Open FrankMittelbach opened 5 years ago
Is this an old one of mine? :) I maintain that even if you treated \begin{multicols}{1} as a dummy environment (basically a no-op) it would be a sensible interface.
well you may be a person who wanted this too, but it wasn't who asked for it on gnats
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@wspr had a gnats report about this too: https://www.latex-project.org/cgi-bin/ltxbugs2html?pr=latex/3749
Brief outline of the bug
old gnats bug report: 4102
I have a suggestion about the multicol package: that {1} column does not render {2} columns. I have several macros that are parameterized by the number of columns to use, and life would be simpler (well, mine ;-) if I had not to work around this behavior.
If backward compatibility is an issue, then you might want to introduce the multicol environment, in addition to multicols. It makes sense to drop the s when accepting 1, and also it would simplify things: I always get it wrong bw the name of the package and that of the environment that it provides :)
Minimal example showing the bug