[comp.soft-sys.andrew] 2 col format

niermann@colgate.csg.uiuc.edu (Tom Niermann) (03/15/90)

I just made andrew, and now am tring to decide if I want to use it.
I can't get a paper to preview or print in two column format using .2c of the
me macros. It prints one column of half width. 
Is there any way to fix this or is there a way to make a paper in 2 column
format, preferible so its in 2 column when in ez?

Thanks

nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) (03/15/90)

There's no good way to make it two-column within ez.  (You can use an
embedded table with two text objects properly positioned, but you won't
get the kind of column-wrap-around you really want.)  However, there
should probably be no problem in passing stuff through to troff to get
two column output.  Just make sure to surround the troff commands in a
"FormatNote" style.  -- Nathaniel

jaap+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Jaap Akkerhuis) (03/16/90)

Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 15-Mar-90 Re: 2 col format Nathaniel
Borenstein@thu (387)

>  However, there
> should probably be no problem in passing stuff through to troff to get
> two column output. 

Of course there are lot of problems doing this. Ez uses its own macros,
.2c is a macro from the -me macros. To get it work, one should have to
use troff with the -me macros and ez macros. These are likely getting in
each other ways.

What one can do it to hack up the ez macros to do two column format or
alternatively have ez generate the proper -me commands.

	jaap