At 10:08 PM 2/10/2003 -0500, Ed L Cashin wrote:

Did you mean for that to be a private email to Albrecht Kauffmann? I hope not, because I peeked at details.pdf, and I noticed pseudo columns. I was going to ask about them on the mailing list, but then I realized that you might not have been joking about not wanting everyone to see details.pdf.

no problem, i'll upload a newer one later (more examples of the extended side float support)

Anyway, the first thing that occurred to me when seeing pseudocolumns is that this might solve the column balancing problem, where context could not balance columns that contained vboxes with lots of very stretchy glue. That is, although the glue could stretch all you want, the column bottoms would still be uneven. Like this:

+----------------------------------+ | | | +-----------+ +-----------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +-----------+ +-----------+ | | | | +------------+ | | | | | | | | +-----------+ | | +------------+ | | | | | | | | +------------+ +-----------+ | | | | | | | | | | +------------+ | | +-----------+ | | +------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +------------+ +-----------+ | +----------------------------------+

Could the pseudocolumns feature solve that problem? I'm thinking that maybe they could, because the problem before was that it was too difficult to get the otr to do it. But I'm also thinking maybe pseudocolumns won't solve it, since the above example could not be achieved with the grid feature.

i can probably build that into columnsets one day; on the other hand, columnsets provide you a means to position graphics directly \definecolumnset[mine][n=3] \setuppapersize[A3][A3] \setuptolerance[verytolerant] \setuplayout[backspace=1cm,topspace=1cm,width=middle,height=middle] \setuplayout[grid=on] \showgrid \tracecolumnsettrue \starttext \startcolumnset[mine] \placefigure[rltb]{}{} \placefigure[fxtb:2*13]{}{} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \par} \stopcolumnset \stoptext this works ok with the beta i just uploaded Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------