Greetings,
I have been using ConTeXt since April, plain TeX since March, and
LaTeX/LyX for about a year. I have been working on multilingual texts
and, until the recent permutations of Word, no WYSIWYG product, with the
possible exception of Mellel for Hebrew, did any good job. Now I don't
like WYSIWYG anymore but use such products for work.
I have been able to create near-optimal reproductions of Ramistic
schemata using ConTeXt because the \showboxes toggle is most helpful in
showing where I need to put whitespace. The following may indeed be
crude, i.e., not computing box height and other sophisticated stuff, but
I'm a n00b and have not read the TeXbook through, although that and TeX
by topic are both a vade mecum.
Here's the code, FWIW. Use it as you like. It started out as plain TeX
using Kile on Ubuntu, migrated to ConTeXt in TeXshop/MacTeX, and came
back to Kile after I found an xml file for katepart that allowed for
proper syntax highlighting.
Charles
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\def\schema#1#2#3{\hbox{$\vcenter{#1}\left\{\vbox to
#2{\vfil}\right.\vcenter{#3}$}}
\def\altschema#1#2#3#4{\hbox{$\vcenter{#1}{\left\lmoustache\vbox to
#2{\vfil}\right.\atop\left\rmoustache\vbox to
#3{\vfil}\right.}\vcenter{#4}$}}
%\showboxes
\starttext
\tfx
{\tfa I. SCHEMA}\par
\schema % top level schema
{
\hbox{Subjectum theolo-}
\hbox{gi\ae{} est Notitia}
\hbox{Dei. Considerat}
\hbox{ergo, Dei, vel}
}
{13ex}
{
\blank[big]
\schema % first nested schema
{
\hbox{{\sc Essentiam}, in}
}
{5ex}
{
\hbox{Unitate natur\ae{}.}
\hbox{Trinitate personarum.}
\hbox{Operibus ad intra.}
}
\blank[medium]
\schema % second nested schema
{
\hbox{{\sc Voluntatem},}
\hbox{manifestatam in}
\hbox{operibus ad extra;}
\hbox{ut in}
}
{12ex}
{
\hbox{Creatione.}
\hbox{Sustentatione natur\ae{} laps\ae{}.}
\hbox{Reparatione.}
\hbox{Conversione.}
\hbox{Justificatione.}
\hbox{Sanctificatione \&}
\hbox{Glorificatione ejusdem.}
}
}
\page
{\tfa II. SCHEMA}\par
\altschema %
{
\blank[7*big]
\hbox{Subjectum \&}
\hbox{summa univer-}
\hbox{s\ae{} Scriptur\ae{},}
\hbox{est {\sc Cogni-}}
\hbox{{\sc tio} vel}
}
{29ex}
{10ex}
{
\altschema %
{
\hbox{{\sc Dei}, qua-}
\hbox{lis sit, aut}
}
{10ex}
{2ex}
{
\blank[big]
\schema %
{
\hbox{{\sc Per se}:}
\hbox{scilicet.}
}
{3.1ex}
{
\hbox{Unus in essentia.}
\hbox{Trinus in personis.}
}
\blank[medium]
\schema %
{
\hbox{Ad hominem}
\hbox{quem vel}
}
{13ex}
{
\hbox{Accusat \& terret, {\sc Per Legem},}
\hbox{Consolatur \& erigit, {\sc Per Evangelium}.}
\hbox{Salvat, {\sc Per Christum}.}
\hbox{Renovat, {\sc Per Spiritum Sanctum}.}
\hbox{Sanctificat, {\sc Per Verbum} \& {Sacramenta}.}
\hbox{Castigat, tentat \& exercet, {\sc Per Crucem}.}
\hbox{Glorificat {\sc Per Resurrectionem Carnis}}
\hbox{{\sc Ad Vitam \AE{}ternam}.}
}
}
\altschema %
{
\blank[6*big]
\hbox{{\sc Hominis},}
\hbox{qualis sit}
}
{22ex}
{3ex}
{
\altschema %
{
\hbox{{\sc Per se}:}
}
{6ex}
{1ex}
{
\blank[2*big]
\hbox{Ante lapsum.}
\blank[big]
\altschema %
{
\hbox{Post lapsum:}
}
{5ex}
{2ex}
{
\hbox{Ante Regenerationem \&}
\hbox{Renovationem S. Sancti.}
\blank[small]
\hbox{Post Regenerationem \&}
\hbox{Renovationem S. Sancti.}
\blank[2*small]
}
\blank[big]
}
\schema %
{
\hbox{Ad}
}
{18ex}
{
\schema %
{
\hbox{{\sc Deum}}
}
{14ex}
{
\hbox{P\oe{}nitentia agens, agnitis peccatis \&
ira}
\hbox{Dei cognita {\sc Ex Lege}.}
\hbox{Erigens se {\sc Voce Evangelii}.}
\hbox{Credens {\sc In Christum Salvatorem}.}
\hbox{Non repugnans {\sc Spiritui Sancto}
impellenti.}
\hbox{Audiens {\sc Verbum}: \& utens {\sc
Sacramentis}.}
\hbox{Patienter \& constanter sufferens {\sc
Crucem}.}
\hbox{Sperans \& expectans glorificationem {\sc
In}}
\hbox{{\sc Resurrectione Carnis Ad Vitam
\AE{}ternam}.}
}
\blank[medium]
\schema %
{
\hbox{seipsum ratione}
}
{3.1ex}
{
\hbox{Anim\ae{} vel}
\hbox{Corporis}
}
\schema %
{
\hbox{Proximum,}
}
{6ex}
{
\blank[medium]
\schema %
{
\hbox{Amicum ratione vel}
}
{7ex}
{
\hbox{Religionis.}
\hbox{Politic\ae{} \& Oeconomic\ae {}.}
\hbox{Cognationis.}
\hbox{Agnationis.}
}
\hbox{Inimicum.}
\blank[3*big]
}
\blank[big]
}
}
}
\stoptext
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