Re: bug? gap appears in columnset

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 9/17/2013 5:02 PM, Lars Huttar wrote:
> Aditya wrote:
>> Any particular reason you are using columnsets rather than \startcolumns
>> or \startmixedcolumns. Columnsets are for specialized layout requirements,
>> and in my experience, mixing columnsets with text that is not in
>> columnsets is a bit tricky.
>>
>
> Thanks for suggesting a potential workaround.
>
> We do have pretty specialized layout requirements, including figures
> (some of which are hangarounds within columns, and some are outside of
> columnsets but on the same page) and page-width-centered section
> headings that are outside of columnsets.
> I suspect that we tried \startcolumns and couldn't get it to work, but I
> will definitely try again

ok, but then, an interlinespace is normally around 1.2 times the 
bodyfontsize

> I can't find \startmixedcolumns on the contextgarden wiki nor in the
> ConTeXt manual. There are references to it on this mailing list, as a
> "rewrite of the old columns mechanism". I'm reluctant to entrust a big
> production project to undocumented features, but at this point, if it
> works, we'll probably go with it. I wonder if it's available in mkii as
> well as in mkiv?

not in mkii, but it will be the main mkiv continuous multicolumn mode 
(we keep the old columns around for a while) and in due time I will make 
a new columnset implementation (must have some snippets of code 
somewhere but never found time)

>> \startsetups normal
>> \setupinterlinespace[line=12pt]
>> \stopsetups
>>
>> \startsetups tight
>> \setupinterlinespace[line=9.3pt]
>> \stopsetups
>> \setupmixedcolumns[distance=5mm, balance=yes]
>>
>> \starttext
>> \section{Introduction}
>> \startmixedcolumns[setups=normal]
>>      \dorecurse {7} { \input knuth }
>> \stopmixedcolumns
>>
>> \section{Bibliography}
>>
>> \startmixedcolumns[setups=tight]
>>      \dorecurse {10} { \input knuth }
>> \stopmixedcolumns
>>
>>
>> Aditya (not sure why the interlinespacing is not working)
>
> At
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/133586/bug-unwanted-gap-in-2nd-columnset#comment301754_133586,
> phg wrote "If you want lines to adhere to a tighter line spacing you
> will have to set a smaller font size, (the default one is 12pt I think)
> e.g. |\setupbodyfont [7pt]| gets you the desired baseline skip and
> decent leading. Doesn’t make the gap disappear, though."
> I had left font settings out of the minimal example, since they aren't
> necessary to exercise the bug.
>
> Thanks again,
> Lars
>
>
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