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<DIV>Hello all,</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks to everyone for the various suggestions.</DIV>
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<DIV>I've tried them out, and for your reference, can report that neither supertabular nor longtable were able to cope with the multicol feature, it seems: the material just ran off the page.</DIV>
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<DIV>So I tried the Ulrike's list suggestion with Axel's framebox. It *almost* gives me what I want (see attached). Just two little corrections I need to make (and one other query):</DIV>
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<LI>As you can see, even with \parsep and \itemsep set to 0, I get a gap between the boxes which I need to reduce to 0 accurately. Any suggestions as to how I do that?</LI>
<LI>I'm not totally decided on this point, but you can see from the attached that the framebox expands depending on the size of the characters; I might like to make it either constant.</LI>
<LI>It occurs to me that in some cases, the cuneiform within a box might span multiple lines. Is there a feature to put the box around the item/paragraph rather than around a selection of characters?</LI></OL>
<DIV>I've copied a section of the code I used below.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks again,</DIV>
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<DIV>K</DIV>
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<DIV> \section{Body}<BR> \begin{multicols}{2}<BR> \begin{list}{}{\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}\setlength{\parsep}{0pt}}<BR> \item[Column 5]\par\par<BR> \item \makebox[2.5in][c]{\begin{turn}{90}{§1}\end{turn}}<BR> \item[\begin{turn}{90}{26}\end{turn}] \framebox[2.5in][l]{\LARGE{<text goes here>}}<BR> \item[\begin{turn}{90}{27}\end{turn}] \framebox[2.5in][l]{\LARGE{<text goes here>}}<BR>...</DIV>
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<DIV> \end{multicols}</DIV>
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<DIV>Karljürgen G. Feuerherm, PhD<BR>Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies<BR>Wilfrid Laurier University<BR>75 University Avenue West<BR>Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5<BR>Tel. (519) 884-1970 x3193<BR>Fax (519) 883-0991 (ATTN Arch. & Classics)<BR><BR>>>> "Karljurgen Feuerherm" <kfeuerherm@wlu.ca> 26/10/2009 5:24:50 pm >>><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt Tahoma; COLOR: #000000">Thanks! I'll test out both options :)</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt Tahoma; COLOR: #000000">K<BR><BR>>>> Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> 26/10/2009 3:18 pm >>><BR><BR>Am 26.10.2009 um 18:09 schrieb Karljurgen Feuerherm:<BR><BR>> Evidently tabular won't wrap across columns, and I'd prefer for <BR>> obvious<BR>> reasons not to have to insert manual breaks.<BR><BR>You could also try longtable. I never tried it in a multi-columnar <BR>environment I'd set all the columns in one longtable, optimised for <BR>a particular paper size...<BR><BR>--<BR>Mit friedvollen Grüßen<BR><BR>Pete<BR><BR>"No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a <BR>ticket in his pocket, or at least had been fooling around with <BR>timetables."<BR>Archie Goodwin<BR><BR><BR><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>