From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8725 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Unbalanced column widths Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 22:47:25 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020719224107.02db4190@remote-1> References: <200207142306.05011.angerweit@gmx.net> <200207141407.16905.john@wexfordpress.com> <200207142306.05011.angerweit@gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399113 30081 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:51:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:51:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Henning Hraban Ramm , ntg-context@let.uu.nl Original-To: John Culleton In-Reply-To: <200207160839.28560.john@wexfordpress.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8725 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8725 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------