On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 17:16 (+0100), Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Hi,
> The wiki prepends this to the example:
> \setuppapersize[A5][A5]
> \setupexternalfigures[location={local,default}]
> \setupbodyfont[8pt]
> \setupcolors[state=start]
> ( see https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Help:Context )
> The important line is the \setupbodyfont, because that is what makes the
> text fit in the columns. With the default font size, many of the lines in the
> third column are overfull, and that triggers the empty line (which might be
> considered a bug, but you should not have overfull lines either)
> Best wishes,
> Taco
Taco,
thanks very much for that. (I'll do my best to commit this information to
memory, so that I don't ask more questions like this.)
Cheers.
Jim
>> On 8 Dec 2025, at 17:00, Florent Michel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Jim,
>> I just tried running the wiki example and get the same output as you do. For
>> what it's worth, I get an output closer to the wiki's when increasing the
>> width to 21cm (and the height to fit all examples on one page):
>> \definepapersize[tall][width=21cm,height=47cm]
>> \setuppapersize[tall]
>> \setuplayout
>> [topspace=1cm,
>> header=0pt,
>> headerdistance=0pt,
>> footer=0pt,
>> footerdistance=0pt,
>> height=47cm]
>> Cheers,
>> Florent
>> Le lun. 8 déc. 2025 à 15:46, Jim <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>> In another thread I pointed out the big illustrative example on the \blank
>> wiki page is not working for me in the same way as shown in the wiki, and
>> Hans suggested more information and a second confirmation would be useful.
>> Attached is the output I get when I copy and paste the example into a file
>> and run it.
>> If you look at the third column (<something> + medium) of the attached PDF
>> you will notice that in seven cases (e.g., "{\bf medium} + medium") there
>> is a blank line before the "Antelope, ...", whereas on the wiki there are
>> no such blank lines.
>> Would some generous soul try running the example from the wiki and let me
>> (and, I suppose, this list) know whether they see the extra blank lines as
>> well?
>> Thanks.
>> Jim
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