From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/42934 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alan Stone" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: menu question Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 14:22:01 +0200 Message-ID: <326847810808030522nfdb87f7u5ee781ae27764dd7@mail.gmail.com> References: <326847810808021210h358da811te34294cf175d66d3@mail.gmail.com> <48956B8D.3030506@wxs.nl> <326847810808030409v25be11b2qa583cf121b429a59@mail.gmail.com> <489597BE.1030706@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1260294145==" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217766234 29488 80.91.229.12 (3 Aug 2008 12:23:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 12:23:54 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Aug 03 14:24:44 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KPcdg-0007Bj-1G for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:24:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B68951FCB0; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 14:23:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 10223-01-4; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 14:22:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A2C61FC39; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 14:22:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89E2C1FC0B for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 14:22:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07726-03-4 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 14:22:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FDA91FC21 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 14:22:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c10so498749nfd.44 for ; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:22:01 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.210.35.5 with SMTP id i5mr15593926ebi.5.1217766121786; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:22:01 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.210.136.3 with HTTP; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 05:22:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <489597BE.1030706@wxs.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:42934 Archived-At: --===============1260294145== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_24173_13932200.1217766121805" ------=_Part_24173_13932200.1217766121805 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline That will do it! Thanks for the tip. Best, Alan On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > Alan Stone wrote: > >> the best you can do is to either make the fontsize smaller > > > > It would decrease the menu readability too much. > > > >> the area wider (less linebreaks) > > > > It would decrease the text area width too much. > > > >> or see of \startsimplecolumns ... \stopsimplecolumns > > > > Although I don't see how adding columns would provide > > a solution - the chapter/section titles are in french, i.e. > > usually longer than for ex. in english ( they could be > > shortened and then most would become meaningless) > > in that case don't menu's just use local tocs in the text area and use > the menu to refer to them > ------=_Part_24173_13932200.1217766121805 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline
That will do it!

Thanks for the tip.

Best,
Alan

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
Alan Stone wrote:
>> the best you can do is to either make the fontsize smaller
>
> It would decrease the menu readability too much.
>
>> the area wider (less linebreaks)
>
> It would decrease the text area width too much.
>
>> or see of \startsimplecolumns ... \stopsimplecolumns
>
> Although I don't see how adding columns would provide
> a solution - the chapter/section titles are in french, i.e.
> usually longer than for ex. in english ( they could be
> shortened and then most would become meaningless)

in that case don't menu's just use local tocs in the text area and use
the menu to refer to them

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