From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3481 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: vadjust / Re: BOUNCE ntg-context@let.uu.nl: Message too long (>40000 chars) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:23:09 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001128182309.008e5710@pop.wxs.nl> References: <200011281520.QAA16679@denicser.let.uu.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394213 17508 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:30:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:30:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michal Kvasnicka Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <200011281520.QAA16679@denicser.let.uu.nl> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3481 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3481 >Dear friends! > >I started to play with the \vadjust primitive in ConTeXt. I found it >could be >a way to do many nice thinks in company with typesetting on grid and the > >multicolumn environment. Some primitive demonstration is included. > >But I'd like to know some things (probably these questions are for Mr. >Hagen): > >1) Doesn't direct use of \vadjust spoil something in ConTeXt's gutter? it depends on what goes in there >2) As is visible in the demo, I don't know how to place the frame on the >grid \snaptogrid\vbox{whatever you want to snap} [see core-grd.tex] > that way that the frame lines lay on baselines. The first frame is >simply > included (please, see the source). The second and the fourth are >`repositioned' > and `rescaled' by hand with some guessed nubmer: 4pt. Why does the >number > work? And why it doesn't work at the top of the page? (Some >interference > with the \topskip?) can you send me the zip directly? it's too large for the list >3) Is there some better way to do things like this? depends, can't see what you want. >Many thanks for your answers and even more thanks to Mr. Hagen for >the ConTeXt. (Well, I can use the \vadjust with my plainTeX doublecolumn there is a second multi col mechanism in the making, with spread support and column spanning graphics and so >macro, but I can't use background colors and many other ConTeXt hooks. >In my opinion, many things that ConTeXt implements, cannot be implement >in TeX. Maybe some low-level black magic. :-)) Something like that. I now have developed a rather good idea of what can and cannot be done. 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------