On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 12:22 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> Greets to the list,
>
> I want to achieve a result which looks a like this.
>
> 1. First clause which might well be | 20. Another column of clauses.
> more than on of these short | 21. Another clause. Note that I
> lines. | do not want the clauses to be
> 2. Second clause which similarly | in a table because they should
> could well be several of these | be free flowing in the columns.
> short lines. It would be nice if | 22. More words here.
> these were justified. | .
> . | . etc. etc.
> . | .
> 19. Last clause in column. Fitted in | 38. The last clause on the page.
> nicely to the size of the page. |
Perhaps
\documentclass[twocolumn]{yourclasshere}
Or are there parts of the document that need to be single-column?
Cheers,
Roy.
>
> The vertical line separating the columns is not absolutely essential, but
> it would be nice.
>
> A GUI solution is out of the question simply because there are
> approximately 31,000 clauses to typeset, so please do not suggest
> anything which has any of the words 'office', 'processor' or 'word' in its
> name, but I am open to [x|sg]ml suggested solutions
>
> I have tried \tabular inside \multicols but it doesn't want to work. I
> would be very grateful if some LaTeXpert could advise on the \magic
> \incantations to use?
>
> I have a rather old edition of the Latex Companion to hand, but have not
> found any useful suggestions therein.
>
> I am a complete neophyte with LaTeX, please bear with me.
>
>
> Many thanks.
>
