Hi everyone,
I have recently migrated my PhD dissertation from LaTeX to ConTeXt. In LaTeX I was using kaobook, a template with lots of margin notes, but I was frustrated with the automatic placement of the notes.
I implemented a system using overlays that automatically places the notes using lua. To know where the ideal placement should be (if they do not interact with each other), I use lua to insert a latelua whatsit that uses lpdf.getpos() to get the coordinate on the rendered page. However, I haven't found a way to get the page number using lua, and the tex macro \pagenumber is unreliable near pagebreaks.
Furthermore, it would be helpful to know if there is a way to access the position and sizes of figures at the end.
Thanks, Luc
On 5/21/2024 10:26 AM, Luc Chabassier wrote:
Hi everyone,
I have recently migrated my PhD dissertation from LaTeX to ConTeXt. In LaTeX I was using kaobook, a template with lots of margin notes, but I was frustrated with the automatic placement of the notes.
I implemented a system using overlays that automatically places the notes using lua. To know where the ideal placement should be (if they do not interact with each other), I use lua to insert a latelua whatsit that uses lpdf.getpos() to get the coordinate on the rendered page. However, I haven't found a way to get the page number using lua, and the tex macro \pagenumber is unreliable near pagebreaks.
Furthermore, it would be helpful to know if there is a way to access the position and sizes of figures at the end.
you have to provide some mwe so that we can see what is intended; in principle much info is available one way or the other
concerning notes in the margin ... did you try the built in magin text mechanisms?
Hans
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Excerpts from Hans Hagen's message of May 21, 2024 11:45 am:
you have to provide some mwe so that we can see what is intended; in principle much info is available one way or the other
I joined a minimal working example. The lua function `userdata.sidenotes_save_run` places the notes so that they do not intersect (the method I actually use is more complicated, but the idea is the same).
concerning notes in the margin ... did you try the built in magin text mechanisms?
I did, but as far as I know they place the text on the margin next to the \inmargin invocation in the text, so they may overlap, which is what I want to avoid.
Luc
Luc Chabassier schrieb am 21.05.2024 um 15:35:
Excerpts from Hans Hagen's message of May 21, 2024 11:45 am:
you have to provide some mwe so that we can see what is intended; in principle much info is available one way or the other
I joined a minimal working example. The lua function `userdata.sidenotes_save_run` places the notes so that they do not intersect (the method I actually use is more complicated, but the idea is the same).
concerning notes in the margin ... did you try the built in magin text mechanisms?
I did, but as far as I know they place the text on the margin next to the \inmargin invocation in the text, so they may overlap, which is what I want to avoid.
\setupmarginblocks[inbetween=]
\starttext
\dorecurse{100} {\bold{#1:} \samplefile{ward}% \startmarginblock Note #1\stopmarginblock \par}
\stoptext
Wolfgang
On 21/05/2024 15:54, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
\setupmarginblocks[inbetween=]
\starttext
\dorecurse{100} {\bold{#1:} \samplefile{ward}% \startmarginblock Note #1\stopmarginblock \par}
\stoptext
when I compile this, i get per page with \par 1..10 -> the notes 1..11 \par 11..20 -> the notes 12..21 \par 21..30 -> the notes 32..31
...
is this expected standard?
i'd expect \par and notes synced on page. 1..10 -> 1..10
vm via ntg-context schrieb am 21.05.2024 um 16:07:
On 21/05/2024 15:54, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
\setupmarginblocks[inbetween=]
\starttext
\dorecurse{100} {\bold{#1:} \samplefile{ward}% \startmarginblock Note #1\stopmarginblock \par}
\stoptext
when I compile this, i get per page with \par 1..10 -> the notes 1..11 \par 11..20 -> the notes 12..21 \par 21..30 -> the notes 32..31
...
is this expected standard?
i'd expect \par and notes synced on page. 1..10 -> 1..10
TeX was still on page 1 to collect text when it put note 11 into the buffer for the margin and the decision to make the break after block 10 happened afterwards.
You can control page breaks to a certain degree with the \testpage command between paragraphs.
\starttext
\dorecurse{100} {\testpage[3] \bold{#1:} \samplefile{ward}% \startmarginblock Note #1\stopmarginblock \par}
\stoptext
Wolfgang
just noticed that if the notes need more margin space then are pages available by the text, they get lost. e.g. this mwe generates 10 pages with 100 par but only 80 notes will show up.
\setupmarginblocks[inbetween=]
\starttext
\dorecurse{100} {\bold{#1:} \samplefile{ward}% \startmarginblock {\bf #1} one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen\stopmarginblock \par}
\stoptext
Excerpts from Wolfgang Schuster's message of May 21, 2024 3:54 pm:
Luc Chabassier schrieb am 21.05.2024 um 15:35:
Excerpts from Hans Hagen's message of May 21, 2024 11:45 am:
concerning notes in the margin ... did you try the built in magin text mechanisms?
I did, but as far as I know they place the text on the margin next to the \inmargin invocation in the text, so they may overlap, which is what I want to avoid.
\setupmarginblocks[inbetween=]
\starttext
\dorecurse{100} {\bold{#1:} \samplefile{ward}% \startmarginblock Note #1\stopmarginblock \par}
\stoptext
I did not know about margin blocks, they are nice. But is there a way to place them next to the \startmarginblock invocation, instead of flushing them all either to the top or bottom of the page ?
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Luc Chabassier -
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Wolfgang Schuster