From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/26092 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: columns in framedtext Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:56:12 +0100 Message-ID: <43FA490C.40401@wxs.nl> References: <43F98D09.6010609@elvenkind.com> <43F9BE98.3050702@elvenkind.com> <43F9CFF2.8090004@wxs.nl> 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 1140476385 29592 80.91.229.2 (20 Feb 2006 22:59:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:59:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Feb 20 23:59:43 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 1FBK0L-0008Rh-Cz for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:59:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA9B112775; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:59:40 +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 24336-04; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:59:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50AC012784; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:56:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB9E12784 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:56:09 +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 24336-02 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:56:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id EDE5112775 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:56:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 6413 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:56:08 +0300 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: 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: 2.1.7 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:26092 Archived-At: Hans van der Meer wrote: > I had already experimented with simplecolumns, because these can be > placed within framed and at first did seem to do the trick. > But the problem I then encountered -- and could not see how to > correct that -- is balancing of the columns, both at normal > linespacing and with fixed lineskip. > The bottomline of the columns is not consistently comeing out straight. > It is then also difficult to get the whitespace above and below at > equal size. > Is there a solution? > actually, pdftex now has a feature to manipulate lineheights/depths but i will start using that when i'm sure that this version of pdftex is widely spreak you can try to add struts, \startsimplecolumns \begstrut some text ... and more \endstrut \stopsimplecolumns ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------