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

15 Oct 2003

      Hans Hagen  writes:
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At 22:50 12/10/2003, Ed L Cashin wrote:
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Some months ago another columns implementation came out, but if I
recall correctly, when you have columns of vboxes separated by very
stretchy glue, the new columns implementation can't bottom-align them
either.
got you:
\starttext
\startcolumnset
\dorecurse{100}
   {\framed
      [width=\hsize,height=fit,align=normal]
      {\getrandomnumber\whatever{1}{9}%
       \dorecurse\whatever{\strut test \recurselevel\endgraf}}
    \vfilll}
\stopcolumnset
\stoptext
Oh, I can't wait to see what that example does!  Does it show that I
am not recalling correctly?  I hope so.  

The example, though, doesn't result in a pdf file for me when I put it
into a file, "test.tex", and run "texexec --pdf test".

Acrobat Reader 4.0 says, "There was an error opening this document.
Could not repair file."

  ecashin@marblerye tmp$ PATH=/opt/teTeX-1.0.7/bin:$PATH texexec --pdf test

   TeXExec 3.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003

              executable : pdfetex
                  format : cont-en
               inputfile : test
                  output : pdftex
               interface : en
            current mode : none
                 TeX run : 1

  This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-13d-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1)
  entering extended mode
...
  pdftex         : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map
  systems        : begin file test at line 1
  systems        : randomizer starts with 903229090
  [1.1[/opt/teTeX-1.0.7/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map]] [2.2]
             return code : 11
                run time : 2 seconds

          total run time : 2 seconds
  ecashin@marblerye tmp$ acroread test.pdf
  ecashin@marblerye tmp$ 

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