Re: Ineraction between \startframedtext and \startcolumns?

> >> If not, can someone tell me how to make oddities (2) and (3) go away?
> 
> > \showgrid
> > \starttext
> 
> > \startbuffer
> > Some text which will get set
> > between two lines.  The bottom
> > line goes across the page.
> > \stopbuffer
> 
> > % What I want to see looks like this:
> > \startcolumns[n=2,distance=0.75cm,separator=rule]
> > \typebuffer
> > \column
> > \switchtobodyfont[small]
> > \getbuffer
> > \stopcolumns
> 
> > \smallskip\line{\hss M\hss}
> 
> > \startframedtext[offset=none,width=broad] %, frame=off]
> > \startsimplecolumns[n=2,distance=0.5cm,separator=rule]
> > \typebuffer
> > \column
> > \switchtobodyfont[small]
> > \getbuffer
> > \stopsimplecolumns
> > \stopframedtext
> 
> > \smallskip\line{\hss M\hss}
> 
> > This is more text to see what happens next.
> > This is more text to see what happens next.
> 
> Interestingly (to me), wrapping \startsimplecolumns ... \stopsimplecolumns
> inside \startnarrower ... \stopnarrower doesn't make the columns any
> narrower.  I went to look up options to \startsimplecolumns in the wiki
> when I discovered it wasn't there.  :-)

Actually, I was replying from memory. It appeared to work in my MWE, but now that I look at the code, simplecolumns is a bit too simplistic, and definitely not appropriate for being used inside a box or any other environment.

\startnarrower narrows the page by setting \leftskip and \rightskip, but \startsimplecolumns has a \forgetall, so the skips are forgotten! An option is to set the width, but the skips are still wrong:

\startnarrower[2cm]
\input knuth

\setsimplecolumnshsize[width=\availablehsize]
\startsimplecolumns[n=2]
\typebuffer
\column
\switchtobodyfont[small]\setupinterlinespace
\getbuffer
\stopsimplecolumns
\stopnarrower

You can fix the skips by wrapping everything in a \framed, but at this stage, the code is  not so simple anymore :-)

\startnarrower[4cm]
\input knuth

\dontleavehmode
\framed[frame=off]{\setsimplecolumnshsize[width=\availablehsize]%
\startsimplecolumns
\typebuffer
\column
\switchtobodyfont[small]\setupinterlinespace
\getbuffer
\stopsimplecolumns}
\stopnarrower

So, the standard \startcolumns is a better mechanism.

Aditya
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