From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/32799 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: How to use columns inside another column? Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:43:32 +0100 Message-ID: <45ACBA64.7000504@wxs.nl> References: <769ba7780701141928g7b77d868x6b314f4a71372dd6@mail.gmail.com> <769ba7780701152352u64217577u48b64248c70f70fa@mail.gmail.com> <45AC95FD.5040309@elvenkind.com> <769ba7780701160330t54bb5debu7a02b3205a22abd7@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168947831 10675 80.91.229.12 (16 Jan 2007 11:43:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:43:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jan 16 12:43:49 2007 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H6mj6-0005vf-Uu for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:43:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB5F31FFC4; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:39:28 +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 00838-02; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:39:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 350281FFB0; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:39:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8BAA1FFB4 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:39:20 +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 00997-02-5 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:39:17 +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 ESMTP id 9D0691FFAB for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:39:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.101] (unverified [10.100.1.101]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 3478 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:43:29 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <769ba7780701160330t54bb5debu7a02b3205a22abd7@mail.gmail.com> 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:32799 Archived-At: Zhichu Chen wrote: > Thanks, Mr. Hoekwater > > If the texts are short, say they won't go to the next column, they > could be > stored into a \vbox whose \hsize is half of the width of current column > (maybe less) and \vsplit it into two equally high ones. > > But when it's long enough, I think I need to know the rest room for the > current column. Is there any primitives just behavior like \pagegoal? > for those willing to experiment ... m-streams (and page-str) implement page streams and to some extend one can make columned subpages and feed them back into the main vertical list 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------