Re: Columns in a text page
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- Subject: [mg33269] Re: Columns in a text page
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 03:14:36 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi, you can't. A GridBox[] will not move the text to the second text cell, when the text in the first cell is longer than the page. The coulumns can't balanced for the same reason. Since a notebook is a dynamic document it knows nothing about page sizes until it get printed. Regards Jens chris wrote: > > Hi > > I would like to arrange a text story in a notebook page in 2 columns > per page. > This means that from the bottom of a printed page the text continues > at the top of the same page, taking the right half of the page. > > In Mathematica the cells take the whole breadth of a page, so the > page is partitioned horizontally in stripes over the whole width, > making flowing text a challenge. > > How can it be done? By using gridboxes? > I looked to Publicon but did not see an example. > > Then I would like to cut up a page into 4 pieces and arrange these > pieces to make 4 A6 index cards on a A4 printed page. > > Merkat