From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/81961 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Is fine-grained grid control possible? Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:13:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20130419082923.GH25092@weber> <20130419162111.GH27030@weber> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366395233 19579 80.91.229.3 (19 Apr 2013 18:13:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:13:53 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Apr 19 20:13:57 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UTFop-00033c-RJ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:13:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 056A0101EA; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:13:55 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Y+Gvo0IOKBed; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:13:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A1FA101E6; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:13:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0079101E6 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:13:51 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ZeCvoVoUOaGs for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:13:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter1-utr.mf.surf.net (filter1-utr.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.152]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA35101E4 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:13:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.82]) by filter1-utr.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r3JIDlJB004831 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:13:49 +0200 Original-Received: FROM Decentralized.ECE.McGill.CA (Decentralized.ECE.McGill.CA [132.206.69.142]) By hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 51718959.F417B.26635 ; Authuser adityam; 19 Apr 2013 14:13:46 EDT In-Reply-To: <20130419162111.GH27030@weber> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.14.82; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 07JpSdMpL - 38466d66175b - 20130419 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:81961 Archived-At: On Fri, 19 Apr 2013, Tom Ellis wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:58:47AM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> On Fri, 19 Apr 2013, Tom Ellis wrote: >> >>> Is ConTeX a good fit for my needs? How could I do it? >>> >>> Here are some examples of the kind of thing I would like to do that I pulled >>> from an image search for "checklist" >> >> 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. > > Agreed, but for the checklists I want to make I would prefer more > fine-grained control. Then please give an example of the type of checklists that you want to make rather than picking random samples from google. Otherwise, it is impossible to answer whether what you have in mind is feasible in ConTeXt or not. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________