From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: Ajith R via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: aligning Malayalam horizontally across column
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 11:12:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57212f27-44f1-a03c-cce3-40a014a5c0b2@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211231182501.66267835@desktop.home>
On 12/31/2021 1:55 PM, Ajith R via ntg-context wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to prepare a moderate sized document in Malayalam using
> Context. Overall I have been successful. However, there are a few rough
> edges for which I need help. This is the second problem I face.
>
> I have some 300 group of short sentences placed in five columns using
> \startcolumns[n=5]
> \input aCharTable.tex
> \stopcolumns
>
> The aCharTex generated by a shell script contains the 300 plus commands
> with the structure
>
> \tfa{ \bold{variable} \par (12 - 0.13) } \blank
>
> The problems are that - a) the group, with the two short paras get
> separated into different columns and sometimes pages. How can I prevent
> that? In other words, how do I tell Context that this should be treated
> as cohesive unit? b) The horizontal space doesn't align across columns.
> This probably is because the different conjuncts in each of these lines
> have different heights. How can I ask Context to treat each of these
> cohesive units as having the same height?
But isn't the \par breaking it?
\dontleavehmode\hbox{\tfa\bold{variable} (12 - 0.13)}
we need a better example (just a snippet of actual source that gets
rendered to see the issue)
Hans
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2021-12-31 12:55 ` Ajith R via ntg-context
2021-12-31 15:19 ` kauśika via ntg-context
2022-01-01 10:20 ` Ajith R via ntg-context
2022-01-01 10:12 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context [this message]
2022-01-02 7:08 ` Ajith R via ntg-context
2022-01-02 10:57 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
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