From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Centering a figure vertically on a page
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 18:19:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG5iGsAE2RHJXNkjcTvqfTAXsEkkO+SjmmRv3qAZsrEFsoEfLw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D0DE2258-A3CD-48CF-8268-A9692667F636@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Am 03.07.2012 um 18:04 schrieb luigi scarso:
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr> wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 15:48:43 +0200
> > Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> >
> >> It's a rather (old) low level boxing macro ...
> >>
> >> \start
> >> \showboxes
> >> \centerbox width 10cm height 3cm {Alan is surprised}
> >> \stop
> >
> > My TeX culture remains, alas, always limited (even if I have the
> > TeXbook on my office bookshelf, indeed \centerbox does not appear in
> > plain TeX). Nothing in the ConTeXt manual, either. Of course, a
> > leisurely browsing of the source code would reveal many such treasures!
> There is also \vcenter
>
> \starttext
> xxxxxxxxxxg\ruledvbox{\hsize=5cm\vcenter to 3cm{Alan is
> surprised}}gxxxxxxxxx \type{\vcenter}\par
> xxxxxxxxxxg\ruledvbox{\centerbox width5cm height3cm{Alan is
> surprised}}gxxxxxxxxx \type{\centerbox}\par
> xxxxxxxxxxg\ruledvbox{\vcenter{\centerbox width5cm height3cm{Alan is
> surprised}}}gxxxxxxxxx\type{\centerbox+\vcenter}\par
> \stoptext
>
> (\vcenter is a TeX primitive)
>
>
> ConTeXt redefines \vcenter because the primitive can only be used in math
> mode.
>
yes I know ... and original TeX primitive is still available as
\normalvcenter
(kind of easter egg for Alan..)
--
luigi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-03 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-03 11:21 Marcin Borkowski
2012-07-03 11:30 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-07-03 12:18 ` Marcin Borkowski
2012-07-03 13:10 ` Alan BRASLAU
2012-07-03 13:48 ` Hans Hagen
2012-07-03 15:27 ` Alan BRASLAU
2012-07-03 15:54 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-07-03 16:04 ` luigi scarso
2012-07-03 16:08 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-07-03 16:19 ` luigi scarso [this message]
2012-07-03 16:27 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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