Dear list,

Years ago I stumbled upon the work of Jean-Luc Doumont.

He typesets all his documents using TeX, although his modified Version

called Quantum. The whole idea of his fascinating approach is that the page is quantized in 2 dimensions and that all positioning, even graphical elements stick to that grid. I'm attaching a link to a presentation by him in which he gives some fragments of code that I, unfortunately, have a hard time understanding.

Thank you for the pdf! I'm interested in replicating this 2d grid in Context. How would one go

about enforcing such strict 2d organization? As I get it he does a lot of manual tweaking, and his documents are less automated and more hand crafted than a typical Context document.I'm specifically interested in using this approach for report generation.

It would be wonderful to have, especially for adaptation, personalisation purposes. To me data I/O is not an issue since I would use a Python script to

generate the markup.

Even though I am not a programmer, I would like to be of help. For example: brainstorming or testing ideas. I hope there are more enthousiasts eager to help. (Thanks Aditya.)

I know the question is pretty general, but any pointers would be welcome. Maybe the first thing useful would be the grid and how to position everything in accordance with it. I envisioned this thread more for discussion and suggestions than a complete recreation of his ideas. As I learn Context and Metapost, I hope I will figure out how to recreate his work. Sorry for the blog post :)

Link to files:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KpYbDlukvSCirKkFvJICOX3wABl_83bW?usp...

Sincerely, Stefan

Kind regards, Susanne G. Loeber