On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Mikael P. Sundqvist <mickep@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I just realized that the very nice articles in "Nieuw archief voor
> Wiskunde" (see http://www.nieuwarchief.nl/serie5/index.php?deel=17&nummer=4&taal=1
> ) are typeset with ConTeXt (at least it says so at
> http://www.nieuwarchief.nl/homeitems.php?onderwerp=2&taal=1).
>
> I get curious. Does anyone here know what column mode (i.e.
> \startcolumn \stopcolumn, \startmixedcolumn\stopmixedcolumn,
> columnsets or even the new module newcolumnsets?) they use, and how
> they get mathematics to play with it without breaking the grid?
>
> Also, if I start to write a new document with two columns today (it
> will contain lots of images and lots of formulas and enumerations),
> which column mode is the preferred one? Is there any documentation
> (except the source) for the newcolumnsets? I want to be able to have
> images span both columns and it would be nice if it played well with
> sections as well.
>
> Best regards, Mikael

Dear list,

(I got some information offlist from Hans regarding NAW, it seems they
used an old pdftex-based hacked version)

I gave no example. I decided now that I would like to try the new
pagegrid out (loaded via newcolumnsets module now). But I somehow fail
even with a simple(?) example: Could someone point out what I do
wrong? If you have a small snippet of working code (even with
columnsetspans, I left them out since I think this simpler document
must work first) I'm very happy to look at it.

Also, the placement options for \placefigure seem to be ignored (try
for example bottom). Are they not implemented yet?

Best regards, Mikael

% start of example
\usemodule[newcolumnsets]

\setupbodyfont[9pt]

\definecolumnset[example][n=2]

\starttext

\startcolumnset[example]
\section{Test}
\input tufte
\startformula
f(x)=f(0)+\int_0^x f'(t)\,dt
\stopformula
\input knuth
\placefigure{Caption}{\blackrule[width=4cm,height=3cm]}
\dorecurse{6}{\input knuth \par}
\stopcolumnset

\stoptext
% end of example