From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3282 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed L Cashin Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: multi-column spread control (was Re: beginner's questions) Date: 13 Nov 2000 13:43:06 -0500 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <20001112113730.1EF2A2317E@client44-3.kabela.oprit.rug.nl> <3.0.6.32.20001113103749.01cafc00@pop.wxs.nl> <3.0.6.32.20001113181723.015ed100@pop.wxs.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394024 15702 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:27:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:27:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Hans Hagen In-Reply-To: Hans Hagen's message of "Mon, 13 Nov 2000 18:17:23 +0100" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3282 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3282 Hans Hagen writes: > At 11:54 AM 11/13/00 -0500, Ed L Cashin wrote: ... > >In order for the columns to balance (i.e. have the baselines of their > >bottom lines line up perfectly) the glue between the vboxes has to be > >balanced in a sophisticated way. > > That's called snapping. Snapping makes the boxes line up, but I'm talking about something different: getting the bottoms of the columns to line up. When I compile the example you sent I see this kind of thing: ------------------ | xxxxxx xxxxxx | | xxxxxx xxxxxx | | | | xxxxxx xxxxxx | | xxxxxx xxxxxx | | | | xxxxxx | | xxxxxx | ------------------ The boxes line up, but I am not trying to get the boxes to line up, just the bottoms of the columns, like this: ------------------ | xxxxxx xxxxxx | | xxxxxx xxxxxx | | | | xxxxxx | | xxxxxx | | | | xxxxxx xxxxxx | | xxxxxx xxxxxx | ------------------ In this example, it's very ugly, but the point is that the bottoms of the columns line up. They can line up because I've made the glue between the vboxes very stretchable. Although the ASCII diagram doesn't show it, the vertical size of the boxes may change from box to box. -- --Ed Cashin PGP public key: ecashin@coe.uga.edu http://www.coe.uga.edu/~ecashin/pgp/