From: Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: [NTG-context] Re: \startcolumns and \startcolumnset
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 05:37:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <02291D00-CBAC-49A2-A665-F5825F7C037D@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <073A270E-8D36-4C21-AD8B-56A5ACB82238@mac.com>
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Dear Dalyoung,
Have you tried
\startsimplecolumns
\stopsimplecolumns
instead of the columnset mechanism?
In your example I put the above commands and I got the attached PDF: is this what you want to obtain?
Best regards: Otared
> On 9 Feb 2024, at 02:22, Jeong Dal via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I have a little problem to use “columns” in the following example.
>
> If I use “\startcolumnset”, then I have the following problems:
> 1. The figures is aligned left even though I use \startplacefigure[].
> 2. In the second column, the first item located at the end of the page.
> However, \vfill works, so I managed the items evenly spaced vertically.
>
> If I use “\startcolumns”, then I have the following problems:
> 1. \vfill doesn’t works, but \blank[] works. So, it isn’t easy to locate the items evenly spaced vertically.
>
> Here are sample code and its outputs of two cases for comparison.
>
> Any suggestions are welcomed.
>
> Tomorrow is the New Years day in Lunar calendar.
> Happy new year, again.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dalyoung
>
> %%%%%%%
> \startuseMPgraphic{mark}
> path p;
> p := unitsquare scaled 3cm;
> draw p;
> draw (point 0 of p)--(point 2 of p);
> draw (point 1 of p)--(point 3 of p);
> \stopuseMPgraphic
> \startuseMPgraphic{verticalrule3}
> draw rightboundary OverlayBox shifted (1mm,0); %if CurrentColumn = 1: shifted(-2mm,0) fi ;
> draw leftboundary OverlayBox shifted (-1mm,0); %if CurrentColumn = 2: shifted(2mm,0) fi ;
> draw bottomboundary OverlayBox leftenlarged 1mm rightenlarged 1mm;
> draw topboundary OverlayBox leftenlarged 1mm rightenlarged 1mm;
> \stopuseMPgraphic
>
> \defineoverlay
> [verticalrule]
> [\useMPgraphic{verticalrule3}]
>
> \setuppagenumbering[state=stop]
> \setupexternalfigures[location={local,defalut}]
> \definecolumnset
> [quiz]
> [n=2,background=verticalrule]
>
> \setupbodyfont[bonum, rm, 11pt]
>
> \starttext
>
> %\startcolumns[n=2,background=verticalrule]
> \startcolumnset[quiz]
>
> \startitemize[n]
> \item Solve the following linear equations.
>
> \startitemize[r]
> \item equation
> % \blank[3.5cm]
> \vfill
> \item equation
> % \blank[3.5cm]
> \vfill
> \item equation
> \blank[3.5cm]
> \item equation
> \blank[3.5cm]
> \item equation
> \blank[3.5cm]
> \stopitemize
> \hrule
> \column
> \item Draw the graph of the following linear function.
> \startitemize[r]
> \item $2x +3y = 6$
>
> \startplacefigure[location={here,none},]
> \useMPgraphic{mark}
> \stopplacefigure
>
> \item $y = 2x - 1$
>
> \startplacefigure[location={here,none}]
> \useMPgraphic{mark}
> \stopplacefigure
> \stopitemize
>
> \item Find the formula of the line 1:
> \vfill
> \item Find the formula of the line 2:
> \vfill
> \stopitemize
> \stopcolumnset
>
> \stoptext
> %%%%%%%%%%
>
>
> <testColumns.pdf>
> <testColumnset.pdf>
>
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> ___________________________________________________________________________________
Otared Kavian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-09 4:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-09 1:22 [NTG-context] " Jeong Dal via ntg-context
2024-02-09 4:37 ` Otared Kavian [this message]
2024-02-09 11:22 ` [NTG-context] " Jeong Dal via ntg-context
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