From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/26698 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: new module: streams Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:45:09 +0200 Message-ID: <442DA2E5.3020704@wxs.nl> References: <1D93D389-F41A-4917-8542-6464F62466AA@uni-bonn.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1143841523 18176 80.91.229.2 (31 Mar 2006 21:45:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:45:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Mar 31 23:45:21 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org 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 1FPRQm-0001OU-QV for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:45:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4030D1279C; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:45:20 +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 13416-04; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:45:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10871278D; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:45:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 854311278D for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:45:14 +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 13522-03 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:45:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id BB7FC1278A for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:45:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 10718 for ; Sat, 01 Apr 2006 01:45:11 +0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <1D93D389-F41A-4917-8542-6464F62466AA@uni-bonn.de> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:26698 Archived-At: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > as you may have seen in the lates release notes, ConTeXt has a new > feature: we have now streams for even and odd pages that can be > another nice application is shown at the end of m-streams.tex; the interesting thing there is that we can use all commands that make sense in the mvl (main vertical list) and afterwards treat it as box content (one can even combine streams); the limitation is that it has to fit on one page but for inserts and such this is ok [one can for instance use multi columns in such inserts[ as thomas already points out, it is something promissing and it needs testing and such; as with layers, this open sup a whole box of possibilities Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------