From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9050 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: FLOWchart puzzles Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:23:39 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020822101836.03419e00@server-1> References: <001501c2495c$5bd80da0$97247d81@rcsc> 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 1035399408 32699 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:56:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:56:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Original-To: "Sytse Knypstra" In-Reply-To: <001501c2495c$5bd80da0$97247d81@rcsc> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9050 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9050 At 11:47 PM 8/21/2002 +0200, Sytse Knypstra wrote: >Hello all, > >After studying the CHARTS manual I am glad to be able to construct some >simple charts. The example below is working ok. >Still there are some puzzles left: > >1. How do you construct different types of connection (dashed, without >arrows, all in one chart (like in Figure 19, p.11 of the manual)? I know >that you can change the line styles for all lines that follow by >\setupFLOWlines, but what if some have to be with arrows, and others without >arrows and/or dashed? BTW, I use the dutch version of ConTeXt. you can use grouping, so: \start \stop >3. What is the function of maxwidth=... in \setupFLOWcharts. Changing its >value in the example below doesn't seem to have any effect. Is it possible >to scale the whole chart to e.g. half its original size? has to do with auto splitting charts although technically you can downscale charts it's best to use a smaller body font (if you have you dimensions related to bodyfontsize) since this will leave thinsg like hyperlinks ok (in pdf hyperlinks are on a different layer which is not subjected to scaling [which in my opinion is a design flaw]) >4. In the manual the meaning of x and y in \setupFLOWcharts is not >explained. >Could someone explain them to me? you can clip a portion of a chart, say that you have a 10 by 20 chart, x/y/nx/ny == 2/4/3/3 let you select a 3 by 3 piece of it. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------