From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/69817 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Flowfram-like behavior? Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:22:37 +0200 Message-ID: <4E147DBD.40103@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309965816 16475 80.91.229.12 (6 Jul 2011 15:23:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 15:23:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Peter Davis To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jul 06 17:23:30 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QeTwo-00085h-Ij for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:23:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47308CADEE; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 17:23:29 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id rgibgxqTgUmA; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 17:23:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B4DBCADE7; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 17:23:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8490DCADE7 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 17:23:25 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id aY9fiXQgrO-s for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 17:23:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter3-nij.mf.surf.net (filter3-nij.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.154]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16E73CADE4 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 17:23:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter3-nij.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p66FNBmr027550 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 17:23:13 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.2a) with ESMTP id 8208-1713362 for multiple; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:23:08 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.11 ThunderBrowse/3.3.5 In-Reply-To: X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0dF4Dnbpm - 7ac07d46df5b - 20110706 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.154 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:69817 Archived-At: On 6-7-2011 3:31, Peter Davis wrote: > Is there a way to get behavior like flowfram using ConTeXt? Specifically, I > mean the ability to define a set of "frames" or boxes, possibly several on a > page or across a series of pages, and have the text automatically flow from > one box to another in a prescribed order? > > I'm interested in doing InDesign-like layouts, which might have multiple > "stories", each of which can flow across multiple frames on multiple pages. > Using flowfram with LaTeX comes pretty close (though only one story can flow > from frame to frame), but there are conflicts with the longtable package and > potentially others. I figured since one of the goals of ConTeXt (as I > understand it) was to avoid inter-package conflicts, perhaps this would > offer a better solution. I'm on and off working on streams which sort of do what you want, but it's not yet good enough as it's mostly geared at parallel text. 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