Re: How to use columns inside another column?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Zhichu Chen wrote:
> Thanks, Mr. Hoekwater
>
> If the texts are short, say they won't go to the next column, they 
> could be
> stored into a \vbox whose \hsize is half of the width of current column
> (maybe less) and \vsplit it into two equally high ones.
>
> But when it's long enough, I think I need to know the rest room for the
> current column. Is there any primitives just behavior like \pagegoal?
>
for those willing to experiment ... m-streams (and page-str) implement 
page streams and to some extend one can make columned subpages and feed 
them back into the main vertical list

Hans


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