[tex-eplain] \doublecolumns bug -- request for help

Dorai Sitaram ds26@gte.com
Sat, 27 Jan 2001 13:56:35 -0500 (EST)


Hi.  This bug was reported by Gerald Tenenbaum
(tenenb@arcturus.ciril.fr) and a fix is eluding me.
If wizard would look at it I would much appreciate it.

The first line following a \doublecolumns that is
closed almost at the end of a page is being typeset on
the same page, on a line by itself, without a
companion line from the second column to match it.  It
does not appear as if the second column is inserting
spurious space on top.  Rather, the first column should
have been pushed into the following page along with
the other columns.  Here is the test file:

% Gerald Tenenbaum, tenenb@arcturus.ciril.fr
% 7 Jan 2001

\input eplain
\vsize 30mm
\hsize 100mm

This is an example of an apparent bug in double columns.
This is an example of an apparent bug in double columns.
This is an example of an apparent bug in double columns.
This is an example of an apparent bug in double columns.
This is an example of an apparent bug in double columns.
This is an example of an apparent bug in double columns.
This is an example of an apparent bug in double columns.

\doublecolumns
This is an example of an apparent bug in double columns.
\singlecolumn

\bye

Thanks,

--d