Bump.
See also: https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/542993/2148
On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 11:46 AM Joey McCollum
<jmccollum20140...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> After continuing to look into this a bit, I noticed that a similar issue
> involving the insertion of a blank page after a columnset environment has
> been discussed on the mailing list in the thread "Blank page inserted when
> text reaches column's end" (dated 08 Dec 2019). In that thread, a proposed
> solution was to redefine the \page_grd_stop macro found in page-cst.mkiv as
> follows:
>
> ```
> \unprotect
> \def\page_grd_stop{%
> \endgraf % needed, else wrong vsize in one par case
> \vfill % otherwise weird \placenotes[endnotes]
> \page_grd_command_set_vsize % needed
> \penalty\c_page_otr_eject_penalty
> %\page_grd_command_flush_page
> \page_otr_fill_and_eject_page
> \page_grd_command_set_vsize % why here
> \egroup
> \page_otr_command_set_vsize
> \page_otr_command_set_hsize
> }
> \protect
> ```
>
> Unfortunately, this approach was found to have potential issues in that
> thread, and it does not fix the problem with pagecolumns in my MWE. Are
> pagecolumns commands aliased to pagegrid commands like columnset commands
> are, or are they defined somewhere else? I checked page-col.mkiv, but it
> seems to be too short to be the file that defines pagecolumns behavior.
>
> Joey
>
> On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 11:46 AM Joey McCollum <jmccollum20140...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I recently found the pagecolumns manual
>> (http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/pagecolumns.pdf), and in several
>> of the examples (including those for side floats and footnotes), the
>> addition of a blank page after the end of the pagecolumns environment also
>> seems to occur. So when the manual says, "We always start at a new page and
>> end on a new one," does it mean that this is a feature of pagecolumns? And
>> if so, is there any way to disable it? I have no problem with a page break
>> after the end of the pagecolumns environment, but an empty page added after
>> the break seems unnecessary. I checked for a wiki page on the
>> \definepagecolumns command to get more information on its accepted inputs,
>> but there doesn't appear to be a page for this command.
>>
>> Joey
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 1:40 PM Joey McCollum <jmccollum20140...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am typesetting a document using pagecolumns to ensure that my footnotes
>>> are set ragged-bottom in columns. I have observed some unexpected behavior
>>> whenever the last column on a page is left incomplete: a blank page is
>>> added at the end of the document. A minimal working example follows:
>>>
>>> ```
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>>
>>> \startpagecolumns[n=2]
>>>
>>> \dorecurse{3}{\par\input zapf}
>>>
>>> \stoppagecolumns
>>>
>>> \stoptext
>>>
>>> ```
>>>
>>> I typeset this using ConTeXt version 2020.03.10, as released with TeXLive
>>> 2020. Notably, if \dorecurse{3} is changed to \dorecurse{2} or
>>> \dorecurse{6} (so that the text ends in the first column of a page), then
>>> there is no problem. I have tried to fix this by specifying page=no in the
>>> \startpagecolumns arguments, but it did not change anything. Is there
>>> something else I am missing?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Joey
>
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