On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Suno Ano wrote:

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Hi Folks!

I am in the curse of setting up the environment plus a project structure for a book. My problem is with a few pages like for example colofon where I used

,----[ content from comp_colophon.tex ] | \startcomponent comp_colophon | \product prod_back_matter | \project proj_a_book | | \startstandardmakeup[doublesided=no, page=right] | | \startalignment[flushleft] | \ssd Colophon\par | \blank[1mm] | \ssa \title\par | \stopalignment | | \hairline | | \stopstandardmakeup | | % ------- | | \startstandardmakeup[doublesided=no, page=left] | \stopstandardmakeup | | | \stopcomponent `----

Now I want the text to be in columns -- two that is ... However, I tried with

,---- | \startcolumns[n=2] | <my text goes here> | \stopcolumns `----

and

,---- | \definecolumnset[example][n=2] | | \starttext | \startcolumnset[example] | \dorecurse{15}{\fakewords{100}{200}\par} | \stopcolumnset | \stoptext `----

but I just get one column in both cases. Can anyone tell me how I would for example use \definemakeup in order to get exactly what \startstandardmakeup and \stopstandardmakeup provides me with PLUS the text gets typeset into two columns? Maybe if it is not possible with \definemakeup what else could I do? Tia!

Try this:

\starttext \startstandardmakeup \startsimplecolumns \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth\par} \stopsimplecolumns \stopstandardmakeup \stoptext

Alternative solution: \definelayout [titlepage] [header=0pt, footer=0pt, backspace=4cm, width=12cm] \definestartstop [titlepage] [before={\setuplayout[titlepage]}, after={\page[right]\setuplayout[reset]}] \starttext \starttitlepage \startcolumns \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth\par} \stopcolumns \stoptitlepage \input knuth \stoptext Wolfgang

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Suno Ano wrote:

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| On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:40:59 +0200, | Wolfgang Schuster | who can be reached at: schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com | (whose comments are cited below with " Wolfgang> "), | had this to say in article <115224fb0804290440r4de3ace9s4c5b5f2fee372e59@mail.gmail.com> | in newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.context | concerning the subject of Re: columns and \definemakeup | (see <87lk2xnd6w.fsf@googlemail.com> <115224fb0804290432u47e4665alf7a5b21d9116c7a2@mail.gmail.com> for more details)

Wolfgang> Alternative solution:

Wolfgang> \Definelayout Wolfgang> [titlepage] Wolfgang> [header=0pt, Wolfgang> footer=0pt, Wolfgang> backspace=4cm, Wolfgang> width=12cm]

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Thank you Wolfgang, it works! However, I tried but did not figure out how to also change the fontsize from within the \definelayout block. Is it possible?

No possible, \definelayout is resposible for margings, textheight and width ... not for the fontsize

I want to change the fontsize to 11pt. I know I could use \switchtobodyfont but I would rather save myself some typing in the future and put it in the \definelayout block -- or something else that does not require me typing it over and over again if \definelayout is the wrong way to go here altogether (/me is still a novice to ConTeXt).

Not within \definelayout but see below.

Same as for the fontsize -- can I "demand" two columns from within the \definelayout block instead of always putting \startcolumns[n=2] respectively \stopcolumns in the actual source?

\definestartstop [titlepage] [before={\setuplayout[titlepage]\bgroup\switchtobodyfont[11pt]\startcolumns}, after={\stopcolumns\egroup\page[right]\setuplayout[reset]}] Wolfgang