From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/26123 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans van der Meer Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: columns in framedtext Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:26:42 +0100 Message-ID: <5081ECC5-2FC3-4964-936E-379691F045C9@science.uva.nl> References: <43F98D09.6010609@elvenkind.com> <43F9BE98.3050702@elvenkind.com> <43F9CFF2.8090004@wxs.nl> <43FA490C.40401@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1140604016 12390 80.91.229.2 (22 Feb 2006 10:26:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:26:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Feb 22 11:26:54 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FBrCt-0007NJ-Re for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:26:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47AF612796; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:26:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 16267-02; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:26:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 665C41279A; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:26:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF88B1279A for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:26:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 16179-05-2 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:26:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.science.uva.nl (smtp.science.uva.nl [146.50.4.84]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id CE24D12796 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:26:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from 119-43.uva.surfnetthuis.nl [145.98.119.43] by smtp.science.uva.nl with ESMTP (sendmail 8.11.6p2/config 11.36). id k1MAQfh18674; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:26:41 +0100 X-Organisation: Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands X-URL: http://www.science.uva.nl/ In-Reply-To: <43FA490C.40401@wxs.nl> Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:26123 Archived-At: 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