I still have a strange problem with column balancing in eledmac.sty
two column footnotes. But I have a new MWE, possibly showing that this might not be a problem specific to eledmac
(this is why I post it here to a wider audience).
I have this simple MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{eledmac}
\foottwocolX{A}
\def\footnote#1{\footnoteA{#1}}
\begin{document}
% Either remove this section:
\section{Section Headline}
\lipsum[1]
% ... or remove the item / quote environment:
\begin{itemize}
%\begin{quote}
\item The same problem happens if this is not an itemize but a quote
environment.
%\end{quote}
\end{itemize}
Bla\footnote{Test.}
Foo\footnote{Test Test Test Test Test Test Test Test Test Test Test Test Test
Test Test }
Bar \footnote{Test.}
\end{document}
In this MWE, the two column footnotes look unbalanced like this:
But if I remove either the \section
or the itemize
environment (putting normal text instead so that it keeps the same vertical space), the columns will be balanced like this:
The same holds if I use a quote
environment instead of the itemize
.
Is it possilble that itemize
and quote
and \section
doing anything strange to the penalty-system so the penalty calculation for the column balancing in the footnote gets "irritated" or something??
In my previous post I pointed out that it is not possible influencing this behavior properly by means of setting up the panelty variables. In another post, I extracted the code of the column balancing algorithm so you can play around with it.