From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3327 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: multi-column spread control (was Re: beginner's questions) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:13:29 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001114151329.01870250@pop.wxs.nl> References: <20001112113730.1EF2A2317E@client44-3.kabela.oprit.rug.nl> <3.0.6.32.20001113103749.01cafc00@pop.wxs.nl> <3.0.6.32.20001113181723.015ed100@pop.wxs.nl> <3.0.6.32.20001114084903.01544100@pop.wxs.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394066 16078 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:27:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:27:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Ed L Cashin In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3327 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3327 At 08:27 AM 11/14/00 -0500, Ed L Cashin wrote: >Hans Hagen writes: > >> At 01:44 PM 11/13/00 -0500, Ed L Cashin wrote: >> >Hans Hagen writes: >> >> >That sounds interesting. What's an otr? :) >> >> an output routine, when tex has collected enough content to fit in the >> page, or when explicitly asked for, tex will invoke the otr, which then is >> supposed to do something with the collected content, like wrapping it up >> and shipping it out; the call is actually an expansion of the token list >> \output. >> >> \output >> {\shipout\vbox >> {\ruledhbox{Hi Ed} >> \ruledvbox{\box255} >> \ruledhbox{Do You Get it?}}} > >Um, the \output command sets up a handler, and box255 contains the >finished page that tex is "shipping out"? Yes, after looking at p.125 >of the TeXbook, I see that's it. > >> \input tufte >> >> Normally you want to stay far away from this, since misuse may spoil all >> housekeeping. > >Columns are always done this way though, right? (Usually by a >macropackage.) Kind of, either by multiple output per page or by making a page n times as high as possible and then splitting. A painful programming process, especially if you want spacing okey. \input tufte \startcolumns \input tufte \stopcolumns \input tufte is far from trivial. Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------