From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/26095 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: columns in framedtext Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:21:16 +0100 Message-ID: <43FA4EEC.5050908@wxs.nl> References: <43F98D09.6010609@elvenkind.com> <70A02114-FED2-4781-A669-CA27349E78C9@science.uva.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1140477690 1518 80.91.229.2 (20 Feb 2006 23:21:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:21:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Feb 21 00:21:24 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org 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 1FBKLH-0004ZH-99 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:21:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78E781279F; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:21:18 +0100 (CET) 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 25146-02; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:21:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ADDB12792; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:21:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FDC012792 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:21:13 +0100 (CET) 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 25195-01 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:21:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 431AD1278D for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:21:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 6432 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:21:12 +0300 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <70A02114-FED2-4781-A669-CA27349E78C9@science.uva.nl> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:26095 Archived-At: Hans van der Meer wrote: > I have been experimenting with columnsets too. > There I encounter the problem that I cannot set the distance between > the columns at will. > hm, one can set the distance for each column (isn't that in the columns.pdf manual?) > Neither lt columnsets force themselves into the frame. > \starttextbackground doesn't help here, at most I get frames around > the separate columns, not the thing that is wanted. > so what exactly is it that you want? you can have background behind columns > The bad thing is, that LateX multicols inside a parbox does what is > wanted. > It would be too bad if such behaviour could not be duplicated in > ConTeXt! > column sas part of the text flow and columns inside a box are really differen things; one involves the otr, the other is a 'local vsplit'; the normal multi column handler can be used intermixed with one column mode and (unless one messes around with interline spacing because that will confuse vsplit) this should work well; the simple columns mechanism is just an enhanced vsplit; my guess is that multicols uses a different routine for both cases as well (at least at the flushing level) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------