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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: box'es do not spread out
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2016 06:43:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56B58803.8030601@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68007A53-9BE0-4BEE-A6B9-BCAFAEDC70EE@uva.nl>


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> Meer, Hans van der <mailto:H.vanderMeer@uva.nl>
> 5. Februar 2016 um 20:34
> I am struggling with the following problem:
>
> Collect a number of boxes with:
> \global\setbox\placexcontent=\hbox{%
> \box\placexcontent% collection of previous boxes
> \box\placexbox% next box affixed to previous onse
> \hskip\placexdistanceskip% spearation, replacing by \hfill does not 
> solve problem
> }%
> Thus the incoming \placexbox'es are strung together separated by a skip.
> Later they are typeset centered as a whole with:
> \hbox to\textwidth{%% will be wider than the sum of the original box 
> collection
> \hss
> \box\placexcontent% or \unhbox, doesn't look different
> \unskip% unskip removes the last (extra) \hskip
> \hss% should succumb to \hskip 0pt plus1fill
> }%
>
> The problem is the following:
> (1) \placexdistanceskip=10ptboxes are separated neatly
> (2) \placexdistanceskip=0pt plus1fillBOXES DO NOT SPREAD OUT AS I 
> EXPECTED THEM TO DO
> The flexible component does sadly not carry over to the final box, 
> apparently.
>
> Clearly my misunderstanding of working with boxes.
> Can this be solved easily?
It will really help when you send complete working examples and not only 
code snippets.

Maybe you're looking for the \spreadhbox command.

\starttext

\setbox\scratchbox\emptyhbox

\setbox\scratchbox\hbox{First box}
\setbox\scratchbox\hbox{\box\scratchbox\hbox{Second box}}
\setbox\scratchbox\hbox{\box\scratchbox\hbox{Third box}}

\maxaligned{\spreadhbox\scratchbox}

\stoptext

Wolfgang

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2016-02-05 19:34 Meer, Hans van der
2016-02-06  5:43 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]

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