starting headings at top of column
Hello, I've started talking to people in charge about contributing some money to this mailing list, or the wiki, or something ... we're certainly getting a lot of help from it. Is there an org or project to contribute to? Anyway, my current challenge is this. We have a two-column layout using columnsets. Fairly often, we start a new section (within a column... this does not interrupt the flow of columns). Some constraints we want to fulfill are: - Normally we want a little space before each new section heading - Except at the top of a column; can I check whether we're at the top of a column and do a conditional \vskip based on that?(*) - Avoid orphans: when starting a new section, if there's not enough room left in the current column, do a column break before outputting the section heading. I've tried \testcolumn[n], but it doesn't seem to work right. What are the units of the argument to \testcolumn? We also do manual column balancing using \definecolumnset, \setupcolumnset, and \setupcolumnsetlines. My concern is, does this apply after other layout is performed, so that any test performed above (*) regarding position within the column would fail to reflect these column balancing adjustments and therefore could give wrong results? That could explain why \testcolumn has been behaving in unexpected ways... Thanks, Lars
Hi Lars,
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:57:41 -0700, Lars Huttar
I've started talking to people in charge about contributing some money to this mailing list, or the wiki, or something ... we're certainly getting a lot of help from it. Is there an org or project to contribute to?
My suggestion is to start a fund to sponsor the first commercial ConTeXt book. Steve Peter, myself and others have been pushing in this direction for awhile, and the time is approaching to work on it in earnest. Feel free to contact me off-list to discuss this if you like. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523
Lars Huttar wrote:
Hello,
I've started talking to people in charge about contributing some money to this mailing list, or the wiki, or something ... we're certainly getting a lot of help from it. Is there an org or project to contribute to?
a few ideas: - at the tug web page there is a sponsor link .. https://www.tug.org/donate.html there you can explicitly sponsor luatex code development (which includes mplib); since this project is directly related to context mkiv, support will indirectly boost mkiv development (ok, within the limitations of my time) - another option is to sponsor development meetings (e.g. help some contributers to context to attend the context conference); there is no context link (yet) on the tug page -)
Anyway, my current challenge is this. We have a two-column layout using columnsets. Fairly often, we start a new section (within a column... this does not interrupt the flow of columns).
Some constraints we want to fulfill are:
- Normally we want a little space before each new section heading - Except at the top of a column; can I check whether we're at the top of a column and do a conditional \vskip based on that?(*)
- Avoid orphans: when starting a new section, if there's not enough room left in the current column, do a column break before outputting the section heading. I've tried \testcolumn[n], but it doesn't seem to work right. What are the units of the argument to \testcolumn?
We also do manual column balancing using \definecolumnset, \setupcolumnset, and \setupcolumnsetlines. My concern is, does this apply after other layout is performed, so that any test performed above (*) regarding position within the column would fail to reflect these column balancing adjustments and therefore could give wrong results? That could explain why \testcolumn has been behaving in unexpected ways...
columnsets are kind of special: - strongly grid based (which permits tricky figure placement) - a regular mvl (which permits most context features) sometime next year, when we enter the 'opening up luatexs page-builder' stage, we can look into enhancing columnsets (i hit some of tex's limitations there) also, when the mvl code is extended i can finish the new mkiv spacing/penalty model i'm working on (but first math) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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