{two-column} is about the \twocolumn command and the class option of the same name. For questions about the {multicol} package, use the appropriate tag instead.
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How do you create pull quotes?
Does anyone know a package for pull quotes?
Failing that, is anyone interested in writing a command to create one? I'm thinking of something that would have optional and configurable separators ...
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2answers
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Two-column text with circular insert
How does one write on the outside of a circle?
I am looking for sample files/packages which imitate a magazine lay-out. Specifically a page with two columns having a circular picture between the two ...
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Is a three-column footnote layout possible?
I'm contemplating the idea of a document layout where citations are author-year-style, but given as footnotes. That is, those notes would be (for the most part) very short, which is a bad match for ...
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How to reset footnote counter in each column of a two-column document?
Footnote counters can be reset in each page by using either zref-perpage or perpage packages but how do you reset footnote counter in each column of a two column documents?
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18
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1answer
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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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1answer
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Is there a rule of thumb to set the space between columns?
I've never heard about a convention to adjust the space between columns in a writing, it seems it depends on aesthetic sense--even in scientific literature---doesn't it?
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How to find the \textwidth in two-column mode?
Sometimes I find that floats don't fit nicely on a page, so I use
\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{ <blah blah blah> }
so that the borders match the margins. However, I'm now working on a paper 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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Two-column LaTeX class for a photobook
I am looking for a solution to produce a two-column(ed) LaTeX-based photobook. Text and comments should go on the outer column (in a two-sided document)--something like a wide outer margin. Photos ...
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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 ...
15
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1answer
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How to make a figure span on two columns in a scientific paper?
If I just try to set the figure's size to 0.9\textwidth my figure will just end up on the right column, sized to be two-columns wide.
Has anyone done this before?
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How can I place a one-column-abstract in a two-column document?
How can I place a one-column-abstract and after that two-column-section in a LaTeX template?
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How to avoid a page break before a two-column TOC in memoir
Although `I wouldn't normally do this', I'm writing a short(ish) document for which I'd like to place a small TOC in two columns as the last thing on the title page.
In single column mode it works ...
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1answer
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Margin notes (and subsection titles) in both sides of a two column document
I would like to write a book document with two columns and subsubsection titles as margin notes at both sides of the page (in the side which corresponds to the column).
In order to specify the ...
13
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2answers
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What is the right way of creating bilingual book with poetry?
I want to create a book with poetry in two columns, side-by-side, in different languages. After some googling, I chose the ledmac and ledpar packages. But then I found myself doing hacks, and I wonder ...
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Two column problem
I'm trying to replicate certain part of a scanned book.
However, I'm unable to get two columns, which have enumeratation on the left,
line of the right column which is in the parallel with first ...
12
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3answers
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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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1answer
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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?
12
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1answer
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How to change \hsize in the middle of a paragraph at pagebreak, especially for two-column?
The original question is: How to get two columns with different width in LaTeX?
I know this older question: How can I create a two-column layout with different widths (and texts) for the two columns? ...
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Lineno for 2 column
How to add line number to a 2 column document where the line number must appear on the left for the left column and on the right for the right column. The lineno package does not seem to provide this ...
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2answers
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How do I put a wide figure on the top of the first page of a two-column paper?
I'd like my academic paper to have a page-width-spanning figure right underneath the title. How do I do this? Whenever I try using \begin{figure*}...\end{figure*} with the figure at the start of my ...
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Autosizing two-column layouts
In preparing a solutions manual for a textbook, I quite often wanted to place some text and an associated figure side-by-side as part of the solution. What I ended up doing was either using ...
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Uneven text distribution with two-column layout
I am comfortable with creating basic LaTeX documents and making minor modifications to templates I can find online, but not much more. The Oxford Bioinformatics journal has an awesome template here ...
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How can I make comments and text appear side-by-side?
I need your help. I'm going to write philological commentary on Cicero's speech in XeLaTeX, but I don't know how to make a combination of text and commentary (look below for examples). Is it possible ...
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1answer
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Put a table* at the bottom of a page?
In a two column document in LaTeX, is there any way to put a table* (a table spanning both columns) at the bottom of the page? The obvious doesn't work:
\begin{table*}[b] % b!, hb, hb!, etc. ...
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How can I place a double-wide figure float (ie, figure*) on the bottom on the first page of a two-column document
In what I would like to be a two-page, two-column document with two wide (figure*) figures, I need one to be on the bottom of the first page, and one to be on the top or bottom of the second.
...
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1answer
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Text spreading onto both columns in middle of twocolumn layout
I know that the package cuted can do its job quite well. However I'd be interested in different layout than what cuted provides. I hope that the image will be worth milion words:
On the left is the ...
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How can I create a two-column layout with different widths (and texts) for the two columns?
I want to create a document in which there are two separate columns of content. The column on the left is normal text, with sections, environments, etc. The column on the right is figures, all roughly ...
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3answers
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Two column code listings in appendix in a one column report
How do I place a two column appendix in a single column report? I want it so that at the beginning of the appendix I'm in single column mode, then I want to place some source code listings in 2 column ...
9
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4answers
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Two-colum task list with status information
I'm trying to generate a two-column task list with status information in the second column. It has to allow page breaks and should look more a less like this:
I managed to hack something together ...
9
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2answers
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\twocolumn[{\begin{@twocolumnfalse} explained
I'm typesetting a document in the [twocolumn] format. I found (Googled) that a way how to place some material spread over both columns is as in the following code:
\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
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9
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1answer
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Double-column listing package
Not too well up on LaTeX, but I want to use the listings package for listings spanning a two-column format.
Unfortunately, asterisks cannot save me (like for figures/tables); this doesn't work:
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2answers
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How can I customise memoir's index to have more than two columns?
Is it possible to customise memoir's index so that it has more than two columns? My index entries are single Chinese characters, so even \twocolindex results in way too much whitespace.
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Automatic way to break narrow tables into two columns?
Is there an easy way to break long narrow tables into two (or possibly more) columns (i.e. without manually rearranging the columns)?
In the following example you can see that there is a lot of ...
9
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1answer
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Minitoc with two column content
I have a question regarding \minitoc, I want to change the layout for \minitoc inside my MSc thesis. The document is written using a single column, but I want to have the content within the \minitoc ...
9
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1answer
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Centering contents name with [twocolumn] contents
I'm trying to make Table of Contents in two columns, but I'd like to center the contents name.
Now I'm doing
\twocolumn
\tableofcontents
but these commands give something like this:
Contents name ...
9
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1answer
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TikZ: Expand width of each picture to given size
I create plots with pgf/TikZ, externalize them and then they will be included into another predefined LaTeX-document (which someone else will do, so I can't change anything there). That final document ...
9
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1answer
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Two-column text, landscape pages
I wish to create a pdf-file out of a tex-file, so that the text is printed in two columns, and pages are to have the landspace orientation. The standard way to do this, as I see on the Net, is to say
...
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1answer
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LaTeX: Textbox within article
I'm not completely new to LaTeX but I'm not used to work with special layout schemes, so that's why I thought it was a good idea to post my question here.
Momently I'm trying to create an article ...
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Fixme incompatible with two-column?
I wanted to use Fixme together with my two-column layout, but the output of Fixme looks broken, as if the margins are too small or so.
See example:
Example code:
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2answers
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How to show the vertical line between two columns?
Simply using \twocolumn changes my document to look like this:
-----HEADER----
###### ######
###### ######
###### ######
###### ######
###### ######
###### ######
-----FOOTER----
But ...
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How do I force a column-break in a two-column document?
Similar to How do I force a column-break in a multi-column page? I want to force a column-break in a two-column document.
\columnbreak
seems to be undefined without the multicols package.
8
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4answers
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Override tendency to avoid filling entire page with floats
I'm working on a two column document, and on one of the pages, I want to fill an entire column with three different floats. But when I use, for instance, h!, ht!, b, b!, t!, etc., on all three of ...
8
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2answers
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Using listings package for documenting LISP code in two column mode
Using listings package, I am trying to write some LISP code. The issue is that LISP uses a lot of '-' in function name, and it makes the line width too large to break the boundary in two column mode.
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8
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1answer
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IEEE-Template: Algorithm over both columns
I'm currently working on a paper using the IEEEtran template. I do have a pseudocode I would like to put into this paper. In a former paper I saw that it is possible to put this algorithm in a box ...
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Two column align environment with one line spanning both columns
Is there a good/correct way of making an align environment with one line spanning multiple columns?
At the moment I'm using a hack like the following, but I feel that it's probably not the best way.
...
8
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How do I create a really long table in a two column layout?
I have a table that has about 130 rows. I tried using the longtable package, but it does not work with two column documents. The table will be starting near the top of the left column, and it should ...
8
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1answer
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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. ...
8
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2answers
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How to align text position on both sides of a twocolumn layout
I'm pretty sure this problem has been adressed somewhere before but I can't find a solution anywhere, probably because I have no idea how to define/call this problem.
Pretty much everything that ...
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How do I create separate columns in LaTeX without text flow?
I want to make a document with two columns, with each column separate. In other words, I have two separate columns in which I can type, without text flowing from one column to another. My desired use ...
