Hans, Willi, thank you. Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 22 Apr 2003 22:20:12 +0200:
Humble, this is a very simple(minded) approach.
well, that makes me simple minded too, because it was the first one that came into my mind -)
I suspected that, presented with a new hammer, my problem looked too much like a nail.
but ... you can make it a bit nicer (see core-mis.tex for how legends are defined)
Will investigate.
Of course Hans's columnset possibilities give you many more hooks to insert blocks, backgrounds etc.
well, you can have backgrounds in tabulations; i can put it on my todo list to see if column sets can have a sync mechanism
Hmm. I'm wondering what you're interpreting as "sync" in this case. Ragged bottoms between columns at the end of chapter weren't going to bother me. The weird bit that I doubt I'll be able to handle given ConTeXt as it is today is doing an inner column/outer column alternation. Consider the following 2-page spread: ----------------- ----------------- | | | | | EN EN NL NL | | NL NL EN EN | | ENEN NLNL | | Chapter 3 N | |N ENEN NL NL | | NLNL ENEN o | |o ... ... | | ... ... t | |t ... ... | | ... ... e | |e ... ... | | ... ... | ----------------- ----------------- The english translation is on the outer column, with margin notes also hanging around. I can imagine this use is pretty unique, though. I'll look at the "Misc" macros and see if I can be creative with the "simple- minded" stuff. Adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-