From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: Pavneet Arora <pavneet_arora@waroc.com>,
mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: columns vs. paragraphs, and a question about fillinrule
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 17:44:41 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.03.1309141737550.13522@hzvpu.rqh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130912213144.GE23953@darjiling>
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Pavneet Arora wrote:
> As part of this legal document set that I have been working to put
> together, I needed side-by-side text. Looking at the wiki, I noticed
> that there are at least 3 methods: columns, paragraphs, columnsets.
>
> I only attempted two, but they seem to have quite different results. I
> understood that columns were for simple cases. However, in my MWE
> below, the \column command breaks the "columns" in unusual way.
>
> One can also swap out the order of the paragraphs and columns methods;
> the results are similar. Also, one can adjust the dorecurse command
> with additional lorems to see where the "columns" land on the page.
> Again results are similar.
>
> Any suggestions?
What is the desired output? Do you want the left "column" to continue on
to the next page? Is so, you could use the tabulate environment.
\setuppaper[A5, landscape]
\starttext
\startalignment[middle]
{\tfc AN IMPORTANT LEGAL DOCUMENT}
\stopalignment
\starttabulate[|p(0.5\textwidth)|p(0.1\textwidth)|p(0.4\textwidth)|]
\NC WITNESSES:
\fillinrules[n=15,interlinespace=small,width=broad,separator=]{1.}
\fillinrules[n=15,interlinespace=small,width=broad,separator=]{2.}
\fillinrules[n=15,interlinespace=small,width=broad,separator=]{3.}
\fillinrules[n=15,interlinespace=small,width=broad,separator=]{4.}
\fillinrules[n=15,interlinespace=small,width=broad,separator=]{5.}
\NC
\NC
(TESTATOR)\crlf
Ms. B.E. Def
\NC
\NR
\NC WITNESSES:
\fillinrules[n=15,interlinespace=small,width=broad,separator=]{1.}
\fillinrules[n=15,interlinespace=small,width=broad,separator=]{2.}
\fillinrules[n=15,interlinespace=small,width=broad,separator=]{3.}
\fillinrules[n=15,interlinespace=small,width=broad,separator=]{4.}
\fillinrules[n=15,interlinespace=small,width=broad,separator=]{5.}
\NC
\NC
(TESTATOR)\crlf
Ms. B.E. Def
\NC
\NR
\stoptabulate
\stoptext
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