From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: columns in latest beta
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:03:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7060FECA-88BC-4C66-8E6A-CD8EA53C4376@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50081F03.1050700@uni-bonn.de>
Am 19.07.2012 um 16:51 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz:
> I was writing a reply to Dalyoung, but Wolfgang beat me to it. So I'm going to ask a question myself:
>
> I'm a bit desperate about columns. I want nothing fancy, just a simple two-columns layout for a few pages. Unfortunately, the two betas I have on my computer both have trouble. 2012-06-30 complains about \column: "undefined control sequence." 2012-07-19 throws an error which I've never seen before:
>
> system > tex > error on line 901 in file reader.tex: Bad register code ...
>
> That's the line where I have \stopcolumns. The full error is this:
>
>
> \page_mul_flush_preceding_ongrid ...ceding_height
> -\dp \d_page_mul_preceding...
> \page_mul_flush_packaged_columns_indeed ...ongrid
> \else \page_mul_flush_prec...
> \page_mul_flush_packaged_columns_continued ...eed
> \box \columnpagebox \egroup
> \page_mul_routine_continue ...d_columns_continued
> }\page_otr_construct_and_s...
> \page_otr_command_routine ...mul_routine_continue
> \or \page_mul_routine_bala...
> \page_otr_triggered_output_routine ...and_routine
> \fi
>
> What does this "bad register code" mean? I don't even know where to begin to look for an error - there is one \start - \stopcolumns environment earlier in my document, which does appear to work normally. Any pointers?
I can’t give a answer without more information but you can try to use the new columns mechanism with “\definemixedcolumns[columns]” at the begin of your document.
Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-19 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-19 14:51 Thomas A. Schmitz
2012-07-19 15:03 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2012-07-19 15:12 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2012-07-19 15:47 ` Hans Hagen
2012-07-19 15:51 ` Hans Hagen
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