Paul Tremblay said this at Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:43:33 -0500:
http://www.geocities.com/paulhtremblay/context_xml/page2.html
I would appreciate any feedback. I hope the page will be useful in helping others overcome some of the difficulty I had in trying to understand layout in ConTeXt. I believe it is very thorough. I hope it is clear (it contains many illustrations) and accurate.
Hi Paul, Your prose is fairly clear, but the style tends to be a bit too prescriptive for my tastes. I think a lot of it would be alleviated by you setting up the context a bit more ("this is what I found works for me, coming from the FO page model"). Still, you set out statements like this without telling the whole story:
Always set your width to fit.
Furthermore, I think our models of ConTeXt page layout are somewhat different. You say this in the article:
Do not make the mistake in thinking that the cutspace property is the equivelent of the backspace property. The cutspace property is the sum of some rather complicated calculations.
Looking at page-lay, it seems like your perceived "complications" would go away to some extent by telling people to use "width=middle", for example. It's clear and thorough. I have some concerns about its accuracy, however. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-