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From: Matthias Weber <matweber@indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: \page[+2]
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:01:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6eab63da684790e3675df75d79a3f51e@indiana.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050728165740.489D81A8BD@mendoza.math.indiana.edu>

In presentations, when the answer for a question always appears on the 
next page,
and the next question appears two pages further down?

Matthias

On Jul 28, 2005, at 11:57 AM, Elena Fraboschi wrote:

> Dear All:
>
> This is like going to school: every evening I study a very narrow
> topic in ConTeXt, the idea being "Si va piano, si va lontano" ("go
> slow and you'll get far").  So last night I was to study
> cross-references, and that was simple enough EXCEPT...
>
> I could not come up with a practical application for
> \page[+2] or \page[-2].  I understand the concept (I think):
> it is two pages ahead, or two pages back, relative to the
> current page.  But could anyone tell me in what context (sorry for
> the pun) would that be used?
>
> I must be missing something.  How could I possibly know what's
> on page "current + 2" or "current - 2" unless I compile, in which
> case the notation would be equivalent to inserting cross-references
> manually?  As I said, I am missing something, but what.
>
> Thanks in advance, elena
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-28 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-28 16:57 \page[+2] Elena Fraboschi
2005-07-28 17:01 ` Matthias Weber [this message]
2005-07-28 19:55 ` \page[+2] Hans Hagen
2005-07-29  5:39 ` \page[+2] luigi.scarso
2005-07-29 15:03 \page[+2] Elena Fraboschi

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