I have added some notes on multiple columns to my discussion of footnotes. The excerpt is attached.
Peter
<s3 title="Multiple columns and footnotes"> <note> A possible method for multi-column layout and balancing with footnotes, using a galley-based approach. </note> <p> This note assumes a galley, as discussed above, flowing text with footnotes and possibly other blocks into a possibly multi-column area. The logic of flowing into multiple columns is trivially applied to a single column. The galley is manipulated primarily within the context of the hypothetical <em>layout tree</em>. </p> <p> Associated with the galley are two sets of data. One contains the maps of all "natural" break-points and the of all hyphenation break-points. This set is constructed at the time of construction of the galley and is a constant for a given galley. The second contains dynamic data which represents one possible attempt to lay out the galley. There may be multiple sets of such data to reflect varying attempts. The data of this set are, essentially, representations of line-areas, with the supporting information necessary to determine these line-areas. </p> <p> The line-area data includes the boundaries within the galley of each line-area, the boundaries of each column and the boundaries of the "page", or main area. When a line-area boundary occurs at a hyphenation point, a "virtual hyphen" is assumed and accounted for in the i-p-d. As mentioned, individual footnote galleys will hang from the parent galley. The associated data of the footnote galleys is similar: a once-only break-points map, and one or more line-area maps. No column boundaries are required, but a page boundary is required at the end of the last footnote or where a footnote breaks across a page boundary. </p> <p> A number of b-p-d values are also maintained. For each line-area, the b-p-d, the main area b-p-d increment, the footnote b-p-d increment and the footnote's page-related b-p-d increment are required. The main-area b-p-d increments for any particular line-area are dependent on the column position of the line-area. Total b-p-d's are also kept: total footnote b-p-d, total main area b-p-d, and totals for each column. </p> </s3> <s3 title="Balancing columns"> <p> Columns are balanced dynamically in the galley preliminary layout. While the galley retains its basic linear structure, the accompanying data structures accomplish column distribution and balancing. As each line-area is added, the columns are re-balanced; i.e., the various boundary markers are adjusted. </p> </s3>
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