General ⇒ Mixing one-column and two-column input

[angelixd]

Hello everyone,

I'm doing some typesetting and need to mix one-column and two-column text in the same document; the same page as well, if possible. As this is normally a class option, is there a way to change this method in the middle of the document?

Thanks in advance!

[localghost]

Try the multicol package.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
  \begin{multicols}{2}[\textbf{Example for a two column text}]
    \blindtext
  \end{multicols}

  \begin{multicols}{3}[\textbf{Example for a three column text}]
    \blindtext
  \end{multicols}
\end{document}

[angelixd]

Wow, this is exactly what I needed. Thanks a bunch!

[kiera2]

Sorry to bump up such an old topic. I also want to be able to use mixtures of one or two columns, but I have a bunch of figures in my document, and apparently I can't put floats in a multicols environment. Is there anything I can do to get around this?