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From: "Dr. Thomas Möbius" <moebius@medinfo.uni-kiel.de>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: column-spanning floats
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 13:12:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180801131238.7399d5bf@wohntau> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ADA5571-EC42-4513-B7C8-BAFC2E42F2F1@elvenkind.com>

On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 14:06:43 +0200
Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> > On 31 Jul 2018, at 13:57, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > It used to be that in an example like the one attached where you
> > were using \startcolumns and used an \externalfigure that was wider
> > than the column width, the figure would automatically be moved to
> > the top of _both_ columns on the next page. 
> > 
> > That was a bit tricky sometimes, but worked fine. However, when I
> > run with the current mkiv beta, the figure is simply overlapping
> > the next column, and it does not auto-migrate. 
> > 
> > Also \startpostponing does not work here because it will indeed
> > move to the next page, but still only occupies the left column,
> > thus overlapping any text in the second column.
> > 
> > Is that functionality gone, or do I need to do something special?
> > 
> > Best wishes,
> > Taco
> > 
> > PS On top of that, the column balancing creates bad inter-paragraph
> > spacing in the left column. No idea where that comes from! :(
> 
> 
> Also, I just tried \definecolumnset, but a) the balance=yes key does
> not work, and b) I still get awful inter-par spacing on the left
> column, except with \setuplayout[grid=yes] (but that should not be
> needed to just get a reasonable placing, I think).
> 
> Taco

I would also love to see a solution to this. I also tried to play with
the \definecolumnset instead of the \startcolumns but when there are is
a lot of inline math, \definecolumnset produces just horrible inter-par
spacing.

Thomas
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      reply	other threads:[~2018-08-01 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-31 11:57 Taco Hoekwater
2018-07-31 12:06 ` Taco Hoekwater
2018-08-01 11:12   ` Dr. Thomas Möbius [this message]

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