Hans van der Meer wrote:
I have been experimenting with columnsets too. There I encounter the problem that I cannot set the distance between the columns at will.
hm, one can set the distance for each column (isn't that in the columns.pdf manual?)
Neither lt columnsets force themselves into the frame. \starttextbackground doesn't help here, at most I get frames around the separate columns, not the thing that is wanted.
so what exactly is it that you want? you can have background behind columns
The bad thing is, that LateX multicols inside a parbox does what is wanted. It would be too bad if such behaviour could not be duplicated in ConTeXt!
column sas part of the text flow and columns inside a box are really differen things; one involves the otr, the other is a 'local vsplit'; the normal multi column handler can be used intermixed with one column mode and (unless one messes around with interline spacing because that will confuse vsplit) this should work well; the simple columns mechanism is just an enhanced vsplit; my guess is that multicols uses a different routine for both cases as well (at least at the flushing level) 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------