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["David G. Wonnacott" <address@hidden>]

Should I take the lack of response to my question about two-column
figures as an indication that this just isn't possible? My fall-back
system of using a table in a figure is really not workable.

I also searched for "minipage" in the TeXmacs documentation and the
users mailing list archive, since that's how I'd do this sort of thing
in LaTeX, but no luck there either.

I apologize if the lack of response is because there is an obvious
solution that I'm not seeing or something I've missed in the
documentation; my son has been awake a lot at night this week with a
cold/flu and I am rather sleep deprived myself.

Dave W (now going back to looking for another work-around so I can
        hand this stuff out in class tomorrow).



   X-Original-To: address@hidden
   Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 06:42:31 -0400 (EDT)
   From: "David G. Wonnacott" <address@hidden>

   I'd like to have a figure that contains within it some text in
   two-column mode. I can get individual paragraphs to be one- or
   two-columns (via Format -> (paragraph) Number of Columns > 2), but
   when I try to have text that wraps (in either 1 or two columns) inside
   a figure, it just runs way off the margin.

   I don't actually even need to have the text in the figure wrap, since
   it will mostly be very short lines -- this is an example in which I am
   showing how a few very short lines of program code can be rewritten
   into an equivalent form. I want to have a few lines of program text,
   then some description, and then some program text. But I'd like to
   have this inside a floating numbered figure and have it in two
   columns.

   I can temporarily put the text into a two-element table and manually
   cut-and-paste things that run off the bottom of the 1st column into
   the 2nd column, but this is somewhat annoying, and it doesn't seem to
   correspond to what I _want_. I don't want two distinct elements in a
   table; I want one sequence of lines that is formatted across two
   columns.

   I searched in the documentation and the mailing list, but kept coming
   up with things that covered multi-column tables rather than
   multi-column figures.

   Thanks for any help anyone can provide,

   Dave Wonnacott