[NTG-context] Footnotes within paragraphs in columns have incorrect width.

2008-06-16 Thread Daniel Pittman
G'day. While designing the layout for a cookbook I have used paragraphs in columns to place the ingredients and body text next to each other. In order to add some commentary to the body I have been experimenting with footnotes, to place comments at the end of the recipe without getting in the

[NTG-context] Keeping a block of text together, without breaking footnotes, etc.

2008-05-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
G'day. As part of a document I am laying out I have a number of blocks of text that I want to keep together on a single page -- either all before a page break or all after it. I can achieve this using a \vbox, but that has the fairly undesirable property of also preventing footnotes and,

Re: [NTG-context] Is it possible to automatically determine font size to fit text to a given space?

2005-12-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Pittman wrote: G'day Hans. Hints about that, or a native TeX method[1], would be very much appreciated. At the moment it is a relatively slow process of manual trial and error. this is something tex is pretty good at and it runs as fast as normal

[NTG-context] Is it possible to automatically determine font size to fit text to a given space?

2005-12-02 Thread Daniel Pittman
G'day. One of the things I (ab)use ConTeXt for is printing little text labels to Avery stock. This works quite well, and I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to get working with some hints from Hans in the archives of this list. The labels, over time, have varying lengths of text on