Hi Thomas,

I tested your example file and looked into my archive tests: it seems that a bug has appeared recently, maybe when Hans changed something in order to have linenumbering working in floats. Indeed now the linenumbering does not work in mkiv, neither when using \startsimplecolumns (it works in mkii) or \startmixedcolumns. Line numbering used to work fine in columns, and the line numbers were printed to the left of the left column, and to the right of the right column. It is better to open a new thread on the subject in order for Hans to be informed of the issue.

By the way, why don’t you use \startlines …. \stoplines for your poetry? Is there a particular reason regarding line spacing and so forth?

Best regards: OK

On 11 Aug 2015, at 11:55, Schmitz Thomas A. thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de wrote:

[…] in the following example, which also has columns, the linenumbering doesn’t stop where I would expect. Is this a bug or a limitation of context?

\setuplayout [leftmargin=2cm]

\setupbodyfont [times,10pt]

\setuplinenumbering [step=1,location=inmargin]

\setupcolumns [n=2]

\starttext

\startcolumns \startlinenumbering Had we but world enough, and time,

This coyness, Lady, were no crime.

We would sit down and think which way

To walk and pass our long love’s day.

Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side

Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide

Of Humber would complain. I would

Love you ten years before the Flood,

And you should, if you please, refuse \stoplinenumbering \column

Till the conversion of the Jews.

My vegetable love should grow

Vaster than empires, and more slow;

An hundred years should go to praise

Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;

Two hundred to adore each breast;

But thirty thousand to the rest;

An age at least to every part,

And the last age should show your heart;

For, Lady, you deserve this state,

Nor would I love at lower rate. \stopcolumns

\stoptext

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