lucy24 - 8:57 am on Nov 5, 2011 (gmt 0)

:: screaming with excitement ::

Oh! It's lovely!

Now to study effect of page- or column-break-related rules...

Quick follow-up:

By happy coincidence, the document I tried it out in is one that I needed a pdf of anyway. It turns out that, without any further instructions, the text is broken into page-sized chunks, and each of those chunks is separately put into three columns of equal height. Fabulous :)