Re: Formatting with two columns and DocBook stylesheets

[Norman Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

| I try to format a DocBook article with two columns by specifying (define
| %page-n-columns%  2).
| In the RTF output the space between the two columns is a bit too large and in
| the PS/PDF output (via tex)
| is seems to be zero.
| I assume, 'page-column-sep' would be the right thing to set, but I did not find
| it in any of the style sheets.

I've added a %page-column-sep% parameter.  I also added a 
%page-balance-columns?% parameter.

| In a post from Sebastian (June 97) I found that the TeX appearantly supports
| 'page-column-sep'. So I added
|  (declare-characteristic page-column-sep
|  "UNREGISTERED::James Clark//Characteristic::page-column-sep" 4pt)
| to my docbook.dsl. Nothing changed.. neither RTF nor PDF

I'm surprised that that didn't do anything in the RTF backend.  I'll
investigate.

                                        Cheers,
                                          norm
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