From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/26534 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Piotr Kopszak Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Automatic typesetting of catalogue entries Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:17:14 +0200 Message-ID: <20060327131714.GA4710@mnw.art.pl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1143469434 10024 80.91.229.2 (27 Mar 2006 14:23:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:23:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Mar 27 16:23:51 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 1FNsdA-0008Bi-HL for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:23:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 274EE127B5; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:23:40 +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 26622-06-3; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:23:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D55D2127AA; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:23:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20CE4127AA for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:23:35 +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 26622-06-2 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:23:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mnw5.mnw.art.pl (mnw5.mnw.art.pl [195.117.227.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id E4A5512775 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:23:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost ([192.168.100.16]) (authenticated user kopszak@mnw.art.pl) by mnw5.mnw.art.pl (Kerio MailServer 6.0.3) for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:43:53 +0200 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i 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:26534 Archived-At: Hello list, This is a more general question so I'm not attaching any specific code examples but rather will try to explain what I'm thinking about. I'm going to typeset a catalogue of about 200 objects. Each entry consists of two main parts: a block of text and a photograph of the object. As we have to be economic rather than luxurious I adjust manually the size of each figure so that the text fills the rest of the page entirely. That means I keep on incrementing the figure width until the text spills onto next page, then I go back to the last value that was OK. Sometimes I have to squeeze two entries on one page so that each occupies half of a page. Perfectly repetitive task at which computer would do much better than human. Sorry if it's something trivial but I couldn't find any solution on my own. Thanks for any hints in advance Piotr