From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/29862 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans van der Meer Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: colums Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:06:46 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154430500 25896 80.91.229.2 (1 Aug 2006 11:08:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:08:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Aug 01 13:08:18 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 1G7s6i-0001KD-7D for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 13:08:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B8D21FDD2; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:08:15 +0200 (CEST) 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 02227-04; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:08:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15ECA1FD62; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:08:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45BC21FD62 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:08:06 +0200 (CEST) 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 02217-03 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:08:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.science.uva.nl (smtp.science.uva.nl [146.50.4.84]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 73DAD1FD60 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:08:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from 119-31.uva.surfnetthuis.nl [145.98.119.31] by smtp.science.uva.nl with ESMTP (sendmail 8.11.6p2/config 11.36). id k71B7u919040; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:07:56 +0200 X-Organisation: Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands X-URL: http://www.science.uva.nl/ In-Reply-To: Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) 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:29862 Archived-At: On Aug 1, 2006, at 0:25, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Hans van der Meer wrote: > >> When I do: >> >> \setupcolumns[n=2,balance=no,tolerance=verytolerant,rule=on] % and >> variations >> \startext >> \startcolumns >> abc >> \column >> def >> \stopcolumns >> \stoptext >> >> This produces two columns when typeset on the upper half of the page. >> Suddenly about halfway the page the columns are not put side by >> side but >> below each other! > > Can you give an example that shows the problem? > > Aditya I ran the next code on the Live Context site and it gave me "first column" on the first page and "second column" on page 2. \starttext \dorecurse{4}{\input tufte} \startcolumns[n=2] first column \column second column \stopcolumns \stoptext But, as Hans Hagen wrote in another reply: > \column is just not that trustworthy; columnsets give more control but > cannot be used mixed with one column However, I seem to remember columnsets as fairly complex. Hans van der Meer