From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/32331 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gerhard Kugler Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Elevated text blocks Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:25:02 +0100 Message-ID: <20061228202502.GA4352@grohe.our-isp.org> References: <20061227212538.GA4333@grohe.our-isp.org> <20061228192658.GA4201@grohe.our-isp.org> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167337651 10967 80.91.229.10 (28 Dec 2006 20:27:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:27:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Dec 28 21:27:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H01qV-0000T9-NU for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:27:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE6C120137; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:25:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29691-02; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:25:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8898A1FEFD; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:23:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE0BA200BF for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:23:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29299-05-4 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:23:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from grotesk.our-isp.org (www.our-isp.org [82.165.43.21]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id A733E1FED4 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:23:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from taxos (dslb-084-058-045-212.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.58.45.212]) by grotesk.our-isp.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7C1425DFB for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:25:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from gwk by taxos with local (Exim 4.63 #1 (Debian)) id 1H01oF-000195-1J for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:25:03 +0100 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:32331 Archived-At: On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 03:03:35PM -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > If choosing page size is an option, and there are only a few that are > larger than a page, things may be much easier. Keep all of them in one > page, and typeset. Note the ones that are larger than a page, and mark > them using a differnt environment. That is, you decide which exercises > should break and which should not. This seems a good clarification. > > > 3. Or a more drastic case, when the current page has only two lines > > > and the text block is exactly one page long. Should the text split or > > > not. > > > > No. > > This seems inconsistent with case 1. There the text was less than one > page, but you want it to be split. In this case, the text is exactly > one page, but you do not want it to be split? I'm no longer so sure. > Is something like this acceptable: > > if length < 1 page > keep the whole thing together, even if it means ending the current > page with lots of empty space. > > if length > 1 page > split whereever you want > o.k. > That would means, do a trial typesetting to find the length of the > block, if length is less than one page put in a framedtext (which is > just a highly customizable vbox) if length > 1 page, don't do anything > and let it break pages anywhere. Just one more bit of information is > needed. Do your exercises contain display math? > No. Gerhard -- Gerhard Kugler Psychotherapeut http://www.psychotherapie-kugler.de