From: Mikael Persson <mickep@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Paragraph internal graphic/layout inquiry.
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:08:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d5fddde005071907084e1e6ff2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0507131956580.4132@hahepc1.hahe>
On 7/13/05, Hartmut Henkel <hartmut_henkel@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
> > David Wooten wrote:
> > > Mr. Tufte has an interesting example from da Vinci: http://
> > > trichotomic.net/Leonardo.jpg (76k). Is this type of layout currently
> > > possible (or perhaps a better question, wieldy) within ConTeXt?
> >
> > In a standard TeX installation, it is not possible to make this type
> > of paragraph without massive amounts of manual intervention, because
> > TeX's paragraphs cannot (normally) contain holes.
>
> FWIW, there is a pointer to a similar problem in DEK's "Digital
> Typography", chapter 9: "Problem for a Saturday Morning", published in
> TUGboat 8 (1987) (Harmless title for the amount of macros piling up
> there :-) An article from Alan Hoenig is also mentioned, which can be
> found there:
>
> http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb08-2/tb18hoenig.pdf
>
Hi,
Hans, is this something we can expect some nice ConTeXt-ish macros for?
Best regards, Micke P
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-19 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-13 0:08 David Wooten
2005-07-13 7:23 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-07-13 15:53 ` David Wooten
2005-07-13 18:06 ` Hartmut Henkel
2005-07-19 14:08 ` Mikael Persson [this message]
2005-07-19 20:38 ` Hans Hagen
2005-07-20 0:36 ` David Wooten
2005-07-20 1:03 ` Matthias Weber
2005-07-20 5:11 ` luigi.scarso
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