columns/multipage type-setting in register

columns/multipage type-setting in register

[Tobias Burnus]

Hi,

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.

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?

Tobias

Re: columns/multipage type-setting in register

[Hans Hagen]

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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