Hi, indeed specs is what we need; also think about how to deal with graphics;
an odd-even pages is doable ; remind me in a week (due to family circumstances i'll be sparsely online) Hans Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > Hraban, > > sounds excellent! OK, what I would dream of for the time being would > be: ConTeXt treats a pair of even/odd pages like a unity. It would be > ideal to have two input streams, maybe as \start ... \stop environments. > > \startevenpage > > text > > \stopevenpage > > \startoddpage > > text > > \stopoddpage > > It would be important to have commands like \breakevenpage and > \breakoddpage that would insert a pagebreak without breaking the > paragraph.* Both even and odd have their own set of footnotes. Both > even and odd can have their own dimensions: > > \setupevenpage[. . .] > > \setupoddpage[. . .] > > see \setuplayout. > > Would that be possible? How hard would it be in ConTeXt? And is there > anything in the source that I could look at to get things going? > > Best > > Thomas > > * I'm not sure if this is clear enough. What I want is > > XXXXX XXXXX > XXXXX XXXXX > XXXXX XXXXX > XXXXX > > PAGEBREAK > > and not > > XXXXX XXXXX > XXXXX XXXXX > XXXXX XXXX > XXXXX > > > On Mar 3, 2006, at 9:25 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > >> Friendly as ever, Hans suggests that you write a sample/spec how >> you'd like to use this feature, so that he can think about some >> implementation himself. >> >> E.g., would such help?: >> >> \setupsynced[setup name][mode=pages, after=pagebreak, n=2] >> % n = (number of synced columns, think of more language versions to >> compare...; default=2) >> % mode = pages, columns (default=columns; pages only with n=2) >> % after = pagebreak, space, continue...? (what should we do with >> remaining space in column?) >> % footnotes = local, ...? (synced text needs its own set of footnote >> counters...) >> % frame, background etc.? >> >> \startsynced[mysetup]% >> { greek text }% >> { german text } >> \stopsynced >> >> This would be analogous to combinations, but could handle only single >> paragraphs, I guess. >> I don't think I need this feature, so it's your turn to propose a >> syntax! >> >> Greetlings from Lake Constance! >> Hraban >> > > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context