From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8834 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Unbalanced column widths Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 17:14:37 -0400 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <200207261714.37799.john@wexfordpress.com> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020725091625.02d0b228@server-1> <5.1.0.14.1.20020726202234.03a6e768@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399209 30832 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:53:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:53:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Hans Hagen In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020726202234.03a6e768@server-1> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8834 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8834 On Friday 26 July 2002 02:23 pm, Hans Hagen wrote: > At 11:03 AM 7/26/2002 -0400, you wrote: > >I ran the file listed below thorugh texexec and it errored off: > >------------------------------------------------------ > >\definecolumnset[two[n=2] > > ][ OK I cleaned up the typos and now it works. In many ways it is better than the alternative of \startcolumns. In particular forcing a column break is quite reliable. It does not do column balancing, but I have done manual (cut and try) column balancing and that works OK. All in all \columnset is more flexible, reliable and useful than \startcolumns. Just those darn typos :-) John Culleton