You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, upcoming
Wednesday, May 13th, 19:30 CEST (UTC+2)
at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke
This usually a Q&A with the developers and chat about current projects; ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome!
Wolfgang let the cat in.
Embroidery cat font, implemented in MetaFun with added color support.
We wish all participants an interesting & inspiring #EuroBachoTeX conference (starting tomorrow)!
There’s a new update for ConTeXt LMTX – we don’t know yet what it contains, at least some fixes for issues that were discussed on the mailing list.
I didn’t mention the previous update from last Thursday that also wasn’t announced or explained.
Version 1.1 (of the Community Edition) of
“A Not So Short Introduction to ConTeXt LMTX”
has been released for your reading pleasure at
https://codeberg.org/anss-ce/ANSS-CE/releases/tag/2026-04-21
(Jim)
full announcement: https://mailman.ntg.nl/archives/list/ntg-context@ntg.nl/thread/4NAGYBY7DGH7DBE73CKYI6GQYGUXLLIV/
You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, upcoming
Wednesday, April 8th, 19:30 CEST (UTC+2!)
(Beware, it’s “summer” time again!)
at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke
This is usually a Q&A with the developers and chat about current projects, but feel free to ask “stupid” questions!
ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome!
Starting today, every single article on research preprint archive viXra, past,
present, and future, will be transparently recompiled in ConTeXt.
Authors will continue to submit in LaTeX exactly as before; our system handles the
rest behind the scenes.
Details: https://mailman.ntg.nl/archives/list/ntg-context@ntg.nl/thread/HWDCO3BXS5ERQHISZGJCEK37A3LLR3SR/
Another update for ConTeXt:
– bugfixes
– \externalfigure[foo.png][gray=yes]
– context --extra=compare --colors=red,blue one.pdf two.pdf
– new "squeeze" keyword for left and right justification
– align=fixed:small / broad:small (small penalty for interpunction)
– \pbsp as “possibly keep together space”
Details see
https://mailman.ntg.nl/archives/list/ntg-context@ntg.nl/thread/MER5BCFETHGCPHJAZLQRGQ4RZ7BSIZ7I/
AUCTeX, the TeX mode for Emacs, got a few patches to enhance the ConTeXt experience, see https://mailman.ntg.nl/archives/list/ntg-context@ntg.nl/thread/KBHWORCIXQNJSQ3KC4OF2F4EL2OROPJ6/
At the ConTeXt intro workshop last Wednesday, participants struggled with ConTeXt on the newly released TeX Live 2026.
Not the usual about wrong paths or unwritable cache directories.
ConTeXt was apparently correctly installed, generating the file database and the format was working, but then it couldn’t find the format file if the "context" or "mtxrun" command wasn’t called with its full path.
TeX Live’s processes were changed before this release and something’s broken.