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Generate valid PDF/X-1a file with ConTeXt
I want to generate a valid PDF/X-1a file with ConTeXt. I'm currently doing
\setupbackend[
format=PDF/X-1a:2001,
intent={Coated FOGRA39 (ISO 12647-2:2004)}]
When I validate the resulting PDF ...
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How to fill the visualcounter countdown counter?
I am trying to fill a countdown counter in order to get something like that
But, I did not manage to get it
\usemodule[visualcounter]
\startTEXpage
\usevisualcounter[n=0,last=4,distance=0pt]{...
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TeXworks run ConTEXt compiler from Arara
Platform: Linux Mint 20.1, 64-bit, Cinnamon
ConTeXt version: 2021.03.05 (MKIV, installed via the Mint Synaptic Package Manager)
When attempting to compile ConTEXt source-file on TeXworks via arara, ...
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Tikz arrow not showing
The MWE is as following ( I am using ConTeXt)
\usemodule[tikz]
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\tikzset{arrow/.style={-stealth, thick, draw=black!70!white}}
\...
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Customize chapter title in context
A few days ago I asked a question about customizing chapter titles in context (here). My question was not so appropriate although @mickep gave an answer.
My intention is to get something like this
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ConTeXt : TikZ foreach interaction with french module
The \foreach statement in TikZ is shifting the coordinates in my ConTeXt figures ; after some experimentation, I found it to be caused by the two instructions \usemodule[french] and \...
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Customize number chapter size in ConTeXt
I want to control the size of the chapter number in ConTeXt with some command like LaTeX \anyfontsize. I was checking this answer https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/668592/14423 I was able to modify the ...
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ConTeXt: difference between text and label in referenceformat
When we read the documentation page of \setupreferenceformat we can find those two lines:
label Label inserted before the left. Mutually exclusive with text.
text Text inserted before the left. ...
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ConTeXt: math mode font size in startstops
Take a look at this simple document:
\definestartstop[test][style={\tfx}]
\showgrid
\startTEXpage[offset=.5mm]
Let's take a look.
Math without style: $\pi=3.1415...$.
\starttest
Math in ...
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ConTeXt: horizontal alignment with `t-vim` module
Is it possible to horizontally align t-vim module code blocks?
I tried with \{start|stop}alignement like so
\usemodule[vim]
\definevimtyping[python][syntax=python]
\starttext
\startalignment[...
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ConTeXt: text overlapping title in serried enumeration
Consider the following piece of code
\defineenumeration[axiom]
[prefix=yes,
alternative=serried,
text=Axiom,
right={.~},
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Grid vs Tables to create a catalog like layout
I am trying to figuring out how to setup in ConTeXt a fluid grid to have all the elements of a catalog in a clear and recognizable pattern.
The more I read about grid and the more I am convinced that ...
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How to add ConTeXt to an existing Windows TeX Live installation?
I have TeX Live installed on Windows already and have been using LaTeX. I want to try out ConTeXt. But TLShell doesn't seem to have any way to install ConTeXt and trying to run the TeX Live install ...
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How do you draw a basic line with ConTeXt and METAFUN?
I was able to draw a basic line, however I am still have this feeling of having hit another pebcak… 🤔
This is my line:
\startMPcode
path line ; line := (0mm,0cm)--(5cm,0cm) ;
draw line ...
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ConTeXt: Problem with \setupalign and vertical alignment
When my MWE has \setupalign[height], my bottom floats sit correctly at the bottom of the page, but the vertical gap between a heading and the following text can be too big.
When I delete \setupalign[...
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ConTeXt: Having problems between a heading and the following text
The text in the screenshot describes my problem on page 1, and there is a different problem on page 2. Page 3 shows the 'right' way to insert a page reference. But I don't want to do it like this - I ...
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How to achieve memoir chapter style in ConTeXt?
I quite like the chapter style on Page 28 of http://tug.ctan.org/info/MemoirChapStyles/MemoirChapStyles.pdf. How can I achieve such a style in ConTeXt? Also, how can I instruct ConTeXt to use a ...
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How to indent a text block in Context, either Nested or with Multiple Levels?
Using Context, I want to be able to indent text blocks from the left, and which go all the way to the normal right margin. It looks like a context equivalent of using adjustwidth from the Latex ...
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How to achieve line above right-aligned caption in floating figure in ConTeXt?
I would like to achieve, what in Adobe InDesign is called a paragraph rule over a figure's caption, i.e a line on top of the caption, while keeping the caption itself right-aligned (actually aligned ...
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Difficult to setup the text header from \section
I am trying to prepare my document step by step but every time I face a pebcak that blocks me.
I am trying to display on the header the section mark, useless to say that whatever I try is not working.
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ConTeXt urls in main font
I have a URL like this: \useURL[url1][https://example.com]\from[url1]
(This is output from Pandoc.)
I would like it to be in the main font for the document, not a mono font. With LaTeX and hyperref....
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ConTeXt: How to have a float across the top with some text below in left margin?
I used mikep's technique from ConTeXt: How can I have body text beside a bottom float caption in the margin? but now I want the floating image at the top, with the text in the left margin below. The ...
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ConTeXt: Troubles with postponing
My book has:
full-page images and captions on some pages
and body text flowing through the other pages.
My document is divided into sections, each starting on a new page.
I'm trying to place the ...
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How to position a figure with a colored page background on the opposite page of a section head?
After having tried pretty much every idea that I could think of in the last two days, I would like to ask for help here. In a nutshell, I would like to achieve the following in ConTeXt:
Position an ...
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ConTeXt: Help with leftbottom layer preset
I have a layer that covers the left margin and the text area. The leftbottom preset places the content too high on the page. It is too high by twice the value of y in the layer (in \definelayer, y=20 ...
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How do I know I properly setup SciTE for ConTeXt?
I am trying to setup SciTE to have an handful GTK editor on Debian for ConTeXt. I think I correctly followed the steps however I don't see any change...
Documentation says:
while on linux you get:
/...
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outdenting a bibliography (negative/hanging indent) in Context
I'm trying to get this outdent/negative effect for enumeration/list/bibliography in Context: first line is full width, and consecutive lines are indented.
Thanks in advance
Edit 1
Seems like a start ...
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How do I configure variable fonts in Context?
I would really like to use the light weight of a variable font I have (Bahnschrift). Is this feature currently working in Context. I found an example online to make it work but I can't get it to work ...
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reusable section templates and variables
I'm looking for a way to declare a section (a chapter for instance) like that:
\startchapter[title={My first interview}][author={Jane Doe}, year={2022}]
…
\input knuth
\stopchapter
\startchapter[...
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Grid based layout for a title page
I'm trying to design a title page for an interview. I'd like to feature on the page the title, the interviewee, an introduction text… all on a column based layout.
I tried several things: ...
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What is the best way to display arithmetic operations in ConTeXt?
I know the best way would be to use xlop however, even if the result above was optained using it, there is some issues with ConTeXt.
Some examples:
\opadd[voperator=bottom]{123}{456.2} returns
Yes......
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Defining \maketitle in a ConTeXt-oriented way
I went on the wiki page for defining titles in ConTeXt, and I already have a "LaTeX-like" solution working (paragraph "In ConTeXt: A more reusable solution"). However, I also read ...
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ConTeXt: Putting a float in the margin upsets page layout
My MWE produces the output shown below. On page 2, the body text ignores the layout for the page, and flows below the bottom of the frame, down to the footer. I expected the text to stop at the bottom ...
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ConTeXt: How do align my cows in the margin vertically?
In my MWE, I put 2 cows in the margin.
Top cow: I understand why the cow juts above the margin. Can I move the cow down (while still using an \inmargin), so that the top of the cow is at the top of ...
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ConTeXt: Why are my start-stop frames offset to the right?
In my MWE, I place 4 frames on the layer in 4 different ways. The 2 frames from the start-stop versions of the command are offset about 1.5 mm to the right of the other 2 frames. Why?
\showframe
\...
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Context: how configure style of fields
I am learning how to use pdf's field with Context.
Here the code:
%\usesymbols [fontawesome]
\setuppagenumbering[location=]
\setupinteraction [state=start]
%\setupbodyfont[utopia,10pt]
\...
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ConTeXt: Getting the correct line breaks in a table of contents
I'm using the table of contents mikep described: ConTeXt: Can I exclude entries from a placelist table of contents?.
I was inspired to style the sections in the table of contents by Max Chernoff's ...
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Context: a custom chapter title
I am trying to customize chapter title putting the text inside a frame with only the leftframe on.
I am thinking at something like that: "1 | chapter".
Any suggest will be very appreciate.
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Context: Grid layout, but not for headings, figures, tables etc
How can I have grid layout in Context, but it should not enforce strict grid typesetting for headings, figures, tables etc? Only paragraphs need to be always on the grid. How can I achieve that? ...
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ConTeXt: Can I exclude entries from a placelist table of contents?
I want the structure of my book and the table of contents to be:
Introduction chapter
Part the first
First chapter
Second chapter
Part the second
and so on
I also want a so-called horizontal table ...
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Study materials for automatic impagination with Context?
Here is the thing, I am working with a lot of catalogs but we are doing it, in my opinion, the wrong way! It is a mix of ancient catalogs made in Photoshop and newer ones made wrongly in InDesign.
In ...
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ConTeXt: How do I do calculations with /nextpage?
This works great \definelayout[\nextpage][new] to set the layout for the next page.
How can I set the layout for the \nextpage+2 ? This didn't work \definelayout[\nextpage+2][new]
I tried a \numexpr ...
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ConTeXt: How can I have body text beside a bottom float caption in the margin?
I changed mickep's answer at ConTeXt: Need help understanding \setupbackgrounds when layer is postponed to have full-width images across the margin + main text. I fiddled and got the caption to appear ...
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Tufte-style book with ConTeXt
Is there any tufte-style formatting in ConTeXt as a module? I have seen references to \usemodule[tufte] in some documents but I can't find how to use this module in ConTeXt garden site. I'm using ...
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ConTeXt: Need help understanding \setupbackgrounds when layer is postponed
My goal is to insert a page into the body text with a different layout and with items in a layer. The MWE appears to work fine. See screenshot below.
Question 1: \setupbackgrounds … has to be before \...
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ConTeXt: How do I have a box of 2-column text in a layer?
In my MWE, below, I want to have a frame, starting at the left margin, containing 2 columns of text. Instead, it has a column of the right width, but the text does not flow into the second column as I ...
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ConTexT \placefigure locations not working as I expect
I would like help to use ConTexT’s \placefigure. ConTexT seems to ignore some location options. How can I get it to use the options? I’m using ConText LMTX, the current version.
I found this post from ...
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Typesetting text and commentaries, with reasonable page-breaking
In any system (I'm open to LaTeX, ConTeXt, plain TeX, OPmac, whatever works), I'd like to typeset four running streams of text—source text, commentary A, commentary B, commentary C—and break them into ...
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ConTeXt: Macro within URLs
Background
URLs are translated from Markdown into document variables that are meant to be typeset as clickable hyperlinks.
Problem
ConTeXt uses url() to typeset the URL verbatim. Since the URL is a ...
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Using quarto and ConTeXt to generate PDF
I'm new to ConTeXt, I know some LaTeX as I have used it to produce some documents in the past.
I'm using quarto to produce some documents and I want to fine tune the PDF by editing .tex output, and ...
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