Dear Friends,

I'm down in Mexico recovering from a long illness, which explains my absence on the list.  Recently I met a poet who writes in Spanish and Nahatl, and who would like to publish a book of his poems.  I'm committed to using ConTeXt to layout his book, but I'm having problems.  Here are the three most pressing ones, I wondered if anyone might help with. 

  1. Until a publisher get's involved, I'd like for him to self-publish his book on double sided, letter sized paper, with half-letter pages folded over and stapled in the middle.  I'm not sure which \setuparranging options to use to get this (2*2, 2UP?).  The options I've tried seem right, except the pages are numbered all wrong.  I've defined a "halfletter" pagesize, which works nicely, but I can't get the arranging right.
  2. Many of his poems are short, and I'd like to alternate between poems that are left aligned, and right aligned.  I tried \startalignment[right] to switch a block of text (and heading) to one side or the other, but it didn't work.
  3. As I'm learning, it would be wonderful if there were a repository of real-world documents I could use to refer to, to see how other people solve their own problems.  I know many of you have written many fabulous ConTeXt documents, and I wish there were a place on the wiki, maybe under "Examples" where people could post their source code, and the resultant PDF.  Alternatively, people could mail me docs, and I could post them on the wiki. 
I'm using the latest context minimals, with the LUA engine (texexec --lua). 

Any assistance is most appreciated.

Yours,

Corin Royal Drummond