From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3604 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Uwe Koloska" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: experimenting metafun: problems with funnyframe Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 03:02:23 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <00121903022302.01990@bilbo> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394333 18554 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:32:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:32:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3604 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3604 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 -- mailto:koloska@rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~koloska/ -- -- right now the web page is in german only but this will change as time goes by ;-)