On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am setting up a head which simply puts its contents in a layer, so that
>> I can control where to place the head. If the head is followed by an
>> itemize, I get spurious white space. See the following test file. Page 1
>> is head followed by text, which is OK. Page 2 is head followed by itemize,
>> which has extra space. page 3 is just itemize which is ok.
>>
>> \definelayer[test]
>> [width=\paperwidth,
>> height=\paperheight,
>> x=5cm,y=1cm]
>>
>> \def\mylayer#1#2{\setlayer[test]{#1#2}}
>>
>> \definehead[testhead][subject]
>>
>> \setuphead[testhead]
>> [before=,
>> after=,
>> alternative=text,
>> command=\mylayer]
>>
>> \setupbackgrounds[page][background=test]
>>
>> \showframe
>> \showboxes
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \testhead{First}
>>
>> \input knuth
>>
>> \page
>>
>> \testhead{Hello}
>>
>> \startitemize
>> \item A
>> \item B
>> \stopitemize
>>
>> \page
>>
>> \startitemize
>> \item A
>> \item B
>> \stopitemize
>>
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>>
>> How do I get rid of the extra space?
>
> hack
>
> \def\mylayer#1#2{\startnointerference\setlayer[test]{#1#2}\stopnointerference}
>
> \definehead[testhead][subject]
>
> \setuphead[testhead]
> [page=,
> before=,
> after={\topskipcorrection\vskip-\topskip \blank[disable]},
> alternative=normal,
> command=\mylayer]
Thanks. I think that in this case it will be cleaner to not use heads in
this case and implement color, style, align interface by hand. I will
wikify your answer.
Aditya
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