From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20635 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vit Zyka Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Fwd: Context question Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 10:14:28 +0200 Message-ID: <429EBFE4.8050304@seznam.cz> References: <20050601180449.8612@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> <429E25CA.2010204@seznam.cz> <429EAFA3.2020402@elvenkind.com> 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 1117699868 2855 80.91.229.2 (2 Jun 2005 08:11:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 08:11:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jun 02 10:11:04 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 1Ddkmd-0008OK-Ok for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2005 10:10:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED7EB12821; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:13:34 +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 00823-03-3; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:13:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8733012812; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:13:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643FE12812 for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:13:29 +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 00952-01 for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:13:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.seznam.cz (smtp.seznam.cz [212.80.76.43]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 593B1127ED for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:13:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 18311 invoked from network); 2 Jun 2005 08:13:11 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (vit.zyka@62.240.166.134) by smtp.seznam.cz with SMTP; 2 Jun 2005 08:13:11 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <429EAFA3.2020402@elvenkind.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0521-0, 23.05.2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean 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:20635 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20635 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > 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. I believe that columset mechanism (based on pouring \parshape from paragraph to paragraph and output routine support) can do it. Even in the manual is an example. But I share your doubts in case of some complex pages (floats, margins, marks). But plain text should be OK. I am curious about the practical experience. vit