I have (a long time ago) made the following .tex file: % christmasTree.tex: creates a to-do Christmas tree % Copyright 2009 Cecil Westerhof, Decebal Computing % You are free to use this code when you keep my copyright % This file should be processed with ConTeXt (texexec file) \usemodule[defaults] \setupoutput[pdf] \setuplayout[header=0cm, footer=0.25cm] \defineframed [action][width=5cm, height=3cm, offset=none] \defineframed [base] [width=3cm, height=2cm, offset=none, topframe=off] \starttext \setupheader[state=high] \setupfootertexts[\hfill {\switchtobodyfont[6pt]\copyright Decebal Computing, http://www.decebal.nl} \hfill][] [][] \setupalign[middle]\offinterlineskip {\bold\switchtobodyfont[32pt]De taken kerstboom\switchtobodyfont[16pt]\blank} \noindent\action[bottomframe=off]{} \noindent\action[bottomframe=off, rightframe=off]{}% \action[bottomframe=off]{} \noindent\dorecurse{2}{% \action[rightframe=off]{}% }% \action{} \dorecurse{7}{ \noindent \base{} } \stoptext It makes a 'Christmas tree' made of boxes. What I would like is to put some text, which are given as parameters, into the 13 boxes. But when a text does not fit into it's box, I do not want the PDF to be generated and receive an error code. Is this possible? -- Cecil Westerhof M CLDWesterhof@gmail.com O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/