From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/50591 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: columns(ets) and itemize[columns] Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 23:57:26 +0200 Message-ID: <4A11D9C6.60703@wxs.nl> References: <200905172331.42601.alan.braslau@cea.fr> <3B067FB5-958A-49AA-9341-DDAC1C84B956@gmail.com> <200905181308.19704.alan.braslau@cea.fr> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242683917 30272 80.91.229.12 (18 May 2009 21:58:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 21:58:37 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon May 18 23:58:30 2009 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 1M6Aqr-00019n-UH for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 23:58:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 452811FC27; Mon, 18 May 2009 23:58:29 +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 13657-08; Mon, 18 May 2009 23:57:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 590881FBAC; Mon, 18 May 2009 23:57:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3220D1FBAC for ; Mon, 18 May 2009 23:57:47 +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 16692-06 for ; Mon, 18 May 2009 23:57:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (filter1-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.69]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CD591FB89 for ; Mon, 18 May 2009 23:57:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n4ILvcv5017873 for ; Mon, 18 May 2009 23:57:38 +0200 Original-Received: from [10.100.1.107] (unverified [10.100.1.107]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 11033-1840426 for ; Mon, 18 May 2009 23:57:38 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: <200905181308.19704.alan.braslau@cea.fr> X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.107 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=83.247.100.17; country=NL; region=15; city=Almelo; latitude=52.3500; longitude=6.6667; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.3500,6.6667&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 227855153 - bebd0a7db9a8 - 20090518 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.69 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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:50591 Archived-At: Alan BRASLAU wrote: > Great! This is somewhat what I suspected (columns mechanism is the older one). older but also conceptually different > Is there good reason to keep both mechanisms? That is, does the startcolumns > mechanism have advantages? Can't one mix one column and multicolumns text on a > page using columnsets? yes, and there might be even more variants in the future as there is not one solution > May I suggest that \startitemize[columns] internally use such a mechanism, > perhaps when under a columns or columnset environment. Of course, this may be > a bit tricky according to the following remark: no, the current itemize columns work nicely in the main vertical liust while simple columns are a box future mkiv versions might have better mechamisms 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________