Hi Philipp,
thank you for your reply.
>
> (1) Columnsets cause less trouble than the ordinary
> ?\[start|stop]columns?; (2) you have to define the vskips prior
> to using them with ?\setupwhitespace? or ?\blank?.
>
that takes me a bit further. But columnsets seem to have one great
disadvantage
regarding my project (as far as i could figure out): you have to manually
balance the columns. Thats not practical within a 1200-pages book with
a lot of
balanced breaks.
Another problem (but that may result of my missing knowledge): I could not get
the columns to fill the page (now the contrary problem than before).
I've tried
setupalign[line] before as well as inside the columnset without any effort.
Example below.
Looking into spac-ver.mkiv did not really enlighten me (but i sure have
to take
a deeper look).
Thanks again,
Achim
\showframe
\definecolumnset[two][n=2]
\newskip\Hugeskip
\Hugeskip = 1em plus 4em minus 4em %that should be enough stretchability
\definevspacingamount[Huge][\Hugeskip][\Hugeskip] % for \blank
\definewhitespacemethod[Notsohuge]{\ctxparskip.5\Hugeskip} % for
\setupwhitespace
\setupalign[line] %does not work
\starttext
\startcolumnset[two]
\setupalign[line] %does not work also
%\setupwhitespace[Notsohuge, flexible] no effect
\setupwhitespace[Notsohuge]
%\setupwhitespace[flexible] no effect
\dorecurse{10}{\input knuth}
\stopcolumnset
\stoptext
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