A "Lorem ipsum" module?

A "Lorem ipsum" module?

[Marcin Borkowski]

Hi all,

in LaTeX, there is quite a useful package called "lipsum", for
typesetting varioud amounts of "Lorem ipsum" stuff.  Is there anything
like that in ConTeXt?  (I know about \input knuth, \input tufte etc.,
but that is not exactly what I have in mind, especially when giving a
sample of some design to a customer;).)

If not (as I suspect), what should I do to write such a module?  I
expect this shouldn't be too difficult, and I could learn a few things
(like using key-value syntax in ConTeXt, for instance); are there any
recommendations for people wanting to learn to write a (simple) module
for ConTeXt (other than the relevant wiki page)?  For example, which
existing modules might I want to take and read the source code of?

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
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Re: A "Lorem ipsum" module?

[Marco]

On 2012-07-18 Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> wrote:

> in LaTeX, there is quite a useful package called "lipsum", for
> typesetting varioud amounts of "Lorem ipsum" stuff.  Is there anything
> like that in ConTeXt?  (I know about \input knuth, \input tufte etc.,
> but that is not exactly what I have in mind, especially when giving a
> sample of some design to a customer;).)

You can use the visual module for generating “fake” text or the dum
MP module for dummy figures. Example:

% fake words
\usemodule
  [visual]

% for colourful dummy figures
\useMPlibrary
  [dum]

\setupindenting
  [yes, medium]

\starttext

\fakenwords{100}{200}

\externalfigure [dummy]

% Rumours say, Mojca used this feature for her thesis
\simplethesis

\stoptext

> are there any recommendations for people wanting to learn to write
> a (simple) module for ConTeXt (other than the relevant wiki page)?

Have a look at the existing modules.

Marco


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Re: A "Lorem ipsum" module?

[Philipp Gesang]

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Hey Marcin,

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> If not (as I suspect), what should I do to write such a module?  I
> expect this shouldn't be too difficult, and I could learn a few things
> (like using key-value syntax in ConTeXt, for instance); are there any
> recommendations for people wanting to learn to write a (simple) module
> for ConTeXt (other than the relevant wiki page)?  For example, which
> existing modules might I want to take and read the source code of?

Wolfgang’s fancybreak module is a good place to start, because it
demonstrates the current namespace syntax quite nicely. Also, it
is very specific wrt functionality, so it can be understood
completely by just reading the code. (Of course you should be
familiar with the module from a user perspective but that’s no
effort.)

  https://bitbucket.org/wolfs/fancybreak/src/20ec76c5e154/files/t-fancybreak.mkvi

Happy TeXing!
Philipp

> 
> Best,
> 
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> http://mbork.pl
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Re: A "Lorem ipsum" module?

[Sietse Brouwer]

Hans wrote:
> I've added a module m-ipsum.

Duly wikified, although heaven knows whether people will actually find
it that way. No matter: soon we will have navboxes and that will give
us a shot at coherent topic-based navigation. For now I've made a
pagelet at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Dummy_text, as well as an
entry on the Modules page.

> I have no clue if it provides what one expects from such a module

Personally, I think the ability to write one's thesis is a reasonable
expectation. ;-)

% Shamelessly borrowed from
% http://repo.or.cz/w/context.git/blob/HEAD:/tex/context/base/m-visual.mkiv#l234

\unexpanded\def\ipsumthesis
  {\setupsystem[random=1234]
   \title{\ipsum[alternative=lines, n=1]} % the first line from the sample text
   \placelist[chapter,section]
   \dorecurse{3}
     {\chapter{\ipsum[alternative=lines, n=random]}  % random sentence
from the sample text
      \dorecurse{5}
        {\section{\ipsum[alternative=lines, n=random]}
         \dorecurse{4}
           {\dorecurse{3}{\ipsum[alternative=paragraph, n=random]\endgraf}
            \placefigure
              {\ipsum[alternative=lines,n=random]}
              {\fakeimage{5cm}{3cm}{10cm}{5cm}}
            \dorecurse{2}{\ipsum[alternative=paragraph, n=random]\endgraf}}}}}

Regards,

Sietse
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Re: A "Lorem ipsum" module?

[Marco]

Hi Hans

sorry for the false alarm. The code works.

I had an old file ipsum.tex in my temp directory that was used
instead of the module.

I was already wondering why none of the options provided to \ipsum
had any effect.

Marco


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Re: A "Lorem ipsum" module?

[luigi scarso]

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On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Am 19.07.2012 um 16:42 schrieb Marco:
>
> > On 2012-07-19 Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> >
> >> I've added a module m-ipsum. I have no clue if it provides what one
> >> expects from such a module
> >
> >> \ipsum[alternative=lines,n=random,before=\blank,after=\blank]
> >
> > This line throws:
> >
> > ! LuaTeX error <main ctx instance>:53: bad argument #2 to 'random'
> (interval is empty)
>
> The example works on my system without any problems.
>
> it's ok also here.


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Re: A "Lorem ipsum" module?

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 19.07.2012 um 16:42 schrieb Marco:

> On 2012-07-19 Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> 
>> I've added a module m-ipsum. I have no clue if it provides what one 
>> expects from such a module      	
> 
>> \ipsum[alternative=lines,n=random,before=\blank,after=\blank]
> 
> This line throws:
> 
> ! LuaTeX error <main ctx instance>:53: bad argument #2 to 'random' (interval is empty)

The example works on my system without any problems.

Wolfgang
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Re: A "Lorem ipsum" module?

[Marco]

On 2012-07-19 Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> I've added a module m-ipsum. I have no clue if it provides what one 
> expects from such a module      	

> \ipsum[alternative=lines,n=random,before=\blank,after=\blank]

This line throws:

! LuaTeX error <main ctx instance>:53: bad argument #2 to 'random' (interval is empty)


Marco


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Re: A "Lorem ipsum" module?

[Hans Hagen]

On 19-7-2012 03:27, Rogers, Michael K wrote:
> On 2012-07-18 Marcin Borkowski <mbork@???> wrote:
>
>> in LaTeX, there is quite a useful package called "lipsum", for
>> typesetting varioud amounts of "Lorem ipsum" stuff. Is there anything
>> like that in ConTeXt? (I know about \input knuth, \input tufte etc.,
>> but that is not exactly what I have in mind, especially when giving a
>> sample of some design to a customer;).)
>
> The LaTeX lipsum seems to have been pre-download from lipsum.com<http://lipsum.com>.  ConTeXt makes this relatively easy.  The one problem that might be solved better is that the paragraphs come in a single xml node separated by single newlines.  I defined a lines environment to make these into paragraphs, which is not as pretty as I would like.
>
> \startxmlsetups xml:Lorem:base
> \xmlsetsetup{Lorem}{*}{-}
> \xmlsetsetup{Lorem}{feed|lipsum}{xml:Lorem:*}
> \stopxmlsetups
> \xmlregisterdocumentsetup{Lorem}{xml:Lorem:base}
> \startxmlsetups xml:Lorem:feed
>    \xmlflush{#1}
> \stopxmlsetups
> \startxmlsetups xml:Lorem:lipsum
>    \xmlflush{#1}
> \stopxmlsetups
> \definelines[LoremLines]
> \def\Lorem#1{% #1 = number of paragraphs to request
>    \startLoremLines
>    \xmlprocessfile{Lorem}{http://www.lipsum.com/feed/xml?amount=#1&what=paras&start=yes}{}
>    \stopLoremLines
> }
> \starttext
> \setupindenting[yes,20pt]
> \setuplines[LoremLines][command=\blank,indenting=yes]
> \Lorem{12}
> \stoptext

I've added a module m-ipsum. I have no clue if it provides what one 
expects from such a module      	

\usemodule[ipsum]
\setupbodyfont[dejavu,11pt]

\starttext

     \ipsum[alternative=paragraph,before=\blank,after=\blank]

     \ipsum[alternative=lines,n=2,right=\par,before=\blank,after=\blank]

     \ipsum[alternative=lines,n=random,before=\blank,after=\blank]

 
\ipsum[alternative=lines,before=\startitemize,after=\stopitemize,left=\startitem,right=\stopitem]

     \ipsum[alternative=words,left=(,right=),inbetween=\space]

     \page

     \defineipsum
       [ward]
       [file=ward,
        before=\blank,
        after=\blank]

     \defineipsum
       [ward:itemize]
       [ward]
       [alternative=lines,
        before={\startitemize[packed]},
        after=\stopitemize,
        left=\startitem,
        right=\stopitem]

     \defineipsum
       [ward:title]
       [ward]
       [alternative=lines,
        n=random]

     \subject{\directipsum{ward:title}}

     \ipsum[ward]
     \ipsum[ward:itemize]

\stoptext

Rather trivial code.

Hans

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Re: A "Lorem ipsum" module?

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2012-07-19 um 03:27 schrieb Rogers, Michael K:

> On 2012-07-18 Marcin Borkowski <mbork@???> wrote:
>
> > in LaTeX, there is quite a useful package called "lipsum", for
> > typesetting varioud amounts of "Lorem ipsum" stuff. Is there  
> anything
> > like that in ConTeXt? (I know about \input knuth, \input tufte etc.,
> > but that is not exactly what I have in mind, especially when  
> giving a
> > sample of some design to a customer;).)
>
> The LaTeX lipsum seems to have been pre-download from lipsum.com.   
> ConTeXt makes this relatively easy.  The one problem that might be  
> solved better is that the paragraphs come in a single xml node  
> separated by single newlines.  I defined a lines environment to make  
> these into paragraphs, which is not as pretty as I would like.

I also love http://www.blindtextgenerator.de/ :)

For the WebCMS of my employer I wrote a macro that produces dummy text  
of a defined length (min, max) from a selection of different texts  
(blindtextgenerator’s, that is, plus some company advertising) to fill  
new customer’s sites. To get more different texts, it starts after a  
random full stop, delivers only complete words etc. (we often need  
short dummy text for headlines).
It’s not an example of brilliant programming, but we use freemarker  
templates, and its macro language is somewhat restricted... ;-)
Maybe that gives you some ideas...

Regarding ConTeXt, its included sample text (tufte, knuth, zapf etc.)  
plus \fakewords were good enough for me.


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Re: A "Lorem ipsum" module?

[Rogers, Michael K]

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On 2012-07-18 Marcin Borkowski <mbork@???> wrote:

> in LaTeX, there is quite a useful package called "lipsum", for
> typesetting varioud amounts of "Lorem ipsum" stuff. Is there anything
> like that in ConTeXt? (I know about \input knuth, \input tufte etc.,
> but that is not exactly what I have in mind, especially when giving a
> sample of some design to a customer;).)

The LaTeX lipsum seems to have been pre-download from lipsum.com<http://lipsum.com>.  ConTeXt makes this relatively easy.  The one problem that might be solved better is that the paragraphs come in a single xml node separated by single newlines.  I defined a lines environment to make these into paragraphs, which is not as pretty as I would like.

\startxmlsetups xml:Lorem:base
\xmlsetsetup{Lorem}{*}{-}
\xmlsetsetup{Lorem}{feed|lipsum}{xml:Lorem:*}
\stopxmlsetups
\xmlregisterdocumentsetup{Lorem}{xml:Lorem:base}
\startxmlsetups xml:Lorem:feed
  \xmlflush{#1}
\stopxmlsetups
\startxmlsetups xml:Lorem:lipsum
  \xmlflush{#1}
\stopxmlsetups
\definelines[LoremLines]
\def\Lorem#1{% #1 = number of paragraphs to request
  \startLoremLines
  \xmlprocessfile{Lorem}{http://www.lipsum.com/feed/xml?amount=#1&what=paras&start=yes}{}
  \stopLoremLines
}
\starttext
\setupindenting[yes,20pt]
\setuplines[LoremLines][command=\blank,indenting=yes]
\Lorem{12}
\stoptext


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