From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20631 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Fwd: Context question Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:05:07 +0200 Message-ID: <429EAFA3.2020402@elvenkind.com> References: <20050601180449.8612@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> <429E25CA.2010204@seznam.cz> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117696190 25324 80.91.229.2 (2 Jun 2005 07:09:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 07:09:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jun 02 09:09:41 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdjpS-0002d2-0m for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:09:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC965127F9; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:12:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 32672-08; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:12:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32A75127EF; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:08:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82432127EF for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:08:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 32668-02 for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:08:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from post-24.mail.nl.demon.net (post-24.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.194]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5960127E0 for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:08:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from boo.demon.nl ([82.161.175.147]:44545 helo=[192.168.1.3]) by post-24.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ddjom-000AKM-Vf for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 02 Jun 2005 07:08:41 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050215) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <429E25CA.2010204@seznam.cz> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20631 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20631 Vit Zyka wrote: > Adam Lindsay wrote: > >> Has anyone got a solution/approach/example at hand? >> >> ---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ---------------- >> Subject: Re: (Stupid) Context question >> Date Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2005 20:57 >> From: Musa Furber >> To: Adam Lindsay >> >> Something I cannot do with LaTeX that I would like to be able to do is >> have the text on the first page be single column and starting with the >> second page have the text be double column - even if the page >> transition is in the middle of a paragraph. >> >> Is this possible to do with ConTeXt? > > I think so, see manual columns.pdf But it is not possible to switch completely automatically, even without a mid-paragraph pagebreak, I'm afraid. If your text is essentially a novella, then you can probably write a special case macro, but that would be true of LaTeX as well. I don't think the columnsets have support for automatic (and mid-paragraph) switching (i could be wrong). Taco