Re: columns and alignment at the bottom

["George N. White III" <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Ed L Cashin wrote:

> Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:
>
> > \starttext
> >
> > \startcolumnset
> >
> > \dorecurse{100}
> >    {\framed
> >       [width=\hsize,height=fit,align=normal]
> >       {\getrandomnumber\whatever{1}{9}%
> >        \dorecurse\whatever{\strut test \recurselevel\endgraf}}
> >     \vfilll}
> >
> > \stopcolumnset
> >
> > \stoptext
>
> Oh, I can't wait to see what that example does!  Does it show that I
> am not recalling correctly?  I hope so.
>
> The example, though, doesn't result in a pdf file for me when I put it
> into a file, "test.tex", and run "texexec --pdf test".

The example works for me, using TeX Live 2003 with a newer (beta)
cont-tmf.tex:

$ texexec --pdf context-align.tex
[...]
This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.2)
[...]
ConTeXt  ver: 2003.9.26  fmt: 2003.10.14  int: english  mes: english
[...]
systems : begin file context-align at line 69
systems : randomizer starts with 995399654
[1.1{/opt/texLive/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] [2.2]
[3.3] [4.4] [5.5] [6.6] [7.7]
systems : end file context-align at line 82
){/opt/texLive/texmf/dvips/tetex/f7b6d320.enc}</opt/texLive/texmf/fonts/type1/
bluesky/cm/cmr12.pfb>
Output written on context-align.pdf (7 pages, 14051 bytes).
Transcript written on context-align.log.

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George N. White III  <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca>
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