\page[+2]

\page[+2]

[Elena Fraboschi]

Dear All:

This is like going to school: every evening I study a very narrow
topic in ConTeXt, the idea being "Si va piano, si va lontano" ("go
slow and you'll get far").  So last night I was to study
cross-references, and that was simple enough EXCEPT...

I could not come up with a practical application for 
\page[+2] or \page[-2].  I understand the concept (I think):
it is two pages ahead, or two pages back, relative to the
current page.  But could anyone tell me in what context (sorry for
the pun) would that be used?

I must be missing something.  How could I possibly know what's
on page "current + 2" or "current - 2" unless I compile, in which
case the notation would be equivalent to inserting cross-references
manually?  As I said, I am missing something, but what.

Thanks in advance, elena

Re: \page[+2]

[Matthias Weber]

In presentations, when the answer for a question always appears on the 
next page,
and the next question appears two pages further down?

Matthias

On Jul 28, 2005, at 11:57 AM, Elena Fraboschi wrote:

> Dear All:
>
> This is like going to school: every evening I study a very narrow
> topic in ConTeXt, the idea being "Si va piano, si va lontano" ("go
> slow and you'll get far").  So last night I was to study
> cross-references, and that was simple enough EXCEPT...
>
> I could not come up with a practical application for
> \page[+2] or \page[-2].  I understand the concept (I think):
> it is two pages ahead, or two pages back, relative to the
> current page.  But could anyone tell me in what context (sorry for
> the pun) would that be used?
>
> I must be missing something.  How could I possibly know what's
> on page "current + 2" or "current - 2" unless I compile, in which
> case the notation would be equivalent to inserting cross-references
> manually?  As I said, I am missing something, but what.
>
> Thanks in advance, elena
>
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Re: \page[+2]

[Hans Hagen]

Elena Fraboschi wrote:

>Dear All:
>
>This is like going to school: every evening I study a very narrow
>topic in ConTeXt, the idea being "Si va piano, si va lontano" ("go
>slow and you'll get far").  So last night I was to study
>cross-references, and that was simple enough EXCEPT...
>
>I could not come up with a practical application for 
>\page[+2] or \page[-2].  I understand the concept (I think):
>it is two pages ahead, or two pages back, relative to the
>current page.  But could anyone tell me in what context (sorry for
>the pun) would that be used?
>
>I must be missing something.  How could I possibly know what's
>on page "current + 2" or "current - 2" unless I compile, in which
>case the notation would be equivalent to inserting cross-references
>manually?  As I said, I am missing something, but what.
>  
>
believe me, you will run into much weirder functionality and it all (at least once) had a reason 

\starttext

test \page[+2] test

\stoptext

just a quick way to get a few empty pages 


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Re: \page[+2]

[luigi.scarso]

Elena Fraboschi wrote:

>Dear All:
>
>This is like going to school: every evening I study a very narrow
>topic in ConTeXt, the idea being "Si va piano, si va lontano" ("go
>slow and you'll get far"). 
>
Well, i know "Chi va piano, va sano e lontano, chi va forte va alla morte",
something as "One who goes slowly goes safely and far; one who goes 
quickly will die"

But also, today
"Chi va piano, va sano e lontano, ma arriva dopo!"
One who goes slowly goes safely and far, but he come after!

It's an italian proverb:there are two syllable rimes in 'NO' and 'TE', i.e.
Chi va piaNO
va saNO
e lontaNO
,<<pause>>
chi va forTE
va alla morTE.

luigi

Re: \page[+2]

[Elena Fraboschi]

Thanks, Matthias and Hans, for the tip about \page[+2].  I have not yet
studied a ConTeXt presentation (read, "slides") macros, so it may well
be that that use is very practical.  (In any of the slides packages I
know in LaTeX, it certainly would be.)  As for Hans's suggestion, that
it might be used to "create two empty pages", say again I think it's
great - it would be better yet if the functionality \page[-2] existed
to erase the last two pages, say ;-)  Thanks again, elena