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Consider using paragraphs ({{cmd|defineparagraphs}} or column sets ({{cmd|startcolumnset}} instead of "simple" ‘simple’ columns.

ntop has to do with balancing{| class="wikitable"|-| n | Number of columns. Default is n=2.|-| rule | Draw a line between the columns. Default is off.|-| tolerance | Affects spacing. Narrow columns should be set tolerant, verytolerant or stretch|- | distance | Size of the gap between the columns.|- | balance | Should the columns be balanced, i.e. should they get the same number of lines?|- | align | Left, right (raggedleft, but I raggedright).|- | blank | Amount of whitespace between paragraphs set in columns. Also accepts a dimension as an argument. Column equivalent of {{cmd|setupwhitespace}}.|- | option | With option=background you can't make sense of ituse everything that \setupframed offers. See page|-mult| direction | Default is right, i.e.tex / minbalancetoplinesthe first column is on the left; 'left' means the first column is the rightmost. |- | height | height is unclear to me.|- | ntop | ntop contains the minimum number of lines a column should have. If, when a new set of columns starts (e.g. at the start of a page), there are 12 lines to distribute and <code>ntop=7</code>, then ConTeXt will produce one 12-line column rather than two 6-line columns. Note that <code>ntop=6</code> will result in one 7-line column and one 5-line column: ConTeXt seems to prefer that the last column be shorter, as long as its length is at least <code>ntop - n + 1</code>.|}

<!-- Please fill in an example if you can --context source=yes>\setupcolumns[n=3, rule=on, ntop=4] \startcolumns % 12 lines, please \dorecurse{12}{line\crlf}\stopcolumns</context>

<!-- something like [[* {{cmd|startcolumns}} to start a columnar environment.* {{cmd|column}} to move to the next column.* {{cmd:goto|\goto]] setupparagraphs}} for the analogous command for side-by->side paragraphs

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