lindaz@hsi.hsi.com (Linda Zukauskas) (03/12/91)
I have tried using the .1C command followed by the .2C command to format some text. Howevery, when I tried to return to using the .1C command, it forced a page break. The book UNIX Text Processing (Dougherty and O'Reilly) said this would happen. My question: Does anyone know how to go from .2C to .1C formatting ON THE SAME PAGE? Is there another macro that does this? Thanks in advance! -- Modesty, propriety, can lead to notoriety... at night a candle's brighter than the sun...
npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) (03/12/91)
If you use the -ms macros, you will indeed get a page break between the 2 column and subsequent 1 column text. If you use -mm, there is no page break but neither will there be an attempt to balance the 2 column section. If the 2C text first column doesn't reach the bottom-of-page trap, you'll get a blank space where the 2nd column would go. Everything works correctly if you used the -mpm macros. -mpm dynamically invokes a compose-time program (pm, for "page makeup") which is an expert-system of sorts for column balancing, figure placement, etc. -mpm and pm are on the DWB 3.1 source tape. For documentation, see followup to article 5442 below.