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From: "Willi Egger" <w.egger@boede.nl>
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> > After sttudying the sources and a bunch of trial and errors I can come
> > up
> > with the following solution which works for a two solumns set!
>
> Great. This works. Now for something different. While learning ConTeXt,
> I find that often the syntax escapes me. Take for instance:

>
> > \definecolumnset[example][n=2]
> >
> > \define[1]\MargText{%
> >     \ifodd\mofcolumns{%
> >       \inleft{#1}}
> >     \else
> >       {\inright{#1}}\fi}
> >
> > \starttext
> > \startcolumnset[example]
> >
> > \MargText{Here left of column}
> >
> > \input tufte
> >
> > \column[local]
>
> What does [local] mean here? According the the manual one should say
> \column and I can't find the explanation of what local means or what
> you are doing here.

The example definition of a columnset presented above is copied from the
manual "Columns". - Often commands take optional arguments. Porbably this
would also work without the [local].

Willi