From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/40421 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henning Hraban Ramm Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:32:05 +0200 Message-ID: <6281C099-55AB-4EA5-A0BF-497CE6981BB7@fiee.net> References: <115224fb0804170113w70db8dadpb8528a18ef20c338@mail.gmail.com> <58C46BAD-6146-43D4-9C9F-E8650EEEB348@fiee.net> <115224fb0804170732n6751b9c7ud07d2b8726090c4f@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208447307 17990 80.91.229.12 (17 Apr 2008 15:48:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:48:27 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Apr 17 17:48:41 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JmW7q-0007dZ-U4 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:34:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1647A1FBD4; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:33:29 +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 00102-03-6; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:32:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D1E91FD75; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:32:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 866F01FD72 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:32:44 +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 00311-01-8 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:32:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lvps87-230-27-118.dedicated.hosteurope.de (fiee.net [87.230.27.118]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C23CB1FC6F for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:32:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 21964 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2008 17:32:06 +0200 Original-Received: from 101-1.203-62.cust.bluewin.ch (HELO ?10.128.9.3?) (62.203.1.101) by fiee.net with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 17 Apr 2008 17:32:06 +0200 In-Reply-To: <115224fb0804170732n6751b9c7ud07d2b8726090c4f@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:40421 Archived-At: Am 2008-04-17 um 16:32 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: >> I normally use InDesign for my business letters and invoices. > Dou you use a template for your letters. Not an InDesign template file (.idt), but a single document (with master pages) for every purpose (German/Swiss/English, letter/ invoice, private/business) that I overwrite every time. (I save a copy if the matter is important.) > LaTeX has two packages to create invoices and we could also > have one for ConTeXt but it makes only sense to use it with LuaTeX, > TeX's arithmetic to limited for longer calculations. For other purposes I simply write my TeX code with a script, mostly only one file that contains the "dynamical" data and gets included. E.g. - cover for backup CD/DVDs (that script even has a GUI - it reads a disk; shows the directory tree, so you can select which parts you'd like to be visible; writes a TeX file; calls ConTeXt and opens the PDF) - my address book (pulls and formats data from a MySQL database) - business cards for one big company (I receive an Excel file with personnel data, save it as CSV and "convert" that to ConTeXt, PDF with one page per person gets imposed and printed on cardboard with pre-printed logo) >> Another problem were different letter heads for first, odd and even >> pages. > > Different header for the first and another one for the following > headers > is simple and possible with my module. The option to change the layout > for odd and even pages is currently not supported but should be > possible but it has to be integrated in the normal interface. My sheets have a pre-printed logo, I use the same for all pages of a letter. On the first page I need address and bank data. On even pages (back side) there's no logo, so I don't need the big top border. Normally I leave out the first even page, e.g. my job application starts with an one-side letter, the following data (CV, references etc.) uses front and back page. The application had the additional difficulty that there's the photo on the CV page, and I wanted the title in white *on* the photo... At least in the "online" PDF - I used modes to produce both printed version (without logo, because that's pre-printed on my sheets) and email version (with logo) >> (It would have been *much* easier to use InDesign for that stuff, >> like for most other designs that I do...) > > This is also possible with ConTeXt because you could setup layers > to place content dependent on left and right pages and the page layout > could also change for left and right pages as long as you don't change > the text width. I used layers and setups, but I had difficulties switching them on and off. And what not - can't remember everything. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________