Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Two-column layouts in LaTeX Message-ID: Date: 26 Jan 91 14:44:29 GMT References: <15987@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <1991Jan25.174137.9997@news.arc.nasa.gov> Sender: news@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 23 In-reply-to: ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov's message of 25 Jan 91 17:41:37 GMT In article <1991Jan25.174137.9997@news.arc.nasa.gov> ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov (Arthur Ogawa) writes: LaTeX definitely provides no way to switch between single and double column mode within a page (balancing the columns as it goes). Ideally, the \onecolumn and \twocolumn macros should provide this functionality. In working up the macro package for the Mathematica Journal, I added such functionality to LaTeX's output routine, so I know it is possible. I think I saw an article in TugBoat by Frank Mittelbach in which he does this, too (but without providing for floats). Mittelbach's multicol.sty has been slightly enhanced since the original Tugboat article, and does now permit *double column floats only*. single ones are still not possible. but that's still very useable. its an excellent package (it allows up to 10 columns) and is available from archives such as ymir and Aston Sebastian Rahtz -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)