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From: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: columns(ets) and itemize[columns]
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 23:31:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905172331.42601.alan.braslau@cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49EE2283.1010503@gmail.com>

Hello,

I just completed a "big" project making heavy use of columnset, columnsetspan 
and paragraphs. Very powerful!

Two questions, first:
What is the real difference between columns and columnset?
I am a bit confused* about their coexistence. Is this purposeful or necessary 
(or is it simply historical)? Is \startcolumns simply an unnamed, "default" 
columnset?

(*and the wiki page needs to be clarified...)

Second question, maybe a bug?
\startitemize[columns] does not interact well:
I suspect that it could or should use paragraphs internally rather than 
columns so as to work within a column(set).

Minimal example:

\starttext

\startitemize[columns] \item first \item second \item third \stopitemize

\startcolumns[n=2]

\startitemize[columns] \item forth \item fifth \item sixth \stopitemize

\column

\startitemize[columns] \item seventh \item eighth \item nineth \stopitemize

\stopcolumns

\stoptext

Gives something like:

•_first_____________________•_third
•_second

•_forth____________________•_seventh
•_fifth_____________________•_eighth
•_sixth____________________•_nineth

Whereas I was expecting:

•_first_____________________•_third
•_second

•_forth__•_sixth___________•_seventh_•_nineth
•_fifth_____________________•_eighth

Alan

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-17 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.368.1240337127.3589.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2009-04-21 19:46 ` Column break in start\stop columns Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
2009-04-21 21:44   ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2009-04-21 21:50   ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-04-21 21:58     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-05-17 21:31   ` Alan BRASLAU [this message]
2009-05-18  6:45     ` columns(ets) and itemize[columns] Wolfgang Schuster
2009-05-18 11:08       ` Alan BRASLAU
2009-05-18 21:57         ` Hans Hagen

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