Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > I put > \usepackage{multicol} > in the preamble and > \begin{multicols}{2} as ERT behind the list of figures/tables since they > should be in onecolumn and \end{multicols} behind the bibliography, since > this should be twocolumn. I get an error: > > \begin{document} > ended by \end{multicols} > > There are furthermore no references in the output (instead ?) and the > output is quite ragged. > > Seems to be not the right way for my document
I think you cannot apply multicols to a complex document. You have to limit it to paragraphs. See the multicol documentation for details. The column handling/balancing is one of the severe limitations of LaTeX2e and one of the things that are subject to a complete redesign in LaTeX3. Jürgen