Hello, thanks for reaction - so I'm starting with column sets (@Wolfgang: text from column 2a may flow into 2b). My code so far: ---- \definecolumnset[example][n=3,balancing=no] \definecolumnsetspan[wide][n=2,background=contrast] \setupexternalfigures[location=default] \setuphead[subsubsubsubsubject][style=bold] \starttext \startcolumnset[example] \startcolumnsetspan[wide] \externalfigure[hacker][width=95mm] \stopcolumnsetspan \dorecurse{2}{ \subsubsubsubsubject{Sub} \input ward } \column \column \darkred \starttabulate[|rB|lp|] \NC a \NC AA \NC\NR \NC aa \NC AAA \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stopcolumnset \stoptext ---- produces overlapping lines at the end of the first column. - How to avoid this? - Being in a columnset environment, is there a way to tell context "go to third column" (regardless in which column I am currently typing)? - Altough I found some wiki material about column sets (e.g. https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupcolumnsetstart or columns.pdf), I found nothing about "page columns" - can you give me a link? - All wiki examples use "1" at the place of "nesting level": " \setupcolumnsetstart[...][...][...][...] [...] columnset name [...] nesting level [...] number of individual column in columnset [...] starting line (1 = start at the top) ... \setupcolumnsetstart[three][1][1][15] ^ | ---------- HERE " Is there a sample which would use an other number? - I'm asking as I guess my task has to do with nested column sets. Best regards, Lukas On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 18:47:18 +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

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Am 2019-09-24 um 15:44 schrieb Procházka Lukáš Ing. :

I need to get columns like this:

| | 1b | | 1a | | +-------------+ | | 2a | 2b | | | | | |

I tried the following:

---- \starttext \startcolumns[n=2] % How to tell that ratio between columns should be 2:1? \input knuth % Be 1a

Such a layout is not possible with simple old columns. Try columnsets or page columns (see manuals of the same name).

Greetlings, Hraban

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Hello Hraban, On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:07:50 +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

If your ConTeXt installation is quite recent, you have texmf-context/doc/context/documents/general/manuals/pagecolumns.pdf This is quite new and I don’t know how usable.

useful, thanks.

(Hint for everyone: the "manuals" directory is a tresure trove!)

(I can confirm!) BTW, following "columnsets.pdf", \column has many options, unfortunately not so clear for me; so: \column -> go to next column? \column[] -> = \column? \column[yes] -> = \column? \column[page] -> go to first column on the new page? \column[3] -> go to 3rd column - or skip 3 columns? \column[first] -> go to first column, also go to next page if currently on 2+th column? \column[last] -> go to last column? \column[3*5] -> ??? Any explanation would be nice. Best regards, Lukas

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Hello, I extended the "Description" section at https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/column#Description by an incomplete list of options.

Please try it and report back, i.e. document it in the wiki. Someone has to do it…

The only effect I can see is when I use \column (= go to next column) and \column[last] (go to last column); just guessing what other options mean; and no idea what [3*5] does.

I only ever used plain \column.

So did I. And I tried \column[last] this time, too. So - anyone with better knowledge to fill meaning of the unknown \column options? BTW, what effect has using \column more times than \startcolumns[n=...] predicts? Best, Lukas NB: I've noticed many changes on wiki (https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Special:RecentChanges) in last days issued by you, Hraban, so thank you for maintaining wiki.

Maybe the source helps further: https://source.contextgarden.net/tex/context/base/mkiv/page-cst.mkiv

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