<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css" style="display:none"><!-- p { margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; }--></style>
</head>
<body dir="ltr">
<div id="OWAFontStyleDivID" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
OK, found the culprit behind the problem: <b>pstricks</b> itself!<br>
<br>
This is the output before including PSTricks: <br>
<br>
<img name="null" title="pastedImage.png" originalwidth="887" originalheight="253" rszimgcmd="100" setheight="253" setwidth="887" hasheight="false" src="cid:7fa308d3-6232-4bb7-8dc0-abb8aa9c491a"><br>
<br>
This is the output after including PSTricks package:
<div><br>
</div>
<div><img name="null" title="pastedImage.png" originalwidth="840" originalheight="263" rszimgcmd="100" src="cid:cdc7b6a2-99ff-4d1f-b0dc-1d02c8db705e"><br>
<br>
Minimal example:</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>
<div>\documentclass{article}</div>
<div>\usepackage{multicol}</div>
<div>\usepackage{pstricks}</div>
<div>\usepackage{pifont}</div>
<div>\begin{document}</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>\begin{minipage}{0.975\linewidth}<br>
</div>
<div>\paragraph{Class} (please \ding{52})\\</div>
<div>\begin{multicols}{2}</div>
<div>\begin{itemize}</div>
<div>\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M3A -- Mr Zuber</div>
<div>\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M3B -- Mr Berry</div>
<div>\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M3C -- Mr Lowe</div>
<div>\columnbreak</div>
<div>\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M4A -- Ms Ziaziaris</div>
<div>\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M4B -- Mr Lam</div>
<div>\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M4C -- Mr Ireland</div>
<div>\end{itemize}</div>
<div>\end{multicols}</div>
<div>\end{minipage}</div>
<div>\end{document}<br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>For the PSTricks mailing list: the columns used to be balanced -- but I updated my installation of MiKTeX 2.9 the latest PSTricks produces the uneven columns.<br>
</div>
<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>
<div>uh oh!<br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Thanks<br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Hubert<br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>________________________________________<br>
From: texhax <texhax-bounces@tug.org> on behalf of Dan Luecking <dluecking@sbcglobal.net><br>
Sent: Friday, 20 June 2014 2:51 AM<br>
To: texhax@tug.org<br>
Subject: Re: [texhax] multicol updated -- now columns aren't balanced!<br>
<br>
On Thu Jun 19 2014 at 00:27:15 CEST, Hubert Lam<br>
<mailto:texhax%40tug.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5Btexhax%5D%20multicol%20updated%20--%20now%20columns%20aren%27t%20balanced%21&In-Reply-To=%3C1403130428306.81712%40lamfamily.info%3E>hubert<br>
at lamfamily.info<br>
wrote:<br>
<br>
>The two columns of teacher's names used to be balanced:<br>
<br>
[example omitted]<br>
<br>
Your example is incomplete. There should be a \begin{minipage} to<br>
balance the \end{minipage}. The preamble is also missing, so we<br>
have no way of telling if you have changed some important parameters.<br>
<br>
I get nicely balanced columns with the following minimal file.<br>
Only this was added to the code:<br>
... \\<br>
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}<br>
plus a preamble just sufficient to guarantee that it compiles.<br>
My version of multicol is 1.8e.<br>
<br>
%======================<br>
\documentclass{article}<br>
\usepackage{multicol}<br>
\usepackage{pifont}<br>
\begin{document}<br>
<br>
\paragraph{Class} (please \ding{52})\\<br>
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}<br>
\begin{multicols}{2}<br>
\begin{itemize}<br>
\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M3A -- Mr Zuber<br>
\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M3B -- Mr Berry<br>
\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M3C -- Mr Lowe<br>
\columnbreak<br>
\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M4A -- Ms Ziaziaris<br>
\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M4B -- Mr Lam<br>
\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M4C -- Mr Ireland<br>
\end{itemize}<br>
\end{multicols}<br>
\end{minipage}<br>
<br>
\end{document}<br>
%===============<br>
<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Dan<br>
<br>
Daniel H. Luecking<br>
Department of Mathematical Sciences<br>
Fayetteville, Arkansas<br>
<a href="http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/iaq.html" target="_blank">http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/iaq.html</a><br>
<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq" target="_blank">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br>
Mailing list archives: <a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/" target="_blank">
http://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/</a><br>
More links: <a href="http://tug.org/begin.html" target="_blank">http://tug.org/begin.html</a><br>
<br>
Automated subscription management: <a href="http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/texhax" target="_blank">
http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/texhax</a><br>
Human mailing list managers: postmaster@tug.org<br>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>