From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/51667 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Willi Egger Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Simple Newbie Question. Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:43:30 +0200 Message-ID: References: <18e9c2dc0907071757idd6e741l82a5f70fca1add8b@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"; DelSp="yes" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247046305 26235 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2009 09:45:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:45:05 +0000 (UTC) To: swestrup@gmail.com, mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jul 08 11:44:57 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MOThv-0005Hw-Sk for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:44:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D4D41FB5A; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:44:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 32366-06; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:44:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11A0C1FAD7; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:44:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C72D1FAD7 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:43:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02249-06 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:43:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter3-til.mf.surf.net (filter3-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.219]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90B0A1FA4C for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:43:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.7values.nl (pluto.digitpaint.nl [83.98.197.3]) by filter3-til.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n689hZwH017050 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:43:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (dp5.intern.digitpaint.nl [192.168.0.7]) by mail.7values.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 999B87D8E; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:43:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.7values.nl ([192.168.0.1]) by localhost (dp5.digitpaint.nl [192.168.0.7]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id MwURUsYyZ1Ld; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:43:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [192.168.0.198] (a83-161-249-79.adsl.xs4all.nl [83.161.249.79]) by mail.7values.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 692057D8D; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:43:35 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <18e9c2dc0907071757idd6e741l82a5f70fca1add8b@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=83.98.197.3; country=NL; region=07; city=Amsterdam; latitude=52.3500; longitude=4.9167; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.3500,4.9167&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 257459474 - 10fc7bf87dc6 - 20090708 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.219 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:51667 Archived-At: 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 > Programmer, Entrepreneur. > https://www.linkedin.com/e/fpf/77228 > http://www.linkedin.com/in/swestrup > http://technaut.livejournal.com > ______________________________________________________________________ > _____________ > 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ______________________________________________________________________ > _____________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________