Re: Cleaning up (was multicols and tabbing)
Christopher Jones wrote: Works like a charm. Thanks again. So here is some minor stuff left to address with this project of mine: First, I still have the problem I had before, with the \fbox and \parbox stuff. Second, I am printing this on USLegal, with .25in margins all around, and .50in columnsep (3 cols). It prints out just like I expect it, but the PostScript output is screwy. (1) Nothing past the second column appears, and (2) though it is a two pager, only one page shows up (though both of them print). None of this happens when I make a custom size, increasing the USLegal width by one inch in Landscape, nor does it happen when I use letter size, in any orientation, or Legal in portrait orientation. So. The problem is exclusively with USLegal, landscape orientation. What is the problem? can you give a short lyx-example file for that behaviour? Herbert -- http://perce.de/lyx/
Re: Cleaning up (was multicols and tabbing)
Well... I guess I got it figured out afterall. I figured out the \parbox stuff,
and I figured out that if I produce the document in Legal/Landscape and then
put gv into portrait, I can see the document properly (except that it's
sideways). I got both pages to show up... I am not sure what exactly I did to
fix that. Anyway, here's the example file just for the heck of it. Maybe you
know why I have to put gv into portrait in order to see the whole thing.
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, you wrote:
Christopher Jones wrote:
Works like a charm. Thanks again.
So here is some minor stuff left to address with this project of mine:
First, I still have the problem I had before, with the \fbox and \parbox stuff.
Second, I am printing this on USLegal, with .25in margins all around, and .50in
columnsep (3 cols). It prints out just like I expect it, but the PostScript
output is screwy. (1) Nothing past the second column appears, and (2) though it
is a two pager, only one page shows up (though both of them print). None of
this happens when I make a custom size, increasing the USLegal width by one
inch in Landscape, nor does it happen when I use letter size, in any
orientation, or Legal in portrait orientation. So. The problem is exclusively
with USLegal, landscape orientation. What is the problem?
can you give a short lyx-example file for that behaviour?
Herbert
--
http://perce.de/lyx/
#LyX 1.1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
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Re: Cleaning up (was multicols and tabbing)
Christopher Jones wrote: Works like a charm. Thanks again. So here is some minor stuff left to address with this project of mine: First, I still have the problem I had before, with the \fbox and \parbox stuff. Second, I am printing this on USLegal, with .25in margins all around, and .50in columnsep (3 cols). It prints out just like I expect it, but the PostScript output is screwy. (1) Nothing past the second column appears, and (2) though it is a two pager, only one page shows up (though both of them print). None of this happens when I make a custom size, increasing the USLegal width by one inch in Landscape, nor does it happen when I use letter size, in any orientation, or Legal in portrait orientation. So. The problem is exclusively with USLegal, landscape orientation. What is the problem? can you give a short lyx-example file for that behaviour? Herbert -- http://perce.de/lyx/
Re: Cleaning up (was multicols and tabbing)
Well... I guess I got it figured out afterall. I figured out the \parbox stuff,
and I figured out that if I produce the document in Legal/Landscape and then
put gv into portrait, I can see the document properly (except that it's
sideways). I got both pages to show up... I am not sure what exactly I did to
fix that. Anyway, here's the example file just for the heck of it. Maybe you
know why I have to put gv into portrait in order to see the whole thing.
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, you wrote:
Christopher Jones wrote:
Works like a charm. Thanks again.
So here is some minor stuff left to address with this project of mine:
First, I still have the problem I had before, with the \fbox and \parbox stuff.
Second, I am printing this on USLegal, with .25in margins all around, and .50in
columnsep (3 cols). It prints out just like I expect it, but the PostScript
output is screwy. (1) Nothing past the second column appears, and (2) though it
is a two pager, only one page shows up (though both of them print). None of
this happens when I make a custom size, increasing the USLegal width by one
inch in Landscape, nor does it happen when I use letter size, in any
orientation, or Legal in portrait orientation. So. The problem is exclusively
with USLegal, landscape orientation. What is the problem?
can you give a short lyx-example file for that behaviour?
Herbert
--
http://perce.de/lyx/
#LyX 1.1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
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Re: Cleaning up (was multicols and tabbing)
Christopher Jones wrote: > > Works like a charm. Thanks again. > > So here is some minor stuff left to address with this project of mine: > > First, I still have the problem I had before, with the \fbox and \parbox stuff. > > Second, I am printing this on USLegal, with .25in margins all around, and .50in > columnsep (3 cols). It prints out just like I expect it, but the PostScript > output is screwy. (1) Nothing past the second column appears, and (2) though it > is a two pager, only one page shows up (though both of them print). None of > this happens when I make a custom size, increasing the USLegal width by one > inch in Landscape, nor does it happen when I use letter size, in any > orientation, or Legal in portrait orientation. So. The problem is exclusively > with USLegal, landscape orientation. What is the problem? can you give a short lyx-example file for that behaviour? Herbert -- http://perce.de/lyx/
Re: Cleaning up (was multicols and tabbing)
Well... I guess I got it figured out afterall. I figured out the \parbox stuff,
and I figured out that if I produce the document in Legal/Landscape and then
put gv into portrait, I can see the document properly (except that it's
sideways). I got both pages to show up... I am not sure what exactly I did to
fix that. Anyway, here's the example file just for the heck of it. Maybe you
know why I have to put gv into portrait in order to see the whole thing.
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> Christopher Jones wrote:
> >
> > Works like a charm. Thanks again.
> >
> > So here is some minor stuff left to address with this project of mine:
> >
> > First, I still have the problem I had before, with the \fbox and \parbox stuff.
> >
> > Second, I am printing this on USLegal, with .25in margins all around, and .50in
> > columnsep (3 cols). It prints out just like I expect it, but the PostScript
> > output is screwy. (1) Nothing past the second column appears, and (2) though it
> > is a two pager, only one page shows up (though both of them print). None of
> > this happens when I make a custom size, increasing the USLegal width by one
> > inch in Landscape, nor does it happen when I use letter size, in any
> > orientation, or Legal in portrait orientation. So. The problem is exclusively
> > with USLegal, landscape orientation. What is the problem?
>
> can you give a short lyx-example file for that behaviour?
>
> Herbert
>
>
> --
> http://perce.de/lyx/
#LyX 1.1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
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Re: multicols and tabbing
Christopher Jones wrote:
Thanks so much! Since I sent that post, I had come up with the following
slution:
\begin{tabbing}
Q. XXX \= \parbox[t]{\columnwidth}{...} \\
...
\end{tabbing}
Your solution worked MUCH better, since mine, though it kept the text within
the column, left the \parbox extended too far to the right (left margin was OK),
leaving only about 1cm of margin between the text and the right-hand column
edge. I had tried using other variables than \columnwidth, such as \linewidth,
but to no avail.
i thought that there must be a better solution, like a lyx one ;-)
here it comes:
save the following attached lyx-styles in ~/.lyx.layouts.
insert in ~./lyx/layouts/stdclass.inc a line
Input myPar.layout
restart lyx and you have the two paragraph-styles myParI and myParII
within lyx. the also attached lyx-file tab.lyx shows the use of these
layouts. it works only when you've installed the myPar-styles correct.
Herbert
--
http://perce.de/lyx/
# Extended textclass definition file.
# Author : Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
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ItemSep 0.1
TopSep0.7
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Align Block
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LabelFont
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LatexType List_Environment
LatexName myParII
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BottomSep 0.7
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EndFont
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Cleaning up (was multicols and tabbing)
Works like a charm. Thanks again.
So here is some minor stuff left to address with this project of mine:
First, I still have the problem I had before, with the \fbox and \parbox stuff.
Second, I am printing this on USLegal, with .25in margins all around, and .50in
columnsep (3 cols). It prints out just like I expect it, but the PostScript
output is screwy. (1) Nothing past the second column appears, and (2) though it
is a two pager, only one page shows up (though both of them print). None of
this happens when I make a custom size, increasing the USLegal width by one
inch in Landscape, nor does it happen when I use letter size, in any
orientation, or Legal in portrait orientation. So. The problem is exclusively
with USLegal, landscape orientation. What is the problem?
Christopher Jones wrote:
Thanks so much! Since I sent that post, I had come up with the following
slution:
\begin{tabbing}
Q. XXX \= \parbox[t]{\columnwidth}{...} \\
...
\end{tabbing}
Your solution worked MUCH better, since mine, though it kept the text within
the column, left the \parbox extended too far to the right (left margin was OK),
leaving only about 1cm of margin between the text and the right-hand column
edge. I had tried using other variables than \columnwidth, such as \linewidth,
but to no avail.
i thought that there must be a better solution, like a lyx one ;-)
here it comes:
save the following attached lyx-styles in ~/.lyx.layouts.
insert in ~./lyx/layouts/stdclass.inc a line
Input myPar.layout
restart lyx and you have the two paragraph-styles myParI and myParII
within lyx. the also attached lyx-file tab.lyx shows the use of these
layouts. it works only when you've installed the myPar-styles correct.
Herbert
--
http://perce.de/lyx/
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Description:
Content-Type: text/plain; name="tab.lyx"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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Re: multicols and tabbing
Christopher Jones wrote:
Thanks so much! Since I sent that post, I had come up with the following
slution:
\begin{tabbing}
Q. XXX \= \parbox[t]{\columnwidth}{...} \\
...
\end{tabbing}
Your solution worked MUCH better, since mine, though it kept the text within
the column, left the \parbox extended too far to the right (left margin was OK),
leaving only about 1cm of margin between the text and the right-hand column
edge. I had tried using other variables than \columnwidth, such as \linewidth,
but to no avail.
i thought that there must be a better solution, like a lyx one ;-)
here it comes:
save the following attached lyx-styles in ~/.lyx.layouts.
insert in ~./lyx/layouts/stdclass.inc a line
Input myPar.layout
restart lyx and you have the two paragraph-styles myParI and myParII
within lyx. the also attached lyx-file tab.lyx shows the use of these
layouts. it works only when you've installed the myPar-styles correct.
Herbert
--
http://perce.de/lyx/
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Cleaning up (was multicols and tabbing)
Works like a charm. Thanks again.
So here is some minor stuff left to address with this project of mine:
First, I still have the problem I had before, with the \fbox and \parbox stuff.
Second, I am printing this on USLegal, with .25in margins all around, and .50in
columnsep (3 cols). It prints out just like I expect it, but the PostScript
output is screwy. (1) Nothing past the second column appears, and (2) though it
is a two pager, only one page shows up (though both of them print). None of
this happens when I make a custom size, increasing the USLegal width by one
inch in Landscape, nor does it happen when I use letter size, in any
orientation, or Legal in portrait orientation. So. The problem is exclusively
with USLegal, landscape orientation. What is the problem?
Christopher Jones wrote:
Thanks so much! Since I sent that post, I had come up with the following
slution:
\begin{tabbing}
Q. XXX \= \parbox[t]{\columnwidth}{...} \\
...
\end{tabbing}
Your solution worked MUCH better, since mine, though it kept the text within
the column, left the \parbox extended too far to the right (left margin was OK),
leaving only about 1cm of margin between the text and the right-hand column
edge. I had tried using other variables than \columnwidth, such as \linewidth,
but to no avail.
i thought that there must be a better solution, like a lyx one ;-)
here it comes:
save the following attached lyx-styles in ~/.lyx.layouts.
insert in ~./lyx/layouts/stdclass.inc a line
Input myPar.layout
restart lyx and you have the two paragraph-styles myParI and myParII
within lyx. the also attached lyx-file tab.lyx shows the use of these
layouts. it works only when you've installed the myPar-styles correct.
Herbert
--
http://perce.de/lyx/
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Description:
Content-Type: text/plain; name="tab.lyx"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Description:
Re: multicols and tabbing
Christopher Jones wrote:
>
> Thanks so much! Since I sent that post, I had come up with the following
> slution:
>
> \begin{tabbing}
> Q. XXX \= \parbox[t]{\columnwidth}{...} \\
> ...
> \end{tabbing}
>
> Your solution worked MUCH better, since mine, though it kept the text within
> the column, left the \parbox extended too far to the right (left margin was OK),
> leaving only about 1cm of margin between the text and the right-hand column
> edge. I had tried using other variables than \columnwidth, such as \linewidth,
> but to no avail.
i thought that there must be a better solution, like a lyx one ;-)
here it comes:
save the following attached lyx-styles in ~/.lyx.layouts.
insert in ~./lyx/layouts/stdclass.inc a line
Input myPar.layout
restart lyx and you have the two paragraph-styles myParI and myParII
within lyx. the also attached lyx-file tab.lyx shows the use of these
layouts. it works only when you've installed the myPar-styles correct.
Herbert
--
http://perce.de/lyx/
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# Author : Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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# This include files contains various standard environments for lists.
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Cleaning up (was multicols and tabbing)
Works like a charm. Thanks again.
So here is some minor stuff left to address with this project of mine:
First, I still have the problem I had before, with the \fbox and \parbox stuff.
Second, I am printing this on USLegal, with .25in margins all around, and .50in
columnsep (3 cols). It prints out just like I expect it, but the PostScript
output is screwy. (1) Nothing past the second column appears, and (2) though it
is a two pager, only one page shows up (though both of them print). None of
this happens when I make a custom size, increasing the USLegal width by one
inch in Landscape, nor does it happen when I use letter size, in any
orientation, or Legal in portrait orientation. So. The problem is exclusively
with USLegal, landscape orientation. What is the problem?
>
> Christopher Jones wrote:
> >
> > Thanks so much! Since I sent that post, I had come up with the following
> > slution:
> >
> > \begin{tabbing}
> > Q. XXX \= \parbox[t]{\columnwidth}{...} \\
> > ...
> > \end{tabbing}
> >
> > Your solution worked MUCH better, since mine, though it kept the text within
> > the column, left the \parbox extended too far to the right (left margin was OK),
> > leaving only about 1cm of margin between the text and the right-hand column
> > edge. I had tried using other variables than \columnwidth, such as \linewidth,
> > but to no avail.
>
> i thought that there must be a better solution, like a lyx one ;-)
> here it comes:
> save the following attached lyx-styles in ~/.lyx.layouts.
> insert in ~./lyx/layouts/stdclass.inc a line
>
> Input myPar.layout
>
> restart lyx and you have the two paragraph-styles myParI and myParII
> within lyx. the also attached lyx-file tab.lyx shows the use of these
> layouts. it works only when you've installed the myPar-styles correct.
>
> Herbert
>
>
> --
> http://perce.de/lyx/
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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Content-Type: text/plain; name="tab.lyx"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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multicols and tabbing
Thanks to Herr Voss for the tabbing example file. And thanks to everyone for your suggestions. I decieded to go with latex tabbing. This introduces a problem which seems to derive from my use of another package, namely the multicols package. My document needs to be trifold, three columns. Hence my use of multicols. However, tabbing seems to ignore the fact that there are more than two columns in the document, so that anything within the tabbing environment, though it starts in the correct column, goes right across the page. So in the printout I get text on top of text. In the ps file text just dissappears past a given column. (This is also why I can't use a table, which I tried the first time.) I would manually insert breaks in the tabbed section, but since I need block-justified text, this (unelegant) solution won't do this time. So what do I do?
Re: multicols and tabbing
Christopher Jones wrote:
Thanks to Herr Voss for the tabbing example file. And thanks to everyone for
your suggestions.
I decieded to go with latex tabbing. This introduces a problem which seems to
derive from my use of another package, namely the multicols package. My
document needs to be trifold, three columns. Hence my use of multicols.
However, tabbing seems to ignore the fact that there are more than two columns
in the document, so that anything within the tabbing environment, though it
starts in the correct column, goes right across the page. So in the printout I
get text on top of text. In the ps file text just dissappears past a given
column. (This is also why I can't use a table, which I tried the first time.)
I would manually insert breaks in the tabbed section, but since I need
block-justified text, this (unelegant) solution won't do this time.
So what do I do?
have a look at the attached lyx-file. it's a solution on the run ...
if it's useful, copy the latex preamble into the one of your textfile.
only the bold text in this file is important, the rest is nonsense
hope it helps
Herbert
--
http://perce.de/lyx/
#LyX 1.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
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kill is only my tabbing line, which defines the tabstops.
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multicols and tabbing
Thanks to Herr Voss for the tabbing example file. And thanks to everyone for your suggestions. I decieded to go with latex tabbing. This introduces a problem which seems to derive from my use of another package, namely the multicols package. My document needs to be trifold, three columns. Hence my use of multicols. However, tabbing seems to ignore the fact that there are more than two columns in the document, so that anything within the tabbing environment, though it starts in the correct column, goes right across the page. So in the printout I get text on top of text. In the ps file text just dissappears past a given column. (This is also why I can't use a table, which I tried the first time.) I would manually insert breaks in the tabbed section, but since I need block-justified text, this (unelegant) solution won't do this time. So what do I do?
Re: multicols and tabbing
Christopher Jones wrote:
Thanks to Herr Voss for the tabbing example file. And thanks to everyone for
your suggestions.
I decieded to go with latex tabbing. This introduces a problem which seems to
derive from my use of another package, namely the multicols package. My
document needs to be trifold, three columns. Hence my use of multicols.
However, tabbing seems to ignore the fact that there are more than two columns
in the document, so that anything within the tabbing environment, though it
starts in the correct column, goes right across the page. So in the printout I
get text on top of text. In the ps file text just dissappears past a given
column. (This is also why I can't use a table, which I tried the first time.)
I would manually insert breaks in the tabbed section, but since I need
block-justified text, this (unelegant) solution won't do this time.
So what do I do?
have a look at the attached lyx-file. it's a solution on the run ...
if it's useful, copy the latex preamble into the one of your textfile.
only the bold text in this file is important, the rest is nonsense
hope it helps
Herbert
--
http://perce.de/lyx/
#LyX 1.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
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kill is only my tabbing line, which defines the tabstops.
in this case
multicols and tabbing
Thanks to Herr Voss for the tabbing example file. And thanks to everyone for your suggestions. I decieded to go with latex tabbing. This introduces a problem which seems to derive from my use of another package, namely the multicols package. My document needs to be trifold, three columns. Hence my use of multicols. However, tabbing seems to ignore the fact that there are more than two columns in the document, so that anything within the tabbing environment, though it starts in the correct column, goes right across the page. So in the printout I get text on top of text. In the ps file text just dissappears past a given column. (This is also why I can't use a table, which I tried the first time.) I would manually insert breaks in the tabbed section, but since I need block-justified text, this (unelegant) solution won't do this time. So what do I do?
Re: multicols and tabbing
Christopher Jones wrote:
>
> Thanks to Herr Voss for the tabbing example file. And thanks to everyone for
> your suggestions.
>
> I decieded to go with latex tabbing. This introduces a problem which seems to
> derive from my use of another package, namely the multicols package. My
> document needs to be trifold, three columns. Hence my use of multicols.
> However, tabbing seems to ignore the fact that there are more than two columns
> in the document, so that anything within the tabbing environment, though it
> starts in the correct column, goes right across the page. So in the printout I
> get text on top of text. In the ps file text just dissappears past a given
> column. (This is also why I can't use a table, which I tried the first time.)
>
> I would manually insert breaks in the tabbed section, but since I need
> block-justified text, this (unelegant) solution won't do this time.
>
> So what do I do?
have a look at the attached lyx-file. it's a solution on the run ...
if it's useful, copy the latex preamble into the one of your textfile.
only the bold text in this file is important, the rest is nonsense
hope it helps
Herbert
--
http://perce.de/lyx/
#LyX 1.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 218
\textclass article
\begin_preamble
\usepackage{multicol}
\newlength{\tabI}
\newlength{\tabII}
\newlength{\tabIII}
\newlength{\tabIV}
\setlength{\tabI}{0.3cm}% < the first tabfield
\setlength{\tabIII}{1cm}% < the second tabfield
\newcommand{\myEnumI}[2]{%
\noindent\begin{minipage}[t]{\tabI}#1\end{minipage}\hfill\
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.95\tabII} #2\end{minipage}%
}
\newcommand{\myEnumII}[2]{%
\noindent\begin{minipage}[t]{\tabIII}#1\end{minipage}\hfill\
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.95\tabIV} #2\end{minipage}%
}
\end_preamble
\language ngerman
\inputencoding default
\fontscheme default
\graphics default
\paperfontsize default
\spacing single
\papersize Default
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 0
\use_amsmath 0
\paperorientation portrait
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language english
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle default
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bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
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begin{multicols}{3}
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setlength{
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tabII}{
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columnwidth}
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tabI}% behind
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begin{multicol}!
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columnwidth}
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tabIII}% behind
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begin{multicol}!
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\series bold
These setlength commands MUST be placed here, because we need at this position
the columnwidht! if you have another part in the text with multicols repeat
these two lines.
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