Keep text elements together

Keep text elements together

[Uriel Avalos]

Hi all. I'm writing a Multiple Choice test set in two-columns. I would like to keep the multiple-choice items together with the question both on the same page AND on the same column.

Question 1     Question 3
  choice 1     	  choice 1
  choice 2	  choice 2
  choice 3	  choice 3

Question 2     Question 4
  choice 1     	  choice 1
  choice 2	  choice 2
  choice 3	  choice 3

(Apologies, it's easier to draw than describe). 

So I don't want the multiple choices breaking to another page or going to another column. How can I achieve this?
I tried setting the "intro" flag of itemize but it doesn't work.

Here's what I did:

\item[columns]

...
\item Question
\startitemize[intro]
\item choice
\item choice
...
\stopitemize
...

\stopitemize

but the multiple-choice items would still break across pages and columns

F
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Re: Keep text elements together

[Uriel Avalos]

So does anyone know how to do this? I'm sure it's possible -- I did it in TeX once but I can't find the ConTeXt equivalent in the docs...

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:32:16AM -0400, Uriel Avalos wrote:
> Hi all. I'm writing a Multiple Choice test set in two-columns. I would like to keep the multiple-choice items together with the question both on the same page AND on the same column.
> 
> Question 1     Question 3
>   choice 1     	  choice 1
>   choice 2	  choice 2
>   choice 3	  choice 3
> 
> Question 2     Question 4
>   choice 1     	  choice 1
>   choice 2	  choice 2
>   choice 3	  choice 3
> 
> (Apologies, it's easier to draw than describe). 
> 
> So I don't want the multiple choices breaking to another page or going to another column. How can I achieve this?
> I tried setting the "intro" flag of itemize but it doesn't work.
> 
> Here's what I did:
> 
> \item[columns]
> 
> ...
> \item Question
> \startitemize[intro]
> \item choice
> \item choice
> ...
> \stopitemize
> ...
> 
> \stopitemize
> 
> but the multiple-choice items would still break across pages and columns
> 
> F
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> 
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Re: Keep text elements together

[Hans Hagen]

Uriel Avalos wrote:
> So does anyone know how to do this? I'm sure it's possible -- I did it in TeX once but I can't find the ConTeXt equivalent in the docs...

you can try \startitemize[packed]

> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:32:16AM -0400, Uriel Avalos wrote:
>> Hi all. I'm writing a Multiple Choice test set in two-columns. I would like to keep the multiple-choice items together with the question both on the same page AND on the same column.
>>
>> Question 1     Question 3
>>   choice 1     	  choice 1
>>   choice 2	  choice 2
>>   choice 3	  choice 3
>>
>> Question 2     Question 4
>>   choice 1     	  choice 1
>>   choice 2	  choice 2
>>   choice 3	  choice 3
>>
>> (Apologies, it's easier to draw than describe). 
>>
>> So I don't want the multiple choices breaking to another page or going to another column. How can I achieve this?
>> I tried setting the "intro" flag of itemize but it doesn't work.
>>
>> Here's what I did:
>>
>> \item[columns]
>>
>> ...
>> \item Question
>> \startitemize[intro]
>> \item choice
>> \item choice
>> ...
>> \stopitemize
>> ...
>>
>> \stopitemize
>>
>> but the multiple-choice items would still break across pages and columns
>>
>> F
>> ___________________________________________________________________________________
>> If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!
>>
>> maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
>> webpage  : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net
>> archive  : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
>> wiki     : http://contextgarden.net
>> ___________________________________________________________________________________
> ___________________________________________________________________________________
> If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!
> 
> maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
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> archive  : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
> wiki     : http://contextgarden.net
> ___________________________________________________________________________________


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