Re: specific document layout with ConTeXt

[John Devereux <john@devereux.me.uk>]

Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> writes:

> On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Brecht Machiels wrote:
>
>> Looking at the countless documents that show off ConTeXt, it is
>> obvious that it is very much possible of creating custom
>> layouts. However, I wonder, how much TeX hacking is required?
>
> I have submitted around 3-4 IEEE conference documents using ConTeXt. I
> am attaching my private t-IEEE.tex module, which takes care of
> formatting things in IEEE format. I also have a bbl file for
> formatting in IEEE style, which is used by the above module.
>
> Unfortunately, I do not have any documentation (this was meant to be a
> private module). It also has a lot of private macros which are not
> layout specific, but I use them in almost all my documents. I haven't
> used this style in almost 6 months, so they may not conform to the
> latest spec. (IEEE keeps on changing specs with time and with
> conferences, which is a bit frustating).
>
> If others are interested, I can also release it on ConTeXt garden and
> provide some documentation.
>
> Aditya

Hi Aditya,

In general I find other peoples "templates" very educational.

> PS: In your environment file you have
>
> \setuplayout[
>   header          = 0pt,
>   footer          = 0pt,
>   headerdistance  = 0pt,
>   footerdistance  = 0pt,
>   top             = 1.125in,
>   topdistance     = 0pt,
>   bottom          = 1.125in,
>   bottomdistance  = 0pt,
>   leftedge        = 0.85in,
>   rightedge       = 0.85in,
>   height          = fit]
>
> ConTeXt will silently ignore all of this. You must not have space
> between keywords and options. Write this as

I've been using context, on and off, for 5 years and I did not know
that!

Does anyone know if there is a way to get context to stop when it sees
an unknown option, instead of silently ignoring it?

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John Devereux
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