* placement of graphics across coluums. @ 2014-05-26 15:23 john Culleton 2014-05-29 5:22 ` Mica Semrick 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: john Culleton @ 2014-05-26 15:23 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: placement of graphics across coluums. 2014-05-26 15:23 placement of graphics across coluums john Culleton @ 2014-05-29 5:22 ` Mica Semrick 2014-05-29 20:11 ` john Culleton 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Mica Semrick @ 2014-05-29 5:22 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users 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 >___________________________________________________________________________________ >If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > >maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context >webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net >archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ >wiki : http://contextgarden.net >___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: placement of graphics across coluums. 2014-05-29 5:22 ` Mica Semrick @ 2014-05-29 20:11 ` john Culleton 2014-05-30 4:31 ` Mica Semrick 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: john Culleton @ 2014-05-29 20:11 UTC (permalink / raw) To: ntg-context On Wed, 28 May 2014 22:22:44 -0700 Mica Semrick <mica@silentumbrella.com> wrote: > John, > > Perhaps you may find the columnsets command to > your liking. See more here: > http://pragrama-ade.com/general/manuals/columns.pdf > > Best, > Mica Thnkas doe yor reply. Here is where I found that manual: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/columns.pdf Unfortunately it does not cover the situation I mentioned, where a graphic is place in the center of a two column page but does not span either column edge to edge but rather protrudes part of the distance across each each column with text flowing around it on both sides. In Context as far as I can tell protrusion is all or nothing in double columns. But a partial protrusion into a single column has been available for a long time, see The Context Manual section 15.2. -- 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: placement of graphics across coluums. 2014-05-29 20:11 ` john Culleton @ 2014-05-30 4:31 ` Mica Semrick 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Mica Semrick @ 2014-05-30 4:31 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Hi John, Sorry to hear that didn't work. Could you not have a box that spans two columns, the put the graphic in the box and position the graphic as you wish? I'm just getting started myself with columns; sorry if the suggestion doesn't make sense. Best, Mica ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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