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Michal Kvasnicka wrote:
Good morning.
One reason for me to switch to ConTeXt were its macros for typesetting in columns that are highly superior to any such macro I have ever seen. (I typeset almost all my documnts in two columns.) But I am not able to supress one strange feature: some pages are one more line longer than they should be. It happen randomly -- or at least I was not able to find out when it happens. Therefore I'm not able to prepare an minimal file. I thougth that setting
Hard to see without example. You may try this (i have this in my local expermental setup) \def\getmulticolumnlines {\mcscratchdimen-\columntextoffset \multiply\mcscratchdimen \plustwo \advance\mcscratchdimen \columntextheight \ifdim\precolumnboxheight>\zeropoint \advance\mcscratchdimen -\precolumnboxheight \fi \settotalinsertionheight \advance\mcscratchdimen -\totalinsertionheight \getnoflines\mcscratchdimen % added 30/7/2004 \ifnum\layoutlines>\zerocount \ifnum\noflines>\layoutlines \noflines\layoutlines \fi \fi \nofcolumnlines\noflines} Another option is to switch to column sets (see columns.pdf), Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------