From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: Steve Peter <speter@dandy.net>
Subject: Re: Automatic typesetting of catalogue entries
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:16:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4428F0D6.3010201@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4428EDDD.6010302@elvenkind.com>
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Piotr Kopszak wrote:
>
>> That's superb! Certainly worth wikifying, maybe someone better versed
>> in ConTeXt than me cared also to explain what's going on in here.
>>
>
> The first definition simply puts two on a page, using a counter
> to decide whether it is processing the top one or the bottom one,
> and using half of the page for each of them.
>
> The second definition also has two per page, but it uses the height
> of the typeset text to scale the images instead of using a fixed
> value based on the page dimension. It pdftex's positioning extensions
> to do so (that is the source the \hpos and \MPy commands). It has to
> disregard the actual size of the placed graphic to prevent it from
> interfering, and that is the reason for \ht\scratchbox\strutheight
> line (consider it a vertical version of \llap).
>
thanks
such samples + explanations are also nice for the practex journal or maps or tugboat or ...
Hans
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-27 13:17 Piotr Kopszak
2006-03-27 16:08 ` Hans Hagen
2006-03-27 17:10 ` Piotr Kopszak
2006-03-28 8:03 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-03-28 8:16 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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