Re: "mom": How to transition from two columns back to one?

[Bjarni Ingi Gislason]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 05:39:41PM +0000, Steve Ross via wrote:
> Groff Mailing List,
> I'm a new user of "groff" and "mom", so please let me know if this is not the 
> appropriate forum for my question...
> With version 2.4 of the "mom" macro package, and in its "document processing" 
> mode (as opposed to the "typesetting mode"), I would like to put the majority 
> of my document in two columns, but then exit back to one column before adding 
> more text.  So, the last page would look something like this:
>  __________________________________________________/|                         
>                         ||                                                  
> || First column of text.    Second column of text.  || First column of text.  
>   Second column of text.  |
> | First column of text.    Second column of text.  |
> | First column of text.    Second column of text.  |
> | First column of text.    Second column of text.  |
> |                                                  || Another line of text 
> which is now in one column  || rather than two.                               
>   ||                                                  |
> |                                                  |
> |__________________________________________________|
> 
> Is there a way in "mom" to force it to (more or less) evenly fill both 
> columns with text and then exit back to a single column mode?
> Thanks in advance for any direction,-- Steve Ross

  I have never used "mom" but the procedure should be the same in all
searches.

  I assume you are looking for the macro that changes the formatting
from a two column format to the (usual) one column format.

1) look at the man page and search for relevant terms.

  Found nothing that fulfils the criteria.

  One description of a macro could be the right one.

2) search other documentation named in the man page.

  Found.

  So the mom man page in groff is missing the relevant term.

-- 
Bjarni I. Gislason