Am 24.02.2013 um 16:36 schrieb "Meer, H. van der" <h.vanderm...@uva.nl>:
> The contextrefmanual tells me in table 3.2 the following on the behaviour of > the variables denoting the width of texts: > > <Untitled.jpg> > > But the claim that \textwidth gives the width of a column is false. See the > following minimal example, the first picture is set with 0.45\makeupwidth, > the second with 0.9\textwidth. > It is clear that \textwidth does not follow the claim. There is a local setting for the text width missing in the mliv version of the code. % page-mul.mkiv \unexpanded\def\page_mul_command_set_hsize % beware, this one is available for use in macros {\setbox\scratchbox\hbox{\page_mul_between_columns}% \d_page_mul_distance\wd\scratchbox \d_page_mul_available_width\dimexpr \makeupwidth -\d_page_mul_leftskip -\d_page_mul_rightskip -\nofcolumns\d_page_mul_distance +\d_page_mul_distance \relax \d_page_mul_used_width\dimexpr \d_page_mul_available_width/\nofcolumns -\d_page_mul_offset*\plustwo \relax + \textwidth\d_page_mul_used_width \hsize\d_page_mul_used_width} % page-mix.mkiv \unexpanded\def\page_mix_command_set_hsize - {\hsize\d_page_mix_column_width} + {\textwidth\d_page_mix_column_width + \hsize\d_page_mix_column_width} Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________