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Re: Newspaper-like flowing columns?


From: Jeff Kingston
Subject: Re: Newspaper-like flowing columns?
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 09:11:45 +1100

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 21:44:17 +0000, Mark Summerfield wrote:
  > 
  > Is it possible to have newspaper-like flowing columns in lout?
  > 
  > +----page 1 ----+
  > |item 1 | item 2|
  > |item 1 | item 2|
  > |item 3 | item 2|
  > |item 3 | item 4|
  > +---------------+
  > 
  > +----page 2 ----+
  > |item 5 | item 2|
  > |item 5 | item 2|
  > |item 5 | item 4|
  > |item 1 | item 4|
  > +---------------+
  > 
  > Would it be possible to create a package like doc or book that did
  > this? 

There are two main problems.

First, flowing items are galleys, and galleys have to have constant
width throughout.  So 'item 1' would have to be the same width wherever
it appears.

Second, the places where items appear are galley targets, and these
have to be placed onto pages.  You can't place them in the body text
of the document, because of the rule that says that targets don't get
promoted, so you have to place them inside the sequence of pages that
becomes the final document (the root galley).  For the example above
you are looking at a root galley something like this:

   8c @Wide { @ItemOnePlace // @ItemThreePlace } || 8c @Wide { ... }
   //
   8c @Wide { @ItemFivePlace // @ItemOnePlace } || 8c @Wide { ... }

where @ItemOnePlace is the target of galley @ItemOne, etc.  This
assumes that you want to lay the items onto pages manually, and in
various ways it's only a sketch.  But it shows what you have to aim
at.  It would be quite a big job to package this up.

Jeff





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