[texhax] multicol updated -- now columns aren't balanced!

[Hubert Lam]

OK, found the culprit behind the problem: pstricks itself!

This is the output before including PSTricks:

[cid:7fa308d3-6232-4bb7-8dc0-abb8aa9c491a]

This is the output after including PSTricks package:

[cid:cdc7b6a2-99ff-4d1f-b0dc-1d02c8db705e]

Minimal example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{pifont}
\begin{document}

\begin{minipage}{0.975\linewidth}
\paragraph{Class}  (please \ding{52})\\
\begin{multicols}{2}
\begin{itemize}
\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M3A -- Mr Zuber
\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M3B -- Mr Berry
\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M3C -- Mr Lowe
\columnbreak
\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M4A -- Ms Ziaziaris
\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M4B -- Mr Lam
\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M4C -- Mr Ireland
\end{itemize}
\end{multicols}
\end{minipage}
\end{document}

For the PSTricks mailing list: the columns used to be balanced -- but I updated my installation of MiKTeX 2.9 the latest PSTricks produces the uneven columns.



uh oh!

Thanks

Hubert

________________________________________
From: texhax <texhax-bounces at tug.org> on behalf of Dan Luecking <dluecking at sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Friday, 20 June 2014 2:51 AM
To: texhax at tug.org
Subject: Re: [texhax] multicol updated -- now columns aren't balanced!

On Thu Jun 19 2014 at 00:27:15 CEST, Hubert Lam
<mailto:texhax%40tug.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5Btexhax%5D%20multicol%20updated%20--%20now%20columns%20aren%27t%20balanced%21&In-Reply-To=%3C1403130428306.81712%40lamfamily.info%3E>hubert
at lamfamily.info
wrote:

>The two columns of teacher's names used to be balanced:

[example omitted]

Your example is incomplete. There should be a \begin{minipage} to
balance the \end{minipage}. The preamble is also missing, so we
have no way of telling if you have changed some important parameters.

I get nicely balanced columns with the following minimal file.
Only this was added to the code:
        ... \\
     \begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
plus a preamble just sufficient to guarantee that it compiles.
My version of multicol is 1.8e.

%======================
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{pifont}
\begin{document}

\paragraph{Class}  (please \ding{52})\\
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\begin{multicols}{2}
\begin{itemize}
\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M3A -- Mr Zuber
\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M3B -- Mr Berry
\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M3C -- Mr Lowe
\columnbreak
\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M4A -- Ms Ziaziaris
\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M4B -- Mr Lam
\item[$\bigcirc$] 12M4C -- Mr Ireland
\end{itemize}
\end{multicols}
\end{minipage}

\end{document}
%===============


Regards,
Dan

Daniel H. Luecking
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Fayetteville, Arkansas
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/iaq.html


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