smith@zeus.harvard.edu (Steven Smith) (09/29/90)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Sophisticated Double Columns Distribution: comp.text.tex --text follows this line-- I should have heeded Don Hosek's reason #xx to read TUGboat (but did not). It was pointed out to me that the double column capability described below was developed (for TeX) by some people at Physics Reviews and described by them in TUGboat, vol. 10, no. 4, and that this question appeared in the Q&A section of a recent TUGboat. Several people asked me for double column macros in TeX, which I placed in an entry to this group. As it turns out, there is a much better version of such macros: Karl Berry, through the Free Software Foundation, has written an extended version of plain TeX called eplain. These macros (which, by the way, do not have the capability mentioned below) are available from ics.uci.edu. I highly recommend them; I have always resented LaTeX because I dislike its restrictive and uninteresting style, yet enjoy its conveniences, such as cross referencing. The eplain macros supply many of LaTeX's conveniences without any of the restrictions. Steven Smith Solved: > The right column will be split played equation that appears > when the equation within it. These rules are > ------------------------------ > a^n = b^n + c^n +d^n + e^n + f^n + ... + z^n > ______________________________ > appears in the left column. affected if the split appears > Splitting must occur with on the top or bottom of a page. > horizontal rules to separate The columns must be balanced > a split column from the dis- and may include single column > > material that spans the entire page.
karl@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Karl Berry) (10/02/90)
Steven Smith writes: > Karl Berry, through the Free Software > Foundation, has written an extended version of plain TeX called > eplain. and then goes on to recommend my macros -- thanks, Steve. But just a clarification: the FSF didn't fund the development of eplain, and they aren't distributing it, and they know nothing about it. The macros were written mostly by me, based largely on some stuff in the TeXbook, for the book TeX for the Impatient. (But the macros are public domain and the documentation is copylefted.) Anyway, enjoy. karl@cs.umb.edu