From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/25528 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ville Voipio Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: \startalignment etc. require text immediately after Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:30:02 +0200 Message-ID: <43D639EA.9050404@kpatents.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138113292 16028 80.91.229.2 (24 Jan 2006 14:34:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:34:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jan 24 15:34:42 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org 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 1F1PEs-0004NX-Qu for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:33:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71358127E5; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:33:42 +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 32754-02; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:33:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C6BD127A7; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:30:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA661127A7 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:30:05 +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 32341-05 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:30:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.kpatents.com (mail.kpatents.com [195.170.128.67]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id D14EE1279E for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:30:02 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: (qmail 29033 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2006 14:30:02 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.100.157?) (192.168.100.157) by 192.168.100.1 with SMTP; 24 Jan 2006 14:30:02 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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:25528 Archived-At: One phenomenon I have repeatedly come accross but not quite understood... If I have \startalignment, \startnarrower, etc., then there has to be text immediately after the start command. As small example: \startalignment[center] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD something \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stopalignment This should create a single-cell table in the middle of the page. It does not, the text is in the left. If I add something small (a strut), then everything works fine: \startalignment[center] \strut \bTABLE \bTR \bTD something \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stopalignment Any text has the same effect as the strut. If the text is added to the end, it does not have any effect, i.e. the start has no effect. After some quick experimenting it seems evident that there has to be text after the start command. A figure or a table won't do. Why? And does this occur with any start-stop pair (sounds odd) or just with a few? And what is the kosher way of solving this problem? This must be a FAQ, but I could not find the search terms to find an answer. TIA, - Ville