multicol — Multi-column Pages in LaTeX | Statistics, R, Graphics and Fun | Yihui Xie | /en/2007/10/multicol-multi-column-pages-in-latex/

yihui 2022-12-16 14:09:42

https://yihui.org/en/2007/10/multicol-multi-column-pages-in-latex/

10 Comments

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 14:09:43

Guest *Vidhya* @ 2008-03-04 15:02:25 originally posted:

Very useful. Thank you

yihui 2022-12-16 14:09:52

My pleasure :-)

Originally posted on 2008-03-04 19:47:31

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 14:09:43

Guest *spx2* @ 2008-06-11 05:44:54 originally posted:

how can one widen the columns of a multicols block ?

I am having trouble doing this

yihui 2022-12-16 14:09:53

Hi, its manual has told us that ``the space between columns is controlled by the length parameter columnsep''. So you need to declare this length first, e.g. `setlength{columnsep}{0pt}`

Originally posted on 2008-06-11 20:25:08

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 14:09:57

Guest *sharif* @ 2010-01-19 13:38:49 originally posted:

Is this require any packages!!!!!

yihui 2022-12-16 14:09:58

Sure! Note in the code of the above article that you should declare in the preamble: usepackage{multicol}

Originally posted on 2010-01-19 22:34:52

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 14:09:58

Guest *Dario* @ 2011-12-11 18:39:11 originally posted:

Just a litte note for future readers, it's:
setlength{columnsep}{0pt}

;)

Thanks a lot for this blog entry btw :)

yihui 2022-12-16 14:09:59

Sorry for the typo. Fixed now, and thanks a lot!

Originally posted on 2011-12-11 21:19:07

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 14:10:01

Guest *Anonymus* @ 2012-03-05 22:21:11 originally posted:

and just fyi, you can make that {- x pt} too, if you wanna just use one column and bleed into the other.

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 14:09:44

Guest *Verbunk* @ 2008-10-01 21:47:27 originally posted:

Hi Guys,

What I'd like to do is make an uneven distribution of space for each column. So for instance make one 75% of the column space (break) then the rest for the remaining column.

Any tips on how to do this?

yihui 2022-12-16 14:09:54

Sorry, but I don't think multicol supports different column widths...

Originally posted on 2008-10-02 10:13:37

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 14:09:55

Guest *Torsten* @ 2009-12-31 19:53:48 originally posted:

e.g. minipage may help

yihui 2022-12-16 14:09:56

Yes, we can set different widths via minipage, but these mini pages are arranged side by side, which is different from multicol.

For multicol:

| this is a paragraph | umns. The division makes |
| divided into 2 col- | 2 parts of same height.  |

For minipage:

------------------------------  ----------------
| this is a paragraph in the |  | this is the  |
| left minipage.             |  | 2nd minipage |
|                            |  |              |
------------------------------  ----------------

That means we will have to arrange our texts by hand in two mini pages.

Originally posted on 2010-01-01 00:30:23

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 14:09:45

Guest *Viru* @ 2009-02-20 14:56:04 originally posted:

👍

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 14:09:46

Guest *Saeed* @ 2011-02-27 02:57:08 originally posted:

Hi.
I use two column format to write my paper. Some of my equations are very big, as a result they wrap two column. Can I add a one column part such as equation into the two column paper?

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 14:09:48

Guest *Bruce* @ 2011-03-25 04:30:04 originally posted:

Thanks.. So much easier than minipage.

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 14:09:49

Guest *Abhinav* @ 2011-12-27 22:59:00 originally posted:

Thank you. i really needed this.

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 14:09:49

Guest *Miguel_angel_vel* @ 2012-02-16 19:50:49 originally posted:

Hi.

I'm writting a paper and I nedd to include images and text in two columns, but i can't include images in multicols enviroment. Can you help me??

Thanks

yihui 2022-12-16 14:10:00

At least you can use the minipage environment with a proper width, e.g.

begin{minipage}[t]{0.49columnwidth}%
% your text here
end{minipage}%
begin{minipage}[t]{0.49columnwidth}%
% your image here
end{minipage}

Originally posted on 2012-02-16 22:27:36

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 14:09:50

Guest *etna* @ 2013-03-14 02:03:22 originally posted:

hi, how can i install the multicolum package to my lyx2.0.5, because i did everything you say but, when i spect to see it on pdf file i got an error that said:
enviroment multicolms undefined
your command was ignored.
please help me,tks

yihui 2022-12-16 14:10:02

in the preamble: usepackage{multicol}

Originally posted on 2013-03-14 05:55:15

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 14:09:51

Guest *Iftikhar Ali* @ 2015-06-27 19:12:34 originally posted:

How can the width of the columns be adjusted?