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From: Sietse Brouwer <sbbrouwer@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: A "Lorem ipsum" module?
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 01:20:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF=dkzzoyz32yFO0Xtp8-vAuCzKJRQun-cYu_rBHB8+uWjo+4Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5007EAC7.6090402@wxs.nl>

Hans wrote:
> I've added a module m-ipsum.

Duly wikified, although heaven knows whether people will actually find
it that way. No matter: soon we will have navboxes and that will give
us a shot at coherent topic-based navigation. For now I've made a
pagelet at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Dummy_text, as well as an
entry on the Modules page.

> I have no clue if it provides what one expects from such a module

Personally, I think the ability to write one's thesis is a reasonable
expectation. ;-)

% Shamelessly borrowed from
% http://repo.or.cz/w/context.git/blob/HEAD:/tex/context/base/m-visual.mkiv#l234

\unexpanded\def\ipsumthesis
  {\setupsystem[random=1234]
   \title{\ipsum[alternative=lines, n=1]} % the first line from the sample text
   \placelist[chapter,section]
   \dorecurse{3}
     {\chapter{\ipsum[alternative=lines, n=random]}  % random sentence
from the sample text
      \dorecurse{5}
        {\section{\ipsum[alternative=lines, n=random]}
         \dorecurse{4}
           {\dorecurse{3}{\ipsum[alternative=paragraph, n=random]\endgraf}
            \placefigure
              {\ipsum[alternative=lines,n=random]}
              {\fakeimage{5cm}{3cm}{10cm}{5cm}}
            \dorecurse{2}{\ipsum[alternative=paragraph, n=random]\endgraf}}}}}

Regards,

Sietse
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-19 23:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-19  1:27 Rogers, Michael K
2012-07-19  5:30 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2012-07-19 11:08 ` Hans Hagen
2012-07-19 14:42   ` Marco
2012-07-19 14:52     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-07-19 14:59       ` luigi scarso
2012-07-19 15:17   ` Marco
2012-07-19 23:20   ` Sietse Brouwer [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-07-18  9:42 Marcin Borkowski
2012-07-18 10:18 ` Marco
2012-07-18 11:33 ` Philipp Gesang

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