From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/77141 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan BRASLAU Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Centering a figure vertically on a page Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:27:06 +0200 Organization: CEA DSM-IRAMIS-SPEC Message-ID: <20120703172706.02117013@sole.extra.cea.fr> References: <20120703132157.2dbe199c@aga-netbook> <20120703151017.757be4f9@sole.extra.cea.fr> <4FF2F83B.8030900@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341329248 7766 80.91.229.3 (3 Jul 2012 15:27:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 15:27:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users To: Hans Hagen Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jul 03 17:27:26 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sm50b-00055g-8e for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:27:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEC4B101E8; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:27:19 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 0SoZqhWGNOP3; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:27:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B015101E9; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:27:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE472101E9 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:27:16 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id LIVS7QNxNYpj for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:27:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter2-til.mf.surf.net (filter2-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.218]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2493101E8 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:27:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from oxalide-out.extra.cea.fr (oxalide-out.extra.cea.fr [132.168.224.8]) by filter2-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id q63FR8o9019328 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:27:15 +0200 Original-Received: from epeire1.extra.cea.fr (epeire1.extra.cea.fr [132.167.198.31]) by oxalide.extra.cea.fr (8.14.2/8.14.2/CEAnet-Internet-out-2.3) with ESMTP id q63FR7eY007814 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:27:08 +0200 Original-Received: from orpin2.extra.cea.fr (orpin2.extra.cea.fr [132.167.198.5]) by epeire1.extra.cea.fr (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q63FR7VV024974; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:27:07 +0200 (envelope-from alan.braslau@cea.fr) Original-Received: from sole.extra.cea.fr (iram-ha-003840.extra.cea.fr [132.166.25.152]) by orpin2.extra.cea.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8/CEAnet-Intranet-out-1.2) with ESMTP id q63FR75m026008; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:27:07 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4FF2F83B.8030900@wxs.nl> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0002 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=132.168.224.8; country=FR; region=A3; city=Gif-sur-yvette; latitude=48.6833; longitude=2.1333; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=48.6833,2.1333&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0THtPr9sd - 393994903863 - 20120703 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.218 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:77141 Archived-At: On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 15:48:43 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote: > It's a rather (old) low level boxing macro ... > > \start > \showboxes > \centerbox width 10cm height 3cm {Alan is surprised} > \stop My TeX culture remains, alas, always limited (even if I have the TeXbook on my office bookshelf, indeed \centerbox does not appear in plain TeX). Nothing in the ConTeXt manual, either. Of course, a leisurely browsing of the source code would reveal many such treasures! On the garden: Context 2005.05.25 ... \centerbox now accepts \par in it;s argument ... Alan ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________