I'm writing a document in twocolumn mode, but I am starting pages with sections with some long titles that I'm trying to spread over both columns. The vertical space before subsequent section titles seems to be reduced compared to normal.
The following example illustrates what is happening.
\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\begin{document}
\twocolumn[\section{A very very very very very long title}]
The paragraph is then followed by somewhat reduced space before:
\subsection{The subsection}
aaaa
\end{document}
(Compare with the vertical space before the \subsection
if I replace the line beginning \twocolumn
with a simple \section{Short title}
.)
What is the correct way to attempt to do what I'm doing? I wasn't sure whether the multicol
package would help - since I wanted the twocolumn setup to cover the whole document, it didn't quite feel right structurally to have twocolumn environments sprinkled liberally throughout the document.
(Finally, I'm using (pdf)LaTeX, so please no LuaLaTeX or XeTeX answers please! :-) )
\twocolumn
command starts a new page; are you sure you want it?\twocolumn[\section{...}]
bit, but the above is a minimal example illustrating my issue.)