From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8835 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Unbalanced column widths Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 23:37:44 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020726233644.031ed6c8@server-1> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020726202234.03a6e768@server-1> <5.1.0.14.1.20020725091625.02d0b228@server-1> <5.1.0.14.1.20020726202234.03a6e768@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399210 30850 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:53:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:53:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: John Culleton In-Reply-To: <200207261714.37799.john@wexfordpress.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8835 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8835 At 05:14 PM 7/26/2002 -0400, John Culleton wrote: >On Friday 26 July 2002 02:23 pm, Hans Hagen wrote: > > At 11:03 AM 7/26/2002 -0400, you wrote: > > >I ran the file listed below thorugh texexec and it errored off: > > >------------------------------------------------------ > > >\definecolumnset[two[n=2] > > > > ][ > >OK I cleaned up the typos and now it works. In many ways it is better >than the alternative of \startcolumns. In particular forcing a column >break is quite reliable. It does not do column balancing, but I have >done manual (cut and try) column balancing and that works OK. > >All in all \columnset is more flexible, reliable and useful than >\startcolumns. well, you can balance: just say \setupcolumnset[two][1][n=34] \setupcolumnset[two][2][n=21] to force a split 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------