On 12. November 2013 at 18:45:55, Joshua Krämer (joshua.kraemer@gmail.com) wrote:

Dear Wolfgang, 

thanks for your answer. Please compare: 

\starttext 

\startcolumns[distance=5pt] 
\input knuth 
\stopcolumns 

\startmixedcolumns[distance=5pt] 
\input knuth 
\stopmixedcolumns 

\stoptext
You have to set the values of the offset key to 0pt to use only the values for distance:

\starttext

\startcolumns[distance=5pt,offset=0pt]
\input knuth 
\stopcolumns 

\startmixedcolumns[distance=5pt]
\input knuth 
\stopmixedcolumns 

\stoptext

Wolfgang