>the best you can do is to either make the fontsize smaller

It would decrease the menu readability too much.

>the area wider (less linebreaks)

It would decrease the text area width too much.

>or see of \startsimplecolumns ... \stopsimplecolumns

Although I don't see how adding columns would provide
a solution - the chapter/section titles are in french, i.e.
usually longer than for ex. in english ( they could be
shortened and then most would become meaningless)
- where is that command documented ? I didn't find it in
the main manual, excursion, wiki, texshow.

>helps

Not really I'm afraid. :O(

Thanks anyway.

Best,
Alan

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

Alan Stone wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With...
>
> \startinteractionmenu[right]
> \placecontent[..., criterium=chapter (or section), ...]
> \stopinteractionmenu
>
> and chapter/section lists longer than the text area height,
> how do you prevent the menu items from extending beyond
> the bottom of the text area (and page) and have the menu
> scroll down after the menu's bottom chapter/section item ?
>
> I tried my luck with distance=\textheight but no luck and don't
> see any other option which could provide this feature.

it's a fixed size area so the best you can do is to either make the
fontsize smaller, the area wider (less linebreaks) or see of
\startsimplecolumns ... \stopsimplecolumns helps

Hans