Re: Conflicting 'index' with 'bottomtext'

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 09:47 PM 3/11/01 +0100, Willi Egger wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Finally (Yes Hans!) my bookbinding book is complete as far as the text is
>concernd.
>
>Now I pepared a screen version of this document. It contains also an index
>of several pages. While througout the document the buttons, which are placed
>in the \bottomtext environment are typeset correctly, they aren't in the
>index.  On the full screens the bottomtext seems to be split into two
>columns, which makes it necessary to hyphenate the button-texts.  The last
>screen of the index is a couple of lines only, on this page the buttons are
>placed correctly.
>
>How can I prevent this?
>As an attachment I provide you the relevant part of my layout-environment.
>
>With the parameters chosen the screen width is not completely used. Which of
>the variables have to be changed to force the document to use the maximum
>width and height of the screen?

You should put the buttons in a menu: 

\setupmenu[bttom][state=start]

\startmenu[bottom]
\but [here] bla bla \\
\but [there] more bla \\ 
\stopmenu

[see s-pre-* for examples, search for menu)

Hans 
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