Re:

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 04:19 PM 10/29/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Hans,
>
>There is also, around page 13, depending on the edition that is posted at
>my site, the output from the meshgrid command. This is set with:
>
>\starttyping
> X =
>
>    -2    -1     0     1     2
>    -2    -1     0     1     2
>    -2    -1     0     1     2
>    -2    -1     0     1     2
>    -2    -1     0     1     2
>\stoptyping
>
>\starttyping
> Y =
>
>    -2    -2    -2    -2    -2
>    -1    -1    -1    -1    -1
>     0     0     0     0     0
>     1     1     1     1     1
>     2     2     2     2     2
>\stoptyping
>
>Now, there is actually a pedagogical reason to stack these on top of each
>other like this, because this is exactly the way they appear on the
>computer screen. But, I can see how one might like to typeset them
>side-by-side. How could I do that?

\starttext 

\startbuffer[x]
 X =
    -2    -1     0     1     2
    -2    -1     0     1     2
    -2    -1     0     1     2
    -2    -1     0     1     2
    -2    -1     0     1     2
\stopbuffer

\startbuffer[y]
 Y =
    -2    -2    -2    -2    -2
    -1    -1    -1    -1    -1
     0     0     0     0     0
     1     1     1     1     1
     2     2     2     2     2
\stopbuffer

\input tufte 

\start
\setuptyping[before=,after=] \hsize=.5\textwidth
\startcombination
  {\vbox{\typebuffer[x]}} {a}
  {\vbox{\typebuffer[y]}} {b}
\stopcombination
\stop

\input tufte 

\placesidebyside
  {\hsize=.5\textwidth \typebuffer[x]}
  {\hsize=.5\textwidth \typebuffer[y]}

\input tufte 

\starttabulate[|l|pl|pl|]
\NC an error: \NC \typebuffer[x] \NC \typebuffer[y] \NC \NR 
\stoptabulate

\input tufte 

\startbuffer[x]
\setuptyping[before=,after=] \hsize=.5\textwidth
\starttyping
 X =
    -2    -1     0     1     2
    -2    -1     0     1     2
    -2    -1     0     1     2
    -2    -1     0     1     2
    -2    -1     0     1     2
\stoptyping
\stopbuffer

\startbuffer[y]
\setuptyping[before=,after=] \hsize=.5\textwidth
\starttyping
 Y =
    -2    -2    -2    -2    -2
    -1    -1    -1    -1    -1
     0     0     0     0     0
     1     1     1     1     1
     2     2     2     2     2
\stoptyping
\stopbuffer

\startcombination
  {\vbox{\getbuffer[x]}} {a}
  {\vbox{\getbuffer[y]}} {b}
\stopcombination

\input tufte 

\placesidebyside
  {\getbuffer[x]}
  {\getbuffer[y]}

\input tufte 

\startcolumns \getbuffer[x] \getbuffer[y] \stopcolumns

\input tufte 

\stoptext

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