Report style

Report style 01

Here is a "try to look nice and dynamique" report, inspired by initial PDF material. It was used to learn to use ConTeXt and MetaFun (pdftotext > markdown > pandoc > manual work):

• Initial PDF
• TEX input
• PDF output

Here is some visual to give an idea:

The source code has been cleaned up and commented on (still some mix of english and french), in the hope that it will help.

Several features are used.

• headings with rules "across the page", slightly different design for right and left page, in order to bring dynamic:
  • \defineoverlay
  • \useMPgraphic
  • \startuseMPgraphic
  • \signalrightpage
  • \doifrightpageelse
  • \startsectionblockenvironment
• numbering with decreasing font size with increasing level of sectioning
  • \setuphead
  • \definestructureseparatorset
  • \defineconversion
  • \definestructureconversionset
  • sectionconversionset
  • prefixconversionset
  • sectionsegments
  • sectionstopper
• "encadré" environment to "highlight specific content", compatible with page breaks
  • \definehead with before and aftersection and...
  • Dedicated numbering, added to the table of content
    • \definehead and sectionresetset, bodypartlabel
    • \setuplist
    • \setupreferencestructureprefix
  • A large colored rule on the left to highlight the text (pushed on the right), compatible with page breaks
    • \definetextbackground
    • MetaPost / MetaFun to draw around the text (as background)
    • for i=1 upto nofmultipars
    • if multilocs[i] == 3:
  • Local footnotes
    • \definenote
    • \setupnotation
    • numberconversion
• Structuration
  • \startfrontmatter, \startbodymatter, \startappendices, \startbackmatter
  • \component
• Fonts (GaramondPro and AvenirNext)
  • \definefontfeature
  • \starttypescript
  • \definefontsynonym
  • \definetypeface
  • rscale and a short code to get x-height ratio between two fonts with

Report style 02

TODO: this page needs more work (See: To-Do List)