Re: [NTG-context] columns in framedtext

2006-02-22 Thread Hans van der Meer
On Feb 20, 2006, at 23:56, Hans Hagen wrote: Hans van der Meer wrote: I had already experimented with simplecolumns, because these can be placed within framed and at first did seem to do the trick. But the problem I then encountered -- and could not see how to correct that -- is balancing

Re: [NTG-context] columns in framedtext

2006-02-20 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans van der Meer wrote: It seems not possible to typeset in columns (\startcolumns[n=3]... \stopcolumns) within a \startframedtext...\stopframedtext. It all comes out in one long column. How can I accomplish this? For this, you have to use \starttextbackground (or \startbackground)

Re: [NTG-context] columns in framedtext

2006-02-20 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans van der Meer wrote: because in that case I know I have to adapt fontsize, total contents etc. Is there a solution for this? Not that I know of, but maybe something could be done using layers (not my area)? Cheers, Taco ___ ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] columns in framedtext

2006-02-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hans van der Meer wrote: because in that case I know I have to adapt fontsize, total contents etc. Is there a solution for this? Not that I know of, but maybe something could be done using layers (not my area)? it's up to Hans to wikify this:

Re: [NTG-context] columns in framedtext

2006-02-20 Thread Hans van der Meer
I have been experimenting with columnsets too. There I encounter the problem that I cannot set the distance between the columns at will. Neither lt columnsets force themselves into the frame. \starttextbackground doesn't help here, at most I get frames around the separate columns, not the

Re: [NTG-context] columns in framedtext

2006-02-20 Thread Hans van der Meer
On Feb 20, 2006, at 16:18, Hans van der Meer wrote: I have been experimenting with columnsets too. There I encounter the problem that I cannot set the distance between the columns at will. That has been solved. Just had to dig a little deeper in columns.pdf and iron out my bugs. I will

Re: [NTG-context] columns in framedtext

2006-02-20 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans van der Meer wrote: On Feb 20, 2006, at 16:18, Hans van der Meer wrote: I have been experimenting with columnsets too. There I encounter the problem that I cannot set the distance between the columns at will. That has been solved. Just had to dig a little deeper in columns.pdf

Re: [NTG-context] columns in framedtext

2006-02-20 Thread Hans van der Meer
I had already experimented with simplecolumns, because these can be placed within framed and at first did seem to do the trick. But the problem I then encountered -- and could not see how to correct that -- is balancing of the columns, both at normal linespacing and with fixed lineskip. The

Re: [NTG-context] columns in framedtext

2006-02-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Hans van der Meer wrote: I had already experimented with simplecolumns, because these can be placed within framed and at first did seem to do the trick. But the problem I then encountered -- and could not see how to correct that -- is balancing of the columns, both at normal linespacing

Re: [NTG-context] columns in framedtext

2006-02-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Hans van der Meer wrote: I have been experimenting with columnsets too. There I encounter the problem that I cannot set the distance between the columns at will. hm, one can set the distance for each column (isn't that in the columns.pdf manual?) Neither lt columnsets force themselves

[NTG-context] columns in framedtext

2006-02-18 Thread Hans van der Meer
It seems not possible to typeset in columns (\startcolumns[n=3]... \stopcolumns) within a \startframedtext...\stopframedtext. It all comes out in one long column. How can I accomplish this? yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer ___ ntg-context