From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/10952 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \placeformula Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:46:57 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20030211100358.03abd208@server-1> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20030210095053.022ddc10@server-1> <5.1.0.14.1.20030209195827.022f3378@remote-1> <5.1.0.14.1.20030210095053.022ddc10@server-1> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044960557 13770 80.91.224.249 (11 Feb 2003 10:49:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:49:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18iXyU-0003Zv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:49:14 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5842210ABB; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:51:25 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.nl (mail.solcon.nl [212.45.33.11]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9725610ABB for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:48:32 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-ade.nl (wc-58016.solcon.nl [212.45.58.16]) by mail.solcon.nl (8.12.5/pre1.0-MySQL/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h1BAmRXT016265; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:48:27 +0100 Original-Received: from LAPTOP-3.wxs.nl (laptop-3 [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-ade.nl (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1BAmUgg009146; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:48:30 +0100 X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Original-To: Ed L Cashin In-Reply-To: <87n0l3seee.fsf@uga.edu> X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.1(snapshot 20020919) (mail.solcon.nl) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:10952 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:10952 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------