Hi,

On 2011-06-26 <21:06:45>, H. Hodges wrote:
> Is there some sort of guide to which commands are still used in ConTeXt or a
> latest edition of the main manual?                                 

There’s a sort-of reference maintained by Wolfgang:

  https://bitbucket.org/wolfs/commands

in addition to the reference on the wiki:

  http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Category:Reference/en

and the latest manual:

  http://wiki.contextgarden.net/manual_being_revised

.

>                                    I downloaded a bunch of manuals 
> from the main website to learn from, and some of the commands aren't 
> affecting my output. I'm particularly confused about how to create 
> and setup columns. I've read about using 

Have you consulted the wiki page?

  http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Columns

> \setuplayout[columns=somenumber] with \layoutcolumnoffset{somecolumn}, 
> 
> \setupcolumns with \start, \stopcolumns, and \column, and
> 
> \setlayer[text][column=1]{some text} 
> (which doesn't seem to work at all) in the style guide.

Can you please provide a minimal example as to how you invoked
the above commands?

Regards, Philipp

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