On Wednesday, June 01, 2005 11:17 PM Vit Zyka wrote:

Adam Lindsay wrote:

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Has anyone got a solution/approach/example at hand?

---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ---------------- Subject: Re: (Stupid) Context question Date Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2005 20:57 From: Musa Furber To: Adam Lindsay

Something I cannot do with LaTeX that I would like to be able to do is have the text on the first page be single column and starting with the second page have the text be double column - even if the page transition is in the middle of a paragraph.

Is this possible to do with ConTeXt?

I think so, see manual columns.pdf

vit

In context---and what is described in columns.pdf---you can get definitively more complicated layouts than what can be done with LaTeX (a dream). But the statement that it isn't possible in LaTeX isn't true. The multicols package by Frank Mittelbach provides a way to switch between multicolumn layout on the same page. Only the standard LaTeX documentclass option 'twocolumn' forces that a new page has to begin before changing the layout. Magazine-like layout of course is better done with context. Ulrich

Taco Hoekwater wrote:

Vit Zyka wrote:

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Adam Lindsay wrote:

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Has anyone got a solution/approach/example at hand?

---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ---------------- Subject: Re: (Stupid) Context question Date Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2005 20:57 From: Musa Furber To: Adam Lindsay

Something I cannot do with LaTeX that I would like to be able to do is have the text on the first page be single column and starting with the second page have the text be double column - even if the page transition is in the middle of a paragraph.

Is this possible to do with ConTeXt?

I think so, see manual columns.pdf

But it is not possible to switch completely automatically, even without a mid-paragraph pagebreak, I'm afraid.

I believe that columset mechanism (based on pouring \parshape from paragraph to paragraph and output routine support) can do it. Even in the manual is an example. But I share your doubts in case of some complex pages (floats, margins, marks). But plain text should be OK. I am curious about the practical experience. vit