From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Side-by-side framed text blocks
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 18:39:55 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1306061838390.5550@nqv-guvaxcnq> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01c001ce6304$de1db170$9a591450$@tosovsky@email.cz>
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013, honyk wrote:
> Dear Marco,
>
>>> I'd like to type two blocks of text with different 'align' settings
>> side by
>>> side.
>>
>> Here's one way to do it:
>>
>> \setupframed
>> [offset=1ex,
>> width=8cm,
>> frame=off]
>>
>> \starttext
>> \placesidebyside
>> {\startframed[align={normal,left}] \input knuth\par\stopframed}
>> {\startframed[align={normal,right}] \input knuth\par\stopframed}
>> \stoptext
>>
>> Marco
>
> thanks for this. I removed that framed=off option and it turned out to be sligthly different from what I'd like to achieve.
>
> My goal is to have two blocks with a vertical gap between them and to have these blocks framed (or with the colored background) at the text area - without the cell spans - to show differences between the standard and 'hanging' alignments (that right border should cross the punctuation in the hanging mode).
>
> Below each 'column' I'd like to place a short description (centered) - exactly as on the referenced examples.
\startcombination?
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/startcombination
Aditya
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[not found] <01ab01ce62fa$8173a970$845afc50$@tosovsky@email.cz>
2013-06-06 21:54 ` Marco Patzer
2013-06-06 22:26 ` honyk
[not found] ` <01c001ce6304$de1db170$9a591450$@tosovsky@email.cz>
2013-06-06 22:39 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2013-06-06 22:56 ` Marco Patzer
2013-06-07 18:21 ` honyk
2013-06-06 21:12 honyk
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