Problems with columns and grid
Hello list, in the following minimal working example (using Mark IV), the \column command is ignored. It works if the grid is disabled or balance=no is set. I need the grid, and regarding the balance: without balance, the columns use the whole type area height, but I want additional text to appear underneath the columns. The height parameter doesn't seem to control the columns' height. So my question is: How can I make \column to work or how can I at least set the column height as a workaround? \setuplayout[grid=yes] \starttext \startcolumns%[balance=no] left \column right 1\\right 2 \stopcolumns \stoptext Kind regards, Joshua
Am 03.06.2013 um 20:30 schrieb Joshua Krämer
Hello list,
in the following minimal working example (using Mark IV), the \column command is ignored. It works if the grid is disabled or balance=no is set. I need the grid, and regarding the balance: without balance, the columns use the whole type area height, but I want additional text to appear underneath the columns. The height parameter doesn't seem to control the columns' height. So my question is: How can I make \column to work or how can I at least set the column height as a workaround?
\setuplayout[grid=yes] \starttext \startcolumns%[balance=no] left \column right 1\\right 2 \stopcolumns \stoptext
Use mixed columns: \setuplayout[grid=yes] \starttext \startmixedcolumns left \column right 1\\right 2 \stopmixedcolumns \stoptext Wolfgang
On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 21:00:49 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster has written:
Use mixed columns:
\setuplayout[grid=yes] \starttext \startmixedcolumns left \column right 1\\right 2 \stopmixedcolumns \stoptext
Thank you very much, this works! Now I wonder what the difference between regular and mixed columns is. I have not found any information about it; mixed columns aren't even mentioned in the manual. Can you tell me where to find a description? I have an additional problem with columns: If I set distance= \baselineskip, it is bigger then \baselineskip. Even with distance=0pt, there is still a gap, maybe because of some minimum distance value. How can I get a smaller distance? Kind regards, Joshua
Am 03.06.2013 um 21:45 schrieb Joshua Krämer
On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 21:00:49 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster has written:
Use mixed columns:
\setuplayout[grid=yes] \starttext \startmixedcolumns left \column right 1\\right 2 \stopmixedcolumns \stoptext
Thank you very much, this works! Now I wonder what the difference between regular and mixed columns is. I have not found any information about it; mixed columns aren't even mentioned in the manual. Can you tell me where to find a description?
Mixed columns are a rewrite of the old columns mechanism. It would ha been possible to use the new code for \startcolumns but Hans restrained himself from doing this because the new code produces a different output and ou have to force the new mechanism with \startmixedcolumns to use it. A advantage of the new environment is that you can use it in \startframedtext (with a few restrictions) where the old mechanism has failed.
I have an additional problem with columns: If I set distance= \baselineskip, it is bigger then \baselineskip. Even with distance=0pt, there is still a gap, maybe because of some minimum distance value. How can I get a smaller distance?
Do you have a example because there isn’t an space between the columns when you use “distance=0pt”. \starttext \startmixedcolumns[distance=0pt,separator=rule] \dorecurse{1000}{i } \stopmixedcolumns \stoptext Wolfgang
On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:04:36 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster has written:
Mixed columns are a rewrite of the old columns mechanism. [...] Thanks for the explanation, I will from now on use mixedcolumns instead of the old column commands.
Do you have a example because there isn’t an space between the columns when you use “distance=0pt”. Your example works, it only doesn't work with the old \startcolumn. After having changed everything to mixed columns everything is fine now. Thanks again.
Kind regards, Joshua
One other problem has appeared: \startmixedcolumns[align=right] doesn't work (align=... works with \startcolumns). How can I change the alignment? Kind regards, Joshua
Am 04.06.2013 um 00:35 schrieb Joshua Krämer
One other problem has appeared: \startmixedcolumns[align=right] doesn't work (align=... works with \startcolumns). How can I change the alignment?
The mixedcolumns doesn’t have a option for this yet but (tolerance and blank options are missing as well) but they can be added. In the meantime you can add \setupalign[flushleft] at the begin of the environment. Wolfgang
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