[latexrefman] Make all pages in the documents after this declaration have the same

[Vincent Belaïche]

Dear Karl,

Thank you for backing up the change, and for explaining your research.

I am quite sorry that you took my questionning as if I was considering
your edits as careless or without reason. The point is that your change
seemed to be incomplete as the \raggedbottom node still mentions
twoside, not twocolumn. So there was anyway something to fix. Now, I
must admit that just asking, rather than seeking the right answer by
myself, was the easiest slope for me: on the one hand that was just
getting aware of the prior art before trying to reinvent the wheel, and
on the other hand, I am targetting to publish an up-to-date French
version within the time frame that I am able to dedicate to that work
this summer, and I still have a lot to catch up.

So, thank you again for your support: I will change twoside to twocolumn
in the \raggedbottom node with my next edit of latex2e.texi.

  Vincent.

Le ven. 19 août 2022 à 22:42, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> a écrit :
>
>     https://svn.gnu.org.ua/viewvc/latexrefman/trunk/latex2e.texi?r1=1083&r2=1082&pathrev=1083
>
> Thanks. As far as I can see, my change is correct. In the classes.dtx
> LaTeX source file, I see:
>
>     \if at twocolumn
>       \twocolumn
>       \sloppy
>       \flushbottom
>
> Which is clearly about [twocolumn], not [twoside].
>
> I also added the note about {makeidx} because
> of another call to \flushbottom in makeindx.dtx. Those are the only two
> places \flushbottom is called in LaTeX's *.dtx, from a simple grep.
>
> If you think it should be otherwise, please reference the LaTeX sources
> that say so, and/or an actual test document showing the results.
>
> I generally make changes like this after detailed searching of the LaTeX
> sources. (This is supposed to be a reference manual, after all, so I try
> to go to the real reference: the sources.) I don't have time to redo all
> my research every time you question a change.  Please, if you think what
> I wrote is wrong, don't just hypothesize about it or ask me to back up
> my change. Instead, find the counter-evidence that my change is wrong. I
> make plenty of mistakes, and LaTeX is so complicated that it's hard to
> be sure of anything, but I try not to do carelessly. --best, karl.