From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8754 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Margin text Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 12:32:29 -0400 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <200207221232.29912.john@wexfordpress.com> References: <20020722102557.4b25f4dd.wmcclain@salamander.com> 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 1035399137 30256 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:52:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:52:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: Bill McClain , context In-Reply-To: <20020722102557.4b25f4dd.wmcclain@salamander.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8754 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8754 On Monday 22 July 2002 11:25 am, Bill McClain wrote: > Hello! Using ConTeXt ver: 2002.7.12. > > I am doing my first project which requires margin texts. This is for a > printed book. I see in the manual two ways of using margin texts: > Chapters 4.8 and 12.6. > -Bill I have a couple of applications where marginal notes woudl be useful. Thus far I have used the 12.6 method. I don't like it much because I have to manually break the lines. A new possiblity has surfaced. Hans H. answered my query about uneven columns using \definecolumnset, \setupcolumnset, \startcolumnset, \nextcolumn and \stopcolumnset. I plan to use these commands with perhaps \vfil statements to center the note vertically. Unfortunately I will have to handle the column contents by hand. But that is OK for at least one of my applications, which is a book review with the identifying info for each review printed at the side of the review. See Hans' email ``Re: Unbalanced Column widths'' dated 19th July which states: ------------------------------------ \definecolumnset[two][n=2] \setupcolumnset[two][1][width=4cm] \setupcolumnset[two][2][width=8cm] \startcolumnset[two] some text \stopcolumnset now, run this document, and see where the second column starts, put a \nextcolumn (or bla-\nextcolumn) there and voila this is how far tex can go --------------------------------- I haven't found any other documentation on these commands. John Culleton