From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/411 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Different column widths Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 13:42:07 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <002c01be9ada$224444c0$0c01a8c1@worf.login-bv.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035391272 23831 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:41:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:41:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: "Context List" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:411 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:411 > >Hi all, > >Is it possible to set column widths for a startcolumns ... stopcolumns so >that they are not all the same width? What I'd like for the particular I needed that too, but you can't do that in \CONTEXT{}. >document I'm working on is to have 2 narrow columns at the left of the >page and 1 or 2 wider columns taking up the rest of the page width. The >contents of the two left columns are pretty simple (just images) but the >other two columns are more complex. If this is not possible, is there >another way of achieving the same result. I figure something with hboxes >and vboxes would be what I need but I'm no TeX guru. > >Oh, I can't do this with margins because I already have a left margin :( You could probably setup several boxes in the margins, but I need to know the details. Could you provide me with sample output, and I can see what I can do. There is also a left-edge where you can put in things. It all depends on what you want. If you need for instance 3 columns with different widths, and the main text flows in all these columns, you have a real problem. Gilbert.