two column footnotes
Spettroscopia Molecolare
I am using LaTeX to type a book-styled document containing poetry
(verses) and a large amount of footnotes.
Can someone suggest me how to format footnotes in two column?
I try with "footnotemisc" package but it seems not helpful for this
purpose.
Regards,
Luca B.
Robin Fairbairns
>I am using LaTeX to type a book-styled document containing poetry
>(verses) and a large amount of footnotes.
>Can someone suggest me how to format footnotes in two column?
>I try with "footnotemisc" package but it seems not helpful for this
>purpose.
because of the way latex implements two-column text, doing page-wide
footnotes is *extremely* tricky. i did once consider think about the
capability as an addition to footmisc, but decided against even
trying.
on the other hand, page-wide footnotes are the default with the
multicol package (which ought to be part of your latex installation
anyway), so perhaps you may care to use that instead.
replace
\docmentclass[...,twocolumn,...]{book}
...
\begin{document}
\chapter{title1}
...
\chapter{title2}
...
by
\docmentclass[...]{book}
\usepackage{multicol}
...
\begin{document}
\chapter{title1}
\begin{multicols}{2}
...
\end{multicols}
\chapter{title2}
\begin{multicols}{2}
...
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Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
Michele M.
>Spettroscopia Molecolare <spe...@ciam.unibo.it> wrote:
>>I am using LaTeX to type a book-styled document containing poetry
>>(verses) and a large amount of footnotes.
>>Can someone suggest me how to format footnotes in two column?
>>I try with "footnotemisc" package but it seems not helpful for this
>>purpose.
>
>because of the way latex implements two-column text, doing page-wide
>footnotes is *extremely* tricky. i did once consider think about the
>capability as an addition to footmisc, but decided against even
>trying.
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sorry,
may be, because of my poor English, I have been misunderstood.
The body text of my document (verses) must be formatted to one column
but, I would like to arrange the footnotes (wich exists in each page)
in two columns.
Thank you again.
Luca B.
David Wilson
on page 396 of the TeXBook.
Michele M. wrote in message <3731c179...@news.iperbole.bologna.it>...
Robin Fairbairns
>sorry,
>may be, because of my poor English, I have been misunderstood.
no, i misunderstood what you were saying. (and my english ought to be
quite good ...)
>The body text of my document (verses) must be formatted to one column
>but, I would like to arrange the footnotes (wich exists in each page)
>in two columns.
i know of no off-the-shelf solution (though it may not be terribly
difficult: i'll think about it).
you may care to investigate
\usepackage[para]{footmisc}
which sets your footnotes in a `paragraph'. this, as it happens, is
knuth's recommended solution to the situation of lots of small
footnotes (and footmisc's code is derived from code in the texbook).
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
Robin Fairbairns
>There is a small educational example ;-) of this kind of thing
>on page 396 of the TeXBook.
indeed, as i mentioned (indirectly) in my followup.
however, the code in the texbook isn't a lot of use from within latex,
since the footnote handling mechanism in latex is rather different
from that in plain tex.
hence my suggestion of the adaptation of knuth's code available via
\usepackage[para]{footmisc}
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Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge