Ron Aaron wrote:
1) When breaking a too-long column (using \vsplit) I am getting some odd
residual ' characters, and I have no idea where they originate.
Hmm, can't see those in your PDF (perhaps because I can't
?yet? read Hebrew); can you identify them, and their placement,
please ?
2) In the two-column mode I am unable to see footnotes. This puzzles me
but is probably something simple that I am overlooking.
Well, looking at the footnote callout and the macros
involved, I see :
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (Web2C 2010)
entering extended mode
(./bad-2.tex (e:/TeX/Live/2010/texmf-dist/tex/eplain/eplain.tex)
macro:->\global \advance \footnotenumber by 1 \...@eplainfootnote {$^{\number
\foo
tnotenumber }$}
macro:#1->\let \...@sf \empty \ifhmode \edef \...@sf {\spacefactor \the
\spacefactor
}\/\fi \global \advance \hlfootlabelnumber by 1 \hlst...@impl {foot}{\hlfootlab
el }\hld...@impl {footback}{\hlfootbacklabel }#1\hl...@impl {foo...@sf \vfootno
te {#1}
macro:#1->\insert \footins \bgroup \interlinepenalty \interfootnotelinepenalty
\splittopskip \ht \strutbox \advance \splittopskip by \interfootnoteskip \split
maxdepth \dp \strutbox \floatingpenalty \...@mm \leftskip \...@skip \rightskip
\...@sk
ip \spaceskip \...@skip \xspaceskip \...@skip \everypar = {}\parskip = 0pt
\ifnum \
@numcolumns > 1 \hsize = \...@normalhsize \fi \the \everyfootnote \vskip
\interfoo
tnoteskip \indent \llap {\hlst...@impl {footback}{\hlfootbacklabel }\hld...@imp
l {foot}{\hlfootlabel }#1\hl...@impl {footback}\kern \footnotemarkseparation }\
footstrut \futurelet \next \...@t
so this is using TeX's \insert mechanism, and \inserts are documented
not to be able to migrate out of nested boxes [1], so I suspect this
is the problem.
Philip Taylor
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[1] P.~117, DB 1.
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