page-n-columns Characteristic in Jade

["Zahn, Lee A." <Lee.Zahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, 

Using jade to produce RTF, I've tried to get the page-n-columns
characteristic to work using the following:

(declare-characteristic PNC "UNREGISTERED::James
Clark//Characteristic::page-n-columns" 2)

(element (testtext) 
(make simple-page-sequence
	PNC:			2
  (process-children)))
 
The page sequence is created corrected in the resulting RTF, but the columns
are never set. In fact, the exact same RTF is produced regardless of whether
or not the page-n-columns characteristic is used.  My belief is that the
resulting  RTF should end up with two columns defined for this page
sequence. 

I am just learning just learning about jade and DSSSL, so it could well be
that I'm doing something incorrectly.  Am I doing this right?  Has anyone
used the page-n-columns characteristic successfully to create columns in
RTF?  

Thanks. 
 
Lee Zahn 
lee.zahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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