Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Here's the output from texdef:
\multicols:
macro:#1->\col@number #1\relax \ifnum \col@number <\tw@ \PackageWarning {multicol}{Using `\number \col@number ' columns doesn't seem a good idea. I therefore use two columns instead}\col@number \tw@ \fi \ifnum \col@number >10 \PackageError {multicol}{Too many columns}{Current implementation doesn't support more than 10 columns.\MessageBreak I therefore use 10 columns instead}\col@number 10 \fi \ifx \@footnotetext \mult@footnotetext \else \let \orig@footnotetext \@footnotetext \let \@footnotetext \mult@footn…