From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Is fine-grained grid control possible?
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:58:47 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1304190955480.7828@nqv-guvaxcnq> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130419082923.GH25092@weber>
On Fri, 19 Apr 2013, Tom Ellis wrote:
> I asked a question on tex.stackoverflow, and it was suggested ConTeXt could
> help and that I should repost my question here.
>
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/108850/is-fine-grained-grid-control-possible
>
> I want to make a variety of checklists which are essentially based on a grid
> layout. I care about having fine-grained control over the exact placement
> of labels and boxes. I do not care about paragraphs, hypenation, equations,
> or anything like that which I know TeX is very good at.
>
> Is ConTeX a good fit for my needs? How could I do it?
>
> I've already though about Tikz and PGF but I don't think they give me enough
> fine-grained control. If I fail to find a way to solve my problem using TeX
> I will probably explore SVG and PostScript.
>
> Here are some examples of the kind of thing I would like to do that I pulled
> from an image search for "checklist"
>
> * https://studenttechportfolio.wikispaces.com/file/view/checklist.png/34343465/checklist.png
> * http://checklisttemplate911.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/checklist-template12.jpg
> * http://img.docstoccdn.com/thumb/orig/72289360.png
> * http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=88940&stc=1
> * http://theorganisedhousewife.com.au/shop/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/conference-checklist.jpg
> * http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-piQobSY-8Mw/Tcihq580IgI/AAAAAAAAAgE/Fd0AQD1e69Y/s1600/Operator_Page_1.jpg
> * http://www.dbh.govt.nz/UserFiles/Image/Publications/building/weathertightness/remediation-checklist-2.gif
> * http://spxcooling.com/images/M92-1447C-s.jpg
Most of these are simple tables with itemized lists. I don't think that
you need grid or any other fine-grained control to get this output. So,
the short answer is yes, ConTeXt can easily do such checklists.
Aditya
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-19 8:29 Tom Ellis
2013-04-19 13:58 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2013-04-19 14:26 ` Tom Ellis
2013-04-19 16:21 ` Tom Ellis
2013-04-19 18:13 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-04-19 19:47 ` Tom Ellis
2013-04-19 20:24 ` Tom Ellis
2013-04-19 20:35 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-04-19 21:28 ` Tom Ellis
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