darrell@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Darrell Long) (12/21/86)
Hello. I'm looking for a set of macros to do small type foot- notes, multi-column format, double spacing (without tweeking the footnotes) and macros to increase/decrease the point size (I'd like to say \bigger or \smaller) I'm using Plain TeX (I find it easier than fighting with LaTeX and someone else's notion of what conference referees should see) If you have such macros, please mail them to me -- I'll collect the best of them and post them if there is sufficient interest. DL -- Darrell Long Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, C-014 University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California 92093 ARPA: Darrell@Beowulf.UCSD.EDU UUCP: sdcsvax!beowulf!darrell
rcb@rti-sel.UUCP (Random) (12/22/86)
In article <2378@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> darrell@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Darrell Long) writes: >Hello. I'm looking for a set of macros to do small type foot- >notes, multi-column format, double spacing (without tweeking the >footnotes) and macros to increase/decrease the point size (I'd >like to say \bigger or \smaller) > The TeXbook describes one way to do multicolumn formatting, But I don't like it. I wanted something that could do column balancing. So, here it is. I warn you now that it is crude and designed for only one application, but should be modifiable to whatever you like \parskip=10pt plus 6pt minus 6pt \hsize=3.2in \vsize=17in \topskip=0pt %% %% Define output routine %% \output={% \shipout\vbox{ \vbox to 36pt{ \hbox to 6.5in{\hbox{\firstmark}\hfil \hbox{\ifnum\pageno>0 \folio\fi} } \vfil } \splittopskip=\topskip \setbox254=\vbox{\unvbox255} \ifdim0.5\ht254>8.5in \dimen250=8.5in \else \dimen250=0.5\ht254 \fi \setbox253=\vsplit254 to \dimen250 \vbox to \dimen250{% \hbox{% \vtop to \dimen250{\unvbox253\ifnum\pageno=0 \vfil\fi}% \hbox to 0.1in{}% \vtop to \dimen250{\unvbox254\ifnum\pageno=0 \vfil\fi}% }% \vskip 0pt minus 10pt } } \global\advance\pageno by 1 } -- Random (Randy Buckland) Research Triangle Institute ...!mcnc!rti-sel!rcb
public@sci.UUCP (Public temp) (12/31/86)
I think that there are convienient macros for multi-column formatting in the HPTeX software (essentially a set of neato add-on macros to Plain TeX). You would say something like \begincolumns 3 to get three columns on a page, followed by an \endcolumns. They also have something like a \balance command to fix all the columns done so far for chapter headings or such.