It seems a few examples from the columns manual -- http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/columns.pdf -- are broken. Here is another (from page 34):
\definecolumnset[example][n=3] \definecolumnset[therest][n=4] \setupcolumnset[example] \setupcolumnset[therest] [distance=.5cm] [distance=.5cm] \setupcolumnset[example] \setupcolumnset[therest] [width=\dimexpr((\makeupwidth-1.5cm)/4)] [width=\dimexpr((\makeupwidth-1.5cm)/4)] \setupcolumnset[example][1] [width=\dimexpr(\makeupwidth-1.0cm-2\dimexpr((\makeupwidth-1.5cm)/4))] \starttext \startcolumnset[example,therest] \startcolumnmakeup \vfill \input knuth \stopcolumnmakeup \column[local] \dorecurse{25}{\input knuth\par} \stopcolumnset \stoptext ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________