List,
Can somebody suggest an export-friendly mechanism to put fixed lines
into the margin? Use case: I am reproducing a 17th century text with
marginal footnotes. I do not need a solution that works with both pdf
and xml, but there is less mode fiddling if it does.
This example:
\setupbackend [export=yes]
\starttext
\subject{\tex{startlines} in margin}
\startparagraph
\margintext{\startlines
abc def
ghi
jkl
mno pqr
\stoplines}
\input knuth
\stopparagraph
\subject{\tex{crlf} in margin}
\startparagraph
\margintext{abc def\crlf
ghi\crlf
jkl\crlf
mno pqr}
\input knuth
\stopparagraph
\subject{\tex{\textbackslash} in margin}
\startparagraph
\margintext{abc def\\
ghi\\
jkl\\
mno pqr}
\input knuth
\stopparagraph
\subject{\tex{startlines} in main flow}
\startparagraph
\startlines
abc def
ghi
jkl
mno pqr
\stoplines
\input knuth
\stopparagraph
\stoptext
generates the following xml with \startlines and \crlf:
<margintext detail="margintext" chain="margintext"><lines
detail="lines" chain="lines"><line>abc def ghi jkl mno
pqr</line></lines></margintext>
and no <lines> element at all with \\, while it generates proper lines
in the main flow:
<lines detail="lines" chain="lines"><line>abc
def</line><line>ghi</line><line>jkl</line><line>mno pqr</line></lines>
I also note that \startlines in \margintext does not work in pdf output,
but both \crlf and \\ do, and \bpar..\epar works in margintext for pdf
output but breaks strangely in xml (the \epar ends the margintext
element and the rest is set as body flow paragraphs).
--
Rik
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