Re: [ConTeXt] Boxes which commands to use

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 08:44 PM 1/15/2000 +0100, Tobias Burnus wrote:

>a) define paragraph (with in a itemize), but the question is aligned on the
>   bottom, which looks really odd.
>b) startfiguretext[right], this is almost ok, but I get a line break between
>   \item and \startfiguretext (moreover the MP is aligned on the
,,10...20...30''
>and not to the ___________ below them, but this was expected.)

I think you can best use \starttabulate ... for several reasons: 

(1) it handles multiple paragraphs, and automatically calculated the width

(2) it handles itemizes etc well

(3) it breaks across pages (in a next release even better, with tracing too)

(4) you can hook things into columns (which is what I so when I want some
value to be passed onto a graphic drawing routine), I even think it's
described somewhere in a maps

Actually, \defineparagraph, is sort of replaced by \definetabulation, and
the former is only still usefull for special cases, for instance when one
describes his/her own commands using it. There is an example of how to deal
with itemize in the beta chapter on descriptions. (you need to turn off the
pre/post white space and so).  

Hans  

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