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Hraban (fiëé visuëlle)<p>Ein typischer <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/ConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConTeXt</span></a>-Moment:</p><p>Habe das ganze Wochenende an einem Stück Code herumgebastelt, um dann festzustellen, dass etwas Besseres längst in der Distribution ist (sogar aufgrund einer Anfrage von mir). 🙈</p><p>Immerhin kann ich jetzt besser <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/Lua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lua</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://literatur.social/tags/TeXConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TeXConTeXt</span></a></p>
Hraban (fiëé visuëlle)<p>Sodele, <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/Buchprojekt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Buchprojekt</span></a> lange angekündigt, jetzt eingetütet:</p><p>Mein <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/ConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConTeXt</span></a>-Buch wird nächstes Frühjahr in der DANTE-Reihe bei Lehmann’s erscheinen.</p><p>Ein bisschen Termindruck sollte als Motivation ausreichen, es fertig zu bekommen.</p><p><a href="https://literatur.social/tags/TeXConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TeXConTeXt</span></a></p><p>(Edit: Bilder korrigiert)</p>
ConTeXt group<p>Today’s <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LMTX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LMTX</span></a> update has a few fixes (like size in math fences) and additions (like a language key in highlights). </p><p>The most intrusive change is overload protection on values (we already had protection at the \cs level).</p><p>There might be some unforeseen side effects but the test suite runs ok as do some of Mikael’s more complex and demanding documents (that we use to test this).</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TeXConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TeXConTeXt</span></a></p>
ConTeXt group<p>There’s a bug in XML export, some images appear spuriously in different places. Will probably be fixed in next update.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TeXConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TeXConTeXt</span></a></p>
ConTeXt group<p>There’s work (mostly by Max Chernoff and Pablo Rodriguez) in progress to enhance PDF tagging for PDF/UA-2 compliance.<br />(PDF is still not a good format for accessibility.)</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TeXConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TeXConTeXt</span></a></p>
ConTeXt group<p>We seem to have a series of unstable updates. This time, combined lists (e.g. ToC) give &quot;no list method&quot; entries.<br />Better wait for the next update.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ConTeXt</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LMTX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LMTX</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TeXConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TeXConTeXt</span></a></p>
ConTeXt group<p>The latest version of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ConTeXt</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LMTX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LMTX</span></a> seems to have a broken Mac binary, the Mac in the build farm is reported to have problems.</p><p>You can try to compile it yourself, it’s easy:<br />– you need Xcode installed<br />– run &quot;source build.sh&quot; in texmf-context/source/luametatex<br />– copy &quot;build/native/luametatex&quot; to texmf-osx-64/bin/ (Intel) or texmf-osx-arm64/bin/ (Metal)</p><p>(<a href="https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Manual_Compilation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wiki.contextgarden.net/Manual_</span><span class="invisible">Compilation</span></a> is overly complicated.)</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TeXConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TeXConTeXt</span></a></p>
ConTeXt group<p>You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming<br />Wednesday, July 9th, 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)</p><p>at <a href="https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rk</span><span class="invisible">u-oke</span></a></p><p>This is usually a Q&amp;A with developers and chat about current projects, but <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ConTeXt</span></a> users of all levels are welcome, feel free to ask “dumb” questions.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TeXConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TeXConTeXt</span></a></p>
ConTeXt group<p>Yesterday’s update fixes issues with color profiles – and activates the previously optional macro protection in warning mode (core macros are protected against overwriting, but it just gives a warning in the log).</p><p>The latter still results in a few warnings like<br />&quot;csname overload &gt; warning, protection level 3, control sequence &#39;something&#39;, properties &#39;frozen instance protected&#39;, …&quot;</p><p>These are mostly harmless – if they don’t mention something that you tried to re-define.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TeXConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TeXConTeXt</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LMTX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LMTX</span></a></p>
ConTeXt group<p>Did you ever want to define one of those fancy key-value macros yourself?<br />Do it in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Lua" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lua</span></a> – it’s that easy!</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TeXConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TeXConTeXt</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LuaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LuaTeX</span></a></p>
ConTeXt group<p>Riviera Taylor has published their Master’s thesis <br />“To Any Software Users: <br />Collective Identity and Software-Based Creative Practitioners”, <br />(ab)using ConTeXt with interesting code ideas:</p><p><a href="https://project.xpub.nl/routers-are-computers/thesis.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">project.xpub.nl/routers-are-co</span><span class="invisible">mputers/thesis.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://git.xpub.nl/XPUB/project.xpub.nl/raw/branch/master/routers-are-computers/main.tex" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">git.xpub.nl/XPUB/project.xpub.</span><span class="invisible">nl/raw/branch/master/routers-are-computers/main.tex</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TeXConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TeXConTeXt</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linux</span></a></p>
ConTeXt group<p>You might be interested in the talks of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/BachoTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BachoTeX</span></a>: </p><p><a href="https://bachotex.gust.org.pl/2025/talks_en.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bachotex.gust.org.pl/2025/talk</span><span class="invisible">s_en.html</span></a></p><p>… esp. in Hans &amp; Mikael’s presentation of the new columnsets:<br /><a href="https://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/2025-pl/presentations/columns-hhmps.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gust.org.pl/bachotex/2025-pl/p</span><span class="invisible">resentations/columns-hhmps.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bachotex2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bachotex2025</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TeXConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TeXConTeXt</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a></p>
ConTeXt group<p>today’s <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ConTeXt</span></a> update is a bit of beta, because of:</p><p>• reworked control over callbacks<br />• preparations for an upgrade of grid snapping<br />• overload protection enabled<br />• a few fixes<br />• additional warnings<br />• some potential speedups</p><p>(full version in Hans’ message to the mailing list)</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TeXConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TeXConTeXt</span></a></p>
ConTeXt group<p>You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, tomorrow,<br />Wednesday, June 11th, _20:00_ CEST (UTC+2)</p><p>at <a href="https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rk</span><span class="invisible">u-oke</span></a></p><p>This is usually a Q&amp;A with the developers and chat about everyone’s current projects.</p><p>ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome!</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TeXConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TeXConTeXt</span></a></p>
ConTeXt group<p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ConTeXt</span></a> in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TeXlive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TeXlive</span></a> was only updated on release so far and didn’t even receive bugfixes.</p><p>Max Chernoff has now taken over ConTeXt maintenance for TeX live, so that it will lag only a few days behind the standalone <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LMTX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LMTX</span></a> distribution from now.</p><p>For a few “exotic” platforms there are no current <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LuaMetaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LuaMetaTeX</span></a> binaries – but they’re easy to compile yourself, and you’re better off with the lean LMTX distribution anyway.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TeXConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TeXConTeXt</span></a></p>
ConTeXt group<p>Dou you know TeX error messages?</p><p>Humans are wired for pattern recognition – will QR codes get familiar over time?</p><p>You can test your familiarity with them at<br /><a href="https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2025/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">meeting.contextgarden.net/2025/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>(The page shows a different one each time.)</p><p>Colorful QR codes will be available in meta-imp-qrcodes.mkxl</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TeXConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TeXConTeXt</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/QRcodes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>QRcodes</span></a></p>
ConTeXt group<p>The articles of last year’s <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ConTeXt</span></a> journal (proceedings of the ConTeXt meeting 2023) are now available online:<br /><a href="https://articles.contextgarden.net/journal/2023.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">articles.contextgarden.net/jou</span><span class="invisible">rnal/2023.html</span></a></p><p>The current issue will be published in time for the ConTeXt meeting: <a href="https://meeting.contextgarden.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">meeting.contextgarden.net/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TeXConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TeXConTeXt</span></a></p>
ConTeXt group<p>You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, this upcoming<br />Wednesday, May 14th, _20:00_ CEST (UTC+2)</p><p>at <a href="https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rk</span><span class="invisible">u-oke</span></a></p><p>Beware, we moved the nominal time one hour later during DLST, so it’s the same as in winter! Last time it looked like this would fit more participants.</p><p>This is usually a Q&amp;A with the developers and chat about current projects. Maybe we’ll get to know how much of that announcement from BachoTeX was true…</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ConTeXt</span></a> users of all levels are welcome! </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TeXConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TeXConTeXt</span></a></p>
ConTeXt group<p>Last week at <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/BachoTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BachoTeX</span></a> we (Tove, Mikael, Willi, Hans) conducted the first in a series of experiments and presentations dealing with accessibility. After all, why bother more about pdf than of the tool that makes it.</p><p>– We tested if QR codes were easier on users than TeX error messages (experiment conducted with high end wooden ear-tags with QR codes made by Willi, who else) because after all humans are good in pattern recognition</p><p>🧵 <br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TeXConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TeXConTeXt</span></a></p>
TeX Users Group<p>Registration for the 19th ConTeXt Meeting, <a href="https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">meeting.contextgarden.net/2025</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a>, is now open.</p><p>Ośrodek Wypoczynkowy KREFTA in Chmielno near Gdańsk, Poland, August 23–29, 2025</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/TeXConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TeXConTeXt</span></a></p>
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