From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Blank at beginning of page
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:41:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B559A66.9020705@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100118124051.GA12856@aides>
Am 18.01.10 13:40, schrieb Philipp Gesang:
> Hi,
>
> being new to ConTeXt I'd have loads of questions but I'd like to start
> with what puzzles me most: any \blank[] command that happens to be at
> the beginning of a page seems to be ignored. For instance in a document
> as follows
>
> \showframe
> \starttext
> \blank[5*big]
> Some text.
> \stoptext
>
> the string "Some text." will be placed on the very top of the text
> field, regardless of what \blank[]s precede it. I read a good deal of
> the documentation but couldn't make out the cause nor a workaround.
\blank[force,5*big]
> Right now I even consider to put headings inside a float or something
> like that in order to make their [before=\blank[someblank]] option
> effective.
You need braces around the \blank command or you will get a error message.
[before={\blank[force,5*big]}]
Wolfgang
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2010-01-18 12:40 Philipp Gesang
2010-01-19 11:01 ` Boštjan Vesnicer
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