Re: Unbalanced column widths

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 08:39 AM 7/16/2002 -0400, John Culleton wrote:
>On Sunday 14 July 2002 05:06 pm, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 14. Juli 2002 20:07 schrieb John Culleton:
> > > It is possible to set up unbalanced column widths? One can do it
> > > with pragraphs but there seems to be no mechanism for setting
> > > the left column narrower than the right column. Or perhaps it exists and
> > > I have not found the directions yet.
> >
> > You could use columnsets and do the paragraph breaking by hand.
> >
> > Grüßlis vom Hraban!
>
>Can you be more specific? Are you suggesting paragraphs instead of columns?

\definecolumnset[two][n=2]

\setupcolumnset[two][1][width=4cm]
\setupcolumnset[two][2][width=8cm]

\startcolumnset[two]

some text

\stopcolumnset

now, run this document, and see where the second column starts, put a 
\nextcolumn (or bla-\nextcolumn) there and voila

this is how far tex can go

Hans
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