Re: Simple Newbie Question.

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

Hi

is this what you want?

\setuplayout
	[topspace=2.5cm,
	backspace=1.5cm,
	header=0pt,
	margin=0pt,
	footer=1.5\bodyfontsize,
	height=middle,
	width=middle]
\mainlanguage[nl]
\setupcolors[state=start]
\setupframed
\startbuffer[Footer]
	\framedtext[align=right,frame=on, width= 
\textwidth,offset=3pt,framecolor=red]{\tfxx Datasheet:}
\stopbuffer
\setupfootertexts[{\getbuffer[Footer]}]
%\showframe

\starttext
Here is a Datasheet
\stoptext

Kind regards

Willi
On Jul 8, 2009, at 2:57 AM, Stirling Westrup wrote:

> I'm hoping the answer to this question should be obvious, but I'm
> having no luck with it.
>
> I'm trying to do a layout for a 1-page datasheet. At the very bottom
> of the page, in some tiny font, I need to put a copyright notice and
> datasheet ID number.
>
> Ideally I'd like to define some fixed text block containing the text
> (as its exact size and font have not yet been finalized), and then
> somehow define the height of the footer to be exactly equal to the
> height of the text block. Once I've done that, I need to place the
> text in the footer.
>
> I've been going back and forth through the scattered bits of ConTeXt
> manual and the wiki, but I'm having no luck in figuring out how one
> might do this.
>
> -- 
> Stirling Westrup
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