Charles P. Schaum wrote:
Greetings,
I have been using ConTeXt since April, plain TeX since March, and LaTeX/LyX for about a year. I have been working on multilingual texts and, until the recent permutations of Word, no WYSIWYG product, with the possible exception of Mellel for Hebrew, did any good job. Now I don't like WYSIWYG anymore but use such products for work.
I have been able to create near-optimal reproductions of Ramistic schemata using ConTeXt because the \showboxes toggle is most helpful in showing where I need to put whitespace. The following may indeed be crude, i.e., not computing box height and other sophisticated stuff, but I'm a n00b and have not read the TeXbook through, although that and TeX by topic are both a vade mecum.
Here's the code, FWIW. Use it as you like. It started out as plain TeX using Kile on Ubuntu, migrated to ConTeXt in TeXshop/MacTeX, and came back to Kile after I found an xml file for katepart that allowed for proper syntax highlighting.
the following may save you some keying ... (max width combined with auto fit with) \defineframed[schemabox][align=flushleft,width=.25\textwidth,offset=none,frame=on,autowidth=force] \tfx {\tfa I. SCHEMA}\par \schema % top level schema { \schemabox{Subjectum theologi\ae{} est Notitia Dei.\ Considerat ergo, Dei, vel} } {13ex} { \blank[big] \schema % first nested schema { \schemabox[width=3cm]{{\sc Essentiam}, in} } {5ex} { \schemabox{Unitate natur\ae{}.\\Trinitate personarum.\\Operibus ad intra.} } (you can turn the frame off and hav ethe added benefits of framed like color and background and such)
Charles
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\def\schema#1#2#3{\hbox{$\vcenter{#1}\left\{\vbox to #2{\vfil}\right.\vcenter{#3}$}}
\def\altschema#1#2#3#4{\hbox{$\vcenter{#1}{\left\lmoustache\vbox to #2{\vfil}\right.\atop\left\rmoustache\vbox to #3{\vfil}\right.}\vcenter{#4}$}}
%\showboxes
\starttext \tfx {\tfa I. SCHEMA}\par \schema % top level schema { \hbox{Subjectum theolo-} \hbox{gi\ae{} est Notitia} \hbox{Dei. Considerat} \hbox{ergo, Dei, vel} } {13ex} { \blank[big] \schema % first nested schema { \hbox{{\sc Essentiam}, in} } {5ex} { \hbox{Unitate natur\ae{}.} \hbox{Trinitate personarum.} \hbox{Operibus ad intra.} } \blank[medium] \schema % second nested schema { \hbox{{\sc Voluntatem},} \hbox{manifestatam in} \hbox{operibus ad extra;} \hbox{ut in} } {12ex} { \hbox{Creatione.} \hbox{Sustentatione natur\ae{} laps\ae{}.} \hbox{Reparatione.} \hbox{Conversione.} \hbox{Justificatione.} \hbox{Sanctificatione \&} \hbox{Glorificatione ejusdem.} } } \page {\tfa II. SCHEMA}\par \altschema % { \blank[7*big] \hbox{Subjectum \&} \hbox{summa univer-} \hbox{s\ae{} Scriptur\ae{},} \hbox{est {\sc Cogni-}} \hbox{{\sc tio} vel} } {29ex} {10ex} { \altschema % { \hbox{{\sc Dei}, qua-} \hbox{lis sit, aut} } {10ex} {2ex} { \blank[big] \schema % { \hbox{{\sc Per se}:} \hbox{scilicet.} } {3.1ex} { \hbox{Unus in essentia.} \hbox{Trinus in personis.} } \blank[medium] \schema % { \hbox{Ad hominem} \hbox{quem vel} } {13ex} { \hbox{Accusat \& terret, {\sc Per Legem},} \hbox{Consolatur \& erigit, {\sc Per Evangelium}.} \hbox{Salvat, {\sc Per Christum}.} \hbox{Renovat, {\sc Per Spiritum Sanctum}.} \hbox{Sanctificat, {\sc Per Verbum} \& {Sacramenta}.} \hbox{Castigat, tentat \& exercet, {\sc Per Crucem}.} \hbox{Glorificat {\sc Per Resurrectionem Carnis}} \hbox{{\sc Ad Vitam \AE{}ternam}.} } } \altschema % { \blank[6*big] \hbox{{\sc Hominis},} \hbox{qualis sit} } {22ex} {3ex} { \altschema % { \hbox{{\sc Per se}:} } {6ex} {1ex} { \blank[2*big] \hbox{Ante lapsum.} \blank[big] \altschema % { \hbox{Post lapsum:} } {5ex} {2ex} { \hbox{Ante Regenerationem \&} \hbox{Renovationem S. Sancti.} \blank[small] \hbox{Post Regenerationem \&} \hbox{Renovationem S. Sancti.} \blank[2*small] } \blank[big] } \schema % { \hbox{Ad} } {18ex} { \schema % { \hbox{{\sc Deum}} } {14ex} { \hbox{P\oe{}nitentia agens, agnitis peccatis \& ira} \hbox{Dei cognita {\sc Ex Lege}.} \hbox{Erigens se {\sc Voce Evangelii}.} \hbox{Credens {\sc In Christum Salvatorem}.} \hbox{Non repugnans {\sc Spiritui Sancto} impellenti.} \hbox{Audiens {\sc Verbum}: \& utens {\sc Sacramentis}.} \hbox{Patienter \& constanter sufferens {\sc Crucem}.} \hbox{Sperans \& expectans glorificationem {\sc In}} \hbox{{\sc Resurrectione Carnis Ad Vitam \AE{}ternam}.} } \blank[medium] \schema % { \hbox{seipsum ratione} } {3.1ex} { \hbox{Anim\ae{} vel} \hbox{Corporis} } \schema % { \hbox{Proximum,} } {6ex} { \blank[medium] \schema % { \hbox{Amicum ratione vel} } {7ex} { \hbox{Religionis.} \hbox{Politic\ae{} \& Oeconomic\ae {}.} \hbox{Cognationis.} \hbox{Agnationis.} } \hbox{Inimicum.} \blank[3*big] } \blank[big] } } }
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