Re: Multiple Broken Examples in the WIP mvlcolumnsets manual

Dear Mikael,

Noted. Thank you for the heads up and your work on ConTeXt.

Yours sincerely,
Wang Chen

On Mon, 22 Jun 2026 at 20:32, Mikael Sundqvist <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 21 Jun 2026 at 13:50, Chen Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Mailing List,
> >
> > I understand that the documentation for the new columnsets is very much
> a work-in-progress and I appreciate all the work the ConTeXt developers
> have graciously put in for free.
> >
> > However, the official mvlcolumnsets source code included in the install
> also does not work. You can try rendering it yourself at
> tex/texmf-context/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/mvlcolumnsets.tex
> >
> > Please note example 102 where the figures with a width spanning multiple
> columns are not rendered, and example 006 where two columnsetspans are not
> rendered. There are other inconsistencies too.
> >
> > I was under the impression that the new columnsets system is largely
> complete and that the main issue was a lack of documentation. Yet, the
> documents written by Hans himself do not appear to be rendering correctly.
> Perhaps there are bugs in the system, or maybe I have done something wrong.
> >
> > Please advise me on how to fix this if possible. I really enjoy using
> ConTeXt for typesetting and its column support is unparalleled in terms of
> automation.
> >
> > Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
> >
> > Yours sincerely,
> > Wang Chen
>
> The documentation is not in sync with the new mechanism. We are
> working on a manual for the new columnsets. You better load the older
> one and work with them for the moment. The mvlcolumnsets.tex tex files
> are merely a copied version of the older setup, meant to be adapted
> for the newer version. Maybe they should not even have been included
> in the distribution at this point.
>
> /Mikael
>
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