Re: How to use columns inside another column?

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Zhichu Chen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can anybody give me a hand now? There are too many source files in ConTeXt
> and I don't even know which file will give me a hint.
> 
> I don't want to hasten, but I really hope somebody could told me which file
> I sould read or which way should go, or even it is impossible by now. Any
> information will do.

Have you read the columnset documentation?
http://pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/columns.pdf

There are examples where the visual affect is the same as nested 
columns. I have not read the details of how they are implemented.

HTH,
Aditya


> 
> On 1/15/07, Zhichu Chen <zhichu.chen@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everybody
> >
> > I used
> >
> > ---------------------------
> >
> > \definecolumnset[example][n=2]
> > \definecolumnset[innerexample][n=2]
> >
> > \starttext
> >
> > \startcolumnset[example]
> >   \dorecurse{15}{\input knuth\par}
> >   \startcolumnset[innerexample]
> >     \input knuth\par
> >   \stopcolumnset
> >   \dorecurse{15}{\input knuth\par}
> > \stopcolumnset
> >
> > \stoptext
> > ---------------------------
> >
> > but nothing happened, can I use columns inside another column?
> >
> > --
> > Sincerely yours,
> > Chen
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> 
> 
>

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