Hi everyone, I second the request to support horizontally split page layouts with one stream typeset above another on each page.
Kevin On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Philipp Gesang < pges...@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote: > On 2010-08-18 <06:23:20>, Salil Sayed wrote: > > Hi All, > > Hans will starting looking into the development of 'streams' for mkvi > > soon. So let us gather our wishes for these functions so that the > > interface can be well thought of beforehand. Please respond to this > > thread with your wishes and I might compile them later in one place if > > doing so makes sense. > > To begin with here is my first wish: > > Being able to flow multiple texts in parallel. A simple case is a > > translation of the same text running on opposite page while the > > original runs on left/right page. In my thesis these are not > > translations, but correlated texts written for different audiences. > > (think of levels in a CG game) So the texts need to be designed > > differently. > > To extrapolate this facility, if columns on one page can run such > > parallel texts then we can have multiple translations running > together. > > Best regards, > > Salil > > Hi Salil, > > three items I'd like to add: > * horizontal split page layout (upper and lower parts instead of > columns), > * asymmetric stream combinations (e.g. two streams on the left page, > another stream on the facing page), and > * easy reprinting (i.e. a photographic reproduction as one stream on > the left and a text stream on the right page). > I've seen all of this in printed books so it would be a pity to live in > a world where the best typesetting system can't do that. Some of this I > already mentioned to Hans a while ago, maybe he remembers. > > Regards, Philipp > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > > -- > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > >
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