If you use \startimage … \stopimage with ConTeXt’s XML export, you get SVG output for these blocks. (Didn’t check, it’s just what I understood.) Hraban

[NTG-context] regular online meet-up

You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, July 9th, 20:00 CEST (UTC+2) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Looking forward to seeing you, Hraban (Same blurb as alwa

[NTG-context] Re: success and a query

Am 05.07.25 um 00:36 schrieb jbf: There is a new warning in the log file that I have not seen before (nothing to do with the above). Could someone explain its significance to me? I assume I don't really need to bother about it but I'd like to understand it. csname overload > warning, protecti

[NTG-context] Re: interfaces.implement for key-value list

Am 03.07.25 um 22:05 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: (The difference, as fair checked: table.serialize shows the name of the table variable, where inspect says "table".) That should have been "as far as I checked". I’m too tired… BTW: ConTeXt online meet-up i

[NTG-context] Re: interfaces.implement for key-value list

Am 03.07.25 um 20:12 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 03.07.2025 um 19:53 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: BTW is there a function for printing a table (like pprint.pprint in Python)? table.serialize(...) Am 03.07.25 um 20:12 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz: > > print (inspect (table)) > > I

[NTG-context] Re: interfaces.implement for key-value list

Am 03.07.25 um 16:34 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 03.07.2025 um 16:04 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Hi, I’m trying to get a simple function with a variable number of parameters working: """ \startluacode interfaces.implement {    name  = "Autoren",    publi

[NTG-context] interfaces.implement for key-value list

Hi, I’m trying to get a simple function with a variable number of parameters working: """ \startluacode interfaces.implement { name = "Autoren", public= true, arguments = { "hash" }, actions = function(t) logs.report('Autoren', 'interface got table of length ' .. #t) en

[NTG-context] reading YAML with Lua

Hi, is there already something to read a YAML file as a lua table in LuaMetaTeX? I didn’t find anything. My requirements are low, I just need to read some author data like: """ AstridLindgren: birth_year: '1907' death_year: '2002' name: Astrid Lindgren BTraven: birth_year: '1882' de

[NTG-context] Re: VSCode support

Another thing: I don’t know how the tasks from "tasks/context.json" are supposed to work. They don’t appear under "Run Task" (Ctrl-F12). I made my own tasks.json (doesn’t work in ~/.vscode-oss or ~/.vscode, but only in /.vscode), that works to call context or mtxrun, but it won’t ever open an

[NTG-context] Re: VSCode support

ooked at the GitHub page. David Roderick On Sat, 28 Jun 2025, 12:49 Hraban Ramm, wrote: I just installed the latest version of VSCodium (https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases) on my Linux laptop and needed a while to get the extension from texmf-context/context/data/v

[NTG-context] VSCode support

I just installed the latest version of VSCodium (https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases) on my Linux laptop and needed a while to get the extension from texmf-context/context/data/vscode/extensions/context to work. Apparently, since 2024 or so, you can’t just symlink your own (or Hans’)

[NTG-context] Re: wanted: proofreader for context group journal

, and I have a reasonable to advanced understanding of the structure of the English linguistics and the way it can be applied. From, David Roderick On Thu, 26 Jun 2025, 15:28 Henning Hraban Ramm, <mailto:te...@fiee.net>> wrote: Hi folks, I need to finish the journal (proce

[NTG-context] wanted: proofreader for context group journal

Hi folks, I need to finish the journal (proceedings of last year’s ConTeXt meeting) in July to have it printed in time for the upcoming meeting. Unfortunately, my current proofreader/co-editor, Peter, fell seriously ill and can’t continue. There are 2 substantial articles left ATM. We switc

[NTG-context] Re: Text depth

Am 23.06.25 um 14:56 schrieb John Was: Thanks Hraban.  I actually started out with just one setting for the height, but have been adding more to see if I could achieve what ought to be a very simple result by changing some of the others  Nothing has worked so far, even when I vary the choice of

[NTG-context] Re: Text depth

Am 23.06.25 um 11:19 schrieb John Was: Hello For some reason I'm having a lot of trouble getting the page to include precisely 40 lines of text (10.5 Baskerville with an interline depth of 12 points).  On an experimental file with 6 full-depth pages and no footnotes, I find that the first thr

[NTG-context] Re: Processing time

Am 22.06.25 um 17:50 schrieb Hans Hagen: On 6/22/2025 5:16 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: E.g. if TEXINPUT is set to a big tree, TeX will look through that for every file. (I had TEXINPUT.lualatex set for a LaTeX project and it increased processing time with that engine by minutes.) It&#

[NTG-context] Re: SlideTitle font in Simpleslide module

Am 21.06.25 um 17:13 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 21.06.2025 um 16:29 schrieb Jeong Dal via ntg-context: Dear Wolfgang and Aditya, I’d like to ask about my problems since you know well about the fonts and the simpleslide module. Hraban is the current maintainer of the simpleslides module.

[NTG-context] Re: Processing time

Am 20.06.25 um 17:22 schrieb Hans Hagen: On 6/20/2025 4:06 PM, John Was wrote: Dear Wolfgang Both of these process very quickly - 2 seconds for each separately, and less than that if I put the Baskerville definition plus simple text after the default Comp. Modern text. on a bit recent machi

[NTG-context] Re: preventing next \par

Am 18.06.25 um 23:28 schrieb mf: Thanks Hraban and Wolfgang. \ignorepars is what I was looking for, though I realized it must be the last thing in the paragraph. Currently it does not work with my xml setup for paragraphs: \startxmlsetups xml:Para   \dontleavehmode\xmlflush{#1}\resetcharact

[NTG-context] Re: Cropmarks

Am 18.06.25 um 15:16 schrieb John Was: Hello Hraban I have no doubt been feeding in erroneous information in the layout, and not giving ConTexT what it really needs (and in fact all I really require is  typeset page 24 picas wide, 40 picas deep, with a headline 12 point above the top line of

[NTG-context] Re: Cropmarks

Am 18.06.25 um 14:51 schrieb John Was: Thanks - I had these settings already but had given far too large a veroffset.  By reducing the veroffset I have the printed page further up on the A4 sheet so that the bottom crop marks now show up.  But I'm still getting only two (at the left) on an odd

[NTG-context] Re: Cropmarks

Am 18.06.25 um 12:08 schrieb John Was: I'm getting to grips with page layout and hope that it will be possible to set up crop marks on all four corners of each page.  Currently when I give 'marking=on' I'm getting a crop mark top left on an odd-numbered page and top right on an even-numbered pa

[NTG-context] Re: preventing next \par

Am 18.06.25 um 11:41 schrieb mf: Hello list, I remember having read something about this, but I can't remember where: I need to prevent the next \par. The context (lowercase) is XML typesetting, where sometimes I want to concatenate two paragraphs in a particular typesetting, while keeping the

[NTG-context] Re: Diacritic in variable fonts

Am 16.06.25 um 10:10 schrieb Hans Hagen: On 6/16/2025 9:38 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: There’s an increasing number of variable fonts e.g. at Google: https://fonts.google.com/?categoryFilters=Technology: %2FTechnology%2FVariable which is no guarantee for beauty or excessive push of

[NTG-context] Re: Diacritic in variable fonts

Am 16.06.25 um 09:05 schrieb Hans Hagen: On 6/15/2025 7:13 PM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote: ConTeXt supports variable fonts, but from time to time glitches may appear. Keep in mind that we were among the firstin supporting variable fonts (someone involved told me actually the first

[NTG-context] Re: Opening quotation mark

Am 15.06.25 um 17:20 schrieb John Was: Hello I have found that trep=yes gives me correct closing quotation marks in the commercial font Baskerville MT Pro if I type the simple ' as usual in TeX; but opening quotation marks remain as ` or ``. Don’t do this. Use \quote{} for single quotes and

[NTG-context] Re: fake small caps

Am 12.06.25 um 21:41 schrieb Hans Hagen: On 6/12/2025 8:37 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: For (OpenType) fonts that don’t have native smallcaps, like IBM Plex, I used to get fake smallcaps with \sc. This still worked in 2024-12. Now it doesn’t, and \setsmallcaps or any of the other options

[NTG-context] fake small caps

For (OpenType) fonts that don’t have native smallcaps, like IBM Plex, I used to get fake smallcaps with \sc. This still worked in 2024-12. Now it doesn’t, and \setsmallcaps or any of the other options that activate the scaps feature also don’t work, which makes sense. https://wiki.contextgar

[NTG-context] Re: upload

Am 12.06.25 um 16:40 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context: Regarding columnsets, I was about to ask you to include your presentations for BachoTeX 2025 in the next upload, but I found that some talks have their slides published at https://bachotex.gust.org.pl/2025/talks_en.html. As for your

[NTG-context] Re: reminder: regular online meet-up

Reminder (also late): this is tonight (in ~1.5h). CU soon! Am 10.06.25 um 10:09 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, TOMORROW Wednesday, June 11th, _20:00_ CEST (UTC+2) (sorry, I forgot to invite before the weekend) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr

[NTG-context] regular online meet-up

You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, TOMORROW Wednesday, June 11th, _20:00_ CEST (UTC+2) (sorry, I forgot to invite before the weekend) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Looking forwa

[NTG-context] Re: exporting to epub

Am 02.06.25 um 15:45 schrieb Matthias Weber: Thank you Wolfgang. A fresh install fixed my initial problems. mtxrun --script mtx-epub --make --purge epub-mkiv-demo produces an epub. However, both Calibre and Thorium have trouble with it (not displaying anything but error messages). Are there a

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

Am 28.05.25 um 17:08 schrieb Thomas Meyer: Thank you Hraban, Bruce and Wolfgang, I started with the dialogue and description works well. So I was totally fixated on description and didn't realise that it could be simpler. But with section and enumeration I have the same problem: I need the cou

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

Am 28.05.25 um 09:56 schrieb Thomas Meyer: \Szene{Int. Café Glockenspiel - Tag} Sie  betritt das Café und sucht offenbar nach jemandem. \rawcountervalue[Scenecounter] %\incrementcounter[Scenecounter] I would like to get my counter in the right and left margin of the bold scene title. How can

[NTG-context] Re: avoid blank line

Am 23.05.25 um 14:32 schrieb Mikael Sundqvist: How can I avoid the blank line between "Aufblende:" and "Blabla"? \definedescription [Szene] [headstyle=\WORD, headalign=right, alternative=top, hang=none, ] \Szene{Aufblende:} Blabla Maybe \definedescription [Szene] [headsty

[NTG-context] Re: last issue from journal?

Am 23.05.25 um 10:28 schrieb Keith McKay: The only article which is dowloadable seems to Hraban's summary of the meeting, the rest show not found. Oops, my bad. I added the missing links. Would you please pull again (or install the hook), Taco? Hraban

[NTG-context] Re: last issue from journal?

Am 23.05.25 um 07:47 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context: On 5/22/25 22:29, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: [...] Hi Pablo, the previous version is made available when the current is published, i.e. at the ConTeXt meeting. Hi Hraban, I see that I just got the release process wrong (I thought

[NTG-context] Re: last issue from journal?

Am 22.05.25 um 21:52 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context: Dear CG editors (Taco and Hraban [I guess, sorry if I miss someone]), is there any estimated date where articles from the last year journal articles (https://articles.contextgarden.net/journal/2023.html) will be published online? Jus

[NTG-context] Re: regular online meet-up

Reminder: This is tonight! (20:00 CEST) Am 11.05.25 um 14:21 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, May 14th, _20:00_ CEST (UTC+2) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) Beware

[NTG-context] Re: adapt template

Am 14.05.25 um 09:49 schrieb Thomas Meyer: is it possible to use a template (e. g. for screenplays) from LaTeX in ConTeXt or can I as a "normal user" adapt a template for ConTeXt? What do you mean with a template? LaTeX document classes are completely unrelated and hardly convertible to ConTe

[NTG-context] Re: Placement of captions in a combination of figures

Am 11.05.25 um 15:37 schrieb Willi Egger: Hello, I need to place several figures into a combination. However the captions of the individual figures appear on the right side, where I would prefer them to appear at the bottom. How to change the location of these captions? \starttext \startpla

[NTG-context] regular online meet-up

You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, May 14th, _20:00_ CEST (UTC+2) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) Beware, we moved the nominal time one hour later during DLST, so it’s the same as in winter! Last

[NTG-context] Re: 19th ConTeXt meeting, 2025

Am 06.05.25 um 13:45 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: Registration for the 19th ConTeXt Meeting https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2025/ is now open. Great! Would anyone offer a lift from somewhere in the middle of Germany (Frankfurt, Kassel…)? Or would anyone like to meet in the train? (The earlies

[NTG-context] talmudifier

I found this interesting: https://crates.io/crates/talmudifier (it uses a Rust version of XeTeX) Is such a layout a challenge for the new columns engine? The description of the algorithm reads like ConTeXt should be able to do it better/faster. Hraban

[NTG-context] Re: ask for help on balancing columnset

Am 17.04.25 um 12:29 schrieb wangzhongtian: I have a question about the balancing of columnset.the bolow code can't generate the balanced column in the last page as expected,all the text is gathered in the left column of last page. AFAIK column sets can’t be balanced, only regular old columns.

[NTG-context] Re: combining natural tables and itemize with \its

Am 14.04.25 um 21:36 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Use the text option for itemize. \startitemize[medcircle,text][items=10,width=10em,distance=1em] Thank you! Hraban ___ If your question is of interest to others as

[NTG-context] combining natural tables and itemize with \its

Hi, I’d like to have a kind of questionnaire in a table and thought it would make sense to use \its. While there’s an integration of tabulate and itemize, I can’t get it working with a natural table. Is this possible at all? \starttext % simple itemize works: \startitemize[6,nowhite][items

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

Am 11.04.25 um 10:03 schrieb Thomas Meyer: is it possible to read out the value of \tx (or \txx ... )  for calculations if bodyfont and fontsize is given? \the\tx doesn't work. Does \showbodyfontenvironment help? Hraban __

[NTG-context] Re: regular online meet-up

Reminder: This is tonight! Am 05.04.25 um 12:10 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, April 9th, 19:00 CEST (UTC+2) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) ConTeXt users of all

[NTG-context] Re: Draw cutting line

Am 08.04.25 um 12:18 schrieb alan.caruanam...@gmail.com: I modified it, but it only affects the first page. The mark appears on the edge of the page; I just want a line in the middle. \setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape] \setuparranging[2*2] \setuplayout[middle] \startuniqueMPgraphic{MPfoldmark}

[NTG-context] Re: Draw cutting line

Am 08.04.25 um 11:20 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: \definelayer[PagePlus][   x=-\pagecutmarklength,   y=-\pagecutmarklength,   width=1pw+2\pagecutmarklength,   height=1ph+2\pagecutmarklength, ] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=PagePlus] \setlayerframed[PagePlus][   y=-\measure{Trim},   x

[NTG-context] Re: Draw cutting line

Am 08.04.25 um 10:19 schrieb Alan Caruanambo: Hello, I want to draw the cutting line on an A4 sheet. cutting line (to draw)      | |    |     | |    |     | |    |     | \setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape] \setuparranging[2*2] \showframe \setuplayout[middle] \startte

[NTG-context] Re: Help \setuparranging

Am 08.04.25 um 08:35 schrieb Alan Caruanambo: Hello, I need to arrange A5 paper inside A4, in order to save paper and so that the cut line always remains inside and the original edge outside. I have this code. How can I modify it to achieve what I want? \setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape] \setu

[NTG-context] regular online meet-up

You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, April 9th, 19:00 CEST (UTC+2) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Looking forward to seeing you, Hraban (Same blurb as alw

[NTG-context] TaggedPDF & Screenreaders

Here are a few recordings how screenreaders handle tagged or untagged PDFs (from LaTeX): https://latex3.github.io/tagging-project/documentation/wtpdf/fulldoc HR ___ If your question is of interest to others as well,

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

Since you already handled the more exotic cases, something very simple: Are you sure this is not just a typo, maybe with upper/lowercase? (I’m reminded of problems between case sensitive and insensitive systems like Linux vs. MacOS that costed hours of debugging…) Since ConTeXt doesn’t rely o

[NTG-context] Re: How to span an image across two pages with a caption?

Am 21.03.25 um 20:55 schrieb Joel via ntg-context: I am trying to do this, basically my document has some floats, with captions, that appear within the text, but occasionally, I want some special images to be rendered across the full page (left and right). The text of the chapter should appear

[NTG-context] Re: Can context automatically italicize foreign words?

Am 20.03.25 um 17:28 schrieb Joel via ntg-context: Its common convention to italicize words that are of a different language. I've tried marking these words, but then when they also appear in the glossary and index, they are not appearing in the correct placement--somehow the italicized words a

[NTG-context] Re: Footer issue (for graduated wizards mastering kung-fu)

Am 14.03.25 um 19:37 schrieb roberto.bian...@pominirollingmills.com: I'm just wondering why sometime the code without the "\relax" command works. The scanner is a program, it should process the input file always in the same way, so what I have experienced sounds strange to me. Can be that the

[NTG-context] Re: Footer issue (for graduated wizards mastering kung-fu)

Am 14.03.25 um 19:37 schrieb roberto.bian...@pominirollingmills.com: I'm just wondering why sometime the code without the "\relax" command works. The scanner is a program, it should process the input file always in the same way, so what I have experienced sounds strange to me. Can be that the

[NTG-context] Re: regular online meet-up

Reminder: This is tonight. Am 08.03.25 um 12:45 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, March 12th, 19:00 CET (UTC+1) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) ConTeXt users of all

[NTG-context] regular online meet-up

You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, March 12th, 19:00 CET (UTC+1) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Looking forward to seeing you, Hraban (Same blurb as alw

[NTG-context] Re: How to stop column text from crashing into content afterwards?

Am 06.03.25 um 02:12 schrieb Joel via ntg-context: It took a lot of trial and error, but here's the glitch I am seeing in this minimum working example: \starttext     \startcolumns[n=2] Did you try \setuplayout[grid=yes] ? I don’t know if that’s the case here, but columns need grid layout,

[NTG-context] Re: header centered doublesided

Am 24.02.25 um 12:23 schrieb Jürgen Hanneder via ntg-context: Thanks Raban, works perfectly well ! Would be worth adding to a manual. It’s in the wiki: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Document_layout_and_layers/Headers_and_footers https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupheadertexts My ex

[NTG-context] Re: header centered doublesided

Am 24.02.25 um 09:16 schrieb Jürgen Hanneder via ntg-context: I tried to produce the page layout demanded by a publisher, who wants the author's name in the left header and the name of the article in the right header, but failed. It seems to me that while \setupheadertexts can print stuff in th

[NTG-context] Re: calculate ...

Am 22.02.25 um 18:36 schrieb Thomas Meyer: Thank you Wolfgang, I guess I'm thinking too complicated. Ultimately, this should result in a type area according to the golden ratio. (textheight = 660 pt = 1.618 * textwidth or something similar, depending on the font size or interlinespace) To

[NTG-context] Re: [ drawing lines with metafun ]

Am 12.02.25 um 11:34 schrieb vm via ntg-context: is it possible when using metafun, given a path to rotate the pen orientation following a different path? e.g. rotating the pen while drawing a line? and/or changing the pen width while drawing? it probably is possible, yet how? Any hints? AFAI

[NTG-context] Re: regular online meet-up

Reminder: this is tonight Am 07.02.25 um 23:08 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, February 12th, 19:00 CET (UTC+1) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) ConTeXt users of

[NTG-context] Re: fatal error \placelist

Am 09.02.25 um 12:43 schrieb autumnus: I got the same error in the above system. However, when I wanted to track the problem, it successfully generated the page. It’s a Volkswagen switch! ;D HR ___ If your question

[NTG-context] regular online meet-up

You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming Wednesday, February 12th, 19:00 CET (UTC+1) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Looking forward to seeing you, Hraban (Same blurb as

[NTG-context] Re: images with alt text

Am 05.02.25 um 19:13 schrieb Keith McKay: Hi Steffen I use context on my mac mini M1 but I haven't updated to the most recent version yet. However I see on your output xattr: bin/mtxrun: No such xattr: com.apple.quarantine Does it have anything to do with the mac security when it wont let you

[NTG-context] Re: Kerning ignored on some macOS TTC fonts

Am 04.02.25 um 10:36 schrieb Paul Schalck via ntg-context: Why do you think these fonts have kern tables at all? I looked at Optima.ttc with Fontforge and can’t find one. On my system, they do have kerning values. FontForge > Elemente > Schriftinformationen > Nachschlagetabellen > GPOS > kern

[NTG-context] Re: [t-vim] doesn't load, can't find `module-catcodes`

Am 04.02.25 um 08:15 schrieb Kirill Davidov: Unfortunately, the issue hasn't been fixed. I tried compiling a test document that just loads the module and has some text and it fails on the `\usemodule`. The compilation log says that `vim` is loaded, `syntax-highlight` and `syntax-groups` are loa

[NTG-context] Re: Kerning ignored on some macOS TTC fonts

Am 03.02.25 um 22:12 schrieb Paul Schalck via ntg-context: Hello, I'm trying to set up typescripts for a few classic TTC font collections shipped with macOS (see script below). No problems with: /System/Library/Fonts/Avenir Next Condensed.ttc /System/Library/Fonts/Avenir Next.ttc /System/Libr

[NTG-context] Re: installing modules

0C61CC4610D0FD8A2EBB2454500D59CBCD6936B85FC7841503E045662D0E737C.tma in the resulting modules folder. Any further thoughts would be appreciated. Charlie On 3 Feb 2025, at 14:33, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 03.02.25 um 14:41 schrieb Charles Doherty via ntg-context: Dear all, I have installed ConTeXt

[NTG-context] Re: installing modules

Am 03.02.25 um 14:41 schrieb Charles Doherty via ntg-context: Dear all, I have installed ConTeXt standalone on a macbook pro Monterey OS 12.76 Intel machine (early 2015). I downloaded X86 and after install I get a folder context-osx-64 used sh install.sh and everything seems to work fine with

[NTG-context] Re: [ page setup ]

Am 19.01.25 um 19:07 schrieb vm via ntg-context: What would be the simple preferred way to define a document having not just odd and even pages but also alternating width is sets of two. e.g. two pages with width 118 mm followed by two pages of 178 mm followed by two pages with width 118 mm, .

[NTG-context] Re: wiki update

Am 18.01.25 um 15:35 schrieb garu...@azules.eu: Hi all, for your information, many significant changes have been done on the wiki pages and their structure. Many pages are now nested by theme to make it easier for new ConTeXt users to navigate (by giving them a better overview of the material

[NTG-context] Re: New module to typeset Pandoc JSON files (as XML) in ConTeXt

Am 17.01.25 um 22:26 schrieb mf: So is there no way to install it locally from a zip file, at least for testing purposes, before making it installable from the garden? Of course there is! Just unzip it in one of your texmf trees. ~/texmf is good for testing, it shouldn’t even be necessary to

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