General ⇒ Two colomn or multiple column through out the article

[pallav]

I need to get a A4 pager by latex. I want to get a "two column" style strictly after title and author name. In the second part, I want to get the "two column" style where the keyword part in the left column and abstract part in the right column in such a way that the column width of the 1st column (keyword part) is half of the column width of the 2nd column (abstract part). In rest part I need two column style of equal width.

The above is very needful for me. Please be kind enough to help be in this regard. I am a layman in tex. So please help me in details.

[localghost]

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[includeheadfoot,margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{microtype}

\title{A custom layout}
\author{pallav}

\begin{document}
  \maketitle
  \noindent
  \begin{minipage}[t]{0.32\linewidth}
    \textbf{Keywords:} The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
  \end{minipage}
  \hfill
  \begin{minipage}[t]{0.64\linewidth}
    \textbf{Abstract:} \blindtext
  \end{minipage}

  \bigskip
  \begin{multicols}{2}
    \blinddocument
  \end{multicols}
\end{document}

Best regards
Thorsten

[pallav]

Thanks a lot.