mixing one- and two-column in LaTeX
Andrew Dorrell
Help!
These (silly) conference conveners want me to produce a document with
the title and abstract and bibliography in one column format and all the
body text in double column format. Silly? --- because they seem to want
me to use MS Word to produce my document!
Does anyone know how to do this in LaTeX? Please...
Petteri Heikkinen
In article <34273FE6...@ee.uts.edu.au>,
Try to find multicol.sty, that should be enough for your
purposes. It should(?) belong to Latex2e distribution.
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Kresimir Fresl
Andrew Dorrell wrote:
> These (silly) conference conveners want me to produce a
> document with the title and abstract and bibliography
> in one column format and all the body text in double
> column format. Silly? --- because they seem to want
> me to use MS Word to produce my document!
> Does anyone know how to do this in LaTeX? Please...
Try `multicol' package:
macros/latex/packages/tools/multicol.dtx
fres
Axel Reichert
Kresimir Fresl wrote:
>
> macros/latex/packages/tools/multicol.dtx
multicol is good, but does not allow floats spanning just one column.
At least for the abstract, you can use:
\twocolumn[%
\begin{abstract}
text printed in one column spanning the whole page
\end{abstract}%
]
text printed in two columns
Happy TeXing!
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Alain Kessi
Axel Reichert wrote:
>
> Kresimir Fresl wrote:
> >
> > macros/latex/packages/tools/multicol.dtx
>
> multicol is good, but does not allow floats spanning just one column.
>
> At least for the abstract, you can use:
>
> \twocolumn[%
If you are unhappy with \twocolumn not balancing the columns on the
last page, you can place single-column ``floats'' by hand in a multicol
environment and hope that your numbering will not be too hard to
straighten out:
Insert the figure or table directly in the text, then produce the
caption with
\begingroup
\makeatletter
\def\@captype{figure}
\makeatother
\caption{My caption text}\label{fig:myfigure}
\endgroup
or use
\makeatletter
\newenvironment{figurehere}
{\def\@captype{figure}}
{}
\makeatother
The numbering may not be consecutive if one of the full-width figures
produced by the figure* environment floats past one of the single-column
``non-floats''. This is usually straightforward to fix by hand. On some
occasions you may have to move your figure up or down a bit.
The other option is you come up with an algorithm for placing such
single-column floats (not a trivial task, to judge from the contrast
between how often people complain that it doesn't exist, and the fact
that noone has come up with one yet ;-).