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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \vtop with middle alignment in a screenplay
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:53:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <FFAF0A1D-3895-4C40-A5DB-E56265992D3D@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51B6F17F.1020609@gmail.com>


Am 11.06.2013 um 11:44 schrieb Jan Pohanka <xhpohanka@gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to make a simple template for screenplays for our amateur theatre.
> 
> I have following code and I'd like to have the single lines of the song centered in a page, but preceded by a person name on the left
> 
> {Person 1:
> \setupalign[middle]{\vtop{%
> song asdf line 1\\
> song line 2\\
> song a line 3}}}
> 
> This code obviously does not work as I need. Can please someone advice me proper ConTeXt way how to do it?


You can place the lyrics with the \startlines environment:

\starttext

Person 1:

\startlines[before=,align=middle]
song asdf line 1
song line 2
song a line 3
\stoplines

\stoptext

Wolfgang
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-11  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-11  9:44 Jan Pohanka
2013-06-11  9:53 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2013-06-11 10:00   ` Jan Pohanka
2013-06-11 10:15     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-06-11 10:24       ` Jan Pohanka
2013-06-11 10:30         ` Wolfgang Schuster

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