{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 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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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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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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Frame over multicol columnbreak

Hello everybody out there using TeX, Is there a possibility to draw a frame over a columnbreak when using for example the multicol package? I've already tried several possibilities and done ...
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Unwanted extra space after header of first section, using multicols article

I'm a beginner of LaTex, so I'm sorry if I've asked an easy question. I'm writing a scientific article, and after only the first header of the first section I get an unwanted extra space. Here is the ...
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Section outside multicols environment if section contains a table

I am using \begin{multicols*}{2} to split my text in two columns on the landscape format paper. Now if I have a tabular, it resizes the tabular to \linewidth. What I want is to ask if there is a ...
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conditionally emit one table or another

I would like to specify a table and if it has any multiline cells then it should be output as a single pair of columns and otherwise as two pairs of columns. For example, if it looks like the First ...
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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 ...