From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/23760 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Two framed texts on the same line Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:04:30 +0100 Message-ID: <43870BDE.1080601@wxs.nl> References: <1191176180.20051125121527@iol.it> 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 1132924113 17957 80.91.229.2 (25 Nov 2005 13:08:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:08:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Nov 25 14:08:25 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 1EfdHT-0007II-Qj for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:06:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 921FA12871; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:06:23 +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 03847-04; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:06:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 586B61285E; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:04:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE5151285E for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:04:32 +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 03731-10 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:04:32 +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 E26DA1285C for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:04:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 4875 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:09:01 +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: <1191176180.20051125121527@iol.it> 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:23760 Archived-At: 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