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

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

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

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

[NTG-context] How do I get roman numerals in all numerable sections with no extra spacing after the period (would appreciate condensed code/simplification) (I read documentation but did not get any re

\setuppapersize [letter] [letter] \setuplayout[ backspace=0.5in, topspace=0.5in, header=0in, % No headers footer=0in, % Space for the footer width=middle, height=middle, ] \definefontfeature [default] [default] [trep=yes] \definefontfamily [TimesNewRoman] [rm]

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

https://pastebin.com/TQdzmxeP I am trying to make a resume in ConTeXt (to see how well my skills have gotten, I am still quite a beginner) and Iw as able to produce what is in Pastebin. Though, I am having trouble with the table that goes over the big sized text that would be my name. It has a

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

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

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

I want to use Adobe Acrobat Reader (free) and I always get this message when I have my Windows Terminal, vs code and acrobat setup backend > quitting because file 'Chapter 4 Assignment.pdf' cannot be opened for writing I run into no problems with using sumatra or okular, but Adobe Acrob

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

Hello Wolfgang, so if I follow your code examp,e what if I were to edit my code to be like this: \definefontfeature[generalfeatures][default][ kern=yes, % enables kerning extrakerns=yes, % enables extra kerning trep=yes, % Enables single and double quotes to show up correctly in text,

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

\definefontfamily [myfonts] [rm][Times New Roman] [features=generalfeatures,dlig=yes,cpsp=yes,] % dlig enables times new roman ligatures, and cpsp is used by tnr, not aptos is the correct code ___ If your que

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

Hans, hello. I have a question regarding a new version of my font setup in context: \definefontfeature[generalfeatures][default][ kern=yes, % enables kerning extrakerns=yes, % enables extra kerning trep=yes, % Enables single and double quotes to show up correctly in text, perhaps doe

[NTG-context] ConTeXt LMTX 2024, \setupalign: Is the "Nicer justification and microtypography" list of options listed in ConTeXt Garden now obselete?

When I try to use a combination (example = \setupalign[normal,extremestretch,verytolerant,hangingboth,fullhz,hyphenated,] ) and just normal I seem to be getting the same result when I try to load in a big paragraph. However, there is an obvious difference between me entering (just) flushleft,

[NTG-context] (ConTeXt LMTX 2024, monospace font) Why does monospaced text go out of the margin for me? is this supposed to happen?

https://pastebin.com/2ce1xSYf The code linked above has 3 paragraphs. One in TImes New Roman, the other in Aptos and the last in Aptos Mono. The paragraph with \tt seems to go over my margin of .5 inches for the left and right side of my doc., but the serif and sans serif text doesn't. I can't

[NTG-context] (ConTeXt LMTX 2.11.05) how do I make it so that sections, descriptions, and itemizations have just a space between some of the text that they produce

\setuppapersize[letter][letter] \setupalign[normal] \setuplayout[ backspace=0.5in, topspace=0.0in, header=.5in, % No headers footer=.5in, % Space for the footer width=middle, height=middle, ] \definefontfeature[timesfeatures][default][ trep=yes, % Enables single and d

[NTG-context] (ConTeXt LMTX) (Beginner) how do i set up vertical CJK?

https://pastebin.com/Cg8ZPDVK I have the code listed above and I am wondering how I can get CJK text to be in a vertical form (along with Vietnamese. I know l2r as an option exists in startalignment, but there seems to not be a vertical equivalent for vertical text. How do I achieve this? _

[NTG-context] Re: (ConTeXt LMTX) (Beginner) how do i set up vertical CJK?

Where does one find this "followingup-directions.tex"? The only thing I am aware of existing is the ConTeXt wiki. It is very hard to navigate through this language's resources for me, perhaps that is due to this being the 'first' language I am truly trying to learn without the help of AI like I

[NTG-context] Why does text within a very simple xtable seem to not want to take up a lot of free space?

\setuppapersize[letter][ letter ] \setuplayout[ backspace=0.5in, topspace=0.0in, header=.5in, % No headers footer=.5in, % Space for the footer width=middle, height=middle, ] \setupbodyfont[12pt] \starttext \startxtable[frame=off,topframe=on,bottomframe=on,option=fix

[NTG-context] As a person with very basic LaTeX skills, no experience with programming languages and an interest in LMTX (I have been coding extremely basic LMTX), how do I properly learn LMTX as a be

I am someone who knows very basic LaTeX (I mostly learned with YouTube videos, but I would also honestly use AI to generate some code that I wanted it to make), extremely basic LMTX, and nothing like C++ or anything that I think would be considered "proper" programming languages. I have an inter

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

I upgraded from MacTeX 2019 to MacTeX 2020 and everything works there. I made sure that everything is up-to-date with the TeX Live Utility. How can I fix this problem? Regards, Felix [1]: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_Mark_IV_

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

On 18 Sep 2020, at 11:20, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi Felix, Some time ago I encountered the same problem and we had a thread on this list about this: https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg95355.html The problem on my Mac came from the fact that a directory /opt

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

On 18 Sep 2020, at 11:43, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Then tell us a bit more about your system. What is the output of which -a context /Library/TeX/texbin/context which is an alias of /Library/TeX/texbin/context@ -> ../../texmf-dist/scripts/context/stubs/unix/context and texbin is

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

On 18 Sep 2020, at 11:45, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Try to delete the luatex cache (i.e. all of /var/folders/rj/hfjmjx796q102y4v23vh038cgp/T/luatex-cache) and try again. Did that, it regenerates the contents of the directory and the error keeps coming up. Regards, Felix

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

On 18 Sep 2020, at 12:36, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > > > What does > > mtxrun --expand-var TEXMFCACHE > > return? selfautoparent:texmf-var;/Users/flyx/Library/texlive/2020/texmf-var Regards, Felix___ If your quest

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

:-) It should work with a temporary directory in your > home folder. Can you try that? This works. Thanks a lot (also to everyone else involved)! Regards, Felix ___ If your question is of interest to others as we

[NTG-context] Line numbering skips lines

Hi all, in a typing environment, I have the problem that not every line is numbered: \definetyping [code] [numbering=line, escape={@[,@]}] \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[nonsigpart][r=.7,g=.7,b=.7] \defineframed[nonsig] [location=low,fr

Re: [NTG-context] new manual

-2.05a$ texsync.rb --update --force --destination=/tmp/textest Hope this helps, felix Nigel King wrote: Hans, I have read this manual. Downloaded texsync.rb and put it into my personal bin location. I have ruby. I have made texsync.rb executable chmod +x texsync.rb. The commands still don&#

Re: [NTG-context] Gradient in table header

On 5 March 2011 21:36, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 5-3-2011 6:27, luigi scarso wrote: >> >> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Felix Ingram >>  wrote: >>> >>> Is such a thing possible? I'd like to have a gradient changing from blue >>> to white across

Re: [NTG-context] Gradient in table header

On 7 March 2011 20:11, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Am 2011-03-07 um 10:24 schrieb Felix Ingram: >> >> Okay. I've heard of this Metapost thing. After further investigation >> it doesn't look as scary as I first thought. I can't seem to find >> anythin

[NTG-context] Table headers and section titles

#x27;ll take what I can get at this point. I hope the examples make sense. Thanks in advance for any help you can give. Felix ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

[NTG-context] Miktex breaks install

I need to reset these variables when using Context. Is the texmfcnf.lua file the best place to put these? If so, then does anyone know what I should set the following to? SELFAUTOLOC SELFAUTODIR SELFAUTOPARENT TEXMFCNF TEXMF TEXOS Thanks in

Re: [NTG-context] Table headers and section titles

Some follow up notes in case anyone else is trying to do something similar On 13 September 2011 15:30, Felix Ingram wrote: > I've had another stab at converting our Word template to Context. I've > managed to draw some pretty shapes using MetaPost (and I'd like to add >

[NTG-context] Tikz and \color

\stoptext Thanks in advance, Felix ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : h

Re: [NTG-context] Tikz and \color

Excellent. Thanks Hans - that works brilliantly. However, it's now made me realise that I'm using movesidefloat incorrectly! (need to float something higher than the start of the paragraph). Back to the details manual! Thanks again, Felix On 19 September 2011 12:41, Hans Hagen w

[NTG-context] Verbatim in framed text

eally long text Some really long text \stoptyping \stopframedtext \stopframedtext \stoptext This works but seems like cheating. Is there a better third way I could try, or could someone point to a mkiv pretty printer example I could study? Many thanks,

Re: [NTG-context] Verbatim in framed text

> -- Forwarded message -- > From: Wolfgang Schuster > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users > Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:09:42 +0200 > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Verbatim in framed text > > Am 20.09.2011 um 17:50 schrieb Felix Ingram: > >> Some of my

[NTG-context] Captions

oment I've used \setupcaption[picture][way=bytext] to sort out the numbering but I cannot figure out how to do the label. Any ideas? (Apologies for lack of minimal - afk atm) Felix Felix ___ If your question is o

[NTG-context] Caption label

mbering but I cannot figure out how to do the label. Any ideas? (Apologies for lack of minimal - afk atm) Felix ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 87, Issue 51

etc > > > > At the moment I've used \setupcaption[picture][way=bytext] to sort out > > the numbering but I cannot figure out how to do the label. > > \setupcaption[picture][way=bytext,label=Picture] does the trick This doesn't work for me. Setupcaption doesn&

Re: [NTG-context] caption labels

> Am 23.09.2011 um 12:45 schrieb Felix Ingram: > >>>> I'm defining a new float that I'd like to caption with its own label. >>>> Something like: >>>> >>>> \definefloat[picture][pictures] >>>> >>>> I

[NTG-context] setupheads

tyle. Can anyone see where I'm going wrong? Felix ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-

[NTG-context] Tikz/pgf colour issue

k\pgf@temp\pgf@stop{#1}% \else \PackageError{pgf}{Color #1 has an unsupported color model.}{}% \pgfutil@definecolor{#1}{gray}{0}% \fi \fi %\fi } Regards, Felix ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] Tikz/pgf colour issue

all the colours that you want to use. Apologies for the noise. Felix ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman

[NTG-context] \placelist after \chapter

mand). If it's not possible to \placelist's after numbered headings then could someone suggest an alternative method? Many thanks, Felix ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an ent

Re: [NTG-context] \placelist after \chapter

rmat for a list that can be used outside of the ToC? Felix ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-

[NTG-context] \placelist summary alternative solution

works fine) 3. Is there a way to store some metadata along with my title? I'd like something similar to this: \myheader[author=me, date=2011-12-14]{This is my header with meta-data} and then be able to access it from Lua again.

[NTG-context] Setting structureuservariable

t provide one. E.g. if they provide \startchapter[title=My Example Chapter] instead of: \startchapter[chap:examplechapter][title=My Example Chapter] can I set the reference for them? (I will have some sections that could be usefully auto-reference

Re: [NTG-context] Setting structureuservariable

alpage..")]") context.eTD() In thinking it through, however, I suppose that if the user is going to be referring to the findings themselves then they should just define their own reference and use that. I just wanted to use proper references for any parts I was auto-generating. I'll s

[NTG-context] Bug? Counters inherit chapter number

This is on version: 2011.11.29. Apologies if this is has been addressed - I'm holding off updating until I've worked out some more features in my doc. Felix * As expected by me ___ If your question is

Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 91, Issue 66

remove > the chapter number from the \getnumber result you have to add ?prefix=no?. > > The full \definenumber declaration is then > \definenumber[examplecounter][way=bytext,prefix=no] Thanks Wolfgang. I've updated the wi

[NTG-context] Counters again

unter] \stoptext I can include some conditionals to check this but thought I'd report it in case I'm doing it wrong/the wiki needs updating. Many thanks, Felix ___ If your question is of interest to others as well

[NTG-context] Tikz module causes errors

no line 129. A quick greg shows that the likely suspect is: tex\texmf-modules\tex\generic\pgf\utilities\pgffor.code.tex:129 Is this the best place to report this, or should I drop a mail to the Tikz/PGF list? Felix

Re: [NTG-context] Tikz module causes errors

suffix={ --} no longer works for setupcaption but I can survive without that for the moment. Thanks all for the help, Felix On 18 January 2012 11:54, Philipp A. wrote: > 2012/1/17 Christophe Jorssen >> >> If they aren't yet in the official repo, I would be happy to add th

Re: [NTG-context] Counters again

On 17 January 2012 18:10, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 17.01.2012 um 15:55 schrieb Felix Ingram: > >> >> I'm now trying to use counters that will tally some values. The value >> of these could be zero, which the wiki states will be the default >> valu

[NTG-context] Wandering floats

d into the margin. Can anyone suggest anything? I'm not sure how to go about debugging this. I believe it is another example of the shifting PGF graphics that others (and I) have seen since upgrading to a new beta (I believe this changed sometime since version 2011.11.29). Any help appreciated,

Re: [NTG-context] Titles break TikZ

dividually but I ran into issues with things not being applied in the correct order. If anyone can suggest some files I should look at then I can experiment further. Felix ___ If your question is of interest to othe

Re: [NTG-context] Titles break TikZ

On 8 February 2012 10:24, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 8-2-2012 10:51, Felix Ingram wrote: >> >> On 7 February 2012 13:06, Philipp A.  wrote: >> >>> with some recent beta (sorry for vagueness), tikz stopped working after >>> titles. (i use first-setup.

Re: [NTG-context] Titles break TikZ

On 8 February 2012 13:50, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 8-2-2012 12:16, Felix Ingram wrote: >> >> On 8 February 2012 10:24, Hans Hagen  wrote: >>> >>> On 8-2-2012 10:51, Felix Ingram wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On 7 February 2012 13

[NTG-context] External figures in section headings

or IV. Many thanks in advance, Felix ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : h

Re: [NTG-context] External figures in section headings

On 9 January 2011 20:39, luigi scarso wrote: > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Felix Ingram wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I need to have an image as part of my section headings. I've read >> through an example in the "It's in the details" m

[NTG-context] Which table environment?

ilar (until we can argue for a format change). At the moment I'm leaning towards tabulate but I'm having issues with images and the headers. I'm using Mk IV (bonus question: as a newbie, should I just start with IV and ignore II? Or is II better for any pa

[NTG-context] Gradient in table header

Is such a thing possible? I'd like to have a gradient changing from blue to white across my table header, spanning all columns. I'll probably be using the TABLE environment. Regards, Felix ___ If your q

[NTG-context] ConTeXt support for Panic's Nova editor

ve TeX support. Cheers, Felix ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragm