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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: "ConTeXt" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Layout
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 11:22:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010219112219.0180ecb0@server-1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000c01c09844$e7122ce0$a3ccfea9@nuovo>

At 02:48 PM 2/16/01 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>Hello,
>I wonder if in ConTeXt is possible to achieve layout
>in forms similar to the following (with columns):
>
>+-------------------------------+
>|.......|.......|               |
>|.......|.......| Picture/Float |
>|.......|.......|               |
>|.......|.......+---------------+
>|.......|.......|.......|.......|
>|.......|.......|.......|.......|
>|.......|.......|.......|.......|
>|.......|.......|.......|.......|
>|.......|.......|.......|.......|
>+-------------------------------+
>
>+-------------------------------+
>|.......|.......|.......|.......|
>|.......|.......|.......|.......|
>|.......+---------------+.......|
>|.......|               |.......|
>|.......| Picture/Float |.......|
>|.......|               |.......|
>|.......+---------------+.......|
>|.......|.......|.......|.......|
>|.......|.......|.......|.......|
>+-------------------------------+
>
>and alike (that is, the float spanning
>more than one column, and going in one
>of the corners or in the middle etc),
>possibly being able to choose where to
>put the float.

Well, my version is capable of doing that, and also span multiple pages,
with unequal number of cols etc. Next month i will pick up that thread. You
can then also define specific column methods, as well as force floats to
every reasonable place. [i test this kind of stuff with random documents
with hundreds of random foats]

Hans
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-19 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-16 13:48 Layout Giuseppe Bilotta
2001-02-19 10:22 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-11-07  2:32 Layout David Arnold
2004-11-08 14:21 ` Layout Patrick Gundlach
1999-09-09  7:14 layout Hans Hagen

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