Am 02.01.2010 um 11:18 schrieb Oliver Buerschaper:
>> You need textbackground to draw the frame around the text
>
> That's the funny thing ... apparently I don't! See the code in my previous
> mail. There I seem to get the frame from the \setlayerframed command alone.
But the frame from setlayerframed has not the measures of the text,
to get the correct size you need textbackground.
>> When you want only text in two columns \startsimplecolumns ...
>> \stopsimplecolumns
>> is a alternative to the normal columns environment and it works also in
>> \framed
>> (which is used in \setlayerframed).
>
> I'm afraid that doesn't make the vertial space vanish :-( Any ideas?
\definelayer[test][width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]
\setupbackgrounds[page][background=test]
\starttext
\startbuffer[test]
\hsize=12cm
\startsimplecolumns
\input zapf
\stopsimplecolumns
\stopbuffer
\setlayerframed
[test]
[x=5cm,y=10cm]
[width=12cm]
{\getbuffer[test]}
\page[empty]
\stoptext
> Also, can I force the streamlayer to have a fixed height? In the example I'd
> like the first column to be filled all the way down to the visible bottom
> frame and then the remaining text should be broken to the second column. At
> the moment both columns are filled with roughly equal amounts of text...
You can set \textheight in the streamlayer settings and disable the balancing
for columns.
Wolfgang
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