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From: Jason Earl <jearl@notengoamigos.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Columns and figures in MKIV
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:42:15 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871uya0zzc.fsf@notengoamigos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DA59F9D7-22FB-4262-871F-103D07E43F76@boede.nl> (Willi Egger's message of "Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:23:45 +0200")


On Thu, Jun 30 2011, Willi Egger wrote:

> Columnsets provide you the possibility to place column spanning pictures:

Thank you for the advice.  I was hoping to avoid having to learn about
columnsets, but I suppose learning is good.  Any hints on getting
columnsets and footnotes to play nicely?  Here's an example of how I
would normally use footnotes, but the footnote is obscured by the text.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
\definecolumnset[Doublecoltext][n=2,balance=no]
\setupcolumnset[Doublecoltext][2][distance=5mm]
\starttext
\chapter[chap:testing]{Testing}

\startcolumnset[Doublecoltext]

  This is a short paragraph.  I think it should have a
  footnote.\footnote{And so it shall!  Unfortunately you won't be able
    to see it because it is covered up with the text in the
    columnsets.}

\input knuth

%\startpostponing
 \placefigure
   [btlr][fig:foo]
   {none}
   {\externalfigure[mill][width=1.5\textwidth,height=5cm]}
%\stoppostponing

\input tufte

\input knuth

\input tufte

\input knuth

\input tufte

\stopcolumnset
\stoptext
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Once again, I am sorry if my question is naive.  I am working through
the examples in the Columnset manual to try and wrap my head around
them, but it is becoming pretty clear to me that it is a tool for layout
designers far more accomplished than I am.

Jason
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      reply	other threads:[~2011-07-01 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-29 23:24 Jason Earl
2011-06-30  8:23 ` Willi Egger
2011-07-01 15:42   ` Jason Earl [this message]

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