On 12. November 2013 at 18:36:49, Joshua Krämer (joshua.kraemer@gmail.com) wrote: Dear list, while \widowpenalty is respected in conventional columns, inside or outside \startmixedcolumns and \stopmixedcolumns, it is ignored. How can I make ConTeXt avoid widows in mixedcolumns? (I can't use conventional columns, some things like distance=... don't work there.) Thank you, Joshua Krämer MWE: \starttext \startmixedcolumns %\startcolumns \widowpenalty10000 \dorecurse{290}{word } \dorecurse{250}{second } \stopmixedcolumns %\stopcolumns \stoptext ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ \starttext \startcolumns \input knuth \stopcolumns \startcolumns[distance=4cm] \input knuth \stopcolumns \stoptext -- Wolfgang Schuster