Re: Sidebars and versals Oh my!

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John Culleton wrote:

> But this is not the only type of versal. Sometimes a large capital letter 
> (perhaps in italics) is centered on the top of the textblock thus:

Did you look into supp-fun.tex?

> A matter of continuing interest is the sidebar, which can be placed in the 
> outer margin, or flush left or right in a paragraph, or partly protruding 
> into the outer margin. Usually these sidebars will have a gray background and 
> often have a border. It appears that creating the sidebar separately as a pdf 
> graphic and then importing and placing it would be the easiest way home. 
> Context already has mechanisms for flowing or wrapping text around a graphic. 
> How well the wraparound feature works when more than one short paragraph is 
> involved I have not tested yet.  

the mp based background mechanism can handle that: see plus-rul.tex

(there is also another mechanism available which permits rather nasty variants 
but i still had no time to document it, so it's currently a hidden feature)


Hans

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