Flowfram-like behavior?

Flowfram-like behavior?

[Peter Davis]

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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.

Thank you.

-pd


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Re: Flowfram-like behavior?

[luigi scarso]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> 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.
>
> Thank you.
Did you seen metafun.pdf ?

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Re: Flowfram-like behavior?

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2011-07-06 um 15:31 schrieb Peter Davis:

> 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.

Asking after some behaviour "like this LaTeX package" makes not much  
sense on this list, but since you explain what you mean... ;-)

Try "flows" in column sets, see the columns manual (http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/columns.pdf 
).
(Never tried it myself, so can't help you further.)



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Re: Flowfram-like behavior?

[Hans Hagen]

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.

Hans

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Re: Flowfram-like behavior?

[Peter Davis]

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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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Re: Flowfram-like behavior?

[luigi scarso]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:34 PM, luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> 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.
>>
>> Thank you.
> Did you seen metafun.pdf ?
also

http://pragma-ade.nl/general/magazines/mag-0010.pdf

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