From: "Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: columns and \definemakeup
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:07:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <115224fb0804292307n65efc19cl28b663b5def52287@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873ap4lgnq.fsf@googlemail.com>
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Suno Ano <suno.ano@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >| On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:40:59 +0200,
> >| Wolfgang Schuster
> >| who can be reached at: schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com
> >| (whose comments are cited below with " Wolfgang> "),
> >| had this to say in article <115224fb0804290440r4de3ace9s4c5b5f2fee372e59@mail.gmail.com>
> >| in newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.context
> >| concerning the subject of Re: columns and \definemakeup
> >| (see <87lk2xnd6w.fsf@googlemail.com> <115224fb0804290432u47e4665alf7a5b21d9116c7a2@mail.gmail.com> for more details)
>
> Wolfgang> Alternative solution:
>
> Wolfgang> \Definelayout
> Wolfgang> [titlepage]
> Wolfgang> [header=0pt,
> Wolfgang> footer=0pt,
> Wolfgang> backspace=4cm,
> Wolfgang> width=12cm]
>
> [skipping a lot of lines ...]
>
>
> Thank you Wolfgang, it works! However, I tried but did not figure out
> how to also change the fontsize from within the \definelayout block. Is
> it possible?
No possible, \definelayout is resposible for margings, textheight and width ...
not for the fontsize
> I want to change the fontsize to 11pt. I know I could use
> \switchtobodyfont but I would rather save myself some typing in the
> future and put it in the \definelayout block -- or something else that
> does not require me typing it over and over again if \definelayout is
> the wrong way to go here altogether (/me is still a novice to ConTeXt).
Not within \definelayout but see below.
> Same as for the fontsize -- can I "demand" two columns from within the
> \definelayout block instead of always putting \startcolumns[n=2]
> respectively \stopcolumns in the actual source?
\definestartstop
[titlepage]
[before={\setuplayout[titlepage]\bgroup\switchtobodyfont[11pt]\startcolumns},
after={\stopcolumns\egroup\page[right]\setuplayout[reset]}]
Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-29 10:54 Suno Ano
2008-04-29 11:32 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-04-29 11:40 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-04-29 17:22 ` Suno Ano
2008-04-30 6:07 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
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