Thank you very much, Mr. Hagen, and all the other gentlemen that helped me or were willing to help. For there is no easy ways available, I think I should read these two files thoroughly. I hope I can master ConTeXt like you guys so that I could help others who have weird requests like me one day. Best regards to you On 1/16/07, Hans Hagen wrote: > > Zhichu Chen wrote: > > Thanks, Mr. Hoekwater > > > > If the texts are short, say they won't go to the next column, they > > could be > > stored into a \vbox whose \hsize is half of the width of current column > > (maybe less) and \vsplit it into two equally high ones. > > > > But when it's long enough, I think I need to know the rest room for the > > current column. Is there any primitives just behavior like \pagegoal? > > > for those willing to experiment ... m-streams (and page-str) implement > page streams and to some extend one can make columned subpages and feed > them back into the main vertical list > > Hans > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com > | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > -- Sincerely yours, Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------