[NTG-context] empty page after columnset

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 30.07.25 um 22:33 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:

I’m still working at the current context journal.
A few articles use 2 columns in a columnset,



My impression is that columnsets always "fill up" to a right page.
Is this intentional? If yes, can I change it?

If it’s not intentional I’ll make an MWE.

and sometimes there’s an empty page after it that I can’t get rid of – except by a different order of articles so that those in columns end on a right page.

– There are empty pages between chapters (PDF*: p.4 & 13).




Hraban

*) PDF: https://yemaya.fiee.net/s/TQRQxcz23snbe38

%% same as attached .tex file

\usemodule[visual]
\showframe
\setuppapersize[A5]
\setuplayout[grid=yes,]
\setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]
%\setuphead[chapter][page=no]

\definecolumnset[Two][n=2,page=no]
\definecolumnsetspan[Span][n=2]

\def\InnerArticle#1{
\dorecurse{#1}{
\section{\fakewords{1}{5}}
\fakewords{10}{100}\par
}
}

\def\ColsArticle#1{
\startcolumnset[Two]
\startcolumnsetspan[Span]
\chapter{Sehr Spannender Titel}
\fakewords{20}{30}
\stopcolumnsetspan
\InnerArticle{#1}
\stopcolumnset
}

\def\NormalArticle#1{
\chapter{Langweiliger Titel}
\fakewords{20}{30}
\InnerArticle{#1}
}


\starttext

\ColsArticle{5}

\NormalArticle{2}

\ColsArticle{6}

\ColsArticle{7}

\NormalArticle{3}

\stoptext

Here’s an example file with 2 column (columnset) and 1 column (nothing special) chapters. It uses random numbers, i.e. it doesn’t show every problem every time. One example is attached. – Sometimes, the order of chapters gets changed, non-col chapters get postponed or split. (PDF*: ch.2 start on p.5, then follow ch.3 & 4, ch.2 ends on p-14) With CGJ, I tried to place anything on the empty pages in vain, using layers and postponing. Placements ocurr on the first page of the following article if at all.

colsettest.tex
Description: TeX document

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