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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: direction in columnset (MKII)
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:37:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C290815.2090501@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C28D031.6070801@jhnet.nl>

Am 28.06.10 18:39, schrieb Jelle Huisman:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to tell columnsets which column is the first one?
> I use columnset in MKII to typeset Arabic text in a multicolumn layout 
> and the text starts in the left column. Is there a nice way to force 
> the text to start in the right column? Something like 
> \definecolumnset[arabic][n=2,direction=right] doesn't work.
> (A nasty, ugly hack is fine too ;-)
>
> Example:
>
> \starttext
> \definecolumnset[arabic][n=2,direction=right]
> \startcolumns[arabic]
> Oeps. In Arabic the 'first' column is on the right: \input knuth
> \stopcolumns
> \stoptext

It makes no sense to set values for columnset but use regular columns in 
your document
and the correct value for direction you want is 'left' not 'right'.

\starttext

% columnset

\definecolumnset[arabic][n=2,direction=left]
\startcolumnset[arabic]
Oeps. In Arabic the 'first' column is on the right:\par\column\input knuth
\stopcolumnset

\page

% columns

\startcolumns[direction=left]
Oeps. In Arabic the 'first' column is on the right:\par\column\input knuth
\stopcolumns

\stoptext

Wolfgang

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-28 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-28 16:39 Jelle Huisman
2010-06-28 20:37 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2010-06-29 11:14   ` Jelle Huisman

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