On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
> I'd like to write a book in two columns.
What a good idea, I'll try it out in my one.
> But sometimes there will be a
> programming example that is supposed to span the columns. These
> examples may be longer than one page.
>
> I can't seem to find the solution for this. Neither floats, tables or
> minpages can do this.
>
> Can this be done, and if so, how?
put:
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{verbatim}
in the preamble ( Layout->Latex preamble )
put:
\begin{multicols}{2}
where you wish to start the two column part
put:
\end{multicols}
where you wish to end the two column part
put:
\verbatiminput[tabstop]{<filename>}
to input an ascii file
Sources:- LaTeX Companion sects. 3.3 and 3.5
( which means I havn't tried it out myself,
but I am fully confident it will work )
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system?
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