Re: [NTG-context] columns and alignment at the bottom

[Willi Egger]

At 21:36 12.10.2003, Alex wrote:
Hi,

I am trying to typeset a text which should look roughly like that:

|-----|  |-----| |------|
|text |  |text | |text  |
|     |  |-----| |      |
|-----|          |      |
         |-----| |      |
|-----|  |text | |      |
|text |  |-----| |------|
|     |
|     |  |-----| |------|
|     |  |text | |text  |
|-----|  |-----| |------|
So I have a frames with some text (actually, addresses - Hans, maybe
you remember the address booklet I showed you here in Darmstadt) in
three columns. So I tried something like:
\startcolumns[n=3]
\framed{first address...}
\vskip 0.5cm plus 1fill
\framed{second address...}
\vskip 0.5cm plus 1fill
\framed{third address...}
.
.
.
\stopcolumns
Which (obviously because I use TeX code inside ConTeXt - shame on me)
fails, the frames are not aligned at the bottom.
So I'm looking for a way to typeset them with a distance of at least
0.5cm and align at the bottom - the remaining space should be spread
equally...
I hope the question is understandable and I hope someone has already
done something like this...
Greetings,
                ALeX
Now I haven't. But there is another approach to this. There is an arranging 
possibility which looks as follows:

\setuppapersize [XY][A4]
 \setuppaper     [topspace=5mm,backspace=5mm,dx=1mm,dy=2mm,nx=3,ny=4] %
 \setuplayout
     [page]
     [topspace=5mm,
     backspace=5mm,
     header=0pt,
     headerdistance=0pt,
     footer=0pt,
     footerdistance=0pt,
     location=middle,
     marking=on]
\setuppagenumbering[state=stop]
\setuparranging [XY]
\setupframedtexts
        [frame=off,
        leftframe=on,
        bottomframe=on,
        align=middle,
        location=middle,
        width=broad]
%\showframe

\startbuffer[Addresse1]
    \startframedtext
        ...
    \stopframedtext
    \page
\stopbuffer
\startbuffer[Addresse2]
    \startframedtext
        ...
    \stopframedtext
    \page
\stopbuffer
\starttext
    \dorecurse{6}{\getbuffer[Addresse\recurselevel]}%between first braces 
number of addresses you have in buffers
\stoptext

You will have to play with the different option parameters.
It is usefull to start texshow  :-)
Gruss Willi



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