From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: makeupwidth in columns
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 23:04:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <94A00BB2-E20A-4814-8DD7-C95CDDB8A52B@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831642AA-ECFB-4955-B1F9-79B0163E4210@uva.nl>
Am 24.02.2013 um 16:36 schrieb "Meer, H. van der" <H.vanderMeer@uva.nl>:
> The contextrefmanual tells me in table 3.2 the following on the behaviour of the variables denoting the width of texts:
>
> <Untitled.jpg>
>
> But the claim that \textwidth gives the width of a column is false. See the following minimal example, the first picture is set with 0.45\makeupwidth, the second with 0.9\textwidth.
> It is clear that \textwidth does not follow the claim.
There is a local setting for the text width missing in the mliv version of the code.
% page-mul.mkiv
\unexpanded\def\page_mul_command_set_hsize % beware, this one is available for use in macros
{\setbox\scratchbox\hbox{\page_mul_between_columns}%
\d_page_mul_distance\wd\scratchbox
\d_page_mul_available_width\dimexpr
\makeupwidth
-\d_page_mul_leftskip
-\d_page_mul_rightskip
-\nofcolumns\d_page_mul_distance
+\d_page_mul_distance
\relax
\d_page_mul_used_width\dimexpr
\d_page_mul_available_width/\nofcolumns
-\d_page_mul_offset*\plustwo
\relax
+ \textwidth\d_page_mul_used_width
\hsize\d_page_mul_used_width}
% page-mix.mkiv
\unexpanded\def\page_mix_command_set_hsize
- {\hsize\d_page_mix_column_width}
+ {\textwidth\d_page_mix_column_width
+ \hsize\d_page_mix_column_width}
Wolfgang
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