From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
Alexey Kryukov <anagnost@yandex.ru>
Subject: [NTG-context] Re: Visually balanced columns
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:08:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0d22b84e-590c-ba33-8831-90fecd201297@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240327160224.39877d7922dbcf56c750d34f@yandex.ru>
Alexey Kryukov schrieb am 27.03.2024 um 14:02:
> Hi list,
>
> I'd like to know if its is possible to get visually balanced
> mixedcolumns in lmtx. For example, if I have \blank's between
> paragraphs, I would like them to be stretched or expanded by
> a such way that the bottommost lines have the same vertical
> position -- no matter, how many lines there are in each column and how
> exactly they are aligned.
>
> If I understand correctly, that's how the multicols environment in
> LaTeX works, and that's how old-multicolumns worked -- but this module
> seems to be no longer supported in lmtx.
>
> I tried to disable gridfitting for startcolumns, but it produces a
> completely distorted output.
The pagecolumns environment supports bottom aligned content.
\setupwhitespace[medium]
\setupalign[depth]
\starttext
\startpagecolumns
\dorecurse{20}{\samplefile{jojomayer}\par}
\stoppagecolumns
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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