Am 28.08.2025 um 21:27 schrieb Marcus Christopher Ludl:
Hello everyone,
I am trying to create a study script in ConTeXt where each topic fits
onto a folded A4 sheet in landscape orientation, so that when folded it
becomes an A5 card.
I would like to layout the (double-sided) card in its opened form (A4
landscape), but think of it as having four pages (A5). In this layout, I
would like the text to flow across my four pages in a flexible way:
- start on the left half of the front page,
- then continue on the left half of the back page,
- continue on the right half of the back page,
- and finally continue on the right half of the front page.
The normal position for the first page is on the right side for left to
right document and left for right to left documents.
If working in a page layout software I would simply link four text
frames in this order. Now, working in ConTeXt, I thought there could be
something like threaded columns... so, I found the manual on *Columns*
and played around, think that somehow \definecolumnsetarea could be
useful. Alas, I couldn't even manage to make the examples look correct.
And I'm failing to understand most of the parameters, as they don't seem
to do what they are supposed to do (according to information found
online or in the manual):
Is ConTeXt suitable for this kind of workflow at all? And if so, what is
the recommended mechanism to link such custom areas and have text flow
across them? Below is a first minimal MWE... Of course, this is static
and does not yet provide the automatic text flow I am looking for:
You can take a look at the imposition mechanism.
\setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape]
\setuparranging[2*2]
\starttext
\dorecurse{6}{\samplefile{lorem}}
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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