columns and alignment at the bottom
Hi, I am trying to typeset a text which should look roughly like that: |-----| |-----| |------| |text | |text | |text | | | |-----| | | |-----| | | |-----| | | |-----| |text | | | |text | |-----| |------| | | | | |-----| |------| | | |text | |text | |-----| |-----| |------| So I have a frames with some text (actually, addresses - Hans, maybe you remember the address booklet I showed you here in Darmstadt) in three columns. So I tried something like: \startcolumns[n=3] \framed{first address...} \vskip 0.5cm plus 1fill \framed{second address...} \vskip 0.5cm plus 1fill \framed{third address...} . . . \stopcolumns Which (obviously because I use TeX code inside ConTeXt - shame on me) fails, the frames are not aligned at the bottom. So I'm looking for a way to typeset them with a distance of at least 0.5cm and align at the bottom - the remaining space should be spread equally... I hope the question is understandable and I hope someone has already done something like this... Greetings, ALeX P.S.: Hans, thanks again for the tutorial in Darmstadt - now I know about the layer and overlay stuff, I use it extensively :-) -- ... Alexander Klink ... undergraduate in Mathematics with Computer Science ... alech@alech.de ... at Darmstadt University of Technology ... alech@3komma141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974.de
At 21:36 12.10.2003, Alex wrote: possibility which looks as follows: \setuppapersize [XY][A4] \setuppaper [topspace=5mm,backspace=5mm,dx=1mm,dy=2mm,nx=3,ny=4] % \setuplayout [page] [topspace=5mm, backspace=5mm, header=0pt, headerdistance=0pt, footer=0pt, footerdistance=0pt, location=middle, marking=on] \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] \setuparranging [XY] \setupframedtexts [frame=off, leftframe=on, bottomframe=on, align=middle, location=middle, width=broad] %\showframe \startbuffer[Addresse1] \startframedtext ... \stopframedtext \page \stopbuffer \startbuffer[Addresse2] \startframedtext ... \stopframedtext \page \stopbuffer \starttext \dorecurse{6}{\getbuffer[Addresse\recurselevel]}%between first braces number of addresses you have in buffers \stoptext You will have to play with the different option parameters. It is usefull to start texshow :-) Gruss Willi
Alexander Klink
This isn't so obvious, IMHO. I tried to do the same thing back in 1998 or 1999 to create a directory for a college. I made the glue between the boxes very stretchable, so that context would be able to put as much space as necessary between the directory entries in order to have the columns line up at the bottom.
Hans Hagen
Oh, I can't wait to see what that example does! Does it show that I am not recalling correctly? I hope so. The example, though, doesn't result in a pdf file for me when I put it into a file, "test.tex", and run "texexec --pdf test". Acrobat Reader 4.0 says, "There was an error opening this document. Could not repair file." ecashin@marblerye tmp$ PATH=/opt/teTeX-1.0.7/bin:$PATH texexec --pdf test TeXExec 3.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : test output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-13d-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1) entering extended mode ... pdftex : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map systems : begin file test at line 1 systems : randomizer starts with 903229090 [1.1[/opt/teTeX-1.0.7/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map]] [2.2] return code : 11 run time : 2 seconds total run time : 2 seconds ecashin@marblerye tmp$ acroread test.pdf ecashin@marblerye tmp$ -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin@uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Ed L Cashin wrote:
The example works for me, using TeX Live 2003 with a newer (beta)
cont-tmf.tex:
$ texexec --pdf context-align.tex
[...]
This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.2)
[...]
ConTeXt ver: 2003.9.26 fmt: 2003.10.14 int: english mes: english
[...]
systems : begin file context-align at line 69
systems : randomizer starts with 995399654
[1.1{/opt/texLive/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] [2.2]
[3.3] [4.4] [5.5] [6.6] [7.7]
systems : end file context-align at line 82
){/opt/texLive/texmf/dvips/tetex/f7b6d320.enc}
Output written on context-align.pdf (7 pages, 14051 bytes).
Transcript written on context-align.log.
--
George N. White III
At 18:54 15/10/2003, you wrote:
TeXExec 3.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003
this should be no problem but we have 4.0 now This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-13d-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1)
entering extended mode
but version 13d is asking for problems and around that ime column sets were not there just pick up the zip mentioned in an earlier mail and try that one (new binaries, new tex) Hans
Hans Hagen
I looked around a bit in the archives, but I'm not sure which zip that is, so I decided to go ahead and upgrade my whole tetex to 2.0.2. I went to pragma-ade and followed the links to find pdftex 14h. By the way, I am a little confused about the stable pdftex numbering scheme (like 1.11a) and how it relates to the 14h numbering scheme. I got the cont-tmf-20030925.zip and unpacked it in my texmf directory. I copied each foo.pl file in context/perltk to ../bin/foo (no ".pl" extension), made sure /opt/tetex-2.0.2/bin was in my $PATH, made sure texexec.ini was there, ran fmtutil --edit to activate the context formats, ran fmtutil --all to generate the formats. OK, but texexec was just showing the usage. I read the minstall.pdf document to see if I missed anything, but I couldn't find anything. Just to see what would happen, I then got pdftex 14h and unzipped it in the bin dir, moving the pool files to texmf/web2c. Then I did mktexlsr and fmtutil --all, but I see this error message in the output: running `pdfetex -ini -jobname=cont-en -progname=context *cont-en.ini' ... pdfetex: unrecognized option `-jobname=cont-en' Try `pdfetex --help' for more information. Error: `pdfetex -ini -jobname=cont-en -progname=context *cont-en.ini' failed ... This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings: `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex pdftex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex pdflatex.ini' failed `pdfetex -ini -jobname=pdfetex -progname=pdfetex *pdfetex.ini' failed `pdfetex -ini -jobname=pdfelatex -progname=pdfelatex *pdfelatex.ini' failed `pdfetex -ini -jobname=cont-en -progname=context *cont-en.ini' failed `pdfetex -ini -jobname=cont-nl -progname=context *cont-nl.ini' failed `pdfetex -ini -jobname=cont-uk -progname=context *cont-uk.ini' failed `pdfetex -ini -jobname=mptopdf -progname=mptopdf mptopdf.tex' failed root@marblerye texmf# I tried "texexec --make", but texexec is still just showing a usage message and exiting. The --verbose option doesn't change that. Any suggestions or pointers would be most appreciated. -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin@uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/
Ed L Cashin
I hacked fmtutil and now all the formats get generated: root@marblerye texmf# diff -u `which fmtutil` `which fmtutil`.hack --- /opt/tetex-2.0.2/bin/fmtutil Thu Oct 16 12:03:07 2003 +++ /opt/tetex-2.0.2/bin/fmtutil.hack Fri Oct 17 11:30:54 2003 @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ localpool=false fi - jobswitch="-jobname=$format" + jobswitch="" case "$format" in metafun) prgswitch=-progname=mpost;; cont-??) prgswitch=-progname=context;; ...
I tried "texexec --make", but texexec is still just showing a usage message and exiting. The --verbose option doesn't change that.
Texexec still just shows a usage message. I bet I have to change something in texexec.ini, but I couldn't find it last time I looked. I'll look again. Now by doing "pdfetex \&cont-en test.tex" I'm able to see the example that made me want to upgrade. Hey, Hans! That is very impressive. You were absolutely right when you said, "Got you." How did you do it? It sounded like a hard problem. -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin@uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/
Ed L Cashin
It turned out that when I copied the new perl files to the bin directory, there were some old symlinks there, and texutil was overwriting texexec. That was hard to figure out! ... but only because I wasn't reading the usage message carefully. It did say "texutil". :) -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin@uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/
At 16:26 17/10/2003, you wrote:
http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/linuxtex.zip to give you some bin only test bed i also put there: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/linux.zip Hans
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