On Mon, 16 May 2022, Stefan Nedeljkovic via ntg-context wrote: > 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.
His documents are really beautifully typeset. In the book, "Theorems, Maps, and Trees" all paragraphs are typeset as complete rectangles! See a sample here: https://www.principiae.be/book/pdfs/TM&Th-samplepages.pdf > 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. ConTeXt already implements grid snapping in the vertical dimension. For "grid snapping" in the horizontal direction, you need to ensure that all \hskip's are multiple of the grid size. > I'm specifically interested in using this approach for report generation. To > me data I/O is not an issue since I would use a Python script to generate the > markup. You can use layers to position things anywhere on a page. The keys `lines=..., columns=...` work almost like a grid. See the details manual for examples of grid snapping and layers. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
