{multicol} is about the multicol package and its multicols environment which allows to typeset text in multiple columns (up to 10) and to balance the end of each column at the end of the environment. For questions about multi-column areas inside a table, use {tables} plus {multicolumn} instead.
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How can I stop content overlapping my footer?
I am trying to use LaTeX to generate PDF versions of cheat sheets people build on my website. They are all three column documents, effectively each containing multiple tables.
For the most part, ...
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Same page and multicols
I use multicols at times for specific blocks in my thesis, which has a title, and a block of stuff similar to the following:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{multicol}
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biblatex/multicol: Incorrect vertical space after bibliography heading
I'm trying to typeset a bibliography inside a multicols environment, but with the heading as a single column (using multicols' optional argument). I've noticed that the vertical space between the ...
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let latex decide where to place a picture in multicol environment
I have a three column text with floating pictures. The whole latex code is made by scripting. The pictures are sometimes badly placed, so that the text is streched out (vertical space in between ...
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8 column table with lstinputlisting in LaTeX
I'd like to create a multicolumn table (up to 8 columns) to insert my code via \lstinputlisting{source.c}. But it seems to me that more then 6 columns aren't possibile even tough space is available. ...
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Detecting current column in multicol
I'm working in a two-column multicol environment, and trying to create pullquotes using wrapfig. The problem is, I'd like these pullquotes to hang in the margin: the left margin if I'm in the left ...
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Problem with multicols environment layout
I've a little problem with multicols. This is my MWE:
%%!TEX TS-program = latex
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage[a4paper, dvips, ...
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Are there any LaTeX packages for multicolumn typesetting besides multicol?
I'm going to need two-column layout (more advanced than LaTeX's \twocolumn - I'll need changing the number of columns without starting a new page or column balancing); however, due to the nature of ...
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Footnotes in tabular environments within multicols
I'm running into a strange inconsistency when I use footnotes in and out of tabular environments within multicols. In particular, I'm declaring a savenotes environment in a style file as follows:
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How to horizontally align equations in multicols package
I'm using the multicols package to write formulas side by side, as
\begin{multicols}{2}
\begin{eqnarray}
...
\end{eqnarray}
\columnbreak
\begin{eqnarray}
...
\end{eqnarray}
\end{multicols}
but ...
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Images off the page in multicols environment
Before my question, some background information.
I’ve created an algorithm (not latex) which will generate a catalog for a collection of books dynamically. A user supplies information to query an SQL ...
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Odd vertical gap with multicol, scrreprt and parskip=half
I'm having a weird vertical gap in one of my documents, which only is there when I use multicol together with \documentclass[parskip=half]{scrreprt}.
Minimal example
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Beamer: Vertical alignment of multi-column ToC
In my LaTeX beamer presentation I have a long Table of Contents, which has been split across two columns by using the multicol package. The problem is that I have not found any way to control vertical ...
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Interaction with multicol and mdframed results in misaligned rows
This works fine with TeXLive2011 and was working fine with TeXLive2012 until I recently updated the packages. So with TexLive2011, this produces:
but with an updated TeXLive2012 this yields:
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Colorbox under graphix hasn't the same width
In my document I want the fcolorbox the same width as the graphics, but I can't get it right. The left side is aligned (wich is good) but the right side is not (which is bad ...)
What is going wrong ...
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Adjusting column width in LaTeX with the multicol package
I'm trying to get a two column "academic style" paper layout on my LaTeX paper. I'm aware there are at least two common ways of doing this, either with adjusting \documentclass or with the more ...
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Two columns with page span
this is my first post! I have tried to find a solution before posting.
I have some input put into my .tex. The left column is text input by a user. To the right I would like 0..4 pictures, also ...
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Bibliography in two columns, section title in one
I'm using the following to span the bibliography to two columns:
\begin{multicols}{2}
\bibliographystyle{abbrv}
\bibliography{mybib}
\end{multicols}
Yet, the section title ("References" in the ...
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1answer
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Wider caption for listing using multicol
I am using the multicol and listings packages. I would like to have the caption spread across the entire listing for multi-column listings.
Here is a MWE of what I am attempting, however the output ...
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Allow frame breaks in multicolumn environment
I want beamer to automatically split my text over multiple frames (as many as is required) while retaining the format of the specified number of multicolumns (in this case 3). I do not want to have to ...
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How to balance last page of two-column layout?
I create a document in two-column-layout with LaTeX (and Koma-Script, if that is relevant). The two-column-layout is defined in documentclass. The last page of an chapter fills the left column first - ...
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framed multicolumns
I would like to have:
two columns (e.g. with multicol)
framed with title
can handle pagebreaks
can handle twoside mode of book-class
since mdframed does not support multicol and according to the ...
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Automatic column number and width adjustment
I have a body of text formatted into columns that I frequently edit. When I add text to the first column, the appearance of the columns is unbalanced and I have to manually cut/paste text over to the ...
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Supertabular leaves header in next column
I'm using supertabular in multicols enviroment based on this thread's accepted answer multicolumn long table or enumeration. But there is sometimes header and empty table body left in new column/page ...
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Trick Supertabular into Multicols in new command
I'm using supertabular in multicols enviroment using this trick
\let\mcnewpage=\newpage
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\newpage{%
\if@firstcolumn
\hrule width\linewidth height0pt
...
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Left aligning text inside multicols environment
I am using the multicol package. I was wondering if anyone knew how to correct the ugly looking spacing of words. It tries to align them so that each line takes up a column but that means some text ...
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What are the main advantages to using the multicol package over the twocolumn documentclass option?
I'm going to be writing my dissertation in LaTeX quite soon.
Whenever I've done work in the past in LaTeX, I've always just used \documentclass[twocolumn]{article} but I've heard about multicol. ...
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multicol/bibliography alignment [closed]
I wondered if anyone could help me with the alignments of columns in multicol. I'm using beamerposter and BibTeX. The bibliography contains two column but the first one is lower than the second.
An ...
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How to change spacing between columns for just one page in the document
I'm using the multicol package for my columns. So far, I have \setlength\columnsep{10pt} in the preamble to set the default column separation. But for one particular page, I'd like to set the ...
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1answer
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Colorbox inside Multicols
So I am using the multicols environment and I want to have the background of some portions of the column colored.
However, I see that multicols does not play well with xcolor and colored sentences ...
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Creation of Column
I am making a table of made up of two columns, but the problem is that in the last row I have multiple column with in a single row, I don't know how to do this. I applied \multicolumn but it did not ...
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Table of 2x2 tikzpictures
I'm attempting to condense 4 tikzpictures into a smaller space in my document. The solution I have is as follows:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[paperwidth=6in, paperheight=4in]{geometry}
...
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Placing a tikzpicture next to an align
I have a tikzpicture with an accompanying explanation in a math align environment. The tikzpicture is small enough that I'd like the explanation to appear next to (specifically, to the right) the ...
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How to draw a line between columns in beamerposter, reaching from header to bottom?
I am trying to make a poster using the beamerposter package and have a line below a header block (containing title, authors etc.). Now I want to draw a vertical line in the middle of the poster ...
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multicol seems to sum up problems to later move lines to the next page [closed]
We digitize and reproduce old German bible texts as free software. From XML, we are automatically generating LaTeX output to then generate PDF. One of our current implementations is using the multicol ...
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Wrapping a table in two column text
I have a two column text and would like to wrap it around a table, yet in such a way that the table spans over both columns. Ideally the text in left column would continue on the left below the table ...
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Change of column [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I force a column-break in a multi-column page?
I'm writing a document with columns with the multicols package and I want change the column, I type \newpage and it ...
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Avoid: multicol Error: Error saving partial page
In my package I am using in the dtx file the ltxdoc class which uses multicol for the index.
Currently I get this error:
! Package multicol Error: Error saving partial page.
See the multicol ...
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Multicol layout for systems of (linear) equations
How can a similar arrangement be archived (with ams*, aligned, multicol, etc)
1.2.3 Solve the following system of equations:
a) x - 2y - 4z = 1 b) -23x + 43y = 22
3x - ...
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Multiple Column Height
I need to put three lists of data into three columns. After putting the first set of data this happened:
But I need all the data to be in the FIRST column only, the next sets of data will go in ...
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Force column break within tabbing environment
Basically following the instructions here, I'm trying to enfore a column break in my text. My text is, however, embedded within a tabbing environment, and following the said instructions results in ...
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How to make a box with a height based on multiples of the current line height
How can I create (in XeLaTeX) a box that has a defined height in multiples of lines that keeps this size 100% without any additional spacings?
Please see the following MWE:
\documentclass{article}
...
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How to use multirow inside a multicolumn with p attribute?
Is it possible to use the p attribute in a multicol, with a multirow embedded?
A previous post doesn't provide a useful answer, since it only works with attributes other than p. It is exactly my ...
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1answer
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Line break after header of theorem environment followed by multicols body causes header-body overlap
I use TeXLive 2011.
I use ntheorem and multicol.
In a theorem environment, I want the theorem header to be separated from the body by a line break such that the multicols-environment get's that and ...
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How to insert a text between two cases in a multi valued function?
I want to do something similar to this but do not know how:
I do know how to write multi-valued functions by using cases or align or whatever but do not know how to achieve a text that is to the ...
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Individual widths in package multicol
Is there any way I can manipulate the widths of the columns in a multicol environment individualy? So for example that in a \begin{muticols}{2} the left column is the double size of the right one?
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Shaded Multicols
Does anyone know how to shade the background and put a border around a multicol environment, where page breaks are needed.
There is a couple of posts around, most notably, multicols within colorbox, ...
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How to fix a figure at the top or bottom of a column within multicol?
Within the multicol environment I want to be able to fix a figure to be displayed at either the top or bottom of a column (as in a scientific journal).
The figure environment cannot be used in ...
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nested multicols with itemised list
Is there any way to reduce the column separation in \begin{itemize}...\end{itemize} in the following MWE to be the same as \setlength{\columnsep}{1cm}. Also how can I remove the column separation rule ...
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Disable two column mode for separate part
I am writing a document using the report class in two column mode, but I need a \section to spread across both columns, but how can I set that?
Something like
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