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[Hans Hagen]

>At 01:03 PM 4/18/2002 -0500, Michael Martin wrote:
>
>>The Task
>>         I have a series of Latin/English texts which I wish to layout 
>> side by side. Each text will contain one or more paragraphs. Various 
>> other elements will appear in the texts, such as titles (side by side, 
>> like the paragraphs)
>>, directions (again, side by side), etc. These other elements will have 
>>their own formatting which is unique to themselves.
>>
>>The Problem
>>         Having experimented with Latex and Context for this task, 
>> Context seems to handle much of the layout in a better and less fussy 
>> fashion. However, there are several problems using Context that I am 
>> unable to fix/address.
>>
>>         In reading the documentation, defineparagraphs & setupparagraphs 
>> seem to be the proper way to handle the side by side paragraphs. 
>> However, in trying to use them, I have noticed three problems.
>>
>>#1      Context seems to like to keep the paragraph pair all on the same 
>>page, placing the pair on a separate page if it would otherwise run over 
>>the end of the page. In other words, if the a paragraph pair near the 
>>bottom of a page does not fit entirely, then it will be placed upon a new 
>>page. I need to keep the paragraphs running continuously. I need them to 
>>break correctly at the bottom of the page and then flow over onto the 
>>next page.
>
>[i have a macro for that but have to find it; it's an instance of]
>
>\starttabulate[|p|p|]
>\NC first text \NC second text \NC \NR
>\stoptabulate
>
>this will break across pages
>
>>#2      I needed to have a vertical line between columns. There is an 
>>option (rule=on) to do this, but the line is not continuous across all 
>>the paragraphs. After each paragraph a blank line occurs and the vertical 
>>line is interrupted.
>
>....[|p|c|p]
>
>\NC text \NC \vl \NC text \NC \NR
>
>[there are other ways, like hooks]
>
>
>>#3      The use of the NiceDroppedCaps feature (very nice!!!) moves the 
>>side by side paragraph boundaries, thus mis-aligning the paragraphs with 
>>the dropped caps from the rest of the paragraphs on the page.
>
>will answer that later (please remind me)
>
>
>Hans
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                                   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
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                        information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf
                     documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf
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