Eugene Toporov wrote:

Hello!

This time I have a task like this:

I have margin text blocks (like Note, Tip) that follow some paragraph in my document flow. In the produced document I get them in margin, but vertically they are just below the paragraph (as in text flow) I really need then to start exactly where the previous paragraph starts (vertically). I.e. I need to move them several (unknown number) lines higher.

My realization:

\setupinmargin[style=\sl\tx\setupinterlinespace,location=left,align=right] \def\Note#1{ \strut \inmargin{ \em{#1} } \strut} \starttext

This is the para with unknown length that can be any number of lines high. And I have a note below it that should be located to the left of this paragraph and not just below it. That's the case. \par

\Note{ And here is the note that should be in margin.}

\stoptext

The easiest would to put it above the target paragraph, but that's not the solution for me as the same text is rendered to HTML where no margins exist.

Can I do it plainly in tex code?

well, you need to know a bit of tex an dcontext internals -) it takes some 10 lines of code to hack a solution that moves the margin note to the beginning of a paragraph (ok, page crossing are a problem, so there it stays in place) however, the note should be attached to the par! so: text text\inmargin{...} (i suppose that for html you can insert a break before the note) as usual the problem is, how to integrate this (btw, context does have mechanisms for auto-stacking marginal notes that clash, which is why this not too complex to implement; we needed that functionality a few years ago for a huge xml->pdf project) 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------