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From: Uriel Avalos <amscopub-mail@yahoo.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Keep text elements together
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:34:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090415133437.GA30343@math-supercpu.amscopub> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090414093216.63af5bcb.amscopub-mail@yahoo.com>

So does anyone know how to do this? I'm sure it's possible -- I did it in TeX once but I can't find the ConTeXt equivalent in the docs...

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:32:16AM -0400, Uriel Avalos wrote:
> Hi all. I'm writing a Multiple Choice test set in two-columns. I would like to keep the multiple-choice items together with the question both on the same page AND on the same column.
> 
> Question 1     Question 3
>   choice 1     	  choice 1
>   choice 2	  choice 2
>   choice 3	  choice 3
> 
> Question 2     Question 4
>   choice 1     	  choice 1
>   choice 2	  choice 2
>   choice 3	  choice 3
> 
> (Apologies, it's easier to draw than describe). 
> 
> So I don't want the multiple choices breaking to another page or going to another column. How can I achieve this?
> I tried setting the "intro" flag of itemize but it doesn't work.
> 
> Here's what I did:
> 
> \item[columns]
> 
> ...
> \item Question
> \startitemize[intro]
> \item choice
> \item choice
> ...
> \stopitemize
> ...
> 
> \stopitemize
> 
> but the multiple-choice items would still break across pages and columns
> 
> F
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-15 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-14 13:32 Uriel Avalos
2009-04-15 13:34 ` Uriel Avalos [this message]
2009-04-16  8:17   ` Hans Hagen

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