From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3283 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed L Cashin Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: multi-column spread control (was Re: beginner's questions) Date: 13 Nov 2000 13:44:19 -0500 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <20001112113730.1EF2A2317E@client44-3.kabela.oprit.rug.nl> <3.0.6.32.20001113103749.01cafc00@pop.wxs.nl> <3.0.6.32.20001113181723.015ed100@pop.wxs.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394025 15709 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:27:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:27:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Hans Hagen In-Reply-To: Hans Hagen's message of "Mon, 13 Nov 2000 18:17:23 +0100" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3283 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3283 Hans Hagen writes: > Actually it's not that hard, but since context tries hard to snap, > it is hard to convince it to do otherwise. What i'm currently doing > is isolating the otr code into modules. There will be a series of > basic otr's like: single column, mixed single multi, and multi, plus > a mechanism to implement your own as well as communicate with the > otr. The new multi routine will give quite some control over float > placement and other trickery. It is a combination of all kind of > code snippets and ideas I collected over the past years, so i can > finally clean up my machine -) That sounds interesting. What's an otr? :) -- --Ed Cashin PGP public key: ecashin@coe.uga.edu http://www.coe.uga.edu/~ecashin/pgp/