Re: [NTG-context] How to use columns inside another column?

2007-01-30 Thread Zhichu Chen
Sorry to have bothered you guys, I've solved my problem now. Thank you for your kind helps. -- Sincerely yours, Chen Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading |

Re: [NTG-context] How to use columns inside another column?

2007-01-25 Thread Zhichu Chen
Hi, Hans I've been reading page-str and m-streams these days, but I'm so unfamiliar with ConTeXt's output routine. So one thing leads to another, I have to read more files to look for the definitions of some low-level macros used in these files. And I get confused. Maybe this kind of extension

Re: [NTG-context] How to use columns inside another column?

2007-01-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Zhichu Chen wrote: Hi, Can anybody give me a hand now? There are too many source files in ConTeXt and I don't even know which file will give me a hint. I don't want to hasten, but I really hope somebody could told me which file I sould read or which way should go, or

Re: [NTG-context] How to use columns inside another column?

2007-01-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Zhichu Chen wrote: Hi, Can anybody give me a hand now? There are too many source files in ConTeXt and I don't even know which file will give me a hint. I don't want to hasten, but I really hope somebody could told me which file I sould read or which way should go, or even it is

Re: [NTG-context] How to use columns inside another column?

2007-01-16 Thread Zhichu Chen
Thanks Mr. Mahajan I've read the article, but one can only span some texts over two or more columns rather than split a column into two. I've tried double the column numbers and span the other text over two columns. But of course it failed for I want the small inner column to be balanced. I'm

Re: [NTG-context] How to use columns inside another column?

2007-01-16 Thread Zhichu Chen
Thanks, Mr. Hoekwater If the texts are short, say they won't go to the next column, they could be stored into a \vbox whose \hsize is half of the width of current column (maybe less) and \vsplit it into two equally high ones. But when it's long enough, I think I need to know the rest room for

Re: [NTG-context] How to use columns inside another column?

2007-01-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Zhichu Chen wrote: Thanks, Mr. Hoekwater If the texts are short, say they won't go to the next column, they could be stored into a \vbox whose \hsize is half of the width of current column (maybe less) and \vsplit it into two equally high ones. But when it's long enough, I think I need to

Re: [NTG-context] How to use columns inside another column?

2007-01-16 Thread Zhichu Chen
Thank you very much, Mr. Hagen, and all the other gentlemen that helped me or were willing to help. For there is no easy ways available, I think I should read these two files thoroughly. I hope I can master ConTeXt like you guys so that I could help others who have weird requests like me one

Re: [NTG-context] How to use columns inside another column?

2007-01-16 Thread Zhichu Chen
Hi, Can anybody give me a hand now? There are too many source files in ConTeXt and I don't even know which file will give me a hint. I don't want to hasten, but I really hope somebody could told me which file I sould read or which way should go, or even it is impossible by now. Any information

[NTG-context] How to use columns inside another column?

2007-01-14 Thread Zhichu Chen
Hi everybody I used --- \definecolumnset[example][n=2] \definecolumnset[innerexample][n=2] \starttext \startcolumnset[example] \dorecurse{15}{\input knuth\par} \startcolumnset[innerexample] \input knuth\par \stopcolumnset \dorecurse{15}{\input knuth\par}