Re: The ultimate (?) float problem

[Piotr Kopszak <kopszak@gmail.com>]

I think I more or less got the idea of what is possible. But let me
describe my project. Maybe you might come up with a better solution.
I'm going to typeset a diary written and drawn by an illustrator and
graphic designer 70 years ago. What is unique, it consists of
handwritten pages which were already composed for publication. So in
fact I have to preserve both the juxtaposition of illustrations and
the text (give or take line or two). As basically the text should not
flow between pages I guess I could set the whole thing with layers
only. The biggest problem seems how to control placement of layers so
that the text inside them is set on the grid. Here is my initial setup
for a single page.

\definelayer  [figure][width=\overlaywidth,height=\overlayheight]
\defineoverlay[figure][{\directsetup{figure}\tightlayer[figure]}]
\setupcolors[state=start]
\setupbackgrounds[page][background=figure]
\setuppagenumbering[location={footer,right}]
\usetypescript[palatino]
\setupbodyfont[palatino,14pt]
\starttext
\startbuffer[zapf]
\input zapf
\stopbuffer
\startbuffer[hawking]
\input hawking
\stopbuffer

\flushlayer[figure]

\startsetups figure
\setlayerframed[figure][frame=off,x=25mm,y=43mm]{\externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth,height=40mm]}
\setlayerframed[figure][frame=off,x=25mm,y=90mm,align=normal,width=\textwidth]{\getbuffer[zapf]}
\setlayerframed[figure][frame=off,x=80mm,y=150mm]{\externalfigure[cow][width=30mm,height=100mm]}
\setlayerframed[figure][frame=off,x=25mm,y=150mm,align=normal,width=50mm]{\getbuffer[hawking]}
\setlayerframed[figure][frame=off,x=120mm,y=150mm,align=normal,width=50mm]{\getbuffer[hawking]}
\stopsetups
\stoptext

Of course, it looks like it's going to take couple of months of rather
tedious manual work so any ideas how to make it easier are welcome.

Piotr

2009/5/12 luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>:
>
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
> <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Am 12.05.2009 um 15:18 schrieb Piotr Kopszak:
>>
>>> Yes, exactly.
>>
>> \setuppapersize [S6]
>> \setuptolerance [soepel,rek]
>
> better
>
> \setuppapersize [S6][S6]
> \setuptolerance [tolerant,stretch]
> --
> luigi
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