Quantum spaces: Designing pages on grids
Why TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange recommends it
TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange users link it when asking how to implement Doumont's grid-based page layout approach or to understand the plain TeX macros he shows.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2013 to 2020.
What it is
A 2011 TUG conference talk by Jean-luc Doumont (Principiae), recorded by Zeeba TV, on designing pages on a grid with TeX. He walks through plain TeX macros for XY positioning and for splitting scrolling text into pieces placed on a page.
What people said
Recommends AdrienG · 2014-12 · TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange · on “Package to design page on a grid layout (JL Doumont approach)”
I am really thrilled by JL Doumont approach re the design of a page layout based on a grid system as detailed in his talk ( [this video] ). I started to think about using this approach for my CV. I have found a post discussing this approach ( LaTeX XY positioning [LINK] ) based on the command detailed in the talk. As I don't want to reinvent the wheel, I was wondering if someone knows a package that implements this strategy. Alternatively, does anyone know a full document (can be as small as 2 pages long) that implements this strategy and can be used as example ?
Cites FenryrMKIII · 2013-04 · TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange · on “Dividing Scrolling text”
Based on the video available here : [this video] I try to understand what the following code does \def\text{\setbox\galley=\vbox\bgroup \hsize= 5cm \hrule} \makeatletter \def\endtext{\vskip-\prevdepth \vfil\egroup \setbox0=\vsplit\galley to\z@} \makeatother \def\lines#1{\vsplit\galley to #1\baselineskip} unfortunately, I am not sucessful. In the video, he speaks about "floating, scrolling text" which you can cut in pieces and place the different pieces in the page. But I fail to understand how to do that with the previous code lines. I begin in macro writing so it could be I do not understand because I do not undestand the effect of the different commands put under these macros. I tried \text bla
Cites FenryrMKIII · 2013-04 · TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange · on “LaTeX XY positioning”
I have not been using latex in a while and I would like to try to implement the tips & tricks given in this video during the TUG conference by Jean Luc Doumont : [this video] I tried to implement the first trick: xy positioning \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \begin{document} \def\xy#1#2#3{\setbox0=\hbox to\z@{% \kern#1\raise#2\hbox{#3}\hss}% \ht0=\z@\dp0=\z@\box0} %testing the command \xy 1 5 b \end{document} unfortunately I get the following error log ! Undefined control sequence. \xy #1#2#3->\setbox 0=\hbox to\z @{\kern #1\raise #2\hbox {#3}\hss }\ht 0=\z... l.29 \xy 1 5 b The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message was never \def'ed.
Cites Manuel Schmidt · 2020-07 · TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange · on “Typessing on a grid (Quantum spaces by Jean-Luc Doumont) support in latex”
I saw the presentation [this video] of Jean-Luc Doumont on typesetting on a grid. He talks about some macros in this presentation, but I wonder if there is any package in latex yet, to support this. Here are the sample pages [LINK] of this book. [LINK] [LINK]