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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Extra space before itemize
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:44:10 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810111540490.6274@nqv-yncgbc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48F08F5E.2030704@wxs.nl>

On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am setting up a head which simply puts its contents in a layer, so that
>> I can control where to place the head. If the head is followed by an
>> itemize, I get spurious white space. See the following test file. Page 1
>> is head followed by text, which is OK. Page 2 is head followed by itemize,
>> which has extra space. page 3 is just itemize which is ok.
>>
>> \definelayer[test]
>>      [width=\paperwidth,
>>      height=\paperheight,
>>      x=5cm,y=1cm]
>>
>> \def\mylayer#1#2{\setlayer[test]{#1#2}}
>>
>> \definehead[testhead][subject]
>>
>> \setuphead[testhead]
>>             [before=,
>>             after=,
>>             alternative=text,
>>             command=\mylayer]
>>
>> \setupbackgrounds[page][background=test]
>>
>> \showframe
>> \showboxes
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \testhead{First}
>>
>> \input knuth
>>
>> \page
>>
>> \testhead{Hello}
>>
>> \startitemize
>>    \item A
>>    \item B
>> \stopitemize
>>
>> \page
>>
>> \startitemize
>>    \item A
>>    \item B
>> \stopitemize
>>
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>>
>> How do I get rid of the extra space?
>
> hack
>
> \def\mylayer#1#2{\startnointerference\setlayer[test]{#1#2}\stopnointerference}
>
> \definehead[testhead][subject]
>
> \setuphead[testhead]
>             [page=,
>              before=,
>              after={\topskipcorrection\vskip-\topskip \blank[disable]},
>              alternative=normal,
>              command=\mylayer]

Thanks. I think that in this case it will be cleaner to not use heads in 
this case and implement color, style, align interface by hand. I will 
wikify your answer.

Aditya

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-11 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-10 17:22 Aditya Mahajan
2008-10-11 11:34 ` Hans Hagen
2008-10-11 19:44   ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2008-10-12 12:48     ` Hans Hagen

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