On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:22:52 +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. | > > 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
What format are these clauses in already? Do they require hand typing, or do you have them in machine readable format? > > 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. > > -- > CS -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
