Text Formatting ⇒ Changing width of columns in two column article

[gutember]

Hi everybody. I'm with an article in two columns and I want to modify the width of each column and the space between them. Thanks a lot.

[gmedina]

Hi,

one possibility is to use the multicol package. A simple example:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate some text

\setlength\columnwidth{3cm}
\setlength\columnsep{3cm}

\begin{document}

\begin{multicols}{2}
\lipsum[1-20]
\end{multicols}

\end{document}

Please refer to the package documentation for further information.

[localghost]

Hi everybody. I'm with an article in two columns and I want to modify the width of each column and the space between them. Thanks a lot.

In a standard article class with twocolumn option you can modify the page dimensions with the geometry package. This affects also the width of the columns. To modify the separating space between them you can set the length \columnsep to a new value.


Best regards
Thorsten¹