<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; "><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">On Feb 23, 2009, at 2:25 PM, Erwin Ochsenmeier
wrote:<br><br>> Thanks for the suggestion,<br>><br>> multitoc does not seem to work, even with ifthen and multicols <br>> loaded. I tried in XeTeX and plain Latex, the TOC is blank, unless I <br>> am missing something from the pdf instructions.<br>><br><br>Howdy,<br><br>You've got to compile the file at least twice. The first run captures <br>the information while the second run enters it into the TOC. You may <br>need more runs since entering the TOC may move things, etc.<br><br><br>Good Luck,<br><br>Herb Schulz<br>(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)<br><br></div><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><br></div><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial,
helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">Yes, I did remember about compiling several times for the TOC, even did a clean up and recompiling, to no avail.</div><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><br><br>Erwin Ochsenmeier wrote:<br><br>> multitoc does not seem to work, even with ifthen and multicols loaded. <br>> I tried in XeTeX and plain Latex, the TOC is blank, unless I am <br>> missing something from the pdf instructions.<br>><br>> There does seem to be a problem with memoir and multicols on top of <br>> it. Even with
begin{multicols} ?, memoir produces a TOC in a single <br>> column on a separate page.<br><br>I've used the multitoc with memoir without a problem. It might be <br>affected *where* it's loaded in your preamble --- but I think that might <br>matter only if you're using hyperref with it. (Always load hyperref last <br>in the preamble. I've got multitoc just before it).<br><br>> Anyway, what I'd really like to do is to have a TOC in twocolumn in a <br>> twocolumn document and without starting a new page.<br><br>That might require some tweaking of the internals from either memoir.cls <br>and/or multitoc.sty --- I haven't tried it. There's a separate list for <br>memoir stuff, isn't there? I don't have the URL.<br><br><br><br>-- <br>United in adoration of Jesus, <br><br><br><br>fr. michael gilmary, mma<br><br>Most Holy Trinity Monastery<br><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1235475142_25" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; ">67 Dugway Road<br>Petersham, MA 01366</span>-97255<br><br>No, no hyperref package. I tried a plain vanilla configuration as follows.</div><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><br></div><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none;
border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">%!TEX TS-program = xelatex</div><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode</div><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><br></div><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none;
border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,twocolumn]{memoir}</div><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><br></div><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">\usepackage{fontspec}</div><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none;
border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">\usepackage{xltxtra}</div><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">\usepackage{xspace}</div><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><br></div><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none;
border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">\usepackage{ifthen}</div><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">\usepackage{multicol}</div><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">\usepackage{multitoc}</div><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none;
border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><br></div><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">…</div><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><br></div><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none;
border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">Still does not work. Funny thing is that \tableofcontents starts on a new page in memoir while it should not be default and multicols does not produce multicols TOC in memoir, even if I comment out ifthen and multitoc.</div><div style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">Well, it's no big deal. Thanks for your suggestions</div></div></span></div></span></div><div style="position:fixed"></div></div><br>
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