On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:58:47AM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Fri, 19 Apr 2013, Tom Ellis wrote:
I asked a question on tex.stackoverflow, and it was suggested ConTeXt could help and that I should repost my question here.
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/108850/is-fine-grained-grid-control-p...
I want to make a variety of checklists which are essentially based on a grid layout. I care about having fine-grained control over the exact placement of labels and boxes. I do not care about paragraphs, hypenation, equations, or anything like that which I know TeX is very good at.
Is ConTeX a good fit for my needs? How could I do it?
I've already though about Tikz and PGF but I don't think they give me enough fine-grained control. If I fail to find a way to solve my problem using TeX I will probably explore SVG and PostScript.
Here are some examples of the kind of thing I would like to do that I pulled from an image search for "checklist"
* https://studenttechportfolio.wikispaces.com/file/view/checklist.png/34343465... * http://checklisttemplate911.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/checklist-templat... * http://img.docstoccdn.com/thumb/orig/72289360.png * http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=88940&stc=1 * http://theorganisedhousewife.com.au/shop/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/conferen... * http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-piQobSY-8Mw/Tcihq580IgI/AAAAAAAAAgE/Fd0AQD1e69Y/s1... * http://www.dbh.govt.nz/UserFiles/Image/Publications/building/weathertightnes... * http://spxcooling.com/images/M92-1447C-s.jpg
Most of these are simple tables with itemized lists. I don't think that you need grid or any other fine-grained control to get this output. So, the short answer is yes, ConTeXt can easily do such checklists.
Agreed, but for the checklists I want to make I would prefer more fine-grained control.