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When I was adjusting my slides for a talk (to be given in Oct 16) in the Capital University of Economics and Business, I found the table of contents was a little bit too long to be placed in a single page while the titles of all sections are not so wide, thus I searched for some instructions on multi-column pages in LaTeX, and easily got this Wikipedia page: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Page_Layout. Some codes as follows will just help us separate a part of texts into several columns:
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\usepackage{multicol}
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\begin{multicols}{3} % 3 columns
If you are using a standard Latex document class,
then you can simply pass the optional argument twocolumn
to the document class: \documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
which will give the desired effect.
\end{multicols}
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This is what my table of contents looks like now:
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Comments (11)
Very useful. Thank you
My pleasure
how can one widen the columns of a multicols block ?
I am having trouble doing this
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}Is this require any packages!!!!!
Sure! Note in the code of the above article that you should declare in the preamble:
\usepackage{multicol}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?
Sorry, but I don't think multicol supports different column widths…
e.g. minipage may help
Yes, we can set different widths via
minipage, but these mini pages are arranged side by side, which is different frommulticol.For
multicol:For
minipage:That means we will have to arrange our texts by hand in two mini pages.