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["Ingolf Schäfer" <address@hidden>]

2006/9/7, 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.

At least I do not see any other solution.

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.

As far as I know there is nothing like a minipage in TeXmacs. I really would like one, too.

Yours,

Ingolf

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

-- 
Ingolf Schaefer