Question on "back" key in \blank
Dear list, Sorry if question is trivial but I’d like to use « back » key in \blank to discard a \blank just before. The following MWE illustrates : \starttext Title. \blank[none] \blank[back, -line] %% I’d expect this one to discard the \blank[none] (as if it was not present) \startalignment[broad, flushright, hanging]Right.\stopalignment \stoptext I’d expect that Title and Right words to be on the same line, but they are not. Did I misunderstood the meaning of ‘back’ key ? Thanks a lot for help and time, Best regards Joseph Canedo
On 2/25/2017 7:04 PM, josephcanedo@gmail.com wrote:
Dear list,
Sorry if question is trivial but I’d like to use « back » key in \blank to discard a \blank just before. The following MWE illustrates :
it goes back when there's something to go back there is also \blank[disable] to disable the next one
\starttext
Title.
\blank[none]
\blank[back, -line] %% I’d expect this one to discard the \blank[none] (as if it was not present)
\startalignment[broad, flushright, hanging]Right.\stopalignment
\stoptext
I’d expect that Title and Right words to be on the same line, but they are not. Did I misunderstood the meaning of ‘back’ key ?
Thanks a lot for help and time,
Best regards
Joseph Canedo
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Thanks Hans for having replied. My message was a bit confusing, sorry about that. I think the problem is that ‘back’ (or \blank generally) does not seem to work the same with negative blank as it does with positive blank. The following : \showgrid\setuplayout[grid=both] \starttext Title. \blank[2*line]\blank[back]\blank[line] Line. \stoptext Outputs 1 blank line between Title and Line, so that \blank[2*line] is effectively ignored, as expected. But \showgrid\setuplayout[grid=both] \starttext Title. \blank[2*line]\blank[back]\blank[-line] Line. \stoptext Outputs Title and Line in 2 consecutive lines (instead of being on same line). So \blank[2*lines] is effectively ignored as expected but the \blank[-line] is also ignored too. Is the latter expected or not ? Thanks again, Best regards Joseph De : Hans Hagen Envoyé le :samedi 25 février 2017 21:53 À : ntg-context@ntg.nl Objet :Re: [NTG-context] Question on "back" key in \blank On 2/25/2017 7:04 PM, josephcanedo@gmail.com wrote:
Dear list,
Sorry if question is trivial but I’d like to use « back » key in \blank to discard a \blank just before. The following MWE illustrates :
it goes back when there's something to go back there is also \blank[disable] to disable the next one
\starttext
Title.
\blank[none]
\blank[back, -line] %% I’d expect this one to discard the \blank[none] (as if it was not present)
\startalignment[broad, flushright, hanging]Right.\stopalignment
\stoptext
I’d expect that Title and Right words to be on the same line, but they are not. Did I misunderstood the meaning of ‘back’ key ?
Thanks a lot for help and time,
Best regards
Joseph Canedo
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On 2/26/2017 2:09 PM, josephcanedo@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Hans for having replied.
My message was a bit confusing, sorry about that. I think the problem is that ‘back’ (or \blank generally) does not seem to work the same with negative blank as it does with positive blank. The following :
\showgrid\setuplayout[grid=both]
\starttext
Title.
\blank[2*line]\blank[back]\blank[line]
Line.
\stoptext
Outputs 1 blank line between Title and Line, so that \blank[2*line] is effectively ignored, as expected. But
\showgrid\setuplayout[grid=both]
\starttext
Title.
\blank[2*line]\blank[back]\blank[-line]
Line.
\stoptext
Outputs Title and Line in 2 consecutive lines (instead of being on same line). So \blank[2*lines] is effectively ignored as expected but the \blank[-line] is also ignored too. Is the latter expected or not ?
you can't go back over non spacing but you can do this: \blank[overlay] \strut Line.
Thanks again,
Best regards
Joseph
*De : *Hans Hagen mailto:pragma@wxs.nl *Envoyé le :*samedi 25 février 2017 21:53 *À : *ntg-context@ntg.nl mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl *Objet :*Re: [NTG-context] Question on "back" key in \blank
On 2/25/2017 7:04 PM, josephcanedo@gmail.com wrote:
Dear list,
Sorry if question is trivial but I’d like to use « back » key in \blank
to discard a \blank just before. The following MWE illustrates :
it goes back when there's something to go back
there is also \blank[disable] to disable the next one
\starttext
Title.
\blank[none]
\blank[back, -line] %% I’d expect this one to discard the \blank[none]
(as if it was not present)
\startalignment[broad, flushright, hanging]Right.\stopalignment
\stoptext
I’d expect that Title and Right words to be on the same line, but they
are not. Did I misunderstood the meaning of ‘back’ key ?
Thanks a lot for help and time,
Best regards
Joseph Canedo
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