On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:52:44AM +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
You have to use boxedcolumns environment because the normal columns environment doesn’t work in a frame.
\setupexternalfigures[location={local,global,default}]
\starttext
\defineoverlay[muh][{\externalfigure[cow][width=\overlaywidth, height=\overlayheight]}]
\startframed[width=max,height=0.4\textheight,background=muh,align=right,foregroundcolor=darkred]% \startboxedcolumns[n=3] It was a dark and stormy night. The rain came down in tons. The old captain said: \quotation{Antonio, come and tell us a story!} And Antonio began as follows: \quotation{It was a dark and stormy night. The rain ...} \stopboxedcolumns \stopframed
\stoptext
Yes, that's it, what I didn't know: boxedcolumns. Your example works very well, even with inserted narrower environment: \startframed[...] \startnarrower \startboxedcolumns[n=3] ... ... \stopboxedcolumns \stopnarrower \stopframed Many thanks, Wolfgang, for your patient explanation! You helped me so many times! Rudolf