From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/48095 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Corin Royal Drummond Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Help with book of poetry Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:25:18 -0600 Message-ID: <49B40D8E.5080207@studiochango.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0957899070==" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1236536784 22838 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2009 18:26:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 18:26:24 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Mar 08 19:27:41 2009 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 1LgNiv-00072q-3d for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:27:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB9CA1FB39; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 19:26:17 +0100 (CET) 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 24233-05-2; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 19:25:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D8501FADF; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 19:25:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E3B71FADB for ; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 19:25:36 +0100 (CET) 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 22940-06 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 19:25:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter2-nij.mf.surf.net (filter2-nij.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.153]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 182F61FADF for ; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 19:25:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from spunkymail-a6.g.dreamhost.com (caiajhbdcbef.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.145]) by filter2-nij.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n28IPM2p017606 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 19:25:23 +0100 Original-Received: from [10.0.1.39] (unknown [189.162.89.63]) by spunkymail-a6.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEA3C109F2B for ; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 11:25:19 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=208.97.132.145; country=US; region=CA; city=Brea; postalcode=92821; latitude=33.9269; longitude=-117.8612; metrocode=803; areacode=714; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.9269,-117.8612&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 190295327 - 584007160699 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.153 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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:48095 Archived-At: --===============0957899070== Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Friends,

I'm down in Mexico recovering from a long illness, which explains my absence on the list. Recently I met a poet who writes in Spanish and Nahatl, and who would like to publish a book of his poems. I'm committed to using ConTeXt to layout his book, but I'm having problems. Here are the three most pressing ones, I wondered if anyone might help with.

Until a publisher get's involved, I'd like for him to self-publish his book on double sided, letter sized paper, with half-letter pages folded over and stapled in the middle. I'm not sure which \setuparranging options to use to get this (2*2, 2UP?). The options I've tried seem right, except the pages are numbered all wrong. I've defined a "halfletter" pagesize, which works nicely, but I can't get the arranging right.
Many of his poems are short, and I'd like to alternate between poems that are left aligned, and right aligned. I tried \startalignment[right] to switch a block of text (and heading) to one side or the other, but it didn't work.
As I'm learning, it would be wonderful if there were a repository of real-world documents I could use to refer to, to see how other people solve their own problems. I know many of you have written many fabulous ConTeXt documents, and I wish there were a place on the wiki, maybe under "Examples" where people could post their source code, and the resultant PDF. Alternatively, people could mail me docs, and I could post them on the wiki.

I'm using the latest context minimals, with the LUA engine (texexec --lua).

Any assistance is most appreciated.

Yours,

Corin Royal Drummond
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