From: Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Flowfram-like behavior?
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 15:52:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41E70412-E236-4F2D-A231-1C00C76F41C6@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE-e6gnUWiRaDzQCbaaH-nmWpwcxkT62CHs5-s0-Ki+1abBYOw@mail.gmail.com>
Am 2011-07-06 um 15:31 schrieb Peter Davis:
> Is there a way to get behavior like flowfram using ConTeXt?
> Specifically, I mean the ability to define a set of "frames" or
> boxes, possibly several on a page or across a series of pages, and
> have the text automatically flow from one box to another in a
> prescribed order?
>
> I'm interested in doing InDesign-like layouts, which might have
> multiple "stories", each of which can flow across multiple frames on
> multiple pages. Using flowfram with LaTeX comes pretty close
> (though only one story can flow from frame to frame), but there are
> conflicts with the longtable package and potentially others. I
> figured since one of the goals of ConTeXt (as I understand it) was
> to avoid inter-package conflicts, perhaps this would offer a better
> solution.
Asking after some behaviour "like this LaTeX package" makes not much
sense on this list, but since you explain what you mean... ;-)
Try "flows" in column sets, see the columns manual (http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/columns.pdf
).
(Never tried it myself, so can't help you further.)
Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-06 13:31 Peter Davis
2011-07-06 13:34 ` luigi scarso
2011-07-06 16:02 ` luigi scarso
2011-07-06 13:52 ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2011-07-06 15:22 ` Hans Hagen
2011-07-06 15:54 ` Peter Davis
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