While I'm at it, I've lately been playing with a work-round for the often awkward feature of the ".MC" and ".1C" macros in the ms macros, that when you break out of MC back to 1C you also get a page-break.
While the me macros allow you to go from 2 columns back to 1 column on the same page, you can only get 2 columns (not 3 or more) with me macros. Rather than re-write s.tmac, I've subverted the workings of .MC and .1C as illustrated below (to see the effect, typeset it in 10-point TR with 6in line length). .LP .nr POold \n[PO] .pl 4.0i .MC 1.7i This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. This is a lot of text. .br .br .nr [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1 .pl .po \n[POold]u .nr PO \n[POold]u .LP .sp 1 .1C .LP This is a lot of text on much longer lines. This is a lot of text on much longer lines. This is a lot of text on much longer lines. This is a lot of text on much longer lines. This is a lot of text on much longer lines. This is a lot of text on much longer lines. This is a lot of text on much longer lines. This is a lot of text on much longer lines. This is a lot of text on much longer lines. This is a lot of text on much longer lines. This is a lot of text on much longer lines. This is a lot of text on much longer lines. [The first block of text has is repeated 46 times, the second is repeated 12 times). You still have to do a bit of hand-editing, though (e.g. of the ".pl 4i" re-definition of page length) to get the layout you want. Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 19-Feb-07 Time: 20:48:39 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
