From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/35645 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Boxed items don't like sidefloats Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:24:12 +0200 Message-ID: <46B07B6C.3040706@wxs.nl> References: <735155465.20070731131427@iol.it> <20070731153438.66bafc70.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> <1717768568.20070731185153@iol.it> <46AF74C3.3050305@wxs.nl> <1661335112.20070731223503@iol.it> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185971087 30495 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2007 12:24:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 12:24:47 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Aug 01 14:24:39 2007 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IGDFh-0006QE-23 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:24:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 553071FFE7; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:24:32 +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 03895-04-5; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:24:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9283D1FFDE; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:24:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997201FFDE for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:24:21 +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 03895-04-4 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:24:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74EFF1FFDB for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:24:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 7637 for ; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:24:20 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (Windows/20070716) In-Reply-To: <1661335112.20070731223503@iol.it> 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: 2.1.9 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:35645 Archived-At: Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > Tuesday, July 31, 2007 Hans Hagen wrote: > >> Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >>> Ah, excellent, it works perfectly, thanks a lot! Of course, >>> I'm still curious about the reason why a standard vbox >>> wouldn't do it ... > >> sidefloats hook into the output routine and that does ot work in a box; > > Makes sense. > >> streams intercept the page stream (nasty but neat); expect more of that >> kind of stuff > > You know, seeing how streams work made me think about an > extension I was considering for Alpeh: \pageboxnumber, being > 255 by default but which could be changed at runtime, > choosing which box was used to build the MVL. I originally > thought about it because my mathematically aesthetical sense > complained that box 255 had to be used in e-TeX and > Omega/Aleph as well (the last box number in each system made > more sense), but now that I see your streams idea I think it > would have been a useful addition. this will become configurable in luatex > (Oh yes, I should really get back to Aleph. I see that > luatex builds on that too. I must say that I'm glad to see > that the project has been taken over when I disappeared > without a trace :P) well, luatex renders aleph kind of obsolete -) also, luatex has pdf output (also for aleph stuff) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________