Re: columns/multipage type-setting in register

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:07 PM 1/16/2000 +0100, Tobias Burnus wrote:

>I hope that in register is the correct translation of 
_`registerhaltig'
>(http://eurodic.echo.lu/cgi-bin/edicbin/expert.pl claims so). What I mean is
>that the typeset text is as far as possible on the same line as the text
on the
>backside of a page (which can be easily seen if this is not the case and the
>paper is rather thin) on the facing page or in another colomn of the same
page.

In context this is is what the grid does. You can enable a grid with
\setuplayout and snap on it. Not all commands do snap, but most do, given
some constraints, like using whitespace or blanks of [regel] ([line],
[linie]) or pairs of half that height. This works acceptable. 

>This question is motivated through a question in the German Tex concerning
LaTeX
>and this feature. If I recall correctly, ConTeXt has some of this ability
(but
>not all, let's hope for bop and NTS ;-), which?

It's in the manual (the big one, even one ofthe first chapters). 

What is bop? BTW, expect more from pdftex later this year, well, you'll see
at tug2000 -)

Hans 

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