From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/45544 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Wolfgang Schuster" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: setupwhitespace Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:37:56 +0100 Message-ID: <115224fb0811130637v2dd7397du101b4e34b9ea1a1a@mail.gmail.com> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226587524 3379 80.91.229.12 (13 Nov 2008 14:45:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:45:24 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Nov 13 15:46:24 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L0dST-0004oB-JV for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:46:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0CA81FB72; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:44:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23878-07-3; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:43:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ADBF1FB6D; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:43:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BDBF1FB5B for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:43:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 16688-03-7 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:43:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.250]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECEE11FB6D for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:43:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so400294and.29 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:43:00 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.103.106.1 with SMTP id i1mr3619852mum.0.1226587076911; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:37:56 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.103.213.18 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:37:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:45544 Archived-At: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:17 PM, wrote: >> > Hello All, >> > >> > I have a document in two columns and I need about 3mm vertical spacing >> > between paragraphs. >> > >> > I've tried >> > \setupwhitespace[small] >> > and >> > \setupwhitespace[3mm] >> > but neither looks any different from \setupwhitespace[medium]or [big]. >> > >> > \setupwhitespace[none] gives no space. >> > >> > There is a previous mailing in the archives which suggests that columns >> > don't use \setupwhitespace, >> > and there's a suggestion to use >> > \defineblank[default][3mm] >> > but that doesn't seem to do anything either. >> >> This is a feature of the columns environment. >> >> > Any suggestions? >> >> \startcolumns >> >> \setupwhitespace[...] >> >> bla bla bla ... >> >> \stopcolumns >> >> Wolfgang > > > Thanks Wolfgang, that works a treat! > > What else changes when I switch over to columns? Do I need a whole new > environment within columns? \setupwhitespace should be enough but you could define a new environment and hide the setup in the environment file. \definestartstop [mycolumns] [before=\startcolumns, after=\stopcolumns, commands=\directsetup{mycolumn:setup}] \startsetups mycolumn:setup \setupwhitespace[...] \stopsetups \starttext \startmycolumns text text text ... \stopmycolumns \stoptext Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________