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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: clutter with \start and \stop
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:07:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FF3F9A5.2070107@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fw98e9wl.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh>

On 4-7-2012 00:51, Peter Münster wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Say I want Tufte in 2 columns and Knuth in 1 column:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> \starttext
> \startcolumns[n=2]
>    \startsection[title=Tufte]
>      \input tufte
>    \stopsection
>    \startsection[title=Tufte and Knuth]
>      \input tufte
> \stopcolumns
>      \input knuth  % \startcolumns[n=1] knuth \stopcolumns does not work
> \startcolumns[n=2]
>      \input tufte
>    \stopsection
> \stopcolumns
> \stoptext
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> It works, but isn't this a bit ugly to mix up the \starts and \stops ?
> In XML, that would be wrong.
>
> Is this just the normal ConTeXt way, or is there a cleaner method?

no, mixing this way is asking for troubles, if not now, than maybe in 
the future

just use \section

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-04  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-03 22:51 Peter Münster
2012-07-04  8:07 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-07-04 20:29   ` Peter Münster
2012-07-04 21:49     ` Hans Hagen
2012-07-04 22:44     ` Rogers, Michael K
2012-07-05  4:42       ` Peter Münster
2012-07-05  5:42         ` Rogers, Michael K
2012-07-05  5:56       ` luigi scarso
2012-07-05  7:16         ` Rogers, Michael K
2012-07-05  8:23       ` luigi scarso
2012-07-05 13:40         ` Rogers, Michael K

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