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I previously asked a question about the divider line sticking up above the text in columns. The solution posed:

\setlength\topskip{7pt}

works beautifully, but only if the column is the very first item in the document. All subsequent columns still have the protruding divider line, as in the below example

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{paracol}

\begin{document}


\setlength{\columnsep}{1em}
\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.4pt}
\setlength\topskip{7pt}
    \begin{paracol}{2}
    No problem here...
    \switchcolumn
    Kein Problem hier...
    \end{paracol}


But if it's preceeding by text


\setlength{\columnsep}{1em}
\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.4pt}
\setlength\topskip{7pt}
    \begin{paracol}{2}
    The divider sticks up
    \switchcolumn
    Dann ragt der Teiler nach oben
    \end{paracol}


\vspace{1cm}


\setlength{\columnsep}{1em}
\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.4pt}
\setlength\topskip{7pt}
    \begin{paracol}{2}
    Same with just space
    \switchcolumn
    Das Gleiche gilt für den leeren Raum
    \end{paracol}


\end{document}

enter image description here

jejwood
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  • This post with tikzmark may be able to help you. https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/529110/paracol-vertical-line-between-selected-columns/529329#529329 – pascal974 Jan 13 '23 at 13:31
  • @pascal974 Thank you. It looks like this would work well if my text were not broken up by full width (single, rather than double column) text. As it is, I have tried playing with this, and I don't believe there is a good solution there, going this route. My hunt continues! Thank you for the attempt. – jejwood Jan 24 '23 at 21:23
  • I posted an answer, do you want it? – pascal974 Jan 25 '23 at 10:41

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With John Kormylo's code, creating an adjustment command \adjustment initilized to 2pt (seems to be what you expect), we get: enter image description here

The code

    \documentclass{book}
    \usepackage{paracol}
    \usepackage{tikzpagenodes}
    \usetikzlibrary{tikzmark,calc}
    \usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}

\newlength{\ajustement}
\setlength{\ajustement}{2pt}

\setlength{\columnsep}{2em}

\begin{paracol}{2}
    \noindent\tikzmark{top}\indent
    \blindtext[1]
    \switchcolumn
    \blindtext[2]
\end{paracol}
\noindent\begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture]
    \draw[line width=0.4pt] ($(pic cs:top)+(0.5\textwidth, \ht\strutbox-\ajustement)$) -+
    (0.5\textwidth, \ht\strutbox+\ajustement);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
pascal974
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