From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Placing a box with left-aligned lines on the right border
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:58:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1A3BB124-4168-425F-B5C0-84E91F39D446@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.xt81iouetpjj8f@lpr>
> Am 18.02.2015 um 11:45 schrieb Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. <LPr@pontex.cz>:
>
> Hello,
>
> how to more easily achieve this?:
>
> ----
> Some text on line Text in box
> Longer text in the box
> Shorter text in box
>
> |<------------------>|
> Width of the box is
> that of the longest
> text in it
>
> |<---->|
> Some space between the preceeding
> text and the box
> |<------------------------------------------>|
> Text width available (\textwidth)
> ----
>
> The solution should have the following features:
>
> - Text in the box to be written "at once" with a token (be "\\" or "\par" or another) to go to the next line;
> - The box (wrapping "Text in box", "Longer text in the box", "Shorter text in box") should have no width specified -
> it should get it from the longest member (line) in it (in our case: width of "Longer text in the box");
> - Text in the box should be "alignleft";
> - Base line of first text the box to be vertically aligned to the base of the preceding text, i.e.
> "Some text on line" to have the same basement as "Text in box";
> - A horizontal filler may be placed between "Some text on line" and the box to fit "text width available".
>
> Two ways that don't go to the goal, just to demonstrate my trials and fails:
>
> ----
> \starttext
>
> % 1
>
> Some text on line\hfill Text in box\par
> \hfill Longer text in the box\par
> \hfill Shorter text in box\par
>
> % 2
>
> Some text on line\hfill\framed[width=5cm,align=flushleft,frame=off]
> {Text in box\\
> Longer text in the box\\
> Shorter text in box}
>
> \stoptext
> ----
>
> Way 1 - problems:
>
> - The text to be boxed is not written in a "box environment";
> - the text to be boxed is not left-aligned in the box (as it actually is not in a box).
>
> Way 2 - problems:
>
> - The text in the box (\framed) must have width specified;
> - the text in the box "goes over" the line where it is placed, not with first line basement aligned.
>
> So - how to achieve the layout desired?
>
> (Hint:
>
> The situation may be imagined as the top of a letter page:
>
> write "some text to the left", fill with the "maximum space" till you reach the "box for an address" on the right of the current line;
> write address lines left-aligned inside the box.)
Method 1 (frame based):
\starttext
Some text on line
\hfill
\startframed[width=fit,align=flushleft,frame=off,location=top]
Text in box\\
Longer text in the box\\
Shorter text in box
\stopframed
\stoptext
Method 2 (layer based):
\definelayer[letterhead][width=\textwidth]
\setupbackgrounds[text][background=letterhead]
\starttext
\setlayerframed
[letterhead]
[preset=lefttop]
[offset=0pt,frame=off]
{Some text on line}
\setlayerframed
[letterhead]
[preset=righttop]
[offset=0pt,width=fit,align=flushleft,frame=off,location=top]
{Text in box\\
Longer text in the box\\
Shorter text in box}
\blank[force,4*line]
\input knuth
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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2015-02-18 10:45 Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
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