On 12/7/2019 04:10, Otared Kavian wrote:
Hi Rik,

Thanks a lot for the link to that message dating back to 2010…

I tried to put that solution on the wiki but I could not create a new page. 
I'll try later.

For the record, below is a transcript of what I adapted from Wolfgang's 
solution, but maybe nowadays one could also right a more readable lua code to 
achieve the same.

Best regards: Otared K.

\define\thinrulesfillpage%
        {
        \hphantom{Answer} % this is necessary, I don't know why...
        \blank  
        
\scratchcounter\dimexpr(\pagegoal-\pagetotal-2\lineheight)/(\dimexpr\lineheight+2.2ex\relax)\relax
        \thinrules[n=\number\scratchcounter,inbetween={\blank[2.2ex]}]
        \page
        }
        
\showframe
\starttext
\dorecurse{2}{\input knuth.tex\par}

\thinrulesfillpage

\thinrulesfillpage

\input ward.tex
\thinrulesfillpage

\stoptext

On 7 Dec 2019, at 03:49, Rik Kabel <cont...@rik.users.panix.com> wrote:

On 12/6/2019 17:50, Otared Kavian wrote:
Hi all,

I am preparing a test for my students where I would like to have the statement 
of the problem on the top of a page and the remainder to the bottom of that 
page filled with \thinrules, for them to write the solution. And sometimes 
there might be an empty page filled with thinrules when the solution to the 
exercise is longer.

The following minimal example gives the idea of what I want to achieve, but 
since the statement of each exercise may be longer or shorter, I would like 
ConTeXt to compute how many \thinrules can be put in the remainder of the page.
That is, can one imagine a macro named (say) \fillpagewiththinrules which puts 
the exact number of thinrules before ejecting the page?
Is this possible or have I to do it by hand for each page?

\showframe
\starttext
\dorecurse{2}{\input knuth.tex\par}

\thinrules[n=20] % On the first page I can put 20 thinrules

\page

\thinrules[n=40] % On an empty page I can put 40 thinrules
\page

\input ward.tex

\thinrules[n=37] % On the third page there can be 37 thinrules

\stoptext

Thanks for any hint and help,
Best regards: Otared K.

It looks like Wolfgang answered this a while back. See Re: [NTG-context] Room 
for comment on the backside of form. .

--
Rik


Replace the \hphantom{...} with \dontleavehmode.

--
Rik

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