From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/13850 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed L Cashin Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: columns and alignment at the bottom Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:54:39 -0400 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <87brsiqw4w.fsf@uga.edu> References: <121003.1a7ddaac61207cd4dc060100ee9e8eb3@alech.de> <873cdyb2om.fsf@cs.uga.edu> <6.0.0.22.2.20031014213656.02861a88@localhost> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066237302 4449 80.91.224.253 (15 Oct 2003 17:01:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 17:01:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Wed Oct 15 19:01:40 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A9p1o-0006tg-00 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:01:40 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44CA910B07; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:01:38 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from marblerye.cs.uga.edu (marblerye.cs.uga.edu [128.192.101.172]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F22E10ADF for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:54:43 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: (qmail 18011 invoked from network); 15 Oct 2003 16:54:39 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (HELO uga.edu) (127.0.0.1) by 0 with SMTP; 15 Oct 2003 16:54:39 -0000 Original-To: Hans Hagen In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20031014213656.02861a88@localhost> (Hans Hagen's message of "Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:37:30 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:13850 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:13850 Hans Hagen writes: > At 22:50 12/10/2003, Ed L Cashin wrote: ... >>Some months ago another columns implementation came out, but if I >>recall correctly, when you have columns of vboxes separated by very >>stretchy glue, the new columns implementation can't bottom-align them >>either. > > got you: > > \starttext > > \startcolumnset > > \dorecurse{100} > {\framed > [width=\hsize,height=fit,align=normal] > {\getrandomnumber\whatever{1}{9}% > \dorecurse\whatever{\strut test \recurselevel\endgraf}} > \vfilll} > > \stopcolumnset > > \stoptext Oh, I can't wait to see what that example does! Does it show that I am not recalling correctly? I hope so. The example, though, doesn't result in a pdf file for me when I put it into a file, "test.tex", and run "texexec --pdf test". Acrobat Reader 4.0 says, "There was an error opening this document. Could not repair file." ecashin@marblerye tmp$ PATH=/opt/teTeX-1.0.7/bin:$PATH texexec --pdf test TeXExec 3.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : test output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-13d-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1) entering extended mode ... pdftex : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map systems : begin file test at line 1 systems : randomizer starts with 903229090 [1.1[/opt/teTeX-1.0.7/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map]] [2.2] return code : 11 run time : 2 seconds total run time : 2 seconds ecashin@marblerye tmp$ acroread test.pdf ecashin@marblerye tmp$ -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin@uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/