Re: Flowfram-like behavior?

[Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>]

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On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> On 6-7-2011 3:31, Peter Davis wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to get behavior like flowfram using ConTeXt?  Specifically,
>> I
>> mean the ability to define a set of "frames" or boxes, possibly several on
>> a
>> page or across a series of pages, and have the text automatically flow
>> from
>> one box to another in a prescribed order?
>>
>> I'm interested in doing InDesign-like layouts, which might have multiple
>> "stories", each of which can flow across multiple frames on multiple
>> pages.
>> Using flowfram with LaTeX comes pretty close (though only one story can
>> flow
>> from frame to frame), but there are conflicts with the longtable package
>> and
>> potentially others.  I figured since one of the goals of ConTeXt (as I
>> understand it) was to avoid inter-package conflicts, perhaps this would
>> offer a better solution.
>>
>
> I'm on and off working on streams which sort of do what you want, but it's
> not yet good enough as it's mostly geared at parallel text.
>
>

Sounds interesting.  I'm looking forward to hearing more about it.  Sounds
like I should stick with flowfram for now though.

Thanks!

-pd


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