Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout

2005-03-28 Thread Duncan Hothersall
I appreciate the effort you've put into this, Paul, but This primary audience for this page is XML authors who want to use ConTeXt to format an XML document. is still not enough of a disclaimer. I use ConTeXt as part of a large XML-based workflow, but don't use TeXML (nor do I use much of the

Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout

2005-03-28 Thread h h extern
Paul Tremblay wrote: I've authored a new page on laying out pages in ConText. This page will be just one in a number of pages on using ConTeXt with XML. The new page can be found at http://www.geocities.com/paulhtremblay/context_xml/page2.html I would appreciate any feedback. I hope the page

Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout

2005-03-27 Thread Otared Kavian
At 12:43 -0500 26/03/05, Paul Tremblay wrote: I've authored a new page on laying out pages in ConText. This page will be just one in a number of pages on using ConTeXt with XML. The new page can be found at http://www.geocities.com/paulhtremblay/context_xml/page2.html Many thanks for your

Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout

2005-03-27 Thread Adam Lindsay
Paul Tremblay said this at Sun, 27 Mar 2005 01:55:58 -0500: Your prose is fairly clear, but the style tends to be a bit too prescriptive for my tastes. I think a lot of it would be alleviated by you setting up the context a bit more (this is what I found works for me, coming from the FO page

Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout

2005-03-27 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Paul, First of all I find your pages a good starting point. Still I believe that Adam's suggestions are correct. Within the ConTeXt environment most of the time more than one approach is possible. Humble but neither put the option width=fit nor to say layout=middle is the way to go when

Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout

2005-03-27 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
BTW I added links to your pages to the XML and Layout pages of the wiki. Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout

2005-03-27 Thread Vit Zyka
Adam Lindsay wrote: A pair of Tips: * If you set cutspace/bottomspace to 0pt, ConTeXt automatically makes it equal to backspace/topspace Is it a correct way fulfilling the ConTeXt spirit? I do not think so. If I set something to 0pt, I want it to be 0pt. If it is not set, it is default, and it

Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout

2005-03-26 Thread VnPenguin
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:43:33 -0500, Paul Tremblay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've authored a new page on laying out pages in ConText. This page will be just one in a number of pages on using ConTeXt with XML. The new page can be found at

Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout

2005-03-26 Thread Vit Zyka
Paul Tremblay wrote: The new page can be found at http://www.geocities.com/paulhtremblay/context_xml/page2.html Paul, pictures are very intuitive. Great! I would appreciate any feedback. I hope the page will be useful in Just as addition. If you want page number in the same (center) position in

Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout

2005-03-26 Thread Paul Tremblay
Just as addition. If you want page number in the same (center) position in the footer, add \smash command to your example \setupfootertexts[Romanticism \hfill \pagenumber \hfill Civil Disobedience][] [][...] so \setupfootertexts[\smash{Romanticism }\hfill \pagenumber \hfill

Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout

2005-03-26 Thread Vit Zyka
Paul Tremblay wrote: Just as addition. If you want page number in the same (center) position in the footer, add \smash command to your example \setupfootertexts[Romanticism \hfill \pagenumber \hfill Civil Disobedience][] [][...] so \setupfootertexts[\smash{Romanticism }\hfill \pagenumber

Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout

2005-03-26 Thread Adam Lindsay
Paul Tremblay said this at Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:43:33 -0500: http://www.geocities.com/paulhtremblay/context_xml/page2.html I would appreciate any feedback. I hope the page will be useful in helping others overcome some of the difficulty I had in trying to understand layout in ConTeXt. I believe

Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout

2005-03-26 Thread Paul Tremblay
Your prose is fairly clear, but the style tends to be a bit too prescriptive for my tastes. I think a lot of it would be alleviated by you setting up the context a bit more (this is what I found works for me, coming from the FO page model). Still, you set out statements like this without

Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout

2005-03-26 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 11:20:58PM +0100, Vit Zyka wrote: Ohh, my error. Correct code: \setupfootertexts[\rlap{Romanticism}\hfill \pagenumber \hfill \llap{Civil Disobedience}][] [][...] Consider \setupfootertexts[\rlap{A}\hfill\pagenumber\hfill\llap{B}][][][] If