Re: [NTG-context] need help with creating a grid with context

2007-10-11 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/10/10, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 10/10/07, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: 2007/10/10, Mojca Miklavec: On 10/10/07, MASON Peter J wrote: Hope to create a regular (1cm spacing) grid on page, of bullets. Ultimately over the whole page. Why not using MetaPost?

Re: [NTG-context] need help with creating a grid with context

2007-10-11 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/10/10, Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Peter, MASON Peter J schrieb: I'm trying to layout a grid of bullets. The results isn't the expected one. Perhaps someone could offer help here? Thanks. Here's the sort of thing I'm doing \setuplayout[leftmargin=0pt,

Re: [NTG-context] need help with creating a grid with context

2007-10-10 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Peter, MASON Peter J schrieb: I'm trying to layout a grid of bullets. The results isn't the expected one. Perhaps someone could offer help here? Thanks. Here's the sort of thing I'm doing \setuplayout[leftmargin=0pt, leftmargindistance=0pt, backspace=0pt, rightmargin=0pt,

Re: [NTG-context] need help with creating a grid with context

2007-10-10 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 10/10/07, MASON Peter J wrote: Hope to create a regular (1cm spacing) grid on page, of bullets. Ultimately over the whole page. Why not using MetaPost? \starttext \startMPcode % or \startMPpage for i=0 upto 10: for j=0 upto 20: fill fullcircle scaled 1mm shifted ((i,j) scaled

Re: [NTG-context] need help with creating a grid with context

2007-10-10 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/10/10, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 10/10/07, MASON Peter J wrote: Hope to create a regular (1cm spacing) grid on page, of bullets. Ultimately over the whole page. Why not using MetaPost? \starttext \startMPcode % or \startMPpage for i=0 upto 10: for j=0 upto 20:

Re: [NTG-context] need help with creating a grid with context

2007-10-10 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 10/10/07, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: 2007/10/10, Mojca Miklavec: On 10/10/07, MASON Peter J wrote: Hope to create a regular (1cm spacing) grid on page, of bullets. Ultimately over the whole page. Why not using MetaPost? \starttext \startMPcode % or \startMPpage for i=0

Re: [NTG-context] need help with creating a grid with context

2007-10-10 Thread MASON Peter J
You introduce spurious spaces (line break sometimes adds a space) in you loops. See ... Yes, you're right. A programmer, I tend to think that white space is always good for readability. Thanks for that tip. But I DO like the \dorecurse(...) version better. I didn't know of this macro. I

Re: [NTG-context] need help with creating a grid with context

2007-10-09 Thread MASON Peter J
Perhaps I ought to tell what I'm expecting :-) ... Hope to create a regular (1cm spacing) grid on page, of bullets. Ultimately over the whole page. The context code supplied produces successive rows with an offset to the right. Have I missed something obvious? IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail