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From: David Wooten <dw@trichotomic.net>
Subject: Re: Paragraph internal graphic/layout inquiry.
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:53:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <614235DB-A97B-42B3-A98B-98B733E34710@trichotomic.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42D4C175.5060102@elvenkind.com>

Ah, that's what I feared. I'm using Mac OS X, so I guess I'll have to  
postpone it. Thanks for the response,
David

On Jul 13, 2005, at 12:23 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> David Wooten wrote:
>
>> Greetings all,
>> Mr. Tufte has an interesting  example from da Vinci: http://  
>> trichotomic.net/Leonardo.jpg (76k). Is this type of layout  
>> currently  possible (or perhaps a better question, wieldy) within  
>> ConTeXt?
>
> In a standard TeX installation, it is not possible to make this
> type of paragraph without massive amounts of manual intervention,
> because TeX's paragraphs cannot (normally) contain holes.
>
> However, VTeX does not have that limititation, and the OS/2 and
> Linux versions of it's TeX compiler are free (as in beer). See
>
>   http://www.micropress-inc.com
>
> Greetings,
>
> Taco

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-13 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-13  0:08 David Wooten
2005-07-13  7:23 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-07-13 15:53   ` David Wooten [this message]
2005-07-13 18:06   ` Hartmut Henkel
2005-07-19 14:08     ` Mikael Persson
2005-07-19 20:38       ` Hans Hagen
2005-07-20  0:36         ` David Wooten
2005-07-20  1:03           ` Matthias Weber
2005-07-20  5:11             ` luigi.scarso

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