Hello ConTeXt users,
I want to have two kind of blocks typeset with different format, but
disallowing a page break inbetween. For example, assume that I have
pairs Question/Answer, and I never want a page break after the
Question, but a page break after the answer is desirable. To be
precise, I'm working in a multicolumn environment (3 columns) and
what I want to allow/disallow are the column breaks.
I tried the following:
\defineblock[Question,Answer]
\setupblock[Question]
[before={\startitemize[2]\item},
after={\stopitemize\page[no]},
]
\setupblock[Answer]
[before={\startframedtext[width=\textwidth]\startcolor[red]},
after={\stopcolor\stopframedtext\page[preference]},
]
(BTW, I need to put a comma at the end of the "after" line, why?)
This code doesn't work. I keep getting column breaks between the
question and the answer (surprisingly, it appears that a column break
is indeed *prefered* in that position, since I get a lot of them)
What I'm doing wrong? I even tried resorting to the TeX primitive
\penalty, instead of using \page. Are penalties ignored when
typesetting in columns?
Anothe question. While testing the above code, I tried the following
main text:
\starttext
\dorecurse{10}{
\beginQuestion
\input tufte
\endQuestion
\beginAnswer
I don't know the answer.
\endAnswer
}
\stoptext
But I get no text in the output.
And a last question. It is "philosophically" correct to use text
blocks for the stated purpose? As far as I understand, text blocks
are provided for "hidding" the text until an adecuate place in the
output, but in my case I need no hidding. There is another way for
defining start/stop pairs? (something like the LaTeX \newenvironment)
Thanks in advance, and excuse the extension of the message. I'm new
to ConTeXt, and I have yet a lot to learn.
--
Jose Luis Diaz
