Re: [NTG-context] The ultimate (?) float problem

2009-05-14 Thread Piotr Kopszak
I think I more or less got the idea of what is possible. But let me describe my project. Maybe you might come up with a better solution. I'm going to typeset a diary written and drawn by an illustrator and graphic designer 70 years ago. What is unique, it consists of handwritten pages which were

Re: [NTG-context] The ultimate (?) float problem

2009-05-12 Thread Piotr Kopszak
Any chance lua might change something here in the future? P. 2009/5/12 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: Piotr Kopszak wrote: Dear all, I am close to give up, but maybe there is a solution... I have a book to typeset literally peppered with hundreds of little drawings which are supposed to appear

Re: [NTG-context] The ultimate (?) float problem

2009-05-12 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Piotr Kopszak kops...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I am close to give up, but maybe there is a solution... I have a book to typeset literally peppered with hundreds of little drawings which are supposed to appear irregularly surrounded by text flowing around

Re: [NTG-context] The ultimate (?) float problem

2009-05-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Piotr Kopszak wrote: Any chance lua might change something here in the future? maybe, but not in the near future Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH

Re: [NTG-context] The ultimate (?) float problem

2009-05-12 Thread Piotr Kopszak
Only to show better how I would like text and images placed on the page. \definelayer [figure][width=\overlaywidth,height=\overlayheight] \defineoverlay[figure][{\directsetup{figure}\tightlayer[figure]}] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=figure] \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] The ultimate (?) float problem

2009-05-12 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Piotr Kopszak kops...@gmail.com wrote: Only to show better how I would like text and images placed on the page. \definelayer [figure][width=\overlaywidth,height=\overlayheight] \defineoverlay[figure][{\directsetup{figure}\tightlayer[figure]}]

Re: [NTG-context] The ultimate (?) float problem

2009-05-12 Thread Piotr Kopszak
But I want text in one column in the whole document. I was wondering however if I could mimick something similar with textflows but cannot understand the Dutch example in page-flw.tex. Piotr 2009/5/12 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Piotr Kopszak

Re: [NTG-context] The ultimate (?) float problem

2009-05-12 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Piotr Kopszak kops...@gmail.com wrote: But I want text in one column in the whole document. I was wondering however if I could mimick something similar with textflows but cannot understand the Dutch example in page-flw.tex. Do you mean this ? % Example

Re: [NTG-context] The ultimate (?) float problem

2009-05-12 Thread Piotr Kopszak
Yes, exactly. 2009/5/12 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Piotr Kopszak kops...@gmail.com wrote: But I want text in one column in the whole document. I was wondering however if I could mimick something similar with textflows but cannot understand the

Re: [NTG-context] The ultimate (?) float problem

2009-05-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 12.05.2009 um 15:18 schrieb Piotr Kopszak: Yes, exactly. \setuppapersize [S6] \setuptolerance [soepel,rek] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupfooter[strut=no] \setupwhitespace[big] \setuplayout [rightmargin=5cm, width=fit, margin=0pt, edgedistance=1cm, footer=4cm,

Re: [NTG-context] The ultimate (?) float problem

2009-05-12 Thread Piotr Kopszak
Right. If I understand correctly on the first look textflows appear in fixed locations on consecutive pages. I guess I'm banging my head against a wall but what about if it was possible to have them side by side on the same page? 2009/5/12 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com: