On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:17 PM, wrote:

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Hello All,

I have a document in two columns and I need about 3mm vertical spacing between paragraphs.

I've tried \setupwhitespace[small] and \setupwhitespace[3mm] but neither looks any different from \setupwhitespace[medium]or [big].

\setupwhitespace[none] gives no space.

There is a previous mailing in the archives which suggests that columns don't use \setupwhitespace, and there's a suggestion to use \defineblank[default][3mm] but that doesn't seem to do anything either.

This is a feature of the columns environment.

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Any suggestions?

\startcolumns

\setupwhitespace[...]

bla bla bla ...

\stopcolumns

Wolfgang

Thanks Wolfgang, that works a treat!

What else changes when I switch over to columns? Do I need a whole new environment within columns?

\setupwhitespace should be enough but you could define a new environment and hide the setup in the environment file. \definestartstop [mycolumns] [before=\startcolumns, after=\stopcolumns, commands=\directsetup{mycolumn:setup}] \startsetups mycolumn:setup \setupwhitespace[...] \stopsetups \starttext \startmycolumns text text text ... \stopmycolumns \stoptext Wolfgang