On 19-Feb-07 Ted Harding wrote: > 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).
And I forgot to mention: while the example I posted previously illustrates going back from 3 columns (with ".MC 1.7i") to 1 column (with ".1C"), you can switch to other numbers of columns without the page break (e.g. from 3 to 2 with ".2C" instead of ".1C"). Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 19-Feb-07 Time: 20:59:27 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------