From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8939 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jens-Uwe Morawski Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Still the old layout problem Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 18:56:05 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20020806185605.17aa8cf3.morawski@gmx.net> References: <16187655464.20020804130757@iol.it> <16187655464.20020804130757@iol.it> <5.1.0.14.1.20020804232541.02dd6bf8@remote-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399302 31661 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:55:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:55:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ConTeXt In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020804232541.02dd6bf8@remote-1> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8939 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8939 On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 23:30:02 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote: > At 09:23 PM 8/4/2002 +0200, you wrote: > >On Sun, 4 Aug 2002 13:07:57 +0200 > >Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > > > > > > > I understand that this layout has to be kept the default for > > > backwards compatibility reasons, > >Is it really impossible to fix that bug completely? > > it's not a bug, i.e. bug<>anything_that_gip_dislikes > > btw, a similar question could arise for head styles being normal or bold > > The best thing to do is to define a series of alternative defaults, like: > > symmetrical layout > bold headers > packed itemized lists > > Now, if some users can compose a 'list of alternatives', i can provide a > module that provides them, i don't know what you mean with module, but if i understand your statements about layouts in the past, then you prefer that each document should be layouted from scratch. I agree with that opinion. Therefore, a module, as i understand this term, is not the apropriate solution. May be providing some environments (env-XXXX.tex) for products and projects would be better. But there is one thing that can go in a module. One may call it a layout engine. In some basic books about typography there one can find often 2 or 3 methods of recommended page layout. One of these methods is the 'division' of the page by a fixed number in rows and columns. There are more methods, of course. May be supporting those methods can help to ease page layout more than fixed default settings, i.e. \setuplayout[method=division,dividedby=11] Best, Jens