Dear All,
in a follow-up to myself:
If I understood where the whole .1C definition ends, I could copy that
block into an own macro definition and from there eliminate just those
commands which flush the old page and begin a new page. I could even
ignore the tests for floats and footnotes because no such thing will
appear in my text.
Or I am completely, utterly and totally mistaken?
Best regards,
Oliver.
PS: Why do I want to do that? I am translating a scientific paper which
by all appearance seems to be typeset with a troff-like system. It is
typeset in two columns (except for title and abstract), and in the
center of one of the pages there is a table which, while not being very
high, spans across the whole page. The order of text blocks respects the
table and shows the following pattern:
TEXT 1 TEXT 2
VERY WIDE TABLE
TEXT 3 TEXT 4
For the convenience of the reader of the translation (who has access to
the original and might want to check a few numbers) I'd like to
reproduce the layout.
If that is really not possible, I still can shift the very wide, but not
very high table to the end.
On 20/11/2023 19:55, Oliver Corff wrote:
Dear All,
in April 29, I asked whether there is a possibility to resume one-column
text after a two-column text on the same page. Your answers, uni sono,
said what the the manual says: returning to one-column mode will always
finish the page and begin a new one.
The reason for this behaviour is to "[m]ake sure we don't exit if there
are still floats or footnotes left-over." (line 578 of s.tmac, groff
1.22.4)*
I am by far not familiar enough to modify the macros in s.tmac, so may I
kindly ask for some guidance?
Task: create a private 1C-style command which
- perhaps named .1Cs ("s" as in simplified or stripped down)
- flushes the material not yet typeset, happily ignoring any floats
of footnotes, in two balanced columns; certainly using .pg*end-col, I
assume?
- returns to one-column mode, trusting that
- my file is a clean text file without surprises, so need to take
care of footnotes etc.
I could start with line 527 of s.tmac, that's where the definition of
.1C starts.
But how many lines between 527 and 601 do I really have to copy into a
private macro definition file? While I understand individual definitions
(the macro names are quite transparent) I fail to make sense of how
everything works together.
Thank you very much for your occasional enlightenment,
Best regards,
Oliver.
* Please bear with me that this particular machine hasn't yet been
upgraded to groff 1.23. It will happen.
--
Dr. Oliver Corff
Wittelsbacherstr. 5A
10707 Berlin
GERMANY
Tel.: +49-30-85727260
mailto:oliver.co...@email.de
--
Dr. Oliver Corff
Wittelsbacherstr. 5A
10707 Berlin
G E R M A N Y
Tel.: +49-30-85727260
Mail:oliver.co...@email.de
