setupalign and flushbottom
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Dear list, according to the wiki and the ConTeXt manual, the ConTeXt equivalent for the LaTeX \flushbottom command is \setupalign[line]. However in my tests this setting doesn't have the desired effect. For example: \setuplayout[height=720pt] \setuphead[subject][before={\vskip4pt plus 1fil},after={\blank[small]}] \setupalign[line] \showgrid \starttext \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth} \subject{My Subject} \dorecurse{8}{\input knuth} \stoptext Here at the first page there is a small gap between the last line and the page border, although the glue above the heading can safely be expanded to make the page filled. However I do get the desired result if I replace \setupalign [line] with a low-level command (\alignbottom). So what is the correct way to get pages bottom-aligned in MKIV? -- Regards, Alexey Kryukov <anagnost at yandex dot ru> Moscow State University Faculty of History
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2014/1/24 Alexey Kryukov
Dear list,
according to the wiki and the ConTeXt manual, the ConTeXt equivalent for the LaTeX \flushbottom command is \setupalign[line]. However in my tests this setting doesn't have the desired effect. For example:
\setuplayout[height=720pt] \setuphead[subject][before={\vskip4pt plus 1fil},after={\blank[small]}] \setupalign[line] \showgrid
\starttext \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth}
\subject{My Subject}
\dorecurse{8}{\input knuth} \stoptext
Here at the first page there is a small gap between the last line and the page border, although the glue above the heading can safely be expanded to make the page filled. However I do get the desired result if I replace \setupalign [line] with a low-level command (\alignbottom).
So what is the correct way to get pages bottom-aligned in MKIV?
Use \setupalign[height]. Wolfgang
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On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:41:45 +0100 Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Use \setupalign[height].
I tested this before writing my first post, and the result was still different from one I get with \alignbottom . -- Regards, Alexey Kryukov <anagnost at yandex dot ru> Moscow State University Faculty of History
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On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 21:45:32 +0400 Alexey Kryukov wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:41:45 +0100 Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Use \setupalign[height].
I tested this before writing my first post, and the result was still different from one I get with \alignbottom .
Oops, I am wrong. \setupalign[height] seems to help indeed, so thanks for your answer. However it would be nice to wikify this. -- Regards, Alexey Kryukov <anagnost at yandex dot ru> Moscow State University Faculty of History
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Aditya Mahajan
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Alexey Kryukov
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Wolfgang Schuster