Thank you, Hans. I would had never figured out that combination of commands. I'll play with that starting point.
Ciro -- Links of your interest: http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~cirosoto/ http://www.TheGuitarMakerExploration.com https://www.createspace.com/3392936 On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Hans Hagen<pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: > Ciro Soto wrote: >> >> I started a small project of ~100 pages and tried to do it with >> Scribus since it required pictures, inserts, etc. >> I found that Scribus was not going to be able to handle the task so >> easily. So I am back to Context. >> >> Here is my task: in the right pages, I want the text (~50 pages of >> text) and in the left pages I would like >> a picture and a quotation coming from the right page (this quotation I >> am willing to do manually). >> My question is, how do I make one \setuplayout for the odd pages, and >> another for the even pages? >> I may use pictures that bleed over the upper left corner of the left >> page. >> >> I used the option \placefigure [opposite], which puts the picture in >> the opposite page, very nice. However, >> I have two problems with it: it may put the picture in the right page >> (opposite to the text in the left page), >> and I can't make the picture bleed because my \setuplayout is for both >> pages. >> >> I can work with what I have done so far, but I wonder if my task is >> possible with the current Context macros. > > a starting point ... > > \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] > > \setuplayout[odd] [width=5cm,state=start] > \setuplayout[even][width=15cm,state=start] > > \definelayer[whatever][doublesided=yes] > > \setupbackgrounds[text][background=whatever] > > \appendtoks\ifodd\realpageno\else\null\page\fi\to\everyafteroutput > > \starttext > \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \par > \setlayer[whatever][left][preset=lefttop]{left}} > \stoptext > > > (the appendtoks is somewhat hacky, maybe we should have it as built in > feature) > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
