[texhax] Various questions

[Robin Fairbairns]

> 1. I am using twocolumn to place a bunch of figs, 4 per page starting from 
> top-left followed by bottom-left, top-right and bottom right. My last page 
> contains 3 figs and the last one is centered in the second column. How can I 
> place it at the top-right with bottom-right empty?

faq: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=vertposfp

> 2. How can I make a document to start page numbering from given number?

common sense: \setcounter{page}{31415}

> 3. What should I do to make dvitopdfm understand the pict2e elements?

don't know dvitopdfm.  if you mean dvipdfm, reading the pict2e manual
would have helped:

  \usepackage[dvipdfm]{pict2e}