Re: [NTG-context] something between packed and "small"??

-----Original Message----- From: ntg-context [mailto:ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl] On Behalf Of Henning Hraban Ramm Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2020 1:30 PM To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Subject: Re: [NTG-context] something between packed and "small"??

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Am 01.07.2020 um 21:04 schrieb Mike Cooper :

Me again…

I’ve got an itemize that needs to fit on one page. I’ve been using inbetween={\blank[small]} for all the other analogous lists but this one is longer and with that spacing, it goes about one inch onto the next page. But if I use packed, the list is way too crammed together and there’s about 2.5 inches of extra space on the page!

How do I go smaller than small? Is there a “lightly packed”? Or other degrees?

I’ve tried \blank[1mm] and other dimensions but nothing will go smaller than small… :-(

\blank understands an arbitrary measure, e.g. \blank[3pt] or \blank[0.25em]

Probably also \blank[0.5*small] works (didn’t check, but \blank[3*big] works).

Otherwise see https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/blank

Hraban

Thanks Hraban, These don't work though... It appears that a decimal will work with a dimension (like em) but not with small. \blank[0.5*small] causes this "fatal error": ["lasttexerror"]="! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted)", I had tried em then pt, then mm. But it won't get any smaller than small = 3mm = 10pt = 0.9em = small. Except packed, that is... Surely there is something in between small and packed?? I looked at the Command/blank page multiple times and searched the wiki and the web in every way I could think of. I only ask the list when I absolutely can't find anything. (Of course, at least once, it was there where I had already looked but I didn't understand enough to realize it!) I even gave searching the mailing list archives a shot. Thanks again!