From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/29025 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas Moore Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: I think that I need professional help... :-) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:38:37 -0700 Message-ID: <0286E010-256D-42F0-83B3-DA2C9ECB104D@pomona.edu> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151595518 4216 80.91.229.2 (29 Jun 2006 15:38:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:38:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jun 29 17:38:34 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fvyb9-0003Je-Mo for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:38:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58302128CB; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:38:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 28651-03; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:38:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EAF31287C; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:38:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C9B1287C for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:38:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 28491-04-2 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:38:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from iron1.pomona.edu (iron1.pomona.edu [134.173.71.136]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 18D1212829 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:38:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from exchange1.campus.pomona.edu (HELO mail.pomona.edu) ([134.173.71.128]) by iron1.pomona.edu with ESMTP; 29 Jun 2006 08:38:17 -0700 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.06,192,1149490800"; d="scan'208"; a="2355881:sNHT24066301" Original-Received: from frontend2.campus.pomona.edu ([134.173.71.139]) by mail.pomona.edu with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:38:08 -0700 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.47] ([71.104.113.161]) by frontend2.campus.pomona.edu with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:38:08 -0700 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Jun 2006 15:38:08.0138 (UTC) FILETIME=[0532BEA0:01C69B92] X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:29025 Archived-At: I have been looking at what I have left to accomplish before my classes begin in the fall, and I am realizing that I am running out of time that I can afford to spend learning more about ConTeXt. However, I would really like to give ConTeXt a fair shake, because I believe that it might be what I need for the future. I would also like to take Hans's good advice about setting up some basic page layouts and then working on the structure of my book in the process of converting it. But before I commit to the conversion, however, I need to know for certain that ConTeXt can handle the page layouts that I need. I need to duplicate (at least roughly) the three major page layouts that appear in my published text "Six Ideas That Shaped Physics": a two- page spread that opens each chapter, the chapter body style, and a two-column layout for homework problems at the end of the chapter. In the thread entitled "Newbie questions" on this list, I have been attempting to address the second of these three layouts. That layout is almost done, except for finding a workaround for a possible bug, and the others should be somewhat easier, though still will involve some work. I think that I can spring loose up to a few hundred dollars from my departmental budget to pay a consultant to help me finish setting up these page layouts so that I can focus on the writing issues. Would anyone on the list be interested in being hired to work on these layouts? If so, please contact me off-list, and I will describe the layouts I need in more detail and ask for a bid. Thanks for any interest, Thomas Moore