Re: LMTX running on macOS Catalina; fuzzy paragraphs; unwanted whitespace

["T. Kurt Bond" <tkurtbond@gmail.com>]

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Yes, that did the trick!  Thanks!

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 3:15 PM Wolfgang Schuster <
wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

> T. Kurt Bond schrieb am 23.03.2020 um 16:50:
> > It turns out that the extra whitespace before and after the section
> > headers in the body appears when I put \startcolumns[n=2] before the
> > body text and \stopcolumns after it.  Here's the MWE, just slightly
> > modified from your example:
> >
> > %%%% begin example
> > [...]
> > %%%% end example
>
> The old columns environment was replaced a while ago with the newer
> (although available since a few years) mixedcolumns environment.
>
> A big difference between the old columns code and new code is that the
> new code relies on a page grid which can lead to extra lines in the
> output, because ConTeXt adds extra space to put text on the grid.
>
> When you don't care about the grid you can disable it for the columns
> environment but this has to be done also for headers which have their
> own grid option.
>
> Another option is to try the pagecolumns environment, which is another
> environment for multi columns text but it's a very recent addition and
> lacks some features like column balancing.
>
> %%%% begin columns
> \setuphead
>    [chapter,section,subsection,subsubsection]
>    [before={\blank[nowhite]},
>     after={\blank[nowhite]},
>     grid=no]
>
> \setupwhitespace
>    [medium]
>
> \setuplist
>    [chapter,section,subsection,subsubsection]
>    [before={\blank[nowhite]},
>     after={\blank[nowhite]}]
>
> \setupcolumns
>    [grid=no]
>
> \starttext
>
> \startcolumns
>
> \completecontent
>
> \chapter{Chapter}
>
> \samplefile{knuth}
>
> \section{Section}
>
> \samplefile{weisman}
>
> \subsection{Subsection}
>
> \samplefile{weisman}
>
> \subsubsection{Subsubsection}
>
> \samplefile{weisman}
>
> \stopcolumns
>
> \stoptext
> %%%% end columns
>
> Wolfgang
>


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T. Kurt Bond, tkurtbond@gmail.com

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