Re: Multi-columns in ms, again

2023-11-22 Thread Thomas Dupond via
Le 2023-11-20 à 19:55, Oliver Corff a écrit : Dear All, Hello, 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 pag

Re: Multi-columns in ms, again

2023-11-20 Thread Oliver Corff via
Dear All, I am not going to bother you anymore with my column journey. .NCOL in the mm package does the trick. It allows breaking a column, and since this is a one-time task, I do not mind searching for the optimal breakpoint by hand. All my questions of April 29 answered! Thank you all for yo

Re: Multi-columns in ms, again

2023-11-20 Thread Oliver Corff via
Dear All, I tried the mm macros. In general, the idea to have a horizontal object spanning the full page width between two portions of text in two columns can be realized with mm. The .1C 1 macro with the argument "1" does the trick. There is one caveat, though. mm does not balance columns, so

Re: Multi-columns in ms, again

2023-11-20 Thread Oliver Corff via
Another follow-up: I just checked the one-column mode across the macro packages ms, me and mm, and lo and behold, the mm man page tells me:  1C [1] Begin  one-column  processing.   A 1 as an argument disables the page break.  Use wide footnotes, small foot‐   notes may be overprinted

Re: Multi-columns in ms, again

2023-11-20 Thread Oliver Corff via
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

Multi-columns in ms, again

2023-11-20 Thread Oliver Corff
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