Dear All, I tried the mm macros.
In general, the idea to have a horizontal object spanning the full page width between two portions of text in two columns can be realized with mm. The .1C 1 macro with the argument "1" does the trick. There is one caveat, though. mm does not balance columns, so I have to insert a break manually. This should now be an obstacle of minor concern. Best regards, Oliver. On 20/11/2023 21:04, Oliver Corff via wrote:
Another follow-up: I just checked the one-column mode across the macro packages ms, me and mm, and lo and behold, the mm man page tells me: 1C [1] Begin one-column processing. A 1 as an argument disables the page break. Use wide footnotes, small foot‐ notes may be overprinted. I never worked with the mm package. I'll give it a try. Best regards, Oliver. On 20/11/2023 19:55, Oliver Corff wrote:Dear All, in April 29, I asked whether there is a possibility to resume one-column text after a two-column text on the same page. Your answers, uni sono, said what the the manual says: returning to one-column mode will always finish the page and begin a new one. The reason for this behaviour is to "[m]ake sure we don't exit if there are still floats or footnotes left-over." (line 578 of s.tmac, groff 1.22.4)* I am by far not familiar enough to modify the macros in s.tmac, so may I kindly ask for some guidance? Task: create a private 1C-style command which - perhaps named .1Cs ("s" as in simplified or stripped down) - flushes the material not yet typeset, happily ignoring any floats of footnotes, in two balanced columns; certainly using .pg*end-col, I assume? - returns to one-column mode, trusting that - my file is a clean text file without surprises, so need to take care of footnotes etc. I could start with line 527 of s.tmac, that's where the definition of .1C starts. But how many lines between 527 and 601 do I really have to copy into a private macro definition file? While I understand individual definitions (the macro names are quite transparent) I fail to make sense of how everything works together. Thank you very much for your occasional enlightenment, Best regards, Oliver. * Please bear with me that this particular machine hasn't yet been upgraded to groff 1.23. It will happen. -- Dr. Oliver Corff Wittelsbacherstr. 5A 10707 Berlin GERMANY Tel.: +49-30-85727260 mailto:oliver.co...@email.de-- Dr. Oliver Corff Wittelsbacherstr. 5A 10707 Berlin G E R M A N Y Tel.: +49-30-85727260 Mail:oliver.co...@email.de
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