From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/17636 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: h h extern Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Sidebars and versals Oh my! Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:33:44 +0100 Message-ID: <41CF2028.6050100@wxs.nl> References: <200412241115.57398.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104136772 23883 80.91.229.6 (27 Dec 2004 08:39:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 08:39:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Dec 27 09:39:26 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CiqPW-0005Kv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:39:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F143D1279A; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:39:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07774-03; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:39:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4FAB127AC; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:37:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0251C127AC for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:37:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07555-06 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:37:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (unknown [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 955A81279A for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:37:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay01.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iBR8bbkm030179 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:37:37 +0100 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 8AE5C2D213; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:35:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.191] (unknown [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E9A51817A for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 08:35:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <200412241115.57398.john@wexfordpress.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/540/Tue Oct 19 14:59:23 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on mailrelay01 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:17636 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:17636 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------