Re: \placeformula

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:08 PM 2/10/2003 -0500, Ed L Cashin wrote:

>Did you mean for that to be a private email to Albrecht Kauffmann?  I
>hope not, because I peeked at details.pdf, and I noticed pseudo
>columns.  I was going to ask about them on the mailing list, but then
>I realized that you might not have been joking about not wanting
>everyone to see details.pdf.

no problem, i'll upload a newer one later (more examples of the extended 
side float support)

>Anyway, the first thing that occurred to me when seeing pseudocolumns
>is that this might solve the column balancing problem, where context
>could not balance columns that contained vboxes with lots of very
>stretchy glue.  That is, although the glue could stretch all you want,
>the column bottoms would still be uneven.  Like this:
>
>
>
>          +----------------------------------+
>          |                                  |
>          |  +-----------+    +-----------+  |
>          |  |           |    |           |  |
>          |  |           |    |           |  |
>          |  |           |    |           |  |
>          |  +-----------+    +-----------+  |
>          |                                  |
>          |  +------------+                  |
>          |  |            |                  |
>          |  |            |   +-----------+  |
>          |  +------------+   |           |  |
>          |                   |           |  |
>          |  +------------+   +-----------+  |
>          |  |            |                  |
>          |  |            |                  |
>          |  +------------+                  |
>          |                   +-----------+  |
>          |  +------------+   |           |  |
>          |  |            |   |           |  |
>          |  |            |   |           |  |
>          |  |            |   |           |  |
>          |  |            |   |           |  |
>          |  +------------+   +-----------+  |
>          +----------------------------------+
>
>
>Could the pseudocolumns feature solve that problem?  I'm thinking that
>maybe they could, because the problem before was that it was too
>difficult to get the otr to do it.  But I'm also thinking maybe
>pseudocolumns won't solve it, since the above example could not be
>achieved with the grid feature.

i can probably build that into columnsets one day; on the other hand, 
columnsets provide you a means to position graphics directly

\definecolumnset[mine][n=3]
\setuppapersize[A3][A3]
\setuptolerance[verytolerant]
\setuplayout[backspace=1cm,topspace=1cm,width=middle,height=middle]
\setuplayout[grid=on] \showgrid \tracecolumnsettrue

\starttext

\startcolumnset[mine]

\placefigure[rltb]{}{}

\placefigure[fxtb:2*13]{}{}

\dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \par}

\stopcolumnset

\stoptext

this works ok with the beta i just uploaded

Hans
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