fyi, I've posted this on tex stackexchange, in case someone might be interested:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/213527/htlatex-outputs-extra-word-not-in-document-when-using-columnbreak-with-multicol This MWE produces the output shown above (extra word auto shows up) --------------------------- \documentclass{article}% \usepackage{lipsum,multicol} \begin{document} \begin{multicols}{2} \section*{Introduction} This is introduction \columnbreak \section*{my section} This is my section \end{multicols} \end{document} -------------------- htlatex foo.tex thanks --Nasser
