From bc29f398f2fa6d26e25de07020f889842e632cba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nelson Lago Date: Sat, 29 May 2021 16:26:48 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Q-balance: add mention to pbalance pkg --- CHANGELOG.md | 6 ++++++ FAQ-balance.md | 12 +++++++++++- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index 1775f3a0..cc4641d9 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ file. Changes prior to the switch to Markdown format are available from The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/). +## 2021-10-20 + +### Changed + +- Q-balance: Add mention to `pbalance` package. + ## 2021-08-18 ### Changed diff --git a/FAQ-balance.md b/FAQ-balance.md index b53f4865..4744765a 100644 --- a/FAQ-balance.md +++ b/FAQ-balance.md @@ -40,10 +40,20 @@ documents. The [`balance`](https://ctan.org/pkg/balance) package also patches the output routine (somewhat more carefully than [`flushend`](https://ctan.org/pkg/flushend)). -The user should be aware that any of these packages are liable to +The user should be aware that both these packages are liable to become confused in the presence of floats: if problems arise, manual adjustment of the floats in the document is likely to be necessary. It is this difficulty (what's required in any instance can't really be expressed in current LaTeX) that led the author of [`multicol`](https://ctan.org/pkg/multicol) to suppress single-column-wide floats. +The [`poor man's balance`](https://ctan.org/pkg/pbalance) package tries +to solve this limitation. It should be "safe" (changes to the output +routine are minimal) and "just work" without user intervention. However, +as most things in life, it comes with its own set of caveats (check the +docs). The most important ones are + +1. It is a very new package (2020) and, therefore, has been very + lightly tested; + +2. It demands additional LaTeX passes (up to three in some cases).