Re: [NTG-context] columns and alignment at the bottom

Alexander Klink writes:

Hi,

I am trying to typeset a text which should look roughly like that:

|-----| |-----| |------| |text | |text | |text | | | |-----| | | |-----| | | |-----| | | |-----| |text | | | |text | |-----| |------| | | | | |-----| |------| | | |text | |text | |-----| |-----| |------|

So I have a frames with some text (actually, addresses - Hans, maybe you remember the address booklet I showed you here in Darmstadt) in three columns. So I tried something like:

\startcolumns[n=3] \framed{first address...} \vskip 0.5cm plus 1fill \framed{second address...} \vskip 0.5cm plus 1fill \framed{third address...} . . . \stopcolumns

Which (obviously because I use TeX code inside ConTeXt - shame on me) fails, the frames are not aligned at the bottom.

This isn't so obvious, IMHO. I tried to do the same thing back in 1998 or 1999 to create a directory for a college. I made the glue between the boxes very stretchable, so that context would be able to put as much space as necessary between the directory entries in order to have the columns line up at the bottom.