From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/21352 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Wooten Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Paragraph internal graphic/layout inquiry. Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:53:04 -0700 Message-ID: <614235DB-A97B-42B3-A98B-98B733E34710@trichotomic.net> References: <42D4C175.5060102@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1121270014 23585 80.91.229.2 (13 Jul 2005 15:53:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:53:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jul 13 17:53:31 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DsjXx-0004g7-Nt for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:53:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87A48127CC; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:53:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29096-06; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:53:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC765127C1; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:53:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94159127C1 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:53:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29139-02-4 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:53:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from calmail-fe1.berkeley.edu (mailfarm.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.61.106]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 638281279E for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:53:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [69.110.231.80] (account wooten@calmail.berkeley.edu [69.110.231.80] verified) by calmail-fe1.berkeley.edu (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.6) with ESMTP-TLS id 120166485 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:53:05 -0700 In-Reply-To: <42D4C175.5060102@elvenkind.com> Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.733) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:21352 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:21352 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