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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Verbatim typing with numbers inside float
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:19:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CAD748E.8090209@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CACF1F4.8030201@gmx.de>

On 7-10-2010 12:02, Stefan Müller wrote:

> Thank you very much for your effort. Pretty amazing what's doable.
> Unfortunately there are two issues: The distance between numbers and
> source lines is too small for bigger line numbers. I just have to make
> "distance=0em" big enough for this to work, right?

or width .. just experiment with values

> The other thing: The width available for the caption is capped by the
> width of the longest source line. I think I prefer the source lines to
> start at the left margin.

you could move the framed to the right (\hskip1em or so) but on the 
other hand it might look more consistent if the numbers stick into some 
virtual margin

> In addition there is something else I didn't think of when I put up that
> mail (sorry for that). If I put (a very long piece) source inside a
> figure I won't have pagebreaks, right? So this makes me think it's
> probably not what I'm looking for.

no page breaks indeed (at least not now in such cases)

> Splitting up long source code in several pieces (one per page) and put
> them in separate figures doesn't seem right to me. Setting it as
> numbered paragraph? Putting up a fake caption with \placefloatcaption
> (which doesn't seem to work in MkIV)? Are there other possiblities of
> numbering (by section) more or less big chunks of source code I'm not
> thinking of? That would help me very much. Thanks for thinking about that.

you can make your own construct, maybe something with a background 
(textbackgrounds can cross pages)

Hans


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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-07  7:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-06 14:26 Stefan Müller
2010-10-06 17:25 ` Hans Hagen
2010-10-06 20:24 ` Hans Hagen
2010-10-06 22:02   ` Stefan Müller
2010-10-07  7:19     ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2010-10-07  7:35       ` Alan BRASLAU
2010-10-07 13:48         ` Stefan Müller

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