Re: [NTG-context] Re: Inmargin command.

6 Apr 2003

      On Sunday 06 April 2003 07:10 am, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
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John Culleton  writes:
Hello John,
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The Context Mamual describes the margin block suite of commands as
"under construction" (p. 235.)
Have they in fact been improved and if so what additional usage notes
if any are applicable? What version of Context has the improvements?
Since you didn't write what you want to achieve (and I don't know the
status of margin blocks), I have no direct answer to you; but did you
look into details.pdf? There are examples of floats in the margin.
Patrick
In non-fiction technical books published in the US it is common to
put a summary or side comment in the margin in a block, usually
with a grey background tint.

I was able to do this with the orginal implementation of inmargin but
two problems occurred:

1. Linebreaking was unstatisfactory so I had to hand justify the lines.
2. If the main body text had a paragraph break then a white line
appeared in the inmargin block in the tinted background. 

Confusingly, in the US we call this a sidebar. In Context a sidebar is
a mark in the margin. I just have to keep the terminology straight in
my own head :)

I will test my latest download following the suggestions you and Bill
offered for further references/examples. 

Thanks to all,

John Culleton