Re: columns in framedtext

[Hans van der Meer <hansm@science.uva.nl>]

On Feb 20, 2006, at 23:56, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Hans van der Meer wrote:
>> I had already experimented with simplecolumns, because these can be
>> placed within framed and at first did seem to do the trick.
>> But the problem I then encountered -- and could not see how to
>> correct that -- is balancing of the columns, both at normal
>> linespacing and with fixed lineskip.
>> The bottomline of the columns is not consistently comeing out  
>> straight.
>> It is then also difficult to get the whitespace above and below at
>> equal size.
>> Is there a solution?
>>
> actually, pdftex now has a feature to manipulate lineheights/depths  
> but i will start using that when i'm sure that this version of  
> pdftex is widely spreak

Thanks Hans. This remark pointed the way. It is so simple I nearly  
feel ashamed.
\startsimplecolumns can be forced to a neat straight bottomline just  
by setting a \baselineskip without stretch or shrink. I therefore did:
	\baselineskip\bodyfontsize
	\advance\baselineskip (dimension)
this extra space settable with [lineskip=dimension] in the calling  
command.

By the way, I did this work in order to implement into ConTeXt the  
LaTeX files of Dennis van Dok's recent article in the NTG MAPS "Jewel  
case listings for mp3 cdroms". If the code seems stable enough, I  
will make it available through Dennis.


yours sincerely,
dr. H. van der Meer