Re: Two framed texts on the same line

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

>Hello, I would like to achieve this kind of typographical
>effect: two text blocks, one of them aligned to the left
>margin, the other with left-aligned text but with the right
>margin at the right margin of the page.
>
>I can obtain each of them with for example the following:
>
>\defineframedtext[lepi][align=raggedright,width=fit,offset=0pt,frame=off,location=left]
>\defineframedtext[repi][align=raggedright,width=fit,offset=0pt,frame=off,location=right]
>
>Now, I want them to be "at the same height". However, using
>things like placesidebyside or even just \startlepi ...
>\stoplepi \startrepi ... \stoprepi  doesn't work.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>  
>
depends a bit on the usage; the following shows you a few tricks

\defineframedtext
  [gb]
  [align=raggedright,
   width=.5\textwidth,
   offset=0pt,
   frame=off,
   before=,
   after=]

\startbuffer[left]
\startgb[none]
\input tufte
\stopgb
\stopbuffer

\startbuffer[right]
\startgb[none]
\input zapf
\stopgb
\stopbuffer

\starttext

\input tufte

\definepairedbox[gb][location={right,top}]

\startbaselinecorrection
\placepairedbox[gb]
  {\getbuffer[left]}
  {\getbuffer[right]}
\stopbaselinecorrection

\input zapf

\stoptext