[NTG-context] Text to be placed into the free space after columns and end of the page

[context at vivaldi.net]

Hello Aditya,

thanks for all your answers.

You were right - my minimalist sample was not very suitable, and my real 
sample can be successfuly handled with \startnarrower.

Thanks again for your time.

Best regards,

Lukas


On 2020-05-21 10:52, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 21 May 2020, context at vivaldi.net wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> at least a short reaction would be appreciated - is it possible to get 
>> the desired with ConTeXt?
>> 
>> - I need to typeset a column-shaped document with a colofon in the 
>> bottom of the page, so my interest is not academical but very 
>> practical;
>> and the code presented bellow is a minimalistic version ("abcd" stands 
>> for colofon).
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Lukas
>> 
>> 
>> On 2020-05-20 16:38, context at vivaldi.net wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> suppose the minimal example:
>>> 
>>> ----
>>> \showboxes
>>> \starttext
>>>   \startcolumns[n=2,balance=no,]
>>>     \input knuth
>>>   \stopcolumns
>>>   \vfill
>>>   abcd
>>> \stoptext
>>> ----
>>> 
>>> This produces two page document with columns on the first page and
>>> text "abcd" on the second.
> 
> It is not clear to me why you are using columns here. If you want
> balanced columns, you could use:
> 
> \starttext
> \startsimplecolumns[n=2]
> \input knuth
> \stopsimplecolumns
> \vfill
> abcd
> \stoptext
> 
>>> But - I want the text "abcd" to be placed to the bottom of the same
>>> page as columns are (thus I attempted to put \vfill into the code, 
>>> but
>>> it doesn't work), so to get one page document looking like:
>>> 
>>> +------ page width -----+
>>> Column text | (unused)
>>> column text |
>>> column text |
>>> column text |
>>> column text |
>>> column text |
>>> 
>>> (some vertical space)
>>> 
>>> abcd
>>> +----- end of page -----+
>>> 
>>> - How to achieve this?
> 
> If you just want a narrower one column output (since using balance=no
> and \vfill after that only makes sense if the length of the content is
> less than a single column), you can use
> 
> \setupnarrower[right=0.5\textwidth]
> \startnarrower[right]
> \input knuth
> \stopnarrower
> 
> or to get right frame:
> 
> \startframedtext[width=0.45\textwidth,frame=off, rightframe=on, 
> roffset=0.5em]
>   \input knuth
> \stopframedtext
> 
> Aditya