From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: box width to fit longest line of text
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 23:40:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57EC38B9.1090507@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <freemail.20160928233618.54304.1@fmxmldata04.freemail.hu>
[-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 667 bytes --]
> Csikos Bela <mailto:bcsikos425@freemail.hu>
> 28. September 2016 um 23:36
> Dear context users:
>
> I'd like to handle a block of text with 2 or more lines where the
> block width should be equal
> to the longest line in the block. I'd like the lines be center aligned
> in the block.
> Something like this:
>
> line1
> second longerline
> another line
>
> In latex I can do it using parbox like this:
>
> \parbox{\widthof{second longerline}}{\centering{}line1\\second
> longerline\\another line}
>
> How can achieve the same or similar in context?
\starttext
\startframed[align=middle]
line\\
second longer line\\
another line
\stopframed
\stoptext
Wolfgang
[-- Attachment #1.2: Type: text/html, Size: 1717 bytes --]
[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 485 bytes --]
___________________________________________________________________________________
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!
maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net
archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
wiki : http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-28 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-28 21:36 Csikos Bela
2016-09-28 21:40 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2016-09-29 15:37 ` Csikos Bela
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=57EC38B9.1090507@gmail.com \
--to=schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com \
--cc=ntg-context@ntg.nl \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).