On Monday 10 June 2002 09:30 am, Hans Hagen wrote:
> At 09:05 AM 6/10/2002 -0400, John Culleton wrote:
> 
> >
> >After all this I still get a full line between paragraphs. I recognize
> > that much of the code above is redundant. But I am trying everything to
> > narrow the space.
> >
> >What can I do?
>
> play a bit with:
>
> \setupblank[5pt] \showstruts
>
> \strut test \blank[small]
> \strut test \blank[medium]
> \strut test \blank[big]
> \strut test \blank[line]
> \strut test
>
> \startcolumns[balance=no,blank=5pt]
> \strut test \blank[small]
> \strut test \blank[medium]
> \strut test \blank[big]
> \strut test \blank[line]
> \strut test
> \stopcolumns
>
> so, columns default to a skip of lineheight, unless told not to (has to do
> with the one-multi column switching and proper spacing)
>
> Hans

I put the following line in:

\startcolumns[balance=no,blank=5pt]

and it works OK! Thanks again for all yor help.  Now I need to go back
and delete all my unnecessary code :-)

At some point you may need to write a book just on multicolumn layout.

-- 
John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters 
http://wexfordpress.com



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