columnsetspan - alternative needed

columnsetspan - alternative needed

[Steffen Wolfrum]

Hi,

as far as I've seen columnsets work in a magazine like style:


\startcolumnset[twocolumns]
aaa ...
\startcolumnsetspan[heading]
bbb
\stopcolumnsetspan
ccc ...
\stopcolumnset

gives results like this:

aaa  ccc
aaa  ccc
bbbb
ccc  ccc
ccc  ccc


But how can I structure columnsets so my result will look like this?:

aaa  aaa
aaa  aaa
bbbb
ccc  ccc
ccc  ccc



Thank you,

Steffen

Re: columnsetspan - alternative needed

[Hans Hagen]

Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
> Thanks for the quick answer - but obviously my example was bad: columnsetareas don't do what I need.
> 
> Maybe this is a better explanation:
> 
> Given you have two articles in a book set in two columns.
> The second article doesn't start on a new page - it just begins where the first one ends.
> 
> But the first article (aaa...) ends with two balanced columns,
> then comes the heading (bbb) for the second article,
> and then comes begins the second article (ccc...).
> 
> 
> That's what I mean by
> 
> aaa  aaa
> aaa  aaa
> 
> bbbb
> 
> ccc  ccc
> ccc  ccc
> 
> Do you have a trick how to do a page like this with columnsets?

well, it involves some manual tweaking (numbers and such) and is not yet 100% ok

the next code shows a  bit of balancing and columnstart/height manipulations


\starttext

\showgrid

\definecolumnset [two]   [n=2,balance=top]
\definecolumnset [three] [n=3,balance=top]

\setupcolumnsetlines[two][1][1][15]
\setupcolumnsetlines[two][1][2][15]

\setupcolumnsetstart[three][1][1][15]
\setupcolumnsetstart[three][1][2][18]
\setupcolumnsetstart[three][1][3][20]

\setupcolumnsetlines[three][1][1][40]
\setupcolumnsetlines[three][1][2][40]
\setupcolumnsetlines[three][1][3][40]

\definecolumnsetspan[two]

% \starttext
%   \startcolumnset [two]   \dorecurse {1}{\input tufte \par} \stopcolumnset
%   \startcolumnset [three] \dorecurse {2}{\input tufte \par} \stopcolumnset
% \stoptext

\starttext
   \startcolumnset [two]   \startcolumnsetspan[two] \input ward 
\stopcolumnsetspan \dorecurse {1}{\input tufte \par} \stopcolumnset
   \startcolumnset [three] \startcolumnsetspan[two] \input ward 
\stopcolumnsetspan \dorecurse {2}{\input tufte \par} \stopcolumnset
\stoptext


\stoptext

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