Am 22.10.2010 um 21:59 schrieb Andrzej Orłowski-Skoczyk:
> Hello Contexters
>
> I've been typesetting (mainly books and reports) in LaTeX for ca 15 years
> now. Recently I got really fed up with various problems related to
> typesetting on grid in LaTeX, and this is how I learned about ConTeXt. You
> can't imagine how excited I was when I started reading about it, especially
> given my recent grid-related LaTeX frustrations. Now I'm past all the ConTeXt
> manuals available in English, but still with no practical experience. ConTeXt
> is still a wild animal to be tamed, for me, but with a lot of sex appeal.
>
> So - it's grid that attracted me. But I can't get it - the grid - in my test
> document. I find it hard to understand what the below commands (which are
> hardly documented) do:
> - placeongrid,
> - moveongrid,
> - start/stop|linecorrection
> and how is "framed" related to them. I experimented with various
> settings/combinations of the above, but none seem to actually FORCE my
> content on the grid.
> The explanation in the manual is not clear for me, there is no explanation in
> the Wikia.
>
> What I need is a way to FORCE a line of text onto nearest grid line available
> (so that baselines match), for example:
> - on page opening a chapter, so that all body text is forced on grid
> regardless of the amount of space taken by headers etc.,
> - on any page, when the text is being interrupted by figures, tables,
> formulas or fancy breaks.
> Is there an easy way to accomplish that? By 'easy' I mean other than manual
> setting the height of headers/figures/tables/formulas/fancy breaks so that
> following text sits on the grid (which is more or less also doable in LaTeX).
\setuplayout[grid=yes]
%\showgrid
\starttext
\title{Example texts}
\subject{Knuth}
\input knuth
\subject{Tufte}
\input tufte
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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