Re: multiple lines in footers

[Ron van Ostayen <R.A.J.vanOstayen@WbMT.TUDelft.NL>]

Hans Hagen wrote:

> At 12:08 PM 1/1/2002 +0100, Ron van Ostayen wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >First of all, a happy new year and best wishes for 2002 !!
> >
> >Secondly, I still have a problem using footers.  I have asked this
> >question on this list before but I didn't get a reply.
>
> seems that only i know the answer -)
>
> >I would like to use multiple lines in my document footers.  I've tried:
> >
> >\setupfootertexts[proceedings of the TEST CONFERENCE \\
> >\currentdate}][---\pagenumber---]
> >and
> >\setupfootertexts[proceedings of the TEST CONFERENCE \crlf
> >\currentdate}][---\pagenumber---]
>
> \setupfootertexts
>    [\vbox
>        {whatever you \endgraf
>         want to \endgraf
>         show up there}]
>    [---\pagenumber--]
>
> so, just use a \vbox or \vtop (additionally you can set \setupfooter
> [before=...,after=...])
>

Thanks all for your speedy replies (some off-list).
All solutions offered work OK and are basically the same: Make separate
hboxes and collect them in a vbox.

Hans, why do I have to use \endgraf ?
The TeX-book says that \par and \endgraf are basically the same but if I
use
\par it results in an error-message, \endgraf does not.

The left and righthand footer are now aligned on the bottom.  How can I
align
them on the top?

Ron