From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Quickie about Line Numbering
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:29:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <474AA01E.2000901@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <474A8F7F.3070903@tttech.com>
Matthias Wächter wrote:
> Hans,
>
> Hans Hagen schrieb:
>> Matthias Wächter wrote:
>>> I really wonder why this is not implemented. It's so easy to do in
>>> LaTeX, and we _really_ need it for our review process. I will never
>>> convince my boss to change to ConTeXt without document-wide line numbers
>>> .... :/
>> afaik in latex they tweak the output routine by handling line by line
>> which is ok for proofing article like stuff where messing up the spacing
>> is no problem
>>
>> in context, which has much more integrated in the otr that will not
>> work out ok and i don't like implementing things half broken (apart
>> from not needing it)
>
> I see.
>
>> in mkiv i will deal with line numbering in a different way (i have some
>> experimental code) and there it will be available in a couple of months
>> (i just need time and reason)
>
> Great news! Is there a principle change of operation in mkiv that makes
> such new approach to line numbering possible, or is it just new
> 'motivation' to implement it in lua?
manipulating node lists instead of messing around with boxes
Hans
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-26 10:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-23 20:46 Matthias Wächter
2007-11-23 21:05 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2007-11-23 21:45 ` Matthias Wächter
2007-11-23 22:34 ` Taco Hoekwater
2007-11-24 22:28 ` Hans Hagen
2007-11-26 9:18 ` Matthias Wächter
2007-11-26 10:29 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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