Re: [NTG-context] Page breaks with \defineparagraphs possible?

2023-06-05 Thread Berend de Boer via ntg-context
Hi Wolfgang, \definetabulate[bilingual][|pA{normal,verytolerant,stretch}|pA{normal,verytolerant,stretch}|] One more on this actually: how can I influence the white space between the columns? I tried to set distance, but that didn't do anything. Setting p(4cm) or so, made the paragraphs

Re: [NTG-context] Page breaks with \defineparagraphs possible?

2023-06-05 Thread Berend de Boer via ntg-context
Hi Wolfgang, You can use the tabulate environment to create parallel paragraphs. Just one thing for others, this solution as the same problem as paragraphs: \placeinitial won't work. I.e. this: \setupinitial[text=#1]\placeinitial inside the tabulate or paragraphs doesn't work (but here

Re: [NTG-context] Page breaks with \defineparagraphs possible?

2023-06-05 Thread Berend de Boer via ntg-context
Hi Wolfgang, You can use the tabulate environment to create parallel paragraphs. Ah yes, that's working! Thank you so much! One question on the pA{normal,verytolerant,stretch}: what does that do exactly? From the manual I got that A only takes one key, what does specifying three keys

Re: [NTG-context] knuth

2023-06-04 Thread Berend de Boer via ntg-context
Hi Hans, Probably some on this list already checked how well chatgpt answers questions about domains one knows well and then probably noted that in spite of impressive wording, one can run into quite incorrect answers. I've been using it for ConTeXt, and to be honest, it works amazingly well.

[NTG-context] Page breaks with \defineparagraphs possible?

2023-06-04 Thread Berend de Boer via ntg-context
Dear all, I've noticed that \defineparagraphs does not break across pages. That would be a huge page saver in my case. Do I have any options for page breaking across a set of parallel paragraphs? Initially I just had a \hbox{\vtop{#1}\hfil\vtop{#2}} but obviously that doesn't break, so went for

[NTG-context] \doifelseoddpage not working as expected

2023-05-26 Thread Berend de Boer via ntg-context
Dear all, I need something like \doifelseoddpage, but this does not work as expected. See below example. You will notice that on page two you still get the ODD text, with page number 1. What's going on? Is there a proper way to detect what page I'm on? Example: \starttext