Jeff Smith wrote:

Hi!

I'm toying with a complex document environment involving multiple components, both in order to learn in general and to accomplish particular objectives.

So I want a 2-column layout for all the document, which is made up of a bunch of components appended one after the other in a continuous fashion.

The way I thought to acheive that is, instinctively, to use \startcolumns in my product file, before declaring the various components.

However, when I do this, the use of \stopcolumns at the end doesn't work. The document does compile (with columns) when I don't use the stop command, but when I do, there is an error:

! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. \stopcolumns ...idecolumnsfalse \endgroup \egroup

l.12 \stopcolumns

What is the proper way of doing this? The thing is, I need to balance my columns, and balancing doesn't work with no \stopcolumns.

looks like some grouping problem, make sure that you nest start/stop commands properly Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------