[NTG-context] balancing columns (solved)/ page breaks and itemization (new)

Balancing columns: Since the problem occurred twice only, I adopted Wolfgangs solution. Thanks Hraban and Wolfgang! Another problem: Itemizations occur very often in my manuscript (typically [packed,joinedup]). I would like page breaking to occur when the page is full, regardless of the number of lines left over on the next page (or the number of lines at the bottom of a page). At present, the gaps left at the bottom of a page look ugly, especially when there is a footnote with its line above. \adaptlayout doesn't do anything Is there a way to setup this behaviour (without affecting pagebreaking outsitde itemizations)? Thanks, Jörg Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

2007/8/29, Henning Hraban Ramm :

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Am 2007-08-29 um 15:53 schrieb Jörg Hagmann:

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In the following minimal example, the left column contains 5, the right one 3 lines. I tried \column to get 4 + 4, but it didn't work

The columns features are broken for a long time now, esp. with stuff like \startlines, \starttabulate etc.

Maybe you could try column sets. I resolved to tables for my lead sheets (ugly code, like old HTML).

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Columns

Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban

Hi,

if he has this problem only at one place and has no time he could use TeX's halign primitive because this did still work.

It is also easy to write a simple wrapper around this this emulate ConTeXt's table syntax.

\starttext

\startcolumns[rule=on] \halign{\strut#\quad&\hfil#\cr one: & text \cr two: & text \cr three: & text \cr four: & text \cr five: & text \cr six: & text \cr seven: & text \cr eight: & text \cr} \stopcolumns

\stoptext

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