On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM vm via ntg-context <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 23/11/2025 15:14, Mikael Sundqvist wrote: > > No. These placements are made first, and then the text just flows > > around it. So you cannot know on before where you are. > > > would it work the other way around as well? > That you first define shapes on a page, assign an other and then fill > them with text?
You define columns, and then you block some parts of them, and what you have left is what you fill with text. We can have multiple mvls so column 1 and 2 for example are independent, but then the just mentioned logic applies to them. Since we work paragraph by paragraph, we assume constant width there. I assume you can do some parshape trickery with certain paragraphs, but then you need to know where it ends up, and that you do not know beforehand. Maybe as a last touch one could start over and work a bit like that, but it would quickly become fragile to small changes. /Mikael ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
