Re: [NTG-context] "infinite" paper height

2006-07-19 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 7/19/06, Hans Hagen wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > > > Most articles will be shorter than 2m anyway, I hope. If not, smaller > > font size is surely one of the possibilities, but I'll worry about > > that later (I don't doubt that I'll be bitten by enough ConTeXt bugs > > before that will ha

Re: [NTG-context] "infinite" paper height

2006-07-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > Most articles will be shorter than 2m anyway, I hope. If not, smaller > font size is surely one of the possibilities, but I'll worry about > that later (I don't doubt that I'll be bitten by enough ConTeXt bugs > before that will happen). > do you mean real bugs or misu

Re: [NTG-context] "infinite" paper height

2006-07-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 7/19/06, Hans Hagen wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > On 7/18/06, Adam Lindsay wrote: > > > >> Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> > >>> 5m is "inifinite enough" for me (I hope). I only need to fit the whole > >>> article on a single page and I guess that no article will go over this > >>> limit. > >>>

Re: [NTG-context] "infinite" paper height

2006-07-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 7/18/06, Adam Lindsay wrote: > >> Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >>> 5m is "inifinite enough" for me (I hope). I only need to fit the whole >>> article on a single page and I guess that no article will go over this >>> limit. >>> >> FWIW, Acrobat 6 and earlier ha

Re: [NTG-context] "infinite" paper height

2006-07-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Patrick Gundlach wrote: > Hi Mojca, > > "Mojca Miklavec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Is there any way to create "infinite" paper size: such a paper that >> all the content fits exactly on a single page? ̣(As a workaroung I can >> still create a page of height 2m and then crop it if no oth

Re: [NTG-context] "infinite" paper height

2006-07-18 Thread Hans Hagen
� wrote: > 2006/7/18, Taco Hoekwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> DVI maybe, but my Acrobat Reader 7 silently drops the bottom off pages >> that are higher than 200in (508cm). >> > > This is an implementation limit of AR7: 200inx200in. This can be > overcome by using UserUnit in PDF 1.6: Then

Re: [NTG-context] "infinite" paper height

2006-07-18 Thread Martin Schröder
2006/7/18, Taco Hoekwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > DVI maybe, but my Acrobat Reader 7 silently drops the bottom off pages > that are higher than 200in (508cm). This is an implementation limit of AR7: 200inx200in. This can be overcome by using UserUnit in PDF 1.6: Then you can have up to 15.000.000in

Re: [NTG-context] "infinite" paper height

2006-07-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 7/18/06, Adam Lindsay wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > 5m is "inifinite enough" for me (I hope). I only need to fit the whole > > article on a single page and I guess that no article will go over this > > limit. > > FWIW, Acrobat 6 and earlier had severe problems with document dimensions > ove

Re: [NTG-context] "infinite" paper height

2006-07-18 Thread Adam Lindsay
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > 5m is "inifinite enough" for me (I hope). I only need to fit the whole > article on a single page and I guess that no article will go over this > limit. FWIW, Acrobat 6 and earlier had severe problems with document dimensions over 200cm, so keep that in mind for compatibi

Re: [NTG-context] "infinite" paper height

2006-07-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 7/18/06, Hans Hagen wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is there any way to create "infinite" paper size: such a paper that > > all the content fits exactly on a single page? ̣(As a workaroung I can > > still create a page of height 2m and then crop it if no other solution > > is a

Re: [NTG-context] "infinite" paper height

2006-07-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any way to create "infinite" paper size: such a paper that > all the content fits exactly on a single page? ̣(As a workaroung I can Automatically cropping it back to the right size, you mean ? No, but that would be a neat feature. :-) > still create

Re: [NTG-context] "infinite" paper height

2006-07-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Thank you, Ricard and Taco, On 7/18/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is there any way to create "infinite" paper size: such a paper that > > all the content fits exactly on a single page? ̣(As a workaroung I can > > Automatically cropping it back to the right

Re: [NTG-context] "infinite" paper height

2006-07-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: > > \starttext > \startTEXpage > your 4 meter poem > \stopTEXpage > \stoptext doh! ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] "infinite" paper height

2006-07-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Ricard Roca wrote: > >> I think that's not possible because of TeX. TeX limits any dimension to 2^30 >> scaled points (~5.75 m). >> > > I just realized you can cheat just a little: > > \hsize=575cm > \advance \hsize \hsize > interesting indeed because

Re: [NTG-context] "infinite" paper height

2006-07-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Ricard Roca wrote: > I think that's not possible because of TeX. TeX limits any dimension to 2^30 > scaled points (~5.75 m). I just realized you can cheat just a little: \hsize=575cm \advance \hsize \hsize \message{\the\hsize} % reports 32720.66928pt ~ 11.5m A nice one

Re: [NTG-context] "infinite" paper height

2006-07-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any way to create "infinite" paper size: such a paper that > all the content fits exactly on a single page? ̣(As a workaroung I can > still create a page of height 2m and then crop it if no other solution > is available.) > > \setuplayout > [width=8

Re: [NTG-context] "infinite" paper height

2006-07-18 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Mojca, "Mojca Miklavec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any way to create "infinite" paper size: such a paper that > all the content fits exactly on a single page? ̣(As a workaroung I can > still create a page of height 2m and then crop it if no other solution > is available.) this is

Re: [NTG-context] "infinite" paper height

2006-07-18 Thread Ricard Roca
I think that's not possible because of TeX. TeX limits any dimension to 2^30 scaled points (~5.75 m). But that's only the TeX part. I don't know if dvi drivers can combine several TeX pages in one printer page infinitely. Possibly any of the PostScript tools? Ricard ___

[NTG-context] "infinite" paper height

2006-07-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, Is there any way to create "infinite" paper size: such a paper that all the content fits exactly on a single page? ̣(As a workaroung I can still create a page of height 2m and then crop it if no other solution is available.) \setuplayout [width=8cm] \definepapersize [infini