Re: Even column length
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:08:47AM +0300, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Arnab Rana wrote: If I write a document in two columns, then the second column on the last page is shorter than the first. Is there a way to automatically balance the amount of text in the two columns, which will give a better appearance. (In MS-Word two columns can be made even by changing back to a single-column section after the two-column section.) The package multicol can do this. In the preamble put \usepackage{multicol} and then in the text in TeX: \begin{multicols}{n} where n is the number of columns. See multicol.lyx, an example that comes with LyX. A different solution (without the limitation of multicol [floats, footnotes]) is to put the following lines in the preamble: \usepackage{flushend} PS: If anyone is intrested, the packages in sttools allows more flexibility with twocolumn mode: Using these packages is possible: to balance columns on the last page in twocolumn mode; to place double-column float at bottom of page; to insert some wide onecolumn material in any place of twocolumn page and to do some other things.
Re: Even column length
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:08:47AM +0300, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Arnab Rana wrote: If I write a document in two columns, then the second column on the last page is shorter than the first. Is there a way to automatically balance the amount of text in the two columns, which will give a better appearance. (In MS-Word two columns can be made even by changing back to a single-column section after the two-column section.) The package multicol can do this. In the preamble put \usepackage{multicol} and then in the text in TeX: \begin{multicols}{n} where n is the number of columns. See multicol.lyx, an example that comes with LyX. A different solution (without the limitation of multicol [floats, footnotes]) is to put the following lines in the preamble: \usepackage{flushend} PS: If anyone is intrested, the packages in sttools allows more flexibility with twocolumn mode: Using these packages is possible: to balance columns on the last page in twocolumn mode; to place double-column float at bottom of page; to insert some wide onecolumn material in any place of twocolumn page and to do some other things.
Re: Even column length
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:08:47AM +0300, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Arnab Rana wrote: > > > If I write a document in two columns, then the second column on the last page is >shorter than the first. Is there a way to automatically balance the amount of text >in the two columns, which will give a better appearance. (In MS-Word two columns can >be made even by changing back to a single-column section after the two-column >section.) > > The package multicol can do this. In the preamble put > \usepackage{multicol} > and then in the text in TeX: > \begin{multicols}{n} > where n is the number of columns. > See multicol.lyx, an example that comes with LyX. A different solution (without the limitation of multicol [floats, footnotes]) is to put the following lines in the preamble: \usepackage{flushend} PS: If anyone is intrested, the packages in sttools allows more flexibility with twocolumn mode: Using these packages is possible: to balance columns on the last page in twocolumn mode; to place double-column float at bottom of page; to insert some wide onecolumn material in any place of twocolumn page and to do some other things.
Re: Even column length
On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Arnab Rana wrote: If I write a document in two columns, then the second column on the last page is shorter than the first. Is there a way to automatically balance the amount of text in the two columns, which will give a better appearance. (In MS-Word two columns can be made even by changing back to a single-column section after the two-column section.) The package multicol can do this. In the preamble put \usepackage{multicol} and then in the text in TeX: \begin{multicols}{n} where n is the number of columns. See multicol.lyx, an example that comes with LyX.
Re: Even column length
On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Arnab Rana wrote: If I write a document in two columns, then the second column on the last page is shorter than the first. Is there a way to automatically balance the amount of text in the two columns, which will give a better appearance. (In MS-Word two columns can be made even by changing back to a single-column section after the two-column section.) The package multicol can do this. In the preamble put \usepackage{multicol} and then in the text in TeX: \begin{multicols}{n} where n is the number of columns. See multicol.lyx, an example that comes with LyX.
Re: Even column length
On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Arnab Rana wrote: > If I write a document in two columns, then the second column on the last page is >shorter than the first. Is there a way to automatically balance the amount of text >in the two columns, which will give a better appearance. (In MS-Word two columns can >be made even by changing back to a single-column section after the two-column >section.) The package multicol can do this. In the preamble put \usepackage{multicol} and then in the text in TeX: \begin{multicols}{n} where n is the number of columns. See multicol.lyx, an example that comes with LyX.
Even column length
If I write a document in two columns, then the second column on the last page is shorter than the first. Is there a way to automatically balance the amount of text in the two columns, which will give a better appearance. (In MS-Word two columns can be made even by changing back to a single-column section after the two-column section.) Yours, Arnab ~ Arnab K Rana 122 High Street Hook DN14 5PJ UK Mobile: ++44(0)7733403737 Fax: ++18018492684 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ WWW.COM - Where the Web Begins! http://www.www.com
Even column length
If I write a document in two columns, then the second column on the last page is shorter than the first. Is there a way to automatically balance the amount of text in the two columns, which will give a better appearance. (In MS-Word two columns can be made even by changing back to a single-column section after the two-column section.) Yours, Arnab ~ Arnab K Rana 122 High Street Hook DN14 5PJ UK Mobile: ++44(0)7733403737 Fax: ++18018492684 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ WWW.COM - Where the Web Begins! http://www.www.com
Even column length
If I write a document in two columns, then the second column on the last page is shorter than the first. Is there a way to automatically balance the amount of text in the two columns, which will give a better appearance. (In MS-Word two columns can be made even by changing back to a single-column section after the two-column section.) Yours, Arnab ~ Arnab K Rana 122 High Street Hook DN14 5PJ UK Mobile: ++44(0)7733403737 Fax: ++18018492684 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ WWW.COM - Where the Web Begins! http://www.www.com