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On 2017-07-13 20:05, Henri Menke wrote:
On Fri, 2017-07-14 at 01:08 +0200, Floris van Manen wrote:
When i try to use five balanced columns on a landscape page, i get unexpected results.
\setuppapersize[A4, landscape] \setupbodyfont[8pt] \language[fr] \setupcolumns[ n=5, distance=4mm, balance=yes, tolerance=tolerant] \setupfootertexts[][] \setuplayout[ backspace=10mm, width=277mm, height=fit, topspace=10mm, header=0mm, top=0mm, footer=0mm, bottom=0mm] \setuppagenumber[state=none] \setuppagenumber[state=stop] \definelayout[WithoutMarginnotes][ location={duplex}, grid=no, topspace=1cm, height=19cm, backspace=1cm, cutspace=0cm, leftmargin=0cm, leftmargindistance=0.4cm, width=fit, rightmargindistance=0cm, rightmargin=0cm] \setuplayout[WithoutMarginnotes]
\setuphead[section][ align=normal, style=\tfa\ss, before={\blank}, after={\blank[2pt]}]
No problems here with latest beta. Post a full MWE which reproduces the problem instead of snippets.
\setuppapersize[A4, landscape] \setupbodyfont[8pt] \language[fr] \setupcolumns[ n=5, distance=4mm, balance=yes, tolerance=tolerant] \setupfootertexts[][] \setuplayout[ backspace=10mm, width=277mm, height=fit, topspace=10mm, header=0mm, top=0mm, footer=0mm, bottom=0mm] \setuppagenumber[state=none] \setuppagenumber[state=stop] \definelayout[WithoutMarginnotes][ location={duplex}, grid=no, topspace=1cm, height=19cm, backspace=1cm, cutspace=0cm, leftmargin=0cm, leftmargindistance=0.4cm, width=fit, rightmargindistance=0cm, rightmargin=0cm] \setuplayout[WithoutMarginnotes]
\setuphead[section][ align=normal, style=\tfa\ss, before={\blank}, after={\blank[2pt]}]
\starttext
\startcolumns \dorecurse{20}{\input knuth } \stopcolumns
\stoptext
When using balance=no the page is properly typeset
\setupcolumns[ n=5, distance=4mm, balance=no, tolerance=tolerant]
When using balance=yes It looks as if the page orientation became portrait mode, as the text disappears at the bottom of the page.
\setupcolumns[ n=5, distance=4mm, balance=yes, tolerance=tolerant]
Some hints as how to proceed? Thanks .Floris van Manen
Henri’s example fails for me in the same way that Floris describes. However, when I remove either or both of the following lines from the first \setuplayout directive, all is well.
header=0mm, footer=0mm, In this example, the complete unnamed layout can simply be removed. It is not clear why Floris has two layouts defined and active. One is stepping on the other. I do not know if the results of applying multiple layouts should be additive like this, or not, but I would think that they should not be. -- Rik