Page Layout ⇒ Problem: Itemize ruining my page layout

[sugarat]

Hi all,

I have a problem that I have not yet been able to get to the bottom of. The problem is this:

I am writing my CV and I have a page with a header across the top and 2 vertical minipages on it to give me two columns. This works absolutely fine, but as soon as I put an itemized list into the minipage I only get the header across the top, and then the two minipages are shifted onto the next page. This leaves me with the first page having the big header, and then completely blank, and then the next page has my two columns on it.

After some investigation I have found that if I remove the itemize environments the page renders correctly, so it is definitely something with the itemized lists that ruins the minipage layout.

Any ideas appreciated.

Thanks

[localghost]

Nice description. I wonder how it looks in form of source code. You may take a look at some classes and packages for your purpose [1]. They can take the major part of the formatting work off you.

[1] The TeX Catalogue Online, Topic Index - Writing Applications for a Job / CV


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[sugarat]

Hi Thorsten,

Thanks for the reply. I know.. it would be far more useful if I posted the source code. Being my CV it has lots of personal information in there that I would have to remove before posting online, so it's a bit of a job for me to take it all out.

Thanks for the link. The template I am using for my CV can be found here: http://www.cv-templates.info/2009/06/ad ... ex-source/ I have just edited some of the section headings and not much else, so the source code on that page is very similar to my own.

If you, or anyone else can think of why an itemize would put both minipages onto the next page any info is appreciated.

Thanks

Nice description. I wonder how it looks in form of source code. You may take a look at some classes and packages for your purpose [1]. They can take the major part of the formatting work off you.

[1] The TeX Catalogue Online, Topic Index - Writing Applications for a Job / CV


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[localghost]

[...] I know.. it would be far more useful if I posted the source code. Being my CV it has lots of personal information in there that I would have to remove before posting online, so it's a bit of a job for me to take it all out. [...]

And I would have to spend a lot of time to build an example on my own and I still don't know what you have done that causes the problems. So you have to be proactive and build some kind of dummy CV. Do exactly what you did in the real one to reproduce the problem. I see no other way to solve this issue.

[sugarat]

No worries I don't expect you to invest too much time to find the issue. I've found out the root cause of the problem I think.. It was a false assumption to think it was the itemize itself, - it seems to be the length of the page instead! When I put the lists in it pushes the minipage off the bottom of the page which then makes it try and fit it onto the next blank page.

So now I know this, I will refine my problem.. which is: do I need to manually make a new minipage when I put a certain amount of text into one, or is there anyway to make it automatically flow over into the next column?

Sorry if the question seems stupid. This is my first time I've used minipages.

Thanks

[localghost]

[...] So now I know this, I will refine my problem.. which is: do I need to manually make a new minipage when I put a certain amount of text into one, or is there anyway to make it automatically flow over into the next column? [...]

The resulting output of the template looks nice. But I would setup a document with two columns rather than working with minipage environments.

[sugarat]

Ah okay. That sounds like good advice. I will try converting the document to use that approach rather than the minipages.

Thanks for your help!

PS: Can I still have the central header across the top when using a twocolumn page?

[localghost]

[...] Can I still have the central header across the top when using a twocolumn page?

That would require to use the multicol package instead of the twocolumn document class option if you want to keep the fancy title.