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Questions tagged [two-column]

{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.

A lot of document classes, like article, report and book, provide for a two column layout using the class option twocolumn. There are also the commands \twocolumn and \onecolumn that can be used to switch to a two- or single-column layout within a document.

The dimensions \columnsep and \columnseprule can be modified to set the space between the columns and the width of the rule separating the columns.

In a two-column layout, the floating environments table* and figure*, being alternate versions of the environments table and figure, spread over both columns.

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How to produce a double column document in Latex?

I want to write double column document and I used this command \documentclass[twoside]{article} but it is not working, I do not know what is wrong and why it is disabled.
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Switch from single to double column in the same page

I need to write a text just in this format \documentclass[twocolumn]{article}. But I need to switch between single column and double column several times in the same page, without jumping to a new page every time I switch the format. Is this…
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what is the difference between \twocolumn and \documentclass[twocolumn]{book}

what is the difference between \twocolumn and \documentclass[twocolumn]{book}? when I use \twocolumn , the line spread seems smaller?(compare with the same document using \documentclass[twocolumn]{book}) why?
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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…
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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 multicolumn mode or else (more often) a two-column table.…
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List of Symbols?

I'm trying to make a list of symbols that looks a lot like the one shown here: But I'm having some trouble making 2 columns that are spaced in that manner for the 2 pages I have for my list. Can anybody give me a quick tip on how I may be able to…
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Using columns environment in normal document

Is it possible to use the columns environment inside a normal document? Up to now I only used it in the beamer environment where it turned out pretty handy.
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How is typesetting in multiple columns implemented

I can type \documentclass[twocolumn]{scrartcl} to get a document typeset in two columns. But how does this works internally? I read The TeXbook, but didn't find a single paragraph about this. (Maybe I didn't look carefully enough.)
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Two-column layout with left column just as wide as its content

Here is image of desired layout, from PDF-ed MS Word version of the documment: It's A5 format. What I exactly want is: have it in two columns, each of them left-aligned lyrics should take as much space as they need; so, simple \begin{multicols}{2}…
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Can we have two pages with different number of columns?

I want to write a paper where the first should consist of a single column and the next page should have 2 column format, is there any command available in Latex, please help
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Two Columns of Text Side by Side

First let me just point out that I am new to LaTeX and I searched for an answer to the question but I could not find anything I could use. So if you already know where I can find my answer just point me in the direction and I will remove this…
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Make a two column with one column image and other text

How do I make a two column minisection in my latex document where the left hand column would be an image and the right hand column would be some accompanying text?
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Spanning columns with `\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}`

I started writing an article with the multicol package, and I like the results. However, I'd like to know how to reproduce some of the effects using \documentclass[twocolumn]{article}. For instance, I'd like to know how to make the title and…
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Writing texts in two parallel columns

I need to quote an excerpt of a book along with its translation, but I don't know how to write the original text in the left of my document and the translated one in the right of the same page. The document class is book, and my document is written…
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\thanks within @twocolumnfalse environment

Following this answer I added one column environment to my two columns article. Yet the \thanks{} footnote is not typeset by LaTeX. Here the…
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