Good evening. Many thanks for your help. Your solution works well with the newest ConTeXt and one particular document I now typeset. I have to check it still with more documents. Do you want to gen a report from these tests? If you want I can send you many examples, but not `minimal files', since I don't know when the problem occures. As I typeset our church bulletin, I've got that result pretty often---approximately on one third or one fourth of all pages. I can't switch to columnset all my documents. Columnsets are absolutely great (one of the ConTeXt miracle---I thought it is not possible to do it in TeX because of its breaking routines), but up-to-now columnsets cannot be ballanced (or can they?), and my church bulletin is typset in such a way that each article can start anywhere on the page, and the columns must be ballanced before it. I can't explain it better because of my English, but its pages look like this: xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx Title of article xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx Therefore I would lobby for the support of the old \startcolumns ... \stopcolumns environment. :-) As for the Willi Egger's question, I don't use `fit' options very often. The problem I've mentioned in my last mail occures even when the `width' is set to some dimen and the `length' of page is set to some number of lines. Many greetings and thanks again. Your sincerely Michal Kvasnicka
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
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