From: Mica Semrick <mica@silentumbrella.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: placement of graphics across coluums.
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 22:22:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140529052244.GA13250@trystero> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140526112359.2ece4320@localb.wexfordpress.net>
John,
Perhaps you may find the columnsets command to your liking. See more here: http://pragrama-ade.com/general/manuals/columns.pdf
Best,
Mica
On 05/26, john Culleton wrote:
>In Scribus, (which has many shortcomings compared
>to Context for book length documents,) there is
>one trick that is pretty easy. In a double column
>document one can place a graphic in another
>layer that is part in one column and part in
>another, but not spanning either column
>completely. Then the texts in each column can
>be made to flow around the graphic. I have looked
>in "It's in the details" and the "Columns"
>document but I cannot find this specific example.
>I thought I saw one years ago.
>
>Is such a trick possible in Context without
>heroic special coding?
>
>--
>John Culleton
>Wexford Press
>Free list of books for self-publishers:
>http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html
>PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus"
>available at
>http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-29 5:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-26 15:23 john Culleton
2014-05-29 5:22 ` Mica Semrick [this message]
2014-05-29 20:11 ` john Culleton
2014-05-30 4:31 ` Mica Semrick
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