From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/81970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Ellis Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Is fine-grained grid control possible? Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:24:57 +0100 Message-ID: <20130419202457.GL27030@weber> References: <20130419082923.GH25092@weber> <20130419162111.GH27030@weber> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366402888 812 80.91.229.3 (19 Apr 2013 20:21:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:21:28 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Apr 19 22:21:30 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UTHoH-0008Vj-B8 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:21:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77E7C101EA; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:21:28 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id I8U-8bN3R26o; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:21:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AABC101E6; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:21:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82768101E6 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:21:24 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id iCl3WbBYF+LX for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:21:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (filter1-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.69]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F264101E4 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:21:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from haggis.mythic-beasts.com (haggis.mythic-beasts.com [93.93.131.52]) by filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r3JKLINY019396 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:21:20 +0200 Original-Received: from [81.187.0.149] (port=43438 helo=weber) by haggis.mythic-beasts.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UTHo4-0002dq-TF for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:21:18 +0100 Original-Received: from tom by weber with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UTHrd-0007Td-Gi for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:24:57 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: Tom Ellis , ntg-context@ntg.nl Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Penguin-0: * .^. * X-Penguin-1: - /V\ - X-Penguin-2: * // \\ * X-Penguin-3: - /( )\ - X-Penguin-4: * ^^-^^ * User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-BlackCat-Spam-Score: -28 X-Mythic-Debug: Threshold = On = X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=93.93.131.52; country=GB; latitude=51.5000; longitude=-0.1300; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=51.5000,-0.1300&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0NJpUljuX - 56ce5a53ee03 - 20130419 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.69 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:81970 Archived-At: On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 02:13:44PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Fri, 19 Apr 2013, Tom Ellis wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:58:47AM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > >>On Fri, 19 Apr 2013, Tom Ellis wrote: > >> > >>>Is ConTeX a good fit for my needs? How could I do it? > >>> > >>>Here are some examples of the kind of thing I would like to do that I pulled > >>>from an image search for "checklist" > >> > >>Most of these are simple tables with itemized lists. I don't think > >>that you need grid or any other fine-grained control to get this > >>output. So, the short answer is yes, ConTeXt can easily do such > >>checklists. > > > >Agreed, but for the checklists I want to make I would prefer more > >fine-grained control. > > Then please give an example of the type of checklists that you want > to make rather than picking random samples from google. Otherwise, > it is impossible to answer whether what you have in mind is feasible > in ConTeXt or not. I care about having fine-grained control over the exact placement of labels and boxes. That is, can I place boxes and text labels at exact coordinates on a page, either in absolute terms or relative to each other? That's all I'm after. 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