From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4118 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Layout Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 11:22:19 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010219112219.0180ecb0@server-1> References: <000c01c09844$e7122ce0$a3ccfea9@nuovo> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394806 23056 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:40:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:40:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "ConTeXt" Original-To: "Giuseppe Bilotta" In-Reply-To: <000c01c09844$e7122ce0$a3ccfea9@nuovo> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4118 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4118 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------