From: Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: Stefan Nedeljkovic via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Achieving the style of Jean-Luc Doumont
Date: Mon, 16 May 2022 23:56:43 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YAK.7.78.908.2205162349520.564428@nqv-guvaxcnq> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGraPNfs2zKzKCRbNT3vs==eKw7QzTXbgtzJ+EryKqNRmS0mzw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 16 May 2022, Stefan Nedeljkovic via ntg-context wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> Years ago I stumbled upon the work of Jean-Luc Doumont. He typesets all his
> documents using TeX, although his modified Version called Quantum.
His documents are really beautifully typeset. In the book, "Theorems, Maps, and Trees" all paragraphs are typeset as complete rectangles! See a sample here:
https://www.principiae.be/book/pdfs/TM&Th-samplepages.pdf
> The whole idea of his fascinating approach is that the page is quantized in 2
> dimensions and that all positioning, even graphical elements stick to that
> grid.
ConTeXt already implements grid snapping in the vertical dimension. For "grid snapping" in the horizontal direction, you need to ensure that all \hskip's are multiple of the grid size.
> I'm specifically interested in using this approach for report generation. To
> me data I/O is not an issue since I would use a Python script to generate the
> markup.
You can use layers to position things anywhere on a page. The keys `lines=..., columns=...` work almost like a grid.
See the details manual for examples of grid snapping and layers.
Aditya
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2022-05-16 9:48 Stefan Nedeljkovic via ntg-context
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