Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping list (again)

2007-04-13 Thread Johannes Kuester
Dear Luigi,

luigi scarso wrote:
 hmm maibe i have not understand, but

 \zeichen{0002}{b}{second letter \vrule width 0.1pt height 1em depth2em }{}%
 %% or this
 %%  \zeichen{0002}{b}{second letter \blank Mlg() }{}%
 
 breaks the rule.
 
 Or not ?

Yes, it does, definitely. So it's my (or any other user's)
responsibility that the cells contain only allowed stuff.

I still have to see how to deal with large symbols (bigops and
integrals). Maybe with \blank[medium] in between (and some \smash),
so that every second line will be on the grid again.

When I typeset a similar list previously (for Detailtypografie), I still
did that in LaTeX. That required a lot of trickery and manual
correction, but at least I was able to do it (and yes, it was arranged
on a grid, but LaTeX didn't know that).

That is currently my main conceptual problem with ConTeXt: sometimes
it's too high-level and too clever, and it's hard to figure out how to
do the trickery and the tweaking ...


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Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping list (again)

2007-04-13 Thread luigi scarso
 I still have to see how to deal with large symbols (bigops and
 integrals). Maybe with \blank[medium] in between (and some \smash),
 so that every second line will be on the grid again.
Maybe a strategy is to use a vbox with ht+dp multiple of a grid space
...but the first line of every page has another height
I have posted something with bTABLE last days under this topic

 That is currently my main conceptual problem with ConTeXt: sometimes
 it's too high-level and too clever, and it's hard to figure out how to
 do the trickery and the tweaking ...
There are many pdf about context;
I try to have a 'programmer view' of these things.
Among others, see and criticize
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso/modules.pdf#modules.pdf


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Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping list (again)

2007-04-13 Thread luigi scarso
 Among others, see and criticize
 http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso/modules.pdf#modules.pdf
Of course, the main starting point is
http://wiki.contextgarden.net
exp.Search wiki

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Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping list (again)

2007-04-13 Thread Hans Hagen
Johannes Kuester wrote:
 Dear Luigi,

 luigi scarso wrote:
   
 hmm maibe i have not understand, but

 \zeichen{0002}{b}{second letter \vrule width 0.1pt height 1em depth2em }{}%
 %% or this
 %%  \zeichen{0002}{b}{second letter \blank Mlg() }{}%

 breaks the rule.

 Or not ?
 

 Yes, it does, definitely. So it's my (or any other user's)
 responsibility that the cells contain only allowed stuff.

 I still have to see how to deal with large symbols (bigops and
 integrals). Maybe with \blank[medium] in between (and some \smash),
 so that every second line will be on the grid again.

 When I typeset a similar list previously (for Detailtypografie), I still
 did that in LaTeX. That required a lot of trickery and manual
 correction, but at least I was able to do it (and yes, it was arranged
 on a grid, but LaTeX didn't know that).

 That is currently my main conceptual problem with ConTeXt: sometimes
 it's too high-level and too clever, and it's hard to figure out how to
 do the trickery and the tweaking ...

   
there is some some gridmath support available; see details.pdf

Hans

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Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping list (again)

2007-04-13 Thread Johannes Kuester
Hans Hagen wrote:
 there is some some gridmath support available; see details.pdf
 
 Hans

Yes, I know, I use that already.
Very helpful for my display formulas.
I didn't try it yet on my symbols list, here the module from Wolfgang
and blanks will do, I think.

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Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping list (again)

2007-04-13 Thread Johannes Kuester
 Maybe a strategy is to use a vbox with ht+dp multiple of a grid space
 ...but the first line of every page has another height

Each first line will be some heading, so that's not a problem in my case.

My grid-keeping list problem is solved, the module by Wolfgang serves my
purpose very well.

 There are many pdf about context;
 I try to have a 'programmer view' of these things.
 Among others, see and criticize
 http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso/modules.pdf#modules.pdf

Nice and interesting (although I didn't had enough time to look at it
thoroughly).

I'm aware of all the pdf manuals, and I use the wiki, source browser,
mailing list + archive.

Still it's sometimes hard to find one's way through.
But on to my next problems ...


Johannes


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[NTG-context] Grid-keeping list (again)

2007-04-12 Thread Johannes Kuester
Hello,

I'm still trying to typeset a grid-keeping list (or table).
Wolfgang Schuster supplied me off-list with the attached module.
This works fine except for one problem:

Only the first few lines are placed on the grid, then the grid is lost.

After the next pass (i.e. after the next texmfstart texexec testfile),
some more lines are placed on the grid.
(So I need many passes to typeset the complete list correctly).

Why? Any idea?

(I fiddled around with \synchronizegrid, \placeongrid, \moveongrid, and
\startlinecorrection \stoplinecorrection, but none of these seems to work.)

You could try the effect with the following example:

%%

\setuplayout[grid=yes, columns=2]
\showgrid
%\showstruts

\usemodule[gridlist]

\starttext

\startcolumns[n=2, balance=no]
%% (columns are not necessary to show the effect)

\dorecurse{20}{
  \zeichen{0001}{a}{first letter}{}%
  \zeichen{0002}{b}{second letter}{}%
  \zeichen{0002}{c}{third letter, this one has a longer entry
which needs more than one line}{}%
}

\stopcolumns

\stoptext

%%


(This should result in an annotated list of mathematical symbols,
showing the Unicode number, the math symbol, and some explanation (and
where the explanation could need more than one line); quite similar to
the list I published in Detailtypografie (2nd ed. 2004), but for
another -- quite pressing -- project.)


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\startmodule[gridlist]

\unprotect

\def\ze{ze} % ZEichen

\newcount\zeichencolumn

\def\setupzeichen
  {\dodoubleempty\dosetupzeichen}

\def\dosetupzeichen[#1][#2]%
  {\ifsecondargument
 \dodosetupzeichen[#1][#2]
   \else
 \dodosetupzeichen[\v!line][#1]
   \fi}

\def\dodosetupzeichen[#1][#2]%
  {\def\docommand##1%
{\getparameters[\ze##1][#2]}
   \processcommalist[#1]\docommand}

\def\zeichenparameter#1%
  {\csname
 \ifcsname\ze\number\zeichencolumn#1\endcsname
   \ze\number\zeichencolumn
 \else
   \ze\v!line
 \fi
   #1\endcsname}

\definehspace[myindent][10pt]

\def\startunisym%
  {\bgroup%
   \setbox\scratchbox\hbox\bgroup}

\def\stopunisym%
  {\egroup%
   \raise.3ex\hbox{\box\scratchbox}
   \egroup}

\def\zeichen%
  {\ignorespaces\permitspacesbetweengroups
   \doquadruplegroupempty\dozeichen}

\def\dozeichen#1#2#3#4%
  {\begingroup
   \zeichenparameter\c!before
   \zeichencolumn\zerocount
   \hbox\!!to\zeichenparameter\c!textwidth
 {\zeichenzelle{#1}%
  \zeichenzelle{#2}%
  \hfill
  \zeichenzelle{#3}}%
   \zeichenparameter\c!after
   \endgroup}


\def\zeichenzelle#1%
  {\advance\zeichencolumn\plusone
   \hbox
 {\vtop
{\hsize\zeichenparameter\c!width
 \zeichenparameter\c!before
 \begstrut
   \dostartattributes{\ze\number\zeichencolumn}\c!style\c!color
   \zeichenparameter\c!left
 #1
   \zeichenparameter\c!right
   \dostopattributes
 \endstrut
 \zeichenparameter\c!after}}}

\setupzeichen
  [\c!textwidth=63.8833mm,%
   \c!before=\noindenting\synchronizegrid,%
   \c!after=\synchronizegrid,%
  ]

\setupzeichen
  [1,2,3,4]
  [\c!before=,
   \c!after=,
   \c!left=,
   \c!right=]

\setupzeichen
  [1]
  [\c!width=6.5mm,
   \c!left=\startunisym,
   \c!right=\stopunisym,
   \c!align=right,
   \c!before=\raggedright,
   \c!after=,   
   \c!style={\switchtobodyfont[6.8pt]\tt\bf}]

\setupzeichen
  [2]
  [\c!width=7.5mm,
   \c!left=$,
   \c!right=$,
   \c!before=\raggedcenter,
   \c!style={\switchtobodyfont[9.6pt]}]

\setupzeichen
  [3]
  [\c!width=49.883mm,
   \c!style={\switchtobodyfont[8.4pt]},
   \c!before=\hangindent10pt\hangafter1\raggedright]

\protect 
\stopmodule
\endinput
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Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping list (again)

2007-04-12 Thread luigi scarso
On 4/12/07, Johannes Kuester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello,

 I'm still trying to typeset a grid-keeping list (or table).
Sorry, no answer.
Only to say that I'm following this subject, and I'm doing some private tests.
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Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping list (again)

2007-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster

2007/4/12, Johannes Kuester [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


Hello,

I'm still trying to typeset a grid-keeping list (or table).
Wolfgang Schuster supplied me off-list with the attached module.
This works fine except for one problem:

Only the first few lines are placed on the grid, then the grid is lost.

After the next pass (i.e. after the next texmfstart texexec testfile),
some more lines are placed on the grid.
(So I need many passes to typeset the complete list correctly).

Why? Any idea?

(I fiddled around with \synchronizegrid, \placeongrid, \moveongrid, and
\startlinecorrection \stoplinecorrection, but none of these seems to
work.)

You could try the effect with the following example:

%%

\setuplayout[grid=yes, columns=2]
\showgrid
%\showstruts

\usemodule[gridlist]

\starttext

\startcolumns[n=2, balance=no]
%% (columns are not necessary to show the effect)

\dorecurse{20}{
  \zeichen{0001}{a}{first letter}{}%
  \zeichen{0002}{b}{second letter}{}%
  \zeichen{0002}{c}{third letter, this one has a longer entry
which needs more than one line}{}%
}

\stopcolumns

\stoptext



Hi Johannes,

replace the current definition of \zeichenzelle with the following:

\def\zeichenzelle#1%
 {\advance\zeichencolumn\plusone
  \hbox
{\vtop
   {\hsize\zeichenparameter\c!width
\normalbaselines
\zeichenparameter\c!before
\begstrut
  \dostartattributes{\ze\number\zeichencolumn}\c!style\c!color
  \zeichenparameter\c!left
#1
  \zeichenparameter\c!right
  \dostopattributes
\endstrut
\zeichenparameter\c!after}}}

\synchronizegrid in \setupzeichen is not neccessary

\setupzeichen
 [\c!textwidth=63.8833mm,
  \c!before=\noindenting, %\synchronizegrid,
  \c!after=, %\synchronizegrid
 ]

add the next two commands to your module

\def\startzeichen{\begingroup\offinterlineskip}
\def\stopzeichen{\endgroup}

a alternative version

%\def\startzeichen{\offinterlineskip}
%\def\stopzeichen{\oninterlineskip}

and put \startzeichen and \stopzeichen before and after your lines
with all \zeichen commands

\startzeichen
\zeichen
...
\zeichen
\stopzeichen

and everything should work as expected

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Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping list (again)

2007-04-12 Thread Johannes Kuester
luigi scarso wrote:
 On 4/12/07, Johannes Kuester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello,

 I'm still trying to typeset a grid-keeping list (or table).
 Sorry, no answer.
 Only to say that I'm following this subject, and I'm doing some private tests.

Thank you! I hope you will be more successful than I am.

I do not understand why this is such a problem. Basically, it's just
about paragraph boxes and their proper alignment on a grid.

To me, such a list seems like a basic typographic requirement, so it
should be possible to do that in ConTeXt.


Johannes

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Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping list (again)

2007-04-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Johannes Kuester wrote:
 luigi scarso wrote:
   
 On 4/12/07, Johannes Kuester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Hello,

 I'm still trying to typeset a grid-keeping list (or table).
   
 Sorry, no answer.
 Only to say that I'm following this subject, and I'm doing some private 
 tests.
 

 Thank you! I hope you will be more successful than I am.

 I do not understand why this is such a problem. Basically, it's just
 about paragraph boxes and their proper alignment on a grid.

 To me, such a list seems like a basic typographic requirement, so it
 should be possible to do that in ConTeXt.
   
the problem with tex is that it does not hav ea way to force consistent height 
and depth of lines, so here are a few tricks: 
 
\begstrut some text \endstrut \endgraf 

\snaptogrid\vbox{some text} 


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Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping list (again)

2007-04-12 Thread Johannes Kuester
Hi Wolfgang,

perfect, now everything works as expected!
Thank you!

Johannes

Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
 Hi Johannes,
 
 replace the current definition of \zeichenzelle with the following:
 
 \def\zeichenzelle#1%
   {\advance\zeichencolumn\plusone
\hbox
  {\vtop
 {\hsize\zeichenparameter\c!width
  \normalbaselines
  \zeichenparameter\c!before
  \begstrut
\dostartattributes{\ze\number\zeichencolumn}\c!style\c!color
\zeichenparameter\c!left
  #1
\zeichenparameter\c!right
\dostopattributes
  \endstrut
  \zeichenparameter\c!after}}}
 
 \synchronizegrid in \setupzeichen is not neccessary
 
 \setupzeichen
   [\c!textwidth=63.8833mm,
\c!before=\noindenting, %\synchronizegrid,
\c!after=, %\synchronizegrid
   ]
 
 add the next two commands to your module
 
 \def\startzeichen{\begingroup\offinterlineskip}
 \def\stopzeichen{\endgroup}
 
 a alternative version
 
 %\def\startzeichen{\offinterlineskip}
 %\def\stopzeichen{\oninterlineskip}
 
 and put \startzeichen and \stopzeichen before and after your lines
 with all \zeichen commands
 
 \startzeichen
 \zeichen
 ...
 \zeichen
 \stopzeichen
 
 and everything should work as expected
 
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Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping list (again)

2007-04-12 Thread luigi scarso
 the problem with tex is that it does not hav ea way to force consistent 
 height and depth of lines.
yes, it'true.
And this is why I'm so involved.
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Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping list (again)

2007-04-12 Thread luigi scarso
hmm maibe i have not understand, but
 \startcolumns[n=2, balance=no]
 %% (columns are not necessary to show the effect)

 \dorecurse{20}{
   \zeichen{0001}{a}{first letter}{}%

   \zeichen{0002}{b}{second letter}{}%
\zeichen{0002}{b}{second letter \vrule width 0.1pt height 1em depth2em }{}%
%% or this
%%  \zeichen{0002}{b}{second letter \blank Mlg() }{}%


 \stopcolumns
 the list I published in Detailtypografie (2nd ed. 2004), but for

breaks the rule.

Or not ?

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