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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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