From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/25170 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henning Hraban Ramm Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: columns issues Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:02:17 +0100 Message-ID: <1D746AF7-BFF3-4306-9C3B-52B04517FA2E@fiee.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1137250954 4498 80.91.229.2 (14 Jan 2006 15:02:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:02:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Jan 14 16:02:29 2006 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 ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ExmvC-0001Dm-8H for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:02:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E55E61282E; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:02:24 +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 15576-01; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:02:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97B7D12806; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:02:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3168B12806 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:02:20 +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 15471-04 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:02:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.177]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C9E8127C4 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:02:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [62.203.59.40] (helo=[10.128.9.3]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu4) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML21M-1Exmv41bUF-0005BO; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:02:18 +0100 Original-To: ConTeXt ML X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:71ece21a21b2fa6ef1812787a4eaee0e X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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:25170 Archived-At: Hello wizards! The \startcolumns ... \column ... \stopcolumns block handling seems =20 somewhat broken. Maybe these "old" columns are deprecated, but I guess they should =20 work. (And I would like to document them.) Consider this: \starttext \input ward \startcolumns \input ward \column \input knuth \stopcolumns \input tufte \stoptext In this case \column works (it doesn't seem to work always), so that =20 the left column is much shorter than the right one. But the following paragraph (tufte) is typeset just after the last =20 line of the left column, so that some lines overprint. And with [rule=3Don] the rule is only as short as the left column. =20 [option=3Dbackground] also only considers the leftmost (or first in =20 [direction=3Dleft]) column. Maybe this behaviour is sometimes useful, but I don't think it should =20= be default. [balance=3Dno] doesn't affect the balancing of columns, but flushes the =20= page (i.e. the tufte paragraph moves to the next page). With [n=3D3] =20 you see that it doesn't use the whole remaining page. The whole problem seems to be \column, because without that, everthing=20= (?) works. I didn't find out what the options ntop, blank, height and align are =20 for; I tried several values and nothing seemed to change. [The source is http://source.contextgarden.net/page-mul.tex but I don't understand too much of it.] After looking in the manual, I guess I should consider using =20 paragraphs or columns sets for most of my use cases, but anyway... Gr=FC=DFlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)