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I'm wondering about dividing the page in 2 independent parts. I did it with minipage : first was \begin{minipage}{0.49\textwidth} .. \end{minipage} and second was \begin{minipage}{0.49\textwidth} ... \end{minipage} . This works but is there some way to equally divide it without specifying width ? I'm intending to use \usepackage[margin=.5in]{geometry} and would like that TeX divide it on equal parts.

edit: I have another problem. Putting box around column is breaking 2 columns.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{paracol}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\usepackage{framed}
\usepackage[margin=.5in]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\begin{framed}
  \begin{paracol}{2}
  \kant[1-2]
  \kant[1-2]
  \kant[1-2]
  \switchcolumn
  \kant[3-4]
  \end{paracol}
\end{framed}
\end{document}
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    There are lots of ways to set up two equally wide columns of text. How is LaTeX supposed to know how wide you want the columns to be? Separately, have you looked into setting the option twocolumn when executing the \documentclass instruction? – Mico Mar 09 '15 at 06:36
  • twocolumn doesn't set independent columns – vejn Mar 09 '15 at 07:05
  • See http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/32154/independent-left-and-right-columns – JPi Mar 09 '15 at 07:27
  • Please be specific about what you mean by "independent columns." – Mico Mar 09 '15 at 07:33
  • When writing on the end of first column, doesn't continue in second column but on 1 column on second page. – vejn Mar 09 '15 at 15:02

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There are many ways of doing it.

A sample with paracol

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{paracol}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\usepackage[margin=.5in]{geometry}
\begin{document}
  \begin{paracol}{2}
  \kant[1-2]
  \switchcolumn
  \kant[3-4]
  \end{paracol}
\end{document}

enter image description here

With parcolumns:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{parcolumns}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\usepackage[margin=.5in]{geometry}

\begin{document}
        \begin{parcolumns}{2}            
            \colchunk{ %
                \kant[1-2]
            }
            \colchunk{ %
                \kant[3-4]
            }
            \colplacechunks
        \end{parcolumns}
\end{document}

Output same as above.

With `parallel:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{parallel}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\usepackage[margin=.5in]{geometry}

\begin{document}
  \begin{Parallel}[v]{0.49\textwidth}{0.49\textwidth}
    \ParallelLText{\kant[1-2]} 
    \ParallelRText{\kant[3-4]} 
    \ParallelPar
  \end{Parallel}
\end{document}

enter image description here

And the brute force:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\usepackage[margin=.5in]{geometry}

\begin{document}
  \noindent
  \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}XX@{}}
    \kant[1-2] &  \kant[3-4]
  \end{tabularx}
\end{document}

Figure same as first one.