From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/943 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ecashin@coe.uga.edu (Ed L. Cashin) Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: balancing columns with little formatted entries Date: 22 Sep 1999 16:59:43 -0400 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035391784 28480 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:49:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:49:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ConTeXt mailing list Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:943 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:943 I'm using two-column mode to format a directory with entries that are set up as vboxes. I'm finding that the columns often turn out unbalanced, and I suspect that perhaps my code is not high-level enough. I'm interested in making sure that any given entry on the page is not ever split between pages, so a vbox seems OK, but then, it's not working as I expected. Rather than post a large amount of code to show how multiple pages look, I've put several files at this URL: http://www.coe.uga.edu/~ecashin/temp Basically, I try to use rubber vertical glue between the vboxes to ensure that TeX will expand the vertical space between the vboxes so that the columns might be balanced easily. -- --Ed Cashin ecashin@coe.uga.edu