Zhichu Chen wrote:
Thanks, Mr. Hoekwater
If the texts are short, say they won't go to the next column, they could be stored into a \vbox whose \hsize is half of the width of current column (maybe less) and \vsplit it into two equally high ones.
But when it's long enough, I think I need to know the rest room for the current column. Is there any primitives just behavior like \pagegoal?
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