!! (16) FMi 92/03/16: When the material in the optional argument is larger then the or its local environment value (second optional argument) then multicols may run into an error. Not sure whether I fix this beside pointing out the correction for the source file in the error message.
** (17) CRo 92/03/06: Typeset the optional first argument within a local group so that it behaves similar to [...] (which is a float internally). FMi 92/03/16: suggestion added in version 1.4e.
** (18) CRo 92/03/06: Setting of should not be prohibit in all case as one my want to use multicols for example on landscape paper, etc. FMi 92/03/20: suggestion added in version 1.4e. New designer parameter is called
** FMi 92/03/16: The version 1.4 includes several enhancements: a new balancing algorithm, the possibility to use multicols anywhere (e.g. in floats), a hopefully correct handling of LaTeX marks. The handling of stared floats, e.g. figure*, was improved to allow for float pages within the multicols environment.
** (19) PAb 92/04/26: Floats within the multicols environment that have been placed on top of the next page with older releases, now sometimes come out centered on a page by itself. FMi 92/04/26: this is due to the new ability of multicols to produce standard LaTeX float pages. To achieve the old behavior it is necessary to to a larger value (the default .5) is horrible anyway.
!! (20) FMi 92/04/19: When the last line of a column contains an unusal large character (like 〈) and the page contains a footnote then one may get a slightly overfull in the output routine. This depends on the parameter setting for and some other things.
!! (21) DCa 92/06/25: When more than 5 columns are used by multicol we overwrite some already allocated box registers (for example a won't work any longer. FMi 92/06/27: Temp fix: disallow more than 5 columns (v.1.4k) real fix will follow.
** (22) PBe 92/08/14: An indented environment like enumerate inside multicols broken across a page would incorrectly move the whole multicols to the right. FMi 92/08/17: fixed in 1.4l.
** (23) ???: A completely empty multicols environment removed all preceding text on the current page. FMi 92/09/04: This was long known and after seeing the complicated work-around that Silvio Levy had to do in his geom documentation I thought I better fix this: fixed in 1.4m.
The good guys:
PAb Peter Abbott PBe Peter Beckmann MBa Michael Barr DCa David Carlisle JEg Juergen Egeling FMi Frank Mittelbach CRo Chris Rowley ASa Alexander Samarin