Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!ox-prg!culhua!Damian.Cugley From: Damian.Cugley@prg.ox.ac.uk (Damian Cugley) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: How to handle footnotes in double-column format? Message-ID: Date: 10 May 91 09:45:24 GMT References: <12904@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Sender: news@prg.ox.ac.uk Organization: Computing Laboratory, Oxford University, UK Lines: 29 In-reply-to: julian@uhunix2.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu's message of 7 May 91 06:27:38 GMT > From: Julian Cowley > Message-Id: <12904@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> > I'm trying to write a double-format output routine that can > handle column-wide footnotes and can balance columns when > two-column mode ends. [...] > Ok, why not use method b), which makes it much easier to balance > the columns? Well, then it is impossible to tell which column > the footnote came from, since the output routine gets called only > after both columns of text have been read in. > Surely this problem must have been handled before. Any suggestions? Either put all footnotes in the righthand column (which can be rationalized as the better solution) or make them span both columns (which is what multicol.sty does -- ugly!) or try to convince everybody that endnotes are a better idea... Seriously, I am not aware of any method for placing notes at the bottom of their respective columns except by using the \lr switch style of output routine. Maybe someone will come up with a way to record the unbalancedness of the final page in a an "aux" file and read that in on the *next* TeX run to figure out how to balance the last page...! ---- Damian Cugley -------------------------------- pdc@prg.ox.ac.uk --- Computing Laboratory, 11 Keble Rd, Oxford OX1 3QD Great Britain ------------------------------------------------------------------------ malvern-request@prg.ox.ac.uk "share and enjoy"