From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41290 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Yue Wang" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: How could a typesetting system be today? Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 20:57:50 +0800 Message-ID: <68bfdc900805310557u37ce6be8h390a37ba4ea31311@mail.gmail.com> References: <68bfdc900805300012o789c12ebi15cb7ec3e0f10155@mail.gmail.com> <68bfdc900805300524r38f327acg88e766ea5a159acc@mail.gmail.com> <99CB0DC4-6A35-43EC-8636-3F2012D740A3@fiee.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212238759 16271 80.91.229.12 (31 May 2008 12:59:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 12:59:19 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat May 31 14:59:57 2008 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 1K2Qgc-0006ky-Tb for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 May 2008 14:59:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07A4C1FC5D; Sat, 31 May 2008 14:59:07 +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 12475-01-2; Sat, 31 May 2008 14:58:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 504101FC6A; Sat, 31 May 2008 14:58:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ACF51FBC1 for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 14:58:28 +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 08506-02-19 for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 14:57:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.156]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FB171FC6A for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 14:57:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so341618fgb.8 for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 05:57:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.86.87.13 with SMTP id k13mr1148477fgb.38.1212238670997; Sat, 31 May 2008 05:57:50 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.86.53.9 with HTTP; Sat, 31 May 2008 05:57:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline 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:41290 Archived-At: On 5/31/08, luigi scarso wrote: > > Last night I remembered two more things that TeX can't do, but every > > layout app can: > > - text flow around other elements (images) > \parshape ? > I forword an email to the professor. it discuss some of the points together with some examples. \parshape is not enough for arbitary page layout. > > - really working multiple-column layout > in context columnset with two pass strategy > columnset cannot solve most of the problems:) if you want advanced page layout justification, TeX is not sufficient. > -- > luigi > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________