Jelle Huisman wrote:
Hi,
I'm typesetting a dictionary using \startcolumns[n=2,balance=yes] to get
balanced columns. I have 26 balanced columns with simple headers in
between and a lot of situations with two columns on one page. (see
example). As long as the number of lines of the first columns (AA) is
fewer than a certain value around 20 the next columns (BB) will be
placed on the same page, but if there are more lines from the first
columns they push the second columns to the next page. Is there a way to
control this behavior, I would like to be able to keep this second
columns starting on this page even if there are only 5 lines of text
available for it. (using MkII)
\starttext
\showgrid
\startalignment[center] AA \stopalignment\blank
\startcolumns[n=2,balance=yes]
\dorecurse{40}{a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a } % << this works
%\dorecurse{42}{a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a } % << this
pushes columns (BB) to the next page
\stopcolumns
\startalignment[center] BB \stopalignment\blank
\startcolumns[n=2,balance=yes]
\dorecurse{100}{b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b }
\stopcolumns
\stoptext
the problem is that the paragraph is larger than two columns and that's
tricky to handle without too much messing around (i'll redo the balancer
in mkiv once i've arrived at it; i see where the catch takes place but
i'd rather not touch the mkii code now)
so, what you can do is trigger the otr before columns end
add \penalty\outputpenalty just before \stopcolumns
(ok, might hav eother side effects
Hans
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