Re: columns and alignment at the bottom

[Willi Egger <w.egger@boede.nl>]

At 21:36 12.10.2003, Alex wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am trying to typeset a text which should look roughly like that:
>
>|-----|  |-----| |------|
>|text |  |text | |text  |
>|     |  |-----| |      |
>|-----|          |      |
>          |-----| |      |
>|-----|  |text | |      |
>|text |  |-----| |------|
>|     |
>|     |  |-----| |------|
>|     |  |text | |text  |
>|-----|  |-----| |------|
>
>So I have a frames with some text (actually, addresses - Hans, maybe
>you remember the address booklet I showed you here in Darmstadt) in
>three columns. So I tried something like:
>
>\startcolumns[n=3]
>\framed{first address...}
>\vskip 0.5cm plus 1fill
>\framed{second address...}
>\vskip 0.5cm plus 1fill
>\framed{third address...}
>.
>.
>.
>\stopcolumns
>
>Which (obviously because I use TeX code inside ConTeXt - shame on me)
>fails, the frames are not aligned at the bottom.
>So I'm looking for a way to typeset them with a distance of at least
>0.5cm and align at the bottom - the remaining space should be spread
>equally...
>I hope the question is understandable and I hope someone has already
>done something like this...
>
>Greetings,
>                 ALeX
Now I haven't. But there is another approach to this. There is an arranging 
possibility which looks as follows:

\setuppapersize [XY][A4]
  \setuppaper     [topspace=5mm,backspace=5mm,dx=1mm,dy=2mm,nx=3,ny=4] %
  \setuplayout
      [page]
      [topspace=5mm,
      backspace=5mm,
      header=0pt,
      headerdistance=0pt,
      footer=0pt,
      footerdistance=0pt,
      location=middle,
      marking=on]
\setuppagenumbering[state=stop]
\setuparranging [XY]

\setupframedtexts
         [frame=off,
         leftframe=on,
         bottomframe=on,
         align=middle,
         location=middle,
         width=broad]

%\showframe

\startbuffer[Addresse1]
     \startframedtext
         ...
     \stopframedtext
     \page
\stopbuffer

\startbuffer[Addresse2]
     \startframedtext
         ...
     \stopframedtext
     \page
\stopbuffer

\starttext
     \dorecurse{6}{\getbuffer[Addresse\recurselevel]}%between first braces 
number of addresses you have in buffers
\stoptext

You will have to play with the different option parameters.
It is usefull to start texshow  :-)

Gruss Willi