From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: the same old \column problem
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:36:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <455B884C.9060801@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25282986-FAD6-41FF-9C23-BB712B325315@fiee.net>
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> Hans et al,
>
> did \column ever work or is it supposed to?
> I.e. I guess I should be able "jump" to the next column in
>
> \startcolumns
>
> ....
>
> \column % next column
>
> ....
>
> \stopcolumns
>
>
> Without the \column, it works only for longer paragraphs,
> but e.g. not with \startlines - I'm trying to typeset lyrics,
> and the column *always* breaks within a verse instead of between,
> even if all the verses have the same number of lines, so that
> it would be easily possible to balance cleanly.
>
>
this \column is kind of tricky; balancing works best when grid is enabled; you can try to add \crlf's to influence column split a bit
Hans
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-08 20:38 Henning Hraban Ramm
2006-11-13 21:09 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2006-11-15 21:36 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2006-11-22 21:48 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2006-11-23 9:59 ` Hans Hagen
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