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From: John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>
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Subject: Re: Unbalanced column widths
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On Friday 26 July 2002 05:37 pm, Hans Hagen wrote:
> At 05:14 PM 7/26/2002 -0400, John Culleton wrote:
> >On Friday 26 July 2002 02:23 pm, Hans Hagen wrote:
> > > At 11:03 AM 7/26/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >
>
> well, you can balance:
>
> just say
>
> \setupcolumnset[two][1][n=34]
> \setupcolumnset[two][2][n=21]
>
> to force a split
>
> Hans

OK I'll try it. What does the [n=34] reperesent? the number of lines in the
column?

I use a narrow column followed by a wide column. If the text overflows to the
next page the wide column is still in effect. So assuming enough text I get 
two wide columns which overlap on the following page. (Bug or feature? :)
When this happens I insert 
\stopcolumnset
\page[yes]
\startcolumnset[alt]
...which is an alternate equal width set of columns.
I insert the above at the point where the page naturally breaks.

I'll keep on playing!

John Culleton