On Dec 19, 2007 10:06 PM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > You try to start with these moduls and adapt it to the note machanism.
> Yes, I would love to do that. But I have some politics things to read. I
> have to remember them in one month. So please forgive my laziness. After
> then, I will have time to test luatex on Chinese and some other interesting
> things like the Weiqi module or the footnote we are talking about.
I think you're also interested in the following link, there is module
for LaTeX and
plain TeX to write gezhu (intertextpostil) with XeTeX.
http://code.google.com/p/gezhu/
I knew it. It's an excellent job, actually it uses hbox rather than vbox. And it end a paragraph to get the horizontal position with \lastbox before the intertextpostil and then it can test whether or not the postil could fit the rest of the line.
Anyway, in the ancient Chinese people's defense, one column is just one page. They write things on a piece of long narrow bamboo from top to bottom and weave them from right to left. So I still think I should use a \box255 to store one column and change the \output routine to weave them on a page. But it's a little slow when using page arrangement so I guess I should design a new algorithm myself to make it useful. And the intertextpostil would use multicolumn with ConTeXt easily with no hacks.
I have myself also no time to write any code for the second version of
the weiqi module.