setuppapersize[A4]

% height is header to footer, top and bottom are above and below
% this. I have no interest in stuff to left or right of the text
% box, and that is what context calls margins.  The real side
% margins are what context calls edge.

% using showframe implies this is odd at the edges and very long
\setuplayout
	[backspace=1cm, % edge and margin
	top=1cm,
	edge=1cm,
	bottom=1cm,
	margin=0cm,
	%margindistance=0.1cm,
	width=19cm,
	header=0cm,
	footer=0cm,
	height=25cm]

% Turn off page numbering
% If putting pagenumber at bottom, use location=bottom,middle
% AND footer=1cm (or more, to separate number from text).
\setuppagenumbering[location=]

% show the page frame
%\showframe

\setupbodyfont[heros,10pt]

\starttext
% headline - the blank needs to be limited to this,
% otherwise the columns have blank space between each line
{
\ss\ssd\bf
Music With Rocks In are here on Friday
\blank[big]
}
% for rest of document, normal size	
\switchtobodyfont[dejavu,10pt]
\ss

\startcolumns[n=2]

You've heard of the sensational new sounds coming from Music With Rocks In,
now they are on tour and will be playing here on Friday. 

\blank[medium]

The links I can find suggest that there is an ipsum module (or m-ipsum) for
ConTeXt, but trying to use mkiv with the TexLive 2023 source tarball does not
find that. So I'm having to write my own random filler text for this "see what
works" example. As an alternative, I could waste a few more days googling and
looking at Stack Exchange, and trying out suggestions which turn out not to
work - but this document is supposed to be a quiick and dirty attempt.

\blank[medium]

% about 6 lines and 6 lines might do.

More randomly typed filler here since I can't think of anything from the late
Sir Pterry Pratchett's Soul Music which would fit here such as comments about
the Musicians' Guild or true musicians wanting to be paid, or Buddy's
insistence that music wants to be free. It looks as if I need a bit more text
before this columnar part of the page will be sufficiently long to look as if
a short promotional flyer would be balanced, so some more random typing here to
fill it.

\blank[medium]

Remember, folks, if you liked this gig then head to Ankh Morpork where at the
end of this tour the band will be headlining a FREE festival. You will be able
to experience a load of supporting acts inspired by this new music, and to
purchase many souvenirs such as T-shirts, and refreshments such as the famous
Mr Dibbler's Sausage Inna Bun (once eaten never forgotten) or Rat Onna Stick
for those of the dwarf persuasion.

\stopcolumns

\blank[medium]

\thinrule

\blank[big]

\rm
Trying to find out how to use ConTeXt is really painful and some of the
settings \it{e.g. the tolerance options in columns which
appear designed to prevent words overflowing the column}\tf do not seem
to work.
% Edited down to fit on one A4 page.

\blank [medium]

This document was created to try using OTF or TTF fonts with mkiv to see if I
could get to grips with it and perhaps try building current luametatex. For the
moment, the main use of this is to see if a system where I've removed all
extraneous fonts (to save space) can render this (rendering context without
specifying a font seens to work).

\blank [medium]

To end, the various formats available in the fonts I used, DejaVu and for the
headline Heros which is only San-Serif until the typescript does something to
it.

\blank [medium]

\showbodyfont [dejavu]

\blank [medium]

\showbodyfont [heros]


\stoptext

