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From: anita@chopin.udel.edu (Anita Marie Hoover)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Wanted: Single and double columns on same page in LaTeX
Message-ID: <16901@chopin.udel.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 91 17:58:13 GMT
References: <3292@charon.cwi.nl> <69980@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: University of Delaware
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In article <69980@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) writes:
=>/* irv@cwi.nl (Irv Elshoff) wrote */:
=>* 
=>* I would like to create a LaTeX document that contains
=>* both single and double-column text on the same page.
=>* For example, something that looks like:
=>* 
=>* 	+--------------------+
=>* 	|  xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  |
=>* 	|  xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  |
=>* 	|  xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  |
=>* 	|                    |
=>* 	|  xxxxxxx  xxxxxxx  |
=>* 	|  xxxxxxx  xxxxxxx  |
=>* 	|  xxxxxxx  xxxxxxx  |
=>* 	|  xxxxxxx  xxxxxxx  |
=>* 	|                    |
=>* 	|  xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  |
=>* 	|  xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  |
=>* 	|                    |
=>* 	|  xxxxxxx  xxxxxxx  |
=>* 	|  xxxxxxx  xxxxxxx  |
=>* 	|  xxxxxxx  xxxxxxx  |
=>* 	+--------------------+
=>* 
=>* Furthermore, I would like the text in the double-column
=>* parts to be automatically balanced, i.e., the bottoms of
=>* both columns should lie in a horizontal line (I accept
=>* the fact that the right-hand column might have to be one
=>* line shorter.)
=>
=>``multicol.sty'' should be able to do this. It is ftp'able from
=>ymir.claremont.edu. See Raymond's supplement info or Don Hosek's
=>signature for more info.
=>-- 

I looked at the FTP site listing and saw that ymir.claremont.edu and
sol.cs.ruu.nl were listed for multicol.sty.  However I could not find it
on ymir.claremont.edu and multicol.zoo was on sol.cs.ruu.nl.
Anybody at these sites know where it is?