At 12:34 PM 10/22/2001 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I've just started using ConTeXt (some previous experience with LaTeX, but not
>much) and have a question.
>
>Every year my students union produce a book containing information about the
>union and a collection of addresses of the members. Previously this book has
>been made by hand in Adobe Indesign. Now I have written a PHP-script that
>outputs a ConTeXt-file that I then convert to pdf. However, previously we
>have
>used a layout where information has been put in the outer and inner columns
>depending on if it's a lefthand- or righthand page.
>It looks like this:
>
>---------------------------------------------
>| info1 | text1 || text3 | info3 |
>| | || | |
>| | || | |
>| | || | |
>| | || | |
>| info2 | text2 || text4 | info4 |
>| | || | |
>| | || | |
>| | || | |
>| 1 | || | 2 |
>----------------------------------------------
>
>In 'info' we put information about 'text'. This 'info' needs the same
>width as
>the text and also some formatting.
>
>
>I have tried solving this by using \inmargin and \startmarginblock, but
>nothing
>gives a good result.
>
>Does anyone have any idea if this is possible to solve? (If you want I can
>send
>you a pdf showing how it lokks like in inDesign).
You may be looking for something like this:
% output=pdftex
\setuplayout
[backspace=2cm,cutspace=1cm,width=fit,
margin=10cm,margindistance=.5cm]
\setuppagenumbering
[alternative=doublesided]
\setupinmargin
[1][width=4cm,align=middle,style=slanted]
\setupinmargin
[2][distance=4.5cm,width=3cm,align=middle]
\starttext
\dorecurse
{100}
{\margintitle{Did you know that you can stack 'm?}
\margintitle[2]{I guess that you didn't -)}
Marginal notes are seldom meant to be marginal, otherwise
one would not let them stand out that way.\par}
\stoptext
things can automatically align inner/outer/left/right/middle
Hans
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