Fwd: Context question

Fwd: Context question

[Adam Lindsay]

Has anyone got a solution/approach/example at hand?

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Subject: Re: (Stupid) Context question
Date Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2005 20:57
From: Musa Furber <musaf@runbox.com>
To: Adam Lindsay <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>

Something I cannot do with LaTeX that I would like to be able to do is 
have the text on the first page be single column and starting with the 
second page have the text be double column - even if the page 
transition is in the middle of a paragraph.

Is this possible to do with ConTeXt?


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Re: Fwd: Context question

[Vit Zyka]

Adam Lindsay wrote:
> Has anyone got a solution/approach/example at hand?
> 
> ---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ----------------
> Subject: Re: (Stupid) Context question
> Date Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2005 20:57
> From: Musa Furber <musaf@runbox.com>
> To: Adam Lindsay <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
> 
> Something I cannot do with LaTeX that I would like to be able to do is 
> have the text on the first page be single column and starting with the 
> second page have the text be double column - even if the page 
> transition is in the middle of a paragraph.
> 
> Is this possible to do with ConTeXt?

I think so, see manual columns.pdf

vit

RE: Fwd: Context question

[Ulrich Dirr]

On Wednesday, June 01, 2005 11:17 PM Vit Zyka wrote:
> Adam Lindsay wrote:
>> Has anyone got a solution/approach/example at hand?
>> 
>> ---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ----------------
>> Subject: Re: (Stupid) Context question
>> Date Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2005 20:57
>> From: Musa Furber <musaf@runbox.com>
>> To: Adam Lindsay <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
>> 
>> Something I cannot do with LaTeX that I would like to be able to do is
>> have the text on the first page be single column and starting with the
>> second page have the text be double column - even if the page
>> transition is in the middle of a paragraph.
>> 
>> Is this possible to do with ConTeXt?
> 
> I think so, see manual columns.pdf
> 
> vit

In context---and what is described in columns.pdf---you can get
definitively more complicated layouts than what can be done with LaTeX (a
dream). But the statement that it isn't possible in LaTeX isn't true. The
multicols package by Frank Mittelbach provides a way to switch between
multicolumn layout on the same page. Only the standard LaTeX documentclass
option 'twocolumn' forces that a new page has to begin before changing the
layout. Magazine-like layout of course is better done with context.

Ulrich

Re: Fwd: Context question

[Taco Hoekwater]

Vit Zyka wrote:
> Adam Lindsay wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone got a solution/approach/example at hand?
>>
>> ---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ----------------
>> Subject: Re: (Stupid) Context question
>> Date Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2005 20:57
>> From: Musa Furber <musaf@runbox.com>
>> To: Adam Lindsay <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
>>
>> Something I cannot do with LaTeX that I would like to be able to do is 
>> have the text on the first page be single column and starting with the 
>> second page have the text be double column - even if the page 
>> transition is in the middle of a paragraph.
>>
>> Is this possible to do with ConTeXt?
> 
> I think so, see manual columns.pdf

But it is not possible to switch completely automatically, even
without a  mid-paragraph pagebreak, I'm afraid.

If your text is essentially a novella, then you can probably write a
special case macro, but that would be true of LaTeX as well. I don't
think the columnsets have support for automatic (and mid-paragraph)
switching (i could be wrong).

Taco

Re: Fwd: Context question

[Vit Zyka]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Vit Zyka wrote:
> 
>> Adam Lindsay wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone got a solution/approach/example at hand?
>>>
>>> ---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ----------------
>>> Subject: Re: (Stupid) Context question
>>> Date Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2005 20:57
>>> From: Musa Furber <musaf@runbox.com>
>>> To: Adam Lindsay <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
>>>
>>> Something I cannot do with LaTeX that I would like to be able to do 
>>> is have the text on the first page be single column and starting with 
>>> the second page have the text be double column - even if the page 
>>> transition is in the middle of a paragraph.
>>>
>>> Is this possible to do with ConTeXt?
>>
>>
>> I think so, see manual columns.pdf
> 
> 
> But it is not possible to switch completely automatically, even
> without a  mid-paragraph pagebreak, I'm afraid.

I believe that columset mechanism (based on pouring \parshape from 
paragraph to paragraph and output routine support) can do it. Even in 
the manual is an example. But I share your doubts in case of some 
complex pages (floats, margins, marks). But plain text should be OK.

I am curious about the practical experience.
vit