From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/44647 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: misbehaving \column Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:24:51 +0200 Message-ID: <48EC9883.9070500@wxs.nl> References: <6faad9f00810030940h44246cc9peb386dc26547c433@mail.gmail.com> <12D821C4-9A1D-4F8B-8E5B-8AF87578167D@gmail.com> <6faad9f00810031246k3e929f7sc126223c9405b6a8@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00810031457k2b9c12a6i471aa54f8f749f1e@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00810071450v646eb48kc8705485b9181ed7@mail.gmail.com> <48EC62ED.5070901@elvenkind.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: ger.gmane.org 1223465243 28209 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2008 11:27:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 11:27:23 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Oct 08 13:28:16 2008 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 1KnXD6-0004Sc-Ev for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:28:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E319E1FB77; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 13:27:02 +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 09276-02-7; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 13:26:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 768D21FB49; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 13:26:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 908E21FB49 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 13:26:08 +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 09577-06-2 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 13:25:21 +0200 (CEST) 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 DF8D71FB3C for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 13:24:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 167-1840426 for ; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:24:51 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) In-Reply-To: <48EC62ED.5070901@elvenkind.com> X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.100 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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:44647 Archived-At: Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 10:24 AM, luigi scarso wrote: >>>> Every columnset starts a new page. Maybe I need to try simplecolumns >>>> now :) Or well ... \bTABLE ... \eTABLE. >>> Aren't columnset powerful enought ? >>> From the manual >> Probably they are, I just need to swap contents between more columns >> (content in first column, image in the second one, content in second >> column, image in the first one...), but I can treat text as figure and >> place it on the right. >> >> "normal" columns permit stopping and starting "new columns" in the >> middle of the page, while columnsets apparently don't. > > The "simplecolumns" are perhaps the best idea. \column has been broken > since before the turn of the century. :-( because ther eis no native column mechanism, \column comes in some variants and it depends on the circumstances what works best (esp related to grids and such) 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________