From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/13150 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Gschwendtner Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: My first week with ConTeXt Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:25:58 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <6763619E-E368-11D7-8939-000393073D48@gmx.com> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063182759 3188 80.91.224.253 (10 Sep 2003 08:32:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:32:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Wed Sep 10 10:32:37 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19x0Oz-0000mI-00 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:32:37 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 217F110B28; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:32:34 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id E3AF310ACC for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:26:01 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: (qmail 31821 invoked by uid 65534); 10 Sep 2003 08:25:58 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (EHLO gmx.com) (138.245.96.201) by mail.gmx.net (mp012) with SMTP; 10 Sep 2003 10:25:58 +0200 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:13150 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:13150 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