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From: Yue Wang <yuleopen@gmail.com>
To: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Questions related to margin/dynamic layout
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:00:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+C1juYmNQOUosuN+kKvd-QFwxACZTX2kzQRNQy-nuL9OeAD5w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D5ED9B40-EBE4-4982-B09F-63BA76BE3697@googlemail.com>

Many thanks! Wolfgang!

it seems that this is a mkiv only command.

what about the second and third question?

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
<schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Am 27.08.2011 um 05:40 schrieb Yue Wang:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have two questions related to margin:
>>
>> - is it possible to move footnotes to margin?
>
> \setupnote          [footnote][location=none]
> \setupnotedefinition[footnote][location=serried,width=broad]
>
> \setuptexttexts
>  [margin]
>  []
>  [{\framed[align=right,frame=off,height=\textheight,width=\rightmarginwidth]{\placenotes[footnote]}}]
>
> \starttext
> \dorecurse{20}{\input knuth\reference[foo:#1]{#1}\footnote{Knuth #1}}
> \stoptext
>
>> - similar question: I want to have a list in the margin with all the
>> indexes in the given page.
>>
>> How to make these possible?
>>
>> Third question is related to layout.
>>
>> I know how to change page layout for a particular page. but how to
>> change layout for a page whose number is unknown?
>>
>> for example, I am writing a book that has several large pictures
>> (imagine a portfolio, or a book introducing photography).
>>
>> in order to fit the pictures I plan to set each pictures as page
>> background or layers, that spans 3/2 pages, while leaving the
>> remaining span (1/2 page) for text.
>>
>> however, I don't know which page number the picture should be reside,
>> but I know it should be put near some given text content.
>>
>> it's not possible to manually give the page number according to the
>> content because usually document context/formatting change all the
>> time.
>>
>> how to do that?
>
> You can fix a float to a certain position with \placeFLOAT[force]{…}{…}.
>
> TO shorten/enlarge a page you can put \adaptlayout in your document
> and context change the layout of the page where the command is seen.
>
> Wolfgang
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-29 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-27  3:40 Yue Wang
2011-08-28 14:25 ` Yue Wang
2011-08-29 16:41 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-08-29 17:00   ` Yue Wang [this message]
2011-08-29 17:45     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-08-30  0:32       ` Yue Wang

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