From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>,
Bruce Horrocks <ntg@scorecrow.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with \vfill in extreme table
Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 21:56:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <edc071b7-2f83-ec3e-17c2-a7d80307b17d@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f147c750-eaee-a101-7677-dd0a206ccd7b@gmail.com>
On 5/17/2020 5:00 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Bruce Horrocks schrieb am 17.05.2020 um 13:47:
>> If I want the words Top and Bottom at the top and bottom of a page
>> then "Top \vfill Bottom" works as expected. If I use the same in an
>> extreme table I get an error and I don't know why.
>>
>> What's the 'official' way to align top and bottom in an xrow?
>>
>> %%%% MWE
>> \setuppapersize [A4] [A4]
>> \starttext
>> \startxtable[width=\textwidth]
>> \startxrow[height=150mm]
>> \startxcell[align=middle]
>> Top
>> \vfill
>> Bottom
>> \stopxcell
>> \stopxrow
>> \stopxtable
>> \stoptext
>> %%%%
>
> It's not a real fix but you can you exclude the \vfill command
> when ConTeXt does its cell calculations.
>
> \starttext
>
> \startxtable[align=middle,width=\textwidth,height=15cm]
> \startxrow
> \startxcell
> Top
> \doifnotmode{*trialtypesetting}{\vfill}
> Bottom
> \stopxcell
> \stopxrow
> \stopxtable
>
> \stoptext
Neat!
Hans
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-15 22:47 Custom list layout with PDF bookmarks Bruce Horrocks
2020-05-16 6:15 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-05-16 6:30 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2020-05-16 11:02 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-05-17 11:38 ` Bruce Horrocks
2020-05-17 19:40 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-05-17 11:47 ` Problem with \vfill in extreme table Bruce Horrocks
2020-05-17 15:00 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2020-05-17 19:56 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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