Piet van Oostrum <[log in to unmask]> writes:

> >>>>> Bjoern Pedersen <[log in to unmask]> (BP) wrote:
>
> BP> Dear Latex3-Team,
> BP> I have now succesfully used xor for producing 3-column output with
> BP> book.cls. Attached you will find my changes/additions to the current xor.
>
> BP>  * fixed horizontal float placement for starting column >1

I am still  in the process in trying to understand xor sufficiently
to integrate that work.  Much of it seems dubious at the current time
to me, though.  They simply don't fit in the "obviously the correct
thing to do" class at first inspection.

> I do also have some patches for the new output routines which add:
> - the correct \evensidemargin, \oddsidemargin and \topmargin
> - traditional LaTeX marks implemented on top of the new mark mechanism
> - headers and footers (with the standard latex2 API, thus compatible with
>   packages like fancyhdr)
>
> I made all the changes (which aren't many) in xor-new.sty. Of course they
> would have to be put into xor-new.dtx, and I can do that if there is
> interest in these patches.
>
> Anybody interested?

Yes, definitely.

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