Thank you, Wolfgang. That's an interesting suggestion... I have worked
with that imposition mechanism before, so I will indeed have a look into
it again.
However, in this case, I was actually looking for a way to achieve a
kind of flexible linking or threading between "pages" or "frames" or
"columnsetareas"... My folded card will not be folded exactly in the
middle, there will be some space left for ring binding. So, I think, I
need a way to specify the exact positions for the four text areas...
Thank you for your help.
Marcus
Am 28.08.25 um 21:51 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:
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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