Running lyx-2.1.4 on Slackware-14.1. Document class is KOMA-script article and the multicol package is included in the preamble.
For ease of reading I want to set the body in two columns per page leaving the title, author, abstract, and bibilography in a single column. Following the abstract, in the standard environment I inserted \begin{multicol}{2} followed by the first chapter heading on a new line. At the end of the text, before the bibliography environment, I inserted \end{multicol}. This works but the three figures are not included (they are sized to 100% column width), and the references are typeset as Figure ??. If I set the page layout as 2 column, the figures are included, but the title, author, abstract, and bibliography are also in the 2-column format. I've looked for the source of the problem but have not seen it. A hint as to why the figures are not displayed when the multicol package is used will be much appreciated. TIA, Rich