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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: column balancing question
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 10:58:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <413EC9B4.4020708@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <413ECCDF.2000908@econ.muni.cz>

Michal Kvasnicka wrote:

> Good morning.
>
> One reason for me to switch to ConTeXt were its macros for typesetting 
> in columns that are highly superior to any such macro I have ever 
> seen. (I typeset almost all my documnts in two columns.) But I am not 
> able to supress one strange feature: some pages are one more line 
> longer than they should be. It happen randomly -- or at least I was 
> not able to find out when it happens. Therefore I'm not able to 
> prepare an minimal file. I thougth that setting

Hard to see without example. You may try this (i have this in my local expermental setup) 

\def\getmulticolumnlines
  {\mcscratchdimen-\columntextoffset
   \multiply\mcscratchdimen \plustwo
   \advance\mcscratchdimen \columntextheight
   \ifdim\precolumnboxheight>\zeropoint
      \advance\mcscratchdimen -\precolumnboxheight
   \fi
   \settotalinsertionheight
   \advance\mcscratchdimen -\totalinsertionheight
   \getnoflines\mcscratchdimen
   % added 30/7/2004
   \ifnum\layoutlines>\zerocount \ifnum\noflines>\layoutlines
     \noflines\layoutlines
   \fi \fi
   \nofcolumnlines\noflines}

Another option is to switch to column sets (see columns.pdf), 

Hans 



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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-08  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-08  9:11 Michal Kvasnicka
2004-09-08  8:58 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2004-09-09 15:13   ` Michal Kvasnicka
2004-09-09 13:54     ` Hans Hagen
2004-09-08 19:19 ` Willi Egger
2004-09-08 19:48   ` map problems Boris Tschirschwitz
2004-09-09 13:43     ` Boris Tschirschwitz
2004-09-09 12:49   ` alpha version Martin Kolařík

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