Re: landscape mode

Re: landscape mode

[Tobias Burnus]

Hi Hans,

> "Eric P. Melbardis" wrote:
> >does context support a mode similar to the latex mode 'lscape' whereby the whole
> >page-text-body is rotated to landscape mode while the headers, footers, etc are still
> >in portrait mode?

> It does:
> \setuppapersize[A4,landscape][A4,landscape] % paper size / print paper
> size

Are you sure that this does the requested? If I'm not completely mistaken this
only switches into landscape mode. But Eric asked for a portait mode where the
textarea (not the headers and footers) is 90° rotated.

This is frequently used for wide tables which fit rotated on the text hight
(which is then actually text width). Since this page belongs to the portait
formated document the headers and footers should remain on their standard
location. (I think LaTeX uses a minipage to realize this.)

Regards, groetjes,

Tobias

Re: landscape mode

[Hans Hagen]

"Eric P. Melbardis" wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>does context support a mode similar to the latex mode 'lscape' whereby the whole
>page-text-body is rotated to landscape mode while the headers, footers, etc are still
>in portrait mode?

It does: 

\setuppapersize[A4,landscape][A4,landscape] % paper size / print paper
size

\showframe % shows the basic layout 

\starttext

\input tufte % a test file 

\stoptext

(see co-en-04.pdf, on the context beta page, for more info; context
supports rotated, mirrored, negated, etc pages as well as page
imposition)

Hans

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Re: landscape mode

[Hans Hagen]

Tobias Burnus wrote:

> Are you sure that this does the requested? If I'm not completely mistaken this
> only switches into landscape mode. But Eric asked for a portait mode where the
> textarea (not the headers and footers) is 90° rotated.

\def\startwhatever%
  {\dowithnextbox
     {\roteer{\box\nextbox}}
     \vbox to \tekstbreedte \bgroup
       \forgetall \hsize \teksthoogte
       \def\stopwhatever{\egroup}}

\starttext

\input tufte \input tufte  \input tufte

\startwhatever
  \input tufte
\stopwhatever

\input tufte \input tufte \input tufte \input tufte

\startpostponing
  \startwhatever
    \placefigure{}{}
  \stopwhatever
\stoppostponing

\input tufte \input tufte \input tufte \input tufte

\stoptext

Now, what is a suitable name for such a macro? 

Hans

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Re: landscape mode

[Ed L. Cashin]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

> Now, what is a suitable name for such a macro? 

landscapetext?

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