On 11/20/2013 4:47 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: > However one thing we do miss from columnsets is the control over widows > & orphans in two ways: \testcolumn, and \setupcolumnsetlines. > \testcolumn[n] allowed us to do a conditional column break, so when we > were about to start a new subsection heading, we could prevent it being > an orphan at the bottom of the column; and when starting a paragraph > with a hangaround graphic framed flushright and bottom, we could > similarly use \testcolumn to prevent the graphic from hanging down into > the footer (which is what sometimes happened otherwise). > > So I'm wondering, is there some way to achieve the equivalent of > \testcolumn in mixedcolumns?
Here is a MWE: \starttext \startmixedcolumns[distance=5mm, balance=yes] \dorecurse {20} { \testcolumn[8] \subsection{Subsection Heading} \input knuth \endgraf } \stopmixedcolumns \stoptext You can see that the heading for subsection 6 is an orphan at the bottom of a column (at least, with the paper size settings I have; otherwise, I'm sure it happens somewhere else). If \testcolumn worked, the \testcolumn[8] would have shoved the subsection heading to the next column, because there was not space for 8 lines left in the column at that point. Any thoughts on how to fix this kind of occurrence? Thanks, Lars ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________