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From: John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>
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Subject: Re: Unbalanced column widths
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 14:35:18 -0400
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On Saturday 27 July 2002 09:44 am, Hans Hagen wrote:
> At 07:48 AM 7/27/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >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]
>

All of a sudden columnset, which worked fine before, stopped working.
I cleaned up some typos and that caused the problem.

So I created a simplistic test file with as few extraneaous factors as
possible, and I got error messages. Here is the file:
----------------------------------------------

\setupoutput
  [pdftex]
%
\definecolumnset[two][n=2]
\setupcolumnset[two][1][width=1.5in]
\setupcolumnset[two][2][width=3.5in]
\starttext
\startcolumnset[two]
foo
bar foo
bar
less 88888888 8888888 8888888888
more 999999999  9999999999
\stopcolumnset
\stoptext
-----------------------------------------
and here are the error messages:
(./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo)
(./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo)
(./test.tuo)
systems        : begin file test at line 7
! Arithmetic overflow.
<recently read> \scratchcounter

\OTRSETassignwidths ...ratchdimen \scratchcounter
                                                  \dorecurse \nofcolumns 
{\d...

\OTRSETinitializecolumns ...i \OTRSETassignwidths
                                                  \global \mofcolumns =1 
\co...

\OTRSETrestart ...sttext \OTRSETinitializecolumns
                                                  \OTRSETcheckinsert 
\OTRSET...

\dostartcolumnset ...list {#1}\OTRSETgotonextpage
                                                  \OTRSETgetmanualbalance 
\O...
<to be read again>
                   f
l.9 f
     oo
?
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I am perplexed again :-(

John Culleton