Blank at beginning of page

Blank at beginning of page

[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.
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.

Thanks in advance for any advice


Philipp
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Re: Blank at beginning of page

[Boštjan Vesnicer]

On 18.1.2010 13:40, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> \showframe
> \starttext
> \blank[5*big]
> Some text.
> \stoptext
>    

\dontleavehmode
\blank[5*big]

See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/A_Very_Simple_Cover_Page for explanation.

Bostjan


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Re: Blank at beginning of page

[Wolfgang Schuster]

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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