Page Layout ⇒ Balanced Columns and Footnotes

[pippipalma]

Hello!

I should produce a two-columned book with a lot of footnotes (even footnotes should be formatted in two columns, as the twocolumn class option does), and I'd like to balance the columns (as multicol does) at the end of each chapter. I suppose I cannot use the multicol package (it leaves one-columned footnotes), and unfortunately even the balance package seems not to work with footnotes (output is quite bad...).

Do you have any suggestion?

Thanks!

[cgnieder]

The third possibility would be the flushend package (see also the TeX faq entry) and it seems to work in principle but fails if there are footnotes in both columns on the last (balanced) page:

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\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}

\usepackage{lipsum,flushend}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-2] Text\footnote{A sample footnote.}
\lipsum[3-5] Text\footnote{\lipsum[1]}
\lipsum[6-7] Text\footnote{A sample footnote.}
\lipsum[8-9] Text\footnote{\lipsum[1]}

\end{document}

Regards

[pippipalma]

That's correct, but I didn't mention the flushend package because it just balances the last page of the document and doesn't affect the last pages of the previous chapters.

Regards