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From: Andreas Gschwendtner <gschwendtner@gmx.com>
Subject: My first week with ConTeXt
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:25:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6763619E-E368-11D7-8939-000393073D48@gmx.com> (raw)

Hello everyone,

I have been using ConTeXt and reading this list silently for a week 
now. I am quite impressed by the features and the flexibility ConTeXt 
has to offer -- yet, I am still a little bit anxious to give up all the 
things I have got used to in LaTeX. What I am trying to do at the 
moment, is convert some LaTeX documents to ConTeXt. Some things have 
indeed been easier than expected, while others seem to be a lot of work 
and can be quite troublesome...

I am sorry if anything I am about to ask has already been covered here 
or if the answer is in the manuals -- at the beginning it is sometimes 
quite hard to look in the right places.

-- At first, a general request rather than a question:
Learning ConTeXt would be _much_ easier if there were more example 
files around. At some points the manuals are hard to understand and 
some things are not even covered. I learned a lot in LaTeX, too, by 
taking some example file and modifying it to suit my needs. A read 
somewhere (although I can't remember where) that the sources to all 
documents available from pragma-ade.com "are or will be made public". 
This would be great! In the meantime I would appreciate any links to 
examples. How do other ConTeXt users realize Styles for their index and 
their bibliography? How do they set up headers, footers, chapter and 
section headings, pagestyles, etc...

-- \placefigure (caption) question #1:
For some of my figures I want to have captions _below_ the figure, but 
the caption should be wider than the figure itself (if the figure is 
0.5\textwidth and centered, I want the caption to be 0.9\textwidth or 
even \textwidth). How do I do that?

-- \placefigure (caption) question #2:
Some of my figures are quite tall (= \textheight), so the caption 
cannot be below or above, but has to be _beside_ the figure. I want 
those figures to appear *left* on *odd* pages and *right* on *even* 
pages, and the captions vice versa. I don't want to have the caption in 
the outer margin, but rather the width of the figure plus the width of 
the caption should be equal to \textwidth.

Thanks for any hints!

Andreas

             reply	other threads:[~2003-09-10  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-10  8:25 Andreas Gschwendtner [this message]
2003-09-10  8:40 ` Mari Voipio
2003-09-10  9:02   ` Patrick Gundlach
2003-09-10 10:21   ` Andreas Gschwendtner
2003-09-10 14:18     ` Willi Egger
2003-09-11  7:15       ` Andreas Gschwendtner
2003-09-10 12:35 ` Patrick Gundlach
2003-09-10 14:31   ` Andreas Gschwendtner
2003-09-10 15:33     ` Holger Schöner
2003-09-11  7:22       ` Andreas Gschwendtner
2003-09-10 18:15     ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2003-09-10 18:06 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2003-09-11  7:26   ` Andreas Gschwendtner
2003-09-12 15:50     ` Henning Hraban Ramm

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