Re: mac install & page layout & numbered margin notes

[Joachim Kreimer-de Fries <Kreimer@jpberlin.de>]

22.05.2008 at 18:39 Wolfgang Schuster - thankworthily answering my  
help questions - asked :
> What is the result from "ctxtools --contextversion"

joachim$ ctxtools --contextversion
CtxTools | context version: 2007.01.12 15:56 (/usr/local/texlive/2007/ 
texmf-dist/tex/context/base/context.tex)
CtxTools | context version: 2007.01.12 15:56 (/usr/local/texlive/2007/ 
texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex)

Is that the actual version?

>> 2. How to switch to the German commands in ConTeXt?
> Don't do this, the german interface is not complete, new commands have
> english names and a few entries need better names and it would be hard
> for us to help you.

Does this means, that the German interface _is_ complete together  
with the new commands that have English names? Then only the last  
argument  ("it would be hard for us to help you") prevents me from  
switching to the German interface. (And ... not knowing how to do  
that...)

>> 3. How to setup page/layout dimensions?
> \setuplayout
>   [backspace=2cm,
>    width=10cm,
>    rightmargin=8cm,
>    ...]

This worked immediatly. Thank you very much, Wolfgang,  for your  
swift help!

>> 4. How to set up => numbered margin notes and, thereover,
>> => prevent, that they are printed one over the other, when there is
>> not enough space between the referenced words/phrases in the text  
>> body?
>
> Try the following code from Hans: [...]

That code sets the notes into the _left margin_, not into the right.  
I could not reverse that. Or because I didn't find out the right  
commands/option or because it is not possible.

I even tried then to set reverse the width of the margins, e. g. the  
broader one left and small one at the right, so that the notes  
produced with the code of Hans in the left margin of the text body  
should find place. Without success. But I'd like to know if this is  
possible and how.

The code of Hans is doubtlessly a very useful code for certain  
purposes but perhaps less for the purpose I asked for. It sets the  
(then indeed numbered, "glossary"-) notes pagewise from the top down  
one after another, so again (as with footnotes) far away from theyr  
reference text (word, phrase) in the body text. I wanted the effect  
that I experimented before with the package "footmisc" in LaTeX  
(footnotes as margin notes), but avoiding having printed two notes on  
the same place (one over the other, not readable) but in _those_  
cases the second note below the first.

Perhaps this is not possible in TeX and therefore in ConTeXt neither?

Best wishes,
joachim


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