rose@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Dan Rose) (01/25/91)
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 am using LaTeX, but I can't figure out how to do this (if it is even possible). A small problem is switching back and forth between one and two columns without generating a newpage. A bigger problem is how to tell LaTeX to start putting text in the second column even though it isn't at the end of the page. Right now, it does something like this: First Centered Title Beginning of text of first blurb. This is formatted in two-columns, but LaTeX doesn't think it's time to start on the second column yet. Ideally, LaTeX would figure out the space needed and divide by two to compute the column length, but I'd settle for just being able to tell it that each column should end after, say, 2 inches. Please e-mail help or hints to drose@ucsd.edu. I'll post a summary of responses. Thanks! Dan Rose UCSD -- Dan Rose {ucbvax,decvax,akgua,dcdwest}!sdcsvax!beowulf!rose.uucp UC San Diego rose%cs@ucsd.edu
ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov (Arthur Ogawa) (01/26/91)
LaTeX definitely provides no way to switch between single and double column mode within a page (balancing the columns as it goes). Ideally, the \onecolumn and \twocolumn macros should provide this functionality. In working up the macro package for the Mathematica Journal, I added such functionality to LaTeX's output routine, so I know it is possible. I think I saw an article in TugBoat by Frank Mittelbach in which he does this, too (but without providing for floats).
spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (01/26/91)
In article <1991Jan25.174137.9997@news.arc.nasa.gov> ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov (Arthur Ogawa) writes:
LaTeX definitely provides no way to switch between single and
double column mode within a page (balancing the columns as it
goes). Ideally, the \onecolumn and \twocolumn macros should provide
this functionality.
In working up the macro package for the Mathematica Journal, I
added such functionality to LaTeX's output routine, so I know it is
possible. I think I saw an article in TugBoat by Frank Mittelbach
in which he does this, too (but without providing for floats).
Mittelbach's multicol.sty has been slightly enhanced since the
original Tugboat article, and does now permit *double column floats
only*. single ones are still not possible. but that's still very
useable. its an excellent package (it allows up to 10 columns) and is
available from archives such as ymir and Aston
Sebastian Rahtz
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