From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31875 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: the same old \column problem Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:36:12 +0100 Message-ID: <455B884C.9060801@wxs.nl> References: <25282986-FAD6-41FF-9C23-BB712B325315@fiee.net> 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 1163626611 24151 80.91.229.2 (15 Nov 2006 21:36:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:36:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Nov 15 22:36:47 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 1GkSQx-00067l-G6 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:36:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 497041FE7D; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:36:15 +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 27083-01; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:36:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C60641FE0E; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:36:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 729001FE15 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:36:03 +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 26805-05 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:36:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id C320F1FE07 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:35:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 18500 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:36:17 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <25282986-FAD6-41FF-9C23-BB712B325315@fiee.net> 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:31875 Archived-At: Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Hans et al, > > did \column ever work or is it supposed to? > I.e. I guess I should be able "jump" to the next column in > > \startcolumns > > .... > > \column % next column > > .... > > \stopcolumns > > > Without the \column, it works only for longer paragraphs, > but e.g. not with \startlines - I'm trying to typeset lyrics, > and the column *always* breaks within a verse instead of between, > even if all the verses have the same number of lines, so that > it would be easily possible to balance cleanly. > > this \column is kind of tricky; balancing works best when grid is enabled; you can try to add \crlf's to influence column split a bit 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------