Two Column book -- but one column equation

[S Murugan]

In Two column book we need long equation should be in single column
where it is.

if any style file or any command for that.

[Bruno Lopes]

\usepackage{multicol}
.
.
.
\begin{multicols}{2}
Here comes the text
\end{multicols}

here comes the long equation

\begin{multicols}{2}
Here comes the text again
\end{multicols}

2008/7/31 S Murugan <murug...@yahoo.com>

In Two column book we need long equation should be in single column
where it is.

if any style file or any command for that.

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[George Battelle]

I want to have 2 columns that do not wrap having different but
synchronized data in the two columns. Must I use a table for this? The
data in the left column is continuous for many pages. The data in the
right is sparse and serves as occasional annotations or even related
images for the data in the left column. I could use rows to establish
the synchronization. But doing this would mean that any change in the
relative width of the left column messes up the synchronization. Then
some data in the left column would manually have to move to a different
row to maintain synchronization with data in the right column.

Or is there a better way to do this than using tables? Could there be a
variant of multicols that could do synchronization like I am talking about?

Thanks,
George Battelle

[Werner Grundlingh]

I would suggest using something like margin paragraphs whenever you
need to complement the continuous set of data (the left column) with
sparse annotations (the right column). Here's some examples, and
clarification from the UK TeX FAQ:
http://www.nada.kth.se/~ante/latex.php
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=marginparside

Werner

[Frederik Allaeys]

The problem with this work around is that the text does not continue in the same column after the two-columns wide equation, but instead is wrapped to the second column. After the equation the text starts again in the first column. Do you know an easy way (without figure*) to make the text continue in the same column within the multicol environment? Since this is always the case in an article.

Kind regards,

Frederik

Op donderdag 31 juli 2008 14:40:30 UTC+2 schreef Bruno Lopes het volgende: