// Test the column layouter. --- // Test columns for a sized page. #set page(height: 4.3cm, width: 7.05cm, columns: 2) Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet is a common blind text and I again am in need of filling up this page so I'm returning to this trusty tool of tangible terror. Sure, it is not the most creative way of filling up a page for a test but it does get the job done. --- // Test the `columns` function. #set page(width: auto) #rect(width: 180pt, height: 100pt, padding: 8pt, columns(2, [ A special plight has befallen our document. Columns in text boxes reigned down unto the soil to waste a year's crop of rich layouts. The columns at least were graciously balanced. ])) --- // Test more than two columns. #set page(height: 2cm, width: 7.05cm, columns: 3) #set par(align: center) #circle(fill: eastern) #circle(fill: conifer) #circle(fill: eastern) --- // Test setting a column gutter. #set page(height: 3.25cm, width: 7.05cm, columns: 2, column-gutter: 30pt) #rect(width: 100%, height: 2.5cm, fill: conifer) #rect(width: 100%, height: 2cm, fill: eastern) --- // Test RTL columns. #set page(height: 3.25cm, width: 7.05cm, columns: 2, column-gutter: 30pt) #set text("Noto Sans Arabic", serif) #set par(lang: "ar") #rect(fill: conifer, height: 8pt, width: 6pt) وتحفيز العديد من التفاعلات الكيميائية. (DNA) من أهم الأحماض النووية التي تُشكِّل إلى جانب كل من البروتينات والليبيدات والسكريات المتعددة #rect(fill: eastern, height: 8pt, width: 6pt) الجزيئات الضخمة الأربعة الضرورية للحياة. --- // Test the `colbreak` function. #set page(height: 1cm, width: 7.05cm, columns: 2) A #colbreak() #colbreak() B #colbreak() C --- // Test an empty second column. #set page(width: 7.05cm, columns: 2) #rect(width: 100%, padding: 3pt)[So there isn't anything in the second column?] --- // Test columns when one of them is empty. #set page(width: auto, columns: 3) The page can grow as much as it wants horizontally. --- // Test columns in an infinitely wide frame. #set page(width: 7.05cm, columns: 2) There can be as much content as you want in the left column and the document will grow with it. #rect(fill: conifer, width: 100%, height: 30pt) Only an explicit #colbreak() `#colbreak()` can put content in the second column. --- // Test a page with a single column. #set page(height: auto, width: 7.05cm, columns: 1) This is a normal page. Very normal. --- // Test a page with zero columns. #set page(height: auto, width: 7.05cm, columns: 0) This makes less sense but will still produce a normal page.