[texhax] Multicols is not enough

[Robin Fairbairns]

> (paraphrase of the _World_ is not enough):
> 
> I am using multicols environment to show maths in two columns, e.g. 
> inference rules but sometimes the division of the page width is "too 
> good", e.g.
> 
> __________________________________________________
> |                                                | page width
>    short                  bloody long premise
>    -----                 ------------------------
>    short                  bloody long conclusion
> |>                      |                       <|
> 
> is not as nice as
> 
> __________________________________________________
> |                                                | page width
>          short       bloody long premise
>          -----     ------------------------
>          short      bloody long conclusion
>        |>       |                          <|
> 
> I.e. I want multicols to split up into columns that
> are not of equal width, and also center the result as
> required.
> 
> Is this possible?

no: multicols flows text from one column to the next, and tex can't do
that with unequal columns.

you may find packages like parallel will help you.  there's a list in

  http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=parallel