From: context@vivaldi.net
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Text to be placed into the free space after columns and end of the page
Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 11:30:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ad20833730b1b029ca9851aaf9aaa8f0@vivaldi.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.YAK.7.77.849.2005210447030.479097@nqv-guvaxcnq>
Hello Aditya,
thanks for all your answers.
You were right - my minimalist sample was not very suitable, and my real
sample can be successfuly handled with \startnarrower.
Thanks again for your time.
Best regards,
Lukas
On 2020-05-21 10:52, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 21 May 2020, context@vivaldi.net wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> at least a short reaction would be appreciated - is it possible to get
>> the desired with ConTeXt?
>>
>> - I need to typeset a column-shaped document with a colofon in the
>> bottom of the page, so my interest is not academical but very
>> practical;
>> and the code presented bellow is a minimalistic version ("abcd" stands
>> for colofon).
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Lukas
>>
>>
>> On 2020-05-20 16:38, context@vivaldi.net wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> suppose the minimal example:
>>>
>>> ----
>>> \showboxes
>>> \starttext
>>> \startcolumns[n=2,balance=no,]
>>> \input knuth
>>> \stopcolumns
>>> \vfill
>>> abcd
>>> \stoptext
>>> ----
>>>
>>> This produces two page document with columns on the first page and
>>> text "abcd" on the second.
>
> It is not clear to me why you are using columns here. If you want
> balanced columns, you could use:
>
> \starttext
> \startsimplecolumns[n=2]
> \input knuth
> \stopsimplecolumns
> \vfill
> abcd
> \stoptext
>
>>> But - I want the text "abcd" to be placed to the bottom of the same
>>> page as columns are (thus I attempted to put \vfill into the code,
>>> but
>>> it doesn't work), so to get one page document looking like:
>>>
>>> +------ page width -----+
>>> Column text | (unused)
>>> column text |
>>> column text |
>>> column text |
>>> column text |
>>> column text |
>>>
>>> (some vertical space)
>>>
>>> abcd
>>> +----- end of page -----+
>>>
>>> - How to achieve this?
>
> If you just want a narrower one column output (since using balance=no
> and \vfill after that only makes sense if the length of the content is
> less than a single column), you can use
>
> \setupnarrower[right=0.5\textwidth]
> \startnarrower[right]
> \input knuth
> \stopnarrower
>
> or to get right frame:
>
> \startframedtext[width=0.45\textwidth,frame=off, rightframe=on,
> roffset=0.5em]
> \input knuth
> \stopframedtext
>
> Aditya
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