Michal Kvasnicka wrote:

Good evening.

Many thanks for your help. Your solution works well with the newest ConTeXt and one particular document I now typeset. I have to check it still with more documents. Do you want to gen a report from these tests?

If you want I can send you many examples, but not `minimal files', since I don't know when the problem occures. As I typeset our church bulletin, I've got that result pretty often---approximately on one third or one fourth of all pages.

just test this on many docs and let me know if it fails (one source of problems with i'm currently trying to catch is rounding errors in comparisons)

I can't switch to columnset all my documents. Columnsets are absolutely great (one of the ConTeXt miracle---I thought it is not possible to do it in TeX because of its breaking routines), but up-to-now columnsets cannot be ballanced (or can they?), and my church bulletin is typset in such a way that each article can start anywhere on the page, and the columns must be ballanced before it. I can't explain it better because of my English, but its pages look like this:

xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx

Title of article xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx

Therefore I would lobby for the support of the old \startcolumns ... \stopcolumns environment. :-)

don't worry, i'm not driopping the old one, actually, in due time i'll provide more specialized ones and interfaces to write your own -) balancing in columnsets is a tricky business, the following should work (kind of manual balacing, complete control over how long columns on pages are; probably a bit fragile) % output=pdftex interface=en \setuplayout[grid=yes] \showgrid \showstruts % gaat nogal fout zonder grid \setuptolerance[verytolerant] \definecolumnset [test-1] [n=2] \definecolumnset [test-2] [n=3] \starttext \startcolumnset [test-1] \dorecurse {1}{\input tufte \par} \stopcolumnset \startcolumnset [test-2] \dorecurse {2}{\input ward \par} \stopcolumnset \page \setupcolumnset [test-1] [balance=yes] \setupcolumnset [test-2] [balance=yes] \setupcolumnsetlines[test-1][1][1] [8] \setupcolumnsetlines[test-1][1][2][10] \startcolumnset [test-1] \dorecurse {1}{\input tufte \par} \stopcolumnset \startcolumnset [test-2] \dorecurse {2}{\input ward \par} \stopcolumnset \page \setupcolumnsetlines[test-1][1][1] [8] \setupcolumnsetlines[test-1][1][2][10] \setupcolumnsetlines[test-2][1][1][19] \setupcolumnsetlines[test-2][1][2][18] \setupcolumnsetlines[test-2][1][3][19] \startcolumnset [test-1] \dorecurse {1}{\input tufte \par} \stopcolumnset \startcolumnset [test-2] \dorecurse {2}{\input ward \par} \stopcolumnset \page \setupcolumnsetlines[test-1][1][1] [8] \setupcolumnsetlines[test-1][1][2][10] \setupcolumnsetlines[test-2][1][1][0] \setupcolumnsetlines[test-2][1][2][-2] \setupcolumnsetlines[test-2][1][3][0] \startcolumnset [test-1] \dorecurse {1}{\input tufte \par} \stopcolumnset \startcolumnset [test-2] \dorecurse {6}{\input ward \par} \stopcolumnset \page \setupcolumnsetlines[test-1][1][1] [8] \setupcolumnsetlines[test-1][1][2][10] \setupcolumnsetstart[test-2][1][1][20] \setupcolumnsetstart[test-2][1][2][20] \setupcolumnsetstart[test-2][1][3][20] \startcolumnset [test-1] \dorecurse {1}{\input tufte \par} \stopcolumnset \startcolumnset [test-2] \dorecurse {2}{\input ward \par} \stopcolumnset \page \setupcolumnsetlines[test-1][1][1] [8] \setupcolumnsetlines[test-1][1][2][10] \setupcolumnsetlines[test-2][1][1][-20] \setupcolumnsetlines[test-2][1][2][-20] \setupcolumnsetlines[test-2][1][3][-20] \startcolumnset [test-1] \dorecurse {1}{\input tufte \par} \stopcolumnset \startcolumnset [test-2] \dorecurse {2}{\input ward \par} \stopcolumnset \stoptext Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Hi. A year ago I wrote a set of ConTeXt-set documents on gentoo linux with teTeX without any problems. Now, trying to update them on Mac OS X with Gerben Wieda's teTeX distribution, I get these messages specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) pdftex : using map file: original-context-symbol.map pdftex : using map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map pdftex : using map file: original-vogel-symbol.map ) * Seaching Google, I found some references to this problem, but all in connection with installing new fonts. Since Gentoo managed to set up everything automatically, I wonder if there is a simple fix for that. Thanks, Boris.

Hi Hans, I have: ---- This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 (Web2c 7.5.2) %&-line parsing enabled. (d:/TeX/texmf/web2c/cp8bit.tcx) ----- in Win32. I made current alpha version efmt, it was OK, but after trying to typeset some text (I did not tested anyone else) pdfetex failed with general protection failure (a memory cannot be read). The document is UTF8 XML, the failure occured (see >>HERE<<): ----- specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf,tpd loaded encoding : coding default encoding : coding il2

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) color : system rgb is global activated ----- I did not try yet to experiment with removing some code from the last included (my) file (inside context of this file the afilure occurred), maybe I will find more information. Have a nice day, Martin