Re: back to Context

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Ciro Soto wrote:
> I started a small project of ~100 pages and tried to do it with
> Scribus since it required pictures, inserts, etc.
> I found that Scribus was not going to be able to handle the task so
> easily. So I am back to Context.
> 
> Here is my task: in the right pages, I want the text (~50 pages of
> text) and in the left pages I would like
> a picture and a quotation coming from the right page (this quotation I
> am willing to do manually).
> My question is, how do I make one \setuplayout for the odd pages, and
> another for the even pages?
> I may use  pictures that bleed over the upper left corner of the left page.
> 
> I used the option \placefigure [opposite], which puts the picture in
> the opposite page, very nice. However,
> I have two problems with it: it may put the picture in the right page
> (opposite to the text in the left page),
> and I can't make the picture bleed because my \setuplayout is for both pages.
> 
> I can work with what I have done so far, but I wonder if my task is
> possible with the current Context macros.

a starting point ...

\setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]

\setuplayout[odd] [width=5cm,state=start]
\setuplayout[even][width=15cm,state=start]

\definelayer[whatever][doublesided=yes]

\setupbackgrounds[text][background=whatever]

\appendtoks\ifodd\realpageno\else\null\page\fi\to\everyafteroutput

\starttext
\dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \par 
\setlayer[whatever][left][preset=lefttop]{left}}
\stoptext


(the appendtoks is somewhat hacky, maybe we should have it as built in 
feature)

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