From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/34211 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Grid-keeping list (again) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:25:36 +0200 Message-ID: <461E2540.4040601@wxs.nl> References: <461DFA1D.9020706@typoma.com> <461E1DB9.60801@typoma.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176380742 6341 80.91.229.12 (12 Apr 2007 12:25:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:25:42 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Apr 12 14:25:35 2007 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HbyMo-00025K-PZ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:25:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3126E1FBD9; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:25:33 +0200 (CEST) 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 07139-01; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:25:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B5DA1FBC9; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:25:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 562251FBC9 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:25:24 +0200 (CEST) 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 05789-04-2 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:25:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 647D51FBB5 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:25:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.101] (unverified [10.100.1.101]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 17928 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:25:23 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) In-Reply-To: <461E1DB9.60801@typoma.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: 2.1.9 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:34211 Archived-At: Johannes Kuester wrote: > luigi scarso wrote: > >> On 4/12/07, Johannes Kuester wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm still trying to typeset a "grid-keeping" list (or table). >>> >> Sorry, no answer. >> Only to say that I'm following this subject, and I'm doing some private tests. >> > > Thank you! I hope you will be more successful than I am. > > I do not understand why this is such a problem. Basically, it's just > about "paragraph boxes" and their proper alignment on a grid. > > To me, such a list seems like a basic typographic requirement, so it > should be possible to do that in ConTeXt. > the problem with tex is that it does not hav ea way to force consistent height and depth of lines, so here are a few tricks: \begstrut some text \endstrut \endgraf \snaptogrid\vbox{some text} Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------