From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41291 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "luigi scarso" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: How could a typesetting system be today? Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 17:29:17 +0200 Message-ID: References: <68bfdc900805300012o789c12ebi15cb7ec3e0f10155@mail.gmail.com> <68bfdc900805300524r38f327acg88e766ea5a159acc@mail.gmail.com> <99CB0DC4-6A35-43EC-8636-3F2012D740A3@fiee.net> <68bfdc900805310557u37ce6be8h390a37ba4ea31311@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212247845 8932 80.91.229.12 (31 May 2008 15:30:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 15:30:45 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat May 31 17:31:25 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K2T3F-0005XV-Ql for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 May 2008 17:31:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E72741FC3E; Sat, 31 May 2008 17:30:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 32541-01-9; Sat, 31 May 2008 17:29:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 052051FBBE; Sat, 31 May 2008 17:29:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BEC51FBB9 for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 17:29:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 32541-01-8 for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 17:29:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.230]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 969A51FBBE for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 17:29:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r21so254637wxc.5 for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 08:29:18 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.142.201.3 with SMTP id y3mr2705382wff.1.1212247757545; Sat, 31 May 2008 08:29:17 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.142.240.15 with HTTP; Sat, 31 May 2008 08:29:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <68bfdc900805310557u37ce6be8h390a37ba4ea31311@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:41291 Archived-At: On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Yue Wang wrote: > On 5/31/08, luigi scarso wrote: >> > Last night I remembered two more things that TeX can't do, but every >> > layout app can: >> > - text flow around other elements (images) >> \parshape ? >> > > I forword an email to the professor. > it discuss some of the points together with some examples. > > \parshape is not enough for arbitary page layout. \parshape can help for text flow around other elements, hence for layout of a page. What do you mean with "\parshape is not enough for arbitary page layout" ? There are other macros/ tools for page layout as otr for example. > >> > - really working multiple-column layout >> in context columnset with two pass strategy >> > > columnset cannot solve most of the problems:) Do you have some examples ? > > if you want advanced page layout justification, TeX is not sufficient. > What do you mean with advanced ? Do you have som examples ? -- luigi ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________