Hi all,

I’m just forwarding this to the ml as I can’t help any further
and I’d like to know the answer too.

@Achim: have you tried locally chopping off a line from the text
area with “\[start|stop]columns”? Something like this:

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\newdimen\Reducedtextheight
\let\Reducedtextheight\makeupheight
\advance\Reducedtextheight-\baselineskip
\setuplayout[height=\Reducedtextheight]

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Not a clean solution, but it might still get you what you want.

Philipp


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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:12:37 +0100
From: achim@jander.de
To: Philipp Gesang <pgesang@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] startcolumns: text runs into footer
User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.0.3)

Hi Philipp,
thank you for your reply.

> 
> (1) Columnsets cause less trouble than the ordinary
> ?\[start|stop]columns?; (2) you have to define the vskips prior
> to using them with ?\setupwhitespace? or ?\blank?.
> 

that takes me a bit further. But columnsets seem to have one great
disadvantage
regarding my project (as far as i could figure out): you have to manually
balance the columns. Thats not practical within a 1200-pages book with
a lot of
balanced breaks.

Another problem (but that may result of my missing knowledge): I could not get
the columns to fill the page (now the contrary problem than before).
I've tried
setupalign[line] before as well as inside the columnset without any effort.
Example below.

Looking into spac-ver.mkiv did not really enlighten me (but i sure
have to take
a deeper look).

Thanks again,
Achim

\showframe
\definecolumnset[two][n=2]

\newskip\Hugeskip
\Hugeskip = 1em plus 4em minus 4em %that should be enough stretchability

\definevspacingamount[Huge][\Hugeskip][\Hugeskip]           % for \blank
\definewhitespacemethod[Notsohuge]{\ctxparskip.5\Hugeskip}  % for
\setupwhitespace

\setupalign[line] %does not work

\starttext

\startcolumnset[two]

\setupalign[line] %does not work also

%\setupwhitespace[Notsohuge, flexible] no effect

\setupwhitespace[Notsohuge]
%\setupwhitespace[flexible] no effect

\dorecurse{10}{\input knuth}

\stopcolumnset

\stoptext



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