Forget this question: location=top did the trick.
Should have found earlier. Rest of the day contemplating over the fact it took me so long to find out 🥲

yours sincerely
dr. Hans van der Meer



> On 31 May 2024, at 12:13, Hans van der Meer via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
> 
> I have no problem of aligning two or more \framedtext boxes bottomwise on the baseline, nor centering them vertically within a \vcenter.
> But I do not succeed in placing them with their top aligned without the following trick: typeset them in a box, determine largestheight and then typeset again each within: \vbox to largestheight and \vill'ed to the bottom.
> 
> All very well, but it is disastrous when there are side effects: twice typesetting then fails in some instances.
> I hope I described the question sufficiently clear, because an MWE is not so minimal.
> 
> Therefore my question: how can I align two or more \framedtext's thus:
> 
> |----------] |----------] |----------] ...
> |          ] [          ] [          ]
> |          ] [          ] [          ]
> |          ] [          ] [          ]
> |          ] |----------] [          ]
> |          ]              [          ]
> |          ]              [          ]
> |----------]              [          ]
>                           |----------]
> 
> yours sincerely
> dr. Hans van der Meer
> 
> 
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