Re: Extra space before itemize

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
>> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am setting up a head which simply puts its contents in a layer, so that
>>> I can control where to place the head. If the head is followed by an
>>> itemize, I get spurious white space. See the following test file. Page 1
>>> is head followed by text, which is OK. Page 2 is head followed by itemize,
>>> which has extra space. page 3 is just itemize which is ok.
>>>
>>> \definelayer[test]
>>>      [width=\paperwidth,
>>>      height=\paperheight,
>>>      x=5cm,y=1cm]
>>>
>>> \def\mylayer#1#2{\setlayer[test]{#1#2}}
>>>
>>> \definehead[testhead][subject]
>>>
>>> \setuphead[testhead]
>>>             [before=,
>>>             after=,
>>>             alternative=text,
>>>             command=\mylayer]
>>>
>>> \setupbackgrounds[page][background=test]
>>>
>>> \showframe
>>> \showboxes
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>>
>>> \testhead{First}
>>>
>>> \input knuth
>>>
>>> \page
>>>
>>> \testhead{Hello}
>>>
>>> \startitemize
>>>    \item A
>>>    \item B
>>> \stopitemize
>>>
>>> \page
>>>
>>> \startitemize
>>>    \item A
>>>    \item B
>>> \stopitemize
>>>
>>>
>>> \stoptext
>>>
>>>
>>> How do I get rid of the extra space?
>> hack
>>
>> \def\mylayer#1#2{\startnointerference\setlayer[test]{#1#2}\stopnointerference}
>>
>> \definehead[testhead][subject]
>>
>> \setuphead[testhead]
>>             [page=,
>>              before=,
>>              after={\topskipcorrection\vskip-\topskip \blank[disable]},
>>              alternative=normal,
>>              command=\mylayer]
> 
> Thanks. I think that in this case it will be cleaner to not use heads in 
> this case and implement color, style, align interface by hand. I will 
> wikify your answer.

you can achieve the same effect by just header=high and using a layer in 
the command and flush it then

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