rose@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Dan Rose) (02/09/91)
A few weeks ago I posted a question about alternating one- and two- column text repeatedly on a page using LaTeX: >I'm trying to format a document with multiple text "blurbs," >each two-column, stacked above each other. In other words, >I want it to look like this: > > First Centered Title > > Beginning of text of first it continues over here. > blurb. This is formatted This is the end of the > in two-columns, but note how first blurb. > > Second Centered Title > > This is the beginning of the tinues in the second > text of the second blurb. column. > Again, notice that it con- I received several responses. Basically there were two answers. One is to use the \minipage environment described in Lamport's LaTeX book. The other is to use the multicol style written by Frank Mittelbach. This allows entering a multiple column environment with \multicols{n}, where n is the desired number of columns, and exiting the environment with \endmulticols. I have so far been unsuccessful in getting minipage to do what I want; it allows switching back and forth from one to two columns without generating a new page, but it doesn't put any text in the right-hand column. I have managed to get the multicol style to work, but I have had to put page breaks in manually, since it doesn't support floats. Thanks to all who replied: Laszlo C Balint (lba@kolvi.hut.fi) Peter Beckmann (peterb@cernvax.cern.ch) Tony Mullins (jamull@che.utexas.edu) Arthur Ogawa (ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov) Olivier Plaut (plaut@sc2a.unige.ch) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Rose UCSD -- Dan Rose {ucbvax,decvax,akgua,dcdwest}!sdcsvax!beowulf!rose.uucp UC San Diego rose%cs@ucsd.edu
cheung@mathcs.emory.edu (Shun Yan Cheung) (02/10/91)
In article <16469@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> rose@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Dan Rose) writes:
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'book. The other is to use the multicol style written by Frank
'Mittelbach. This allows entering a multiple column environment
'with \multicols{n}, where n is the desired number of columns, and
'exiting the environment with \endmulticols.
Anyone konw the ftp cite for the macros by Frank ?
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In article <16469@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> rose@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Dan Rose) writes:
I have managed to get the multicol style to work, but I have had
to put page breaks in manually, since it doesn't support floats.
multicol does support floats, but only ones for the full width of the
page (ie figure* and table*); this is often acceptable.
sebastian
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