experimenting metafun: problems with funnyframe

["Uwe Koloska" <uwe.koloska@mailbox.tu-dresden.de>]

Hello,

I have just tried to gain a deeper insight into document preparation with 
context because in january I want to make a journal with it.

So I work through the metafun manual (27.10.2000) and have some question 
for the FunnyFrames example (4.6 Enhancing the layout):

1. What is the reason, the framed text does not span the whole line?  In 
core-rul I found that the width is derived from textwidth advanced 
-2\@@localoffset.  But where is this offset defined?

2. The lower space between text and frame is greater than the upper one.  
(this is the case in the manual, too)  Should I use \startlinecorrection? 
And how?  (just inside StartFrame, I cannot see a difference)

3. There are some funny hyphenations inside the frame (but they are right!) 
like "knowl-edge" ...  Anyway before I know that this is right, I looked 
into the .log from making the format (to find out wether the right 
hyphenation patterns are there).  And I found a great load of

language       : patterns en for en loaded (n=3)
(/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/ushyph1.tex)
language       : no hyphenations en for en (n=3)
language       : patterns uk for uk loaded (n=4)
(/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/ukhyphen.tex)
language       : no hyphenations uk for uk (n=4)
language       : patterns de for de loaded (n=5)

are this real problems?

4. How comes I cannot copy the _formatted_ sources from the pdf? Neither 
interactive nor print version worked.  I know (but not for sure) I have 
copied code with linebreaks from another pdf but don't know what file this 
was.

I am using Acrobat 4.05 and XEmacs on Linux.  But it seems it has to do 
with XEmacs, since I can copy with linebreaks to this mail (kmail2) ...

Is there someone on this list who has prepared some journal (no formal / 
scientific one, so maybe I should say magazine) and can give me some hints? 
I need illutrating titles, pictures, columns and normally a page centric 
layout.  Yes I know this is a task for a DTP program, but since this 
magazine is my playground (the last two issues are produced with vivapress 
professional and pagemaker) I am curious to see how context takes the 
challenge ;-))

Uwe

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