From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/57839 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matthias Weber Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Splitting a page in given ratios Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 19:10:39 -0400 Message-ID: <416A69CF-3EC9-4774-8C10-F3E586279160@indiana.edu> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"; DelSp="yes" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270422657 26610 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2010 23:10:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 23:10:57 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Apr 05 01:10:53 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NyYxx-0006K0-9Y for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:10:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A266C9DA5; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 01:10:52 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id XveBG8dxa3S4; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 01:10:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 340E5C9DA8; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 01:10:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91EAFC9DA8 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 01:10:45 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id WumXE7kN49aB for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 01:10:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hartman.uits.indiana.edu (hartman.uits.indiana.edu [129.79.1.194]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C2A3C9DA5 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 01:10:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-relay.iu.edu (burns.uits.indiana.edu [129.79.1.202]) by hartman.uits.indiana.edu (8.14.2/8.13.8/IU Messaging Team) with ESMTP id o34NAfGr011344 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2010 19:10:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.121] (c-69-136-4-178.hsd1.in.comcast.net [69.136.4.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail-relay.iu.edu (8.14.2/8.13.8/IU Messaging Team Submission) with ESMTP id o34NAdRs026471 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2010 19:10:41 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:57839 Archived-At: Dear all, this is probably even easy in plain TeX, but as I have never learned it properly, I am asking anyway: I would like to have a way to split a part of a page into two columns of different width, so something like \startsplitpage[columns=2,spacing=fill] \startcolumn[1][width=.6 \textwidth] \input{tufte} \stopcolumn[1] \startcolumn[2][width=.3 \textwidth] \placefigure[theBeerBottle] \stopcolumn[2] \stopsplitpage so that the individual columns are treated (if possible) as separate pages with all features (like \framed etc) adapted to the page width of the smaller sub-pages. This could replace (for me) the somehow (for me) disfunctional figuretext construct. Is there a way to do this? Thanks, Matthias ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________