From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/23469 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: The whole (sub)section on a single page Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:39:36 +0100 Message-ID: <4378E7F8.4000505@wxs.nl> References: <6faad9f00511121555x5ff6084dn26e714128030392e@mail.gmail.com> <4377468E.4010802@elvenkind.com> <6faad9f00511141011g40a31af8nac87df252a3d6f5e@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1131997522 5671 80.91.229.2 (14 Nov 2005 19:45:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:45:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Nov 14 20:45:20 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EbkFo-00018r-72 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:44:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF7E21277C; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:44:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26292-01; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:44:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FD0E12780; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:39:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8E1A12780 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:39:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26056-02 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:39:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from controller-1 (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5563126F8 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:39:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 3218 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:42:59 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00511141011g40a31af8nac87df252a3d6f5e@mail.gmail.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:23469 Archived-At: Mojca Miklavec wrote: >Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > >>Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> >>>It doesn't need to automatically determine the subsection boundaries >>>automatically (although this would be great), so I can write something >>>like this: >>> >>>\startmaterialforonepage >>>\subsection{split only if too long for one page} >>>\dorecurse{10}{whatever comes here \dots } >>>\stopmaterialforonepage >>> >>> >>Do you want something like this? >> >> \long\def\startmaterialforonepage#1\stopmaterialforonepage% >> {\setbox0\vbox{#1}\ifdim\ht0<\textheight \page\fi #1} >> >> > >Thak you, Taco. Yes, this is almost exactly what I wanted to do, >except that I would substitute > \ifdim\ht0<\textheight >with > \ifdim\ht0<\theremainingpageheight > >How/where can I get \theremainingpageheight? I saw some strange >"keywords" like \pagegoal, \pagetotal spread through the source, ... >but I have no clue what they are for and if they have anyting to do >with what I'm looking for. > > that's always tricky, because it's not really possible to determine the rest of the available space without entering the output routing, which then spoils spacing (there is \testpage[n] with n being a minimal number of lines, so, \testpage[10] will move to the next page if there are less than 10 lines) Hans