Re: [NTG-context] Sparklines to be in ConTeXt?

2005-08-01 Thread Hans Hagen
Tobias Wolf wrote: I asked here because everything about it screamed ConTeXt (also considering that the favourite command here seems to be \input tufte). Thought this meme must have infected some here. -) i didn't know tufte had a site; seems that a new book is coming in 2006 how about a

Re: [NTG-context] Sparklines to be in ConTeXt?

2005-08-01 Thread Tobias Wolf
>The particular temptation that I saw was that they _aren't_ a substitute >for a full graph -- they're only a substitute for the information one gets >were trying to put so much information in them that one would need to spend >time studying them to read them, and that misses the point. > Personal

Re: [NTG-context] Sparklines to be in ConTeXt?

2005-07-31 Thread Hans Hagen
Tobias Wolf wrote: Hey, what do you people actually think about E. Tufte's Sparklines?² They are a great and innovative thing in my mind; both in the information mediating and the typographic sense. Can you be a bit more specific? You mean small and/or condense inline graphics? (btw, a vari

Re: [NTG-context] Sparklines to be in ConTeXt?

2005-07-31 Thread Brooks Moses
At 01:47 PM 7/31/2005, Tobias Wolf wrote: Hey, what do you people actually think about E. Tufte's Sparklines? They are a great and innovative thing in my mind; both in the information mediating and the typographic sense. There's a bare-bones LaTeX package on CTAN, but when I think about it, this