Text Formatting ⇒ Latex multicol distance text from seprule

[jimkaip]

I have problem to control the distance between text limits(left and right) and seprule in the multicol environment.
How to change distances?
Thank you
Jim.

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\begin{multicols}{4}
my text ...
\endmulticols}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Jim,

welcome to the forum!

You can change the distance between text columns by adjusting the \columnsep length, such as:

\setlength{\columnsep}{1cm}

Stefan

[jimkaip]

Hi Stefan, thank you for the answer.
But i still have problem. \setlength{\columnsep}{5cm} or \setlength{\columnsep}{0cm}, is the same, don’t affect to distance, so i have some problem in my code?
Also the main need is to reduce a and b limits as show in icon.
Thank you
Jim.

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\tiny \color{white}
\begin{multicols}{6}
\setlength{\columnsep}{5cm}
\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.1mm}
my text ...

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Jim,

set the lengths before you start the multicols environment. Such as here:

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\documentclass[landscape]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{ragged2e}
\usepackage{multicol} 
\usepackage{blindtext}  
\begin{document}
\tiny\RaggedRight
\setlength{\columnsep}{5cm}
\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.1mm}
\begin{multicols}{4}
\noindent\blindtext
\end{multicols}
\end{document}

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Stefan

[jimkaip]

Thank you Stefan.
After your advice all works fine.
Thank you and good day.
Jim.