# Looking for template for landscape columnwise cheat-sheet type of document

I want to make a cheat-sheet with geometry formulas which I can use a background on a 1600x1280 screen. I am looking for a template or just the lines of code i have to use to setup my latex document. I want to use a small font such that I can use six columns. - This is probably a no brainer question but would probably take me hours to figure out and test.

Additionally is it possible to linearly add my texts and formulas such that latex decides how to distribute the text over the columns? Or is that too much 'word processing thinking' instead of type-setting?

EDIT: Christian Hupfer setup does the job. But for 1600x1280 ( or your screen-size ) I assume https://www.sharelatex.com/learn/Page_size_and_margins this is needed as well.

• How about a cheat-sheet on multicols package, for example? ;-) – user31729 Oct 16 '15 at 12:32
• No problem if I need to import a package. – nilo de roock Oct 16 '15 at 12:36
• Isn't multicols always required if you work with multiple columns? – nilo de roock Oct 16 '15 at 12:37
• No, you could use twocolumn option if the class supports this -- you will have -- you guess it already -- have only two columns, of course ;-) – user31729 Oct 16 '15 at 12:39
• Ok. I need -at least- four, preferably six. – nilo de roock Oct 16 '15 at 12:41

Here's a possible starter, but nothing more: Six columns with some sample formula and \columnbreak commands to -- well break the column.

If this is not required, the text flows from one column to the next one!

Any decorations are subject to the O.P!

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[margin=1cm,landscape]{geometry}

\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{multicol}

\begin{document}

\begin{multicols}{6}
\begin{itemize}
\item Pythagorean Theorem:

$c^2 = a^2 + b^2$

\columnbreak

\item Trigonometry

\begin{itemize}[label={$\triangleright$}]
\item  $\sin \alpha = \dfrac{b}{c}$
\item  $\cos \alpha = \dfrac{b}{c}$
\end{itemize}

\columnbreak

\item Area of circle:

$A = \pi r^2$

\columnbreak

\item Volume of Sphere

$V = \dfrac{4}{3} \pi r^3$

\columnbreak

\item Pythagorean Theorem:

$c^2 = a^2 + b^2$

\columnbreak

\item Pythagorean Theorem:

$c^2 = a^2 + b^2$

\end{itemize}

\end{multicols}

\end{document}


• The rest is my task, of course. Will try this -now-. – nilo de roock Oct 16 '15 at 12:54
• It says File mathtools.sty' not found. \usepackage – nilo de roock Oct 16 '15 at 12:57
• Texstudio and Miktex are configured such that packages not found are automatically downloaded. – nilo de roock Oct 16 '15 at 12:58
• @ndroock1: Yes, but that has nothing to do with my solution. Use amsmath then instead of mathtools` -- I always install the full distribution – user31729 Oct 16 '15 at 12:59
• – nilo de roock Oct 16 '15 at 13:05