{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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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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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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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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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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multicol and figures
I have a two column document (using multicol) and want to insert figures so that they do NOT span columns. I have searched around and the only thing I can find says that only figure* is supported ...
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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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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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permissions and acknowledgments in publish LaTeX-composed material
I've just completed composing a scholarly book using LaTeX and it has been accepted for publication. Are there legal requirements for 1) acknowledgments or 2) permissions connected with the use of ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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graphics - dynamic image placement
This is a follow up to my post here: Graphics - Images off the page in multicolumn environment
Using C#, XML, SQL, and LaTeX, I've managed to create a system which retrieves database information and ...
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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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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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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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Text justification within multicols environment
I'm using this 3-column layout.
\begin{multicols}{3}
[.. a lot of text ..]
\end{multicols}
I want to left-align the text in the left column, center the text in the middle column, and right-align ...
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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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Making an odd shaped table
I'm trying to make a table that looks like this:
+--------------+
| Class 1 |
+--------------+
| A | B |
...
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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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How to create trapezoidal multicols?
I would like to create a XeLaTeX layout where multicol's columns (two in this case, no figures, text only) are tilted where they meet. The lines still should be ordinary lines below each other, but ...
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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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Vertical Centering in a multicols
In a document I have several multicols units, in which on one side there is an image and on the other side some information in a itemize.
Now, depending on the image / information, the two "sections" ...
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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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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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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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Multicol - don't wrap
I have two-columned page by multicol:
\begin{multicols}{2}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
\end{multicols}
It there any way to ban wrapping to the second column. What I mean is, that I ...
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How can I make todo comments when using the multicol package?
I need to use the multicol package and I want to have todo items in the margin. I found the todonotes package which looked very promising:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{todonotes}
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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 can I create a multicol “figure”?
I have the following, somewhat minimal, example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multicol}
\begin{document}
\begin{multicols}{2}
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\begin{framed}
The function ...
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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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Writing in the first column first when using multicol package
I'm using the multicol package to enable writing with 3 columns or more, however I realise that the default behaviour is to balance out the content of the page with the columns.
But this is not what ...
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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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Align baseline in multicol
I'm using the multicol package and would like to align the baseline of the two columns. The simple use of a \paragraph heading seems to throw off the alignment, which can be pretty jarring visually. ...
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Reduce vertical spacing itemize and multicols
I have added code to reduce the spacing before itemize. However, when I use multicols still a lot of extra vertical white space is added (see the space before the subitems).
Does anyone know how to ...
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How to place two code snippets next to each other with minted?
The minted package for code highlighting comes with a float environment called listing. Now I would like to place two of this code listings next to each other, but I have no idea how to do this. I ...
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Bibliography spacing with BibLaTeX (and two columns)
I need to fine tune the distances marked as A, B, C and D in the figure below. Any suggestions?
In particular, I would like B=0pt, and the other three to be small.
I am using BibLaTeX and two ...
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Multicolumn block is narrower than the surrounding text
I need to typeset blocks of text in a multicolumn environment, with a title above, and framed with full line width.
I'm using the multicol package for that. The issue I face is that the block of text ...
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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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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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How to insert a one column page within a twocolumn document?
I have a twocolumn layout which is rendering quite well except for the last page. The incriminated page contains a bibliography with several URLs, each one being cut on several lines.
For better ...
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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 ...
