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Questions tagged [multicol]

{multicol} is about the multicol package and its multicols environment which allows to typeset text in multiple columns (up to 10) and to balance the end of each column at the end of the environment. For questions about multi-column areas inside a table, use {tables} plus {multicolumn} instead.

is about the multicol package and its multicols environment which allows to typeset text in multiple columns (up to 10) and to balance the end of each column at the end of the environment. For questions about multi-column areas inside a table, use plus instead.

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Detecting current column in multicol

I'm working in a two-column multicol environment, and trying to create pullquotes using wrapfig. The problem is, I'd like these pullquotes to hang in the margin: the left margin if I'm in the left column, the right margin if I'm in the right. Is…
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Can I specify the width of the text columns in multicol?

I am writing an article with a multicol setting. \usepackage{multicol} \setlength{\columnsep}{0.5cm} The text is organized in 2 columns. \begin{multicols}{2} Can I adjust the width of the text columns? Any advise would be helpful.. THX LA
Lavinia Alberi
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one-column multicol environment

I'm writing some xsl that takes xml source and outputs a .tex file. The source has an element that is meant to frequently become a multicols environment in the .tex output, and it has a cols attribute to specify how many columns there are. I'd like…
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Writing in the first column first when using multicol package

I'm using the multicol package to enable writing with 3 columns or more, however I realise that the default behaviour is to balance out the content of the page with the columns. But this is not what I want, since what I want is to fill out the…
Enrico Susatyo
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column header for multicols

I would like to add a fixed content (produced by e.g. \parbox) at the top of every column of a multicols* environment. How can I do this? The optional argument of multicols* is only added on the first page and covers all columns - I need it on every…
Martin Schröder
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Balance columns in all document

In IEEE documents all the columns are balanced. Is it posible to achieve this in an article class?.
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Span column in a multicols environment

I am using the multicol package to make a 2 columns based document but I want in a place to have just fusion these two columns, and then go back to the 2 columns but I can't figure out how to achieve this.
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How to change order of two columns?

Is it possible in two columns page style, change order of column 1 and column 2? In other words I want to have a latex page as follow: Thanks.
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Displaying verse numbers on the left of corresponding column in multi-colmn text

I have two-column text that consists of multiple verses that are numbered sequentially. Imagine a text like below flowing into page in two columns. 1 Text for verse one that belongs to first verse. 2 Text for verse two that belongs to second verse.…
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How do I control the starting text position within a multicols environment?

The text starting position varies wildly in the multicols environment depending on font size. If you pick a large font size, the text touches the top; but if you pick a small font size, the text sits very low. This looks very lopsided. How do I…
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balance the bottoms with multicol

I want to balance the bottoms of all the columns. But only that of the last column does not. It comes to half heights of the textheight. If % of the last %\columnbreak is removed, that of the last column is balanced. But the second page that has no…
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multicols - different column widths

How can I set the width of the 1st column to 70%, and the width of the 2nd column to 30% of the pagewidth? \usepackage{multicol} \begin{multicols}{2} text in column 1 \columnbreak text in column 2 \end{multicols}
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special Page two, different from rest of the document

I have a multicolumn text. And I want to print something on page two inside two fittable boxes spanning the whole width of the page exclusively. So I thougth to use \begin{multicols}{2} for the two columns and \AtBeginShipout{\ifnum\value{page}=1…
Peter Miehle
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How can I detect when I'm at the top of column?

I have a series of text blocks in a 2-column layout, using multicol. Each block of text is wrapped in a minipage environment to ensure that all the contained text appears in the same column. I would like to separate these minipages with a horizontal…
Karl Hagen
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multicolumn with columns spanning several pages

I would like to have an abstract and the translation of that abstract at the beginning of my document, in such a way, that I have two columns, e.g. the left one with the translation (let's say german) and the second column with the original…
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