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Great! That's what I was looking for. Thanks, Clemens!

I just wonder why there was no preceding \begin{document} when parsing the \AtBeginDocument part...

Anyway. The class is working well now.

Falko

This is indeed a solution for some standard text.
Unfortunately it does not work with floating figures etc. that might occur in a normal two-column document.

Adding a figure within the document environment yields:
Package multicol Warning: Floats and marginpars not allowed inside `multicols ...

When running my sample code I get - as intended - one paragraph across both columns (the \lipsum[1] part) and all following paragraphs in two separate columns ( \lipsum[2-8] ). What bothers me is the somehow unnecessary "missing \begin{document}" error.

Your example prints everything in two columns ...

Hi,

I'm trying to create a document class for two-column articles but with one-column title, authors, abstracts etc. Therefore I tried the (well-known?) solution from the UK TeX FAQ .

Latex, however, yields a "missing \begin{document}" error. Ignoring the error yields a perfect result. But I'd ...