Page Layout ⇒ Problem with the color of the separating line!

[kunigami]

Hi all,

I'm using the following configuration for a document:

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\documentclass[landscape,twocolumn,letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{color}
\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.5pt}	% default=0pt (no line)

But the separating line is colored yellow. If I don't include the color package it stays black. I'd like to know if there's a way to change the separating line color, like I did with its width.

Thanks,

[gmedina]

Hi,

the following solution involves a change in the definition of \@outputdblcol. The code below illustrates this approach; I marked the one line that had to be changed with a comment showing the original setting:

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\documentclass[landscape,twocolumn,letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{lipsum}%just to generate some text

\makeatletter
\def\@outputdblcol{%
  \if@firstcolumn
    \global \@firstcolumnfalse
    \global \setbox\@leftcolumn \box\@outputbox
  \else
    \global \@firstcolumntrue
    \setbox\@outputbox \vbox {%
                         \hb@xt@\textwidth {%
                           \hb@xt@\columnwidth {%
                             \box\@leftcolumn \hss}%
                           \hfil
				{\color{blue}\vrule \@width\columnseprule}%original:
                                                %\normalcolor\vrule \@width\columnseprule
                           \hfil
                           \hb@xt@\columnwidth {%
                             \box\@outputbox \hss}%
                                             }%
                              }%
    \@combinedblfloats
    \@outputpage
    \begingroup
      \@dblfloatplacement
      \@startdblcolumn
      \@whilesw\if@fcolmade \fi
        {\@outputpage
         \@startdblcolumn}%
    \endgroup
  \fi
}
\makeatother
\setlength\columnseprule{1pt}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-20]

\end{document}

[kunigami]

Wow! Thanks a lot! That worked fine.