From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5919 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Stupid question of the (next?) month Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:54:56 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20011024185020.03086118@server-1> References: <1412906089.20011023231209@bigfoot.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396480 5683 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:08:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:08:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Giuseppe Bilotta In-Reply-To: <1412906089.20011023231209@bigfoot.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5919 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5919 At 11:12 PM 10/23/2001 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >I'd like each page to have an 'indefinite' length, clipped each >time at a certain sectionlevel. For example, each page would be a >chapter long (yes, not the other way round). TeX can do things >like this, but there's the usual 5.7 meters limit (about 25 A4 >pages). Of course such a thing only makes sense in PDF production >mode, because DVI viewers are not friendly with multiple page >sizes per document. > >So the questions are: > >(1) How to setup ConTeXt to create each physical page at chapter >boundary (within the TeX limit)? (I know PDFs support different >page sizes in the same document, so this is fine.) this is quite doable, but i wonder if you want to know the perverse details >[Things like footnotes & such would become 'marginal'; all float >placements would become 'here'; how to deal with columns?] hm, so you would need to use local footnotes, which is no problem >(2) Can ConTeXt+pdf-e-TeX+Perl get around the TeX limit? (By >postprocessing an appropriate PDF file.) there is also a pdf limit actually, you can build a pretty large box in tex as long as no calculations > maxdimen are donw; tex only checks calculations, so technically you can do something: \setbox0=\vbox{\dorecurse{10K}{craplines} and then start splitting (this is one way to make A0 posters with 50 columns -) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------