Thanks, Mr. Hoekwater If the texts are short, say they won't go to the next column, they could be stored into a \vbox whose \hsize is half of the width of current column (maybe less) and \vsplit it into two equally high ones. But when it's long enough, I think I need to know the rest room for the current column. Is there any primitives just behavior like \pagegoal? Best regards On 1/16/07, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

Zhichu Chen wrote:

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Hi,

Can anybody give me a hand now? There are too many source files in ConTeXt and I don't even know which file will give me a hint.

I don't want to hasten, but I really hope somebody could told me which file I sould read or which way should go, or even it is impossible by now. Any information will do.

I don't believe you can do columnsets inside columnsets.

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Thank you very much, Mr. Hagen, and all the other gentlemen that helped me or were willing to help. For there is no easy ways available, I think I should read these two files thoroughly. I hope I can master ConTeXt like you guys so that I could help others who have weird requests like me one day. Best regards to you On 1/16/07, Hans Hagen wrote:

Zhichu Chen wrote:

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Thanks, Mr. Hoekwater

If the texts are short, say they won't go to the next column, they could be stored into a \vbox whose \hsize is half of the width of current column (maybe less) and \vsplit it into two equally high ones.

But when it's long enough, I think I need to know the rest room for the current column. Is there any primitives just behavior like \pagegoal?

for those willing to experiment ... m-streams (and page-str) implement page streams and to some extend one can make columned subpages and feed them back into the main vertical list

Hans

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Thanks Mr. Mahajan I've read the article, but one can only "span" some texts over two or more columns rather than split a column into two. I've tried double the column numbers and span the other text over two columns. But of course it failed for I want the small inner column to be balanced. I'm now reading the "page-mul.tex." It is a long and confusing file---I'm wondering how Hans and other guys wrote such long files that hardly had a bug---but I really hope I can get some tricks from it. On 1/16/07, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Zhichu Chen wrote:

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Hi,

Can anybody give me a hand now? There are too many source files in ConTeXt and I don't even know which file will give me a hint.

I don't want to hasten, but I really hope somebody could told me which file I sould read or which way should go, or even it is impossible by now. Any information will do.

Have you read the columnset documentation? http://pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/columns.pdf

There are examples where the visual affect is the same as nested columns. I have not read the details of how they are implemented.

HTH, Aditya

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On 1/15/07, Zhichu Chen wrote:

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Hi everybody

I used

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\definecolumnset[example][n=2] \definecolumnset[innerexample][n=2]

\starttext

\startcolumnset[example] \dorecurse{15}{\input knuth\par} \startcolumnset[innerexample] \input knuth\par \stopcolumnset \dorecurse{15}{\input knuth\par} \stopcolumnset

\stoptext ---------------------------

but nothing happened, can I use columns inside another column?

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