[NTG-context] testcolumn error

2014-06-27 Thread Jan Tosovsky
Dear All, the following MWE works fine, but when that 'First line' is uncommented, I am getting 'Undefined control sequence' error in the console (ConTeXt - 2014.06.22). \starttext \startcolumns[n=2] %First Line \testcolumn[2]\input{tufte} \stopcolumns \stoptext Any idea what is wrong here

Re: [NTG-context] a way to implement \testcolumn in mixedcolumns

2013-12-05 Thread Lars Huttar (SIL gmail)
On 12/3/2013 4:40 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 12/3/2013 3:10 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: ... Thanks again for your work on this. We're continually reevaluating whether we can use the beta or need to stick with the stable version. At the moment, it looks like we'll be sticking with the stable

Re: [NTG-context] a way to implement \testcolumn in mixedcolumns

2013-12-03 Thread Lars Huttar
On 11/28/2013 1:34 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: That macro was never meant for mixed columns. I made a variant that works ok in mixed columns which will be in the next beta. \setuptolerance[verytolerant] \starttext \startmixedcolumns \dorecurse{4}{\input ward \par} \testcolumn[10

Re: [NTG-context] a way to implement \testcolumn in mixedcolumns

2013-12-03 Thread Hans Hagen
}{\input ward \par} \testcolumn[10][-1pt] % 10 lines - 1pt slack \dorecurse{2}{\input ward \par} \stopmixedcolumns \stoptext Ok. It looks like the second parameter to \testcolumn is now required (it didn't used to be). i'll fix that What does this slack value do? Does it mean

Re: [NTG-context] a way to implement \testcolumn in mixedcolumns

2013-11-29 Thread Lars Huttar (SIL gmail)
On 11/28/2013 1:34 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: That macro was never meant for mixed columns. I made a variant that works ok in mixed columns which will be in the next beta. Excellent. I will give it a try. I see a context-setup-win64 dated 2013-11-28 19:45. Is that beta? I may wait for the next one

Re: [NTG-context] a way to implement \testcolumn in mixedcolumns

2013-11-29 Thread Hans Hagen
On 11/29/2013 12:26 PM, Lars Huttar (SIL gmail) wrote: On 11/28/2013 1:34 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: That macro was never meant for mixed columns. I made a variant that works ok in mixed columns which will be in the next beta. Excellent. I will give it a try. I see a context-setup-win64 dated

Re: [NTG-context] a way to implement \testcolumn in mixedcolumns

2013-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
we couldn't get column balancing to work in columnsets). However one thing we do miss from columnsets is the control over widows orphans in two ways: \testcolumn, and \setupcolumnsetlines. \testcolumn[n] allowed us to do a conditional column break, so when we were about to start a new subsection

Re: [NTG-context] a way to implement \testcolumn in mixedcolumns

2013-11-26 Thread Lars Huttar
in two ways: \testcolumn, and \setupcolumnsetlines. \testcolumn[n] allowed us to do a conditional column break, so when we were about to start a new subsection heading, we could prevent it being an orphan at the bottom of the column; and when starting a paragraph with a hangaround graphic

Re: [NTG-context] a way to implement \testcolumn in mixedcolumns

2013-11-23 Thread Hans Hagen
On 11/22/2013 11:37 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: On 11/22/2013 4:59 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 11/20/2013 11:12 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: On 11/20/2013 4:47 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: However one thing we do miss from columnsets is the control over widows orphans in two ways: \testcolumn

Re: [NTG-context] a way to implement \testcolumn in mixedcolumns

2013-11-22 Thread Hans Hagen
On 11/20/2013 11:12 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: On 11/20/2013 4:47 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: However one thing we do miss from columnsets is the control over widows orphans in two ways: \testcolumn, and \setupcolumnsetlines. \testcolumn[n] allowed us to do a conditional column break, so when we were

Re: [NTG-context] a way to implement \testcolumn in mixedcolumns

2013-11-22 Thread Lars Huttar
On 11/22/2013 4:59 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 11/20/2013 11:12 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: On 11/20/2013 4:47 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: However one thing we do miss from columnsets is the control over widows orphans in two ways: \testcolumn, and \setupcolumnsetlines. \testcolumn[n] allowed us to do

[NTG-context] a way to implement \testcolumn in mixedcolumns

2013-11-20 Thread Lars Huttar
in columnsets). However one thing we do miss from columnsets is the control over widows orphans in two ways: \testcolumn, and \setupcolumnsetlines. \testcolumn[n] allowed us to do a conditional column break, so when we were about to start a new subsection heading, we could prevent it being an orphan

Re: [NTG-context] a way to implement \testcolumn in mixedcolumns

2013-11-20 Thread Lars Huttar
On 11/20/2013 4:47 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: However one thing we do miss from columnsets is the control over widows orphans in two ways: \testcolumn, and \setupcolumnsetlines. \testcolumn[n] allowed us to do a conditional column break, so when we were about to start a new subsection heading, we