Category Context Blog (Aditya Mahajan)
For some years now, I have been maintaining the course notes for my graduate course as a website rather than a PDF document. I started with handwritten course notes the first time I taught the course, and then I typed… Continue Reading →
Sometimes, for example when sending a review of a paper, I do not want the pdf file to contain any metadata. Ideally, the editorial process should take care of this, but I do not want to take any chances. In… Continue Reading →
This post is not really about ConTeXt but about how I could use ConTeXt to quickly hash out an idea which involved some text processing. One of my long running (for more than a decade now) ConTeXt projects is typesetting… Continue Reading →
As an academic, I often have to write letters and grant applications where I need to need to prepare a single PDF which includes the letter or the grant application with one of more research papers “attached” at the end…. Continue Reading →
Today I was working on a LaTeX doc and needed to adjust spacing around the LaTeX itemize environment. I wanted a list of item with no space before the list environment and the list of items, no space between the… Continue Reading →
ConTeXt has a nice command to find a meaning of a command. Sometimes the easiest way to find the meaning of a macro is to simply use \show\macroname In LMTX, context defaults to running with –batchmode, which means that you… Continue Reading →
I occassionally give presentations where the presentation must include embedded videos. I typically include the movie using \externalfigure[movie.mov][height=…, width=…, preview=yes, repeat=yes] Unfortunately, I could not find any reliable method to play such movies in linux. So, whenever I needed to… Continue Reading →
A while back, a had created a git based tutorial for learning how to create a presentation style in ConTeXt. I chose a git based style so that it was easy to see what changed in each commit and what… Continue Reading →
Since I am looking at merging a few pull requests for t-vim, I thought that this will also be a good time to implement a simple feature that was on hold for a while: the ability to use the module… Continue Reading →
The t-vim module has been on a maintenance only mode for while, so I am happy to announce a release which adds a new feature: a new method to escape to TeX using /BTEX and /ETEX tags. See also: Original… Continue Reading →