Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:15:21 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lBI9FGix028650 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:15:16 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id lBI97Zmn020389 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:07:35 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id lBHN1lIs017049; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:07:26 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 237456 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:07:25 +0100 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id lBI97Pfs029324 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:07:25 +0100 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.179]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id lBI97K7u019779 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:07:25 +0100 Received: from morse.mittelbach-online.de (p54A9888E.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.169.136.142]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKwh2-1J4YQ41GDY-000251; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:07:20 +0100 Received: by morse.mittelbach-online.de (Postfix, from userid 501) id EC716619C3; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:07:19 +0100 (CET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <18263.4996.905115.46103@morse.mittelbach-online.de> <00a901c837d7$c291a3c0$14b2a8c0@DOMINUS> <18263.44547.318795.848131@morse.mittelbach-online.de> <006201c83813$ad508ad0$14b2a8c0@DOMINUS> <18265.12916.555104.35087@morse.mittelbach-online.de> <20071210173045.GA23382@edgard.fdn.fr> <18279.1053.558138.493091@morse.mittelbach-online.de> <85bq8onass.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.3.1 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18vZfc8It/LPTjrt50fEroS6TbbGpB9n3ZL09W DI4EHXm3YVc/2Cro4Emqa5d4gPIGBPuvs/cXF5o2BN3Kt6mGlI AORd4htJdSp953UeOHGpLNnGLF1eRTj X-Spam-Whitelist-Provider: Message-ID: <18279.36295.838684.295738@morse.mittelbach-online.de> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:07:19 +0100 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Frank Mittelbach Subject: Re: progress ... balancing, grids, multicolumn changes ... To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE In-Reply-To: <85bq8onass.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -102.464 () BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,USER_IN_WHITELIST X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 213.139.130.197 Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Dec 2007 09:15:21.0978 (UTC) FILETIME=[842095A0:01C84156] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5133 David Kastrup writes: > Frank Mittelbach writes: > > > Turned out that the whole thing was more tricky than I first imagined, > > but it is obvious once you think about it. In fact, I don't think that > > there is any footnote package around that handles footnotes that are > > not tied to the column width right now. > > I think that multicol.sty did something like that (single-column > footnote block) by default. true, but single column layout for the footnotes is only a boarder case, the general case would be multicolumn footnotes with different numbers of columns compared to the number of text columns. and more importantly multicol was not handling floats > I think combining it with bigfoot.sty got > rid of the "footnote on wrong page" problem haunting multicol.sty, too. quite possible. unfortunately i would be very surprised if one could hook bigfoot on top of the xor output routines without some larger changes frank