Re: [NTG-context] bug? gap appears in columnset

2013-09-19 Thread Hans Hagen
On 9/19/2013 4:25 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: Hans wrote, Columnsets are rather special and mostly meant for magazine like documents, where content can span columns, images are explicitly placed on the grid, etc. For that reason columnset soperate on a rather strict grid that gets setup based in the

Re: [NTG-context] bug? gap appears in columnset

2013-09-19 Thread Lars Huttar
Hans wrote, Columnsets are rather special and mostly meant for magazine like documents, where content can span columns, images are explicitly placed on the grid, etc. For that reason columnset soperate on a rather strict grid that gets setup based in the lineheight and although content can

Re: [NTG-context] bug? gap appears in columnset

2013-09-18 Thread Lars Huttar
Regarding sane interlinespace, Hans wrote, ok, but then, an interlinespace is normally around 1.2 times the bodyfontsize OK. That's helpful. But notice that in the following example, the interline space that causes the problem is in the *first* section (where htdp is 12pt and baselineskip is

Re: [NTG-context] bug? gap appears in columnset

2013-09-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 9/18/2013 11:47 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: Regarding sane interlinespace, Hans wrote, ok, but then, an interlinespace is normally around 1.2 times the bodyfontsize OK. That's helpful. But notice that in the following example, the interline space that causes the problem is in the *first*

Re: [NTG-context] bug? gap appears in columnset

2013-09-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 9/17/2013 5:02 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: Aditya wrote: Any particular reason you are using columnsets rather than \startcolumns or \startmixedcolumns. Columnsets are for specialized layout requirements, and in my experience, mixing columnsets with text that is not in columnsets is a bit tricky.

Re: [NTG-context] bug? gap appears in columnset

2013-09-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 9/16/2013 11:29 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: I was advised to report the bug back to this list, with an even more minimized example. Here it is below. This bug occurs in both mkiv and mkii, in the latest versions (current beta). |\setupinterlinespace[line=12pt] \definecolumnset[columnset1][n=2]

Re: [NTG-context] bug? gap appears in columnset

2013-09-17 Thread Lars Huttar
Aditya wrote: Any particular reason you are using columnsets rather than \startcolumns or \startmixedcolumns. Columnsets are for specialized layout requirements, and in my experience, mixing columnsets with text that is not in columnsets is a bit tricky. Thanks for suggesting a potential

Re: [NTG-context] bug? gap appears in columnset

2013-09-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 9/17/2013 8:57 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: Can you point me to documentation on the constraints that define what kind of interlinespace is sane? the default is 2.8ex which is pretty safe, then there is the ht/dp ratio which in some cases has to be adapted to fonts esp when they are

Re: [NTG-context] bug? gap appears in columnset

2013-09-17 Thread Lars Huttar
Hans wrote, Just wondering ... do you think that the first pages look ok? Thanks for your response. By look ok, are you referring to the closeness of the lines of text? It does seem kind of close, but within acceptable limits, depending on other constraints; however I'm not really the one to

Re: [NTG-context] bug? gap appears in columnset

2013-09-16 Thread Lars Huttar
FYI, I have posted this question on http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/133586/bug-unwanted-gap-in-2nd-columnset Marco and phg were able to reproduce the problem, including in the latest versions. I don't plan to keep posting in both places, but wanted to leave a pointer from this thread to the

Re: [NTG-context] bug? gap appears in columnset

2013-09-16 Thread Lars Huttar
I was advised to report the bug back to this list, with an even more minimized example. Here it is below. This bug occurs in both mkiv and mkii, in the latest versions (current beta). |\setupinterlinespace[line=12pt] \definecolumnset[columnset1][n=2]

Re: [NTG-context] bug? gap appears in columnset

2013-09-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013, Lars Huttar wrote: I was advised to report the bug back to this list, with an even more minimized example. Here it is below. This bug occurs in both mkiv and mkii, in the latest versions (current beta). |\setupinterlinespace[line=12pt] \definecolumnset[columnset1][n=2]

[NTG-context] bug? gap appears in columnset

2013-09-13 Thread Lars Huttar
Hello, We have a document where a gap occurs in a columnset under certain conditions. It seems to be a confluence of: - 2 sections, each with 2-column columnsets - \page[empty] between them - the 2nd section has a tighter interline space The problem is that on the first page of the second

Re: [NTG-context] bug? gap appears in columnset

2013-09-13 Thread Lars Huttar
It should also be mentioned that we need the second section to have a tighter line spacing than the first, but despite the \setupinterlinespace[line=9.3pt] command, and despite the red grid lines being tighter, the text itself seems to have the same interline spacing as in the first section. How