Splitting a page in given ratios
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Dear all, this is probably even easy in plain TeX, but as I have never learned it properly, I am asking anyway: I would like to have a way to split a part of a page into two columns of different width, so something like \startsplitpage[columns=2,spacing=fill] \startcolumn[1][width=.6 \textwidth] \input{tufte} \stopcolumn[1] \startcolumn[2][width=.3 \textwidth] \placefigure[theBeerBottle] \stopcolumn[2] \stopsplitpage so that the individual columns are treated (if possible) as separate pages with all features (like \framed etc) adapted to the page width of the smaller sub-pages. This could replace (for me) the somehow (for me) disfunctional figuretext construct. Is there a way to do this? Thanks, Matthias
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Am 05.04.10 01:10, schrieb Matthias Weber:
Dear all,
this is probably even easy in plain TeX, but as I have never learned it properly, I am asking anyway:
I would like to have a way to split a part of a page into two columns of different width, so something like
\startsplitpage[columns=2,spacing=fill]
\startcolumn[1][width=.6 \textwidth]
\input{tufte} \stopcolumn[1]
\startcolumn[2][width=.3 \textwidth] \placefigure[theBeerBottle] \stopcolumn[2]
\stopsplitpage
so that the individual columns are treated (if possible) as separate pages with all features (like \framed etc) adapted to the page width of the smaller sub-pages.
This could replace (for me) the somehow (for me) disfunctional figuretext construct.
Is there a way to do this? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Columns#Paragraphs
See also http://pragma-ade.com/show-man-9.htm Wolfgang
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Thanks Wolfgang, you made my morning! Matthias On Apr 5, 2010, at 3:32 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Am 05.04.10 01:10, schrieb Matthias Weber:
Dear all,
this is probably even easy in plain TeX, but as I have never learned it properly, I am asking anyway:
I would like to have a way to split a part of a page into two columns of different width, so something like
\startsplitpage[columns=2,spacing=fill]
\startcolumn[1][width=.6 \textwidth]
\input{tufte} \stopcolumn[1]
\startcolumn[2][width=.3 \textwidth] \placefigure[theBeerBottle] \stopcolumn[2]
\stopsplitpage
so that the individual columns are treated (if possible) as separate pages with all features (like \framed etc) adapted to the page width of the smaller sub-pages.
This could replace (for me) the somehow (for me) disfunctional figuretext construct.
Is there a way to do this? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Columns#Paragraphs
See also http://pragma-ade.com/show-man-9.htm
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