{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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multicolumn long table or enumeration
I would like to generate a multi-column table that wraps within columns of the document, and splits across pages. There are a couple of similar questions here
How do I create a really long table in ...
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Placing figures inside a two-column document
I'm trying to get images in my document in two different ways:
On top of the entire page, centered
On top of a single column
I tried it with both twocols and multicols. I ruled out twocols because ...
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How do I force a column-break in a multi-column page?
I want to display my article's abstract and table of contents side-by-side, to save space. I'm using the multicols package, but it tries to keep each column the same height, and I can't figure out how ...
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Balancing long table inside multicol in LaTeX
I would like to put some longer tabular data inside the multicols environment while maintaining its balancing abilities. I have tried supertabular with the trick to redefine \newpage as columnbreak. ...
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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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How to make table with divided column [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to merge columns in a table?
How can I make a table of the type above? I am writing a seminar report using the report class.
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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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Table of contents without title
I would like to have two-columned table of contents:
\begin{multicols}{2}
\tableofcontents
\end{multicols}
But it looks wierd if I have a title included in two columns - second ...
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Three-columns text with figures of 2\columnwidth
Although in multicol environment (not the twocolumn option in document class) is problematic to place floats, there are some ways to put figures within a single column or occupying the entire width of ...
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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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single column footnote in multicols environment?
I use the multicols environment (multicol package).
I have two columns.
If I simply use \footnote{the footnote text, which is quite long}
the footnote behaves as if there was just one big column (as ...
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Vertical alignment in multicol
In the following code the horizontal rules on the right don't line up in all cases with the horizontal rules on the left. It seems to be related to the text content. How can I fix this in such a way ...
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How do I force TeX to completely use the 1st column?
How do I force TeX to completely use the 1st column before writing to the second column?
Right now I dont have enough content to fill one whole page. So the left and right columns are equally filled, ...
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How to achieve a multi-column layout for footnotes?
How can you achieve a multi-column layout for footnotes?
I have one page filled only with a rotated table (landscape layout, the sidewaystable environment). The table is annotated by a lot of ...
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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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Grouped multi-column nomenclature
I'd like to print a multicolumn nomenclature list that consists of several groups. At the moment, using the grouping approach described in the manual and with a code snippet from ...
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How to write a title/abstract spanning 2 columns in 3-column page using multicol?
My article requires that I put the title and a small abstract spanning the left 2 columns in a 3-column page, that is, the 3rd column to the right of the title/summary block must follow with the body ...
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Setting the column gap in a twocolumn (or multicol) document
I have a document that uses twocolumn with scrbook. How can I set the width of the space between the two columns?
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Hypcap not working with custom figure environment
I'm trying to use caption with hypcap=true so that cross-reference hyperlinks will go to the figure instead of the figure caption. However, I'm using a multicol environment with a custom figure ...
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Two-column longtable or tabular
I'm using longtable to store a glossary-like list of abbreviations used in my document, and as it only has two columns, but is two pages long, I was wondering if there was a way to make it wrap into ...
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enumerate in multicols
The following image illustrates what am looking for:
Essentially I want the numbering to occur as shown above but using the multicol and enumitem package. But when I try it by using the following ...
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How to get a better spacing in nested multicols environments?
The following code produces an output that has badly-spaced contents. My objective is to write an exercise with multiple choice questions. Each option may have a figure.
The red arrows indicate the ...
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How can I reverse the positions of two (unequal width) columns so that the wider one is always against the inner margin?
I'm new to LaTeX and I'm trying to use it to write a spotlessly-typesetted draft of my novel (from the rough, typewritten hard draft) for MFA program applications, and eventually to send to ...
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Is it possible to define a `multicols{2}` preamble switch that works for \chapter?
With standard LaTeX, issuing \twocolumn in the preambe causes the document to be typeset in two columns -- except that \chapter will produce separate one-column chapter headings.
\documentclass{book}
...
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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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column header for multicols
I would like to add a fixed content (produced by e.g. \parbox) at the top of every column of a multicols* environment. How can I do this? The optional argument of multicols* is only added on the first ...
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Making a long table continue over two columns
I am using multicol to make a two-column document using the book document class. I have a long tabular that I want to break where the page breaks and then continue in the next column.
I could split ...
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Is it possible to define a multicolumn environment with a background colour
EDIT: I should have given a MWE based on memoir (which I am using) where the inner and outer margins are initially different. I would like the margins to be the same in that new environment. (Inner ...
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multicols not wrapping to 2nd column properly?
I am having problem with multicol package, I created a sample demo to show it.
When I put 3 minipages of certain height in the multicol it puts 2 of the boxes on the first column, but the 2nd box is ...
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votes
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Footnotes layout in multicols environment
I am using the package multicol to typeset a one-column (spanning the entire text width) heading and a two-column main text block. In order to do so, I begin the multicols environment along with the ...
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Margin notes in a multicolumn environment
I have been typesetting a two-columned book where I sometimes need to put a mark in the margin to say, that particular line might need special attention. (The book is actually a psalter - for ...
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Horizontal lines touching the multicol column separator rule
Is there a possibility to put a horizontal line above and below a multicolumn output (using the multicol package) such that the horizontal lines touch the multicol column separator exactly at its ...
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multicols - different column widths
How can I set the width of the 1st column to 70%, and the width of the 2nd column to 30% of the pagewidth?
\usepackage{multicol}
\begin{multicols}{2}
text in column 1
\columnbreak
text ...
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Problems with pictures in multicol
I am writing a short article for a magazin and want to have a two-column text. Since the header is supposed to be centered, I decided to use the multicol-package. This is my header:
...
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latex two column layout set figure to load on single column
this is the double column code
\begin{multicols}{2}
\begin{figure*}[!ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[height=60mm]{CC.jpg}
\caption{AA \cite{BB}}
\end{figure*}
\end{multicols}
But the ...
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Full width code listing within two column text
I am using multicols to create two columns for body text. For code typesetting I am using the listings package. For the latter I have created an environment using \lstnewenvironment command, used as ...
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Twocolumn part in document
I'd like to stretch long lists into two or more columns. Like:
Some single-column text.
Lorem 4. Sit
Ipsum 5. Amet
Dolor
Another single-column text.
Or:
Some ...
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Tables header row's: how to ignore the column type?
I have several column types defined using the array and collcell package. An example
\newcolumntype{N}{>{\collectcell\num}c<{\endcollectcell}}
This alleviates making tables a lot, and makes ...
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Column width in multicol and using float environments
I'm trying to write my first report ever using LaTeX.
I want it to have two columns so I'm using the multicol package. The columns are too narrow though, I want it to be wide like, say, elsevier style ...
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Onecolumn till end of page in twocolumn mode
I know about using the widetext environment for setting text in onecolumn mode and the multicols package for effortless switching between one- and twocolumn mode, but I think this is not too great if ...
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How do I create the headings for this multirow multicolum table?
I wish to create a table that looks like the following:
+-------++--------------------------++--------------------------+
| || Category A || Category B |
| Title ...
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votes
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multicols within colorbox
i'm trying to get a gray background for an entire multicols environment and get errors with this "minimal" working example:
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
...
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Multi-column delimiter in align
I want to set the following, but with all the <'s aligned horizontally
Source of this failed attempt:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\begin{document}
...
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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 ...
