Re: Combined single & double column

[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 12:41:23PM -0800, David Oxilia wrote:

> Now to my first question. According to the documentation it is
> not possible to use @FullWidth for @Abstract or @Section in
> two column format. I'd like to typeset articles in two column
> format and set abstracts in @FullWidth above the main sections.
> Infact, I'd like to set the abstract in @ThreeQuarterWidth if
> it's possible to define such a symbol.

If I understand your intent right, than the following message from
Jeff answers your question and, unfortunately, the answer is `no'.


| From: address@hidden (Jeff Kingston)
| Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 18:36:31 +1000
| Subject: Re: Two column output
| X-Mailing-List: <address@hidden> archive/latest/748
| 
| Robbe Stewart:
| Is it possible to split a two-column page (as in I guess, have a column
| break)? The effect I am looking for is:
|  
|  - some text flow into two columns in the top third/half of a page
|  - column break signified by a column-spanning ruled line
|  - more text (also flowing into two columns)
| 
| 
| Answer from Jeff:
| The standard Lout packages are not set up to do this.  Someone who
| set out to write some definitions to do it would strike a problem:
| 
|       A      B
|       --------
|       C      D
| 
| If text flows into A then on into B, the only reason why it would
| stop flowing into A is because space there runs out.  But if space
| there runs out there would be no space for C either.  Lout can't
| see that it would be a good thing to make columns A and B have
| equal height.
| 
| The only approximation would be to decide in advance how much
| height to allow for A and B, and to use a @High symbol to
| restrict them to this height.  Then when A fills up the text
| would flow on to B, but this filling would occur when the height
| limit was reached, allowing C (which is outside the @High and
| not affected by it) to receive other text later.
| 
| Executive summary: probably not in a way that would suit you or
| that could be made to happen quickly.

SY, Uwe
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