From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/26063 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans van der Meer Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: columns in framedtext Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:49:29 +0100 Message-ID: References: <43F98D09.6010609@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1140442097 27558 80.91.229.2 (20 Feb 2006 13:28:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:28:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Feb 20 14:28:14 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FBB5F-00031z-5U for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:28:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DAB4126F8; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:28:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 16712-01; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:28:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0B971278B; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:49:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAA731278B for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:49:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 16250-01 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:49:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.science.uva.nl (smtp.science.uva.nl [146.50.4.84]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id D09241278A for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:49:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from 118-18.uva.surfnetthuis.nl [145.98.118.18] by smtp.science.uva.nl with ESMTP (sendmail 8.11.6p2/config 11.36). id k1KCnPh14955; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:49:25 +0100 X-Organisation: Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands X-URL: http://www.science.uva.nl/ In-Reply-To: <43F98D09.6010609@elvenkind.com> Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:26063 Archived-At: On Feb 20, 2006, at 10:34, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > > Hans van der Meer wrote: >> It seems not possible to typeset in columns (\startcolumns[n=3]... >> \stopcolumns) within a \startframedtext...\stopframedtext. It all >> comes out in one long column. >> How can I accomplish this? > > For this, you have to use \starttextbackground Thanks, but I am afraid it does not do what I have in mind. That is a frame of specific dimensions wherein the text is put in columns, like this -------------------- | line line line | | line line line | | line line line | -------------------- It does not matter if the columns become too long or the text too wide, like this -------------------- | line line line | | line line line | | line line line | | line line line | -------------------- line line line line line line because in that case I know I have to adapt fontsize, total contents etc. Is there a solution for this? > (or \startbackground) \startbackground doesn't work: columns are not honored. Witness this example: \startbackground \startcolumns[n=3] \input tufte \stopcolumns \stopbackground > instead of \startframedtext. > > Cheers, Taco yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer