Dario Laera wrote: > > Il giorno 28/ott/08, alle ore 18:00, Andreas Delmelle ha scritto: > >> Have you investigated whether the column-balancing approach is of >> influence here? I mean: are there significant differences between >> using one narrower column (the same width you would get when using two >> columns, only it will roughly yield double the amount of pages). > > A quick test haven't raised any difference except the fact that 2 > columns used slightly less memory, but I think it's not related to > breaking as the number of active nodes is the same.
Column balancing chimes in only if there’s a block with span="all" in the FO file. Otherwise, having two columns is roughly the same as having a single column on twice narrower pages and I wouldn’t expect a big difference in memory consumption, which is confirmed by your test. Vincent
