Can Typst detect the current column?

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Further progress!

#let hdi() = {
  context {
  //are we less than halfway across the page?
    if here().position().x.abs < page.width * 50% {
  //if so, stick it in the left column and fiddle the exact position a bit
    //place(left, icon)  
    let myhoz = here().position().x.abs
    let myvert = here().position().y.abs
    place(top + left, icon, dy: myvert -2cm, dx: -myhoz+1cm)
    } else {
      //otherwise, use the right column and fiddle the exact position a bit
      //place(right, icon)
      //box(fill: luma(99), place(top + right, scope: "parent", float: true, icon, dx: 1cm))
      let myhoz = here().position().x.abs
      let myvert = here().position().y.abs
      place(top + right, icon, dy: myvert -2cm, dx: +1cm)
    }
  }
}

hdi() Give them a nice #hd[Handout] 

#hdi() Give them a nice extremely lengthy and still in the correct place #hd[Handout] 

#hdi() Give them a nice #hd[Handout] 

#context{here().position()}


- #context{here().position()}

- #hdi() Give them a nice bullet-point #hd[Handout] 
- #hdi() Give them a nice bullet-point #hd[Handout] 
- #context{here().position()}

#colbreak()


#hdi() Give them a nice #hd[Handout] 

#hdi() Give them a nice extremely lengthy and still in the correct place #hd[Handout] 

#hdi() Give them a nice #hd[Handout] 

#context{here().position()}


- #context{here().position()}

- #hdi() Give them a nice #hd[Handout] 
- #hdi() Give them a nice #hd[Handout] 
- #context{here().position()}

For paragraphs, this successfully places the icon next to the text that calls it, at the correct vertical position.

With bullet lists, it doesn’t.

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Presumably this is because the bullet element has its own top/left/right points and those are being used. Is there a way to force it to use the ones for the page instead? scope: parent does not appear to do that (possibly because the parent is the bullet list, rather than the page, but I can’t tell).

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