[luatex] fontspec + multicols = error

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Fri, 8 Nov 2013 16:05:08 +0100 schrieb Jacques ANDRÉ:

> I have the following program on TeXShop :
> 
> %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{multicol}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \usepackage{makeidx} 
> \makeindex
> \begin{document} % 
> aaaa\index{aaa}
> \begin{multicols}{3}
> bbb
> \printindex
> \end{multicols}
> \end{document}
> 
> I successfully run it with Lualatex
> then I successfully run it with makeindex
> then, if I try to run it with lualatex again, I must abort it for it loops (infinite number of output pages)
> 
> If I delete the \usepackage{fontspec} OR if I comment the \begin{multicols}{3} and \end{multicols} lines, it works.

> Obviously, multicols is useless with index, however wich relation
> with fontspec ??

fontspec loads fixltx2e and fixltx2e changes the output routine for
\twocolumn-mode (which is used by the index environment).



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Ulrike Fischer 
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