Re: Margin rules

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 05:50 PM 3/12/2003 +0300, you wrote:
>Hello, Hans!
>
>One year ago you and Giuseppe Bilotta talked about
>margin rules:
>
>GB>> You can set the level, but you cannot customize its
>GB>> color/position/etc, which is what I was talking about.
>
>HH> i can easily implement that (with cross page support and so),
>HH> but definitely not today; so put it on the wish list and
>HH> ask me again later
>
>Let me remind you of this topic, it is very necessary
>for me too.
>
>Or, may be, there is another way to draw vertical lines at left
>of some paragraphs with possibility of crossing page boundaries?

Hm, i thought that i posted something some time ago, but maybe it was not 
to the list.

Can you download the latest beta? It now has a module m-plus:

%D Somewhere in 2001 i started collecting new functionality
%D in a module \type {m-yesno}. As the name suggests, I was
%D not entirely sure if this functionality belonged in the
%D kernel. When (again) on the \CONTEXT\ list a request for
%D side bars was posted, I decided to move such code to plus
%D modules. Users who want this additional functionality can
%D put the following call in their \type {cont-sys.tex} file:
%D
%D \starttyping
%D \usemodule[plus]
%D \stoptyping

This loads:

%D \definesidebar[whow][rulecolor=green,distance=]
%D
%D \starttext
%D
%D \input tufte \par
%D \startsidebar
%D   \input tufte \par
%D   \input tufte \par
%D   \startsidebar[whow]
%D     \input tufte \par
%D     \input tufte \par
%D     \input tufte \stopsidebar \par
%D   \input tufte \par
%D   \input tufte \stopsidebar \par
%D \input tufte \par
%D \input tufte \par
%D \startsidebar
%D   \input tufte \par
%D   \input tufte \par
%D   \input tufte \par
%D   \input tufte \par
%D   \input tufte \stopsidebar \par
%D \input tufte \par
%D \input tufte \par
%D \startsidebar
%D   \input tufte
%D   \input tufte
%D   \input tufte
%D   \input tufte
%D   \input tufte
%D \stopsidebar

and

%D We now reimplement the margin rules handler defined in
%D \type {core-rul}:
%D
%D \setupmarginrules[level=5]
%D
%D \startmarginrule[1]
%D First we set the level at~5. Next we typeset this first
%D paragraph as a level~1 one. As expected no rule show up.
%D \stopmarginrule
%D
%D \startmarginrule[5]
%D The second paragraph is a level~5 one. As we can see here,
%D the marginal rule gets a width according to its level.
%D \stopmarginrule
%D
%D \startmarginrule[8]
%D It will of course be no surprise that this third paragraph
%D has a even thicker margin rule. This behavior can be
%D overruled by specifying the width explictly.
%D \stopmarginrule

There are some moreplus modules, bit not yet suited for usage.

Hans
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