From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/21686 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \page[+2] Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:55:01 +0200 Message-ID: <42E93815.2060706@wxs.nl> References: <20050728165740.489D81A8BD@mendoza.math.indiana.edu> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.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 1122580545 5668 80.91.229.2 (28 Jul 2005 19:55:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 19:55:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jul 28 21:55:43 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DyESg-0007vy-6s for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:54:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D79C512818; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:54:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 28339-07-5; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:54:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E28B12802; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:54:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2594512802 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:54:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 28339-07-4 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:54:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 367B6127E0 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:54:27 +0200 (CEST) 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 j6SJsIa4001209; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:54:18 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id E144824C57; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:09:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.52] (unknown [10.100.1.52]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFF031A19D; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 19:09:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Elena Fraboschi , mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <20050728165740.489D81A8BD@mendoza.math.indiana.edu> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.86.1/995/Wed Jul 27 22:13:50 2005 on mailrelay01 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: 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-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:21686 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:21686 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------