From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/69813 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henning Hraban Ramm Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Flowfram-like behavior? 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(83.76.102.187) by thesan.fiee.net with ESMTPSA (AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 6 Jul 2011 15:52:46 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=178.77.74.245; country=DE; region=07; city=Host; latitude=51.6500; longitude=6.1833; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=51.6500,6.1833&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0rF4BQLwF - 478c7677492b - 20110706 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.70 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:69813 Archived-At: 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 --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________