From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/45241 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Problem with itemization (again) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 01:19:58 +0100 Message-ID: <20081103001958.GN31508@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl> References: <20081102223946.GL31508@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1225671710 18079 80.91.229.12 (3 Nov 2008 00:21:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:21:50 +0000 (UTC) To: Mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Nov 03 01:22:52 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KwnDR-00076F-4J for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:22:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 453ED1FB72; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 01:21:34 +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 15292-06-9; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 01:20:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E6021FB30; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 01:20:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D5E51FADB for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 01:20:39 +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 17554-04-4 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 01:19:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl (atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl [150.254.78.2]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFA3E1FB72 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 01:19:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63CE11025ADE for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 01:19:58 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (PLD-Linux) at wmid.amu.edu.pl Original-Received: from atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10023) with ESMTP id PdgEOw-n-SWn for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 01:19:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl (Postfix, from userid 3884) id 305F71025ADD; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 01:19:58 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081102223946.GL31508@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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:45241 Archived-At: Dnia Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 11:39:46PM +0100, Marcin Borkowski napisał(a): > Hi, > > sorry to be a bit repetitive, but this still doesn't work as expected > (in MkII, but see also below): > > \starttext > \startitemize[intro] > \dorecurse{12}{% > \item \dorecurse{\recurselevel}{This is some intro. }Intro ends here. > \startitemize[intro,columns,two] > \dorecurse{4}{% > \item \dorecurse{1}{This is a test. }End of the test. > }% > \stopitemize > }% > \stopitemize > \stoptext > > (see page 2 and 3). I guess nothing wrt. itemizations changed in the > new beta (I tested the above example in the online ConTeXt), so it's no > surprise, but I still have no clue as to the reasons and any remedies. > I use two-column itemizations *a lot*, so this is a serious problem for > me... Any ideas how to prevent the unnecessary page break? > > PS. I have just noticed that this works correctly with luatex!!! And > so do unpacked two-column itemizations!!! That's just great!!! So my > question now becomes: does this mean that MkII is just obsolete for me > and I should upgrade to MkIV? > > And two more things: > > 1. I have noticed that "unpacked" itemization in columns has the > whitespace between items equal to one line. Is it possible to make it > shorter, say half a line? Answering myself: yes, ...[between={\blank[medium]}] works. Is this the best way to do it? > 2. I've also noticed that the second (last?) column of itemization seems > *never* to be longer that the previous ones, which seems to be quite > reasonable, but sometimes it would be better for it to be one line > longer than two lines shorter. Is there a way of e.g. inserting a > manual column-break within multi-column itemizations and/or letting the > last column be longer? And this remains unaswered - \column does not work... > Sorry people for being such a nuisance, but - as I've said - I use > itemizations a lot (mainly for different kinds of problem sets for > my students or my wife's pupils;)) and these issues appear quite often. > Also, I'd like to teach a bit of ConTeXt to my wife, who would like it > to *simply work* (she's great, but no TeX hacker;)). Greets -- Marcin Borkowski (http://mbork.pl) ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________